Bok went South for a month's holiday to get ready for the fray, and in
the saddle and on the golf links he formulated a policy. The
newspapers and weeklies would send innumerable correspondents to the
front, and obviously, with the necessity for going to press so far in
advance, _The Journal_ could not compete with them. They would depict
every activity in the field. There was but one logical thing for him
to do: ignore the "front" entirely, refuse all the offers of
correspondents, men and women, who wanted to go with the armies for his
magazine, and cover fully and practically the results of the war as
they would affect the women left behind. He went carefully over the
ground to see what these would be, along what particular lines women's
activities would be most likely to go, and then went back to Washington.
It was now March. He conferred with the President, had his fears
confirmed, and offered all the resources of his magazine to the
government. His diagnosis of the situation was verified in every
detail by the authorities whom he consulted.
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