Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-08

the date of the contract, and thereafter
one or more will be delivered every
week..
The trip from Chicago to Akron COW
cred more than 400 miles. 1t was made
under direction of the builders and did
not constitute an official test, but it
was so successful that navy officials
are confident that a valuable type, SIM
liar to the Blimp of the British navy,
has been produced. They have little
fear that the airship will not make the
required forty miles an hour during
her official trip within the next ten
days.
To Name Munitions Secretary.
Having added one new ex officio cabi-
net member in the person of Herbert
Hoover. food administrators, President
Wilson is Likely to announce shortly
the appointment of a secretary of mu-
nitions and supplies"
Conferences among the president,
S~ecretarv~es Wal Baker and f4-ney
General Gregory have been -e.. tiSSiiss
week to determine what procedure
may be followed in placing a man at
the head of the munitions producing
and purchasing work during the war.
1t is probable congress will be asked
to delegate powers to this new official,
as was asked by the administration
for Hoover.
Bernard Barueh will soon be named
officially as government purchaser of
raw materials.
Later the post of secretary of trans
portation may be added, but for the
time being the transportation work
will be left In the hands of the adj
visory committee of the National Coun-
ell of Defense, acting in cooperation
with the railroad executives commit
tee, which will be stationed here dur
ing the war.
AS the war work goes on 1t has been
found absolutely necessary to central
ize it and to divide different phases Of
the military business.
The three men to be named will, to
all intents and purposes, have all the
powers and duties of cabinet members.
Probably all three will serve without
pay.
The groundwork of the new depart
ment Mr.. Baruch will head already has
been laid. The system to be inaugu-
rated will include a group of expert
buyers in each state, who will act as
MI. Baruch's ''~tentacles." They will
be clothed with broad powers.
Many Would Aid Hoover.
Offers from volunteers in great num-
bers are pouring in on Mr.. Hoover.
His small organization has been fairly
swamped by the mass of correspond
ence, and he accepts this universal
offer of cooperation as II of the most
healthy signs in the movement to feed
America and still supply her allies.
Among the enthusiasts who have
seen Mr.. Hoover recently was David
Coker, chairman of the State Council
of Defense of Hartswell, S. G. His
state, he said, was already organized.
Mr.. Coker had one statement to make
about the women of South Carolina,
which Mr.. Hoover felt might be alb
SOrDeu Dy women OF all parts VI lHe
country with profit to the general
cause.
"They were willing" Mr.. Coker said,
ito make any sacrifice to aid Amer
lea. They have an organization that
calls for every to wear a badge
which pledged her to make ever saw
ing possible in the household. The
negro population is with the state or
g~anization and has organized so that
they can render effective service to the
producer, distributor and consumer"
While the selection of executive heads
has not been made, lit was indicated
that Mr.. Hoover will try as far as
practicable, in connection with the in
of the country, to<skip the "big
little man. and the great big man"
in choosing the men who are to be his
li~eutenants. That does not mean, how
ever, that either the producer or the
who actually handles the food be-
fore it reaches the household will be
omitted.