The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1918, Page 12

Congress That His Plan for Voluntary Con-ervation | Failed —Master Organizer and Shifts His Points of Attack Quickly. By Samuel M. Willams. Copyright, 1918 the (The New Tork Evening Pree Publivt : ERBERT HOOVER hae lasted six months as Nattonal Food Ad H intolstrator, the fime Jinit he set for himself, based on the dura> tion in office of foreign Frod Controllers. In one he measured correctly. The end is at band, but It is not Hoover that bas failed and passed out—it Is the system. Jostoud of waiting for the storin of eritl cism to break on him, Hoover beats them to it. He {s the first to notify Congress that his bopes, his plans, his efforts to eulist the American peo- ple in VOLUNTARY conservation of food have sense falled ar Congress to authorize COMPULSORY inethode. it is up to of his ready te diftere versatile is Hoover Sone phase ated'y, of wan from those Government oificlals who are having t Amazingly new tanping tim as a vustly t type source crops out rep ir trouvles, fuch as Secretary of War Baker, Coal Administrator Gartield and the sem{-oficlal Council of National Defense There {6 ove of wat restriction which touches all people alike, and that i plies, transportation troubles and even scarcity of cua) afiect directly subject food control, Munition shortages, jack of army #up- only @ part of the population, bit touch food and the outery becomes Food That ts why Unanimous, three times 4 day. So of all Government officials the Administrator tes on thrine jee of popu support #0 many English and German adininistrators have passed out Here in America we knew of Hoover by bis Belgian work before ho went to Washington to ence The dynamic ‘rage bigger crops und smaller appe- filled with energy, exceptional organizing ability and a way of getting tites reputation that preceded him was of @ man done things thet appeared impossible. But since Hoover has been in Washington he has rev stand now how he succe led two other characteristics hitherto unsur are diplomacy and strategy. It is easier to under d in securing Buch extraordinary concessions Belgian relief. on strategy. from European Governments in. the It was energy guided by diplomacy; boldness based Master Organizer Has No Set Rules. Hoover is a muster business arganizer, but he does not believe in blue-print office charts with rigid ines defining every and limiting his scope. business organization, starting man's duties One of those nicely worked out diograms of a ith President aud running down to office boy, is the architectural plan for a bureaucracy to be built out of red tape. In such structures as these the keynote ts “coordination,” which Rowadays in Washington ts defined as “passing the buck next door.” There are no organization diagrains on the walls of Hoover's office. Though he has many employees and infinite numbers of oMcials and committees both In Washington and throughout the country, red tape @nd bureaucrats are eliminated as soon as they appeur. It is a Ould and flexible system in action and methods, Men and new questions of the hour, >} Aim is swung quickly from one subject to another ure ifted overnight to fresh speviaities 1s permanent, to condition lasting, no precedent inviolable. Between Hoover's Pood Admintetration and Garfleld’s Mucl Ad- ministration there was this vilal difference; In the former, men of the Dusiness affected were consulted and experts drafted for service; in the latter, no practical coal men were adiaitted uutil the receat explosion of criticism. Hoover's Job has three angles: Stimulate production, check ex- tortion and conserve suppliow, all with the ject of leeding our Luro- peas allies and helping wiu tho war with food. He entered office too i, but hes late to increase last year's farm pre Ho wheut, flour and sugar et all tho Women to canning uceeedod in Keeping dow A prices of three articles And he wehnowledgos the failure of voluntary conservation, “We have enrried on an ext © campaign for voluatary conser vation,” wi Hoover to Congress. "The great majerity co-operate with us iu the most patriotic manner, but the minority who will not Gallas ant Gk judice the patriotic but discourage and undermine their « The demand * they have developea during the last @ixty days. ure greater than can be ne on a purely voluntary basis, The grave responsibilities cannot be left on my shoulders (f Congress should cousider that nothing further ts necessary hy way of legisia- tion.” It was Hoover siratexy putting the situation up co Congress before people began tc and the lavish tse of sugar by food alike. There ts plenty alk about tre re of wheatlesa and meatless days manufacturers aud food consumers pena! Inw to stop speculatnig in wheat profitecring in flour and regulating r prices, but there is none to ne} conserva stop eating whatever be can get whenever he Wants it The National Food Law touches only the manufacturer. the { er the wholesaler and the speculitor It stony short of the retatier and the co Yr. These intte ses were supposed to be left to regula tion by local authorities under State and m awe It in at rn tt t th vecem ha oken down, both as to con servation o o regulatios of sales. Toover appointed Deputy Admin local authorities, New York State passed a food inw and appointed Cor sione But none et tt d any hority, the law had no force. The system of remulation of retail prices bas proved as fneffective as the attempt at voluntary couservation. Food Chief ax Diplomat and Concitiator Hoo er hits lasted throug firstsix months, He has been diplo matic with Congressmen. ator Reed of Missourt, who tried to upset him in suger, and e ating With the innumerable conficting business in’ oncerned in tt Juetion and pale, Satisfying the farmer euger for highest p s down quotutions in city n ‘ t H led wi} It wa lay ape ! s vather aly enacted the coor) and he was formulls uppoluied to ofive, He ha 1 Kix of ofeial life and # hine shortage 1 ! ! ' The for merely 7 fe r Alte public, ready to vise in revolt when its daily bread ip touched Who Oppoves Rigid Systems D AO te meee — * ooo QI : —, i. ASS ah enirageazin Coll rs iN = A New Patti Galli-Curci, in America Two Years, Achieves a Tremendous ‘Triumph With the Chicago Opera Company. SKETCH IN CHARACTER BY W. B, JOHNSTONE, {rrives ti. New York Galli~ Cure | Why New York Is a Rash ot Nerves NEW and brilliant star risen in the operatic ens, New Y by the Cure for two y while it tumined ier eitles she ts Chicago ar of the Now ¢ as the greatest color- sno of a gene Enrleo Ca sudience at t o first * Metro- marvellous his «wit thusinsm as niarked nat the Lex- lng Theatre on Monday night in the Chicago ¢ pany's product \ ancient nof M work, “Dinorah The a Gal-cu Self vuditorium was Ina myself in New I wanted to p y t on 1 was shaking had such a re ad ther ' | | Zown Is a Crezy Quilt Afar, Sewn Together by an Astigmatic Municipal Tailor Racket Compeight. 101 View | N° YORI ts roth | quilt is a « 4 | her in the dark by a Nive thumbs on his sow ur This Oat-eyed w Was made trom n Bay birds a neorporat When one New y nrusic nD s tha ob) A monosy noine jatter starts to t A like a set flattening st No wonder ueiy Mouees le fasluonab Vhat tf Bb) W York {lso, I's an Epileptic Orchestra, WU Loch Musician Playing @ Different Why it Has Nere ’ ARTHUR (“BUG Pago 175, line 29, word 1—"Lusitania,” has hese: ikabliaagroe 6 19OT | CilagUMs uit Brown @ Cissus) aes 100} te fee me rk has been dazzled _—— J eht of Amelita Galil- hidden from the metropolts Page 175, line 1, word 2—"Passeng v % WEDNESDAY, ANU 1918 ‘Warne 175, 29, 1, 175, 1,2, Durch Lusitania Warning in Code ' JANUARY 30, Sent by Wireless to Mr. Bernstorft—He Den ed Receiving Any Mewace, and The Wortd Almanac o' i915 Was Used for wage Numbers Froa berlin—How hy the Drees Pub 2 Co. (The Now York Bvening Worth, LINES IN WORLD ALMANAC HID KEY TO GERMAN CABLE CODE “ Transatlantic Passenger Steamers. 175 Pane 622, line 2, word 4—"Press.” oF THE pRasa, ATIOTICS 7, word 18-—"'Not.” Tar WORLD'S purpose, Co “ture om the Lignt™ An he interest of the Deople ot large, waepeg Page 19 line aonesiais ™ Page LIX, line 11, words 3, 4, 5, 6—"Voyage Across the Atlantio.” ‘The succerstul vy ntio of the 35-foot motes t Berlin directed the sinking he first time in the World's Jobn R. Rathom, editor of d numerous German plots in this HE cipher message which proved th of the Lusitania ts made pubitc Work magazine, published toda the Providence Journal, which expo: countr e giving in detail the nts, quotes this The message, during the last three years, In an ar methods he used to uneart hi the work of the German a message from his file decoded. nd explains how it wa , reads as follows: m-- Kerlin Porelen Oftice. To Botse! 6OU (44-W) ait, Washington Welt ninetcenstifteen warne 1 {stop 197 IS stop LIN 13 44 cipher mee 29 1 stop 175 1 2 stop ge came through from Nauen, Germany, to Say> © Island, at 2 o'clock on the morning of April 29, 19 ville, Li caught by the operatur at a wireless , and was the Provie interesting because tt followed nope of the codes which they had previously observed. ; portant, station malntained by dence Journal. It was cspecially It was ovidently Im- evause four attempts were made to put it through before the German station succeeded in over tions which prevalled failed, until someob man Embs of the ming the unfavorable etatic condl- Every that mornt attempt to decipher -it ly with a line on the internal activities of the Ger remembered that during that morning Princo Hatefeldt Embassy Staff had been looking for a New mana The first World’) 191 York World Al- message, “Welt “Bots two words of the the clue notle: (German ‘for aft” ts German other cipher codes fonaries or other of three, applied ) It was 1 by dupt in this (The word that, ke man whose ate copies of volumes, the a cable were Acting on the assumption that the first num 1 19 a page, the second to a line on that page and the third to a word in that line, # M5 World Almanac Was examined by the Journal men and readily ielded the bidden mesea. f the secret code Warne,” the means WARN, of three number first word of the cable, translate Turning to page 175. first numb and counting down the de 18 found to be “Lt recurring after cach group 1 from the German, rin the first group ignated 29 lines, the first SITANIA word in tha “Stop.” merely meant the p conclusion of each code word \ The next three numbers, ed the second letter in the Curel was t first line of that page to be “PASSENGI Then came the German Tasazza whe | word “dure,” which means “THROUGH eT ZiG: nave! zg b Following the same method, page 622, line 2, word 4, ylelded the aie saw hi $ | wor’ “PRE word 18, “NOT.” ———— pen RAL LIX was f one of the advertising pages in ———— | of the alman e eleventh tine was found and then the 4, 5 and 6, given in sequonce, resolved elves into the words ot the message, “VOYAGE ACROSS THE AT. | us decoded, the message reid arn Lusitania passenger(s) through press not voyage across the Atlantic.” Two days later tae German Embussy printed the now historte ad« vertisement In the New York papers warning travellers not to eroep } Atlantic, and a week later, on May 7, the Lusitanta was sunk by @ erman submarine | . : A dramatic touch o on of death sauge BAER, | tse Iles in the | fact that a wai noe tails taken isa the rtence of « Hite {ARO ELEC SOE Fe | the late owner ¢ he World ich publi the Almanac. } POOR RICHARD JR. } Fislepaantanl bitnne? eons endear tuaseeh our words were COOP ONOCOT COCO DODD ODOT Oe aca) ; a foul m an advertisement of a well-known ma iwotan: The Kaiser is what the honest baseball umpire wouldst cal) The Ger assador, Immediately after { inking of the _ Lu cr d that the adv had published in the New A wor is cld when her idea of a beauty spot is a porous plaster. York papers was Inserted on his ‘esponsibl and had no par Uicular reference to the Lusitania, As printed, this advertisement meme The youth whe buyeth his tance a diamond ring soon discqvereth | ship by name. But the cipher message now reveals the fact ove lasteth no long as the instalments. | 1 tely and that Be ed the whole tragedy, r | entally, Mr thom's thit on tho evening after Whe s eak 6 te her husband on the telephone the nia was eunk, when f of Von Bernstorf declared that ae 78 AR yuage i | whelmed 4 1 secluded in rooms in @ New True love runneth nat smooth, especially on the Erie | el, he wes in ty giving a dinner in the apartments of a i} end in New York and there toasted the commander of the U Ddoat her under both names i a A sudor Gevard suggests sending New York's 11 suffeura “B, We ~ Bi es. He wants to arm ‘em with that tewible weapon known The bies” of the Cocoan OA SN ee ie ee i eo visa <8 The Shrinking Doll The Shrinking Dollar. ir and a Mfty-centy cents the following vear, 83 by June, ‘ot le they | 197, and 50 cents by Jan. 1, 1918.! \ he eff 8 added burden rests not only} s every An in home, but upon ‘ loins 2 the countrie Pe in neutral tands \ peace iv eonvluded, 1 Which are (oo large, mediua D bis