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FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 24
SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1918
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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.
,
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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. '