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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-22

has been of inestimable value. Not
only have moss and dressings been
prepared in large quantities, but eX-
periments have been carried on to
test the value of various Canadian
MOSES. The Union was organized
during the first weeks Of the war
from among the families OF the Gov
ernors and staff of the University,
and has been active ever since in pro-
viding soldiers comforts" for Nc
Gill graduates and students on active
service. Some conception of the
amount of work done by these wom-
en- can be CLEANED from the fact that
McGilPs quota numbers more than
2,200. The accompanying photo
graphs show members Of tie Union
working on moss in its various
stages cf preparation. Inquiries re-
garding this work may be addressed
TO Miss S. n. Bainbridge, Hon. Sec.
Committee on Sphagnum Dressings,
Canadian Red Cross, care McGill
University. Montreal.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-22
Report Of Manager
To the Members of the Salem CONNER
cial Club,
Gem flanpn.


To the Members of the Salem CONNER
cial Club,
Gentlemen:
81 have the honor to submit to you
the report of the management of the
club and its activities for the. year
1917 and 1918. This report will not be
as intelligent as it might have been, IL
made by Mr.. Mcdaniel, sincezI have
been in touch with the work of the
club for the last two months only. l
have, therefore, been obliged merely
to go into the club records and recite
to in approximately chronological or
der what the club has been doing dur
ing these past months.
"It appears from the records that
one of the first things which was con-
sidcred since our annual meeting last
vea~ was the first liberty loan. This
was one Of the first IL not quite the
first government activity which the
club was called upon to undertake, and
1T is most significant to my mind that
at once the Commercial club was call
ed into action as being the logical ve-
hicle for such activity.
"The question Of transportation
across the Willamette river also has
engaged the time and attention Of mem
bers and committees of the club,
throughout great portion Of the year.
The matter of securing some tempo
rary means of convenient travel across
the river during the time Of the con-
struction Of the new bridge was one
which engaged the club and was soly-
cd first in one way and then in an
other. The records of these matters are
extensive and it is perhaps sufficient
to say that every conceivable method
of solution was brought mp and coneid-
cred, and the ferry idea finally adopt
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-22
FAMOUS CLOWN UNrNJURED

Hammond, Ind, June 22,-Harry La
Pearle, the famous clown escaped un-
hurt in the wreck near here today. Lon
Moore, another clown, was uninjured.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

ity and he is necessitating the use Of rerns.
dies which in addition to being harsh and
exasperating will ameliorate symptoms rather
than effect cure. Unless something is done
to safeguard American business from renN.
ttIon OF such congestve chills, and unless
public opinion is assured of q plan of mill
tary and civil preparation which is more fore.
handed and more vigorous, the chlls are like.
~ to be succeeded by fever whose conse.
quences will be still more enervating.
When Congress proposes plans for reor.
ganizing the war administration it is onlv
rejecting the opinion Of a majority of thu
American people. Mr.. Wilson will be falling
into the first grave mistake of his career
if he permits his opponents to crowd him
into the position OF ignoring facts, of resent
ing criticism and of rigidly opposing reor.
ganization. That was the mistake which Mr.
Asquith made in the spring OF 1915, and it
cost himself and his country dear. The Presi-
dents personal and partisan enemies are
making use of the crisis in order to force on
him, if possible, a mechanism Of war admin
istration which would tend to hamper rather
than to help him and his Cabinet, and which
could only add TO the existing confusion. He
is justified in opposing this particular bill
But if he fails to recognize the necessity Of
some measure of reorganization which viii
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
\ Failure to Profit
~ by Early Mistakes

"In the task, however, of organizing his
country for war he has carried his Fabian
tactics too far. His initial programme E.
needed resourceful, energetic and skilful
execution. In arranging for it's execution he
was quite right in testing out the existing
organization first and in avoiding drastic
changes until he could supplement foreign
with American experience and adjust the
lessons Of France and Great Britain to Ameri-
can administrative institutions. But, un-
fortunately, he has ignored foreign expert
ence and neither he nor his chief assistants
have recognized or studied the manifest de-
fccts in the existing organization which the
first few months of war work revealed. AS
the summer passed into the fall and winter
came on it became apparent that the war
administration wasteful of time an.
energy in reaching decisions and slow and
gravely deficient in its ability to secure
results. The original programme was not
being executed promptly and no sufficient
attempt was being made to investigate the
reason for the delay and to provide sufi-
cient remedy. Every change in organization
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

preliminary must be stated: Peace may or
may not come this year. No man can tell
and prophecy has no place in the shifting
vocabulary of the war. Everything rests on
the knees of the red gods. But one thing
is certain: The war must cease some dav
and when it does conclude the most com
pelling serial of sacrifice and slaughter thar
history has ever known the important facts
will be the economic facts. War ends but
business never does! In the midst Of stu-
pendous tumult and dislocat:on the ewes Of
the world being slowly focused unon tn.
era OF rehabilitation, which will snell nros
perlty or disaster for the nations of th,
earth. The business problem is perma-
nent problem.
Economic pressure has already PLAYED the
trump card IN the big game AS the pros.
pcct of peace from military operations IN
the held wanes-and nearly every man wbo
mas seen much Of the war shares this belief
the force and effect of the economic weanon
as the final factor become more apparent.
1T will not only force the decision but will
dominate all reconstruction.
here you get the real significance OF
AMERICAS entry into the strife. The moment
she swung into the battle line, that moment
sne swung the balance of an economic power
more potent than shot and she'll. Military
strategy VIII be subordinate to economic ad-
vantage. no one realizes this better than
the Germans themselves. In other words
the means os cffccting a radical decision il,
the war are slipping away from the armies
and taking up their abode in the citadels OF
cash, credit and commerce. If Uncle Sam did
not strike single physical blow he already
would have rendered his colleagues an in
estimable service"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

level. Soon more signs of trouble with their
'nteIllgencc department, for we hadn't gone
4 mile when there a burst of shrapncl
Just ahead and few pieces of junk ratified
against my left wing. That was lucky. 1t
gave me an excuse for good elevation and
that was what wanted
1--WE must go up or get our heads blown
off, said, as / began looming. He must
have agreed with me, for in second there
came another burst of shrapnel just below
Three boche planes passed US. My COM
panion waved his handkerchief, and that's
all that happened Anyhow, they knew about
US. We were near our lines and up eight
thousand feet. He held sheet of paper be-
fore me on which he had scribbled the words :
High enough. Begin to go down.
Say, maybe we didn't. | side-slipped q
thousand feet and turned two somersaults
and spun down thousand feet more so
quick the old bus groaned and creakcd like
ship in gale. 1t nearly broke her back.
Say, came within an ace of getting mine.
"'Did he shoot?'
Shoot? ! should say he did, but not me
didn't have time. He shot out of the
fuselage on her second turnover like bull
let and struck d gravel bank head first near
the Ypres-C Confines Canal. | think he is tho
only man | ever knew who killed and buried
himself and erected his own tombstone.
Everybody in the line has been to look A.
that one boot sticking out of the gravel
1T was the best joke of the summer"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

how an Allied pilot, caught be-
hind the German lines, was made to as
cend over the British lines in captured
Allied machine so as TO take observations
free Of suspicion. The story as told by
the aviator is given in ""rhe Independent"
by Irving Bachelor. With revolver to
his head, the Briton was told what to do.
"'All right answered.
at a pretty clever scheme to 20 over
the British lines in q British plane, where
we could fly fifty metres high in perfect
safety and put the batteries on a film so
they would show up as plainly as a ncckti.
in cabinet photograph. They had got the
engine going and set their cameras. We got
in. Up went the old bus ] deftly clamred
the dog collars tight above my knees 1t was
all | needed lie didn't have a strap on
him. You would have thought that he was
going out for ride with his grandmother
on a mill pond in a flat t-bottomed boat.
Well, he didn't know mc-poor dufrer! Any
one who knows the game as l do could see
what was going to happen to him. In his
hurry he had pulled bone. That bochc
colonel ought to have warned him. Men
on either side arc always ready for big
gamble to win the prizes of war. but he
might we'll have tried to beat the shell
game. | could myself sitting there, like
man in spring wagon. and that fat duff
fer holding n revolver to my ear and telling
me what to do. 1t was like trying to bluff
the goose that lays the golden egg
"Shc rose like bird. He had told mo
to 60 up two thousand feet and keep on tina:
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
y aker's War Council" Is Nothing
IL but a Town Meeting

"Bitter experience enforced reluctant and
belatcd admission Of the necessity. but alas
the change is not for better, but for worse
The larger the body, of course. the less use
full it is bound to be. In point of fact, the
new council is not a council at all; it is a
weekly town meeting held every Monday
morning. when of all times each member
should be at his desk. Nobody possessed of
grain of common sense fail to realize
that such contrivance Is useless as of the
present and hopeless for the future; a doubly
dscouraging circumstance because
"Whot this government needs Is Vision
"No whit less vital than the present ur-
cency is heed to the future. OF what avail
arc all the resources of the civilized world ii
those resources are not utilized? Our allie.
are dragging into service every conceivable
aid in Europe and India and Africa, but they
look perforce to the United States to muster
South America and Japan, and even perhaps
China. The President must realize that; he
has vision, splendid, wide and far reaching;
but how can that vision be brought into
action while smothercd, as now it surely is,
in e mass of details?
"It is only fair, moreover, to warn the
government that the remark is becoming far
too common that everything this Admins
tration does is partisan, petty and personal.
DENYING, as we do with indignation. all such
accusations, VIC nevertheless cannot fail to
recognize the wisdom. even the necessity, of
taking most scrupulous care to lend no color
to such aspersions In time like this, when
fcolinrs are tense and hearts being
wrlnp when political ambitions and per
sonal jcalousies arc rife and when even the
0imsicst Of excuses sought by the will
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

at the front are given by Joseph S. Amcs
IN the January issue of ''Thc Atlantic
Monthly There is the use made of
physics in determining by sound waves
the location of enemy artillery:
When a Shot is fired from German gun
toward the Allies line the observer in the
latter hears three sounds. The first Of these
Us the sound due to the passage of tho shelf
through the arthis because the velocity
OF the shell is greater than that Of sound
waves; the second sound to be heard is the
boom of the gun itself, and the third is that
que to the explosion of the shell. So. if
'hcre are two or more receiving stations. at
cach OF which some such apparatus as a
simple mcrophone is installed, and if each
OF these Is connected by wires to a central
station where there is a recording device
each microphonc will register the arrival of
the three sound waves; but since the re-
ccivlng stations at different distances
from the gun. any type of wavc--for
instance, the 'boom'--will reach them at diff
1efent lhStants of time. In order to know
the time intervals, all that is necessary s
10 make an extremely accurate clock record
Its indications on the same strip Of manor
~e''eo tne mlcrophone signals. Then,
knowing the velocity of the sound waves as
we DO, and also tho exact situation of the
receiving stations and their relative dis
tanccs, 1T is Il simple matter to work out
graphically the position of the gun.
he only uncertain element in the process
is the velocity of the sound waves. because
1T varies with the temperature of the air
fortunately in known manner-and it is
affected by the wind if this is strong But
corrections can be made, and the accuracy
cotalned is truly surprising. One wav Of
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

make IN favor of a more unified war admin
lstration and more vigorous conduct of civil
and military preparations he will be mis-
Judging the needs and opinions of the nation
and failing to meet his own obligation to
satisfy them. There is still time and space
IN which to deliver himself and the country
from the deplorable consequence of a fight
in the midst OF war between the executive
and legislative branches Of the government
lie can still offer a substitute for the
doubtful plan OF reorganization proposed
in the Senate bill plan of his own which
would be better designed to secure simi-
lar result. If he would only adopt this course
he would not only break the force of the
attack of his enemies, and enable his friends
to continue their undivided support, but he
would do away with the most formidable
threat which has yet been directed against
the war morale of the American nation"
new note, one suggesting that the
people are beginning to lose faith in the
President as the David of their present
needs, is voiced by THE Villager":
"Mr. Wilson has nodded. Whatever may
be the immediate outcome of the war cabinet
affair, there can be no question that he has
forfeited his singular strength with the mass
OF the nation The full loss may not be
apparent tomorrow or the day after:
'SluiSeo may remain unSDQSen aWnllc, but
they viii grow more artcuate with each
crisis of our internal affairs, until there
will be no mstaking the voice should any
misfortune attend our effort abroad The
Presidents political skill, which succeeded in
uniting the crowd behind him, has been ad-
mitted even by those who have dep!ored the
dangerous and insincere method of group
panderlng. Dismissing deeper judgments,
forgetting possible costs and remembering
the unconformed elements which two years
since were making Babel of the national
voice, none may deny Mr.. Wilson's achieve
ment; organized labor was with him, the
Socialists and anarchists placed the finger Of
expectation on their lips when his name was
spoken, his own party stood solid and the
opposition mad been reduced to protestations
of loyalty; IN short, the Presidents position
seemed impregnablc.
And so it might have continued to be il
we could have gone on indefinitely being of
the war but not in it, if there had not to
be all end to The period in which We could
touch the war and not be touched by it
period in which sacrifices were on paper
and our sutferings in words. SO long as war
meant no real hardship it is not surprising
that the people We're back of Mr. Wilson;
wages were going up. the costs of living were
to be kept down by fixed prices and between
the official lines could be read rosy promises
of what democracy might mean after it
all over
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

breaks with Congress and public opinion. He
has recognized the danger for an American
President of alternating Congress or of get
ting either too FAR ahead or too far behind
public opinion In practice this waiting atti-
tude involved patient and sometimes ap-
parently procrastnating handling of specific
economic and political situations and prob
lens. He has allowed the full complexities
and difficulties Of II situation to develop be-
fore irrevocably committing himself and the
country to particular policy, because by so
doing he expected to meet with fewer obsta-
cles and less opposition in securing the
acceptance Of his decision. He has applied
this method to all the newer and more seri-
Gus questions of domestic and foreign policy
which have come up during his two admins
trations, and while the practice has brought
urcn him much criticism from more impatient
and less flexible minds, it has usually been
successful in its chief purpose-that of Great
ing relation of mutual confidence between
himself and majority Of the American peo-
pie. His Fabianism frequently plunged him
into difficulties, such as those in Mexico, from
which he could extricate himself only with
loss, but the whole it has been a source
of strength rather than of weakness. Fabian
ism is an essential ingredient of democratic
craftsmanship, and whenever, as sometimes
happened, Mr.. Wilson's. delberation tended
to degenerate into procrastination he realized
his danger in time and succeeded in making
sufficiently quick recovery.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

part, gently suggesting all the while an
advisable course for the President to pur-
sue. Now the danger flag is hung out, be-
ginning with the assertion that the Presi
dent "is, we believe, committing a grave
mistake in not advancing to meet more
half way those members of Congress who
are only seeking to institute a general
staff, without which no commander in
chief, whether military or industrial. can
plan successful war" For in this Jour
halls estimation, "The existing mechanism
will continue to creak and groan and ex-
asperate its victims, and the President
himself will eventually be obliged to pro-
pose different and better method of i'm
proving the war organization He can
not persist in standing pat unless there is
substantial and wholly improbable turn
for the better in the results of his war
management"
Fuller comment in this same direction
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

was adopted reluctantly, and none of them
dealt with the fundamental difficulty of secur-
ing satisfactory relationship between those
who planned executive policies and those who
carried them out
"For many months the present crisis has
been coming to head The President, Con-
gress and the country should regard the
existing breakdown the red flag of danger
1t should be a warning to the American peo-
pie of the indiscriminate ruthlessness of war
and of the kind of sacrifices which they will
have to undergo before it can be brought to
successful conclusion. 1t should be a warn
ing to Congress of the disastrous conse-
quences OF trying to make political capital
out of national caamites. 1t should be a
warning to the President of the impos ibility
during war of seeking to accommodate the
American public to the need Of drastic
changes and sacrifices BY allowing such
crises to gather and to break. Instead of
keeping the confidence of the country and
avoiding drastic remedies, he is rendering
himself vulnerable to the attacks of his
enemies, he is jeopardizing his own popular
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

inner cause of the war paintings of this
country.
From the Pacific Coast, for example, far
removed from the turmoil at Washington,
comes this view, appearing in "The Sunset
Magazine":
"The real trouble with Americas conduct
of the war lies not in the carrying out but
rather in the formulating of it's war policies.
"There are too many policies, each one run
ming around loose and pulling it's own par
ticular rope. Only unified pull in one di-
recton can win the war
"Viewed from this quiet corner across the
width of a continent Washington is not car
rying on one big war. 1t seems to be fighting
dozen wars, each department of the gov
ernment fighting the Kaiser on its own hook
without much regard for the campaign of
any other department. At present there is
not one agency which can correlate and CO.
ordinate the separate campaigns carried on
by the different departments-except the
President, and he cannot humanity under
take the additional task"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

verifying the result is to send up an air.
plane and photograph the region. When
this is done it is found that the two methods
agree so closely that if on the largest scale
maps a guns position determined by one
is marked by pin the position as found
by the other cannot be marked by second
pin-therc is not space. This means roughly
that the location Of a gun at a distance of
six miles can be determined definitely within
some fifty feet. which is sufficiently close
The English officer who had charge of the
sound observations at the Messines fight told
mo that in one day sixtythree large German
guns were located and all sxty-three were
DESTROYED"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

then follows Congress is made a partner
IN the proposed now order of things, but
that the President is principally addressed
I is clear:
The critical moment has arrived in the de-
velopment of American organization for the
conduct of the war. Upon the action taken by
Congress and the President during the next
lew weeks will depend both the military and
economic efficiency Of the American nation
during the remainder Of the hostilities and
the unanlmlty and enthusiasm with which the
government will hereafter be supported Both
the President and Congress stand at the part
ing OF the ways. If they can agree upon a
desirable measure of reorganization which
Will provide an effective remedy for tn.
backwardness and laundering that have been
uncovered in American military preparations.
1T will still be possible to recover the effective
cooperation between the Legislature and the
f'Hecutlve which is indispensable to the energy
and success of American military policy But
IT they both prove TO be unyicldng. if Con-
gress insists on its own plan of reorganiza-
ton, irrespective of the Presidents wishes.
and If the President stands pat on the whole
matter OF administrative reconstruction the
results may we'll be disastrous. The nation
viii be torn by civil strife ut the very moment
when it most needs to be united, and the
success of American war preparation and the
future Of those salutary prir cip]es in domestic
and foreign policies of which Mr. Wilson is
without doubt the greatest living spokes
man will be seriously and unnecessarily COM
promised
"The President will be making great mis-
take in attributing the demand for changes
in the administration of the war chiefly to
his personal enemies. The morale of demo
cratic nation during war depends in part upon
the justice and the popularity of the cause