The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-14
By Associated Press

I NEW CIks JduudEJ
 tion of the peace treaty by compromise
 polled the heaviest vote in S2 colleges
 and universities throughout the coun- ! try which had reported complete re- l turns tonight in the intercolleslate referendum voted upon today by the student bodies of 400 institutions ol l higher learning. In the 32 colleges which included the great eastern unl- versailles of Harvard, Yale, Princeton l Columbia, Cornell and the University i of Pennsylvania. total of 2s,slO votes | were cast. Of these 11,1S2 were in Ia vor of ratification by compromise anu ! the next highest vote cast. 9oVz, was for ratification without reservations | or amendments.
 l The students voted on four proposals, l unreserved ratification, opposition lo ! ratification in any form. ratification ! with the Lodge reservations ana rau- | ficatons by compromise. The 32 com
 pleted returns show e563 votes for the Lodge reservations and 3163- cast against adoption of the treaty in any l form. The results shown in the total returns received so far represent Vlf- l tua1ly the same division of opinion as 1 indicated by the individual returns lor | the 32 colleges. all of which are situ- ated in the east. south or middle west. 1 1 not expected before tomorrow, when the total vote for the country Will De l tabulated and made public by inter collegiate treaty referendum commit i tees here.
 | Durham. N. C., January 13.-Trinlty college students. and faculty mem per , { in the intercollegiate election on the peace treaty and League of Nations l today. gave a decided majority for rati- | fication without reservation. or the l 330 students voting 2sS favored no | change.
 1 Of the 25 faculty members casting l ballots 16 were in favor Of ratl1lcatioi, l without change. One hundred ana | seven students and nine faculty mem 1 bers favored a compromise; 2f stu- dents and one professor favored re- | lection of the treaty and league. Eignt | students were in favor of the Lodge reservations.
 l Columbia. S. C., January 1S.--With 1 232 students out of an enrolment or | $50 voting in the intercollegiate reI- | erendum on the League of Nations ana peace treaty, the University of Soutn Carolina declared decisvely TOT the ratification without amendment or res ervation. 159; against ratification Tn
 
 | Lodge reservation. 10; for compromise, l GO. Sixteen of the 2S professors vot- | ing favored the league without change' | Ii voted for compromise and one op- posed to ratification.
 New York. January 13-Coiumo ola University students cast 4l47 votes to- day in the intercollegiate re1erehpmhl ,,,, T on ratification of the peace treaty. Tne vote: For ratification without reser-- vations or amendments 1891; opposed | to ratification in any form. 42S; TOT ratification with the Lodge reserva- lions. 436; for immediate ratification | by compromise. 1892: faculty: NO. l. I 92; No. 2, IS; No. 3. 3S; No. I, lSf. 1 New Orleans. January lS.-Studehts and faculties of Tulane university anu Sophie Newcomb College for Women today overwhelmingly voted in favor of acceptance without reservations or 1 the League of Nations and peace treaty, according to an announcement l tonight.
 l Chanel Hill. N, C.. January 1s.-Out 1 of a total of 11e6 ballots, cast .oday l by the faculty and students or tne Irniversitv of North Carolina in the nationwide referendum on the treaty or Versailles, 719 voted for ratifica- l tion of the treaty without reserva- | tions. only 16 opposed ratification Ill
 any form. Of the remaining votes cast 277 favored compromises sug gested sbv Senator Hitchcock; 5s, the Lodge reservations: 13, any compro- mise that would make immediate rat ification possible, and 6S postpone ment of action on the league until art or the establishment of peace.
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 l prinostpn. N J., January 13.--Advocates l of the compromise programme won sweeping victory today in frlhceton 1 poll on the League of Nations question | Of the 1896 votes cast 800 favored com promise between the Lodge and demo cratic reservations. Of the remaininS votes sSt favored tine adoption of th' I treaty with only the Lodge reservations s55 favored ratification without reserva l tion or amendment. the remaining so De l ing opposed to ratification in any form.
 Roanoke; Va, January 1S.-The Roa noke Teachers Council, through com mittee of three. representing all the pub lie school teachers in the city, today SUD mittsd demands for 50 per cent increas in salaries. The demands will be acte' on by the local school board.
 Davidson, N C.. January 1s.-All tn six members of the faculty or DdVloso College who participated in the nation wide balloting on the peace treaty toda voted for ratification without reserva tions or amendments, as did 240 or th students. Twenty-five students voted for ratifi | cation with some compromise reserva t;ors, eight for ratification With tn Lodge amendments and five against rati fication in any form. The remaining la
 students did not vote.
 Beloit, Wis, January 1s.-Tighty of 2s studen ts at Beloit College who wer asked to state their views on the peac treaty and League of Nations voted to day in favor of ratification of the pac with reservations urged by the ma1orit ! in the Senate. Sixty favored ratification leaving the league question open. Fifty six voted for compromises pressed D lmiid reservationists. Only six vote against ratification, one being Frenc girl attending the college.
 Springfield. Mo, January 13.-A couf of 223 votes cast in a referendum vet taken at Drury College here today o the ratification of the treaty Of peac and the League of Nations showed students and six faculty members fave unconditional notifications of both. Run I ming close second was the propositio favoring a compromise on the reserva
 tions proposed by opponents Of the orig lnal drafts. 75 students and seven facult
 members voting in favor of this. Fiji
 teen were opposed to the League of Ma
 tions in any form. Thirty-eight favore
 the Lodge amendments.