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New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

is q wonderful piece Oh Drama. IL -
in this act that Kurano invokes the
spirits on high to welcome the Ronin.
who have dragged down the evil enemy
and are now ready to pay for their
Iced with their lives. He cries:
"You trumpeters, who call the faithful
to death in all the armies of the
world, blow long point
That long dead heroes,
Manning the ramparts of God,
May hear US coming,
Rarrg our hca 20 the sword
For him we loved So"
With poetic drama prosperng nicely |
on it's own account. it may seem that
there is less need than formerly for
vari US drama leagues designed 10
compel people to go to plays they don't
want to see. But the need is greater
than ever. The only thing is that 1t
should be applied in a different direc-
ton Poets don't need encouragement
In fact. no serious dramatlst does. In
varably he burns TO express some
s}g and, thoug1 he my never reac0
the stage, nobody can keep him or
paper. 1t is impossible TO starye MN
I out Humorists are quite dlttercnt
( They are not so stanch by half. If
people don't laugh at their jokes, they
/ lanpuish One may take poem TO
/ his bosom and cherish it in solitude,
+ hift Joke must be shared with some
one.
Now. it seems to us beyond dispute
that the average American muSlca|
comedy lacks humor. After all, the
writing man is minor figure in the
matter Usually he is not summoned
until the music is written, the scenery
raintcd and The costumes cut. Nor
are his rewards as high as the other
collaborators in the entertainment.
New York has seen number Of mu-
steal shows this season in which the
, authors royalties could not begin to
approach the money paid to the dress
maker. 1t may be that this is what the
peopic want, but for our part we "sh
that some manager would put all his
, principals and his chorus girls into
cotton, or muslin, or bombaZlne, or
whatcvc- it is that doesn't cost much,
and use the money thus saVcu 10 "'io
q good joke.
It NAV be that thcatregoers are IN
D torcstcd only in the visual appeal, al
4 though we think that since the days
n Of prohibition they are going to dc
j. nand something more than filtterine
colors For our part, n we could heai
6 again a comic opera by George hde
y we would not give hang VINO pa'hlce
. the scenery or whether there was any
=. scenery at all. We suggest to some
u theatrical manager that he try out TINS
: p.an and organize u Ben Greet com
: ~ pany to play comic opera for the col
t. lcvcs and universities Of the country
t.
# .x
d RAYMOND Hitchcock prctends TO hav'
- bern animated by some such idea ii
+ producing his new "Iiitchy Koo" sho"
= lie explains in II speech to the aud'cnc
n before the rise of the curtain ina
VI MS orig nal plan was TO BOOK .nitcn
of Koo" AZ a free educational EXHIBIT !
~ Size various first and second fTesDy
re terian churches Of the country. ~
"a, manager convinced him, he admits, tina
of he could do greater good by keepln
pc his educational exhibit in the theatre
t. and charging three dollars tickc
"Thcy'il remember the Lesson better
tn they pay three dollars" snid tho mana
ct ger.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Masefield's Story May. Win
ln "1l1e Faithful in Spite
OF Prejudice Against Verse
By Haywood Broun

There was q time when no verse
play had any chance in America un-
less, of course, it was by Shakespeare,
who was himself seldom among the
best sellers Of dramatic season. 1t |
would not be fair to attribute this /
state of affairs wholly to q lack of !
saste on the part Of the public. There !
aas always been good deal Of pose
and nonsense about much Of our poetic
drama. 1t has been done in out of
The way theatres with skimped scenery,
freak lighting and worse acting. Many
playwright came to the theatre con-
hdent that he need take no trouble
to spin an interesting story as long
ae he wrote in verse. He thought that
ne could hold an audience by the
w'tchery Of his words, but usually
he couldn't.
Things are quite different to-day
among the most successful plays in
New York Is "Tae Jest" translation
rom the Italian Of Sem Benelli, which
IS large in blank yer e, Fortunately.
many Of the players in the cast are
not aware OF the fact that they are
speaking verse Accordingly, they
rampage around and fight and make
4ove and STAB each other, entirely un-
hampercd by any worry as to where
tne beat saould come And, for just
THIS reason. the play has been huge
success. Verse can never Kill good
'nelodrama, or even tragedy paced
IKE melodfama. We are not going to
contend that The magnificent sweep OF
'nakeapeare's verse has had nothing
% do With the tenacity Of Hamlet
As an acting play, but we think it wouit
Hos De fair 10 oyerlook the fact that
hamlet also giyes Us ghost, ant
murder, and a conspiracy, and duel
IL is probable that John Maseheld'
''he Te-se play, The Faithful" which
#aS produced BY the Theatre Gull
sn's week. viii algo obtain certa:
aea ufe of SUCCESS, because th
aramatist uas mol forgotten that tn
ave age audience wants story 10 gup
plement even The best caoenccd line
Hassfe.d has taAen one Of the olde-
ana no@' popular storics in the liz
sfatufe Of the world. Japanese ia
Sfa'ure IL filed WITH various trca'
Aents of tee Ronin legend, which is a
,sast seyeA centuries Cd. It Tells Z.
.1&pp, p!eazant lord, much bciove
oy me 'ollo~etz. who is tricked By I'll
"'esed K'ra into unintentionally O
leniing Whiting envoy Of the en-
kstpf' For this imDictv Asa is COZ
asmned 10 kill himself The ask
Tsn2eancs falls upon ihe followers
sssano Hira Is r.ch aud powerful ar
~ith tnc death of their lord they =,
p'of and helpless, but they keep 1
tngV guest Una ar The leadership
npsaHo and in III esId they drag II
syA saeMy dowo ~ sts very eyc OF
great tsipmfh.
nasenela has retold the story wi
sisss yizor snd beauty. His last q
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09

mains beyond European possibilities,
but we should find ourselves handi-
capped in such a solution by the fact
that the essential parts Of the terri
tory affected have already been as
signed to Italy and Greece, including
the natural borders.
Armenia would be a much less ambi-
tious task, but one the difficulties of
which could not be exaggerated. It
would certainly take thousands of
American soldiers and consume years.
/ have said, and l repeat, no finer
work of national unselfishness is con-
ceivable, and if any mandatory is to
be taken by the United States, none is
more worthy of our acceptance, since
none would provide greater opportuni-
ties for service and fewer for profit.
But it would be task beside which the
Philippines was child's play and Cuba
a mere pastime.
Copyright, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cafel
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strength, as is likely, she is bound not
alone to demand the retrocession of
her own Armenian districts, but also
of those other Armenian districts, and,
for that matter, of Constantinople,
promised her in her 1915 agreement
with France and Great Britain. French
interests in Syria, British concerns
on the Euphrates, will be equally af-
fected by the creation of rela-
lively strong Armenian state in what
both will regard as the hinterland of
her Syrian and Mesopotamian coun-
tries, while the Turk may be expected
to nourish the hope of reclaming his
Armenian provinces. Nor will the task
be lighter in view of the 'age-long
feud between the Mahometan Klrds,
actually majority now in Armenia.
If the United States should take
Armenia alone, it will have to build
! many railroads over difficult country
and many highways. 1t will have to
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
coveted. Greek and Bulgarian ambi-
tions will continue.

coveted. Greek and Bulgarian ambi-
tions will continue.
The day is almost certain to come
when Russia will once more look south
ward toward Anatolia. We shall find
ourselves faced with seven million
Turks, who will hardly welcome our
role, and we shall find ourselves con-
fronted with the task of defending
them against Greeks and Italians.
The mandatory for Constantinople,
Anatolia and Armenia would mean the
employment of an army of quarter
of a million Americans for an extended
period of time. 1t would mean an enor-
nous task of organization, industrially
as we'll as politically. and it would
mean inevitable participation in all
disputes of the future in the Near
East. 1t would mean, in reality, that
Europe had transferred to the United
States the gigantic task of solving the
old Eastern problem, which is and re-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09

maintain considerable army over an
extended period Of time in a country
where disorder has been the common
circumstance for thousand years,
where racial feuds have led to massacre
time and again. 1t will require at least
half century to put Armenia on its
feet, but on the other hand there is
no mandatory within the gift of the
League of Nations which would offer
greater chance for unselfish human
service. The Armenians themselves are
Industrious, their country has great
mineral resources, great possibilities
OF ultimate prosperity.
IT an American mandatory is to be
stretched to cover Consta antinople, Ana
tolia and Armenia, the task will be far
more gigantic and far more difficult.
Constantinople has been the cause Of
more wars than almost any other city
in the world. 1t is hard to believe
that in the future it will be less
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09

deprive the Armenians Of an outlet on
the Mediterranean, and under Ameri-
can impulsion France has been per-
suaded Ito abandon this part Of her
claims. True, Armenia, a solid block
of hinterland about the headwaters Of
the Euphrates and between Anatolia
and the old Russian frontier, all along
has been indicated as the site of the
Armenian state, but in a very large
part of this area, as q result of mas
sacres, Armenians are in a minority.
On the other hand, the collapse Of Rus
sia has made possible a union with
Turkish Armenia of Russian Armenia,
districts which are in far better con-
dition both as to population and eco
nomic circumstances.
But it must be recognized that if
there issgreat opportunity in Armenia,
there is a stupendous task, increased
by the rivalries of the surrounding
races. If Russia ever regains her full
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
Can the United States
SOlue Turkish Puzzle 4?

and all the south coast and Adalia, are
separated from Anatolia. If one were
Constantinople and the shores of the
straits, Anatolia would be deprived
of all its outlets to the sea and some
seven or eight million Turks would
be penned up in Asia Minor.
AS to Anatolia, previous agreements
have made this question difficult also.
Under one Franco-British arrange
ment, the French were to have the
Gulf Of Alexandretta and Armenian ter
ritory between the Taurus Mountains
and Amanus about Adana. This would
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
Europe Willing U. S.
Should Take Charge

The European nations we're willing
mat the United States should under
lake the task of repeating in Con-
ssantinople what was achieved in
havana, but all Europe has agreed
against the transfer of this city to
any single European power, while there
Is not much enthusiasm at the moment
on the part Of the United States repre-
ssntatiyes.
iswas then proposed and is now un-
Ger discussion that Constantinople,
nhatolia, which is the larger part Of
asa Minor, and Armenia, should be
constituted mandatories under the
ieasue Of nations, Armenia certainly to
DC assigned to the United States, Ana
.o'is either to the United States or
sfanee, and Constantinople with Ana
""a 70 the United States if our coun-
~ agrees 70 take Anatolia. Over
Anasoiia and Constantinople the Sui
'sn would have shadow authority, such
- u maintained by the Khediye in
Egypt, Or the Bey in Tunig.
inis solution of the problem Of Asia
A'nor was, however, complicated by in
Vulnerable claims and by not a few
s'e' treaties. By the treaties in
sa'ea Great Britain and France agreed
support Italian claims to Trieste and
'imatia they recognized Italian claims
= Dodecanese and the islands Of the
sssm Kxean taken in war, and to
.sAst'cally all the southern coast of
~s'a Minor. including the great Gulf
: Ads,is. Some encouragement was
40 Eiyen TO the Italian claims upon
Das the Allies already have assigned
ssfna TO Greece and have united In
sSlns Italy to abandon her claims TO
.'sssaness, in view Of the fact that
~ population IL wholly Greek. It re-
. therefore, that isaIy has de-
$500 ard will doubtless receive fur
~. eereession In ths hinterlsnd be-
g the Gulf of AAalis. Thus the
sels q the wssssrn coast Of Asia
xit1 ~ SfsAt port ef smyrna
-
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Unwise to Bestow
Mandate Upon Greece

But there are a dozen reasons why
it would be an unwise thing to bestow
upon so small country as Greece so
staggering a responsibility as the
guardianship of the entrance to the
Black Sea. To bestow it would
be to deprive Bulgaria of any outlet
on the Egean. 1t would place Greece
in the future across the pathway of a
new Russia, for there will be a new
Russia. 1t would impose burdens and
responsibilities for which. at least at
present, Greece is not prepared. The
second solution, much discussed in
Paris, would be to- make Constanti-
nople and the shores of the straits
and the Sea of Marmora a mandatory
district under the league of nations.
Not few people regret that Con-
stantinople was no. selected as the
capital of the league of nations, the
seat of its conferences and the terri
tory in which the league of nations
would exercise something like tenn
poral power, once held by the popes
in Rome. This possibility having been
eliminated, there was a long discus
sion of the possibility of consigning
Constantinople to the United States
as mandatory, separating it from
Turkish territory in Asia and bestow-
ing upon it most of the remaining ter
ritory of Turkey in Europe.
This would have meant to eliminate
the Sultan, 1t would have meant put
ting the Sick Man out Of Europe at
last, after 500 years of incompetence
and worse. But the Sultan of Turkey
is not merely head of the Turkish En-
pire, but the recognized spiritual head
OF the larger part of Islam, and very
promptly there came from British
India and from other parts of the
Mahometan world emphatic protests.
These protests would have little weight
had there been any clear-cut policy as
to Constantinople, but there was not.
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Eui,opeLs Willingto
Let America .Un-
dertaketheGigun-
tic Task Mvola'ed
Bv Frank H. Simonds

PARIS, June Z.
GEEK ago I discussed in detail the
...hl.ms presented by the breakup
:, the Austro- Hungarian monarchy,
s..h,.ms which are before the Paris
r.r,srence, and in so far as they
.x..t German Austria, will be solved
:. The Treaty Of St. Germain. 1t re-
-.,ns now to discuss the problems
,,..ented by the Turkish Empire,
rh,eh has also collapsed and must be
dealt with in Paris.
Tnrkev presents two distinct ques-
.,ons: The question Of Turkey in Eu-
..r.. which is minor so far as ter
,,torv is concerned, but of supreme
,unortance on the strategic side, be-
..uss It includes Constantinople and
N. northern shores Of the straits; and
Il. problem Of Turkey in Asia, which
4. or was, an empire greater than
csrmany or Austria in area, with q
population approximately that Of
Spain.
The u'a,,ate disposition Of Turkey
n Eur. ,ends entirely upon the
decision Paris Conference. As
10 the futul> of Constantinople, If this
city and the surrounding territories
are to 20 to the natural heir-to the
country most largely represented by
the races inhabiting the region-then
there is no question as to Greek rights.
From the beginning of history Con-
stantinople has been Greek. 1t was
the capital of the Byzantine Empire,
which was Greek. It fel Ito the Turks
only in the fifteenth century, and to
the present day the Greeks have re-
NAMED one of the largest elements
in the city population. The shores of
the straits and Of the Sea of Mar
mora are Hellenic in history and IN
population.
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THIS STORY MUSTN'T
Be READ BY ARDMORE
GOOD LITTLE BOYS"

Ry especial request of the staid ana
ouilt householders Of Ardmore moth
ing viii be said at this time Of Hal
Iowe'en, of the pran5s played ON that
date by thoughtless, all tie bad little
boys. and some Of the good little boys
also.
The person and. persons who nave
made tins request argue that II the
newspapers say nothing OF Halloween
and Of its near approach, it is possible
that none of the good little boys and
not quite all Of the bad little BOYS OF
Ardmore viii think about cutting
capers with other peoples property up
ON this sacred evening
Hence. it by especial request, moth
ing will be said of the manner in which
little boys. few, ana big boys, a
good many. and bigger boys good
rany more, ON Halloween are wont
10 take taps from wagon wheels, re-
move gates from hinges, carry lawn
swings from one neighborhood to anoth
err, aid porch chairs to immigrate from
their usual place of abode to the home
Of strangers. lift auto tires turn chick
ems from their warm, warm beds out
into the frosty air Of night. there tc
roam until their combs grow red, and
do one thousand and one other bits OF
cXasperamgy innocent things, all OF
which greatly amuse the good Little
boys, the tolembly bad little boys anC
the very bad little boys
I'm complying with the request t'
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out today by J. +. owens, state chair
man OF the campaign:
There are hundreds Of totald isabil.
ity cases among returned soldiers in
oklahoma" Mr.. owens said These
soldiers We're 80 wounded or disabled
during the war that they are unable
to do anything for themselves. If
these men are single they get $50 4
month, If they are married they get
$45 a month Anyone knows in these
days Of high cost Of living that this
allowance viii not support an able
man let alone one who can do nothing
for himself These men have to live.
They are living. who makes up the
difference? The Red Cross is the an.
swcr."
THE Rcd Cross is keeping a kindly
eye on every one of these disability
cases and is extending a helping hand
wherever needed. These boys and their
families will get a big part Of every
dollar that is exchanged for u Red
Cross membership in the roll call drive
from November 2-11."
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may be told in time of the near ap'
proach of that evening when wllches
fly on broomsticks. ghosts walk ana
merry hearted youngsters can raise all
sorts of Billy Heck without fear ot
molestation.
BY especial request of the police de-
partrA mt the information withheld
that Halloween is but one short week
in the offng; that October 81 will
furnish the evening upon which all
inrocent practical jokes may be prac'
ticed greatly to the amusement OF the
Joker and to the eXasperation Of the
jokee
Mamas and lupas and good ola
unces and old maid aunts, of Ardmore'
importune al their little boys and their
little nephews, not to read the above
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The following casualties are report
ed ~ TIE command ding general Of the
American Hgxpeli tionary Forces:
kili6d M action, 40: died from
wounds, SIS died from accident and
other cailsesy 70: died In aeroplane
accident died Of disease, S.;
uounds d severely, 40; missing in &C.
ton. 0tal abs
Killed u Action.
4|eutenA5 q
conoSss Haryey, Hinsdale, NJ.
Sefteant
oIbsa6. George washington, AIRING,
ee45sssl
11hns6h Christ, Pullman, III.
Schuit6s William, West Stapleton,
Staten Island, \, y
Cumming Frank W., Rochester, N. y.
DirFIih. Richard ", Bedrock, Col.
CRIB. H9hf3 s Philade lphia, Pa.
FIot'ln0 Emilio, Hermansville, Mich.
H4WIeyg dN1Td, Manisted, Mich.
H10ck. Hartman, Hillsbpro, Ohio.
Husll6l i6gepht Columbia, N Y.
o'N6|l jane Brighton, Mass.
Peck. kfiD Fs Jackson, Mich.
Eo.I1. Fred, NEW York, N. Y
Ireliibtld John r, Cleye leland, Ohio
H'clsf1l1il, Nlliiam O, Tishomingo.
DsS. GtofsS y Clinton, Ind.
Das4 leAn NV Bedford. Mass.
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Dietrich, Bonnie A., Granton, wis.
Dinwiddie, Frank, Wolf Bayon, Ark.
Doyle, Thomas, New York, N. Y.
Gamble, Celestine, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Gedeon, John L., Cleveland, Ohio.
Gernanio, Oractio, Cleveland, Ohio.
Goodwin, Noah, Chicago, III.
Grey, Leroy S., Davenport, Iowa.
Haugen, Oscar G., Hanska, MINI.
Hill, Ira, Kennedale, Tex,
Hogan, John j., Dunbar, Pa.
jackson, Charlie, Leithfield, KY.
Kalberloh, Charles p, Richmond, Mo
Larson, Thorvad NJ, Mount Horeb
Wis.
Quinn. Paul H., Mapsburg, Mass.
Shively, Harry A., Johnstown, Pa.
Smith, Hiram L., Byesville, Ohio.
Soozelis, Ambrose, Ragwus, Kareno
Russia.
Swenson, Richard A., Holt, MINI.
Swiney, Nath, Livingston, KY.
White, Dewey d., Waycross. Ga.
Wright, Gordon, Middletown, Ohio.
Wounded Severely.
Lieutenant
Jones, Emmanuel NJ, Huntington, w
Va.
,Scarberry, John, Glenwood. w. Va.
White, Cammie; Paxton, w. Va.
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MINOR CASUALTIES.
Wounded Degree ndetermlned)
Private
TaleyiO, Samuel, Monongahela, w. va
Wounded slightly
Bugler-
Kerfeet, Allen M, Martinsburg. W
Va.
| Prtvates
Carr. George Washington, Wymer: W
Va. hi
Christian, Charles, Huntington, w. Va
Dare, Clarence c., Lassville, w. Va.
Ridgeway, George H., Ronceverte, w
| Va.
Howard, Leslie c., McMechen, W. Va
Hoy, John H., Tornado, w. Va.
Carroll, Harry s., Walker, w. Va.
Hummel, Edward W., Elm Grove, w
Va.
Kirkpatrick, Roy NJ, Kirkpatrick. Gil
mer Co., WA.
Pappalordo, Lui, Grafton, w. Va.
Wounded Degree undetermined).
Privates-
Garcia, Marcelino. Meadowbrook. W.
Va.
Gooding, Forrest N, Terra Alta. W.
Va.
Hodge, Burley, Naugatuck. w. Va.
Diano, Daniel. Wellsburg, w. Va.
Richmond, Claude, New, w. Va.
Wounded Slightly.
Corporal
Carse. Charles A., Wick, w. Va.
Privates
Wilhelm, Dayton, Albright, W. Va.
WIKI, Adam T., Henry, w. Va.
Kirk, Lindsay, Sincerity, w. Va.
Curtis, Harry K, st. Marys, w. Va. Y
Dolan. Loran, Kayford, w. Va.
Anderson. Charles H., Woodland, w
Va. AZ Il.