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Straw Votes Shows About
10 Per Cent Want Farms
PARIS. Jan..I— It would take a
fir>t-dass mind leader to find out
what Untie Sim's soldiers want to
do when they get back home.
Generally speaking, they're not
over’y enthusiastic about the con
gressional “back to the farm” idea.
This is onthe basis of a straw vote
taken among 100 men up at the front.
No* one cheer -d at the prospect of be
ng given a n.co little homestead out
\, ; nent plan.
.Mostly, they declared they expo.4,
cd lo go jack to their old jobs. Th\\
take it for g.anted that tie men v.ho
t mvih over Isuv to lick the Huns wT
)\\Vi a j*>b »ority when they gor
heme— even it* otl»*r men, or won. n.
are now in t-..lled in their old pliu c '.
On the other hand. Dr. Frank
Siuiulding . director of the Army Kd
ucational Commission— and former
school superintendent in Cleveland, O..
says that many do not want to go in
to agricultural work.
“The men are either dead set again i
st turning farmers or else widely en- !
thusia>tic on it.” Spaulding, said.
“They're extremists.”
Spaulding is working on an im j
monse srh'Mil plan for American so)
diers during the tedious wait for de
mobilization. He estimates about 10
per cent of all soldiers enrolled in th«
army schools will take up agriculture.
“We have already opened an agri
cultural ^chool,” he said. “The firs',
day we got 7."» students. The professoi
I had in charge told me he asked them
how many- had ever lived on a farm
Only 15 said they had.
In contrast to what I)r. Spaulding
said, the initial enrollment of students
in industrial ami commercial cours »a
showed not a single man out of
wanted to go into farm work. Forty-1
three dilerent trades were represented •
in their statemnts of ambition.
Stopping a soldier at ramdon >n
the street produced this conversation'
“What are you going to do when
vou get home?”
“Why, go back to my old job, o?
course. I’m a machinist.”
“Suppose somebody else has the
job— maybe a woman?”
“Well, that would be tough luck
for them. I don't want to shove any
body out of a job. Hut I guess I’ve
done my bit over here, and the gov
ernment won’t dump me out of the
army without a job.”
“Congress is talking about giving
vou a farm out west.”
“Kami — hell! I don’t want a
farm. I’ve seen enough of the bloomin'
•ountivside, and mud. I’ve slept i*
shell -marked wheat fields and l’v
plowed up a couple of hundred acres
with my boots! No farm for me.”
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TURK RULE
TO CEASE
By Associated Press
LONDON. Jan 1—In the opinion
of Viscount James Bryce, former am
bassador to the United States, “it is
extremely desirouble that every effort
should he made to send in sufficient
allies forces to occupy what was Turk I
-ish Armenia and re-establish some ]
sort of order there.”
Tins view is expressed in a com
munication to the Manchester (itiar
dian, coupled with a regret that the
conditions of the 'Turkish armistice
failed to provide for the immediate
occupation by the nllios of the six
Armenian vilayets and also of Cicilcia
(modern province of Adana, on the
Mediterranean). Lord Bryce says
however:
•*l can not think that this omission
was due to any doubt as to the neco
sity. and, indeed, the solemn duty, <•
delivering all the Armenian district*
utterly and forever from any vestigi
of Turkish rule.” 'The British gov
ernment ho continue d. has pledg'd
itself “so frequently and clearly to
this delivorenco, and, as we unde? -
stand, both President Wilson and th«
French government have expressed
themselves so strongly in favor of
such a policy, that we can not doubt
the bo te t purpose of the govern
ment.”
“It need hardly be said, the Siam
nient goes on, “that to leave the ha. t
rrn Christians of Armenia and Syria
under Turkish rule would excite thv
warmest indignation all over the coun
try, and it* possible still warmer indig
nation in the I’nited States, where Cm
interest in Armenia has been evinced
by the enormous contributions which
have been made to the relief of tin
American refugees.
“Can anybody in this country b;
found who thinks, after the three hid
eons massacres which the Turks have
perpetuate I in Armenia since
culminating in the worst massacre o'
all in 101’*. when K00.000 Christian
perished, t at it would be possible fo
any Christian power , or indeed, ai.v
nower of human feeling, to leave tb' |
Turk free to begin oppressions afresh i
or to fail to show by turning the Turl
out oi the coutry the anger and hor
ror which his cruelties have excited.
I need hardly add that the present*
of Turkish rule in these regions, wit!
♦ heir great strategical importance
would he material to Germany, if eve
she saw her chance, in realizing h'”
sch.‘»nc< for pushing her influence to
wards Persia and Central Asia.
“One fails to see any reason why
the Turks, being absolutely at tin
merry of the allies, and having com
liitted, with the tacit approval of Ge"
nanv, the hugest single crime that
ms been committed in the who’t
oursc of the war, should not hav
been compelled to an absolutely un
•onditional surrender. Why shout*
my favorable conditions have beei
• hown that, whether under Abdu'
Hamid or under ruffians like Rnvei
and Talaat, they are capable of tin
mo<t revolting crimes?”
Cord Bryce points out that the de
mobilization of the Turkish army will
let loose a large number of armed mcr*
accustomed to violence, who will scat
ter over the country and for whom
the Turkish government will not at
tempt to provide.
Another thing to consider, he says
is that allied forces, if on the spot,
could rescue many of the Christian
women seized by the Turks and car
ried off to be sold into slavery, or to
bee ome inmates of Turkish harems.
They might rescue, too, he thinks, the
number of boys that were seized
given to the dervishes and carried of^
to be brought up as Mussulmans.
Furthermore, one should remember
he says, the great number of refit
I gees that fled across the Russian fron
tier from the northern Armenian pro
| vinces, and who have not ventured to
return owing to the fear of demobiliz
ed Turkish Soldiers. Only the presence
of allied troops would induce them tc
return to their homes.
“For all these reasons,” he sums
| up, “it seems urgent in the interests
of humanity that these territory*
should be reduced to some sort of or
der at the earlist possible momen:.
It is useless to expect any af the e
things will be done by the Turkish
government.”
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The list of successful candidates i:»!
the recent general election contains
an unusually large proportion of
newspaper men.
In addition to scores or, possib!\
hundreds, of editors and publishers
who were elected to local or minor
state offices, the following were elect
ed either governor or United State,
senator in their respective states:
Medill McCormick, former publisher
of the Chicago Tribune, defeated
James Hamilton Lewis, Democratic !
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Governor Capper, owner of the To- j
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landslide of Kansas in his race foi
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the state over William B. Mayo, Deni
ocrat. Mr. Clement beat out two othei
newspaper men for the Republican
nomination, Frank E. Howe, ownei
and editor of the Bennington Banner,
and Charles H. Darling, a large share
holder in the Burlington News.
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