by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent

From the pages of the Daily Capital Journal:

MILITARY MAN WANTS MUCH LARGER ARMY
Chief of Staff, General Wotherspoon, Would Have An Army of 200,000

RUSSIA IS GETTING SORE AT THE ALLIES; MAY TURN ON TURKS
Slav Leaders Openly Complain that Allies Do Not Drive Germans Back
CZAR MAY ABANDON “ON TO BERLIN” PLAN
Successes of Turks Will Compel Greater Efforts Against Them On Russia’s Part

ENGLAND’S INCOME TAX IS 8 PER CENT
It Is Expected It Will Be Advanced to 25 Per Cent Before End of War

GIGANTIC BATTLE BETWEEN GERMANS AND RUSSIANS IS ON
Germans Take Offensive In Poland and Meet With Fierce Resistance
FORCES ON EACH SIDE SAID TO BE ENORMOUS
Reinforcements Rushed and Number of Men in Fight Is Now Millions

On the editorial page, the paper suggested taking advantage of displaced Belgian lace workers:

The department at Washington intimates that the officials in charge of the immigration business would not be disposed to scrutinize lightly such Belgian immigrants as were helped to reach our shores. This being true, it might be a good thing for Oregon and especially for Salem if a few of the flax growers and linen workers could be assisted to locate here and show us how to grow and manufacture flax. A hundred or so thrifty Belgians taken from their devastated homes and brought here would be not only an act of charity, and for that matter, duty, but it would in the end do much toward making Salem and the Willamette valley the new center of the linen trade of the world. Would not some effort along this line be the proper thing for us as a community to make?

In another editorial comment, the paper noted the development of 16” guns by the Navy:

While the cry is ascending to the skies from certain sources bewailing the unpreparedness of the United States for war, suddenly the country is told that Uncle Samuel has just completed a sixteen-inch gun with twice the penetrating power of the best German gun in existence. Let the timorous and cautious now take a rest from their worrying, for it is probable the country is far better prepared for war than they imagined. It might be possible Uncle Sam failed to notify them as to what he was doing in the war-preparation line.