Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-12-04

their great value, have been guarded
day and night
Peace Data Assembled
In fact details Of the Investigation
which Is known officially as the
| inquiry" have been withheld from
| publication until its results were safe
on shipboard Except for occasional
| publication OF the fact that peace
| data was being assembled by com
| mission directed by Colonel House
and that information gained from
this source enabled him. as mem bcr
of the international conference which
! drafted German armistiCe terms, TO
amaze his associates with his init
mate knowledge Of European affairs,
the American people have not been
informed Of the activities of an Off
cial organization without precedent
in the nations history.
More than $50 persons comprise
the personnel OF the inquiry, which
was financed out Of the special
emergency war fund placed by con
greSs at the presidents disposal ac-
cording to an announcement by the
geographical society. The state and
war departments co-Opcratcd and
both will share in future possession
of the data brought together.
The investigation. IL was stated,
took the form of "a fact study, con-.
Quoted i'm scientific spirit by spc-
ciallsts and scholars, both American
and from foreign European coun-
tries affected by the war and, In
order to give high value to any state
ment OF fact, the inquiry has been
entirely independent Of any political
hypothesis"
During its progress, the announce
ment said, every important nation
ulity of Europe and western Asia
sent representatives here for con-
ference with the commission and
numerous secret documents, together
with the texts OF treaties signed dur
Ing the war, which never have been
published in full, were assembled,
In it's final stages the inquiry was
Centered on territorial matters. ana
the members going abroad with the
president. with the exception of rep
resentatives of the state departmnt,
are territorial specialists Part Of
the staff in international law. in
Guiding David II. Miller, chairman
OF the law committee Of the state
department, already is in Europe, 1t
was stated.
Members OF Party
Among members OF the inquiry
who will accompany the president,
are:
Director DR.. s. T.. Mczes, presi-
dent Of the College OF the city OF
New York.
Chief territorial specialist, Dr,
Isaiah Bowman. director Of the
American Geographical society,
Specialist on economic resources,
Allyn A. Young. head Of the depart
mcnt of economics at Cornell uni
veristy.
Charles H. Haskins. dean OF the
graduate school Of Harvard un:Vcr-
sity, specialist on Alsace-LOrraine
and Belgium.
Give Day, head OF economies de-
partment at Yale, specialist on the
Balkans.
W. Il. Lunt, professor OF history,
Haverford college, specialist on
northern Italy.
=. II. Lord. professor of history
at Harvard, specialist on Russia and
Poland.
Charles Seymour. professor of his
tory at Yale, specialist on Austria
Hungary.
w L. Westermann. professor OF
history at the University of Wiscon-
sin, specialist on Turkey.
G.. L. Deer formerly OF Columbia !
specialist on colonial his
tory.
photographer, Mark jefferson. pro-
fessor OF geography, Michigan State
Normal college.
Roland b. Dixon. professor of
ethnography at Harvard.
Mai. ID. w, johnson, Columbia uni
yersity.
Maj. Lawrence Martin, University
Of Wisconsin.
Capt W. c. Farabe, the University
Museum, Philadelphia.
Capt Stanley HornbeCk. author of
Contemporary Politics in the Far I
East" a
Military Officers.
The four last named are officers
u the military intelligence service
to the inquiry for special
problems on strategy, economies and
Other members OF the
Darty will be map makers and gen
eral assistants.
The inquiry. the geographical So
,ietys statement said grew out of
/ conference between President Will
ION and Colonel House in Septem-
,er, 1917. 1t was soon evident that 4
he scope OF the investigation would
demand not only a personnel of size
md quality hitherto unknown in any
uch work, but headquarters where
afety, from enemy activity Of rec
'rds and secret documents could be
ssured. This problem was solved
Shen the American Geographical So I
iety placed It's building and part of \