The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 9, 1923, Page 8

paween sy ewes news PB ules 2 vw iewe eres eRe THE SHATTLE STAR Tf the testimony adduced at the hearings can be substantiated the naval reserve oil lands scandals will, in due course, constitute ‘one of the most shameful chapters in our political history. - The hearings before the senate public lands committee, which ve just closed, have shown, among other facts, these: That the lease of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve to Harry I. Sinclair and associates was a secret deal made between former See- etary Fall and Sinclair at the former's rench near Three Rivers, New Mexico. ‘That immediately upon his resignation Fall became a highly id employe of the Sinclair oil interests. That Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt—who testified that he “was so busy with the personnel fight in congress _ that he knew nothing about the lease, really’—has been at various times a large stockholder and director in the Sinclair companies : i] (and so far there is no indication to the contrary), the story of and tat his brother, Archibald, is now vice president director and large stockholder in the same concern. That a number of high naval officers protested against the transfer of these Teapot Dome lands to Sinclair, and that in return for their fearlessness Secretary Fall requested that two of the most obstreperous—Commanders Stuart and Shafroth—be transferred from Washington to some far distant point and that'this was done. That in the expert opinion of eminent geologists ‘and navay offi- cials there never was the slightest reason to fear the loss of oil by seepage from Teapot Dome, the sole reason given by Fall for its lease to Sinclair, but that, in any event, such seepage would have gone into Salt Creek oil district, which is also owned by the gov- ernment and upon which oil the government would also have col- lected, and does collect, royalty. That such royalty from Salt Creek averages 80 per cent as against 17 per cent from Teapot Dome. Finally, that Harry Sinclair testified before the LaFollette com- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1928. Teapot Dome Deal Becoming National Scandal of First Magnitude | e mittee that he regarded the Teapot Dome lease as worth $100,- 000,000, and upon that valuation floated stocks and bonds to the public, that as a part of the “obligations” he incurred when he secured the lease from Fall, he undertook to build a $25,000,000 ips line from Caspar, Wyoming, to Kansas City, which he now admits is a common carrier, its full capacity required to transport oil from other fields outside Teapot Dome! It has been shown that the Doheny interests have completely tied up California oil reserve No. 1, and that the sum of $15,000,- 000 has been granted them by the navy for the purpose of building pipe lines, tanks, wharves, ete., under their own private supervis- ion without any control of congress, to be paid for out of royalty oil purchased by them at the going price! These are a few facts so far apparently proved. Does anyone wonder that Senator Walsh feels these oil leases can be annulled and that the whole transaction is a stench in the nostrils of hon- est citizens? The Seattle Star | | Seventh Ave, Phone 4 United Prose Service, By t monthe $2.00, year 09.60, Published Dally by The Star Publishing or u city, Boo a month, @ Rothman, Special Representatives fan joo Monadnock Bidg.; Chicago office, Tribune Bidg.; New York Pacific Bitg.; Boston office, Tremont Bldg. Armistice. Day’s Message ‘ive years next Sunday since the armistice was signed! : time} yes. But we're still too close to the world ‘for any of us to “grasp” what really happened and its connection with the future. nder arms in the great war were 65,000,000 men. ties totaled more than 37,000,000. That tells only Of the story of horror. But it should be called daily the attention of everyone. ‘Alas, memory is short. Humanity likes to forget the sant side of life. That is why catastrophes like are repeated. One generation, trying to forget, fails impress indelibly on the minds of the rising generation ightfulness, sorrow and futility of the battlefield. lebrate Armistice day by teaching your children to nyhow, War Was Prevented BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS ‘That the league of nations did actually prevent war between Italy and Greece at the timo of the Corfu incident ts the rea soned assertion of Sir Fredertck Maurice, former major general fn tho Britian army. An observer at Geneva at the time of the crisis, Sir Frederick was {n a position to hear and seo what happened. And what hap- . why, Is all § riek in thia month's Atlantic Monthly, Read ft, It will be worth your while. I knew Sir Frederick Maurice In France in 1915 and 1916 when he was director of operations on the imperial general staff. He was {n London later, attached to the British war office and after that at the Paris peace confer. One of his jobs at the war of- fice wan to meot newspaper cor- ronpondents from all parts of the world and tell them what was going on. They came to swear by him, A stickler for truth, he never misied them, even in thone atirring times when the beat of them in jobs like his seemed to think anything went just so It boosted their side, In the end Sir Frederick sacrt- ficed his career for truth, A nol- dier all his life, he had risen, atep by step, to major general. Then, in an hour, he threw it all away by going out of his way to talk when {t would have been far easier to keep nilent. “CALLED” PREMIER ON Hs FACTS In May, 1918, none other than | statement in parliament concern. ing the disposition and number of British troops, Maurice con- sidered it unfair to the soldiers and misleading to the public. Knowing full well what would happen tp him, he published tho facty as he understood them, even going over the heads of the censom—In iteelf a war-time of. fenso—jind printing in the Lon- don Times what he had to say. Out he went in leas than a week. Then he became a news paper man, In the light of the iambasting the lengue of nations has re- ceived in America since the Corfu Incident, it will repay you to read his dispassionate chron- ‘clo of what actually happened at Geneva, He begins his story with tho murder of the Itailan officers on Greek soil, in August; Italy's drastic ultimatum to Greece and her heartless bombardment of defensejens Corfu, crowded with women and children refugees from Asin Minor. “Within 24 hours of the full de- velopment of the crisis," he writes, “the representatives of the dinputaats were seated at the same table.” This meeting of Greeks and Italians was the work of the league, “I wonder,” he adds, “if this has been very generally recog: nized at {ts full value,” Next he reveals how Italy to admit the council's right to deal with the matter. In the ime, however, the confer- ence of ambassadors—represent- ing France, Britain, Italy and a hold-over from the old supreme council—had taken cog: nizance of the incident. The Ital- Jan officers who were killed had been sent to Greece to de- reko-Albanian frontier, nd they were directly in’ . Thereafter the council of the league and the ambavsadors in Paris worked together, keeping in touch thru special couriers. Between the two Italy was made to back down off her high horse, accept a modification of her de- mands and withdraw her forces from Corfu. All this happened in less than a month after a wave of war spirit had swept Italy from one end to another, and the capitals of the whole world had considered war in- evitabie, “If the league had not been in existence,” says Sir Frederick, “and ready to receive the Greek appeal, Greece would have had no recourse but to resist the Ital- jan demands to the limit of her ability, just as Serbia resisted the Austrian demands In 1914.” The league's function, he points out, is to prevent war however it can, In this case it acted, not dramatically, but thru the ambassadors in Paris, “The essence is,” he con- cludes, “that war has been pre- vented and the competence of the league of nations has been acknowledged de facto whatever M. Mussolini may say to the contrary.” New York San Francisco We Tell It With VALUES igs my shepherd; I should worry.” ence. Los Angoles Portland Premier Lloyd George mado @ @ war and all that goes with it. Forget the “glory” hich is the camouflage of the militarists. Thirty-seven million casualties! Tell them that. -seven million casualties! Tell it again. “seven million casualties! Never stop telling. ‘True sportsmen will not kill more than the law’s allowance of game others will not either. | If you don’t want to associate with your enemies in the next world do right in this one. ody is willing to share In your winnings and nobody wants to in your losses. riches do not bring us happiness, they do bring us coal. 2 aR SR with Ite ¢ they say he A Preacher With a Punch MS meen ‘Seattle’s Dr. Matthews ought to insure his laurels, for sat a te v. F. Halsey Ambrose, pastor of First Presbyterian | y eh, Grand Forks, N. D., is surely after them. Ambrose is compelled to put upzthe “Standing Only” notice every Sabbath day anf in five years, added 600 repentan®sinnesig to the chuseh member- years have pass ho starts his iphip roll. » On taking the platform, Rev. Ambrose slaps down on h jit a mass of documents. Some of them are affi- avits to prove what he says. © Next, he is likely to announce his text as “The Lord He then plunges into dramatic declaration of his views. Often he mixes up ‘announcement, warning, criticism, or a boast with his mon, anything to get them nearer the fold. For ance: “There will be a Salvation Army drive here this week. n’t get off as cheap as you can—Grand Forts style. been in Grand Forks long enough to know. Thage is String of sparrows from one end of this town to the er singing, ‘Cheap,’ ‘Cheap,’ ‘Cheap.’” When the congregation registers uneasiness, Rev. Am- rose is likely to advise like this: ‘Ym tired. I can’t be bothered with anyone leaving. one who doesn’t want to be here until 9:30 leave now. herwise, he is likely to get a hymn book thrown at ‘0 signify the success of his efforts, he says: Know one church in this city where there are six Last Sunday night five of the six ushers were . I'd like to know who took up the collection there.” Then he points right at the leading sinners with: “Church membership is not an insurance policy against 6 fires of hell. The Lord doesn’t judge a man by the ize of his head or by the cut of his coat. If you're going 9 come into the church you had better get in while the ting is good. Oh, yes, I hers. ‘And, just to complete the dramatic “tone,” Rev. Am- e has become King Kleagle of the K. K. K. in North a, and grand cyclops of Grand Forks, Klan. Tak- ng Rev. Ambrose, altogether, by and far, Billy Sunday’s Aly hope for continued fame seems to lie in the fact to date, there have b enough miserable sinners h North Dakota to keep Rev. Ambrose busy in the home ineyard. E foolish man seeks the pot of gold at the end of the rainnow, while a ¢ man enjoys the rainbow. Very successful way of king a husband stay ight is to A ; there with him } Exit Ottoman Empire »A new George Washington, father of his country, ared on the horizon. Likewise a new republic. ‘0 the hullabaloo of loud cheers, the Turkish national embly, at Angora, has just proclaimed its country a public and made Mustapha Kemal Pasha the first emal Pasha is mainly responsible for Turkey’s come- He was the chief element in the defeat of the Brit- 4 Gallipoli. He rallied a discouraged army and ad- istered a drubbing to the Gr n Anatolia, and he fed the allies on the Dardanelles when Britain and came within an ace of war. And his was the genius ich bluffed and blocked the allies in the diplomatic ne- jations at Mudania and Lausanne. thus disappears from Europe the Ottoman empire. iit it went in a way far different from that planned by ipe allies back in 1917 when they told President Wilson imat one of their chief war aims was “the turning out of rope of the Ottoman empire as decidedly foreign to estern civilization.” Yes, the Ottoman empire is gone from Europe and the brig. But the Turkish republic is there with a bang. 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