Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-12
hAWkEYE SOCIETY IN WASH.
INoToN ASSISTING IN SOLVING
HOUSING PROBLEM.
WILL WELCOME PEOPLE
FROM OLD HOME STATE
Living Quarters to 30 Made Available
For Those Called to Service in Ma.
tionaI capital-Rainbow Boys Boost
ing Living Cost in France-Iowa
Officers Assigned to Duty.
[By Il. G. Dougherty1

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE Iowa So
ciety of Washington has volunteered
it's services TO help the government
meet the housing problem in Washing
ton.
Particularly the society desires t.
look after the hundreds of Iowan:
coming to Washington and see tina
they are properly housed. The So
ciety at it's annual meeting at the
Ebbitt house the other night decided
to have a permanent wartime organ
ization on the job to welcome Iowans
to the capital and to aid in locating
them in suitable homes.
The new officers-Mrs. Bradford
Knapp. president; W. G. Ladd. frs
vice president: C. E. Baldwin. second
vice president. and J. NJ. Sylvester
secretary will have charge OF
the society's war-work activities.
Housing the government workers in
Washington has come to be one OF
the serious problems of war admins
tration. 1t is estimated that from So
900 to 10000 workers and their fami-
lies have come to Washington since
the United States entered the war.
Maj. S. l.. Potter the head of the
war department housing bureau, esti-
mates that 10000 government clerks,
5000 members of their families. and
5000 officers and their families will
come to Washington in 1918, total of
10000. At present only 3,4S6 can be
accommodated, leaving 26,o14 persons
to be provided for this year.
A bill has been introduced in con-
sress appropriating s5O,00O.0OO to be
expended by the secretary of labor in
the purchase of residences and the
building of dormitories and PERMANENT
homes to house the war workers.
Some such action was deemed vitality
necessary because Washington has be-
come crowded with an extra population
as big as the Inauguration crowds.
And even F.. F. VS. have gone to tax
house the new corners.
Boosting Living Cost in France.
Secretary of War Baker has found
that the Iowa Rainbows, and other
troops in France. are boosting the
French cost of living by the fancy
prices they are paying the French peo-
pie for food, to supplement their ra-
tons.
The food administration first heard
of this by complaints from the French
government that heavy food purchases
at high prices made. by American SOL
diers was seriously complicating the
French food situation tending to in
crease prices and create dissatisfaction
among the poorer paid French poilus.
Secretary Baker cabled General
PershinS urging the strictest possible
food economy, and asking General
Pershing to study the question of price
regulation in post exchanges and other
stores maintained under military sup
ervision and make remedial recommen-
dations covering the practices COM
planned Of by the French government.
Iowa Officers Assigned.
The following officers of the medical
reserve corps have been assigned to
active duty and ordered to report TO
general hospital No. IL at Fort Des
Moines for duty:
Capt. Thomas McCaughan, Ireton;
First Lieuts. James F. Battin, Mar
shalltown; John ]. Bowes, Livermore;
Martin T. Brewer, DeSota; Harry E..
Carver. Rose Hill; Frank L Griffin,
Baldwin; Evart c. Hartman, Algona.