THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,- PORTLAND. MONDAY. JANUARY 28. -. 1918.
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BIG TASK AWAITS
SOCIALISTS,
SAYS
MR. SCHEHANN
German Tells His Followers of
Burdens That Will Come With
jonsibilities of Office.
Respc
WIU STORM AHEAD, HE SAYS
There Will Be Wars, but Only
Question Is Whether Men Will
Conduct Selves' as Beasts.
I
FORMER SENATOR PASSES
... Th International Stm Serrlc. herewith firm
th. full tjrt of a njMeh by Philip RchMnmnn.
Htaacr of th. Orrnin majority Soctalint. It
t. maa. ai ,ne recent Socialist contention at
Wnenbnn and outline the future task of
"nran noriailnu
unir wwi eirerru were pawed at the time
" cenor. in. run text which follow
ihowt why.
Our economic and political condition!
are caught in a current of evolution of
wnicn we know not whither It shall lead
ua. We must not, however, allow our
selves to be driven by the conditions.
ana we. must try to force the laws of
reason and of will upon the wheel of
niniory.
We want to live and we have the
courage and the strength to live.
task" ar facln us Socialists,
difficult duties toward the great Ger
man national family and toward the
greater family of humanity which Is at
present tearing Itself to pieces.
Btrdsni Come With Re .ponlnbllity
Not a single day must we remain si
lent or timid. Though the war has shat
tered everything, we must think of the
dawn that will follow thin night of In
sanity of factions. When the dawn
comes the world s task will be to re
build, and conciliate the nations.
Great and heavy tasks await us.
There will be times. Indeed, when we
Socialists will long for the bygone days
when we were persecuted and oppressed.
.ur m mose nays we had no responsi
bility to bear, and it was easy to criticise
the game of the gentlemen in ministerial
rrocks. bedecked with orders.
Useful and necessary was this criti
cism. We cannot, in these times of tre
mendous changes, content ourselves
with the watchword of Von Massow :
'What is, will remain so."
Those who refuse to come along, we
will pull along by their ears.
The eternal conservatives, both of the
left and right, will learn the truth of
this.
Power Shifting to Workers
We have become much more mobile
In .tactical respects, for the war has
thoroughly altered our position. Con
trary to the hopes of the bourgeois, the
war has not strengthened their class
domination.
For a thousand reasons, the labor
class cannot make front against the
state, nor has it done so anywhere. In
the countries where war credits have
been refused as a matter of principle,
as in Russia. Serbia and Bulgaria, the
action was not taken by representatives
of an organised industrial labor.
A tremendous shifting of n in
favor of the proletariat is talcing place.
Even today we stand only in its initial
phase.
The social democrat party has won for
Itself a direct claim to power in the state.
The parliamentary system will force
Itself through one way or the other.
Germany must become, after the war,
a democratic - parliamentary state. In
which the majority will form the govern
ment and assume the responsibility.
For this reason, the next elections for
the relchstag will be of transcendental
. importance. Unless all signs deceive
these elections will bring us very great
power.
Must Gssrd Against Relapse
But when that day comes we shall not
leave the responsibility to others. We
shall have to ignore the conveniences of
the opposition. Our interests dictate
such a course, for Germany must not be
governed after the war by an anti-
eocialist bloc under the leadership of
the conservatives, pan - Germans and
raber-rat tiers.
The relchstag elections will be a battle
for the political power for the decisive
Influence in the state and for govern- j
L mem linen. i
But if this is so we must be ready on
.the day the nation summons us, ready to
translate the socialist principles Into
reality.' We will thn stand before the
tremendous problem which In our dreams
of former days has often laid heavily on
our minds.
The difficulties will be great for the
war will leave us poor, stripped and
bleeding.
Out of the debris we will have to cre
ate the communallsm of production and
a new system of distribution of wealth.
Out of the hell that humanity has
made for Itself no power on earth will
be able to make a paradise overnight.
The wounds trill heal only slowly. We
must therefore, when we come to power
after the war, reckon with the danger
of relapses.
Most Create, Hot Criticise
Thus it behooves us to be very cau
tious with our promises and we must
not promise the people heaven on earth.
But with clear consciences we can de
i clare that the reconstruction will be
possible only In. accordance with Social
ist principles. We must no longer re
main theoreticians and agitators we
must become practitioners of Socialism.
A small section of the German popula
tion continues to make conciliation dif-
flcult. We hope that this, too. will im
prove In time.
We would have broken down long
since under the mountains of difficul
ties If we had not had faith in the cre
ative power of the working people.
We have passed through great times.
Great times are still ahead of us. War,
after all. Is history's work a day. No
age has been without its bloody page in
history. In bygone centuries also thou
sands and thousands have bled to death
without knowing what for. But we know
that it has been and is for the evolution
of mankind toward progress and free
, dom. , War to us is but the prelude to
Infinitely bigger things.,
- After the tremendous social upheaval
of these-days we shall find on that road
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GERMANS CELEBRATE
BIRTHDAY OF KAISER
IN ARTILLERY VORK
Brisk, Heavy Gunnery and Raids
Are Feature of Sunday Along
Entire Front in West.
London. Jan. 28. (L N. S.) The Ger
mans In the west celebrated Sunday, the
kaiser's birthday, the biggest holiday
for the army, with brisk artillery activi-
ties all along the front, and with numer
i ous raids which were, however, effec
I tively checked by the French and
British.
German reconnoitering work has been
going on at fever heat ever since the
Teutons discovered a couple of nights
ago that the British have extended their
line to the region south of St. Quentin,
taking over that section of the front
from the French.
The German high command is making'
frantic efforts to find out to which of
the vital fronts between St. Quentin and
Nancy these French divisions have been
drawn. By military experts here the
shift Is taken to mean that the allies,
counting upon a German major stroke
against the French part of the west
front, have taken every necessary meas
ure of preparation.
On the Italtn front, heavy snow drifts
have put a stop to all large scale actions.
but lively local artillery and Infantry
operations continue in the mountain
regions.
German soldiers raided a British ad
vanced post near lngemarck (Belgium)
during the night and three British sol
dlers are missing, the war office an
nounced today. Elsewhere German raid
ing parties were dispersed.
On the Cambrat front and in the sec
tors of Lens and Passchendaele the Ger
men arttlllery was . active.
Charles W. Fulton, who died Sunday at
Bushnell Photo,
his Portland home after 40
BIG ARMY READY FOR
WAR, SAYS MR. BAKER
(Continued from Pace One)
years residence in Oregon and long career of political honor and suc
cess at bar.
still terrific tasks to master. But this
war has also shown what the people
can accomplish when they have to.
There will always be wars, and the
only question is whether men are to
conduct them like beasts or like civilised
human beings. When the last shot In
this war shall have been fired, we will
cry : "The war is dead ; long live the
struggle!"
We are marching on and, lf it must
be, we shall storm ahead.
FORMER SENATOR
C. W. FULTON DEAD
(Continued from Pace One)
ident of the Multnomah Bar associa
tion. The attorneys are requested to
meet at the courthouse at 1 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon, from which place
they will proceed in a body to the Ful
ton home.
Came to Oregon In 187&
He was born In Lima. Ohio. Aueust
24, 185S, but when only two veara of
age his parents, Jacob and Eliza Ful
ton, moved to Magnolia. Iowa, where
the son received his education in the
public schools. The little family re
mained In Magnolia until 1870, when they
removed to Pawnee City, Neb.
It was there that Charles William
Fulton made his first step toward one
of the most distinguished positions the
United States senate. While only 17
years old, the study, of law appealed to
blm and he entered the law offices of
A. H. Babcock, one of the town's lead
ing attorneys. After practicing In Paw
nee City for three years the lure of the
west became too dominant' and Mr. Ful
ton came to Oregon In the early fall
of 1876.
His mind was set on becoming a law
yer when he arrived here, but, not being
particular, he accepted the position ot
teacher in a little school at Waterloo, in
Linn county, when It was offered him a
thort time after his arrival In the Btate.
Long In State Senate
For one term he presided over the
school, but when June of the same
year rolled around he again decided to
follow his law practice and removed to
Astoria, where he formed a partnership
with J. W. Hobb after being admitted to
the bar.
In September, 1875, he married Miss
Ada M. Hobson of Astoria, and to this
union one son was born. Mrs. Fulton's
father was John Hobson, pioneer collec
tor of customs of Astoria.
It was only a short time after entering
the active practice of law that he
became one of the state's well-known
men, and after being urged for some
time by his friends, he agreed to enter
the race for state senator from his dis
trict in 1878. He was successful and was
elected again in 1890, 1898 and 1902. He
was president of the senate during the
sessions or 1893 and 1901.
Elected T S. Senator In 1901
In 1888 he was a presidential elector
from Oregon and was the messenger se
lected by his colleagues to carry the bal
lots from Oregon to Washington, D. C,
the same year.
In 1903 Mr. Fulton was elected by the
Oregon legislature to the- United States
senate, which position he held until
March 3, 1909, when he retired to pri
vate law practice, forming a partner
ship with Jay Bowerman, former acting
governor of Oregon.
Fulton's election to the United States
senate in 1903 came after a sensational
session of the legislature in which friends
oi me late Harvey W. Scott, long editor
of the Oregon ian, fought hard to elect
him senator. The balloting continued far
into the last night of the 40-day session,
and shortly after midnight Scott was
sprung as a dark-horse candidate. Ful
ton received a big majority of the votes,
however, defeating Scott and T. T. Geer,
who had been an avowed candidate
through the session.
Friends Enloglie Memory
While In the s United States senate.
Senator Fulton was the father of the
legislative .bill which brought about the
door, to preserve order and to hold
i back hundreds of people, mostly women.
' who tried to force an entrance Into
I the room.
i Mr. Baker began his statement by
, , . ' expressing his gratification for the
r i . - A r omPnl l opportunity to make a complete state
forfeit the Oregon St California land ; mnt.
. . , "For one reason or another, the Im-
. J lT, i Z -...r ..Wr. pre8Bjon haa gone out to the country
1 ' .v. V ,' . ' 'T that the war department has fallen
down." he said. "The country Is en
titled to know the facts. It is entitled
to know what the problems have been
and what steps have been taken to
meet them."
He praised the work of both the
military and civilian officers of the
war department.
"It would be tragical," he said, "if
it turned out that they deserve the
comment that they have fallen down.1
"I have no doubt that the tendency
toward the feeling that we have fallen
dqwn is due to the great Impatience
of the American people," said Secre
tary Baker. "You and I want to feel
that our country is great and strong
and can hit like a man at our adver
sarles.
So Bias for Individual
"There's always at the beginning of
a great undertaking like this a search
to find lf there Is anything we
ence of their acquaintance with him.
Ex-Senator Gearln Pay Tribute
Ex-United States Senator John M.
Gearin said :
"Although we differed on political
lines, I had the utmost respect and rev
erence for Mr. Fulton, who was my col
league in the United States senate. Mr. ,
Fulton was the very soul of good humftr. ;
He was an exemplary citizen, consistent
pleader for right and justice and pos
messed a geniality that endeared him to
everyone whom he met. His career In the
United States senate was notable be
cause of the fact that he was able to
hold his own with any of the leading
lights, such as Senators A Id rich, and
Bailey, who were members of the senate
at that time. Mr. Fulton was a skillful
and adroit speaker and his knowledge ot
the law was great. I sincerely regret
his passing." '
William M. Davis said: "Mr. Fulton
was considered by his brother attorneys do. there are shortcomings or de-
as one of the ablest exponents of the le- lay ; In so great an undertaking it is
gal profession in Oregon. He had the Impossible not to find them,
ability to make and retain friendships i "Our effort .is to strengthen these
and his good nature rendered him a val- weaknesses, to arouse confidence and to
ued companion." make our enemies feel the strength of
Wa a Prodlglons Worker '. A'vlci' 'Vi . , , , ,
B I have no bias in favor of Individuals.
That Mr. Fulton was one of the most The issue Is far too large for favoritism
devoted workers In his profession. Is the and when I refer to Individuals Gen
statement of C. W. Halderman of As- eral Crosier, General Sharp or myself
torla, a nephew, who served as th sen- I want it understood that the appear
ator's private secretary at Washington, : ance of any one of us In tbe casualty
D. C. He said : j list any morning Is negligible to the suc-
"Mr. Fulton was a prodigious worker. ' cess of our undertaking.
It was his custom to arise at 6 a. m. j "I am not here to defend or to deny
and devote two hours to study before mistakes. Those things have happened
going to his office. He remained at his and where they have happened we have
desk until 5 in the evening and he sel- attempted to remedy them,
dom retired earlier than 12 to 1 o'clock. : "The largest purpose of my appearing
the night hours being given to close here Is to urge that eevry citizen real
application to his duties. ; lze that this Is his enterprise and to
"He was a good story teller and his ask of you and of every citizen criticism,
reading covered a wide range of sub- and when shortcomings are nolnted out
jects. He was honest of purpose and to you I ask you Instantly to report to
his enemies were honest enemies. He me that I may search out the blame,
was always open and above board. Sen- ; - ... , . . ...
ator Soooner once dclared that Xf- Fl. Crfttetam Overhadows Besnlts
ton had no superior In this country in ' "JAr- Chairman.' you made an address
the masterv of constitutional law " ! n the senate. It was at the conclusion
"Senator Fulton had many friende In ! of Investigation of two divisions of
Oregon, who loved him." said Judge ' w ln" on,nn ana ln" quarier-
Henrv E. McGinn. "He was a national .masters. In that investigation some
llgure in tho senate and ranked with hortcomlngs and delay were brought to
such men as Spooner and Bailey. He lne ention or. me committees.
was a foremost authority on constltu- 1 "The heads of these two departments
tional law. and was greatly beloved bv I were In the midst of a great undertak
his associates of both political parties. incr. and (t may not be unfair to say the
"The best of human life was in him. findings of the Investigations assumed a
There can be no eulogy delivered on the disproportionate aspect in relation to
former senator to which I will not sub- ' what has been going on and what has
scribe. He had a laugh of such merrl-been done."
ment that it would remove any fit of Secretary Baker . insisted that he had
blues and his brethren of the bar will tried to be entirely frank in his previous
greatly miss him. - testimony.
National Committeeman Ralph Wll-! "I find the Impression exists that
Hams, speaking of Mr. Fulton, said : "He was 'fencing,' " he said. "I regret that
stood as one of the greatest members --
of the senate and was loved by both
Democrats and Republicans."
In addition to the widow and a son,
Fred B. Fulton of Stanfield, Or., Mr.
Fulton is survived by one sister, three
brothers and four nephewa The sister.
Mrs. Ida A. Halderman. resides at Paw
nee City, Neb., The three brothers are
Dr. J. A. Fulton and G. Clyde Fulton,
an attorney, both of Astoria, and E. L.
Fulton, also an attorney, of Oklahoma
City, Okla. The nephews all reside in
Oregon. They are G. W. and Frank
Halderman of Astoria, R. W. Halderman
of Portland, and A. C. Fulton of Astoria.
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Missing Teacher Is
Found in Portland
3Ilss MIgnon Swanson Qnlt HaUey, Or '
Position as Teacher to Stndy fof Civil ;
Service Examination. j
Another "mystery" was solved by the j
police when Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin su-!.
perlntendent- of the women's protective
division, f oundf Miss Mignon , Swanson, 1
runaway school teacher from . Halsey,
Or., comfortably housed and happy at!
the Hereford residential hotel. 735 Hoyt-
street. ,
Saturday afternoon , Information ' was
received by a friend that Miss Swanson
had been taken to a Portland hospital
for treatment, but none of the hospitals
knew anything about her. .For a short
time the officers feared that she was a
victim of foul play. Her brother-in-law,
Ed NltzeU came to Portland in an ef
fort to locate her. .
Miss Swanson left h country school
without notice and came to the. city to
study for a civil service examination.
She was earning her way as a maid at
the hotel. She said she understood her
departure would not disrupt the school,
as the board had a substitute teacher. '
very much. - It was net my Intention. . X
am here now with no hurriedly gathered
data.' I am here to make a complete
statement.'
He Invited the committee to ask him
any question and to go Into every phase
ot the war department'! work.
Mr. Baker went first Into : the re
ported neglect of sick patients and the
Inhuman treatment of dead soldiers tn
the training camps. He referred to the
letters read to the senate by Senator
Chamberlain last Thursday.
axles to Find GsUty Oats
"I wanted and I want now, to find
out who was guilty of this Inhuman
treatment In order to punish them." he
said with vigor. He added that Sen
ator Chamberlain had promised to give
him the names of the authors of the
letters.
Secretary Baker declared that con
sidering the large number, of men under
arms, the number oi compiainia oi
this kind had been relatively small.
'not more than a dozen and a half.
In each instance they have been re-
tmrrA Iha iif-rnn.mnrll." he Said.
Where It has been shown that the hu
man element has broken down, the In
spector-general has been Instructed not
only to take steps to correct the evil.
but punitive steps where the fault lay
Many of the complaints, he said, were
shown to be groundless upon investi-
ration. In one case, he said, the body
of a soldier killed at the flying field at
Toronto had been sent home naked. In
vestigation showed the camp under the
command of a major of the royal British
flying corps- Orders were given at once,
the secretary said, to detail an American
officer to the camp.
He told of another case where a medi
cal officer had been dismissed from the
army for neglecting a patient.
Few Interruption Made
Secretary Baker spoke almost without
interruption on the part of the members
of the committee. He praised the medi
cal corns hlarhlv.
"Its like doesn't exist anywhere eise
In the world." he said. "The sickness
in the camps has been combatted In the
most effective manner known to science.
The fact Is, however, that there never
vet has been an army assembled, and
none can be. where men are not orougni
in who have been previously exposed to
communicable diseases."
Completing his defense of health eon
ditions. Secretary Baker next took up
the ordnance situation. There were ap-
nroxlmatelv 600.000 Springfield and 100.
000 Krars available when war was de
clared, he said. He told the committee
that the modified Enfield rifle had been
adooted with the unanimous approval
of General Pershing. General Crozler
anrf rnenl Scott. The decision was
made about June 1. he said. He defend
ed the delays resulting frem the decision
to make all rifles interchangeable, be
cause, he said. It would facilitate re-
natrinar.
When the war department decided to
obtain more rifles, it was discovered
that, although the factories were, mak
ing British Enfield rifles, the bolts of
one factory would not f'.t the mechanism
of another.) He admitted that It was
"some time before the army had been
supplied with adequate rifles, but de
clared that was foreseen.
The secretary also defended the call
ing out of more men than could be ade
quately armed. He said that General
Leonard Wood had urged calling out "a
large army Instantly" without waiting
for all necessary equipment.
"The men need many things, before
they need a rifle." General Wood said,
according to Secretary Baker. England.
General Wood said, had trained men In
civilian clothes, armed with walking
sticks. Secretary Baker said he did not
go as far as General Wood urged, but
that "It was deemed wise to call out
I men a little In advance of their being
I aunnllAd with arms."
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Continuing his explanation of the se
lection of a rifle. Secretary Baker said :
I don't undertake to say that this
question was decided Infallibly, but It was
decided thoughtfully and conscientiously.
and now every man in our armies. In
tended to carry a rifle, has a rifle and
a better rifle. Although we have sent
soldiers much more rapidly than we
thought we could, every soldier who has
gone has had a moderrvjifle and had it
long enough to practice with it either
here or there and that Is true of every
soldier who will go to Europe."
Secretary Baker then took up the
question of machine guns and declared
that France Is able to supply all troops
possible to send abroad this year, with
the type of machine gun It has been de
cided to use.
"The machine gun problem." said Sec
retary Baker, "Is complicated by differ
ence of manufacture and the difference
In theory In the use of guns."
He told of the French and English
theories of machine gun practice. Then
he told of the existing board to test ma
chine guns and claimed this board did
not delay "for one moment" the pro
curement of machine guns. He told of a
test of the Lewis gun made by the navy
department last April and declared that
after this test large orders were Un
placed for Lewis guna
Pershing Not for Lewi Gin
"General Pershing does not desire
Lewis guns for use on land." the secre
tary of war said, and explained that
General Pershing has decided to arm
the land forces with light Chauchatand
Hotchkiss guns and reserve Lewis guns
for aircraft work.
"France Is abre to supply us with
Chauchat light rifles for all of the
I
troops we are able to send; abroad this
Secretary Baker. "Our
army abroad Is provided with the guns
or the type they have elected to use."
The secretary of war then took up the
question of the lack of machine guns tn
camps and cantonment la this country.
He declared he has been advised by
camp commanders that this lack of ma
chine guns has not delayed the move
ment, but he admitted that lf the men
had the guns they would have been able
to use them.
The question of artillery was next
taken up by the secretary of war. He
pointed out that ever since 19of General
Crosier has argued before congress the
need for more artillery.
I have no criticism to make of the
response of congress." said Secretary
Baker, but he emphasised that the need
had been shown to congress. He declared
that France had been unprepared with
artillery, and read a letter from Andre
Tardieu. French high commissioner, stat
ing that at the outbreak of war France
had but (494 heavy guna and but very
few of these were raptd-flrlng.
France Make Offer
Secretary Baker took pains to an
swer In detail and with emphasis the
contention that the United States was
draining French resources In obtaining
Its artillery from the French govern
ment. He declared that the proposal
for France to supply Pershing's army
witn artillery originally came from the
Officials of the French government.
The secretary told the committee that
the movement of the troop In la rare
numbers to France was not In serious
contemplation as late as July last.
i am revealing no secret when I say
that the crux of the whole problem Is
tonnage." he said. "Everything we can
get on the other side without disadvan
tage to our allies we should get there."
Mr. Baker gave figures showing that
In Januaay the United States would ret
20 75-mlllimeter guns from France and ) preparations,
mould make 84 in this country. In Anrll. i waser.
he said. 231 would be obtained from
France and 73 would be made In Amer
ica. American production would increase
steadily during this year. In December
of this year the American production of
seventy-fives would reach 432.
"It Is therefore- fair to say that the
American army In France now and
health of any aotdUr. I have' not la-!
tended to sacrifice the comfort of any
soldier, but X have intended that they
shall be ready when the call comes.
should have felt a deeper responsibility
lf the can had come and they were stUl
at home waiting the tailors."
There is no shortage Interfering with
the comfort of the men now. he added.
Secretary Baker then declared that no
shoddy had been introduced Into unt
form cloth, but had. been used for over
coating. He read an article by William
M. Wood, president of the American
Woolen company, justifying the use of
shoddy.
When he resumed his testimony after
the luncheon recess Secretary Baker read
a statement he had Just received from
General Wheeler about shell production
in the United States.
Oenersi Wheeler said that the manu
facturing cf 71-mllllmeter and three-inch
shells had Increased about tO per cent
since the war began. The production of
shells above that caliber had Increased
25 per cent. General Wheeler's report
showed.
When the committee was about to take
I SARGENT TO LEAVE
EMPLOY OF STATE
Superintendent of Oregon Bank;
to Become Examiner of. Fed- r
eral Reserve Bank.
Salem. Or., Jan. 21. B. G. Sargent,
superintendent of banks for Oregon, to
day announced that he will resign this
office to accept a position as examiner
for the Federal Reserve bank at San
Francisco. ',
Who will succeed him as superintend-
ent of banks Is not known. His suc
cessor will be appointed by the stats
banking board, comprised of the govr-
a recess Senator Weeks suegestea mat ; nor. secretary of state and stats treae-
cross-examlnatlon of Secretary Baker be I urer.
postponed until after the completion ef J Secretary of State Otcott said be
tne inquiry into powder proaucuon ana
the aircraft program. The committee
will decide definitely tomorrow morning,
but It Is probable that General Squler.
chief of the signal corps. In charge of
array aviation, will be called as ths next
witness.
After Secretary Baker had disclosed
that America will soon, have half a
million men In France, Senator Cham
berlain asked :
Criticised fer A avert! dag
"Why haven't you disclosed that to
the American people?" asked- Senator
Chamberlain.
"Hlndenburg has criticised us tn con
temptuous terms for advertising our
answered Secretary
"Don't you think the German secret
service knows what we are doing T'
asked Senator Chamberlain.
"No. senator, the German government
Is still mystified as to the number of
men we have In France," replied the
secretary of war.
"Does Germany, Ftsncs or Great
Britain advertise her military plans V
hereafter, large as It Is now and large asked Senator Myers of Montana.
as It may soon be, will be provided , "Does the United States?" added Sen-
with all the artillery of the type needed ator Chamberlain.
and as rapidly as It can be used, while
the production at home Is steadily ris
ing." said Secretary Baker.
The question of clothing was next tak
en up by Secretary Baker.
"It Is perfectly true thst the supply of
clothing was Inadequate," he said. "Our
Initial njuwifl hiv fiMkn mar. hftwavtr.9
Have Plgbtlsg Army Is Freer
"I couldn't get from Oreat Britain or
France today the actuaj number of their
men at the front or at home." said Sec
retary Baker.
"We could have sent our regular array
to Francs Immediately and It would
have been destroyed as the British army
. hqwei
He then said the question of waiting un-I was, leaving us with no neucleus." said
til all men could be clothed had been Mr. Baker. "And now." he said, "we
brought up and said the responsibility
for calling out the men rested with, htm.
"It takes somewhere between nine end
II months to train men." the secretary
said. "I don't know how rapidly we can
send men. I know how many we have
sent and I know how many we plan to
send, but I don't know but what tomor
row there might come a call to double
the rate at which we are sending men.
There are now IS national guard camps
and IS national army contonments filled
with men ready to go.
Men Ready te Oe
"I have sacrificed something for that,
but I have never sacrificed willingly the
have a fighting army there."
In France. Secretary Baker said, the
United States has been forced to build
docks and even transport the piles to
build them. Foresters have been sent
to the forests and sawmills set up, he
declared. "The activities over there
even go back to the planting of corn,"
he declared.
Congrrssmsn-nier 111
Rantout I1L. Jan. II I. N. 8.)
Major Maurice Connolly, corigressman
fller from Dubuque. Iowa, Is danger
ously Ul with pneumonia at the Chanute
aviation field.
would ask for Mr. Sargent's
mendation as to his successor and would
vote accordingly. , .
Mr. Sargent's duties will be to examine '
stats bank members of ths federal re
serve system In the Twelfth district,
which comprises ths stats of Washing .
ton. Oregon. Idaho. California. Artsona.
Utah and Nevada. His headquarters
wlU be at San Francisco. Hs will begin,
new work February I.
Mr. Sargent was first appointed super
intendent or banks December L 1I1S. at
a salary of S1000 a year. Hla salary was
rslsed to 14000 snd he was reappointed to
another four-year term last December. '
Prior to entering the stats department m
he was vice president of ths United
States National bank of Salem. ' - '
"As a member of the stats banking .
board.' said Secretary of Stat Olcott.'
-I will say I am sorry that ths stats
Is going to lose so valuable a man as
Mr. Sargent has proved himself to be, .
His selection as examiner for ths seven .
states by the Federal Reserve Bank of
San Francisco is a great and deserved (
compliment to him, and reflects praise,
to Oregon and her banking department
"The bankers of the stats wllL. X
am sure, regret his going." . f -
National Overseer: f;
En Route to ParK
Aealetaat asBristeaeest Metayer Leaves
Klamath Fall fer Crater Lake Xeeerve
Where He Will Held Leseessis Tlgtl
Klamath Falls. Or . Jan. St. Assistant
Superintendent H. E. Momyer of Crater
Lake national park has left for the
camp at headquarters there, where he
expects to remain for the rest of the
season. Mr. Momyer will have a lone
some job. as he Is the only person within
s radius of shout It miles. Hs will keep
a record for the government of - the
weather conditions and look after things
generally. It Is said that there Is a
great deal less snow tn ths park this
year than usual, which will probably
mean that the season for tourists wilt
begin, much earlier nest summer than
usual.
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