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THE MORNING OEEGONIAN, TUESDAY, 31 AY . 20, 1019. ARMHS DEMANDS ARE HELD EXCESSIVE People, It Is Asserted, Are Asking Too Much. PROTECTORATE IS NEEDED Capacity of People for Self-Govern- mcnt Xot Yet Proved Spirit of - Itevengc Is Pronounced. BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. Copyright ny the New York Herald Com pany. Published by Arrangement.) CONSTANTINOPLE, May 18. (Spe cial.) The spirit that has made for disunion, dissatisfaction and disintegra tion in the Ottoman empire cropped out at a tea given the Herald and Orego nian correspondent at the new Arme nian club of Constantinople for in the old days the Armenians were not per mitted to have a club or other organ ization of their own. except their church. A group or tangiish-speaking Armenians were discussing with me the whole question of Armenia's and Turkey's future and they were quite andid in admitting that the territorial claims of Armenia are entirely too Kreat, much being asked for on the principle of oriental bargaining when less -is expected. Quickly I heard the only objection to the one mandatory plan for Turkey that has thus far reached me. It was singularly naive, ar.d revelatory of the sort of spirit that has made Turkey so lonj; a seething cauldron of antipa thies. Nevertheless, its source may not be lost sight of Armenians who have suffered, as a people, matchless hor rors at the hands of the Turks, and who have throughout all cherished the dream of a nation of their own, free Irom Turkish influence. Let me quote the - substance of the leader's remarks: "If one nation is made mandatory for all Turkey and the claims of Armenia are made probationary, to be settled finally at the end of five or ten years don't you see what will happen? If safety and quiet and prosperity come to the whole Ottoman empire, then the Armenians scattered over it will not immigrate to Armenia, and at the end of five years we shall not have suffi cient population to justify our inde pendent existence. Indeed, the very un certainty of America's status after the trial period would deter Immigration, We are not seeking the welfare of the Turk or other peoples; we want our own nation to be established success fully." People Have Suffered Long. ' In truth, the atmospnere of that gathering seemed filled with the idea that the worse the fate of the Turk the better pleased they would be. Which is not unnatural, even though it does not make for world peace. Forebodings and suspicion come easily to folk who have been as long under the harrow as the Armenians have been. The loyalty of Armenians to their national asplra tions is not to be extinguished by the mere removal of physical danger where they now reside. One Armenian captain in the British army expressed the extreme feeling toward Turkey with brutal frankness when he said: "Let the Turks be coolies and laborers, hewers of wood and draw ers of water for the Armenians That is the lot into which they will sink. They are not fit to govern themselves or anybody else." Nowhere else in the world is there such a spirit of bitterness between dif ferent elements of the population as may be found in the Ottoman empire Each radical group is not only for it self, but also against others. Even the smallest would be willing to wreck the whole structure to make a "bonfire to celebrate its own triumph. Nobody talks in terms of good will and comity and neighborliness and common welfare except the Turks, and they are ani mated, at any rate in part, by a desire to preserve at least the outward sem blance of their nation, even though the real power be taken from them. The Turk is perfectly willing to have great power come in and clean up the mess he has made of things, but he will fight to extermination against being put under the little people whom once he ruled. Protectorate In Needed. And these little people sometimes freely exult in the prospect of having authority over the Turkish population Then they will settle old scores, they say. This thirst for vengeance is ori ental and though one hears the theory propounded by their leaders that th Armenian are a European people, with a. superior cultural life of their own the fact remains thta they are ntirely oriental, and that it is yet to be prove that an oriental people can maintain a republic successfully. All th thoughtful Armenians with whom have talked freely say that they will need a protectorate for a. considerabl time to come. At this writing Armenia is the on group in this diversified country hav ing definite assurance that its claim to a separate national existence will be ratified. The only question is on of boundaries. Nobody in Constanti nople expects that the huge block of territory stretching from Mount Ararat to Trebizond, on the Black sea, an down to Aaana and Alexandretta, on the Mediterranean, will be turned over to the Armenians, whose numbers are entirely a matter of conjecture, bu avowedly a small minority of the popu lation. It would fare ill with the sub ject Moslems to come under Armenian rule in the present temper of the latter. When it comes to statistics of popu lation out here an. investigator simply throws up his hands in despair. Take the case of the Armenians, whose suf ferings have deservedly earned them the sympathy of civilization. When one talks with Armenians about the atrocities he is told that the race has been practically wiped out; there "are no men left." Millions, However, Claimed. Talk with those same men about Ar menia's political future, and apparently with no sense of inconsistency they de clare that there are over three million, possibly over four million Armenians in the world, at least two and a half million of whom would be citizens and residents of the new Armenian re- ublic! One turns to the Statesmen's Tear Book of 1911 and learns that there were then somewhat over 1,000,000 Ar menians in Turkey: the Encyclopedia Britannica is 'in substantial agreement. f more than a million Armenians have been slain, whence come these men who are campaigning: for a new na- ion? The answer is simple. Present evi dence. Dr. James L.- Barton, the head of the American committee for relief in the near east, tells me that less than million Armenians perished in the trocities. People once thought dead ave come out of hiding. Socond, there were probably in the world more Ar menians, who are a very prolific race, than the authorities reported. Third, the movement for independence is argely the work of Armenians in America, France, England, Russia, Constantinople and other places where the race has been safe and free and prosperous, although it also truly rep resents the desire of a majority of the Armenians everywhere. Whether the wealthy ar.d successful Armenians of Constantinople, Tiflis, Cairo, Smyrna and elsewhere, who have onstributed relatively little for the relief of their suffering compatriots, would ever move to the new Armenia more than questionable. Armenians Hare Failing;. Personally, I believe that the Arme nians should have a country of their own and one larger than the little republic which they now possess in the Caucasus around Mount Ararat having secured it during the war by capitulation to Turkey and Germany. That move, by the way, was a grievous reflection upon the Armenian charac ter. That their politicians should sur render to the Turks when the allies were still fighting them, seemed even to many Armenians as disloyal as well as a dangerous thing, for it e: posed them to the fate of being told by the peace conference: "You have got your Arme nian republic. Keep it and make the best of it. We only Insist that you stop fighting with the Georgians over a trivial boundary question: but we grant you the fullest rights with the repub- ic that you secured from our enemies at an hour when we needed the moral and physical support of very friend." While personally convinced that Ar menia's claims ' should be recognized, there is no escaping the fact that the foreigners in the east American, Brit ish and others do not like the Arme nians. They freely admit that his fail- ngs are those of a people who have been long under subjection to the Turk- sh yoke. His social and political en slavement may account for his unde sirable qualities. But they express the fear that the Armenians will never successfully govern themselves, much less other people. They lack mutual loyalty and self-subordination and that sort of sagacity which is called com mon sense." Europeans in the levant prefer the Turk to the Armenian. Now we shall see. The iutk nas been on trial and has teen a failure as a government. The Armenian is about to be put on trial, though saaiy nana icapped. He should have the kindly judgment and frieadly co-operation of civilization. LODGE FINDS LEAGUE STILL UNACCEPTABLE G. 0. P. Leader Says Senate Suggestions Ignored. REAL TEXT MUST BE SEEN FIVE NAVY BOUTS SINK DESTROYERS SUFFER IX STORM OFF FRENCH COAST. Dangerous to .Peace of World and American Rights and Inter ests Is Declaration. WASHINGTON, May 19. Senator Lodge, republican leader and chairman of the foreign relations committee, in a statement tonight declared that the revised league of nations "is unaccept able' and predicted it would not be accepted by the majority of the senate without amendment. Characterizing the new league cove nant as included in the peace treaty 'as distinctly worse than the old and more dangerous to the peace of the world and to American rights and in terests." Senator Lodge declared that none of the suggestions from the sen ate or from Elihu Root had been car ried out. Amendments Are FtTored. Senator Lodge's statement follows: "So far as I can judge, and I have had conversations with many senators, including members of both parties, I am satisfied that a majority of the senate feel very strongly that the league as now presented must receive amendment; that in its present form. without any change, it is unacceptable and would not be accepted. To say that the amendments put forward in the senate and those pro posed and formulated by Mr. Root on the suggestion of the state department have been met is without any founda tion. Not one of the suggestions of the senate, not one of the amendments pro posed by Mr. Root has been carried out. Some have been entirely rejected, and where there is an appearance of their having been adopted examination shows that the new form is distinctly worse than the old and more dangerous to the peace of the world and to American rights and interests. Text of Treaty Not Received. "It is impossible now to enter upon a detailed analysis because, although we may suppose that the draft of the league sent over in the press dispatches is fairl-y accurate, we have no knowl edge of the treaty with Germany or of its relations to the league. The sum mary which was sent out was not only incomplete, but vague and inaccurate and it is impossible to gather from what the terms imposed upon Germany in many respects really are. "There is no. desire anywhere to delay the treaty of peace with Germany one moment beyond the time necessary to understand it, but we must have it be fore us in the official form. As to the league of nations, the American people must know just what they are. to be asked to agree to. By that league they are invited to take the gravest step ever taken by the United States, and no organized clamor, no manufactured pressure of any kind will swerve the. senate from its high duty of laying before the American people exactly what the league involves and what it means to the United States and to the future peace of the world." Barber Gives Recipe For Gray Hair Mr. A. E. O'Brien, who has been a barber in New York City for many years, made the following statement: "Gray, streaked or faded hair can be immediately made black, brown or light brown, whichever shade you de Bire, by the use of the following rem edy that you can make at home: "Merely get a box of Orlex powder at any drug 6tore. It costs-very little and no extras to buy. Dissolve it In 4 oz. of distilled or rain water and comb it through the hair. Directions for mix ing and use and a gold bond guarantee come in each box. One box will last you for months. "It is perfectly safe, it does not rub off, is not sticky or gummy and leaves the hair fluffy. It will make a gray haired person look twenty years younger." Adv. Son of Portland Woman Sends Let ter Telling? of Struggle With Wind and Wave. That sailors of the American navy are still meeting dangers of the sea as truly as when the German submarines prowled the deep, is evident from the account of the death of two officers and 17 men with the loss of five united States destroyers, April 27. as related in a letter from Kenton J. McCarthy to his mother, Mrs. W. S. Worden, 256 East Thirty-third street North. McCarthy was a member of the crew of the Douglass, one of the vessels lost in the storm between Brest, France, and the Azores islands. He is 19 years old and enlisted here March 19, 1917. After being trained at Goat island he was assigned to the San Diego, on which boat he made the trip through the Panama canal to New York. He was later sent to France and was as signed to a mine sweeping fleet out of Brest. The fleet had started for the United States when overtaken by the storm between Brest and the Azores. McCarthy's letter to his mother, writ ten on the U. S. S. Bridgeport, at Brest, is as follows: "We left Brest April 27 for the Azores islands at 6 in the morning. At 2 o'clock P. M. we had sprung a leak and were in a bad storm. Every wave washed the deck and all hands were wet to the arms. You could not stand on the deck at all. "At 3 o'clock the U. S. S. Rambler lost a man overboard and the other ships stopped to help look for him. "The U. S. S. Douglass, our ship, had hardly stopped when our wheel ropes came off and we were powerless. The waves had us and in the hour we had to fix the ropes back on the wheel we were slowly sinking. "At 4:30 P. M. the TJ. S. S. Courtney, sinking fast, sent an S. O. S. to the U. S. S. Seresa and that boat took its crew off. "The U. S. S. James, also in a helpless condition, was being towed by the U. S. S. Marietta. "The Douglass was helpless at 6 o'clock and sent out an S. O. S. for the Seresa, which came up and took us off. "The Courtney sank as we boarded the Seresa and then the Douglass sank At 8 o'clock the U. S. S. Janet crew was saved by the U. S. S. Marietta and soon after the James sank, also. The Gpysy Queen, which came to our assistance. hit upon the rocks and blew up, losing 16 men and two officers. The Seresa with the crews from the Douglass and Courtney aboard, started for Brest. 50 miles away. At midnight she sent out an S. O. S.; her boilers were leaking and she had a hole in her side. The U. S. S. Favorite, a sea-going tug, came out and towed us In. "We arrived at 10:30 o'clock in the morning of the 2Sth and the U. S. S. uourtney, uougiass and James were sunk, the Gypsy Queen blown up and the Seresa, now sinking at her moor ings. Help is going out this afternoon. Seventeen men and two officers lost. I am O. X., but lost everything I had." PORTLAND TO HAVE PLANE Local Company Organizes With Capital Stock of $6000. Portland is to have a commercial air plane. A Curtiss-built machine is now on its way here and will be ready to take passengers on flights May 30, ac cording to R. C. Barnes, president and general manager of the Oregon Aircraft Transportation company, which has been incorporated with a capital of $6000.. Mr. Barnes announces that the com pany was incorporated for commercial purposes only and already has several contracts for aerial advertising, besides hundreds of applications for passenger tickets. The plane is the same design as used to train army fliers and is equipped with a Curtiss 100 horse-power motor. The company has secured as pilot for the plane Lieutenant William D. Pier son. a Portland boy who holds a com mission in the Reserve Officers' corps and who acted as head instructor in advance stage of tying at Baron Field, Texas, for nearly a year. Trips with passengers will be made from the Rose City Speedway during the coming mo torcycle races. Officers of the Oregon Aircraft Transportation company are: R. C. Barnes, president; A. L. Inman, vice president; B. F. Brownlow, treasurer Clarence M. Eubanks, secretary. All applications for rides in the plane should be made to Secretary Eubanks, 505 Journal building. YOU CAN CURE THAT BACKACHE, l'ain alons the back, dizziness, headache nnd general languor. Get a package of Mother (iray's AKOMATIC-LEA1, the pleas ant Medicinal Tea. Use It at first sign of a cold. "When you feel all run down, tired, weak and without energy use this remark able combination of nature's herbs and roots. As a tonic laxative It has no equal. Mother Gray's Aromatic-I.vaf is sold by Druggists or sent by mail for 60 cents. Sample sent I'Khis. .Address, Motner Uiay to.. J-e Roy, Eugene Laramie Released. VANCOUVER. Wash., May 19. (Spe ca.u) iiugene1 mramie. who was brought here Saturday in the custody of Deputy fcjheriff George Sanford, on a charge of wife-desertion, was re leased on a bond of $200 conditioned to appear whenever wanted. He is also to pay $25 per month for' the support of his wife pending the final decision of divorce proceedings which have been Instituted , MILL WORKERS GET RISE Wages Increased in Plants Around North Bend, Or. NORTH BEND. Or., May 19. (Spe cial.) The adoption of a new wage scale with increase in the minimum wage for common labor from 45 to 5 cents an hour, and a proportionate in crease in skilled labor, was announced by the Buehner Lumber company her today. The increase in wages will be come effective at once and will apply to over 2o0 employes. Other sawmills on the bay are oper ating under a wage schedule with minimum of 4a cents or less, but it is believed that the action of the Buehne company will reflilt in a (reneral ad vance in all the mills and plants. Th Increase in wages by the Buehner com pany is attributed to a marked im provement in the lumber industry an to a scarcity of experienced men seek ing employment in the mills under the lower wage schedule. CATHOLIC ORDER GROWING Kniglits of Columbus Initiate 3 Candidates at Baker. BAKER, Or., May 19. (Special.) About thirty-five candidates were initi ated into the Knights of Columbus at the annual initiation ceremonies here Sunday. A large number of members of the order participated in the march to the cathedral to attend high mass which started at 10:30 o'clock. Im mediately following the service at th church the initiation was started the lodge rooms at the Eagles' hall. In the evening a banquet was served to the knights by the ladies of the parish in the cathedral auditorium. large number of outside members were in attendance at the ceremonies. Brownsville Teachers Will Xot Stay BROWNSVILLE, Or., May 19. (Spe cial.) There is to be a general shake up in Brownsville school affairs nex year. The town now consists of two school districts divided by the Cala pooia river, but these are to be unitrd and one school will result. But where Quality Is the Keynote More and more men are learning to depend on the clothes we sell. They know that this common sense store has no unworthy merchandise to offer or to advertise. Just good, sensible, serv iceable clothes, correctly styled and tailored and priced on-a business basis that men appreciate. When you buy here, you can expect quality and not be disappointed. Moderate prices always. Men's and Young Men's Clothes $25 to $65 k'ii Jjj ji s5 llj l&ll jt- ifilSlllPi' flu l tftaftlvlfii mil ailM.mMm Men's Lisle Hose 35c 3 pair for $1.00 in black, blue, white, gray, champagne and the popular cordovan MEN S WEAR Corbett Buildin or Fifth and Morrison 1 What 1 are the teachers to cone from? Prac tically all of the present corps of in structors have obtained more remun erative jobs elsewhere. Professor Rob ert H. Down has been elected to the principalship of the Lebanon schools. Miss Let a Meacham will teacn domestic science and art at Albany. Miss Grace Sweeney will teach in a Portland grade school. Miss Vera Merchant has ac cepted a position in a Lebanon school, and Mis3 Prudence Bayley will be prin cipal of a grade school in the same city. Miss Melinda Enke and Miss Roberta Holloway, the two remaining Brownsville teachers, have not yet ac cepted positions. Alaska Employs Special Counsel. SEATTLE, Wash., May 19. Appoint ment of Maurice D. Leehey of Seattle as special counsel of the Alaska territorial shipping board, announced today, marks the beginning of the territory s investi gation into mail, freight and passenger traffic conditions prevailing between Puget Sound and Alaska. The board, created by the recent territorial legis lature, appropriated $300,000 for the purpose and for establishment of a territorial steamship line to Puget Sound, if found to be necessary to im prove service to the north. Tacoma Gets New Y. M. C. A. Man. TACOMA. Wash., May 19. (Special.) James I. Muffley, now general secre tary of the Newcastle, Pa.. Y. M. C. A., has been chosen and accepted the Ta coma Y. M. C. A. secretaryship. Mr. Muffley came here and looked over the field and returned to Pennsylvania to close up his work there. He will re- . turn to Tacoma July 1. turers, who say the outlook is better now than it has been in several months. The improvement is iargely due to gen eral building work in the east and mid dle west, where an unusually large amount of public work is in progress. The local building boom, caused by special reductions to home builders for May, also has affected the demand for materials. SELF-POISONING VERY PREVALENT Demand for Lumber Growing. HOQUIAM, Wash., May 19. (Special.) A growing- demand for lumber is in evidence, according to local nianufac- Better IMnal Because of its fine grain retains moisture longer than other breads, yet makes de licious golden brown toast. 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