Show SECRETARY OF WAR WORKS 15 HOURS i iFOR t FOR SAME PAY i j If Cabinet Members Had Union Baker Would I Draw Two Salaries By L. L H Harper Leech By Special News Service WASHINGTON D. D C C. Sept 8 S.-It S. If cabinet members had a union scale Newton D D. D Baker would be earning lots of overtime The secretary of ot war war is Is' putting in an average of ot fifteen tit fit teen hours a day But then he is bossing some pretty 1 fair sized Jobs He is responsible for forI building two thirty-two cities to accommodate accommodate accommodate I populations of each creating an army of men J 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 0 side line Running the Panama Canal zone and rivers and nd harbors ar are minor peacetime routine I He gets on the J job at 8 a a. m m.- m. just two hours ahead of the peacetime peacetime peacetime peace peace- time schedule of or Washington I And until 1 o'clock he must see folk Sometimes this is work sometimes it isn't When he be confers canters with Surgeon Sur Sur- J 1 geon a General Gorgas about sanitary i equipment for tor the cantonments for ex ex- I emple empIe it is United States senators must be admitted admitted ad- ad I Ii d when hen they knock and they i i bring all sorts of persons Now it isa Is Isa Ii a a prominent citizen who must be told why his boy didn't get a commission when John Browns Brown's boy passed And then it is something else again At about about 1 o'clock the secretary goes to lunch at home with his family I almost invariably In the afternoon I there are cabinet meetings two days of the week and conferences with generals and officers on other days Every afternoon at 6 G Baker calls in John S S. S Schofield chief chiet clerk and is given a birds' birds eye view of new developments devel devel- Unless some allied commission is in inthe inthe the city y torb to be duly b banqueted 9 p. p m. m finds Baker beginning what to tomen most men would be another days day's work ork With a battery of ot stenographers he begins reading and answering the pile of letters his secretaries have had to pass on to him After Arter some ome hours 0 of rass that he has nothing to do until tomorrow The little lawyer from froni Cleveland like Uke the little Welsh attorney across the pond seems to be making good without making making- much noise |