Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-05-19
Government FAILS TO ACT
no Money" Excuse Is
Lame Defense Made
to Charges.
ny International Labor News Service.

b International i.abar News Service.
Washington. ID. G. May l7s~-As-
loansilnv facts about var contract
trait. amazing charges of delay ~
prosecution " those eases. lncom-
petenee among those assigned 10 eA-
anime nu1ltS of claims running into
the hundreds of thousands. sensation
Al revelations OF how vast hl-par-
sisaa raid on the treasury was made
III time Of war. afe bring brought out
en the fleer Of congress.
TIE great daily press, slow to get
into actioa, bot being ferred each day
g. desnte mere space II the Sicken-
ing revelations, IL even yet made.
qualely reporting what has been
shomn
Here are scme Of the facts. boiled
down.
There are about 200 eases in which
var contractors are alleged 10 have
Eeuned the government.
Net single case has been brought
10 trial.
The total amount alleged 10 have
been gouged cut vt the people VI the
United States while they Nere strain
inR every nerve 10 win the war IL
NABfhHNEb AA FAtFt'NHst<fNt
More than siN months ago the
United States attorney general was
urged by the chairman of select
House Investigating committee 10 ask
for $500, 900 from congress with
which 10 prosecute the war graft
claims.
Now. under Are hy members of his
nmn party. the attorney general Eives
go IA Il man. 7.
progress the fact that he has had no
money During SIX months he failed
TO ask for the appropriation which
was offered him. He now aeks for II.
Congressman Woodruff. on the
llaase floor said. Il do not believe
the Republican party can face the
people Of the country In tho coming
election IL We do not do something Ia
clean up this thing. II smells TO high
heaven
Woodruff. who has been hanmsring
day after day 10 get astion by the
department Of justice. IL repuhii-
can.
War activities involved In the
CHARGES are aircraft, chemicals. fyiu-
nitione and eantonmentH.
One ~ the amazing charges laid
aircraft construction Ii that the
Standard Aiwraft CO., and the Stand.
nrd Aero Co. were Japanese con.
troiIed through Mitsui a Co.. Japan.
eae bankers, fiscal agents of the Jap
anese government and before the war
fiscal agents. or paynaHters, FOR y
part Of the old German Epv system.
Tfsf Lincoln Motuf Co, and the
~. s<xsfSt
panleas named In documents produced
IN congress and prepared by men who
had charge Of investigating audlta In
the department Of Justice until their
intense desire for action resulted Ia
their forced detachment from that
division Of government service.
Writing. Ia memorandum, 20 Col.
Guy ~. Goff, assistant attorney gem
eral, reporting on aircraft cases, II.
l.. ScAlfe, then IN the department OF
Justice, assigned 10 examination Of
audils of war contracts. said To that
high officials.
!" inaidious interests are 40 Arm
~ intrcnched that honest efforts ara
eircumseribed by seemingly impaasa.
bic BARRIERS"
MIR, sraife further said:
ity "a party. Both political parties
the same interests.
The situation Ia one Of serious con.
Germ"
Here are few Of the "over pay
ments" reported TO Col. Golf by Mr..
Sraifes
Wright Martin Aircraft
Inn IA
Lincoln Motor Co. tpar-
tall 4a.aa.4.ss s...sas4 DtlS4t l8o.lO
American Electro Pro-
duets Co. 2,0b7 ,26i. ~
DAYTON Wright CO. 2.bb4 ,3S3.27
These are but samples of many
easea which have been reported open.
~ on the floor Of the House.
From all quarters come reports of
the great power Of those who got the
enormous wartime loot, and IN some
quarters IL Is asked whether those
who got the loot have the power to
keep IL.
Meanwhile, more millions are to 10
into the ship subsidy scheme, there
Il no money for soldiers bonus,
and the general trend Is TO relieve
the rich from AZ much taxation as
possible and 10 load the workers with
as much taxation as possible.
revelations Of the great war loot
scandal continue day by day, and,
what Is regarded by many as most
significant OF all, no person Ia author
ity has denied the charges OF ire
mendous loot. The lootiBg Is an adj
mitted fact--but prison doors are
something else thus far.