The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-23

| president Beloit College; Samuel Plantz.
| president Lawrence University.
Among the well-known women who
signed are the following: Mrs. Perry V.
| Pennybacker, former president General
| Federation Of Womens clubs; Josephine
Corliss Preston, president National Ed.
ucation Associations Caroline Hazard
former president Wellesley College;
Carrie Chapman Gait, president Nation.
al American Woman Suffrage Associu,
ton Mrs. Sara \. Conboy, secretary,
United Textile Workers of America;
Anna A. Gordon president National W.
c. r. T.; Mary T.. Wooley, president
Mount Holyoke College; Mrs Phillip
North Moore, president National Coun-
Gil of Women.
Included among the editors and pub
fishers who signed are the following:
Cyrus II. *. Curtis, publisher of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger "a powerful
republican newspaper and of the Satur-
day Evening Post and the Ladies Home
Journal; Lyman Abbott, editor of the
Outlook; Hamilton Holt, editor o. the
er Worlds Work Theodore H. Price,
editor ad owner Commerce and Finance
Weekly; Albert Shaw, editor of Review
of Reviews; Ellery Sedgwick, president
Atlantic Monthly Company.
The following are among other prom.
inent men who signed the appeal: For.
mer President Taft former United
States Attorney General Wickersham;
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor; Alexan-
der Graham Bell, inventor; Jacob NJ
Dickinson, former secretary of war in
Taft's cabinet Edward y. Hurley, for.
mer chairman L. S. shipping board; Cy-
rus II. McCOrmiuk manufacturer;
Thomas f. Edison, inventor; Henry
NanDyke, former minister to The Meth
erlands; Vance &. Mccormick, chair.
man war trade board; William Allen
White, publicist; Theodore Marburg,
former L. 5. minister to Belgium; Dan.
iel willard president Baltimore X Ohio
railroad Harry \. Garfield, L. $. fuel
administrator; Irving Bachelor, author;
Irving Fisher, political economist; Fred
erick -. Underwood, president Erie rail
road; Oscar s. strauss, former ambaS.
Sador to Turkey; AugStus Thomas play.
wright; Alton b. Parker jurist; John
Burroughs, nationalist; Henry p. Da.
vson, banker; Adolph Lewisohn, bank.
er; Darwin p. Kingsley, president New
York Life Insurance Company; Jacob
II. Schiff, banker.
Many other occupations are repre-.
sented, including international officials
of many labor unions, a number Of well.
known bishops, several prominent rab-
bis, the general secretary of the Pres.
byterian Board of Foreign Missions. the
general secretary of the Federal Coun-
ell of the Churches of Christ in Amer
lea, the founder of the Christian En-
deavor Society, the president of the
Church Of Christ of the Latter Day
Saints, the president of the Merchants
Association of New York.
Among the governors who signed the
appeal are the governors of New York
and Ohio.
Each signer of the appeal wields a
powerful influence in various sections
OF the United States. Many of them
have strong nation wide influence. The
men and women who signed the appeal
are clear thinkers, who are not seeking
to gain political advantages, but who
have studied the treaty carefully and
are convinced that it should be ratified
without amendment and without delay.
Persons who have not taken the trouble
to study the treaty. themselves, surely
cannot make mistake to follow the
lead of such galaxy of thinkers as
these
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