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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-17
GERMANS WORK HARD
TO BL OCk ADVANCE
Bi>'QOD|NG PLAINS

Dam Above NeupOr Is Being Feverish Rushed to Compile
ton by Day and Night Shifts-Object Is To nterpose
Barrier Of Water Beyond PassChendaeIe Ridge German
Defense Is Weaker and Offensive Efforts Lack OIdTme
Vigor-British Gas Is Now Working Havoc With the
Enemy In "Ypres Sector"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-17

What gifts us is how foot bali play
er is gOin t explain why he haint in
II army. The hardest thing said
i4rs- Lac Dud t'day, dis { think o.
somethin fer supper your husband did
a 7 have fer Iuneh.' .
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-17
British Air Reprisals.

London, Oct. IL Indications that
England's determination to exact full
measure of retaliation for German air
raids has already caused lively appre-
hension in German cities, were noted in
Holland dispatches today.
For l6 days now not one German air
raider has ventured over England. In
the eight days Immediately before that
the Teutonic "baby killers made six
air attacks and killed 81 persons,
wounding 254. 1t was this sudden CON
centration of Hun aerial ruthlessness
that resulted in a national demand for
reprisals which was answered by the
government yesterday in Chancellor of
the Exchequer Bonar Law's formal an
nouncement in commons that reprisals
were planned. ~
Bonar Law stated that bill Great
ing an air ministry would shortly be
presented to parliament. Unofficially,
it was learned today, the government
plans to do away, if possible, with the
dual control of aerial warfare as ex-
emplified at present in the royal naval
air service and the (army) royal flying
corps.
The Munich Post was quoted in Hol-
land dispatches today as depreciating
all aerial raids over open cities.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-17

Announcement by Bonar Law that an
air ministry is planned, confirms ex
elusive United Press dispatches of two
weeks ago, which detailed the govern
ment's determination to recognize the
increasing Importance of aerial war
fare by creating ministerial post to
administer it.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-17

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CONTINUED ON page six.)
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ICoutinued on Page TwO.l
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-17
TO
LIBERTY LOAN BY
SOME PRO GERMAN
This Accusation Comes From
Banks In Southwest
Section
GERMAN-BORN FARMERS
IN MINNESOTA BUY BONDS
Fifth Of Loan Is Subscribed
and Only Hard Work
Will Win

4 x X y X x X X X X X X X \
Evening star., 1917-01-22
PRESIDENT is TO VISIT
CAPITOL ALMOST DAILY

President Wilson plans to go to the
Capitol two or three times each week
to keep in close touch with members OF
the Senate and House for the purpose
of hurrying consideration of his legis-
latiye program, and avoiding an extra
session. He began the new custom to-
day. and probably will continue it each
Monday. Wednesday and Thursday
Under the new plan the President
plans to see practically all senators and
representatives desiring conferences
with him at the Capitol instead of at
the White House as in the past. He
will do this in order to facilitate dis
cussions with congressional leaders.
He is particularly anxious to secure
early action on his railroad program.
tha Porto Rico bill. revenue bills and
the Webb bill to allow American eX-
l,v.-tei ) 10 use common selling agencies
abroad.
While other presidents have held con :
ferences with congressional leaders at
the Capitol no custom such as that IN
augurated by Mr.. Wilson has been fol-
loved in the past.
Evening star., 1917-01-22
WANT FEDERAL FUND
FOR DEFENSE HIGHWAY
Maryland Officials Ask Attorney
General Gregory to Grant Hear
ing on Right to Use Money.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
BALTIMORE. January 2e-Maryland
highway officials have asked Attorney
General Gregory for hearing to enable
them 10 argue the propriety Of using fed
ersl road funds for part Of the construc-
ton of the national defense highway"
between Washington and Annapolis
Plans for using part of Marsland's
share Of federal aid fund for construction
OF this road were upset by an opinion Of
the solicitor of the Department of Asri-
culture that the United States govern
ment road funds could only be used for
improvement Of highways used as post
roads. This adverse opinion will likely
affect plans for the Improvement of
state roads throughout the country. Army
and navy officials are especially anxious
about the Washington Annapolis military
road. however. and hence Maryiand's ef-
forts to make possible the building of this
highway are being aided by strong sup
port at the National Capital
Senator John Walter Smith. Reuresen-
tatiye sydney r.. Mudd and others of the
Maryland delegation at Washington have
asked Attorney General Gregory to name
a date when delegation may appear and
present arguments to show that the pro-
posed Washington Annapolis road should
properly come under the terms of the
federal road aid bill
In the delegation that will appear hefore
the Attorney General will be prominent
svmy asd navy officers. Chairman Frank
Zouck OF the Maryland state roads csn-
mission and probably Attorney General
Richie. the latter to argue the legal
point. OF the case.
Survey Of the route for the proposed
/ iyhway is nearly completed. hut the
sfa;~ roads cii,c;als have deemed ii ad-
,isable TO take no further steps until the
legal side ~, : cnp .'"c''ed "
Evening star., 1917-01-22
ENGLAND SENDS POTATOES.
Britishers Attracted by the High
Prices in Chicago.

CHICAGO. January 22.-High- prices
paid for potatoes on the Chicago mar
ket has attracted shipments from Eng
land to compete with the American
grown product, according to state
ment today by Sol Westerfeld. former
cers' Association. 1T seems almost i'm
possible that England at this time can
send potatoes to Chicago to compete
with the product grown in Illinois,
Wisconsin and other western states.
but | have seen the bills of lading." he
said.
Potatoes on the Chicago market are
selling today at S2.25 a bushel.
Evening star., 1917-01-22
To Bring Question to Head.
SENTENCED 10 JAIL.
Sister Of Mrs. Sanger, Birth Control
Advocate. Gets Thirty Davs

NEW YORK. January 22.-Mrs E,bel
RyrDe sister and co-worker of Nrv
Margaret Sanger. birth control advo-
cate. was sentenced to BlackweiTs Is
land for thirty days BY the BrookIyu
court of special sessions today She wa.
convicted a fortnight ago of having
been connected with birth control
clinic established by Mrs Sanger
whose trial on similar charge is sci
for January 20.
Immediately after her sentence Mrs
Byrne announced her intention OF 60
ing on a hunger strike. Her attornev
announced he would sue out a writ of
habeas corpus in final effort to pre-
vent her from going to the penitentiary
Evening star., 1917-01-22
GERMANS ATTACK FRENCH
ON THE VERDUN FRONT

PARIS. January 30. noon.-Two at
tacks were made by the Germans last
night on the Verdun front on the right
bank of the Meuse. Today.s official
announcement says they were driven
back each time by the French fire.
Artillery fighting proceeded actively
during the night in the sector of Cote
de Polvre In Lorraine and in Alsace
there have been patrol encounters" the
statement says. THE night passed
quietly on the remainder of the front"
BERLIN. January %. by wireless to
Sayville.-The repulse of minor at
tack by the British on the German lines
near Lens is announced in today's Ger
man army headquarters statement re-
garding operations on the Franco Bel
gian front.
Evening star., 1917-01-22

peace agreed upon will determine
whether it is peace for which
such a guarantee can be secured.
The question upon which the
whole future peace and policy of
the world depends is this:
And the paths of the sea must,
alike in law and in fact, be free.
The freedom of the seas is the
sine qua non of peace, equality
and cooperation. No doubt a
somewhat radical reconsidera-
ton OF many of the rules OF inter
national practice hitherto sought
to be established may be neces-
sary in order to make the seas
indeed free and common in prac-
tically all circumstances for the
use of mankind, but the motive
for such changes is convincing
and compelling. There can be no
trust or intimacy between the
peoples OF the world without
them. The free, constant, un
threatened intercourse OF nations
is an essential part OF the process
of peace and of development.
1T need not be difficult to de-
fine or to secure the freedom of
the seas if the governments of
the world sincerely desire to come
to an agreement concerning it.
1T is problem closely con-
nected with the limitation of
naval armament and the co-opera-
ton of the navies of the world in
keeping the seas at once free and
safe. And the question of limit
ing naval armaments opens the
wider and perhaps more difficult
question of the limitation of
armies and of all programs of
military preparation.
Difficult and delicate as these
questions are. they must be faced
with the utmost candor and de-
cided in spirit of real accommo-
dation if peace is to come with
healing in its wings. and come to
stay. Peace cannot be had with
out concession and sacrifice.
There can be no sense of safety
and equality among the nations
If great preponderating arma-
ments are henceforth to continue
here and there to be built up and
maintained.
"The statesmen of the world
must plan for peace and nations
must adjust and accommodate
their policy to it as they have
planned for war and made ready
for pitiless contest and rivalry.
"The question of armaments,
whether on land or sea, is the
most Immediately and intensely
practical question connected with
the future fortunes of nations
and of mankind.
Il have spoken upon these
great matters without reserve
and with the utmost explicitness
because it has seemed to me to
be necessary if the worlds
yearning desire for peace was
any where to find free voice and
utterance. Perhaps | am the
only person in high authority |
amongst all the peoples of the |
world who is at liberty to speak !
and hold nothing back. | am |
speaking as an individual, and i
yet | am speaking also, of
course, as the responsible head of !
a great government, and l feel
confident that | have said what
the people of the United States
would wish me to say.
"May I net add that I hope and
(Contiuuod on Second Pnee.l
Evening star., 1917-01-22
ASKS WHETHER,U. s.
SEAMEN ARE HELD
State Department Makes For
NAL Inquiry of the Berlin
Government.
ARMED SHIP ISSUE ACUTE

Inquiry has been made of Germany
as to whether there we're any Ameri-
cans among the 1O3 neutral sailors
brought in as prisoners of war on the
German prize Yarrowdale for having
taken pay on armed merchantmen The
inquiry was made entirely on press
reports and not on any official infor-
nation which has come to the State
Department.
officials admit that the armed ship
issue is at the root of the whole ques-
ton. The views of this country and
Germany appear widely divergent.
Each on Own Merits.
Each case. officials say. must be de-
cided entirely on it's own merits. but
out of all the difficulties that have re-
Gently arisen it is believed it may be
possible to enunciate some general
rule 1t is stated. however, that no
definite program has yet been drawn
up.
The mere fact that some of the
sunken vessels were permitted to sail
as merchantmen from American points
is regarded as p-ima facie, but not
The status of sailors captured on an
armed ship after purely defensive re-
sistance is very undecided. AS there
is no similar case great care must be
shown in the handling of the diff
Guilty.
Expect to Move Slowly.
Officials. therefore. expect to move
slowly and to await facts from every
angle before making a final decision.
Nevertheless, the seriousness of the
armed ship issue is such that some
closer understanding is felt essential
here.
The first dispatch to the State De-
partment from Ambassador Gerard at
Berlin about the German raider ana
the prisoners brought in on the prize
Yarrowdale was received today. 1t
merely quoted from Berlin evening pa
pers that the Yarrowdale had put into
port with 469 prisoners, OF whom 1O3
We're neutrals. 1t was merely a news
paper summary: without any official
confirmation.
Evening star., 1917-01-22
SENATOR DEFENDS
CH|LDREN'S BUREAU
Mr.. La Toilette ReneWS Fight
to Restore Appropriations
to Legislative Bill.
is STIRRED BY HOSTILITY

The fight to retain in the legislative
executive and judicial appropriation
bill the items provided by the House ior
the children's bureau of the Depart
ment of Labor was continued in the
Senate today. Senator La Toilette OF
Wisconsin championed the cause OF the
children's bureau and criticised Visor-
ously the cuts made in the sums al
lowed for the bureau by the Senate
appropriations committee.
"I would be loath to believe that any
senator would oppose appropriations
for the children's bureau except under
a misapprehension." said Senator La
Toilette.
Il do not know any way in which we
can build up our national life more Ell
scientific study of the child from lts
ficiently than by an intelligent and
BIRTH
Evening star., 1917-01-22
FIGHTING IN RUMANIA
OF A MINOR CHARACTER

BERLIN, January 30. by wireless to
Sayville-Lively skirmishing has been
in progress along the Rumanian front,
according to today's army headquar-
ters announcement. In the Putna val
lev area on the Moldavian. western
front, the Russians attacked the Ger
man advance line, but We're repulsed.
PETROGRAD. January 21, via Lon
don. January 22.-Conditions along the
Runanian front We're generally quiet
Yesterday according to todays war Of
fice announcement, the only develop
ments reporte.. being successful recon-
noitering operations by Russian and
Rumanian scouts.
Evening star., 1917-01-22

and their power to the authority
and force OF other nations to
guarantee peace and justice
throughout the world. Such a
settlement cannot now be long
postponed. 1t is right that before
it comes this government should
frankly formulate the conditions
upon which it would feel justified
in asking our people to approve
its formal and solemn adherence
to a league for peace, Il am here
to attempt to state those condi-
tions.
"The present war must first be
ended; but we owe it to candor
and to joint regard for the opln-
ion of mankind to say that SO far
as our participation in guarantee
of future peace is concerned it
makes a great deal of difference
iii what way and upon what terms
ii is ended. The treaties and
agreements which bring it to an
end must embody terms which
will create peace that is worth
guaranteeing and preserving; a
peace that will win the approval
of mankind. not merely peace
that will serve the several inter-
ests and immediate aims of the
nations engaged. We shall have
no voice in determining what
those terms shall be, but we
shall, feel sure, have a voice in
determining whether they shall
be made lasting or not by the
guarantees of a universal cove
nant; and our judgment upon
what is fundamental and essen
tial as condition precedent to
permanency should be spoken
now. not aftcrward, when it NAV
be too late.
mo covenant of cooperative
peace that does not include the
peoples of the new world can suf-
fee to keep the future safe
against war: and yet there is only
one sort of peace that the peo-
pies of America could join in
guaranteeing.
"The elements of that peace
must be elements that engage the
confidence and satisfy the prin-
ciples of the American govern
ments, elements consistent with
their political faith and the prac-
teal convictions which the peo-
pies of America have once for all
embraced and undertaken to de-
fend.
Il do not mean to say that any
American government would
throw any obstacle in the way
of any terms of peace the gov
ernmentS now at war might
agree upon, or seek 20 upset them
when made, whatever they might
be.
81 only take it for granted that
mere terms of peace between the
belligerents will not be salts
factory even to the bellieerents
themselves. Mere agreements
may not make peace secure. 1t
will be absolutely necessary that
a force be created as guarantor
of the permanency of the settle
ment so much greater than the
force Of any nation now engaged
or any alliance hitherto formed
or projected that no nation, no
probable combination of nations,
could face or withstand it. If the
peace presently to be made is to
endure, it must be peace made
secure by the organized major
force Of mankind.
"The terms of the immediate
Evening star., 1917-01-22
DAY IN CONGRESS.
Senate.

senate:
Met at IL am.
President Wilson addressed the
Senate on foreign relations at l
o'clock.
Mayor Mitchell OF New York. b.
fore military committee advocated
universal military training
Met at ! am.
Began debate on river and harbor
appropriation bill
Secretary Baker urged foreign af-
fairs committee to provide more
definite regulation Of Niagara Falls
rower and announced re y rsolally
favored government plant there in
stead of private permits
Elections committee report~d sus-
airing right of Isaac Siexel and
Frederick e. Hicks. republicans. to
h in contested seats.
Evening star., 1917-01-22
Text of President Wilson's Address
Before the Senate Giving His Ideas
of Steps Necessary for World Peace

Gentlemen of the Senate:
"On the eighteenth OF Decem-
Der last | addressed an ldent1e
note to the governments OF the
nations now at war requesting
them to state more definitely
than there had yet been stated by
either group of belligerents the
terms upon which they would
deem it possible to make peace
/ spoke on behalf OF humanity
and of the rights of all neutral
nations like our own, many OF
whose most vital interests the
war puts in constant jeopardy
The central powers united in a
reply which stated merely that
they were ready to meet their
antagonists in conference to dis
CuSS terms OF peace.
"The entente powers have re-
piled much more definitely and
have stated. in general terms. in
deed, but with sufficient definite
ness to imply details, the ar
rangements, guarantees and acts
of reparation which they deem to
be the indispensable conditions OF
a satisfactory settlement.
1--WE are that much nearer a
definite discussion of the peace
which shall end the present war.
We are that much nearer the dis
cussion of the international con-
cert which must thereafter hold
the world at peace.
"In every discussion of the
peace that must end this war it
is taken for granted that that
peace must be followed by some
definite concert of power which
will make it virtually impossible
that any such catastrophe should
ever overwhelm us again. Every
lover OF mankind, every sane and
thoughtful man must take that
for granted.
81 have sought this opportunity v
to address you because | thought
that | owed it to you, as the conn
Gil associated with me in the final
determination of our interna-
tional obligations. to disclose to
you without reserve the thought
and purpose that have been TAX
ing form in my mind in regard
to the duty of our government
i'll these days to come when it
will be necessary to lay afresh
and Upon a new plan the founda
tons of peace among the nations.
1T is inconceivable that the
people OF the United States should
play no part in that great enter
prise. To take part in such a
service will be the opportunity
for which they have sought te
prepare themselves by the very
principles and purposes of Their
policy and the approved practices
OF their government ever since
the days when they set up a new
nation in the high and honorable
hope that it might i'll all that il
was and did show mankind the
way to liberty. They cannot in
honor withhold the service to
which they are now about to- be
challenged. They do not wish to
withhold it, But they owe it tc
themselves and to the other ma
tions of the world to state the
conditions under which they will
feel free to render it.
THAT service sis nothing less
than this, to add their authority
Evening star., 1917-01-22
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s.yr'rre Ni-h' rai'ls ~ the RiGa
rexi-p 'n - the i!usa's'.s V ere re-
a:,.s ~ rai4 80 eispr.enta o.,
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Evening star., 1917-01-22
Gerard Cables a Summary
of Admiralty Statement
Regarding Neutral Sailor

BY the Associated Press. -.
BERLIN. January 81, via London.
January pa summary of the Ger
man admiralty's Official statement on the
detention as prisoners of war of neutral
sailors aboard armed merchantmen CAP
tured by the German naval forces was
cabled to the State Department at WASH
ington by Ambassador Gerard last even
ing This is the only information yet
available regarding this development in
naval procedure.
German official circles profess to re-
gard the case as affording an opportunity
for negotiations looking to the settle
ment between America and Germany of
the status Of armed merchantmen. Since
the men in question are safe and the
case is not complicated by the loss of
human life. as might have been involved
had IL arisen from the destruction of
arr ed merchantmen by submarines. op-
tisism over amicable adjustment is
expressed here.
Status of Armed Ships.
cince the issuing of the German memo
randum on armed merchantmen earlier in
the war German authorities have held
they r, intended for defense or offense,
loses it's status as a private commercial
craft and becomes a warship Sailors
taking service on such a ship these au-
thorities contend. lose their neutral status,
just as # they had enlisted in tine naval
forces of ne:ligerent. Therefore these
sailors are liable TO treatment as prison.
ers of war. ii is held
These grounds are set forth in the sec
ond annex to the German prize code.
which states explicitly that the crews OF
armed merchantmen which offer resist
ance 10 German naval forces shall be
! treated as war prisoners. Though the
memorandum and the prize code take
this stand. the problem has been held in
ab2yance-
! To Bring Question to Head.
of late. however. the armed merchant
I man issue has again become pressing
and the belief is growing that the gov
crnment. will take advantage of the stu
talon created by the bringing into Ger
man port Of the prize ship YarrowdaIe
with the crew held as prisoner of war to
bring the question to head.
Evening star., 1917-01-22
All Germany Rejoicing.

LONDON. January 22.-German re-
joicing over the exploits of the COM
merce raider in the south Atlantic is
unbounded. according to an Amsterdam
dispatch to the Times. Capt. Persius.
the German naval critic. writing in the
Tageblatt. recalls that when German
destroyers carried out attacks in the
English channel and at the mouth of
the Thames in October and November"
Arthur Balfour. then secretary of the
navy. assured the house of commons
that the British guard service would
be careful in the future that the
Germans would never venture to under
take such dangerous expeditions again.
Capt PerSius says that Sir Edward
Carson has been unable to justify Mr..
Balfour's assertion, and maintains that
German light forces have made sew
eral attacks in British water. and the
Moewe the second. a big-above-water
ship. successfully passed the British
advance guards and reached the Allan
Evening star., 1917-01-22
Pernambuco Hears She Was
Sent Down by British
Cruiser Glasgow.
ALL GERMANS REJOICING
OVER MOEWE'S EXPLOITS
Taunt British for Boast That No
More Raiders Would Get Through
Naval Blockade.

BUENOS AIRES. Argentina.
January 22.-La Prensa publishes
dispatch from Rio de aneiro say
ing that. according to a cablegram
received at Pernambuco, the Brit
ish cruiser Glasgow has sunk a
German commerce raider 80
miles off Para. No details are
given.