South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-11-01
BIG DREAM OF LAST
SPRING DEVELOPS INTO
A u + u NAL "NIGHT-
MARE AND COPPER
HEADISM" GETS AN
OTHER BAD JOLT.
By JOHN HENRY ZUVER.
Editor The Ncws-Times.

OF their partisan leaders, Judge
Hughes. Again their raiIinQS are
proven 20 be Of sounding bras" J."
Judge Hughes aircraft report has
been made.
He gives the program clean bill
Of health 80 far as graft" i'm the
ordinary sense of the term Is con-
ccrncd.
Court martial is recommended for
three army officers for throwing
busincs TO a. many aircraft cor
pOratiOns I'm which they were stock
holders. but even at that no claim f.
made OF graft beyond their regu-
lar dividends, and no charge OF
prOliteering TO enhance those divi-
iends.
Rcprimand and reduction from
their official positions would prob
ably be the limit of punishment by
court martial.
The civilian aircraft management
j. absolutely exonerated OF dishon-
esty or bad faith with thc govern
mcnt, and those i'm charge since the
reorganization I'm May are com
mended.
A waste OF $4,000. 900 Il found
through failure To salvage the aban-
dOncd Bristol planes, and at the
time of the great BOrglum howl last
spring, that 5000, 100000 had been
spent and nothing to show for IL,
only S13f. 100000 had been spent.
with only S24 1000, 900 OF that need
less loss.
In fact only $40, 900, 900 of that
S62O 900. 900 had been paid out up
20 the first of October. though S17O,-
100000 OF contracts have been made
and are awaiting completion OF the
work
The "coppcrhcadSr will now, no
doubt proceed 10 yell and wonder
why there was no graft" why the
money hasn't been spent. and un-
able to boil over with waste of that
5000 .OOO, 900. will probably content
themselves TO rail that the S2f .OOO,-
OOO-might better have been reach
ed and turned over TO the republic
can congressional campaign com
mittec.
4
i pected. Experiments are more or
less expensive The men i'm charge
of the war preparations, from pres
idcnt down. have done their best,
honestly and cOnsCientiOusly, To help
win the war. Mistakes have been
made. Even the Wisest Of men
sometimes blundcr.
Out of all that mass OF democrats
that our republican contemporary
was going TO have hanged some
wcci--in their hurry TO have the
Hughes report filed for campaign
thunder.-Judge Hughes isn't go
ing Co hang n one of them, and has
found none To- hang.
Three army officers are scOlded,
mainly for being stockholders I'm
corporations with which they did
government business.
It HIS isn't alone Judge Hughes re-
i port. IL is also Atty. Gen.
GrcgOry's report. He cOncurs with
Judge Hughes i'm his findings and
recommendations. And thus an-
other big noise has dwindled into
Inouse-Iike squeaI, as the Washing
ton Herald put IL nt the time;
"Oh you long and august line Of
special agents, from William Bayard
Hale and Charles Ferguson TO Gut
son Borglum. when and where are
you going to end"
Borglum. discredited. and unable
10 get his defense before the senate
military affairs committee that had
uscd hinl--Or he it.-while knitting
the president i'm the back, IS over i'm
France doing Y. VI. {. \. work.
Judge Hughes. whose integrity as
mn investigator nobody doubts, lead
or of the republican party I'm 1916,
chosen to give the senate rcpubli-
cans their breakfast ont of their OWL
nursing bottle. has done to the sen
ate republicans i'm this matter eX-
actIy what Sec'y Baker did to them.
I'm response 60 their criticism OF the
war department.
Hc has told them fatty that their
assumptions were false and submits
the evidence To prove il.
wv OULD that there were more
w mon OF Judge Hughes caIibre
In the republican party ana this
Notwithstanding his recent speech at
the Union league, New York, in
which ne joined his party leaders i'm
erfticIsing the president for follow
inc the sense and example Of PrcSt
Mckinley. in going 20 the people and
asking for n congress OF his party.
IL may have been the filing of the
Hughes report. disgusting the prcsi-
dent again with the congressional
baranguing. brandaging, needless
embarrassment and hindrances, that
drove the president TO issue the APP
peal.
Nr Hughes said i'm his Union
Iceruc speech that thc president
need not fear republicans i'm con-
,.r,-s.. and ne doesn't fear them, at
least from the standpoint of any
n..rsonaI violence. but wc fear the
republican nominee Of 1916 hasn't
,ccn on the bench. and out I'm the
world long enough to have discover
ed that all republicans are not OF his
Calibrc.