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Show THE PRINCE OF WILSON. HS Son-in-Law McAdoo the president's substitute for a war coun- cil? To assume that Mr. Wilson is running the war short- j handed so long as McAdoo is healthy and ambitious is to forget the j Prince of Wilson. If anything that ought to be done is being left un- j done, perhaps McAdoo can take it on with the other assignments that j have so far fallen to him. A few more or less would hardly matter i now. To be sure he i's secretary of the treasury. But all that means is responsibility for such inconsequential things as collection of income and corporation taxes; supervision of the soldiers' insurance; seeing that the shipping board is always properly organized; the formation J of the marine insurance bureau; management of liberty loan campaigns; cam-paigns; the management and development of the thrift campaigns; and a few other such incidentals. Of course, being at the head of the federal reserve bank system, the farm loan board and the industrial high commission might make some difference, as might also the fact that Mr. McAdoo is responsible for the operation of all the railroads in the United States. Hasn't he still time, however, to attend regular cabinet meetings, and is he not now willing, to head the proposed war finance corporation which will loan four billion dollars to the industries of America? If this is not enough to make a man president, then the employment employ-ment of the democratic national committee's publicity organization - by the United States treasury is all for- naught. Detroit Saturday 1 Night. |