The Cordova daily times., 1919-04-26
H0N0RS THRUST UPON WRITERS
 FROM AMERICA

PARIS, MATCH COlICopOAAoS'ASS oA Associated Press ).-NeWspaper core spondents accredited to the peace con- ference are more popular than beau tiful millionaire debutantes in their first season.
 Queens, counts, princes, lords, ladies, ambassadors, ministers, premlers, presidents, would-be presidents, peace delegates and plain citizens who are unique in being mere messleurs shower the correspondents with invl- tations to teas, tiffins, dinners and oc- casionally to audiences which have no social disguise.
 1 American correspondents are in spe- cial demand. Everybody wants Amer ica's ear. Three social secre- taries and squad of motor dispatch CTS would be required to avoid social errors and land correspondent promptly at all the functions to which he is invited And he would have no time for anything so prosaic as. the plenary sessions of the peace confer ence.
 | Everything from Belshazzar to the Bolsheviki is discussed at these social functions. Correspondents are whisked from New Guinea to Nova Zembla without warning. Ptolemy and Pom pey are resurrected and discussed at such length that one might suspect they narrowly missed being selected as delegates to the Paris conference.
 Ancient Greece and Rome no longer seem ancient. Philip of Macedon sud denly becomes modern. Persian poets sing of their country's proper boun- daries with all the charm of Omar Khayyam The Old Testament is in troduced as modern bit of literature torial claims.
 Countries and peoples are discov cred at these conferences which schoo geographers apparently hadn't heare of; and even the geographical special ists employed by the various missions to the Paris conference are mystified
 It's a rare occasion when delega tion descends to period as modern as that of Charlemagne or Pepin the Great in making claims for the right of self-determination.
 Sanskrit and Arabic are revived glibly in an effort to establish the consanguinity of certain peoples An cient philosophers are quoted in thei original tongues. Anglo-Saons are re minded of the perfect civilization
 which existed in the Orient five thou
 sand years before the Christian era
 Names which the raw civilization" o Western Europe never heard of art
 rolled off glibly-names which thu
 Americans trying to make the worl'
 safe for democracy, and that speedily don't want to hear
 Such claims as that of Belgium fo
 a readjustment of her relations witt
 Holland come as real relief to dazet : newspaper men and weary delegates That controversy only dates back t 1881, to the scrap of paper which Ger
 many probably wouldn't tear up s'
 ruthlessly if she could live the las five years over again.
 Discussions of the Near Easter questions are much the same, whethe : they be in the drawing room of tn : prince of Hedjaz or the meetings c 3 the big five at the Quai d'Orsay. The r are reminiscent of weary class rooI : days with Homer, Herodotus and Vii
 gil. Efforts to interest busy men i
 antiquity seem futile. Delegates dog 8 through the eposition of ancient hi | tory and correspondents long for brie 7 statements throwing light upon tn j. recent history and aspirations of tn y various peoples who have lived in sue discord for centuries along the shore
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