The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-04
MEMBERS OF INQUIRY

AIhOHS iiCulpcTS Ol LHc liQ0by Wh$ will accompany the President are: Director, Dr. $. E. Mezes, president of the College of the City of New York. Chief territorial specialist, Dr. 1siah Bowman, director of the American Geographical society. Specialist on economic resources, AL
 lyn A. Young, head of the department
 of economies at Cornell university.
 Charles H. Haskins, dean of the
 graduate school of Harvard university,
 specialist on Alsace-Lorraine and Bell
 gium.
 Give Day, head of economies depart
 ment at Yale. specialist on the Bal
 kans.
 w E. Lunt, professor of history,
 ern Italy.
 F. R. Lord, professor of history at
 Harvard, specialist on Russia and Po-
 land
 Charles Seymour, professor of history at Yale. specialist on Austria Hungary.
 W. L. Westermann, professor of his-
 tory at the University of Wisconsin, spe- cialist on Turkey.
 c. L. Beer, formerly of Columbia uni
 versity, specialist on colonial history. Photographer Mark Jefferson, professor of geography, Michigan State Normal college.
 Roland B. Dixon, professor of ethno- Biography at Harvard. Maj. D. W. Johnson, Columbia univer- sity
 Maj Lawrence Martin, University of Wisconsin.
 Capt. w. C. Farabee, the University museum, Philadelphia Capt. Stanley Hornbeck. author of Contemporary Politics in the Far East. z The four last named are officers of the military intelligence service assigned to the inquiry for special problems on strat- egy. economies and ethnography. WILSON AND HOUSE PLAN The inquiry, the geographical society 8 istatement said, grew out of conference between President Wilson and Colonel House in September, 1917. It was soon evident that the scope of the fnvestiga- tion would demand not only a personnel l 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 American Geographical society placed it's building and part of it's staff, in cluding its director, at the disposal of the inquiry, without cost. The cartpgraphic force of the Ameri- can Geographical society, augmented by government aid. began map-mal1ing
  this country, all work being carefully drawn from the latest and best sources. Maps were made to visualize not only all manner of territorial boundaries, but distribution of peoples, number and local densities of populations religions, eco homie activities, distribution of material resources, trade routes, both historic and potential, strategical points. etc. A series of base maps and block dia- grams, said to be the most nearly com plete in existence, was prepared by the society, bearing upon all the geographi- cal problems of the war and of peace. CHANGEABLE MAPS Upon these base maps the peace com missioners, by use of colored lines, may immediately have a map showing new 1 state lines, ethnic boundaries, a rectified 1 frontier, or a distribution of any sort: and at the signing of the treaty of peace l complete record of the new map of | Europe. W 1 Information gathered by the inquiry l has been so carefully classified indexed and subdivided, the society stated, that l it will be instantly available. It includes I political history, emphasizing the rights of minority peoples in cosmopolitan pop l ulations; international law. with d
 groundwork for bringing the subject up- | to- date; diplomatic history, including that | of the present war; economies, geogra-
 phy. economic and political; physiogra-