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A THREATENED TRAGEDY

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Y treaties entered into during the war and at its close portions of what was before Turkish territory were apportioned to certain of the Allied Powers. In this apportionment Cilicia, which was largely Armenian territory, fell to France as within its zone of military occupation for the maintenance of order and for the observance of the terms of the armistice. It is now authoritatively announced that France is about to withdraw her troops from Cilicia and pass over the administration of that state to the Nationalist Turks. The three Armenian communities in Cilicia (Gregorian, Roman Catholic, and Protestant) and many Moslems unite in appealing to the French authorities to remain at least for the present, but so far the appeal has been in vain. It is reported that France, in withdrawing, has made an agreement with Kemal Pasha, the Nationalist Turkish leader, for the protection of the Armenians. The statement that the protection of a flock of sheep is thus intrusted to a pack of wolves may be unjust to the Armenians, but in view of recent history cannot be said to be unjust to the Turks. The race and religious prejudice animating the Turks is increased because in the recent war the Armenians were allies of the French and fought desperately against the Turks under French lead. It is said that about two hundred thousand Armenians, Syrians, Greeks, and pro-French Moslems are involved in the danger of massacre in Cilicia.

It must be confessed that France is in a difficult situation. France has spent far more money in trying to maintain order in Cilicia than she can afford. She is sharply criticised for her maintenance of a large standing army, and is accused of imperialistic ambitions, disturbing to the peace of Europe. But when, yielding to pressure, she proposes to reduce her army by withdrawing her troops from a distant province she is charged with breach of faith in deserting a helpless people intrusted to her keeping.

It is difficult to see what official action the American Government can take to prevent this tragedy. One principal objection urged against the League of Nations was that America ought not to share with European nations in dealing with European problems. The Presidential election sustained that objection.

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Moreover, it is hardly possible for the Administration to interject this problem into the Washington negotiations, which are limited to questions of a very different scope. The attempt to lay broad foundations for an enduring peace in the Near East ought not to be lightly hazarded. It is possible that private influences could be brought to bear upon the French Government by the diplomats of England and America to delay the withdrawal of the French forces. It is even possible that an official notification to the Turkish authorities by England, France, and the United States that any failure to protect the Armenians would be regarded as an unfriendly act might have a protective force. And we think it highly probable that an aroused popular sentiment in the United States against leaving the Armenians unprotected, even if it led to no governmental action, would have considerable influence on the French Government, if not on the Kemalite Turkish Government. Such popular sentiment ought not to be unaffected, however, by the fact that while the United States is limiting the number of immigrants to its shores, France leaves open the door to Syria to Armenian refugees.

Certainly the facts ought to have some effect on those happily tempered pacifists who imagine that complete disarmament by all the civilized nations, leaving the helpless undefended against the criminals, would secure peace and a world justice.

RUSSIAN RELIEF

milk and asked for a doubling of the appropriation.

Congress has now consented to this, after a very lively debate in which the bill was opposed by those who thought it violated the spirit of our Constitution and by those who asserted that the appropriation would be additional material for the cause of Bolshevism. The President at once signed the bill.

The food is to be assembled through elevators without profits to them, and will be transported to the port of departure from this country at reduced rates, if possible, upon the railways, thus enabling as large an amount of grain as is possible to be secured for the appropriation. Nineteen million dollars of the $20,000,000 to be appropriated is now in the hands of the United States Grain Corporation, formed during the war, of which the President of the United States is the sole stockholder. This corroration is now being liquidated, and the money would soon be turned into the United States Treasury. Its diversion to the purchase of food, provided for in the bill, will be welcomed by the farmers of the West, who, humanitarian as they may be, will be glad to profit by the legislation.

The bill applies to that most sorely stricken region in Russia, the part of the valley of the Volga River between the cities of Kazan and Saratov, a region about four hundred miles long. It lies several hundred miles to the east of Moscow. a world Ordinarily this region raises more than enough to feed its people. But for three years in succession they have endured a great drought, which, in addition to the economic cruelty of the Bolshevik Government, has reduced very many millions of people to starvation. And this at a time when we have more foodstuffs in storage than ever before in our history!

RESIDENT HARDING'S request for an $10,

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000,000 to supply corn and seed grain for the starving Russians was followed by the appearance of Secretary Hoover before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the House of Representatives. said, in rejoinder to the claim that private, not public, charity should fill the need: "There are a great many committees working throughout the country under a great deal of difficulty but not without energy. I do not believe, however, that the total collections since August of the entire group amounts to $750,000." He also showed that Governmental aid on a larger scale than the President suggested would be needed. He requested some 22,000,000 bushels of grain and 500,000 cases of preserved

tions are retained and that relations are steadily improved.".

What Mr. Stone added as to the right and wrong kind of leadership for the Negro race is worth quoting at some length:

There are to-day two groups of Ne

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leaders-groups which are as wide apart as the Poles and which are as distinct as the whites and Negroes themselves. I am not going to call any names. One set of Negro leaders is distinctly radical. The leadership of the other group is conservative and is working for peace and harmony between the races. It is left with the white people to choose which Negro leadership they will encourage.

There is no more trying position in American life to-day than that of a conservative Negro leader in the South. He must steer an even course and at the same time maintain his position of leadership without sacrificing any right principle. When Booker T. Washington died and I was appealed to for a suggestion as to the man who was best fitted to succeed him, I replied, without hesitation, that Robert R. Moton stood head and shoulders above all other men.

Mr. W. Anthony Aery, the secretary of Hampton, himself a white man, tells us that in traveling with Dr. Moton on the trip during which the Greenville meeting was held he found himself comparing conditions between the races as they are now and as they were when years ago he made a similar trip with Booker Washington. He noted in Mississippi "a growing spirit of racial good will and racial co-operation." He found "white and black folks everywhere discovering almost intuitively-that they cannot make much real progress by hoeing their rows as separate groups. They are. discovering that they can go ahead very much faster by pulling together and by forgetting some of their differences."

We agree heartily with Mr. Aery's conclusion that "the influence of men like Booker T. Washington, Robert R. Moton, and others scoffed at as conservatives has been invaluable in bringing about this era of good feeling."

THE COLLEGE WORKSHOP

N a recent address President Rich

I'mond, or Union College, said some

thing so true and simple and yet so' startling that we are glad to reprint it in full:

However men may differ as to specific remedies for the present disorders, all men of sense agree at one point, and that is the necessity of getting back to work. In the four years of the war the fruit of the work of millions of men for many years has been destroyed. It is gone, and no amount of economic juggling will bring it back. If the prosperity of the world is to be restored, it will be because we are all willing to work

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HENRY WATTERSON harder and to put more of ourselves into our work.

There may have been a time when the word work, as applied to a college, would have seemed to some a kind of academic pleasantry. If there ever was such a time, that time has passed. The picture of a college where the long hours were passed agreeably under the shade of the classic elms, smoking pipes and singing college songs, has a certain attraction to the retrospective imagination of the graduate and to the prospective vision of the freshman. But to a man who knows anything about the life at Union College there will be a mournful realization that the largest part of the picture has been left out.

I might as well tell you at once that this is a college where honest work is not only expected but required. There is no reason why a boy who comes to college should expect an easier time than a boy who goes to work in a factory or in an office. The idea that in coming to college a boy is postponing his life-work for four years while he floats down the stream of time untroubled by the hard realities that other young men of his own. age have to face is not at all our idea of what a college means. Neither is a college a kind of intellectual incubator where young fledglings are hatched out with no effort of their own. A college is a workshop, and if it is going to maintain its place in the esteem of a Nation that has supported us with such unstinted generosity we must see that the gospel of honest work is not only taught in the college but practiced by all of us who have anything to do with it. This may sound a little disagreeable to some easy-going young aspirants who have been looking forward to a comfortable time, but let me assure you that the only way to be happy here, or anywhere else, is to make a real business of the thing you are doing. The most delightful thing a man does is to exercise and develop the powers that are his. What we shall try to do for you here is to help you to understand and value your own

powers and to teach you how to use them to the best advantage while you are here, and afterward when you take your place in the field of active life which you shall choose.

Unfortunately, too many undergraduates in American colleges are inclined to regard a college course as a sort of glorified vacation. It will not do them any harm occasionally to recall the fact that their friends who entered business on leaving high school or preparatory school have to keep regular hours and do regular work. One of the great advantages of the education which the graduates of Annapolis or West Point receive is that the undergraduates in those institutions work as regularly and as hard as if they were apprentices in some great industrial plant. Regular hours and a regular system of work will I do wonders for a student even when he is not a genius. Indeed, in most fields of human activity, the erraticism of genius is likely to be beaten in the long run by the regularity of an ordinary mind.

HENRY WATTERSON,
NEWSPAPER MAN

ENRY WATTERSON, who died in Jack

Hsonville, Florida, on December 24,

made the Louisville "Courier-Journal" a National newspaper and a political power. Colonel Watterson served in the Confederate Army, but whether he had the exact rank of colonel or was a Kentucky colonel by the brevet of State and National affection is not important. To newspaper men he was "Marse Henry," and perhaps no man in our time has been better liked by the men of his own profession. He has been described as the last of his line in that he was the last of the great personal figures once so common in American journalismGreeley, Raymond, the elder Bennett, and Dana are the names one associates with him. He was born eighty-one years ago, was held on the knee of Andrew Jackson as a child, and knew every President from that time to this. It has been pointed out that the period covered by Watterson's life and the life of John Quincy Adams, whom as a boy he knew, covers the entire period of the country's history from Revolutionary days.

Colonel Watterson exercised a great influence in public affairs, not only by his editorial work, but by his vivacious and often uncomfortably frank utterances. Not infrequently he hit two ways at once, as in his famous "Now and ever, to hell with autocracy. Now and ever, to hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs," to which he added later in a letter, "And to hell with prohibition along with the Hapsburgs and the

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Hohenzollerns." Of a leader in his own party, namely, William Jennings Bryan, he said as long ago as 1900: "He has had his fling and has failed. He should yield leadership to other hands and devote himself to healing the breaches." And after Theodore Roosevelt's death, Watterson said, "Our differences cut no figure in our personal relations."

If sometimes excessively outspoken, Colonel Watterson was not at all irresponsible. In a review of his autobiography, published in 1920, we quoted his serious view of newspaper duty: "I truly believe that next after business integrity in newspaper management comes disinterestedness in the public service, and next after disinterestedness come moderation and intelligence, cleanliness and good feeling in dealing with affairs and its readers." Speaking to a gathering of newspaper men on the day of Colonel Watterson's death, a Washington correspondent who as a younger man served under Colonel Watterson on the "Courier-Journal" quoted him as saying: "A 'Courier-Journal' reporter always gets the news, and always gets it first; but he always remembers in getting it that the 'Courier-Journal' is a gentleman."

It would be hard to say whether Watterson was the more striking and salient figure in journalistic life or in political life. Both sides are brought out in the autobiography, and we strongly recommend Americans generally to read that book, which is one of the most illuminating and entertaining of American biographies.

A keen and just characterization is that of one writer, who says, in effect,

that theoretically Watterson made implacable enemies, but practically he did not, because, though his temper was hot, his nature was kindly. He hated emotionalism and hysteria, but he was always ready to fight for his political principles, even though at times he skirmished outside party lines.

By Colonel Watterson's death the country loses a brilliant writer, a notable public figure, a man of marked individuality, and one of surprising vitality.

LO, THE POOR IMMIGRANT!

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HRISTMAS on Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, was different from any preceding Christmas there.

Heretofore those who have been compelled to spend that day on that island had at least the pleasant anticipation of entering a new and prosperous life in America. But on Christmas day, 1921, Ellis Island held more immigrants than it had capacity for, and very many of them were deprived of any anticipation of a new and prosperous life in America.

They were facing deportation. The transatlantic steamship companies have delivered aliens in excess of the quotas established under the Immigration Law passed last May. That law limits the annual number of incoming immigrants to three per cent of the number of foreign-born persons of any nationality in the United States-a mechanical and mediæval provision, as The Outlook has said. It deprives us of aliens whom we want and gives us aliens whom we do not want.

It provides that a fixed number of Poles, for instance, may be admitted to

the country during each month of the year, the total forming, of course, three per cent of the Poles already resident in America. Now the Poles in Europe who want to come here may embark from Dantsic, as the one Polish port, or from any other port, may take passage on any ship, and may arrive at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or other Atlantic ports. Not until the vessels containing these Poles have docked is it finally possible to decide how many incoming Poles have a right to remain here.

Suppose the immigrant is deported. What then? Many families have sold their homes and have spent practically all that they had in getting to ports and paying steamship fares. Now they must return in this winter-time to their own impoverished countries, with no home to go to and probably without the opportunity of taking up again the work they had abandoned. There may be even something worse. The story is told of some Armenian women and children who three months ago came to the United States seeking safety, who were deported because the Armenian quota had been exceeded, and who returned to meet, not only death, but a still more terrible fate.

THE ATLANTIC CARRIERS

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T is not unnatural that the transatlantic steamship companies should wish to take as many emigrant passengers as they think they can land. They have been exasperatingly exceeding their monthly immigrant quotas, despite the fact that they had before them figures showing the exact status of the quotas from each country. No less than three thousand aliens in excess of these quotas have been disembarked at our ports. Some immigrants, by executive clemency, have been temporarily admitted under bond, where it has been shown that deportation would be an extreme offense against humanity, and in addition, the eleven hundred immigrants at Ellis Island under orders to be deported have now been admitted for ninety days. More than twelve hundred aliens have been returned to their former homes because of excess of quotas. At present over two thousand aliens in New York Harbor await an opportunity to be landed.

Hence, at the Secretary of Labor's in stance, Representative Johnson, of the State of Washington, Chairman of the House Immigration Committee, has introduced a bill empowering the Secre tary of Labor to penalize steamship lines by withdrawing immigration privileges from them for continued violation of the quota law. Nor is this all. As the result of that law shows, in too