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Show SENATORIAL PROBES. Undoubtedly quite a number of mistakes mis-takes have been made since the United States began the work of putting an army in the field to fight the kaiser. It is even probable that there will be mauy more bad guesses before the st niggle is ended. No mortal can foresee fore-see how everything he undertakes is going to turn out. Of course he can calculate cal-culate the possibilities and act in accordance accord-ance with his best judgment and then j devote his energies to working out the programme according to schedule, but j he cannot insure the results desired, j There aie a number of senatorial in- quiries in progress at Washington and some shortcomings have been brought j to light. Nothing serious has been dis-i dis-i covered, however, and the preparations i for making war will be accelerated j without doubt. Some of the senators -who are mem-- hers of the investigating committees ; cannot be said to have distinguished 1 j themselves while tne-e probes have been , 1 -'oi n z 0" and it is very L.n ortu nate t'siat R-vj of Miouri ho :M be chairman chair-man of t ii p com m it t e making an iu-qu iu-qu i ry into th food and furl s: t uation. K-ed v.a.i the loudest mouthed opponent nf the food control bill and siieeredd in holding it up for some time. Ke ha.s : Ion" ery t ii i n g in his power to di s-- re-iit the work of Herbert Hoover from 'the very beginning and is still fighting j t he food control law and the adminis-j adminis-j t ration thereof. Under such circum-. circum-. sta nce no sane man would expect un-I un-I prejudiced and unbiased action. Tf he did he wouldn't get it. While it is probable a great many people have chafed under the restraints placed upon them since Hoover took up his duti j as food ad mi n ist rat or, nevertheless e : are con vi need a large majority of the j good citizen-- of the United States j realize that such action was necessary land that Hoover was probably the best man who eou Id ha e been selected for tho responsible position he holds. In any event he is far superior to Senator Sen-ator Reed both as a man and public official. The inquiry into the innermost workings work-ings of the war department has uncovered uncov-ered quite a number of weak spots, some of which have recently been strengthened, and publicity undoubtedly has done much to hasten the preparations prepara-tions for war. Vet the public will not approve of bulldozing methods employed em-ployed by Senator McKollar of Tennessee Ten-nessee in examining witnesses. No good can possibly come out of an inquiry in which the methods employed would make a police court pettifogger ashamed of himself. We do not know whether or no Eisenman is culpable in the cloth contract matter, but we are sure he is entitled to all the rights and privileges of an American citizen and we rlo not blame him for maintaining his standing stand-ing and dignity as such even before such an august tribunal as a committee of senators. Let all things be done decently and in order. |