Evening star., 1919-03-26
FERVENT APPEALS
/ BY SMALL NATIONS
Representatives Present Big
Problems for Stately States
men of Big Ten.
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.
Staf7 COrrespOndent of The Star.

| PARIS, March 13-If this little in
I ternational embroglio over mandates
| and future control of the destinies
of the smaller nations of Europe ana
Asia were not a deadly serious propo-,
sition, it would be" directly the op-
posite-highly amusing. There could
be no middle ground.
Representatives of many little sec
tions of the world, some of which
cause the stately statesmen of the
big ten to scratch their heads and
even consult aliases on the sly. have
focked to Paris in increasing mum
Der. They have presented printed
folders as to why they should pc
autonomous under this or that par
ticular nationals mandatory. They
,, have used their most eloquent ora
tory In one or two cases national
powers have been mustered into the
fight adequately to impress dig
nitaries of the larger powerA with
soul-stirring pleas in blank verse.
| Maybe it was doggerel.r AT least
neither Premier Lloyd George nor
President Wilson, who oftentimes
have been forced to listen TO them
| by the hour, did not know-at least
each delegation have come publicists
| from their native heaths who, after
much difficulty in translation. have
| flooded the council boards with their
effusions, and if racial or national
| claims have conflicted with some
| other race or some other bordering
| country then these publicists have
dipped their pen in reddest ink and
| flung it across the pages without re-
straint in excitable eagerness to
combat the proposals of rival.
Will Irwin's Amusing Product.
| One American magazine writer of
note, Will Irwin, could" not restrain
1.-The, temptation. In =: a spirit. OF
mimicry and with the possible desire
of liftingf the morale of American
newspaper men, almost completely de-
stroyed by the constant rain of
Paris and the reticence of the who's
who" in the peace conference, he fol-
| lowed the pathway cleared by his
Latin, Slav. or Anglo Saxon col
leagues. and this was the amusing
result:
By Our Special Correspondent.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1.-THE
movement toward an autonomous
California, which has been growing
amendment threatened the French
restaurant industry. came to climax
last night in enormous outdoor
mass meeting in Union Square. pre-
sided over by the great California pa
triot, Prof. Oliver Perkins Dildock
of the University of the Pacific. In
spite of the presence of American SOL
dfers. who Watched the proceedings
powerless from the pavement, resolu-
tions were passed demanding the au.
tonomy Of California, --cr the JOIN,
protection of the Uniteo states ano
the league of nations. Delegates to
present the Californian claims Wiil IL
depart for Paris in a few days. 1t isi
reported that in addition to Prof. Dll-
dock, the delegates will be NJ
De Young, representing the radical
labor element; Andrew J. Gallagher
Representing the commercial and
financial interests; Meyer Cohen and
John Crowley, representing the
French restaurants. and DR.. Ernest "A
Boyant. representing the irreconclla-
BILE native sons of Los Angeles. who
form a peculiar element with special
problems.