Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-04-08
PRESIDENT | S J !: HAS "A
WAR CABINET"
Although it Does not go by That
Name-An Interesting Letter
From our Washington
Correspondent.
GIRLS WHO GO TO WASHINGTON.
Does Advertising pay! An Exhaustive
Investigation Into Merch.
andising.
Washington Bureau
of Freeman-JOurnal.
BY J. E. JONES.

BY J. E. JONES.
the advisability of a "war cabinet
and President Wilson has been en-
phatic in his disapproval of the kind
OF a group that Congress would have
him select. On the other hand the
president choosing his own aides
Tor laying out war plans. For
instance, one day this week the fol-
lowing men were invited to the White
House at one of the conferences:
Secretary McAdoo, Food Administra-
tor Hoover, Fuel Administrator Gar
Held, Chairman Hurley of the Ship
ping Board, Secretary Daniels, Chair
man Baruch of the War Industries
Board and Chairman Mccormick of
the War Trade Board Groups OF
leaders like these are frequently con-
suited at the White House, and the
president is known to maintain a
watchful supervision over what every
one of them does. The president
has his "war cabinet" all right, even
though it does not happen to go by
that name.
Why Did She Leave Home!
Several years ago I stood with
prominent man watching the streams
of people passing busy spot in Bos-
ton, and he turned to me to ask:
How do they all make a living?"
Next to that puzzle is the one we
have in Washington; when you see a
flock of newly-arrived pretty girls
You can hardly help asking: "Why
did they leave home?" ! have asked
many of them this blunt question,
and they answer, "patriotism;" after
which they lay it to the announce
ments on the moving picture screens.
A little further discussion of the mat
ter settles the problem down to al
desire to "see how things are done in
and 81 thought hun
dred dollars month would be fine
salary, and it is good deal more
than / got back home" But most of
the young ladies are far from being
stuck on their job" and as for see
ing how things were done" they
might have had a better perspective
of affairs had they stuck to their
posts back home, and spent the
money that it has cost them to re-
locate on pleasure trip" that would
have given them a good vacation and
brought them back to their homes
in two or three weeks. School teach
ers and young ladies without Office
experience will need to cajole them
selves good deal to make them
selves believe that their connection
with Washington department in
lines OF work where they draw more
salary than they earn doing things
entirely unfamiliar to them, is essen |
tial in order to show their patriotism.
The fact is that nine-tenths of these
young ladies would do better for
themselves and the country if they
stayed in their own home town, and
put in their spare time knitting for
the Red Cross units, or helping to
boost some of the women's local war
activities. And incidentally, a hundred
dollars a month in one of the most
expensive cities in which to live in
the country, is not going to give any
one an opportunity to compete with
Rockefeller as money maker.
Getting on War Basis.
The nation is settling-just like
coffee does after it has boiled in the
pot. AS coffee grounds steep their
brew and then dive for the bottom
as though conscious that there was
no longer any reason for them to
muddy up the amber fluid, so has
war quit boiling over the top, and
the national brew is ready to deliver
its contents. Senator Reed of Mis-
souri,, has been making speeches by
the yard picking the food administra
tion to pieces. Reed is one of the
ablest men in the senate, and he never
has believed in the principle of food
control He and those who think
with him contend that the high cost
of living is largely due to the fixing
of prices. And they cite plenty of
instances where regulated prices
have shot up like mercury in Their
mometer when hung in the MONDAY
sun on hot day. The fuel admins
traitor certainly has mo one to love
him." but his troubles are over for
atime, and if Dr.. Garfield is with us
another winter most people will