The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-03-07

oA"oyS SLduu WIN DemS-
cratic administration and Republi-
cans who always oppose it. For ex-
ample, nobody would need question
the attitude of most Of the southe I'm
senator's. They will vote to ratify
the league constitution. Anu Just as
surely, the Republican senator's from,
indiana and Illinois and Massachu-
sets will oppose it. In the second
place there. are Democratic senators
who are chiefly known for their cor
poratlon leanings, or their fear Of
the mob" King of Utah is a SHIN
ing example. King is opposed to the
league. Finally, there are liberal
Democrats who have felt the dis
pleasure of the president and who
believe that he is getting this coun-
try involved in another Holy Alli-
ance, which would crush out liberal
ism by international police power.
Vardaman and Gore are in this class.
But across the aisle there are La
Toilette and Norris, and probably
Kenyon, Lenroot and Gronna, who
believe that the constitution drawn
up for.the league of nations is a step
in the right path.
NELSON HUNTS ATROCITIES
Senator Nelson Of Minnesota has
been having a grand time in the
hearings of the Overman subcom-
mittee, which is supposed to be IN
vestigating Bolshevik propaganda in
the United States. Nelson mas been
studying the map of Europe and
| Asia. He seems to be fond of geo.
graphy. He evidently thinks that
everybody else is interested in his
studies. So he turns the hearings,
when chance offers, into a geography
| lesson.
Colonel Hurban, before the commit
tee the other day. Hurban is mill
tary attache of the new Czecho-Slo-
yak legation here He was 10 years
in Russia, up to last summer, when
he made the trip across Siberia with
body of the Czech troops, and then
came to America on official business.
His chief job seems to be explaining
the troubles of his people, and incl
dentally damning the, Bolsheviki.
Els knowledge of the English Ian
| guage is not complete, but he testi-
/ fes in an interesting fashion when
not interrupted.
| Tell us about what atrocities you
saw in Petrograd, now" Nelson says,
sharply.
+ The Czecho veteran explains how
he happens to see few killings, and
remarks that he doesn't really blame
the Russians of any political party
especially; that there is no other par
ty than the BolsheviH that is strong
enough to rule, and that all of them
would commit massacres if given the
chance. Hurban thinks few for
eign troops might be able to restore
order. The Russian people are good
hearted, and they have fallen into the
power OF a small and determined
group just as formerly they were in
the power of a small group of arts
tocrats.
j "Never mind about opinions, now,
saws Nelson. "Give US the atrocities
Just as you saw them. And tell us
where you went. Were you in ths
Russian army"
4 Hurban says he was, and later ne
J, went to Petrograd, and worked with
: the Czecho-Slovak council, secretly
because the cars government was
!, opposed to Them He stayed there
through the two revolutions, and ne
believed the first Bolshevik agitators
were German agents. But the Rus
slams didn't care what a mans ma
, tionality was; they asked only what
his ideas were. Hurban couldn't un'
derstand that.
swell. now" Nelson interrupts
chow do you call your own country
: Is it Czechia, or what? Tell us how
it is pronounced and what it means.
/ The veteran is surprised, but ne
, spends five minutes and many page
; OF the record in explaining the name
and it meaning, and in setting Nelson
+, RIGHT on the location of a few NV
erS. .,
what province is Prague in!
asks Chairman Overman, solemnly.
, Ruroan explains. Then he tells
about shooting affair, but, Nelson
IS off, now, on map-chase. He want:
. full account of the route taken b!
Hurban across Siberia. He gets 1t
Fl ,rban has explained that the
: CzecIs had captured and held tn
entire Trans-Siberian. railroad.
! s'Now," says Nelson, Ibid you se'
anv Czecho-Slovaks along YOU
route? And you went down the Am
ur river, didn't you, to Nicolaevsk Z!
/, It seemed that Hurban' couldn't g
down that river to that place, s.
Nelson guessed again, and found tina
he had located the Ural mountains a
the right point. The Czech Vetera,
/, writhed in his chair, tried to breal
in with testimony about the civil wa
. in Russia and even stated that on
: anti ?Bolshevik chieftain had ab
9 seconded with hundred million goo
rubles. uu l
Nelson was not satisfied. What n
: expected, and what he must have
;. were instances of Red Terror an
: chances to show his knowledge 0
! names on the map.
RANK ENTERTAINS REVO-
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