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f THE EVENING STAR,
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WASHIIOtOir, B. c.
f ZBXDAT November 1, 1918
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The Aircraft Report.
# Moct prominently outstanding in the
' report of the aircraft investigation
f conducted by former Justice Hughes is
the fact that no "graft" was, after ex
hatutive research, found in the trans
actions. For this the country is most
grateful, and although extravagances
and some misconduct are brought to
light there is reasou for national
congratulation upon the showing that
there has been no corruption in the
working out of the government's air
equipment program.
Mr. Hughes states that up to May 1
?f the original appropriation of $691,
: 8S1,8?6 about $134,000,000 had been
disbursed and by October J $6,000,000
additional. But of the balance, $470,
"00,000 had been committed in pledges
i or contracts. Of this immense sum
' the chief waste amounted to about
j $24,000,000, due to the abandonment
of two types of planes after construc
tion had been started and the failure
properly to salvage. This is a much
, smaller amount than the public had
been led to believe had been wasted
or squandered.
In respect to the profits of contract
? ing corporations Mr. Hughes makes
no direct comment, though he points
ont that in some cases these profits
i amounted to several hundred per eent
of the capital investment, and he notes
what can only be regarded as an un
sound method of contract letting on
the basis of cost plus a fixed, not a
percentage, profit, with a bonus of 25
per cent of any economies under an
i estimated cost. These estimated costs
were placed so high that there was
*? incentive to economy.
On the seore of personal responsibil
j ity, Mr. Hughes recommends the court
? martial of one officer and the criminal
prosecution of three others. Col.
Deeds is charged with conveying im
properly information to a former busi
ness associate and with giving to rep
} resentatives of the committee on pub
! He information a false and misleading
| statement with respect to the progress
J of aircraft production. The three offi
' cers whose prosecution under the
I criminal statutes is recommended are
I accused of having transacted business
i with corporations with which they were
' financially interested.
iAck of competent direction is the
main fault that the investigator finds
with the aircraft production organiza
? tion. To this fault are attributed the
I delays and waste of the program. Yet
I the report notes that production,
though behind schedule, is increasing.
? Taken as a whole the report is reassur
I ing- There was no graft. There was,
considering the conditions, but a small
percentage of waste, and save for four
instances those charged with the exe
uation of the program conducted them
selves in a lawful and loyal manner.
The delays may be attributed to our
inexperience, possibly to mistaken
judgment in men. The most lamen
table feature of this matter is that the
stage of quantity production, which
was so eagerly hoped for by the Amer
ican people, has been reached only as
the war is drawing to a close.
In years gone by Europe professed
te pay very little attention to Ameri
can statesmanship. It is different
no*.
Republicans insist that in order to
win tho war it is not absolutely nec
essary for them to lose all the elec
tions.
Europe is expecting to face the prob
lem, "What shall we do with our ex
kmauV'
Prussia is suspected of trying to
substitute temporarily light fingered
diplomacy for the mailed fist.
The Appeal and the Public.
The maneuvers on Capitol Hill re
specting the President's appeal for an
other democratic Congress, while in
teresting, are not important so far as
election day is eoneerned. That is
close at hand. The appeal is every
where known, and has everywhere been
appraised. So startling a performance
was bound to attract, and for the mo
ment monopolize, general attention. As
a topic for discussion it is not easily
exhausted. It will not soon be for
gotten. But for campaign purposes a
great deal has been said about it in
the short time since it was issued; and
probably at this moment the people
ire as well prepared as they \rill be
Fnssday to vote on it How they will
rota the polling alone ran tell.
It was the general public that was
itartled. Experienced political ob
.ervers had been expecting an appeal
>f the kind. Some of them confess
o having received weeks before plain
ntimations of what was coming. They
lid sot take the public into their con
idenc*. Why, they have not explained.
Ne*t Tuesday's result wiH have a
trust bearing an our domestic affair*.
JLlwJk daea not appear fax
away now?will bring than to the front
and make them paramount again.
And those affairs will be highly im
portant and very pressing. They can
not be postponed. And in taking them
up the right start should be.made.
We should not repeat the mistakes
made in some of our war work?make
the wrong start, or be so late in start
ing as to incur heavy losses of all
kinds through the delay.
It is no ordinary decision, therefore,
the voters are called upon to make this
time. The men they are to choose
next Tuesday?the great majority for
two years, the others for six?will leg
islate on a variety of subjects, and
all of them having to do with matters
vital to the interests of the country.
They will master under party names
and divisions, and support party poli
cies; and, what is of moment for all
to remember, what they da or fail to do
wHl be a factor in the gi^at quadren
nial contest two years hence, when the
prize will be the full control of the
government
The present contest is entirely par
tisan, and has been from the start.
Germany Isolated.
The great alliance of central powers
is breaking up rapidly. First Bul
garia capitulated on the field. Now
Turkey has sought and received terms
of armistice that are equivalent to un
conditional surrender. Austria is seek
ing a way to peace on apparently any
terms and finding some difficulty in
getting an armistice because she will
not actually hoist the white fag in the
field, though she haa sent a commis
sioner through the lines to discuss
terms. At home her situation is des
perate. Her railroad communications
are broken, various sections of her
population are in revolt, her army is
disintegrating through mutiny and de
feat at the front, riots are in progress
in many places. She is at the point of
dissolution.
Germany alone remains of the once
formidable combination, and she is
now awaiting terms of armistice. Her
military situation is grave, but not
yet desperate. She is holding her lines
in Prance and Belgium, though there
is reason to believe that the lack of
further defeats in that field has been
due to a brief remission of effort on
the part of the allies rather than to
any accession of strength or morale on
the part of their own forces. Such a
remission may be attributed to a de
sire to prevent unnecessary slaughter
and suffering if Germany is soon to
quit fighting, though fighting was re
sumed this morning on two sectors.
Doubtless at the first sign of disposi
tion on the part of the enemy to con
tinue the allies will smash forward
with greater vigor than ever. They
have unquestionably been utilising the
comparative calm to prepare for a
smashing blow.
Reports from Berlin are conflicting
on the subject of the intention of the
German government. Persistent state
ments that the kaiser has abdicated
are current, though not confirmed. On
the other hand, Hindenburg has sent
to German army commanders a mes
sage to the effect that "the army and
fleet will continue to protect the fron
tiers; we will not capitulate."
There are signs that the emperor
is drifting with the current. Appar
ently he is no longer in supreme con
trol, but is in the hands of the junker
element that in truth has for years
been the masterful factor in German
affairs. Presumably there will be no .
decision at Berlin until the armistice |
terms have been defined. These, it is
announced from Paris, will be con
fined to military matters, leaving the
definition of peace terms for the
future. It is further announced that
the peaee terms will be along the lines
of President Wilson's deliverances,
with greater definition.
When the Versailles allied council
has made known to the German govern
ment its terms of armistice Berlin
must decide whether it will continue
the fight or capitulate. That decision
cannot be long delayed.
The man who refuses to sell his lib
erty bonds will derive the financial
benefit it was intended by the govern
ment he should have. It was patriot
ism to buy and it is worldly wisdom to
hold on.
The Prussians are hoping for an
early and a hard winter. As usual,
their hopes of advantage are based
on what is ordinarily regarded as a
human calamity.
The French, English, Americans and
Italians may not converse with fluent
ease, but they fight with splendid mu
tual understanding.
The proposition to put the kaiser's
grandson on the throne should have the
immediate attention of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Turkey's Surrender.
Though not fully announced, the
armistice terms stipulated by the Brit
ish and acceded to by the Turks where
by Turkey in effect surrenders clearly
point to a determination on the part
of the allies to strike the stffl bellig
erent powers on their eastern flank.
Access to the Black sea is assured by
the passage of the allied fleet through
the Bosphorus and the occupation of
the forts around the Dardanelles and
the Bosphorus.
Memories of the unfortunate Galli
poli campaign are revived by this de
velopment. In a few hours, doubtless,
perhaps already, allied warships will
be steaming through the Dardanelles,
to penetrate which the British suf
fered a grievous loss of men and ships
many months ago. Mistake though it
is now con-eded to have been, the Gal
lipoli campaign had in it the possi
bility of inflicting a mortal blew upon
the central powers. Aj it was, it came
uu to suecesa.
An allied fleet in the Black sea
opens the way to military operations
la southern Russia in ease it is neces
sary to strike the enemy from that
quarter. Austria is, of course, in no
position to resist such a stroke, and if
anything were needed to complete her
collapse and eompel her surrender it
would be this opening of a gateway
for aa attack in the rear.
Access to the Black sea may prove
of the greatest importance to the al
lies in any moves that may be made
to restore order in Russia. It will be
possible now to land an army directly
upon Russian soil, regardless of the
season, and with comparatively short
distances to cover before reaching
vital points. Turkey's collapse has
?hus contributed to the restoration of
stable government in eastern Europe.
It was deeply humiliating to the
Turks, it is stated, to be compelled to
send an offer of capitulation through
Gen. Townshend, who was taken by the
Turks at Kut-el-Amara, the only large
military victory the sultan's forces
scored in the war. Turkey's future is,
of eourse, still to be determined. All
that has been now agreed upon is per
mission to cease fighting on the allies'
terms.
The Fourth Loan.
Pespite the discouragements of
peace talk and against the handicap
of an epidemic of dangerous disease
the country not only met the call for
$6,000,000,000 in the fourth liberty loan,
but oversubscribed it by nearly a bil
lion dollars. The total oversubscrip
tion, it is announced today, was $866,
416,300, or dose upon half of the total
amount of the first loan.
The American people's responses to
the government's calls for funds to
finance the war have been remarkable
in their spontaneity and abundance.
There has been no disposition to with
hold a dollar. On the contrary, every
loan has been oversubscribed at a rate
for the period of the American par
ticipation in the war of nearly a bil
lion dollars a month. And these are
the people who Germany thought would
not support a war against her because
of selfishness and commercialism and
German partisanship. The figures of
the four loans prove that in her esti
mate of America Germany was as far
wrong as in aH her other judgments of
people.
When the kaiser promises the Ger
man people freedom, the question of
definition again asserts itself. The
Hohenzollern idea of the word is some
thing that will not be easy to reduce
to erplict terms.
Should Henry Ford take on respon
sibilities of ? senatorial statesmanship
in addition to his other cares, it may
be doubted whether he will be able
to limit himself to a straight eight
hour day.
Addressing the heads of other gov
ernments by their first names was re
garded as a condescension by "WiHie."
Hereafter if attempted it will be a
gross presumption.
Though on the retreat, the influenza
germs pause now and then apparently
in the hope of a parley aqd a respite.
SHOOTING STABS.
BT PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Habit. '
"I thought you were going to quit
talking politics."
j "True," said Senator Sorghum, remi
niscently. "There was a time when I
thought I was going to give up smok
ing."
Crowding the Quarters.
"We feel crowded in this flat," said
the tenant, diffidently.
"No wonder!" ezelaimed the janitor.
"This flat was never intended for a
family of six."
"But there are only myself and wife."
"I know better. Besides you two,
there are a canary bird and three gold
fish."
Shoveling.
King Winter soon will take control.
The winds wiH blow.
Let's hope that we can shovel coal
As well as snow.
Helpfulness.
"You used to wonder whether your
boy would be much of a help to you."
"That's aH changed," answered
Former Corntossel. "Since he went
to Prance, Fm wonderin' whether I am
much of a help to Josh."
"Time is money," said Uncle Kben;
"but jes' de same de man dat finds
himself wif a lot o' time on his hands
has made a pore investment."
Fable of a Flea
Once there was a little flea
Upon a dog unwary,
A combination, youll agree,
Thafs quite unnecessary.
Yet somehow fid that.flea contrive
To take the grand position
That patient doggie was alive
By its (the flea's) permission.
How doggies very seldom twist
Their faeas into laughter.
"Tis something that the scientist
May talk about hereafter.
And that Is how H eatae about
The flea la his elation
Has not been shaken down sad out
By humorous demonstration.
When doggie thinks if s rather queer,
And wonders what's the matter,
The flea climbs up into his ear
And whispers soothing chatter.
It says, "Each dog must have his flea,
And I shall not neglect you.
Yon always eaa depend on ms
To 'counsel and protect youf"
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