The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-12-17
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Wilson were looking for excite
ment and trouble he had taken
the right course to get it IN
accepting the position OF medl-
ator for Armenia. 1t is a per-
sonal thing as he recognizes since
the landslide, that me and the
United States are not always
synonymous. In accepting, he
saws; II am without authorlz-
alton to offer or employ the mill
tary forces of the United States
in any project for the relief oil
Armenia, and any material con-
tribution would require the au-
thorization of the congress-,
which is not in session, and
whose action l could not fore
cast. l am willing, however, up
on assurances of the moral and
diplomatic support of the princi-
pal powers and in a spirit OF
sympathetic response to the re-
quest of the council of the
League of Nations, to use my
good offices and to proffer my
personal mediation to a repre-
sentative whom l may designate
to end the hostilities that are
now being waged against the Ar
menian people and to bring peace
and accord to the contending
parties, relying upon the council
of the League of Nations to sug-
gest to me the avenues through
which my proffer should be con-
veyed and the parties to whom
it should be addressed" The
President evidently has discover
ed Congress since he was in
Paris. AS far as we can read, It
is a wider field of action than
Armenia with which the Presl-
dent will have to deal. The
American Committee for Armen-
ian independence has sent the
President word that Italy and
France are morally and material
ly supporting Turkey against Ar
menia. Tif1is sends out word
that hostilities between the Ar
menians and the Turks are sus-
pended through intervention Of
the Bolshevist Russian govern
ment. France and Italy evident
ly want to keep England out OF
Armenian affairs and at the same
time enlarge their sphere of
action. Why not try to bring
France and England to some I'M
derstanding instead of bothering
with pawns in the European
game of politics.
For the benefit of those who
feel that the world is going to
the bow-wows as fast as it can,
we are citing the case of the
five hundred employees in a Gin
cinnati clothing factory who
have voted to give up their jobs
for a month in the dead of win
ter in order to give work for
some of the unemployed in
other factories. And more than
all that the five cent cup of
coffee is beginning to come back.
You can get one in Pensacola,
which we admit would be a long
ways to go for one, but it may
work its way north with the
swallows.
They are conserving over
across the water and have even
found a use and a very practi-
cal use too, for the barbed wire,
which filters war-torn Europe as
a net. They are going to use
it for nails and a Riga inventor!
has thought out the necessary
stamping machine. Wouldn't it,
be fine if we could find some use
for the war material, which we
are allowing to lay around and
spoil. One but needs to see a
demolished air station to know
that millions of dollars of mater
ial are being wasted.
It is still a fact that there are
people in this country who con-
slider the airplane enough of a
novelty to stop and stare up into
the heavens when the hum of
their engines is heard. Thus
early do the marvels of yester-
day become the common place
of today.
1t doesn't matter so much what
the rest of the world wants, the
Greeks almost to a man, want
Constantine back. The trappinvs
of royalty still glitter.