TODAY'S WEAH2H 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 EEADEES) DAILY Only Circulation la Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEW 9 $2X7102 Oregon: Tonight and Tuesday rain, moderate south westerly gales along the eoast. 3 FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 24 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1918 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND HEWH STANDS FTVB CENTS irs Good "" LEATHER To J u BAKER ASSERTS ARMY S FULLY EMIIPPED AND READY I1R FIELD Secretary of War Declares Generals Jjag and Wood Were Department's Advisers In Most Important Steps Taken-Eyery Man In Training Camps Ready For Serv ice In France Number of Men Now In War Zone Much Greater Than First Planned-Hundreds of Machine Guns at All Camps Since November sc Sjfi jc )C 3C jc 5C 5jC 2c C OVER MILLION AND HALF Washington, Jan. 28. Tho United States will have moro Hiau pOO.OOO men in Franco early this year and "more than a million and a half," ready to send, Secretary Baker told the senate military committee this afternoon. !ake.r predicted early entrance of Pershing 'b army into, act ive fighting in Prance when he told the committee that "our forces will show, and that at an early date, that they have the same determination and valor which shed luster on the armies of France and England." By L. C- Martin (United Press staff correspondent) Washington, Jan. 28. r Declaring that "every man in thirty two nation al' guard, and national army eamps is ready now to be sent to France when ever needed," Secretary of War Baker today struck back at eritics or tho war department.. ' . ,. In a "sweeping statement he deliver ed before the senate military commit ,teer Baker showed the great steps this government has taken so-me of them no-i-essarily sudden and heuce without sufficient preparation to win the war. In reply to those who have criticized th.i war government, he declared: That laxity in the medical, service at camps will not be tolerated. Threo officers have been court inar tialed and dismissed from the army be cause of negligence in attention to Hick. General Pershing himself o. k 'd the adoption cf the modified Enfield rifle. A great army was called out beforo guns were ready for it upon the earn- I est recommendation of Major General Leonard Wood. Wood declared that the men would first nee'. oHipr training besides that in the use of guns. Every man in Franco lias his own gun Biid was trained to use it. Many times as many men are now in France as had been originally plan ned for this ditto. Genera! Pershing himself decided ngainst the Lewis machine gun for land work. On November 20, one hundred ami forty machine guns were scut to each training camp. Every man in the 32 training camps j is now ready for service, in France. Our army in France now large, , and it will be much larger will have the type of artillery it wants and needs. Threo hundred three-inch anti-air craft guns will be turned out monthly in this country before another year, Official reports based on earetul la- vestigation show that camp hospitals in many cases are the equal of civil ian hospitals and all are in splendid shape. Tonnage is the crux of the whole situation and this country is using French artillery to save ships for oth or supplies. The allies urged troops before any thing else saying France and i'gland could supply us with artillery. Baker declared that "impression has spread abroad ' that the "war do partment has fallen down" in the cris is. To correct this impression, he said, it was vitally necessary that the coun try be informed as to what has been accomplished. Committee Astounded Turning suddenly, after hours -devoted to 'details, Baker astounded the committee by announcing the figures heretofore .kept secret regarding Am erica's fighting force abroad- "Today we've got an army a small one, but hardened and trained, on the sceTTe' of tne war right at the front" he said.. s -- ' Then, in reply to a question by. Sen ator Chamberlain asa to why he had not earlier taken the country into his confidence on these . points, Baker stated that to date "the Germans are entirely mystified as to the number of men we have in France. ' ' Neither the French nor the British governments "have vet told their countries what their forces are at the front," and "they would not even tell me the exact figures." Informed of Baker's statement be fore tho committee, army officers indi cated that 500,000 American men ear ly -in 191S on French soil "was the minimum." Many Workmen Sent Over Baker told how the allies' first, plea for men was for workmen. In response to this he said, railroad men, dock workers, nurses end doctors were rush ed to England and France. ' 'There are tens of thousands who bless America's mission of mercy," said "Franco was a white sheet of pa per so far as we were concerned- On that sheet wo had not only to write an army, but the means of supplying and feeding that army. 'In the first-place, France had re- (Continued on page six.) KERR'S KANSAS OFFER WAS "PIPE DREAM" SAYS GOVERNOR CAPPER OF THAT STATE CHAS. H. SESSIONS Secretary to Governor C. W. SMITH Executive and Pardon Clerk - STATE OF KANSAS AETHTJE CAPPER, GOVERNOR ' Topeka ' . ' December 18, 1917 Mr. W. A. Dill, J 931 Louisiana Street, Laurence, Kansas Dear Sir In reply to your letter of December 17, the Governor directs me to say that the- press dispatch about Dr. Kerr being offered the presidency of the Kansas agricultural college was a pipe dream. No offer at all was made him. Very truly yours, CHAS. H. SESSIONS, Secretary to the Governor. Oicial Defense of Kerr Reads Like "Pips Dream" as Capper Says The official defense of the Kerr peo ple is made by Edwin T. Reid, editor of the O. A. C. bulletins, and is given in a letter to the Capital Journal re ceived last Monday. The editor was out of town when it was received! MEATLESS, WHEATLESS DAY IS ACCOMPANIED BY COLD WEATHER Fierce Blizzard and Snow Storm General In East ern States The letter printed above was written to member of the faculty of the Kansas Univesity School of Journalism. When the -Oregonian story reached him telling of an offer tf $9000 a year to Mr. Kerr, this gen tleman, Mr. Dill, wrote Governor Capper, who is chairman of the board of administration of state schools, for a statement for the college publi cation. His reply is given above. This letter was written a few days after the Oregonian story appeared as the date shows, and not after Kerr professes to have turned down the Kansas offer." If negotiations of any kind had been in progress he could not have consistently made such a positive statement; impugning 1he good faith of all concerned. The original letter of the goveinor's secretary, on the letter head of the state of Kansas, may be seen at the Capital Journal office by any one questioning its authenticity. ..... and in the accumulation of mail, it was not promptly published, leading Mr, Reid to infer that this paper would not accord him space to present his "proofs." He makes this statement in the morning paper of Sunday and of course - is entitled to his opinion, al though most of our readors will reach the conclusion, after reading it that we would havo dono the writer a favor had we suppressed it. As Governor Cap per says it is evidently ' ' a pipe dream, ' ' based on a rumor heard by a woman who was formerly employed by President Kerr at the O. A. C. Mr. Hcid 's letter follows: SURVIVORS LAUDED IN PmABLE CONDITION FROM UHER AKDANIA Vessel Was Struck Amidship by Tcrped(h" American Vessel Wrecked A Coast Town In the County of An trim, Ireland, Jan. 28. More than 200 passengers and members of the crew of the Cunai'd liner Andania were landed here Sunday afternoon. Most of the crew were in a pitiable condition. Some were clad lightly and had suffered se- CIEANIIJF TRADE COMMISSIO WILLBE1DERTAKEN Packing Investigation Has Brought Out Fact There Ha?e Been "Leaks" Washington, Jan. 28. An "immed iate house cleaning"- by the federal trade commission to check further "leaks" of important information is to bo undertaken. I One official, at least, is already slat-J point a committee of the Washington ed to go. Letters just unearthed in private files of Chicago meat packers during the (Continued on page three) (Coatinued on paga seven) Knollbrook, Corvallis, Or. Editor the Capital Journal: In the resolutions reported to have been pass- ted by a vote of Pomona Orange, 8a- 1 "I ta .. 1 . .1 u-- : .1 : i Ainu, tiau. ju, cuiuruu uy luuincriuiiu- ate rowdyism, occurs this apparently sober statement, "That the board of regents of Kansas State college has quite recently secured a president for that institution at a salary of $6,- 500." It has not. According to the Janu ary ninth issue of the Kansas Indus trialist, the official organ of the fac ulty of tho Kansas State agricultural college, the board of Administration has just appointed tho senior member of the faculty, a man of do years ser vice to the institution, as acting pres ident. On a number of previous occa sions, tho Indifcttriailistl observes, he has acted as president of tho college Is not an "acting prosident" presi dent, Mr. Editor, a sort of reverend personage who tides over a period of doubt and indecision, awaiting the ar rival oi ine real ining? I trust you see tho point, though you may sot acknowledge it. The board of administration of the Kansas btate -Agricultural .'tollego vwcnt as a body In November to the national con vention of the agricultural colleges and experiment stgtionS, at Washington, I). (J., ' 'to look over the college presidents of the country and pick out the big gest man." Through their president, cx-Govornor Hock, they recommended to tho Washington Alumni association of the K. A. C. that Mrs. Henrietta W. Calvin, specialist in home -economics of tho U. S. bureau of education, for merly dean of the school of homo eco nomics of the Oregon Agricultural col lege a known friend and open sup porter of President Kerr should np- Washington, Jan. 28. This is "wheatless" and "meatless" day. President Wilson has asked the housewife to use no wheat on Mondays beginning today. Fuel Administrator Oarfield has ordered unessential industries and all but vital business to pause again to save fuel. Alumni "to assist tho board of admin istration to select a successor to Dr. Waters' (Kan. Ind. Dec. 5 ) This was (Continued on page three) Chicago, Jail. 28. now again par alyeed traffic, in the middle west today and, east of the Mississippi river, offset the saving effected by fuelless Monday. The snow and cold wave extended from the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic seaboard. Little freight was being moved and passenger trains were hours late. In many cases schedules were annulled. Coal was gbiven the right of way. Weather bureau forecasters held out little hope for relief, predicting con tinued snow flurries and zero tempera tures by nightfall. Milwaukee, with seven inches over nieht making 50.6 inches of snow since January 1, was. practically isolated from the outside by rail. The average midulewest winter's snowfall has already been exceeded by 50 per cent. A four inch fall today was reported from Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri halting traffic, causing suffering but benefitting the winter wheat prospects. A number of smaller towns in Illin ois reported severe fuel . shortages. At Shannon, 111., people were cutting trees for firewood. At Lena, 111., coal receiv ed for tho schools was seized for homes and the schools closed. GERMAN LABOR MIES DEMANDS THAT ARE RADICAL Eight-Hour Day, Six Day Week and Absolutely No Sunday Labor NEWSPAPER URGES WAR ON SOCIALISM Kaiser Celebrates Birthday and Junkers Attack Count Czensin's Peace Speech Second Meatless Holiday. Washington, Jan. 28 With thousands (Continued on page seven) AMERICAN SOLDIER MAD HIGHEST OFFICERS OBEY REGULATIONS OF ARMY By J. W. Pegler, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) With the American Army in Prance, Jan. 2S. Ordeis are orders and a mere 'It's all right; we are generals," said the trespassers. 'J don 't give a dam if you are President Wilson," veiled the sentry ! and -the nenerals saw his shadowv form two or three silver stars shining on a j lunge toward them with a gleaming K'j'ijai Miumuera uu iiiil inane any i oayonet. cuiierence to a Sammy if the wearers. The two generals' lumped into the trench in time to avoid being stabbed. of those stars aren't playii, the game according to the rules. Two of the most valuable general of ficers of the entire American expedi tionary force one an acting lieutenant general and the other a major-general commanding the militia division would be in the hospital todav with Iheir troubles were not yet over. The Sammy had a suspicion they were spies, "Give me the password!" he de manded, curtly. The division commander attempted to remonstrate over "inconsiderate treatment" but the sentry's bavonet bayonet wounds in their tummies if i flashed and the generals backed "un a TDciy naan t stopped violating a cer tain Boston Sammy's instructions. - During the great moonlight maneuv ers on a certain reeent night the two generals .directing the movement start- few hasty steps, calling with alarm the paswordj ''Paris, Paris, Paris!" . All night long on thia night,, machine guns arrayed three yards apart in a long, thin line barraged the "enemy's" v to walk along toward the middle rear. .Star shells floated to the earth, of a long trench line in whi.-h tbous- marking pale even the brilliance of the ands of soldiers were massed, waiting ! silver moonlight. signals to go over the top. Nobody j Exactly at dawn the militiamen went was permitted to walk on the parapet j over the' top. They conquered their or in "sight of -the enemy." I objectives. One of the generals tres too big toj One colonel, demonstrating his com find comfort in the narrow trenches plote confidence in his imhine gun and the other loathed the idea of mud ners' accuracy, spent half an hour calm on his polished riding boots. So both ly waging around under a veritable of them walked on the parapet. j roof of machine gun bullets snarhng ''fiet down from the parapet an'l overhead in a barrage fire, walk in the trench!'' b.irked a non- The lieutenant general and the ma-commi-sioned sentry standing in thMjor general heard the explanation that trench. I the sentry merely obeyed orders. , fZ4 fVWtfrL 7 MORE WAR ACTIVITY FOR AMERICANS IN REAR FUTURE, BELIEF General Leonard Wood Slight ly Injured In Accident Casualties Reported Washington, Jan. 28. That a fresh announcement of American participa tion in actual battling will be forthcom ing soon, was the belief of many hero today. This thought was strengthened by tho fact that several infantrymen the past week havo been reported killed or wounded "in action" whilo Major oGn eral Leonard Wood lias been hurt by an accidental explosion in Prance. News of the wounding of Wood, for mer chief of staff, but now commander of Camp Funston, Kansas, was included in a dispatch from American headquar ters telling that two of his staff, Lieu tenant Kilbourne and Major Joyce were injured and five French soldiers had been killed. Another dispatch from Gen eral Pershing related that five infan trymen had been hurt in action. Where or how either of these inci dents occurred was unrevenled. Wood, like other general officers, has been having a chance to see the Ameri can training at close range in France but the accident may have occurred at a point on the allied battle line. The casualties of the past week indi cate that a portion of the American for ces may be finishing their training iy having front line experience. Pershing has not intimated in his casualty re ports, but it is likelv uiar tne cases re sulted from patrol clashes or small trench raids. By George Martin (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 28. An outline of revolutionary demands to be made on the kaiser's government by German la bor, which reacned the Ameriean gov ernment today shows that they are ask ing more of the despot than American labor has asked of its democracy. This program may play an important part in settlement of the Bocial unrest among the people in the Austro German empires if they get the whip band as a result of the social upheaval reported under way there. The program provides for an eight hour day and a six day week. It prohib its all Sunday work except that abso lutely necessary and provides for a day of rest during the week for Sunday workers. It prohibits night work except in a few cases where it is absolutely necessary and which can be determined by law." - - Women must not work more than eight hours a day, five days a week and not more than four hours in Sundays or other days preceding holidays. They must not be given work to take home with them. The employment of women under this plan would be absolutely prohibited at night, on Sundays and holidays, on work which is damaging to health, and for six weeks prior to child birth, for twenty-six weeks thereafter and dur ing the next twenty-six weeks they may work only four hours a day. No child under 15 could be employed in any kind of work. Those between 15 and 18 may not work more than six hours a day and these' may not be cm- nloved at mirht. on Sundays or Holidays in mines or on work dangerous to health. Enforcement of the laws protecting labor in this way would be in the hands of inspectors chosen by the laborers themselves. Only women inspectors would be permitted to inspoct and pass oa women's working conditions. "The right to strike," says tne piea, "must bo free from all restrictions and conceded without restrictions to all sec- jtions of the population." ! Every place employing more than , twenty persons must provide a commit jtee from the employes to have a voice I in the treatment of the workers in tho place by the employers. This com mittoo would havo a voto us powerful as that of tho employers. Workers' interests would be protect ed in all government departments by fully authorized committees named from their membership by tne worKcrs themselves. Insurance which will guarantee every man and woman out of a job a place to eat and sleep nnd something to wear would be provided by the government. (Continued on pago three) "IF YOUR SHOULDERS ARE AS STRONG AS YOUR LUNGS, COLONEL, WHY DON'T YOU GET. DOWN I ESIDE MR. TAFT AND HELP?" Major Joyce on Coast. San Francisco, Jan. 28. Major Ken yon A. Joyce, then a firt lieutenant in the Sixth cavalry, was stationed at the Presidio of Ban Francisco during the ex position. During that period he helped to train a so-caned " millionaires caval ry troop." Germany Will Drive Washington, Jan. 28. "Peace by the sword" will be Germany's next great effort in answer to the growing unrest among the peoples of the central em pires. Official information reaching tins government led (-secretary or var laaaer in his weekly review to state unqual ifiedly that Germany is about to launch a great attack, both by land and sea, against her enemies. February 1 the tirst anniversary oi Germany inauguration of ruthless sub marine warfare may be the date set for her next TJ-boat exploits. Baker classifies the German plans as heralding the most powerful submarine offensive (Continued on page six) Abe Martin M Fn Wo'vo often wondered whether a knocker laid his work out before eom- ' down town in th' mornin', or just trusted t' luck. No matter how long th' war lasts the '11 never have t be sorghum dictator as fer as we're eou eerued. '