The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-08
War Gets 7 cabinet Recruits "
Sons of Secretaries Wilson, of Labor, Daniels
Lane and Houston and Speaker
Clark Enlist.

While members OF the Cabinet and
lawmakers In the Capitol are busy
adjusting the steering wheel to the
new sea OF war upon which the ship
OF state has set sail. their sons
young, strong, red-blooded Americans
are taking their places In the
lighting tops"
Six sons OF four Cabinet officers
and the son of the Speaker of the
House of Representatives have
already enlisted or are about to en-
list with the lighting forces OF the
United States.
Secretary of Labor Wilson has three
sons who are to night. Secretary of
Agriculture Houston has a boy in
the navy; Secretary OF the Navy
Daniels' boy is training to be q
marine: Secretary OF the Interior
Lane has q son who will be a full
hedged aviator within q short time,
and the son of Speaker Champ Clark
will enter the training camp at Fort
Myer next week
Not One An 0fAeer.
OF the seven. none is an officer, and
nve main branches of the service
are represented. One has enlisted In
the marine corps. another the aeld
artillery. another in the cavalry,
another in the navy, another in the
aviation corps, and two will take the
training course to become officers.
David Franklin Houston, r., is q
graduate Of Western High School, and
Is well known here among many boys
in his class. He Is the youngest Of the
Cabinet recruits," being not quite
eighteen years old. He was fresh
man at Harvard.
Secretary Houston and Mrs. Hous
| ton are in ignorance as to their SON;
exact whereabouts. They have 1t or
good authority, however. that he has
enlisted aboard one of the vessels-as
a seaman-whIch will form the new
and untried mosquito fleet
Friends OF Franklin remember him
as q tall. handsome young fellow
athleticaily built and "fuI Of fun
Since the outbreak OF the war, ant
even before, young Houston has beer
| anxious to enlist He kept one eye
"'peeled" for q chance to get in the
mosquito fleet, and left college not
long ago to go to Newport and finc
out for himself Just how the land lay
Reports today state that he has beer
accepted.
Anxious for Quick Action.
Josephus Daniels, jr-, a sober, busi
ness-like young fellow, taller than his
father, and in the words Of the Sec
rotary of the Navy, "a pretty hne
looking chap" is now In Philadel
phia. undergoing the strict, hard, and
unreIsntinE training course Uncle
Sam gives his children before he
allows them even to put on the uni
form of a marine.
Just why young Daniels selected
the marines Is not known But prob
! ably because the soldiers OF the sea
viii be among the first to land In
France the young fellow picked out
this branch of the service, for he
wants to be among the first who will
set foot on foreign soil
Daniels Is twenty-five years old
but he doesn't look II. He is dark
rather slight, and his face is that
of a boy. Nevertheless, Josephui
| Daniels, jr., Is q successful business
man. After graduating from Tome
Institute, in Maryland, he returned tc
Raleigh and began to put on the shoes
left vacant by his father when ap
pointed q member OF the Cabinet.
Daniels, when In school, never
went I'M for athletics, but stuck as
| siduously to his books. He was al
ways known as q young fellow with
a 'business turn Of mind" and wher
he went to work on his fathers pa.
per he began work soliciting "ads'
in the advertising department
When he left his Job on his news
paper and Joined the marines he wal
assistant business manager, secretary
md treasurer of the Raleigh Newi
and Observer Company.
sNed' Lane Soon to Fly.
Med" Lane, son Of the Secretary Of
the Interior, is perhaps better known
to younger Washington than any 9th
er of the sons OF the Cabinet mem.
bers, unless 1t Is young Jimmie
Wilson. He is now at the Newport
/ News Aviation School, and within a
short time will be ready to be a fully
/ qualified air man on Uncle Sans sky
/ feet. Young Lane, a tall, rather
slender, good-looking chap, is twenty
years old. He received some OF his
| education at the Phillips-Exeter Acad
envy, and Just before he decided to &C
into the aviation corps attended the
| George Washington University. Dur.
ing his stay at the university, Ned
often used to talk OF his prospects tC
| his fellow students, and more thar
once mentioned the hope that sooner