Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-01-14
oREGoNIAN REPUDIATEs ITs OWN sTORY

oREGoNIAN REPUDIATEs IT'S OWN STORY
Since the Oregonians fake story about Kansas offer
ing Kerr of the O. A. Co. $4,000 year to head its agr
cultural college, was exposed several weeks ago. that
paper maintained discreet silence the subject until
yesterday, when it said in course of an editorial:
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nevertheless SS voted the increase.
So the assumption of many persons" that Kerr had
been offered $4,000 year to go to Kansas had nothing
to do with the raise in salary from $1,000 to $84OO
year and yet the day the board took such action or
the morning following Thursday, December Ii, the
Oregonan printed the following the subject in a
special dispatch from Corvallis:
Dr salary has b been advanced iSm $1,000 to $500 % year confer
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No wonder the people Of Oregon gained the impression
that Kerrs salary raised in response to direct offer
from Kansas The Oregonan had been stating from
day to day that such offer had been received and other
papers had taken up the refran Senator Hawey had his
machine in the best of working order and propaganda
letters and kilograms pouring in upon the board
of regents; prevent Kerr from accepting the $4,000
Kansas offer was the burden Of all the petitionsand
Kerr said nothing while his henchmen worked for more
pay for their chief When the raise in salary finally
made the Oregonan printed the dispatch from Corvallis
quoted above.
The editorial of yesterday is a complete back k-down
from its former position just the boards statement
reprnted from the OregOnan in todays paper) is also
complete contradiction of the statement made by its
president j. K Weatherford at the time the salary raise
was made.
Kerr, who was never even considered by the board
for the Kansas position has compelled the newspapers
and his board of regents to all the responsibility
for the fake report about the offer from that state He
says he had nothing to do with it. but fails to explain why
he kept silent and allowed it to be worked for all it was
worth in his behalf.
The explanation of the board Of regents is as silly as
it is contemplate. Kerr throws the responsibility upon
them and the members lack the manhood to demand his
resignation for humiating them and putting them in
string and they dance like marioneteS They raised hs
salary just because they wanted to do it-no other
reason.
Ridiculous! Kerr receiving the highest salary of
any official in the state $1,000 year, and the burden of
war taxes did not fall upon him. His salary exempt
from such special taxation Why increase it 81, ,400
year when everybody else in the state being forced
to practice economy in order to meet the extra necessary
expense of war?
The board of regents in its attempted whitewash of