THE CABINET: Sailing Orders

Woodrow Wilson went to the Paris Peace Conference on the S. S. George Washington. Last week Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, U. S. fiscal autocrat, compelled Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and the six other U. S. delegates to travel on the same ship to the London naval parley next month or pay their own expenses on another ship. Statesman Stimson had wanted to travel on the fast S. S. Bremen. The Comptroller’s authority: The Merchant Marine Act of 1928 which specifies that U. S. officials must travel on U. S. ships “whenever available.” To make her “available” the George Washington will be held over two days.