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Show the nation-wide probe into aircraft production conducted by Chas. E. ughes and his associates." "This information, the World says, comes from a high official of-ficial of the department of justice. It is asserted that the Hughes probe has already uncovered "a veritable hornets' nest" at the Curtiss plant in Buffalo, where waste running into the millions has been discovered. The finidngs of the Hughes investigation in-vestigation may not be reported for a month or more. But when they are made known, says the World, "it. is predicted the disclosures dis-closures will open the eyes of those directly responsible for the conduct of this fighting arm of the government." 1 It is perhaps needless to say that the Hughes report will not have to deal with conditions as they now exist. Conditions today are generally excellent and gratifying to the government and to the whole American people. What Governor Hughes is digging into, at the request of President Wilson, is conditions as they did exist when the agitation was begun in the senate of the United States for a drastic weeding out of the inefficients. and a radical reform in organization. , ' ' The weeding out has been accomplished. New and improved methods now obtain. The result is that the part the United States is playing in the war commands the respect and admiration admira-tion of our allies and has planted fear in the German heart. THE AIRCRAFT INQUIRY Under the heading "Air Inquiry Will Surely Result In Criminal Crim-inal Action" the New York World prints on its first page a Washington Wash-ington dispatch saying: "Criminal prosecutions are to result from |