Show tl I p h V i V SECRETARY or OF WAR AR WORKS 15 HOURS FOR SAME PAY I J If Cabinet Members Membern H Had d j Union Baker Would Draw Two Salaries By L. L Harper Leech v By Special News Service WASHINGTON D. D C. C Sept 8 If IC If cabinet members had a union sc scale l V Newton D. D Baker would be ear earning 11 lots o of overtime The secretary V of j war is putting In an average of fit teen hours a day V But then thea he is bossing some pretty fair sized Jobs He is responsible for building thIrty two thirty two cities to accommodate populations of each creating a an army of men getting the guns wagons artillery ammunition and eats for the same and transporting them to camp and thence to France Creation of an air fleet to cost a billion or so is a side line Une Running the Panama Canal zone and rivers I and nd harbors ar are minor peacetime routine V j He gets on the I job at 8 a. a m. m m.- m. I just two hours ahead of the tho peacetime peacetime peace peace- time schedule of Washington S i V And until 1 o'clock he must see ee folk 1 Sometimes this is work sometimes it Isn't When he confers with Sur Stir i geon eon General Gorgas about sanitary IT ITI I equipment for the cantonments for ex ex- I emple it is is United States senators must be admitted ad- ad when they knock and they bring all sorts of persons Now it Isa is isa a Ii prominent citizen who must be told why his bo boy didn't get a commission when John Browns Brown's boy passed And then it Is something else again At about 1 o'clock the secretary goes to lunch at home with his family almost invariably In the afternoon there are cabinet meetings two days of the week and conferences conferences' with generals and officers on other days Every LEvery very afternoon at 6 Baker calls In John S. S Schofield chief clerk and is V given a birds birds' eye view of new devel- devel L V r f. f i Unless some allied co commission mission is Inthe in inthe the city to be duly banqueted 9 P p. p m. m finds Baker beginning what to most V men would be another days day's V work With I With a battery of stenographers he f eginS begins egins reading and answering the pile ile of letters his secretaries have pad had ad to pass on to him After some ome hours ours of that he be has nothing to do until tomorrow V rhe irhe The little lawyer from froth Cleveland Ike e the little Welsh attorney ross the pond seems to be making od without making making- much noise 1 V |