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Show ODORS'FROM THE.SHIP-PING THE.SHIP-PING BOARD The Investigation ot' the affairs of the shipping ' board hn t been bringing to light a lot of unpie&enm disclosures. Charges ot graft arc plentiful enough but beyond somo spocial petty Instances thoy do not appear to havo been sustained. Whit really has developed is Indisputable proof of Inoffictoncy in methods, and rank tavoritlsni in awarding contracts con-tracts to favorites, who made Im mense profits out ot their transao) tlons with the government. I The shipping board has evidently beenplckod as the goat and It re-. re-. mains to bo seen whether the reason rea-son will finally be tagged onto souc groat commercial or financial Interest Inter-est that has as Its prlmo object the discrediting of an American merchant mer-chant marine. It would not oo surprising. sur-prising. There has been no end of boasting boast-ing on the part of tho members of the present administration that this 'was ono great war In which thore was .no scandal. Tho shipping boaid ' Is proving an exception. Yet over-' over-' body knows that tho nlrcrnft flatc. was even worso than anything Itat has been fastened onto tho shipping v board. Everyone k:i6ws an vdCU. H that tho system of cost plua tent cur hH cent, produced scores ot robbatb. bhtoI who enriched themselves at the ex- liHui pense of the public treasury. Hl There Is a scandal hanging: t SjfyJ mostly every activity that had to jHH with the war; and the pecallar thtnc il i about It nil Is that most peoplr stiit-- lS9JH ply want to forget It, and chvr ftjBBwj up all Bhort comings to the (m,mo- KbvK1)! kdlato necessity that existed to r ttsSRj (quire full production at any prtcn. HtZLl I But tho poor old shipping baarxb M9 Is being hammered unmcrcIMITK. SE3H whllo Us other eompanlonn In stt Hl are escaping without even N.h-uc Hr "Ecolchcd." jH |