OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES Board of Governors Executive Committee Forum Committee Victor J. Loring 1918-1919 GEORGE S. SMITH, President JOHN WHITE, JR., First Vice-President (Chess, Checkers, Dominoes) William F. Jarvis C. T. McCotter True W. White Art and Library Committee Bulletin Committee *George H. Ellis Billiard and Pool Committee Hospitality Committee *H. A. Chase Charles H. Simons Arthur Crossley C. B. Barker Membership Committee *Wm. T. A. Fitzgerald 1 BOSTON CITY CLUB BULLETIN FOR THE INFORMATION OF MEMBERS OF THE CLUB "This Club is founded in the spirit of good fellowship and every men ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR FEBRUARY Thursday Evening, February 6 DEAN CHARLES R. BROWN of the Yale Faculty Commemorating Lincoln's Birthday No. 5 "THE GREATEST MAN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY " JOHN K. ALLEN presiding. Dinner at 6 o'clock; tickets at Civic Secretary's office. Auditorium, eight o'clock Monday Evening, February 10 (Forum) Banquet Hall, Ninth Floor, 8 p.m. F. G. R. GORDON "THE MENACE OF STATE SOCIALISM IN AMERICA " Mr. Gordon, formerly affiliated with the Socialist Labor Party, is now a powerful influence in opposing the tenets of Socialism. În a recent communication to the Boston Herald he wrote: "May I not suggest to those leaders of the newly formed 'American Labor Party,' who have as one of their chief planks the socialistic ownership and operation of all utility property, that for the thirty-year period preceding the war, the British cities increased in valuation of real estate by thirty per cent while the taxes increased during the same period by more than three hundred per cent, all due to the plunge into municipal socialism. If we take the plunge here we shall probably have even worse results, because we have less efficiency in the governmental conduct of any industry than the British municipalities." Thursday Evening, February 13 COL. ROBERT H. C. KELTON "THE MIRACLE OF CHATEAU-THIERRY" The Club is fortunate in securing Colonel Kelton, who, in addition to being an Army Officer who fought in the Battle of Chateau-Thierry, is also an excellent speaker. It will be the first time that the story of this famous battle has been told to members of the Club. Dinner at 6 o'clock; tickets at Civic Secretary's office. Thursday Evening, February 20 CONCERT by members of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Theodore Seydel, conductor. Mr. Sergei Adamsky, tenor. Mr. Seydel, who has been a member of the Orchestra for twentyfive years, is making every effort to arrange a program which will be popular and appeal to the members of the Club. There will be a num ber of instrumental solos as well as the vocal solos by Mr. Adamsky. Auditorium, eight o'clock. Members only Monday Evening, February 24 (Forum) Banquet Hall, Ninth Floor, 8 p.m. REV. GERALD C. TREACEY, S. J., of the Boston College Faculty "THE LOGIC OF IRELAND'S CLAIMS " Father Treacey is a professor of Evidence and History of Philosophy. During the war he served as Chaplain in the 59th Infantry, a Regular Army Regiment, and has only recently returned to this country. He believes that the December elections show clearly that Ireland wants exactly those things that our American armies have been fighting for. Thursday Evening, February 27 WILLIAM LYMAN UNDERWOOD "A STRANGE STORY OF THE NORTH WOODS" (Illustrated) It is a pleasure to announce again our fellow-member, whose unique and interesting talks are always welcome. His lecture this year is startling in its originality and human interest. The topic is suggestive of mystery, and those who are fortunate enough to hear it will admit it is one of the strangest stories ever told. Dinner at 6 o'clock; tickets at Civic Secretary's office. Auditorium, eight o'clock ADVANCE NOTICE Friday, March 28 SONS OF MEMBERS NIGHT Two prizes of Five Dollars each will be awarded to the boy who submits the best essay in prose (not over two hundred words), and the best poem (not over sixteen lines), on Advice to Fathers. The prize-winning essay and poem will be read at the dinner, and also some receiving honorable mention. REVIEW OF RECENT EVENTS "AN AMERICAN AMBASSADOR IN WAR TIMES " "Mr. Chairman, Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Boston City Club, It is to be counted by me not only a pleasure, but a privilege to come to you to-night, to tell you something of the life of an American ambassador lived in times of war. "The Ottoman Empire is a strange land, a land of peoples of nations within a nation, such as exists in no other land under the sun. The country is made up of about ten different peoples who have all been subjects of one monarchy for five hundred years or more, and yet who have never mingled together, have never become one people, one nation, one country. Each has preserved his own customs, his own habits, his own language. They have lived separate and apart, almost as other inhabitants of different lands, and lived under different rulers. That has been, in part, due to the actions of the great European powers. They have sought, perhaps, to protect these different peoples in this land, and have enacted for them certain rights under the laws of Turkey which have served to keep them apart and not make them one homogeneous people. 113 - the descendants of the people who - "Side by side in that land lived inhabited many ancient kingdoms, Syria, Arabia, Armenia, Palestine, the Turks themselves, the Greeks, all form and make up the great Turkish Empire, but have never come together to make one homogeneous people: Greeks who have never seen Greece, neither they nor their fathers nor forefathers for ten generations or more, descendants of those Greeks who held all of Europe, including Constantinople, until five centuries ago, when the Turks on their onward victorious march reached the gates of Vienna and captured it: Armenians, descendants of that ancient people, wonderful people, said to be the first of the pagan tribes to have accepted the doctrines of Christ, and to have suffered for it ever since: Syrian Christians, a wonderful people, who have lived in that ancient kingdom of Syria: Jews, not those we know of in America, but descendants of those Jews who came from Spain four centuries ago, driven out because of persecution of a Christian monarch, and finding for a while, only a short while, the rest and quiet and safety under a so-called Barbarian. "Now, these Armenians, like the Greeks, speak their own tongue; the Arabs speak their own tongue; even those Jews who came from Spain four hundred years ago still speak Spanish and have preserved it. Of course, many of those peoples speak different tongues. Many speak two or three or four or five languages. It is no uncommon thing to have the children who beg from you in the streets to beg from you in several languages. The Ottoman Empire is made up of all of these peoples and races and creeds. "The government was, during the last eight or nine years, osten sibly a liberal monarchy. They had a constitution, a chamber of deputies, a Senate. The chamber of deputies was selected nominally by the people. Until eight or nine years ago, when they had the Young Turk Revolution, there was an absolute monarchy under the most corrupt leader that Turkey ever had, the old Sultan Abdul Hamid; and the Turks themselves revolted, and, with the help of the progressive Armenians and the Greeks and the other peoples, they had a bloodless revolution. "The real government of the land was in the hands of the Cabinet, patterned after the government of France. But that government was dominated by two or three men, whose names stand out and who are responsible for all that transpired there. "The figure of man who is best known, or who has the most notoriety, is the man who was minister of war, Enver Pasha. Enver had a remarkable career; he began from nowhere. He was an under officer in the Turkish army, receiving his education or later training in Berlin. He was a military attaché of the Turkish Embassy at Berlin when the Turkish Revolution began, of which he was one of the leaders nine or ten years ago. He rose from that minor position not only to be one of the leaders, one of the great governors of the land, but to marry the niece of the sultan, and he believed himself to be a second Napoleon. He patterned himself upon that great leader, and it was whispered that through his marriage with the reigning family he expected, as the outcome of the war, and that Germany had promised him, for his support |