SHIPPING: Junket? No!

SHIPPING

Junket? No!—Junket!

After nearly two weeks of accusation that he was taking the Leviathan on a $1,000,000 junket in the guise of a trial trip, Chairman Lasker replied to his accusers. The next day the Democratic National Committee replied that his reply was no reply. The substances of both charge and countercharge bear an interesting comparison, because both are true.

Said Mr. Lasker: " This very trial trip was fully provided for by experts engaged in December, 1919, by a Shipping Board headed by John Barton...

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