Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 1 [PAGE 10]

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(8) Publications. One of the most important forms of service undertaken by the Committee last year was the publication of a series of leaflets intended to furnish information for the general public on war issues and problems. A list of these pamphlets is given in Dean Ivinley's report of July 13. A considerable part of the distributing and some of the printing were not completed until after that date with the result that over $2,000 of this expense has been charged to this year's account. These pamphlets have been widclv distributed and requests have come from distant states as well as from those in our immediate neighborhood. After the signing of the armistice it seemed to us that a different type of publication was desirable, dealing with the problems involved in the international settlement. Accordingly a new publication committee was appointed consisting of Professor L. M. Larson, chairman, Professors Ernest Bernbaum, J. \V. Garner, Simon Litman, A. T. Olmstead, and Jacob Zeitlin. A partial list of the publications agreed upon for a series of short pamphlets follows: " T h e New Arabian S t a t e , " Professor Olmstead; "Constantinople," Professor Olmstead; " T h e German Colonies," Professor Bernbaum (tentative); " T h e Russian Situation," Professor Zeitlin; " T h e Ukraine," Professor Litman; " W h a t to do with Turkey," Professor Newell; " T h e League of Nations," Professor Greene; "Economic Aspects of Reconstruction," Professor Robinson; " T h e Present Status of International L a w , " Professor Garner; " T h e Jugo-Slavs," Dr. P. V. B. Jones; " T h e Basin of the Baltic," Professor Larson. A considerable amount of work has already been done upon this series and it is expected that two numbers will be ready for the press in about a week. I t is proposed to in elude in these pamphlets simple non-controversial material on geographic, ethnographic, economic, and political factors in what may be called the "problem areas" of Europe, together with certain other topics likely to be considered by the peace congress. II. Continuation of Existing Service.

M the changed conditions but some of it will require attention durine the The following activities of the w A Committee seem to come under this latter head: War Loan been announced and there should be some University agency ready cooperate in secunngthe fullest possible subscription bv the University community^ the record already made by any slackening at the end. The leadership of University men is peculiarly important now in view of the natural elax after the peculiar strain of war has been

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