Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-04
INCLUDE ExP5RTS IN 5NTERNATIoNA4 LAW IN HISTORY OF POLITICS.
All HOUSE DIRECTED FORMATION OF PLANS SELECTING
 PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM OF AMERICA AT CONFERENCE
mese Specialists Named Is the Result of An Inquiry Before Commission and Many From European Countries With Special Documents Have
 Been Consulted

Harvard, specialist on Russian and Poland.
 - Charles Seymour, Professor of His tory at Yale, specialist on Austria Hungary.
 w. L. Westerman, Professor of His tary, at the University of Wisconsin, specialist on Turkey
 c. l.. Deer, formerly of Columbia University, specialist on Colonial History.
 . Photographer. Mark Jefferson. pro- lessor of Geoprahy, Michigan State Normal College
 Roland B. Dixon, Professor of Eth nography at Harvard.
 Major D. w. Johnson, Columbia University.
 Major Lawrence Martin, University of Wisconsin,,
 Captain w. c. Farabee, the Univer- sity Museum, Philadelphia.
 Captain Stanley Hornbeck, author of Contemporary politics in the far East"
 The four last named are officers of the military intelligence service assign ed to the inquiry for special prob lens on strategy, economies and ethnography. Other members of the party will be map markers and gen. eral assistants.
 The inquiry, the Geographical So- ciety's statement said, grew out of a conference between President Wilson and Colonel House in September, 1917. It was soon evident that the scope of the investigation would demand not only a personnel of size and quality hitherto unknown in any such work, but headquarters where safety, from enemy activity of records and secret documents could be assured. This problem was solved when the Amer ican Geographical Society placed it's building and part of it's staff includ- ing it's director, at the disposal of the inquiry without cost.
 The cartographic force of the Am erican geographical society, augmen- ted ty government aid. began map making program hitherto without precedent in this country. ali work be- ling carefully drawn from the latest Aand best sources. Maps wre made ito visualize not only all manner of gterritorial boundaries, but distribu- ltion of peoples, number and local den- ! sites of populations. religions, eco- monies activities, distribution of mas terial, resources, trade routes, both historic and potential, strategic points, etc.
 A series of base maps and block diagrams. said to be the most nearly complete in existence, was prepared by the Society, bearing cpon all the geographical problems fo war and of peace.
 Upon these base maps the peace commis sioners. by use of colored hns may immediately have map show ing new state lines, ethnic boundari- es, a rectified frontier. or distri' button of any sore; and at the sign i ing of the treaty of peace a com plete record of the new map of Eu- rope.
 Information gathered by the in- ouiry has been so carefully classifi- ed indexed and sub-divided. the soci- l ety stated, that it will be instantly available. It includes political his tory, emphasizing the rights of mi nority peoples in cosmopolitan popu' lations: international law, with a ground work for bringing the subj ect up to date; diplomatic history including that of the present war geography, economic and political
 physiography, with special attention to strategetic frontiers, and to DOT graphic barriers: cartograpny. (maI ] making from all viewpoints); educa l tiOn and irrieatiOn
 In addition to this library, thu
 peace commissioners will have a
 their command hundreds of books
 and maps from the American Geogra
 phical Society, Harvard and Prince
 ton Universities, Harvard College, th'
 Library of Congress. and the New York public library. whic hhave beel
 transported overseas.
 Similar inquiries, it was stated
 have been in progress abroad, not
 ably in France and England and ther'
 have been frequent conferences be
 tween these and the American inves
 tigators for delivery of material an'
 interchange of views