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Mv-e , V"" o o . . 0 O . .8 o . . 0 ' 0 o 0 o o ' " 0 UftDAY A LOYAL PAPEU FOB '.. LOYAL PEOl'hE SECTION TWO. Btn or .thi 'qCjl-zi! it volt Air xxi u. SIX PAflKS LA-GRANDfi OIJKOONV Sl'N'DAY. N'OVKM I5KK .:. 1!)l!. m;mi;:w 4 THE . o ON REPLY FILED BY RYAN axhvi;i:s tki.kuiiam l'OltTliAM) UHliAHDlXU inoM SI'lil'tK lormer AxxMnnt to Secretary linker Answers (Iiiuki's Made by r'reur iud Miip.ee. WASHINGTON, D, C. Nov. 20. Jolm I). Hyan, (if New York, former Second Assistant Secretary of War. Director or Aircraft Production and Director of Air Service, today filed with tlio House aviation mib-coiu-luitee Ills reply to the toleRruui sent to Secretary of War llaker by Rep resenlutlves Frear and Manee. Re publican members of that committee, from Portland, Oregon, reflecting ou Mr. Hyan's official acts fti connceiion with spruce production in the north west. This telegnim, says Mr. Ryan in iiis reply, which will be made part ol tho Bub-coniinittco record, ''con tains such mi Intermingling of alleg ed facts, hearsay, mlstatnients, in hlnualions and prophecy, as well, that it Is somewhat difficult to make specific answer to its contents An examination of the message, dis closes that it is more by way of in iiiindo and insinuation, than by di rcct charges, that reflections of the gravest character, involving my per soiial Integrity und official nets, arc mode." Mr Hyan Mien lakes up the clung es In tho order in which they arc contained In the Fiear-Mageo tele gram, denying there truth categor ically. "The telegram," says Mr. Ryan "opens wilh what purports to be a short summary of the geography of the Olympic Pennlsula (In the state of Washington I and the locution of the spruce tracts invoiveil. The first specific reference to the matters under consideration is the following: "During the war. the Milwaukee railroad asked the 'railroad adminis tration for permiss'on to extend it West from Deep Creek towards this I.ako Pleasant timber, but was re I used as not a necessary waf meas ure." "This slntomcnt Is wholly and liiuiualifiedly raise," says Mr. Ryan, adding that the Milwaukee road never made any application of any kind whatever to the railroad ad ministration for an extension of the line referred to; furthermore, that 'acting under the urgent necesBH;' of reaching the spruce tract, th'j Spruce Production Division, not the Milwaukee railroad, mado appllca tion to tho railway administration re'tuesting tho administration to build the necessary lino from the Milwaukee connection. "This appli cation wus supported by a lctte from tho secretary of war, says Mr. Hyan. and' upon consideration by the Division of Capital (Expenditures, was refused." not becauso it was 'not a necessary war measure,' bn because it was a. necessary wal measure, and therefore it was deeid ed by tho .railway administration that the expenditure should be mado by the War Depart hent" out of the appropriations of that department. "From the foregoing Record.' says Mr. Ryan, "Ihero can bo no doubt but thai the statement 'quoted isbove from the telegram under con sideralnn is wholly false, and made, tit her as the result of lac k of knowl edge on the part of the committee, which it should have had before making the statement, or if the committee M'i'it in possession of- the lindiscounted facts, then made Inten tionally, unfairly and for tho pur pose or creating an erroneous im pression." Replying to tho statement' in'lhe Frear-Mageo telegriini . "When this extension of about :!fi miles length was built ol a cost of over J 1 15.- (NM per mile, or ovef H. lino. linn in the aggregate. " Mr. Ryan says "Thly statement is likewise absolutely false so far as the necessary ir.fer ' c,-e from tlic context Is concerned.' ruling that vliile it fs true that t'te "entire expenditure in connec tion with the railroad system amounted to about H.i"0,0iiu"' l Is "not true that file cost of t.ie 'railroad was II l'i.ti'1 per mile. ;oi any sum approaching that flctiro." The exepndiluie referred io..lie de clared, covered not inly i,ic cost of the ::ts miles of i.i.ii-; ilue railroad, r- itT also :ill et, ;it,ifti-,,s lua ft; ip conncr'Oon with terminal f.icilitif yards, sidetracks and jippurlenanie of'ewy kind, exc-pt rolling st;' ifchirh went into the ronstru-itio. of the rilay. and constitute. 1 a part f,.oof " . . Comment in o en that ,ar'0 of th telegram wh91i .said that the road as "almost wholly built by 4. (fin soldiers furnished by the Spruce? Di Slso" Mr Ryan sa 1 ho r.iili'ad Division officials against permitting Uie railroad contractors to hire c'lr Iran labor because to do so meant drawing from other essential Indus tides, labor whlclt was imperatively lequlrcd in connection with neces sary war activities ut a time when liibor throughout the northwest was exceedingly scare, owing to the op eration of the selected draft. The employment of soldiers was a neces sity insisted upon by, the' War De partment ' officials. The soldlerj were paid civilian wages. It was only Just and fair, under the cir cumstances, that they should have been. They were working side by side with civilluu labor employed by the sumo contractors, and any other course would havo been un just and impractical. Moreover, had the government- insisted upon sold iers, who had been culled to the de fense of their country, performing manual labor at a soldier's rate of pay, it would huve merited and re ceived the indignant protest of the entire country." As to the committee's statement "it appears that the Hue was primar ily built, not to carry spruce logs.! hut as an extension of the' Milwaukee I railroad," Mr. Ryan says it "is nb solutely and unqualifiedly false. I is based upon the merest suspicion itii emanating trom irresponsible sourc es and Is wholly without foundation in fact." . Commenting on tho closing para graph of tho Frear-Mugee telegram which said "further investigations may disclose conditions upon which a. recovery can be had againsCohr 11 Ui-,,.. ,i,.. u.i,.. ura sible for this wusloful cxpendilur i of public funds," Mr. Ryan says: I it is probably the first time ip ! history that the majority of a com liiitteo vested with Judicial author ily, acting under official sanction not only indulged, without Justlfl cation in fact for so-doing, in uco.ua sations of tlio c haructer llial have been heretofore referred to, but rulizjng thu loUtl absence of found ation for such inferences, endeavor d to bolster up In public opinion the- impression that there had beel grave direlecllon of duty by en gaging in phophecy." lit concluding Mr. Ryan said: ''From the moment of iny ussuiu- inB oflicial responsibility until my lujtignntion, which I tendered ver bally to the President Ihe.duy thai the annlsitice was signed. 1 had no thought uud was actuated by no mo tive other than to give my govern nienl the utmost of whatever ca pacity 1 possessed. So far as the matters which wero the subject of the message referred, to are concern ed, every act which was, taken had llin and, ufti?r tho lapse of time und the opportunity for reflection, baa now the' approval of my best Judg ment. I did not then, save not since and do not entertain a particlo of doubt us to the wisdom, propriety and expediency of what was done.' ' World's Oldait Statu. In a museum at ltoolnk there In n statue supposed o be over O.'HKi year td. A great French Kgyptologist. M.irielte Itey, discovered the stntlle 111 Memphis mid brought It to the mu seum., It is little more tbnn three fet high and holds a staff. The figure K I full of life anil poise. The forehead ! Is rounded, expressing , Intellect nr.- the eyes, of crystal, set In bronze give an astounding iifeiiku appearance. The stntlle Is not the. work of a crude bar- iinrlnn and few artlts living today could Impart such realistic features t' a wooden statue. Optimistic Thought. 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