Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1916 — WILSON STUDIES WAR MAPS [ARTICLE]

WILSON STUDIES WAR MAPS

Keeps Tab Daily on Positions of the Struggling Armies- —Officer Keeps Record,

Washington— President Wilson is a peace-loving official, but the walls of. the cabinet room do not indicate it. Huge maps of all the war zones of Europe cover the walls, and on each map the battle lines of the opposing hosts are drawn. , - Col, W. W. Harts, the presidents >aid is' in charge of alFthe “battlefields.’’ He adjusts the .tiny flags and colored cords which indicate how the different armies are moving from daytoday. - _ Frequently, when the president goes over t<s his executive offices in the morning, he stops in the cabinet room and personally surveys the positions of the struggling armies. In addition to the European maps here also is one showing the. position of the United States troops on the Mexican border «4w» positions JdLMMlfiSflJHSgg--