The kind of question arose, last week, which takes the measure of a Government.
Newspaper men* were in Hawaii and the "War" was over. They began poking about, asking questions. Their curiosity was especially intrigued by a number of hideous oil tanks—some big, some small, some filled, some empty, some for battleship fuel, some for aircraft gasoline. All had been built by Edward L. Doheny.
One group of 18, at Pearl Harbor, having a capacity of 150,000 barrels each, were the biggest tanks in the world. One of them was half...
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