Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-17
KERR PUTS IT UP TO oREGoNIAN

bip practical okeathough expensive to the~taxpayers
when it printed the story that W. Kerr OF the D. A. C
such great man that Kansas had ofered MN 99oVO
wear to come to that state and be president OF It's
agricultural college.
Possibly the Oreponan did not mean the story for a
joke but taken in by the 0. A. e. machine managers
who wanted to give Kerr boost and raise MS meagre
salary of 81 900 year at the same time The Oregonan
is in pretty bad hole just nowanyWay you view It
and is keeping stiquite likely 1t will continue ts poncy
of dipnhed silence indefinitely In fact there is little the
Oreponan can say in view Of the turn things nave TAKEN
Kerr himself even takes left handed wallop at the
Oregonian and other papers which printed he pipe cream
that he had been offered $4,000 by the Kansas col
lege He says in effect that newspaper story OF tnat
import appeared while he in the east and that ne ha
nothing to do with it. He merely kept still and got MS
salary raised ST. 400 year on the strength OF IT, FROM
his explanation is inferred that he thinks the Oregonan
and the other papers that published the $4,000 yarn de-
serve more or less for taking. We are inclined
to think that this stand Of Mr. Kerr shows ingraude on
his part for the Oregonan carried the fake through to
the final chapter without once giving the shgntest lno
cation that it not genuine news stuH that II was
handing out to its readers. Here the way IL Wouho p
the affair in special dispatch from Corvallis thursday
morning:
be s,say fss 'SSS @S1nss to 'aoG a SPECIAL ys9 confer
fafS fa with ii the f. Future %S'tfsfS % & psaeG' @ s
hy h N fcdtares s1 @asaaed ander the decision
Dr. Kerr va. % Of the R%ns1s g s1
"ssf ] % @ nf g m a egents @ and On will % aVs
F ann @ clad Dr. Kerr has agreed to stay weuerd'I be-
ee have the greatest college pGe4ts p m a @ @ 90 The state
9 his and in the at
procure should
acceptable western pooh
at price"
Reads just like the real stuff, doesn't it? And yet as
soon as the first story had out in the Oregonan the
Kansas City Star (on Nov. 26) printed the following
dispatch:
% @ & f. Kss ] gas q Ss % Rsoos s ofs9 E At'1 @
tho board Of administration today me
Washington where they
with tm men
to f. W. Hoeh
the Kansas school
We him met
of presidency school discussed
in We asked him If he would Ike
of subaniated statement
understand how earth the report ever got out SAID
DR. Wilbur Mason
The report that accept the presidency
agricultural college out from Portland Ore
There is reason to believe too, that the OregonianI
learned the real truth of the situation long before it
printed that last dispatch from Corvallis aiding and
abettng in the action that Weatherford Governor Witty
combe and other members of the O. A. c. board and al
lowing them to put themselves in most undesirabeI
position.
No wonder the Oregonan is keeping quiet It's editor
however is undoubtedly doing some deep and serious
thinkng-and especially since Kerr stepped out from
under and placed the responsibility for the entire fake
upon newspaper storyv-which is simply another
way Of saying the 0regonian did and would have to
plain---if any explanation is ever given.
Lack of coal is not only causing suffering in the
eastern states but is causing many factories to cose
down and MANY arc tpnnoraIJV unemnloVpd ROSeSl