The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-16
NEWSPAPER MEN ARE
MUCH SOUGHT AFTER
\gcut~ of MI Peoples iOurt Their
Favor Rnd BC~cCvh Their In
TluCnCu HclaIt- " urld
OLD STORIES ARE REVAMPED
MANY Nations Come tn Lie that
school Gcogrhphcr3 Never
Heard uf Before,

iN The 4 so,alrd rrrss
PARIS March II tBy MalD-
New spapor correspondents accrcdtt-
"l iu the pence conference arc moro
popular than beautiful millionaire
d"hutnnics In their first season
queens. courts, princes. lords la
dies, ambassadors. ministers. pre-
wirrS, presidents. wuuld-he preSi-
dents. peace d"logatrs and plain cit
hrns who are unique in being nero
ucsslcur- shower the correspondents
Win Invitations to teas. tifrins din
ners ana occasionally to audiences
which have no social disguise.
American correspondents ara in
special demand Everybody wants
Americas ear. Three social seCTc-
ihricS anH a squad ut motor dis
phichcrg would ho required to avoid
social errors ana land n correspond
cut promptly at all the functions To
which he ls invited And he would
have no time Tor anything ~ pro-
mlc AZ the plenary sessions ot ths
peace conference
Everything from Bclshagzar TO tho
holHhcNih In discussed az these 80
cinl functions Correspondents are
whisked from New Guinea TO Nova
Hcmbla without warning. ptolcmy
and hnmpcy are resurrected and dis
cuHsed at such length that one might
suspect they narrowly missed being
selected as delegates 10 tho Paris
conference.
Back To Ancient History.
Ancient Greece and Rome no
longer seem ancient. Philip of Mace
don suddenly becomes modern. Per
sian poets sing OF their country,
proper boundaries with all tho charm
Of Omar khnyynm The Old Tests-
mont In introduced as n modern bic
~ literature designed to establish
certain territorial claims
Countries and peoples are discov-
cred at these conferences which
American school Roographors appHr-
entity hadn't heard OF; and oven tho
geographical speCialists employed by
tho various missions to tho Paris
conference are mystlficd.
It's rare occasion when n dele
CATION descends 10 n period as mod
ern ms that OF Charlemagne or Pepln
tho Great In making claims for ths
right OF elf-determlnation.
Sanskrit and Arabic are revived
glihly IN an effort to establish the
consanguInIty OF oortain peoples. An
Client philosophers are quoted In their
original tongues Angle. .ssxons are
reminded OF tho perfect civilization
which existed In the orient 5000
years before the Christian era.
Names which tho raw civilization"
OF western Europe never heard OF are
rolled off glibly names which the
Americans trying to make the world
safe for democracy and that speedily
don't want to hear.
Chnrmingiy Modern.
such claims as that OF Belgium
for II read justment OF her relations
with Holland come as n real relief
To dhzed newspaper men and weary
delogateH That controversy only
dates back to 1891. 10 the scrap OF
paper which Germany probably
wouldrt tear up so ruthlessly II she
could live the last five years over
again.
Discussions Of the near eastern
questions are much the same. wheth-
or they bc IN the drawing room Of
the prince OF HedJaz or the meetings
of the big five at the Qusi d'Orray.
They ARE reminiscent OF weary class
room days with Homer. Herodotus
and Virgil Efforts 10 interest busy
men IN antiquity seem futile Delc-
gates doZe through the exposition Of
ancient history and correspondents
long for brief statements throwing
ltsht upon the recent history and AS
pirnlons OF the various peoples who
have lived In such discord for cen-
turIos along the shores OF tho Med
iterTuncan.