The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-30

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ern constituent. who some three years | ago, rejected a hundred d-dollar.a-month job here in the capitol without even going to work at it-beCausc he con sidered the cost of living too high, must have been q man of prophetic vision. He created national sensa tion among job hunters; politically, he was a curiosity.
 Sixteen years Democrat in the wilderness, with Republicans in all the jobs. his party came into power His congressman paid back the years of loyalty with an appointment. But the man took one look at Washington and it's living prices and went back to Georgia on the first train,
 1 One is constrained to wonder what i he would do in Washington now. A great deal has been written and said of the Congested conditions in War l busy Washington Government of 1 ncials whose task it k to bring in war workers have been eager not to ! hay" the reports of CrOWding drive away hundreds of folks badly needed. . In fact. they hay" made every effort through organization of aids to new COmcrS to find homes for them. on the other hand. real estate agents and others bnsciEcd by waves of home | less newcomers actually have pleaded 10 hay" the country informed that there il no nor" room
 A city which. three years ago, was estimated as having five thousand va cant houses and three vacant apart m"nts. now has not d sinGI" vacant one The search for houcs no, ~.>- teI3ed to ai, ,n tu.Ilo,. t..r.. ,o, tasys have tIrn,rd in price. lho crowd ed condition of hotels and boarding houses. every travelled knows for him sell. one c. t1,u H.a apf4y remarked that on comm. to W@~hl.-o>. Oh Das- !,.- one has to rlauEo a place in !.u.,mo.r Of !hji. .phia {. -,rop.
 .Ha,rs la uljolM ha, b,.n Eut to making house Io house cI",aa~ a,o.hg the occupants to 'doubl" up" as d patriotic duty and take in d war worker Absentee houschoIdcr,. hay ing large domains which they have been accustomed to visit once a year. have in some cases feared that the premises would be communicated by th government and hurriedly have re- turned to keep their drawing rooms from being converted into dormitories.
 One may well imagine that where there is SO much difficulty in housing so many people. there is equal trouble in feeding them. Cafes and cafeterias have sprung up about the city like mushrooms. it is no uncommon sight to see q line of workers standing out side restaurant in line, waiting for chance to spend money inside just like line of ticket buyers before theatre box office
 Nobody seems to want to take in woman war worker The few who advertise rooms, prefer gentlemen" or officers" The discrimination hurts ] Nll' b'll VI al "Ol h'I l'tilllBo bul no practical result As a matter of | fact the gentleman" has just as lively d time getting room.
 Some one has estimated that the war workers are Hooking into the city at the rate of 300 day and departing at the rate of 300 day. discouraged, 1 homeless, sometimes foodless. There is no vrritication of the latter figure l but ther" seems to be no doubt about ] the former. There also seems to be no doubt that there are 100000 war workers here who were not in the city year ago. The result may be i compared to an attempt to put q quart of water into a pint measure.
 A reading of the want columns of 1 the Washington newspapers is sure to arOus" a feeling of pity for the un- fortunates who plead for a place to i live, even at protiteer prices. In fact. ! the natives now read the want col. umns for amusement in preference to the funny papers. Here are d few i typical samples which bespeak the l despair of war worker trying to live in the capital:
 The first woman Confesses at the outset that she is desperate. She says so. Here is here plaint:
 DESPERATE - Does anyone feel enough patriotic duty to accommodate a refined window of an army surgeon with n cheerful room?"