The Cordova daily times., 1920-03-31
INTERIOR FOR MCBRIDE

Exchanges coming on the DOatS ar irving in Ketchikan yesterday includ- cd a number of papers from Interior Alaska, including the Nenana News and the Fairbanks News-Miner, both of which show that the Republican clubs of those towns endorse J. C. Mcbride for national committeeman of the Republican party.
 Throughout the Territory, all the newspapers except those controlled by Heron show conclusively that the sentiment of the rank and file of party members are for Mcbride, and that they will be on election day.
 In addition to the reports from the Interior come advices from Anchor age and Seldovia that Mr. Heron will fare badly at the hands of the voters, many of whom are fishermen who al- lege that they were treated shame fully by the candidate for national committeeman in the matter. of pay ment for their seasons work or rath- CT in the matter of non-payment. While the Heron forces claim to have the solid labor vote of Ketchikan the Chronicle is informed by MT. c. w. Reed, the secretary of the Ketch- lkan local that such is not the case. The sentiment in the labor ranks of Ketchikan, because of the reports coming from Anchorage and Seldovia, is far from friendly toward MT. Her. WHY NOT LET CONGRESS DO IT.?
 A letter written by Herbert Hoover to Colonel House at Paris on March II, 1919, in which MT. Hoover pro- posed that President Wilson appoint commission to investigate the con- duct of the war, instead of permitting Congress to probe into the matter has been given out at New York. In this letter MT. Hoover expressed the opinion that the only way in which . fair inquiry into the conduct of the administration could be conducted was through more appointees of the admin istratiOn since investigations conduct cd by Congress would necessarily be "a mixture of demagoguery politics and sincerity of desire to maintain a high standard of administration In this letter MT. Hoover expressed the opinion that the administration had conducted the war with a freedom from dishonesty and with an efficiency not equaled by another country en- gagged in the war" Referring to his own work Mr. Hoover said that he would be glad to have an investiga- tion made by appointees of the Pres ident, rather than by congressional committee "that we may be freed from perpetually recurrent scandal and tradUction at the hands of dem- agogues." Up to this time there has Kot been a breath of "traduction and scandal" in connection with MT. Flowers work in the war. which would seem to indicate that so far as any war activity not conducted with glaring waste and inefficiency is con- eerned, MT. Hoover's apprehensions wore not we'll founded The purpose in giving out the letter was therefore evidently not connected with any criticism of MT. Hoover's work, but is intended to reflect upon the reports of congressional committees relative ts waste and inefficiency in the war department under Secretary Baker.
 Many people will continue to believe that the representatives of the people n the congress of the United States, who appropriate the money used by government officials, are as we'll qual- h1ed to investigate the use of that money as a committee appointed by the head of the administration. Self auditing of accounts is not usually considered the most business-like way of uncoveriag inefficiency. or waste The curiosity of the people as to how it came about that we spent billion dollars on aerop1anes without getting war planes to the front in any quan- tity after we had been eighteen