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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-12-09

Where are chalhsr Brown. eu .ny
Hranslct and Lefty Nsyior or dear old
Moysmsnslns tniysrsiiyf Where are
yallerh.lly wintsrkDlfht and 10 Oiesf
" Kirk bridge Seminary Ttss" babies
played football hks Old Terry McOo,.
| crn hnllyhoo.d In y 'er-round shindis
10th hands and twice ss many feet
Nohody ever earned college oyster
for his eye.
| Football ~ss fll,bsii In thoss days
before Water Camp started picking
all. American teams from among play.
ere or the rules Committee,
As Po,e PulGer chirped. the fsthsr
Of football would never recognise his
s1n nov. The NNlns wsdgs, the tan
dem, the hurdle ard the riards bach
nfe gone where smilas iwins,k and
| the gffrF II ever green Their places
have been taken. hut none N'led by
NE forward pas. the line shift AMI
Tho protest
Whsvs Become of the old osr,s
when one foot on the ether guys soe
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-12-09
American | esion Dance

kvsry wednesday evening IN the han.
| qust hall, first floor, ptiss,s snirAno.
CITY Auditorium. friis nIum'n,hsl,
Post AdJutAnt. In chAfGs.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-12-09

A. Philadelphia. "a - Joe benjamin
tnocsed out Jimmy Murphy In the see.
end round
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-12-09

Whsts Become of the old game
when one foot on the other uuys ssee
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-12-09

Thsrs vas never any paste b0ar nj
lcft sf,er an 1850 star got through ssi-
inc Charlotte russc Those birds ssrs
cannibals.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-12-09

~ Po.ton 10. Tipliu bsH, Charley
rits IN twelve rounds
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-12-09

wss~'t ssvssSs pesvt1ee ~ sahss ssss
49,: zee ?" -. sss scsy:,' T ~; 80 -: , e
Areues 'eewsee sssses w. . c'e.ssy
ssrvlns eesss.See Nt : ssss sn.as
wpsut sitswes 70 p,sh On ths A. Z. p.
Wee be sawlos Ices ineteae and ths
kalssr would BE- cur fseeman.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-12-09

A. New Orleans Young clancy bea
Jack lAwlef IN twenty rounds
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-12-09

blood is thicker than water and srsps
Juice thicker than both.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-12-09

A. Youngslovn. Ohio Jaok Psrry
stopped Mllburn ERylof In three rounds
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-12-09
LAST NIGHTS FIGHTS

A. Memphis Joe I,AirmAn beat Bernie
Hahn In slsht rounds
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
american, Plan to
Dominate, Charged

A few days later Turati, the leader
of the party, said the whole trend Of
the peace conference was to secure
"American domination in Europe"
The project of the league of nations
was scarcely issued in February, when
Frossard, the secretary Of the French
Socialist party, wrote long article, in
which he asserted that through this
project "The people were abandoned
once more to imperialst rivalry and
plutocratic appetites,' and that true
society of nations depended solely upon
"the revolutionary effort of the prole-
tariat."
AS the May Day agitation approached
Cachin gradually threw off the mask
and revealed the Socialist position as
being practically identical with that of
the Italian and Russian Bolsheviki. Ho
now speaks OF the Paris conference as
"the so-called peace conference, which
has been unable to find any just and
lasting solution Of single prob lem,"
and says that 1T has abandoned the
fourteen points Of President Wilson,
(All fourteeni
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

with the publication of the league Of
nations project, when the change be-
came evident, and this change was &C
CELEBRATED with the publication of each
of the peace terms. The ultra revolu-
tionary leaders did not hesitate to re-
pudiate Mr.. Wilson absolutely, al
though the more moderate used a sys-
TEN Of camouhage, pretending that he
had been defeated at every point in the
peace conference.
Tho Italian Socialists, never having
given whole hearted supported to the
President, have become brutally frank
in the language they employ, although
some of the French are scarcely less
so. Thirteen Italian members of the
Chamber of Deputies on April % de-
clared:
"The Wilsonian ideals are daily per-
verified by capitalistc governmen ts,
which, including the British and Amer
lean governments, vie in being Will
sonian in the affaieA of other coun-
tries, but imperialistc in the affairs of
their own country"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

The same is true of compromises of
the Sanr and Danzg Germany loses
both territories, the first for a period
of time with the possibility that the
loss will be permanent, the second
permanently, but in each case acquisi-
ton by one Of Germany's enemies is in
Difference to Mr. Wilson's contention.
He hedged about so as to preserve the
issue and the cause of the difficulty
indefinitely.
SO far the territory to be taken from
Germany is, without exception, terri
tory, acquired at the expense of
neighbors Of Germany and held against
the will Of the peoples. Alsace- Lor-
raine, Schleswig, and the Polish from
tier land represent the spoliation Of
previous Prussian aggressive wars
The Saar Valley became an economic
gauge as q result of German devasta-
ton in Northern France.
But who is to guarantee the perma-
hence of all these changes? The
American answer has been the league
Of nations, but the league Of nations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

The British Labor party, through it's
executive committee, took similar
position on March 5-namely, that
the draft of the league does not fulfil
the vital conditions for such a league
laid down by the labor party, the Inter
Allied Socialists
What was the Entente Socialist and
Labor conception of a league OF ma
tons at the time when they pledged
their support to President Wilson?
The two most important labor organ
izations in Europe in the present in
ternational crisis are probably the
British Labor party and the French
Confederation Of Labor. Before the
war the programme of the French Con-
federation of Labor contained the two
following points:
/. Immediate international limitation
of ornaments; and
2. Establishment of a United States
of the World.
This combination of the practical and
the Utopian is typical. Less than a
year ago the confederation concluded a
summary of its peace conditions with
the statement that "these cond lions
are defined in the same way by Presi-
dent Wilson," Early in February at
the international labor union con-
ference at Bernc the demand for the
limitation Of ornaments was changed
to demand for complete disarmament
imme diate admission of "all' the ma
tions into the league and for the
establishment of an international
parliament which would practically
mean Legislature Of United States
of the World.
After the publication of the Wilson
league Of nations project some ten
days later the executive. committee of
the confederation came out frankly
with the statement that what they
wanted was not such league, but "a
society of nations, including all ma
tons, which. as the resolutions of the
international Labor Union Conference
Mt Berne declared, shall be based upon
the military disarmament of all the
powers"
The positions of the French Socialist
party and the British Labor party are
similar. Ramsay Macdonald declared
at Bcrnc: "The league Of nations can
have only one authority-a moral
authority the most nsoluble
problem of the world is limitation
OF armament-no man ever made could
solve that blcm-there is no half
way. The league to which |
object is the sort of league which the
to impose upon the people"
Macdonald aaid furthar that the COM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
ropean Labor Turns Against the Treaty of Versatile

represented in the Socialist and the
Union Labor conferences recently held
at Berne. The Socialist International
includes every political labor party of
Europe of any Importance, now that
the Belgians have returned to the fold
while the Labor Union international
(Which embraces all the unions) is
also under complete control of the
Socialists, and even regards itself as
a component part of the international.
The British elections in December
seemed to indicate reputation of
this international by British labor.
Not only was every leading pacifst
Socialist beaten-and by labor votes
but Henderson, Macdonald and the
other leaders were rejected by enor-
nous majorities.
But now come the bye-elections, and
the anti-Lloyd George Liberals are
elected by vote that indicates an
equally great swing in the other direc-
ton. At any rate, Henderson and Mac
Donald claim this as a complete vindi-
cation, and their policies are now &C
copied both by the Labor party and
the labor unions, including an inur-
probation of the league Of nations and
Of the fourteen points diametrically
opposed to President Wilson'S
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

The league of nations covenant may
prove in time a sufficient basis of in
terventional relations between nations
allied against Germany in this war and
neutral nations. Between these there
is no outstanding difference, Id or
new, which might lead to war inevi-
tably, although the Fiume question has
supplied unmistakable warning. But
WHOM it comes to Germany, the fact is
absolutely clear that for a period of
time necessary for the fulfilment of
the terms of the treaty of peace. the
league of nations and, more exactly,
the United States, Great Britain and
France, must be guarantors. In reality
we have only in part made peace with
Germany by this document, if it snail
be accepted by Germany.
The proof of this lies in that sup
Elementary agreement between the
three great powers which is to be sub
mitted to Parliament and to Congress.
We have made France in this treaty Of
reace executor of the will of the league
of nations. The French army of oc-
cupation along the Rhine, with the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Reasons for Reversal
Of Labor Summarized

Now, what has happened to bring
about this sudden reversal, this omi-
nous betrayal of International democ-
racy by the international?
Until the peace conference began to
publish its conclusions in February
European labor-as politically and eco
nomically organized-had professed to
support Mr.. Wilson's fourteen points
and had accepted his Interpretation of
all of them, including the principles
laid down for the league Of nations.
Dir. Wilson has assured us these deci
Sons accorded with his principles, and
are approximately what he had intend
ed and expected.
Can we doubt that the League Of
nations project and other conference
decisions are also what the European
labor leaders expected from this "bo,,r
gcois' President Of our great non-So-
cialist democracy? Did any one Of
them suppose, when they pledged their
support, that he would abolish national
sovereignty and declaxs United
States of the World, tha1As would pro-
pose absolute disarmament, that he
would admit Germany into the league
OF nations Immediately and without
any conditions whatever?
1T is certain and always has been
Gear that not, one Of them expected
anything OF the kind. 1t has also been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Henderson and Thomas
EudOrse Position

The position of the other British
delegates at Berne, Arthur Henderson,
j. H. Thomas (head of the railway
union) and others, was the same as
MacDonald's. Henderson insisted es-
peclally that the league must immedi-
ately include all the nations and that
"anything less than complete dis
armament would constitute mill
tarism." Here is the language OF the
most extreme fanatic. Every man with
gun in his hand is "miIltarist."
1t is only necessary to rehearse the
peace programme of the mperialistic
Socialists and bourgeois" now in con-
troll of the German government to see
that it is in all respects identical with
that of the Entente revo!utionaries
Let us take the position of Brock
dortf- Rantzau, head of the German
peace mission, and of Erzberger, head
presented by the German press itself.
Like the Entente Socialists, Brock
dortf Rantzau states that the new
league of nations is rather oligarchical
than democratic" while Erzberger in
sists, with the French revolutionaries
and British Laborites, that the pro-
feet CONSTITUTES compromise be-
tween the ideas Of President Wilson
and the imperialistlc tendencies of
the Entente"
Erzberger insists further that Ger
many shall be Immediately admitted
into the league on the ground that 1--WE,
the German people, are neither more nor
less guilty than the other peoples that
took part in the war" This was the po-
sitlon of the Borne conference, and all
the Entente Socialists, as we have seen,
agree that Germany forthwith shall Re
admitted into tho league of nations,
no matter what, may be the position OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
AngtO-French-A american
Alliance Is Needed

The best guarantee of the future
peace of the world is, Enthusiastically.
association between the United States,
Great Britain and France No part Of
President Wilson's performance in
Europe shows a more clear-eighted
realization of European facts than his
consent to lay this question before the
American Congress. If Congress shall
accept it the real league of nations.
which has been created at Paris, will
become fact, and not parchment
proposal. We may now retire out of
Europe, abandoning our dead and the
cause for which they died We may
think of escape from the consequences
of recent events. but it is easv to see.
with Europe still in chaos, with Russia
in revolution, with feeble states Just
struggling to life, with Germany in
chaos, that we may be called to come
again and to make new sacrifices un-
less by the very great, by the incalcu-
liable weight of our power, we give
guarantees for the preservation OF
peace which has been conceived in
Justice and can only be preserved bv
the bestowal upon justice of that
sword without which she is forever
helpless
Copyright, 1919, by The Mcclure News
paper Syndcate)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
aocement Contains
menace to League

gov has this remarkable change
& about The very backbone Of
:. Wilson's policy was to gain tho
!. yp'fs Of the European peoples. with
49, "''nout the governments, and or
~ @''zed labor Is recognized as the
- expfession Of the European
!. II this movement IL opposed
j. we peace treaty and the league Of
a. "' u may be only a question of
10 ana perhaps very short time
~ the treaty is In large part null
~ sad the league Of nations either
Or diseredited This NAV
- through revolutionary move.
70 france and Italy, or IL rnsy
i. ss through general political M.
81. az az the ballot boz along the lines
~ a'Sn by the British Labor marty
lssasr outcome Is sufficiently nor,sn.
ys,,1 1'f the peace ~ Europe and the
1h,s'' .ysssn labor Is exprsssed chiefly
a ~ Socialist International. =.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Germany in Bondage
For q Generation

After the treaty of Frankfort France
resumed her own existence without
enemy occupation in less than three
years. We have foreseen the occupa-
tor of German territory for fifteen
v.ars. with possible indefinite extern
sion if the terms are not complied with.
And there can be no mistake in the
fact that we have put Germany into
economic bondage for generation, a
bondage deserved, a bondage inevitable,
given her crimes, but no less bondage.
Ne have taken her shipping; we have
taken vast amounts of material to re-
place what she has stolen and de-
stroyed, and if it be exaggeration to
say Germany is ruined. it certainly
cannot be beyond the mark to say that
for half century she will be in the
hands of her creditors financially, pro-
yided the terms of peace stand.
Looking to the future, it is we'll to
consider what this means. Ancient
war was comparatively inexpensive. 1t
was ridiculously undestructive. Cities
and towns survived and resumed their
agricultural occupation the day after
battle; but modern war wipes cities
off the may. and the loser in modern
war must confront consequences be-
yond the conception of any one in the
past.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
What Has Been Done at the Con-
ference Provides Only the
Basis of Settlement
By Frank II. Simonds

,Aprs May 17.-At the outset of
discussion in detail of the terms
.bs treaty OF peace which have been
- mon the Germans, it is essen
=, 70 recognize two fundamental diff
,..,css between this peace and all
..;o,s great settlements Of modern
s;.,ory In the treaty of Versailles
IGNITION is taken of new order
= .bs world Hitherto the end of a
..ot war has been followed by a set
.,.usnt based mainly on territorial
...,nsnsation to the victors and only
;.,;dentally by financial awards. France
,;,u;dated her debt to her conquerors
:. ,be end of twenty odd years of revo-
,,+;onary and Napoleonic wars by the
Of 140 millions of dollars. She
ro;a for the Franco-Prussian War
srancially by giving to Germany a
h;l,;ou dollars. The measure of a war
:, the mast has been the provinces won
and lost.
Rut modern war is different thing.
Tho neace which we are to impose upon
Germany is primarily economic rather
than territorial. We are going to put
csmany to work for thirty years to
nav some portion, not of the cost OF
va, TO her enemies-this would be i'm
nossible-but to pay for the devasta-
linn which she has created on sea and
an land.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Re Great Task That Remains to Make the Peace Secure
The Worlds Hope Must Rest in
the Alliance of the Three
Great Powers

no. settlement itself, and this league
Il nations which we have called into
eXis lance and commissioned TO handle
SOON of continuing differences is
only the basis Of peace between the
Sstaons which do not differ by its de-
ltziona
II the United States does not as
ISOLATE itself with France ana Great
Britain in a guarantee 70 support
France as the sdn.nfstat ID this
treaty of peace, the whole treaty vii.
fall of its own weight at no distant
date. But if We do associate ourselves
and our allies for the future the
alliance of these three nations becomes
a real force in the league of nations.
The league of nations is nothing ex-
cept as it is guaranteed by the alliance
among the three great Western ma
tons, and the settlement which is the
treaty e Versailles will not endure
beyond thai sine.
1t Is true that we have taken the
German Ties. and ordered the disarma-
ment of t1ssmany. Since we have the
feet that Issue is settled, but how can
we enforce German disarmament ex-
cept by Allied armament? We have
fixed the numbers of the German army
of the future, but Napoleon at the
height of his power could not enforce
similar regulation, and we shall have
to rely upon the French army on tho
Rhine to perform this task now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

The open encouragement given by
such persons to Longuet, Henderson,
and other leaders of the European
revolutionary movement-doubtles in
GLIDING assurances that Wilson was
with them-has been accepted by all the
labor and Socialist parties of Europe
as demonstrating friendly attitude on
the part Of the American government.
Some of these Intermediates have
practically made of themselves agents
Of the Bosheviki and of the other revo
luionary organizations of Europe. es
pecially those of Italy, France and
England.
But such Intermediates could have
accomplished nothing were it not for
the impression created by certain
phrases used by Mr.. Wilson For ex-
ample, the revolutionary French con
federation Of labor is entirely delighted
with-and indorses without any quail
iication-Mr. Wilson's speech Of Septen-
Der II last, in which he attacks gen
orally the other statesmen who have
guided the countries at war-going so
lar as to say that while the statesmen
had not formulated the aims of the war
the masses Of the people had. AS such
popular Foundations we're exclusively
those of the revolutionary leaders Of
European Socialism, they i-a.ned;s.elv
took this compliment to themselves ms
meaning that they, and not the demo
cratically elected heads of the Furo-
pean governments, had NJ. WjIson,s
approval.
Suppose that the opposition of Euro
pean labor and socialist parties re
duces the peace treaty TO naught. hay-
ing been encouraged by certain phrases
and agents of Mr.. Wilson What the
results viii be have been most ably
described by MIR. Wilson himself in his
Boston speech: IAN nations will be
set up as hostile camps again"
Unless it is at once made clear to
the socialist and labor movement Of
Europe that neither the American ccv-
eminent nor the American people are
IN a mood to temporize with or to
tolerate such unreasoning and forcefvi
opposition to the league of nations and
the peace conference, there is every
probability that the German people
VIII either refuse to iadorse the peace
or that they Will refuse to live UP
to it.
Under these circumstances revolu-
honary movement against those very
European governments which-;ogether
with ourselves-accepted the decisions
of the peace conference and the
league of nations is warNke move
ment, II not an act of war, against the
American government and the .Ameri.
can people.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Aiming to Use Wilson
TO Aid Revolution

The President has aimed to use Eu-
ropean Socialism for the purposes Of
world democracy ana world peace The
European Socialists have aimed to use
President Wilson (and all the power
he wiclds) for the purposes of world
revolution.
The leaders Of the French Socialists
publicly support the Boshevik doc
trine Of "the dictatorship of the prolc-
ariat"-from a slightly different angle.
The leaders of the British Laborites
not only stand shoulder to shoulder
with the French in all Socialist inter
national conferences, but with them
demand that the Bolshcviki be re-
ceived on equal footing with the mod
crate Socialist parties, thus accepting
in their ranks such Bolshevsts as the
Italian and Swiss parties, both of which
organizations fully Endorsed Russian
Bolshevism several months acJl
The leader Of the so-callcd ~Centre"
faction of the French party Marcel
Cachin, editor of ~ Humante," as we'll
as the so-called moderate leaders. AL
bert Thomas and Sembat, have all re-
Gently signed programme definitely
recognizing the dictatorship Of the pro-
letariat, and this has become the off,
cial position of the French party since
it's conference on April 20.
While the British Laborite leaders,
after having firted with Bolshevism
for over year, have finally come out
against it, obey are in favor Of doing
everything possible to help Lenine and
Trotzky BY making treaty with them,
supplying them with food and refusing
arms to their enemies refusing
90 Judge their methods except by. a
my cYayac1 Of at least 30 per cent
OF ia. Elrscc1n adherents Of Boil
shcvsxA
All these revolutonists until a
few months ago were lined up in sup
port Of Mr.. Wilson. At the time of
the armistico the French Confedcra-
ton Of Labor declared that "in the
namo Of tho working class it renewed
it's atta1AmSpt to the fourteen points
Of President WILSON, At the Berne
Socialist and Labor Union Conference,
early in February, nearly all the
speakers proclaimed their support of
the President and claimed his support
in turn.
1t was about the middle Of February,