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New-York tribune., 1919-02-28
Hitchcock Sees
W ar Here If
League Fails
Warns Senate Peace Must
Be Guaranteed or People
Will Rise in Protest
Fears Bolshevist Reign
Says Covenants Foes Are
Splitting Hairs and ''Set-
ting Up a Scarecrow''

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Peace with
the league of nations or war and prep
arations for war without it; the in
ternationalism of peace and justice OF
the internatonalism of "the Social
list, the anarchist and the Bolshevist'
are the alternatives before the world
declared Senator Hitchcock, of Ne.
braska, chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, in an address late
to-day to the Senate.
The proposed league, Senator Hitch
cock asserted, would "render war be-
tween members as nearly impossible as
human agencies can devise" He spoke
Of the growth of socialism and the
popular demand for relief from war
and its sacrifices, and said that peo-
pies throughout the world, if denied
measures for peace, would violently pro-
test and seize power.
Says Foes Split Hairs"
Senators who have opposed the
league draft, the Nebraska member as
serted, would be opposed to any league
lie charged that in their attacks these
Senators had magnified its dangers and
that they "quibble and split hairs"
Replying to a reference to "Ameri-
canlsm as opposed to international
ism" in recent speech of Senator
borah, of Idaho, who quoted Colonel
Roosevelt, Senator Hitchcock said the
former President had favored a league
of nations to enforce peace, not onlv
by moral force, but by military
strength, and expressed the belief that
If he were alive Colonel Roosevelt
would be found supporting the league
as ardently as President Wilson.
Suggestions that Mexico might join
in imposing conditions on this country
were ridiculed by the Senator, who
said Mexico was not eligible for mem
bership because she could not give the
requisite guarantees of her intention
and ability to comply with interna-
tional obligations.
Replies to Borah
Senator Hitchcock answered in detail
the recent criticisms. of Senators
Borah and Cummins (Republicans) and
Reed (Democrat). Some of their con-
tentions he characterized as "ridicu-
lous and absurd"
The disarmament provision, Senator
Hitchcock said did not arbitrarily fix
the limit of armament, but was merely
advisory. The argument that nations
in agreeing to arbitration submit their
national life" to the league, he de-
clared, was absurd, when the league
guaranteed political independence and
territorial integrity to every member.
In discussing the Monroe Doctrine,
Senator Hitchcock said
Instead of being compelled to de-
fend the Western Hemisphere alone. we
would have the sympathy and help of
the league of nations in carrying out
the spirit of its organization.
"We have been told that this is one
Of those cntangling alliances against
which Washington warned us. denv
it."
He pictured Washington writing his
Farewell Address by candle light and
added:
"lf Washington were living to-day
he would press an electric button. sum
mon n stenographer, and in the blaze of
electric lights dictate message urging
the American people to unite with
other great nations to end wars and
New-York tribune., 1919-02-28
SAYS A PROFESSOR

of English at one of our lead,
ing Universities an author.
playwright and critic of re.
noWn:
when I get bacon and eggs
of a morning at CHILDS the,
eggs are of the sort hat lend
themselves to being poached;
and the bacon, than which,
when it is good, no more de-
hclous edible exists, is dry and
crisp, and Drowned to a turn.
"And in the innocence of late
evening | have partaken Of
griddle cakes at Gt1ILDS 50
dehcately done, so entranc,
ingly set forth with golden
syrup, that you drop off half
a lifetime as you eat, and in
sleep that night have a smile
on your face which is a blend
Of memories of childhood and
stomachic bliss.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-28
France Estimates War
Loss at "a Billions

DAR1S, Feb. 27 (By The Associ-
l. ated Press).-The budget COM
mittee of the Chamber of Deputies
has drawn up a report fixing the
damages caused by the war in
France, the total reaching 49,
80l 100000 francs (about $24,ONO,-
100000.
OF this amount 96,559 100000
francs is entailed by direct dam
ages and 23,242,000,o0O by indirect
damage through loss Of income or
the impossibility of carrying on
work.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-28
Russian Con nference
Is Virtually assured,
But Not at Prinkipo
Near York Tribune
Special Cable Service

Copyright 1919. New York Tribune Inc)
PARIS, Feb. 26.-There is high au-
thorlty for the statement that the
peace conference has decided to carry
through the project of a conference
with the Bolsheviki and other Russian
controlling factions. Another meeting
place than Prinkipo. however, will be
selected. The return OF Premier Llovd
George, Of Great Britain, will be the
signal for the announcement of the de-
cIsion, although preparations for it are
now going forward
Lvof and Sazonof, among other Rus
sian opponents of the Bolsheviki, are
stlll reca lcitrant, but the hope is ex-
pressed that they finally will be in
uuceo 10 take part in the Conference.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-28
Wilson Calls VenizelOs
Greatest Peace Enuov
Nerc York Tribune
Washington Bureau

New York Tribune
Washington Bureau
w ASHINGTON, Feb. Of
W Premier Venizelos of Greece,
President Wilson told several
Senators to-day, in informal talks
at the Capitol, was beyond ques-
tion, in his opinion, the greatest
man who sat around the peace
table.
Senators asked the question
with some curiosity as to whether
the President would name Lloyd
George or Clemenceau.
According to the Senators, the
President did not pause to think
after being asked the question,
but indicated he had come to the
conclusion almost Immediately
after meeting Venizelos.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-28
Senate Confirms Wallace
AS Ambassador to France

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-Nomina,
ton of Hugh c. Wallace, of. Tacoma.
Washington, to be Ambassador 70
France, was confirmed early this morn
ing by the Senate, sitting in executive
session.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-28
Many Die of Starvation
In Petrograd; Food High

PETROGRAD, Feb. 27.-The situa-
tion in Petrograd is extremely bad.
Food has reached prices which are be-
yond the reach of the people, MANY of
whom are dying of starvation.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-28

as counsel for the prosecution last
night, while Senator Lodge. so far
IRON joining actively, actually inter
fered to protect the President from
questions two or three times.
In discussing these points today the
President said that the argument that
the constitution violated the Monroe
3octrine had no foundation whatever
out was merely the creation of q misty
mind. The words misty mind" ap-
narently made an impression on his
auditors, several OF whom repeated
. them in an attempt to use the Presi-
- dents exact phraseology.
Also the President said at the Capt.
tol to-day that he had lawyer at
Paris to whom he referred every Ques-
ton where there seemed to be the
fundamental laws OF the United States
/. and the constitution of the league.
In every instance the lawyer
smoothed out whatever difficulties an
peared, so that there is not particle
~or justification for any claim that the
constitution OF the league violates the
Constitution of the United States.
Thinks Wilson Is Misled
"The President remembers his verbal
conversations on these matters" said
Sa-very great lawyer in the Senate who
lis not opposed to the league idea, but
! who is merely interested in safeguard
: ing the language. "He reminds me of
the man with a verbal understanding
. in addition to written contract
When the case comes to court the
verbal understanding does not count
. He does not realize that his conversa-
stions in Paris have no binding effect,
but the written constitution Of 'he
league does
: Senator Robert L. Owen, of Okla
homa, was so alarmed over certain
sections in the league constitution
-that he attempted to safeguard the in
-terests of the United States as he sees
them by the following resolution:
Resolved that the delegates repre-
.senting the United States at the peace
assembled Mt Paris arc
thereby requested to offer amendments
TO the formulated plan prposing to es-
New-York tribune., 1919-02-28

the Chamber asked for vote of credit
to build ships identical with those
sunk? The most pacific nations in the
world have navies. and the United
States has just drawn up the most i'm
portant programme ever voted bv the
American Congress-"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-28

Soko.ow representing the Zionist
organization; Professor Sylvan Levi.
OF the College of France and member
or the Palestine committee; Mr.. Andre
SplHe, representing the French Zion-
lst organization, and Mr. Szsyahkin.
representing the Jews of Russia
me next meeting will be held Satur-
day, March l, at p m.'
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-25

enian District of Erivan. II is bounded
on the south by the Arax River which
Is the subject of many an Armenian
song. and which here forms the bound
airy between Asiatic Russia and Persia.
In the hills to the northeast is Shusha.
strong Armenian center. where the
Armenians held out against u circle of
foes in the summer of 1918.
When Russia's power in the Cauca.
sus declined and the soldats flowed
back from the former Russian front in
Turkey through the Nakhichevan Dis.
trict, the traditional hatred between the
Armenians OF the Erivan District and
the Mohammedan Tatars broke out.
This closed the carriage road to Tabriz
and later closed the railway. At great
risk several members OF the American
Committee for Armenian and Syrian Re
lief Committee with Headquarters at
Erivan went to Tabriz and brought back
several million roubles in a train that
was so crowded with retreating Rus.
sian soldats that one OF the committee
upholstered with hundreds of
thousands Of roubles. was forced to sleep
on the roof Of the car in a tempera.
ture near zero. Within a week, the rail.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-25

Americans We're being forced to leave
Tiflis.
when | crossed the lgdir plain,
where Armenians are starving today,
these much prosecuted people We're haV'
ing their innings and the smoke from u
score of burning Tatar villages could
be seen. Tatars with arms We're allow
ed to live if they surrendered their guns
and women and children were not touch
ed but their villages were looted and
burned by the Armenians. This was in
March 1919. All the Tatars retreated TO
the Nakhichevan district where they
formed majority of the population.
There they have remained. Hatred be-
tween them and the Armenians is strong
but due TO the greater strength of the
Armenians there are no atrocities.
The whole problem is made difficult
by the diversity of the population. In
the mountain villages the kurds are
most numerous. \ strong hand Will be
necessary to control these several tribes
The Kurds have been forced to be butch
ers by the Turks, who gave them guns
as their only tools and who kept agri
culture and education from them. Their
condition is as bad as that of the Arm
enians and when l crossed the Turko-
Russian boundary | saw scores of kurds
with only one garment and barefoot at
an altitude of seven thousand feet in
March.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-25
OUR IDABEL FRIEND
PROMISES A SECOND
TO HIS OWN MOTION
Udabel Denocrat.Record)

Up to even date we have not
heard any Oklahoma newspaper
second the motion of the Idabel
Democrat Record thet The vArd'
moreite be made the official state
newspaper of the democratic party.
How jealous some newspapers are!
Our esteemed admirer at Idabel has
put the motion twice. Once more,
DO we hear u second? (We do
NOTD-Daily Ardmoreite.
Just take matters easy, Bert. 1t
takes some time for a pregnant idea
like the one we sprung to penetrate
the concrete dome of some Of the
democratic editors, but 1t will pene-
trate sooner or later. The present
state administration just now is run
ming little off schedule, what with
Carter's refusal to pay the private NOV
ing expenses of some of the appointees,
and until the disgruntled element makes
up its mind as to which side of the
fence it wants to light on, Wen have
to kind o. ease along until they get
located. You go ahead and keep your
on straight and keep dishing
out the "simon pure" and when Wood.
row arrives home and we get in touch
with that Washington bunch who are
sending the canned editorials" to the
boys throughout the state, we'll prom
se you second to the motion in box.
car letters.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-25
RIOTERS ABUSING THE PRESIDENT

IN RECENT SPEECHES Chairman Homer S.
l Cummings of the Democratic National Com
mittee has called attention to the coarse anC
abusive language in which many republicans
are COUGHING their criticisms of President vii
son. Not for decades has an American presi.
dent been subjected to such vituperation as
that which is now being leveled at the coun-
try's present chief magistrate. Two speci-
mems from among many will not only corrobor-
ate what Chairman Cummings has said. but
will also serve to illustrate the way in which
republicans are attempting to substitute bill
lingsgate for argument.
From the Kansas City Star Ga republican
journaD we quote this reference to President
Wilson as coming from the mouth of Chair
man Will H. Hays of the republican national
committee:
1T has been said that his president Will
son's) name will go down in history linked with
that of George Washington. | will say that it
was wise bird who picked out the steamship
on which President Wilson sailed"
Even partisan like Mr. Hays ought to feel
shame at the nasty implication in that fling
Does he think that the average American
whatever his political creed-will brook, much
less enjoy, an attempt at Joking about the pos
sble drowning of the President?
Taking its cue from Mr.. Hays, seemingly,
Sheet lSuSed by the republican national com
mittee reproduces from the Salt Lake Herald,
republican organ a crude but intensely
malicious diatribe of which President Wilson
is the subject. One extract from this effusion
will further eXemplify the animus and tenor
of the presidents critics. Under the title king
of the World" the president is made to say:
Chin music hath power to stir the savage
beast and my records are now being played by
Lenine and Trotzky. The ape and the anarchist
understand my philosophy better than people
who attempt to gain knowledge from books
and newspapers"
If republican orators and newspapers are
unable to be fair can't they make an effort at
least to be decent?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-25
UNDER THE IMAGINARY
STATE HOUSE DOME
By CHARLES H. ADAMS
Staff Correspondent

To get a referendum vote on House
Bill 500, the measure enacted by the
Seventh legislature which increased
the license fee upon motor driven We
hicles. it will be necessary for those
behind the movement to secure more
than one thousand Signatures daily
for the next five days. 1t is under
stood that the circulators Of the petit
tions lack more than 5000 names of
having enough to file their petitions.
The time limit for the presentation OF
the petitions expires next Saturday.
Russell B. Brown. county attorney
and Ben Stevens and George Evans
county commissioners of Carter county,
were statehouse visitors Saturday. Mr.
Brown came to the capitol to attend
the conference of members Of the eX-
ecutive committee of the Oklahoma
State League of Young democrats
and the commissioners came to confer
with Highway Commissioner Wood re-
garding road improvement work in
Carter county.
William F. Oswald, said to be the
champion typist of the United States,
gave an exhibition of typewriting In
the rotunda on the fourth floor Of the
capitol Saturday. He wrote l64 words
minute, without error, copying new
matter, and wrote l29 words a min
ute, copying unfamiliar matter bnd
carrying on a conversation. Oswald Is
said to have written 142 words a min
ute for 60 consecutive minutes, ten
words being deducted for each error.
Tony r. Adams, top sergeant of the
machine gun company, Second lnfan'
try, Oklahoma National Guard, has
been granted a second lieutenants
commission.
Pvt. Ross Thompson, machine gun
company, Second Infantry, has been
transferred to X Company, Sulphur,
according to general order issued BY
the adjutant generals department.
The state text book commission, which
is hearing the claims of representatives
of school book publishing companies
that are bidding for the adoption Of
their texts for use in Oklahoma schools,
is in session daily again this week.
Fifty eight bidders are to be heard by
the commission, which began its sit
tings last Monday.
Col. Jim Storey of Bennings has been
appointed by Governor Robertson as a
member of the board of trustees of the
Oklahoma Confederate Home at Ard |
more, succeeding Gen. T. d. Turner of |
oklahoma City, resigned.
The following members of the Ameri-
anization Commission, authorized by
,hapter BIS, session laws of 1919, have
een commissioned by Governor Robert
on: Miss Irene Hickey, Rev. 1. G.
Gordon, G. B. Parker, E. J. Giddings,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-25

way service was stopped by Armenian
Tatar fighting.
The uprising of the Nakhicheyan
Tatars was i'll timed German propo.
gandists had placarded the district with
posters exhorting these Tatars, who are
related to the Turks and are of the
same religion, TO arise against the Arm
enians, who the retreating Russians had
lett to their own devices This they did.
But the Armenians had spent the winter
IN raising an army to take over the
FORMER Russian front and about 25 900 of
these volunteers were assembled in Fri.
van.
The Tatars advanced along the rail.
way Tifles to Tabriz) and met serious
resistance first at Kamarlyu, eighty
miles from the city of Nakhicheyan.
There was some spirited fighting and
the Tatars were soon defeated and at
least one well was filled with their dead
bodies. Women and children were not
touched by the Armenians. By circling
between kamarlyu and Mount Ararat
along the wide plan of the Arax, the
Tatars reached the junction of Uluk.
hanlu and burned the railway station
there. also cutting the Indo- European
telegraph line which joins Tiflis to the
rest of the world. This necessitated
the sending Of Vice Consul Doolittle to |
reheran in order to establish connection
With Washington at a time when all
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-25
NOAH MADE 1T FAMOUS-AND NOW
UNCLE SAM WANTS TO MAKE TT FREE

Washington, d. C.-"Now add to the
list Of states that have asked the Uni.
led States to be their mandatory
-Sakhichevan.
Never heard of Nakhichevan?" SAYS
= bulletin from the National Geo.
graphic Society. well. first consult
Genesis villa. for the district in ques.
ton lies at the foot of Mt Ararat and
the town Of Nakhichevan contains the
;lleged graveyard of Noah The build.
er of the Ark. local tradition affirms.
vent down into the land that now
eeks the wing of the United States and
Tied Of thirst in the parched plain after
Lis ark had broken up on the snowy
peak Of the worlds most famous noun
[ lin."
The bulletin continues with a descrip-
1 ION of the region by Maynard Owen
Williams, who was the last American to
carry on relief work in Armenia, TO
which land he went from Nakhichevan
Ist before Christmas. 1917. Quoting
.Ir. Williams the bulletin says:
The Nakhichevan District, inhabit
| by Tatars, when peace comes will
'.s bounded on the North by the Arm
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-25
The ArdmOreite'S
FREE FORUM
MILITARY ACADEMY
Claremore. Oklahoma.
Jupa % 1910
Editor Daily Ardmoreite:

June 20. 1919
Editor Daily Ardmoreite
The last legislature established the
Oklahoma Military Academy in the prop
erty and premises formerly occupied by
the Eastern University Preparatory
School, at Claremore, Okla.
The state IL building modern, fire.
proof barracks and making other ex.
tensivo preparations for the opening
of the school in September.
The school will be organized as n
Motor Transport Corps, II. o. n. C. and
the curriculum will include vocational
education In auto'mechanics and the
building trades. in addition to the regu.
lar academic subjects.
The law provides that boys, II or
over, will be admitted. We are now
ready TO make reservations for quarters
for as many boys as we can accomo
date. The school will take custodial
care of the boys and after their school.
day time Is put in in the administration
building they will be returned to their
quarters. They will not be allowed TO
spend their time on the streets. etc. We
shall have a physician To supervise their
health; physical director to help them
in their athletics and regular army Of
ficers TO give them military training.
No tuition will be charged. The cost of
board will be assessed to them at what
it actually costs the state / cannot
ut this time say exactly what that sum
will be.
| hope that YOU will notify any par.
ents (having boys to send to military
school as to this opportunity. l hope
also that YOU may visit our institution
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-25
PARTISAN TO THE CORE

A CITING AS PARTISANS, though all the
while disclaiming the motives and seeking
to escape the odium of partisanship, repub-
lcan leaders in congress are opposing the
League of Nations and signaling to the mem
bers of their party to join them in the fight.
Their pretensions and disclaimers are as in
sincere as they are specious.
Senator Lodge, speaking in the senate, an
nounced that the ratification of covenant of the
league "is not partisan question and never
was" but his actions have been in constant con-
tradiction of his professions. He fathered the
Ground robin" which was signed only bN re-
publican senators. He called a conference of
republican senators at the beginning Of the
present session Of congress to formulate pro-
gram of opposition to the league. He helped
to pack the foreign relations committee, which
is to consider the league, so that its member
ship is preponderantly republican. He collab-
Grated with Senator Knox in the introduction
of the latters resolution demanding separation
of the covenant of the league from the treaty of
peace. The hackers of this demand in the for
eign relations committee were all republicans.
Republican reactionaries in the senate have
shown by every sign and token that they are
opposing the league with party animus, by par
tisan means and for partisan advantage Mr..
Lodge is the promoter and spokesman of this
policy; which proves, in spite Of all his dis
claimers that he and his reactionary followers
would make the league partisan battlecry.
There are exceptions to this rule of repub
lican antagonism in the senate. Several SEN
ators of Mr.. Lodges party-but not of his fac
tion-are supporting the league without ceas-
ing at the same time to be republicans. Out |
side OF the senate there are scores of thousands
of republicans who advocate the league and
want all discussion and consideration of it kept
free from political and partisan bias They
cannot understand why republican senators
cannot be as free from partsanship as former
republican president-Mr. Taft-has shown
himself to be.
Chairman Hays is now endeavoring to con-
vince the public that he and other official
representatives Of his party do not regard the
League of Nations as partisan issue His chief
difficulty, however, will be to persuade Sem
ators Lodge, Knox and the other robins" that
no such unworthy use be made of it.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-25

The only serious effort ever made to end
war has been given the endorsement of thirty
two nations. 1t is generally conceded that the
League of Nations has little chance of success
without the participation of the United States
That participation must be with the approval
OF the senate Is it within the bounds of pos
slbility that the hostility of few republicans,
inspired by partisan enmty against one man.,
the president, is going to defeat the plan to
end war?