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Show SEEK PROTECTION OF RIGHTS Of GREECE Hellenes in ' Mass Meeting Decide to Appeal to the Peace Conference. r' For the purpose of formulating resolutions resolu-tions appealing for the protection of the rights of Greece at the peace conference, a mass meeting was held ai the Salt Lake theater 4 yesterday afternoon under the auspices of tlie Greek Commit nit v. society. so-ciety. The meeting was presided over by S. G. Ski iris. The session was opened by the Uev. Chris Agelopoulos. John George spoke in Greek, as did George Photos, a Greek editor. t ither speakers were Secretary of State Harden Hen- nion. Judge J. Louis prown, Culbert Olson Ol-son and Peter Marthakis. Mr. Mathakis, who is a graduate of the University of T'tah and until he entered en-tered the United States army a teacher in one of the Hingham schools, emphasized the right of the people of Greece to govern gov-ern themselves by (he establishment of a democratic government, and he called upon the American people to protect them in tejr rights, on the ground that SO. Odd Greeks fought with the United States army In ihe war. representing 2 per cent of the en t ire Greek " population of the United States. Mr. Mathakis reviewed the history of Greece from -pit P.. C.. when Athens "was j taken by J.ysander, who established de-i de-i moeracy and intrusted the government to the "thirty tyrants." "I believe the civilization of the Greeks," the speaker said, "was so perfect per-fect that as far as it reached in the world men became more perfect. We have discovered new forces, have made new inventions, but we have changed in no way the method of thinking laid down by the Greeks. None of us has ever replaced re-placed Aristotle's logic or Kuclid's geometry, geom-etry, or bettered tlie analysis of Greek grammar. Nothing supersedes Homer Socrates or the works of Plato nd Demosthenes. All of these were current cur-rent in the Greek world before tiie rise of Christianity. "The Greeks held supremacy in science, as well as in other departments of knowledge. knowl-edge. They did not discover the power of heat or elccfricity. but thev carried out in mechanical works projects that no modern builder, with all his vaunted control con-trol of nature, can accomplish. Greek thought has been the greatest and clearest clear-est that the world lias vet experienced. "Half of the allied army on the Macedonian Mace-donian front in this great war was composed com-posed of Greeks. It was in the Mace- 1 donlan campaign that the Bulgarian defense de-fense was crushed and the Auslro-Ger-nian and Turko-Bulgarian despotisms were once and for all overthrown. "Bulgaria's surrender meant also tlie downfall of Turkey and A ustria. Thus the threatened destruction of liberty, humanity, hu-manity, honor and religion was stopped by the collapse of Bulgaria." The resolutions follow; "Whereas. The President of the United States, in his declaration nf principles, in relation to the terms of settlement, has shown his interest in. and pledged his full support at the forthcoming peace conference to, the political as well as tiie territorial rights of nations; and, "Whereas. In the interest of .h 1st fee. the unredeemed Greeks or Bulgaria and the Turkish empire are, hy petition and declaration, appealing for union with their motherland, and for the restoration of their political and territorial rights as a part of tho Greek nation; therefore, be It "Resolved. That we welcome this opportunity op-portunity of giving our individual and collective support to the appeal of the 3.0h0,0OO unredeemed Greeks who today are looking to Americans as their liberators.; lib-erators.; and, lie it further "Resolved. That copies of these resolutions reso-lutions be forwarded to the president of the United Slates, to coneress. lo the public press and to J1remler Yenlzcios of Greece." |
