The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-06-06

pOTCaHt CaSk Oh securing sleeping
quarters. Don't be too particular, take
the first reasonably suitable room
procurable. If your business is liable
to take few days at least ask terms
for the week, book by the week with
the option of less upon an agreed
amount. If the rates are payable in
advance, as in many cases they are,
/ demand receipt and the terms in
writing, for even in Washington pre-
caution is conservation in these times.
The Government has secured every
| conceivable nook and Granny to tran
sact this business of war. The old war
office building is veritable beehive,
full to the gods with busy bees but no
drones. Other quarters are found in
numerous floored public garage, a
large hotel bilding, the latter once a
well furnished and popular resort now
fully occupied by war workers, even to
the bath rooms. Even the boarding
| houses are not despised, or the one
time office blocks, stores business
premises and private houses, but the
portion of the city which looks the
most inspiring is where the new tenn
porary war buildings have been cree
ted. Here there is no argument as to
their utility They are war buildings
and they look it. One can visit any Of
the Emergency blocks and imagine a
job of magnitude is being planned.
But when a careful inspection is made
of the temporary war offices there is
no doubt left as to their purpose. 1t
is war, war, real red-blooded justifi-
able war on the most gigantic scale
this continent has ever dreamed OF.
Three or four huge blocks are already
completed and the very streets and
sidewalks, even tho trees, shrek out
that terrible word-WAR.
Each block covers a large city block
and is laid out with one long front
and four lage wings three stories in
heigth, and all blocks are connected
and all spaces enclosed. Staff canteens
dot the spaces besides heterogeneous
mass of stores and outhouses.
Admittance is gained only by sign
ing an application form stating your
name and business and the person
whom YOU wish to see, and the fact
that soldiers with bayonetted rifles
guard all entrances and exits, extracts
silent oath to tell the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth.
After official scrutiny commission
aire collects a party of five or more
applicants for the interviews and you
commence your journey to C-F-12--
3-324-4. AS this system OF location
by hieroglyphics is known only to the
elect must pass on without comment.
"The bigger the man the easier
your task Of interviewing him" was
statement made to me by the Consul
General of the, neutral
European country. and such / found
70 he the case. Major--of the
Ordinance Dept. received me with the
greatest courtesy and have nothing
INT praise and respect for that gent
1eman and his efforts to render me ev-
erv possib]e service A certain Captain
- - would like to mention his
name. gave me the impression he was
in office solely for the purpose Of
oblieinp me. interviewed dozens OF
such men and particlarlv noticed the
business courtesy extended to all and
snndry. and all fighters mark YOU.
The drill hour is just as important as
| the clerical service. l had the pleasure
Of seeing some Of these gentlemen
drilling their SQUADS anu II tHe OllC
ers and men now down the Germans in
| the same manner as they manoever l
am forced to say God help the Ger
4 man. Nav their heaven be worse
than our hell. and for Gods sake and
the sake of Humanity reserve plenty
of room in the land of heat our boys
are going to send them.
i This country should never forget
the wonderful services the 'Dollar-a-
year-men' are rendering. They eat
work, live on it and thrive on it.
AS most of the new Bills are set
i tied in committee rooms did not see
the usual peace time struggles in the
upper and lower houses. In both cham
bers scant gathering lolled and the
outward signs depicted nothing OF
the titanic struggle democracy is
making for supremacy.
i, Visitors to Washington should not
:. fail to see the wonderful collection OF
, conte-crayon drawings in the Congress
i sional Library, the work Of the mar
vellous Dutch artist Raemaker, de-
picting the life and the times, the
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