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TODAY'S ! "4,400 SUBSCRIBERS WEA7 (22.000 REAJDtEBS) DAILY Only Circulation. In Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SEEVICE Oregon: Tonight ffiar west, rain . east portion; cold er. Tuesday prob- ; ably fair; moder ate winds shift ing to westerly. FORTIETH YEAR NO. 269 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1917 rUlWJ !U Wl0 PTAKD8 FTVB CKNTH LABOR HEARS THE NATION'S LEADERS AT CONVENTION President Wilson Makes Ad dress to Assembled Delegates NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SPEAKS Charges Are Made That Ger mans Are Active Stirring Up Trouble Convention Hall, Buffalo, X. Y., Nov. 12. Asking that he be regarded as a fellow citizen speaking words of coun sel and not as the chief executive of the United States, President Wilson to day asked the ranks of labor to join with the other people of America on a "new and high platform." " We have come to the deciding hour between the old principle of power and the new principle of freedom," said the president. His address was delivered before representatives of labor from all parts of the country attending the open ing session of the American Federation of Labor. Escorted by Samuel Gompers and Governor Whitman, President and Mrs.'cj,,, aud Guy B. Alexander, band lead Wilson were greeted with a dea of wav-'ej. , ing flags and cheers, while the band played the Star Spangled Banner as thev entered the hall. The president disgressed to review Uermany s situation betitre the war and to condemn her for "beginning this war. 'Germany," said the president, "had a place in the sun. What more did 'she wantf There wasnothing in the world or peace sue did not already nave, " What he wanted was success by authority not by achievement." This authority, the president said, was to extond to domination of labor Turning to the military situation, the president said that if Germany keeps iier line Irom Berlin to Bagdad she will have won all she started to win. He said the ilerlin-hSaguad railroad was built primarily for military, not com mcrcial purposes. Speaking of Bussia, he said "any body of free men which compounds with Goriuauy is compounding for its own destruction." "And the pacifists," he added, "are as tatuous as the dreamers in Rusisa. "lly heart is with them, but my mind in against them. a want peace, but I know how to get it and tuey don't, ' ' 1 sent my .friend, Colonel House, one of the greatest peace advocates in tiie world, on a mission, not of peace, but to see how the war could be won.' Turning to labor, he said: "If we want to win, we must see that we are raised to the maximum of labor productivity aud let no oue stand in the way of it. Not by the power of government, but by the strength or tne American people. "We must see that labor is free in doing its duty. We must see that the tilings by which labor progresses are not blocked "It is to that end that I have had so many pleasant conferences with la bor. "It is not impossible to clear the atmosphere and get down to business when both parties are willing, "We must insist that all factions (Continued on Page Two.) IDC M1DTIH n u id m n h 1 1 ii PC 6T. HO (Mth OH TaefrftYl One thing a woman kin never gitlton. Engineering Works, at a total toss .through er head is whv her husband oon't make twice as much, money. Th.high wind, the flames leaped fifty feet jeiier wno says"tm ler tn' United states, but" is stiil yellow. Three Men Killed and Three Injured Saa f 0 ''sco, Nov. 12. Three men were kitt- . d three injured early to day wkein.. utomobile skidded into a telegraph . at Nagel and Mission streets, dem&& f the machine. Two of the injured, die. The dead: Tobias Aobi, nist jn the gov ernment aviation t, Oakland. W. R. Casey, M. "J ,S. Joseph Lachman. The injured: George Jopsieh, T5an Francisco, and Edward Lynch, Anti och, whose recovery is doubtful, and Alvin oodenburg, driver of the car. Wet pavement caused the wreck. The car was traveling at high spee3 down ftiission street wnen it struck the slippery pavement. The machine was thrown with great force against the pole, snapping it off. THREE INFANTRYMEN LOSE LIVESIN WRECK Second Section of Troop Train Crashed Into First Section Salida, Colo., Nov. 12. Three mem bers of the Forty second United States infantrv were killed, two are missing and probably sixteen others were in jureu when a second division of a Den ver and Kio Grande troop train crash ed into the first division near here to day. The troops are reported to be fro.ni Utah, bound for Camp Funston, Kas. Doctors and nurses have been rushed to the scene from nearby towns. The men killed were Sergeant C. C. Preston.. Fred IP. '.Whiteihouse. musi- The regiment was en route to some point in the east fromitah. Officials of the road declared the wreck was probably due to a mixup of signals and that there was no indi cation of a plot. CHINES WILL AID ALLIES. 'A Pacific Port, S!ov. 12. The Chinese general staff is ready to send a considerable force of troops to aid the allies in Eu rope, according to General Li King Hse, a member of the Chi nese commercial commission which has arrived in the United States. ' ' We have already considered sending 30,000 troops to the aid of Eussia," he said, "but if . Russia has fallen out of the struggle, China is willing to dj her share by aiding the allies elsewhere to" final victory." PARENTS CONSENT TO DEFECTIVESON'S DEATH Doctor Advises Them That He Will Never Be Mentally Sound If He Lives Chicago, Nov. 12- Paul Hodzima, four years old, is being' administered deadly drugs by his parents, with the full knowledge they will cause his death within two months. The drugs are being given the little boy under instruction of Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, who declares the child is suffering from an extremely small head, impaired breathing and other in curable ailments, and would be a hope less idiot if permitted to live. "The child's mother has endured great agonv since "his birth and if he lived the suffering eventually would kill her, ' said Dr. Haiselden. "She has had nn rest for months because of the constant crying of the little one, who suffers intensely all the time. "Some minor ailments might be cuTed by an operation, but it would not restore his mentality. The treat ment I am directing will result in his death within two months. Opiates in the medicine prevent the child from suffering, meanwhile. The parent agree with me fully and are adminis tering the medicine I give them. "Euthanasia, or painless killing by drugs, relieves the pain and removes the horrors of death. The patient pass es the dreamy existence of a lotus eat er. Indian hemp and other milder drugs lessen a desire for food and the patient passes into the next stage within a, month. - - Dr. Haiselden became nationally fa mous through similar action . in the "Baby Bollinger" case. He said today he had recommended the same treat ment in a number of eases. FIRE IN PORTLAND Portland. Or.. Nov. 12. Fire of on- determined origin early today destroy ed the plants of the Coast Brush Man ufacturing company and the Bulling1 'of apnroximatelv $12,000. Fanned by ft into the air, lighting np tne city tor many block ' 9 g u t At ' Fritz : ARE FORMED INTO AN INDUSTRIAL FORCE Major General Atterbury, Former Railroad Man, Head of New Bureau By J. W. Pegler American Field Headqu ar ter.s, France, Nov. 12. America's industrial generals and captains now aiding the" army in France were today moulded into a separate, distinct force in a new transportation department created by order of General Ptrshing. Major Gen eral W. W. Atterbury, who was form erly operating head of the Pennsylva nia railroad lines, was named as com mander in chief of the new unit. "The new organization is already achieving excellent results," General Pershing declared. "Thus, through tho industrial generals and captains, Amer ican organizing ability is supporting the gonerals and captains of fighting forces'" , . The re-arrangement means that here after the quartermaster's corps wili b3 only a contributing factor in the gen eral supply scheme. the transportation department will handle all transporta tion of troops and material from vessel to rail heads. It will likewise have charge of con struction work for transportation, thus relieving American army engineers of a big portion of their present task. The announcement was made by Uen eral Pershing after a complete tour of investigation of all ports of arrival, communication lines, supply bases and general depots. It was plain the Amer ican commander in chief was pleased with the entire, layout. - "Thanks to- the efficiency of the British, French and American naval protection," he said, "German subma rines have not claimed a single life of an American soldier on a troop ship bound for France. Troops and supplies are arriving in increasing numbers." General Pershing was also enthusi astic over the types of offices now ad riving after graduation from American training camps. "We have every reason to be proud of them,'.' he said. "Their character, intelligence and eagerness prove the thoroughness of the training camp methods." Polk County Content To Rest On Laurels Dallas, On. Nov. 12. Having firm ly established its right to be known as the "Blue Ribbon" county, by re peatedly winning first prize . at the state fair and grand sweepstakes three sncessive years at tne Northwest (Manufacturers' and Land Products show. Polk county will not again ex 1 hi hit at any fair or exposition for iprizes. This decision has been reached by the Dallas Commercial club and the Polk County Fair association. "Yah but someding is in der PRESIDENT TOlMBOR DELEGATES AT BUFFALO TODAY Buffalo, Nov. 12. The text of Pres ident Wilson's speech to the Federa tion of Labor today follows: "Mr. President, delegates of the American Federation of Labor, ladies and gentlemen: "I esteem it a great privilege and a real honor to be thus admitted to your councils. When your executive commit tee paid me the compliment of inviting me here, I gladly accepted the invita tion because it seems 'to me that this, above all other times in your history, is the time for common counsel, for th drawing not only of the energies but of the minds of the nation together. I thought it was a welcome opportunity for disclosing to you some of the thoughts that have been gathering in my mind during the last momentous months. Only Fellow Citizens. "I am introduced to you as president of the United States, and yet I would be pleased if you would put the thought of the office into the background and regard mo as one of your fellow citizens who has come here to apeak, not the words of authority, but the words of counsel, the w.ords which men should speak to one another, to wish to be frank in a moment more critical per haps, than the history of tho world has ever yet known, a moment when it is every man's duty to forget himnelf, to forget his own interests to fill himself with the nobility of a great national and world conception and act upon a new platform elevated above tho ordi nary affairs of life, elevated to where men have views of tio long destiny of i mankind. I "I think that in order to realize just what this moment of counsel is, it is very desirable that we should remind ourselves just how this war came about and just what it is for. You can ex plain most wars very simply, but the explanation of this is not so simple. Its roots run deep into all the obscure soils of history and in my view this is the last decisive issue between the old principles of power and the new principles of freedom. i Germany Started War. "The war was started by Germany. Her authorities deny that they started it. But I am willing to let the state ment hare just made await the verdict , of history. J "And the thing that needs to be ex plained is why Germany started the , war. Remember what the position of Germany in the world was as enviable a position as any nation has ever oc cupied. The whole world stood in ad miration of her wonderful intellectual and material achievements and all the intellectual men of the world went to ' school to her.. As university man, I have been surrounded by men trained in Germany, men who had resorted to Germany because nowhere else could they get such thorough, and searching j training, particularly in the principles beck yet !" SPEAKS of science and the principles that un derlie modern material achievements. , German Efficiency. "Her men of science had niado her industries perhaps the most competent industries in the world aud the label 'made in Germany' was a guarantee of good workmanship aud sound material. She had access to all the markets of the world aud every other man who traded in those markets feared Ger many because of her effective and al most irresistible competition. She had a place in the sun. "Why was she not satisfied What more did she want? There was nothing in the world of peace that Bhe did not already have and have in abundance. We boast of tho extraordinary pace of American advancement. We how with pride the statistics of the increase of our industries and of the population of our cities. Well, those statistics did ! not match the recent statistics of Ger- j many. Her old cities took on youth, I grew faster than any American cities j ever grew; her old industries opened ' their eyes and saw a new world and I went out for its conquest, and yet the ! authorities of Germany were not satis j fied. You have ono part of the answer j to the question why she was not satis 1 fied in her methods of competition. There is no important industry in Ger many upon which tho government has not laid its hands to direct it, and when necessity arose, to control it. Methods to Stifle Competition. "You have only to ask any man whom you meet, who is familiar with the conditions that prevailed before the war in the matter of international competition, to find out the methods of competition which the German manu facturers and exporters used under the patronage and support of the govern ment of Germany. You will find that they were the same sorts of. competi tion that we have decided to prevent by law within our own borders. If they could not sell their goods cheaper than we could sell ours, at a profit to them selves, they could get a subsidy from the government which made it possible to sell them cheaper, anyhow; and the conditions of competition wore thus con trolled in largo measure by the German ' government itself. But that did not satisfy the German government. All the while there was lying behind its thought, in its dreams of the future, -political control which enable it in the long run to dominate the labor and the industry of the world. They were not content with success by superior achievement, they wanted success by authority. I suppose very few of you have thought much about the Berlin to Bagdad railway. The Berlin to Bagdad railway was constructed in order to run the threat of force down the flank or industrial undertakings of half a doz- en other countrios, so that when Ger man competition came in it would not (Continued on page nine) MasyLW.W. Members Are Being Arrested Chicago, Not. 18. The work of scat tering the sixty I. W. W. members arr Tested in various parts of the country on charges of conspiracy against the government, continued today as a re' suit of the discovery of a plot to res cue them late Saturday. Ten will be removed to A jail "some where in Illinois'' today. Nineteen others will be placed in jails at Wau- kegan, Woodstock and other places later. Six were taken to Boekford and six to Freeport yesterday. Ten were taken to Joliet and nine to Wheaton, Saturday night, including William Hay wood, international secretary. WILL BURY EX QUEEN WITH REGALSPLENDOR Iiliaokalani's Funeral Will Re vive Memories of Former Pomp and Glory Honolulu. H. I., Nov. 12. The splen dor of the days when Hawaii was ruled by a queen will be revived next Sunday when the body of Lydie Kainakacha Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii, is laid in the tomb. ;'i'he former queen 'b long fight for life ended at 8:30 Sunday morning at the palace where she held court in state during the days she wbb ruler of the Sandwich islands. For Boveral davs before her death physicians and relatives had abandoned hope. Prince Jvuhio Kuiaiaunuoie, nepu ew ofi tho former queen, and now Ha waiian delegate in Congress, was at her bedside at end. From Friday morning until death came Liliuokalani was in a comatose state exeept at rare intervals when she opened her eyes and apparently recog nised her relatives. Colonel Curtis P. Iauukea, secretary of Hawaii, rolative of the queen, an nounced her death. As soon as the news spread over the city, through the toll ing of church boll, the committee of United States senators and congressmen who arrived here last week to investi gate conditions in the territory, sent a committee headed by Senator Ashurst of Arizona to convey a message of con dolence and grief to the family. Arrangements were completed toaay for transferring the remains to Ji.awaia hao church, where they will remain for five days. The day before tho funeral the body will be taken back to the pal ace and lie in state in the throne room where Liliuokalani 'a former subjects will bo permitted to view it. Prince Ku hio and Colonel Iaunkea and some of the older Kanaka chiefs .who were part of the queen's court in former days will be in charge of the funeral. It is ex pected that the ancient rites of the Kanaka tribes will feature the services. Tho joint congressional committee will abandon its progrnm or entertainments until after the funeral. Telephone Company Presents Its Case San IFJaneiseo, Nov. 12 Officials of tho Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company today laid their side of the demands of the telephone work ers beforo the federal mediation com mission. The company's sido of tho case fol lowed the presentation .of the employes demands at a session held yesterday, at the conclusion cf which Secretary of Labor Wilson expressed confidence that a basis of settlement would bo reached. The employes demanded: Recognition of the girl operators union; one dollar a day flat wage in crease; the closed shop. The first of the three demands is considered the most formidable in its influence on a Rne.edv settlement. A more encouraging phase, however, appeared in the negotiations today when it 'was learned that two women representing the telephone operators of tho northwest naa auenuua josn-r-day's conference along with the other labor representatives. It was intimated that when the settlement here is final ly reached the strikers in tho north west, who have declared their demands must be dealt with separately, will re turn to work. , Pacific Coast hbor Situation Improves Ban Francisco, Nov. 12. The Pacifie coast labor situation is greatly improv ed, the I. W. W. menace in the north west has been well controlled, and summer shipbuilding on tho entire coast will be on a largely increased scale, ac cording to Governor Ernest Lister of Washington, who is in San Francisco to .1 1. 1. r.vcmnr T.iatnr declared that al though the I. W. W. activities in the KntiWnat have had a Tohensollern ; tinge his Investigations have failed to- reveal any direct connection wiin uer-, man activities'. THANKSGIVING FEED. Portland, Or., Nov. 12. Nine hund red soldier from the Vancouver bar racks will be entertained in Portland homes and fed Thanksgiving dinners under plans announced today by Port land civic organizations. - KERENSKY WILL PILE OUCE MORE IS LATEST VIEW Battle BeEeved Now la Pro gress In Petrograd for Control of Russia MOSCOW TURNS AGAIN TO DEPOSE PREMIER German Influence Is Especial ly Active In Army Late Advices Report By Ed. L. Keen (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Nov, 12. London's optimism, of an ironing out of the Russian sit uation was centered on important events which despatches this afternoon hinted were occurring at Moscow, recently wrested from bolsheviki control by the provisional government forces. . Russian diplomats here hoped that President Rodzianko of the duma, Gen eral. Korniloff and General Kalediucg, head of the all-Cossack troops, now re ported meeting at Moscow, would be able to form a stable government. An authoritative dispatch dated at Moscow yesterday at 4 p. m., and receiv ed today, declared there was consider able street fighting there and that the "provisional troops were doing well." Not since Sunday afternoon have any detailed dispatches been received here from Bussia. And none since then have come directly from Petrograd. This si lence, as London interpreted it today, betokenedM a battle. The last word re ceived from Petrograd direct told of tha near approach of Kerensky and his loyal government troops. It also declar ed that even in the city itself element were banding together to oust the Trot-sky-Leniue usurpers of power. London does not expect the bolshevik! I to put up much of a fight. They are con- i!4..! 11 i . : .. , nn; - would not stomach a contest where the 'forces arrayed against them were nearly equal in number. Despite the kaleidoscopic changes and uncertainty of information from var ious Russian sources, the London press reflected a more cheerful attitude today. The conviction was expressed every where that Kerensky has one again drawn strength fro minitial defeat. German agents, with which tho army is known to be plentifully sprinkled, are probably doing their utmost to prevent the lining up of Kerensky 's forces against the revolutionists. One d'spatch received from Moscow told of certain tronpa ordered to entrain for service against the bolsheviki, who mutinied and attempted to halt passage of spec ial trains bearing their soldiers toward Petrograd. Most encouraging of tho late news was word from Petrograd that the rail way, post and telegraph employes all government servants had switched their allegiance from the bolsheviki back to the provisional government and refused to obey bolsheviki censors. This opened the first channels of news from Kerensky 's side as to conditions in the capital. Special correspondents from Loudon papers in Petrograd sent dis patches agreeing that support of tho pa cifists was dissolving. According to these dispatches, there has already been some fighting on the streets of Petrograd. A great deal has been due to lawless elements taking ad vantagMe of the disorganization in the capital to loot and rob. Numerous government buildings, in cluding the winter palace, have been stripped by soldiers of decorations and valuables, the process going on openly, any of these soldiers, loaded with their bootv. have encountered provisional government troops closing in on the city and have been shot. Wireless dispatches from Moscow de clared that the counter-revolt against the bolsheviki was in progress in Pet rograd, and that overthrow of the Pa cifists was only a matter of hours. The same source asserted that the eillago of Tsarkoe-Selo, about twelve miles from Petrograd, had been taken by Kerensky troops. Formation of an all Russian organization to rescue the na tion was also reported. - Kerensky, with General Alexieff .chief of staff of the army, was report ed to have escaped the bolsheviki by lying concealed in the bottom of an am bulance. One despatch from Petrograd detail ed that the Russian fleet which appear ed in Petrograd in time to overawe the provisional government 's defenders and make the bolsheviki coup certain, cam from Helsingfors on forgod instructions. The fact that a German fleet attacked Helsingfors last Friday or Saturday is too closely related to the removal of Russian naval forces from that station not to suggest a direct co-ordination of German activity, in the opinion of ob servers here. EEVOLT HAS COLLAPSED. : By Oarl D. Groat I (United Press Staff Correspondent) (Continued on paga two.)