Weekly journal-miner., 1918-01-23
NEEDED-THAT WAR COUNCIL

When the United States by 19 demands suspension order that of Fuel Controller Gar field plunged turmoil by ruling which would shut down all industry for for five days because of coal shortage the country will begin take real note of the fact that there something lacking the of the The the administration partisan that has refused council with supreme authority. which would put the job the biggest of the nation it has coalition cabinet has been done by practically every of allies and 1t has inefficient men III places of greatest responsibility
 The president has him able advisers and with his great policies carrying the that he has finally his hand it, there suggestion of criticism opposition among members of other parties But the country has the right to expect unpatriotc demand that equal to the emergencies called service regardless of where they come from The question is not as to who will make victory possible but to how 1t shall be made possible.
 And that this viewpoint neither narrow nor partisan quoting below from George Harveys editorial in the North American Review the caption of which editorial IS Thank God for Wilson"
 It is fearful responsibility that Fate has put upon
 the president. he the sympathes and prayers
 o millions. but it the less maddening that he
 should persist in attempting to bear the whole burden
 alone. Again imporc him to abolish the latest make
 shift for council, comprising overworked heads oi
 departments. charged meet week, and draw to
 five biggest minds i'll the counry-men of the
 caibre of Chief Justice Edward D. White and Elhu
 Root-and hold them work every day and every hour
 that be within the range of physical possibilities.
 Surely m the president plainly warned our allies unified
 action essential abroad it is no less requisite at home
 Readers of this Review need be reminded that, within month after declared, directed the
 attention of the president to the fact that every power in
 conflict driven this recourse and depicted
 the overpOwerlng and pressing need such a con
 cenraon of direction of manifold divergent forces as
 would constitute combined sieve and buffer and
 able to achieve effective coordination Now, after six long months, read Imply in the Washington dis
 patches that the progressed the need of more cf
 coordination of effort has become increasingly
 heads of departments have looked at prob
 with the idea in mind of solving their special
 difficulties and that this lack of work, with its
 resultant reduction efficiency, responsible for the
 decision establish council consisting of the
 members old board of national defense and five ! additional supenumerareS.
 Bitter experience enforced reluctant and belated ad
 of the necessity but alas, the change not for i the better but for the The larger the body, of
 t1e 1eSS1se f is to be Tn
 tkc council is a council at all: is weekly
 meeting held every Monday morning. when all times
 each member should be his desk. Nobody possessed
 of grain o fail to realize that such
 useless of the and hopeless
 the uturea doubly discouragng circumstance because t What this government needs is vision.
 Such war council indicated by George Harvey, made up five of the biggest and practical of the country on the job and working close touch with th president would only inspire much confidence would prevent the administration running amuck it has done in Gariields paralyze all industries coal shortage. Indeed, might hay cvaded Discussing this subject tn Philadelphia Ledger declared few days Until the preS dent shall have surrounded himself with real council witt aid will be physically possible for every problem ccive deliberate consideration the uncomfortable possibility ta great national advantages may go by default will continue [, the public mind"