Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1919 — EXTRY! PEACE CONFERENCE HELD IN LIL’ RENSSELAER [ARTICLE]

EXTRY! PEACE CONFERENCE HELD IN LIL’ RENSSELAER

Had the citizenry of staid olc Rensselaer been aware of what was transpiring within the city limits Sunday night, the very foundations of the city would have rocked with excitement. Never has such an ep-och-making event occurred here as -took piano .in the clnh rooms of the Van Rensselaer club. Enter the first authentic peace conference! While the peac e representative s in Europe are hemming and hawing around trying to get started on their task of adjusting delicate international problems, consuming valuable time in so doing, such was not the case with the local Lloyd Georges and Woodrow Wilsons. There were no preliminaries, there was no contesting the right of anyone to sit at the peace table. Problems that are turning the hair of illustrious men gray were dissolved in such a remarkably short period of time tlmt it dazed the awed listener. The nice part about the conference was that each member had his mind made up before ever entering the discussion. Six entered the discussion and when ■all was said and done there were but six different opinions.