Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1920 — THE COLLEGE VOTE [ARTICLE]

THE COLLEGE VOTE

The early reports as given in the papers of yesterday showed a heavy majority io American codleges for ratification of Che peace treaty. More meh and women voted for ratification without change than for the Lodge reservations. The total vote of those who would ratify with reasonable reservations and with no changes was 23,799 as against 8,035 for the Lodge plan. Out of a total of 35,216 only 3,382 voted to reject the treaty. Today the showing is even more favorable to ratification. Of over 100,000 votes cast by faculties and students of 475 universities and colleges, 46,259 were for ratification without reservations, while there were 33,304 who favored ratification by compromise—a total of 79,563. There were 23,577 votes for the Lodge reservations, and only 11,690 against ratification. There has been some question as to whether the senate cared to have indications of public opinion, and also as to the propriety of petitioning it. Such conclusions are unjuet to the senate. Apparently it is eager for returns from the colleges. For request has been received from Washington that the results of the college voting be telegraphed to Senators Hitchcock and Lodge. This referendum simply confirms facts already known, but it does so strongly. Both the great parties are represented in our colleges, probably a majority in •the northern institutions belonging to the Republican party. Senator Lodge must have been particularly interested in the returns from Harvard, his own university. His plan received only 462 votes, as against 693 who favored ratification with no changes. Adding to these latter the 1,169 who voted for compromise, we have 1,862 favorable to the treaty. Only 131 voted against ratification. The vote of Yale must have been quite as interesting to Senator Brandegee of Connecticut, a graduate of that institution. It showed 1,070 for compromise, 250 for unreserved ratification, and only 331 for the Lodge plan, and 118 for defeat of the treaty. On this occasion the colleges undoubtedly reflect the prevailing opinion of the nation. They speak in a representative capacity. On this issue, colleges, labor unions, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, churches and farmers’ organizations stand together, xlt is only a kindness to the senate to inform it of the situation. For a long time many senators honestly believed that the people were either indifferent to the treaty, or opposed to it. Now they know better, and the knowledge may very properly influence their action. The senate is entitled to, and no doubt desires all the information it can get.—lndianapolis News.

Two Americans were killed and three wounded in a light with forces of General Semenoff In Trans-Baikulia, the London Daily News learns from Harbin. The Americans captured an ■armored train. • * ♦ San Joaquin, a town of 3,000 inhabitants in the Jalapa district, state of Vera Cruz, was destroyed by an earthquake, according to reports given out by the department of agriculture at Mexico City. * * * Eyewitnesses estimate the casualties in Berlin on Tuesday at 50 killed and 100 wounded, according to the Reuter correspondent. Bullets took a heavy toll, he says, and the police finally were compelled to throw bombs ■among the rioters. ♦ ♦ ♦ A Hague dispatch says ex-Kaisei ■Wilhelm is in a state of semi-prostra-tion due to the agony and terror with which he viewed the growing determination of the allied statesmen to hale him before an international tribunal. • » * Plundering on a large scale occurred in the occupied town of Oberhausen, Germany. Men stormed the town hall, seized arms, threw the archives into the street, and stripped the shops. • ♦ • Northern and eastern France were swept by a violent storm, reports to Paris stating that three persons have been killed and 12 injured. Heavy •damage Is reported from various ♦cities. • * • (Between 30,000 and 40,000 of the ‘German prisoners In France will be repatriated through Switzerland within the next few weeks, according to a Geneva dispatch. These prisoners liave been interned in southern France. * * * Minister of Defense Noske showed Ids teeth to the radicals again when •machine guns were turned on mob ♦of communists and Independent so♦ciallsts who attempted to storm the rreictistag at Berlin In order to protest against the so-called “Betrleb-sraeto-gesetz,” a bill that would place 'the workmen’s councils in the various Industries on a legal basis. Twenty of the mob are dead And more than one hundred wounded. \ IMF ♦<« .