New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-09
SWORD ONLY REMEDY
Professor Pupin Says Balkan
War Issues Are Not for Hague.
PATRIA CLUB LECTURES
Columbia Man, Native Of Ser
via, and Salonica College
Head the Two Speakers.

With the allied forces OF Bulgarians,
servians and Greeks sweeping on toward
Constsntinople the members Of the Patria
Club listened last night 70 lectures on the
causes OF the Balkan troubles and the
possible results that the war might pro-
duce. The meeting OF the club was held
in the banquet hall OF the Manhattan Ho-
tel. and about three hundred members at
tended. The speakers were Michael Id
vorsky Pupin, professor OF electro-me-
chanics at Columbia University and ma
tive Serb, and the Rev. J. Henry House.
president Of the Thessalonica Agricultural
and Industrial Institute at Salonics.
Professor Pupin introduced his remarks
by exhibiting a map Of the Balkans on
which he pointed out the centres OF the
struggle now going on and various pict-
ures depicting the institutions and home
life Of the Inhabitants OF the Balkan Pen
Ursula. He then took up the causes, prog
ress and possible result Of the war.
The cause for Turkeys present dtscom-
future, according 10 Professor Pupin, was
the methods the Turks employed when
they first conquered the Balkan territory.
He said the conquest meant a transfer OF
property from the Christian TO the Mos
lem. The Christians were forced to work
the land they had formerly owned on
shares and we're also oppressed By Excess
sive and obnoxious taxes.
IT am a Serb" said Professor Pupin,
"and. OF course, am expected to hate the
Turks. But, as q matter OF fact, I. per-
sonally. Like the race. II is their institu-
lions hate. The feudal militarism ex-
lstlng in Turkey operates against all re-
forms that don't suit the army"
Professor Pupin contended that the
questions involved in the Balkan trouble
were not OF a nature to be placed before
the Hague tribunal. The conditions In
Servia and other Balkan countries were
brought about by the sword. he insisted.
and It was only by the sword that they
could be remeded. The war has an eco
nomic basis rather than a purely re-
ligious one, the speaker maintained.
In discussing the reason for the failure
OF the Turkish soidiery to make better
showing against the allies, Professor
Pupin said the Young TURKS were largely
responsible They have heard in the
cafes OF Paris and Berlin such words as
liberty and freedom and have incul-
Gated their Ideas into the Turkish army,
with the result that lack OF discipline has
followed. Civilization will owe great
debt TO the Young Turks"
Another reason for the Turkish defeats.
Professor Pupin declared, was the fact
that the Servians and Bulgarians had
emlgrated to this country in large num-
bers and had imbibed the spirit OF lib
erty. II was their practice, too. he said.
TO return TO their own countries after
short sojourn here. and in this way, their
new views were disseminated.
The Rev. Mr.. House In his talk told OF
how he had seen signs OF the present up
rising forty years ago when he first VS.
tied the Balkans. He said the surprising
thing about the success Of the allies was
the fact that mutual hatred had always
existed among the several races con-
cerned. Another surprising thing, Mr..
House said, was the efficiency OF the al
lied soldlery in every department OF war
fare.
AS for the results of the war. Mr..
uouse feared that the allies would forget
themselves and perhaps begin warning on
one another. Then, too, in his opinion
m. great powers Of Europe might be In
volved. with England and Germany as the
onnosing leaders In the strife.