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! ' t 7f h ; v; . ' '' ' "' - i The Weather Wilmington's Only Fair Friday and Saturday, not much chang m temperature. . . ; ' nlrrr tage FayettevUle yester day rt8a.a,9 feet. , A ; r. Press Newspaper VOL. CVL No. 195.7 WILMINGTON, N.T., FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 18, 1291. OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE. GUILTY IS JURY'S VERDICT IN THE CASE AGAINST CLARA HAMON After Deliberations of 40 Min utes, Woman ai Aramore, , Okla., Is Freed 0iE BALLOT AKEN Ripple of Applause in . Court Is Announced ARDMOUE," Okla., March 17. Clara gmith Hamon was toaay acquiuea or a charfre of having murdered Jake L. Ramon, Itepuui'vau iiauuuai uuniiiui- teenian and millionaire railroad and oil promoter. . The jury "was given the case at 4 p IT1. aim v wwin 40 minutes later. B, F. C. Laughridge, 73-year-old foreman, saia oniy one ua.no l was wk. nAmfivmA hip a vtalniw en, a secret uc, v-vjiiiii inv. Uj a noxiiB vote. Clara Hamon obtained the informa tion f"Hy seven minutes before the verdict was rendered In open court and at surrounded by members . or her 1 . lit . 1 M M t i family, nair smiling, nan airam o De- liove the nods of assurance tnat were bent toward her. AVhen Judge Thomas v. Champion mounted the bench and recleved an affirmative response to his question: "Gentlemen, have you reached a ver dict? Her eyes followed tne motions of the bailiff aa he recieved the ver dict from Mr. Laughbridge and handed it to the clerk to read. - A ripple of applause greeted the ver dict, hut was quickly suppressed. Clara Hamon gasped audibly in the tensely silent courtroom, drooped for ward In her seat, only to be seized from behind by her younger brother, "Jimmie," squeezed violently and kiss ed. Tears came to her eyes and the other members of her family cried with her as she crossed to the,' stand ing jurors and haltingly thanked them for their verdict. ' ' - '. ; "I am the happiest woman in the world," she said. S She used a secret passage from? the courtroom to escape the crowds which threatened to overwhelm ,b?ritc6n, pratulationB. Tohfght her plans-for' the future were Incomplete, she and members of her counsel of six attor neys said. She is considering a num ber of. business propositions, according to "Walter Rcott, of Fort .Worth, -Tax., one of her counsel, but what she Will do In the immediate future is unde termined. Her father, J. L. Smith, is seriously ill ta El Paso, Texas, and it was said she mfht return there to be with him In tV last days of what is termsd an illness which may be fatal. None of the members of the family of Jake- I Hamon was in the courtroom when the jury returned its verdict. Mrs. Hamon, the widow, and her l!)-year-old son, Jake L. Jr.. left when the case was placed in the jury's hands. Mrs. Hamon at that time was in lars. Mrff. Hamon attended all ses sions of ths trial, except two, clad in deep mourning and sitting directly op posite Clara Hamon, 30 inches away. Not once during the entire trial which began a week ago today, did the two women appear to become x;on scious' of each other except on the days when they testified when each regarded the other closely. Tonljfht at the home here of Mrs. Jake Hamon, it was said that she bad not. hopn told of the verdict and that 'hi would not be until tomorrow be rausp of her physical and mental con riitinn. Jake L.. Jr. said that if his mother was given the information of the acquittal after such brief consid eration by the jury, it would "tend to throw hr Into a collapse, on the verge of which she is right now." F.fiRo CHARGED WITH TAKIXG CHURCH FUNDS LEXTXGTON. March 17. James Hargrave, well known negro, and 'yeasurer of the Union Baptist church, ais aralgned today before - Recorder l"hn H. Moyer oh the charge of mis appropriating funds of his congrega tion, alleged to total 5588.91. Upon motion of the defense that a mora specific bill of particulars be furnished, Recorder Moyer continued the case until April 2. J The warrant charges that Hargrave repeatedly received money from the ncpro congregation during 1920 afia deposited , lesa amounts at "numerous times than paid him. - The pastor and sr,me of the other officials of the church appear as witnesses for the prosecution. Hargrave, declares that complicated bookkeeping is to blame for the discrepancies alleged. He has retained four prominent local lawyers to defend him, while two others apear w,th the solicitor of record's court' in 'he prosecution. . , RAU.OON BREAKS AWAY AND CARRIES OFF THREE MEN 'on with three men in the basket "rrke from its moorings' today at the Americar, naval air station at Guan janamo and sailed away, says a dis atch to El Mundo from Guantanamo. Among the men aboard was Captain Several aimlaneu. the disnatch adds. "Pnt in pursuit of the balloon, but w ithout results. Ttie message 'asserts 't "s believed the men in the balloon -re thought to have been lost.: ' FOR KENNY STORES, DEAD - . .iiirincAn A 7t 1 1. m i ' traveling auaugr( iur .iua " Pnralysia on Southern train No.r138 .'rciay, while en route from Green- to Spartanburg. Upon reaching "was taken to a local hospital. -M.omous but speechless i w... . ..'..An-- k This ii vuv vuau uv v Is New Assistant J secretary otwah Lieutenant-Colonel J. Mayhew 'Wain Wright, of New York, who ; has been nominated to J)e assistant secretary of war. Colonel Wainwright is a lawyer and served on the staff of Major-Gen-eral O'ltyan, commander of the Twenty-seventh division in . Belgium and France. C D. WEEKS CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE OF MAYOR, MAKING 3 FOR PLACE Well-Known Lawyer Announces Himself on Platform of Business Government HIS FIRST VENTURE States. That During His 20 Years, Citizenship He Has Never Been a Candidate "I think the city government should be taken out of politics. and if elected, I will do my full part to. see that It Is run on a business basis that Is my platform in my candidacy for the office of commissioner of public safety and mayor of Wilmington," declared C. D. Weeks, well known attorney, last night as he formally announced his inten tion to put his candidacy before the voters of the city for one of the three offices to be filled as a result of the primary 'April 19 and the election May 3. . .. Mr. Weeks, it is known, has been considering becoming a candidate , for mayor for the past week or so and has 'been ursred. it is said, almost con tinuously by frieiids to enter the race. Friends have been contending that he is a successful lawyer and business man, a laTge tax payer, and possesses the requisite qualifications to head the city's government. In his flormal announcement, Mr. Weeks " declares he has never before, during the 20 -years he had been a citizen of Wilmington, sought office of any kind, or description, and that he Is under no obligation ana has no al liance with any man or set of men, and, therefore, is not brought out by any one. Further, he declared, hej does not contemplate any political trades and Is running absolutely t on his own platform aiid opinions. The, announcement of Mr. Weeks Increased the number of formally ac claimed candidates to 11, the; greatest interest, apparently, nemg in tne omce of commissioner of public works, no less than five aspiring for that place. Three each seek the 1 other offices. Those formally announced are: Mayor and commissioner of public safetyJoseph H. Curtis, James . H. Cowan and C. D. Weeks. . . , Commissioner of finance slaseph J. Thompson, David N. : . Chadwick and T. W. Wood. . ' Commissioner of public works Parker Quince Moore, Rbb$rt C. Cant well, George Benson,. James I Wade and W. P. Edmondsoiu.,. I TTnder the election rules prevailing, formal announcement j of : .; candidacy can be filed by any ftthen who has a petition bearing the-names oi not iess than. 2 5 . .voter s in his favor, provided h netitlon is filed with the election officials not les than .10. days prior to the date of the primary: This would mean that April 9 would be the : final day, which leaves about, three weeks for further elaboration of the list. , vARnr i,n BONDS APRII 15 'v WASHINGTON, v March 17. April 15 Is the earliest date on rwhich.the new federal farm loan bonds can be ready for ? Issuance, Commissioner. Cobdell of the farm loan board, announcea io- fciht. '. The action of congress just De fnro ftillniirriment in extending the. call period of the bonds has " necessitated u rnnra.tnn of new- DlatCS XOrien- " " " ' ' " ' i - r ' s i I - & ' I i. ' P I : : EPUBLIGANS PLAN TO PUT THE TARIFF FIRST IN THE NEW CONGRESS Ways and Means Committee De termined to Rush Permanent Tariff Measure WEST IS INSISTENT Demands That Revenue Legisla tion Be Made, Secondary to the Tariff Bill WASHINGTON, March 17 Republi can members of the house ways and means committee stood pat today on proposition that a permanent tariff bill should top the executive program of the new session of congress. This view was expressed at a com mittee conference, which took up, among other things, the question of preparing and rushing through the house the same anti-dumping bill pass ed last session, together with an added American valuation measure. The lat ter may be incorporated in the same bill, and the committee adopted a res olution requesting treasury depart ment officials to frame a rough draft for its consideration. There was no intimation from the white house as to whether the Presi dent had approved the program agreed upon Monday at a conference of the ways and means and senate finance committees. The President had ex pected to see western members .of the former committee who. have, been in sistnt in demanding that the tariff be taken up ahead, of revenue revision, but the meetings was postponed at his request and Chairman Fordney ex plained that he had, sent Mr. Harding a list of members with whom he might want to discuss the situation. Meanwhile there were other move ments under way Which would have the effect of giving interests demand ing it an emergency tariff. There has been much discussion of the proposal by' Senator Smoth, Republican, Utah, to prevent an embargo on wool which was included In .the Fordney measure, passed by, the senate and house and vetoed by 'Mr. Wilson. Congressional and administrative circles were said to be planning-to put an embargo on other products now on the -free list. Although , they had been, advised of such a movement members of the ways and means committee declared that the emergency tariff had been definitely abandoned. , Agreement Was reached at the. meet ing today that the anti-dumping and valuation bills would not delay con sideration of a straight tariff bill for the reason that it did not fit the situa tion, with respect, tc the .free list. An swering questions .as' to: whether the committee had changed front on pri ority of tariff or revenue revision. Chairman Fordney declared that it still was a 13-vote for tariff. The west, according to the chair man,' is emphatic in urging tariff leg islation early in the session, in ad vance of all allied bills. Members said there was not a sign oif weakening and that Representatives Longworth, Ohio, and Bacharach, New Jersey,, were standing alone for reve nue first of all. Representative Young, Republican, North Dakota, a member of the com mittee, declared the passage of the anti-dumping bill would not satisfy the west, as most of the farm products of that seetfon were on the free list. The man- on the verge ' of bank ruptcy wants something to tie to," he said. "The west is up against it hard and to my mind will Insist upon hav ing the tariff up ahead of all other legislation." Chairman Fordney intimated that the committee, which will meet again tomorrow, might begin work on the tariff . bill. A motion . that the next meeting be held Monday was voted down, the view being expressed by many tnat tnere was no reason oir further, delay inasmuch as hearings were long ago concluded, and that the time had come to write the bill. DECLARES NEGROES DO NOT DESIRE ANY SOCIAL ECU AL,ITY (Special to The Star) TRINITY COLLEGE, Durham, March 17. Justice was pointed, out as the so lution of the race problem 'for the south by Major Robert R. Moton, negro, head of Tuskegee Industrial institute, In addressing an audience of 1200 Trin ity students and visitors, a number of negroes Included, in Craven Memorial hall. ' ' . A desire for social equality .on the part of the negro race was character ized as a myth. On the other hand, declared the speaker, the blacks are as strenuously opposed to sijch a . system as are the whites. As a proof of his statement, Major Moton cited an in stance where negro parents hal re fused to allow their children to be taught by the offspring of a mixed marriage. But the negroes do desire, showed the negro leader, to share a civic equality facilities which will'- insure them the proper safeguards of life and sanita tion. 'In this - connection the "Jim Crow" car was mentioned. Major Mo ton told his audience that he approved of separating the races by such a means, but regarded it as a crime to pack; people into an old flimsy car, sandwiched between the engine and a steel coach, where they were some times bullied by members of the. train crew. - - - The - students were pleaded wlthl to use their . influence. that -such discrimi nation might be minimized. . . Major Moton called attention to' the fact that the south was the land of op portunity in the United States todays both.' industrially and-agriculturally and that the negro race was; one of Its greatest assets, in .the labor supply1 of fered. Education was declared to be a meais-of better fitting the negro to live his life as ; 'an American- should. "J- S ACQUITTED! OF HOMICIDE ' ORlANDO, Fla., March 17. LeRoy Hottaling - was 'found -not guilty by a Juryhere .lafe, to,day,.ior- the murder ot, jonn American Soldiers v-. f N ' V:. ?i V-,; ? Here are some oi tne American the transport faomme witn brides they born in Germany, in tnis group are Mr. ana Mrs. Ernest Capstack, Mr. and John Ettore and Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Lark in. . TO START CASES IN BASEBALL MATTER State Drops Prosecution of Play ers Alleged to Have jThrown" World Series CHICAGO, March 17. Immediate prosecution of Chicago White Sox base ball players and others indicted in, con nection with . the alleged throwing of the 1919 - world series cfllapscd today when the state, charging, corruption of its 'chief witnesses. dropped the cases against seven. bfr the pla rs ana Judge tne7counCaii7- ;n V Tonierht.' however." the Mate plunged into the " task ""of preparing a new. case with announcement that the matter would be placed in .the , hands of a grand jury' again; tomorrow and re-indictment of the players whose cases were dropped sought. - Robert E. Crowe, state's attorney, took charge of the case today and an nounced that-he would handle (it from now on. He Ordered the cases dis missed after his plea f 9r six months in which to gather new evidence' had been denied by , Judge Deverj and May 2 set as date for. trial. ! Tonight,1 in Za formal; statement, Mr. Crowe placed the blame for the col lapse of the case On Bis predecessors. In office, charging-theyi had handled it improperly; on an allaged conspiracy which he said, had def elted justice and corrupted Joe . Jackson,' Eddie Cicotte and Claude Williams, the men who con fessed to the grand jurjf. He announc ed plans to... go personally before the grand jury tomorrow to seek new In dictments. He pledged himself to "use every means to bring the guilty persons in this case to' justice," declaring that many guilty persons had not been in dicted by the grand .jury and, that im portant witnesses were excused froTra answering questions which would have brought the real conspirators to justice. Mr. Crowe's action today released Joe' Jackson,' ' Eddie CicOtte, Claude Williams, Buck Weaver, Oscar Felsch, "Swede" Risberg and Fred McMullin from . custody of the law, their cases being dismissed. The cases against Chick Ga.ndil, Hal Chase, Joseph J. Sullivan, Rachel Brown, Abe Attell, and William Burns, .the latter five charged with . engineering the alleged world series deal, were taken off the call, bit may be brought up again. The cases dismissed were those of the-men who had surrendered and given bail. There was little prospect of the men returning to baseball, however, all. be ing both unconditionally released and on the. ineligible list. DANIELS WINE -MESS RULE : WILL STAND SAYS DENBY ; WASHINGTON, March 17. Secretary- Danby will not secind forme Secretary. Daniels much discussed order abolishing - the wine mess on board naval vessels. The naval secre tary said , today that leaving national prohibition out of consideration, he was heartily in accord with Mr. Daniels on the subject and that he did not believe a "corporal's guard'' 6f naval officers could be found who would favor prescinding the Daniels order. ' ' PRESIDENT GIVES RECEPTION " WASHINGTON, March 17.-For the first time since the United States en tered, the war '.the " white 'house today .was. the . scene, of . a reception to; the diplomatic corps. - The President and Mrs. 1 Harding received their guests, numbering about 250. in the blue room. Sepretary ,,and Mrs. "HUghes, Under Secretary o.f State and Mrs. Fletcher and s Assistant r Secretary , and Mrs. Bliss of thestate department attended the 'reception. APPROVE "WAGE" REDUCTION WASHINGTON, Miirch 17. Seven independent packing companies joined in a statement Issued .here tonight in dorsing5 the wase reductions put. into effect Monday 'by jhe fly.e big packers and declaring . the .ware scale pre viously in - effect', precluded operation at a profit' in the . packing Industry. The statement was signed by Robeits and Oake, William ' DaVles company, Louis Pfaelzer and Sons, the Indepen dent v Packing. "company, the Brennan Packing,; company., Boyd-sLunham,' jiiid Return From Rhine With soldiers from the army of occupation married while serving along the Rhine. Some returned , with youngsters TO DISCONTINUE LOCAL NAVAL RADIO STATION Secretary of the Navy Writes Senator Simmons It Will Be Closed Up (Special to The Star) WASHINGTON. March 17. Secretary of the Navy Denby has informed Sen ator Simmons that the wireless; sta tion at Wilmington must be discon tinued. ' ' :' ' T The secretary's letter says in part: "JThe question of maintaining the naval radio station at Wilmington has -been jyider jc,ns i3.era n feXb ejie partment for'; ipptitti',WBSfSt adyntaCTi and disadvantages have been discussed, along with all naval coast radio sta tions, with a view of providing ade quate facilities for communicating with the merchant marine and the navy and at the same time , reducing the expense and upkeep and maintainence necessary in the operation , of ,J.he sta tions. - ' - "A study of the traffic handled by the Wilmington radio station during the past two months, January and Feb ruary, 1921, shows the following to bo the number of words handled by that station: "Navy average per day, January. 8, sent. 224 words and received 17; Feb ruary 13,' sent 311 words, received 43; commercial, messages, January 16, sent 42 words; received 438; Febrauary 6," sent none, received 167 words. "During the quarter ending March 13, 1920, the records shows that there was an average of only one commercial radio message per . day and less thanj one official radio message per day handled by the Wilmington station. "The "Wilmington radio station is situated about 80 miles from the Moore head City naval radio station and has land wire connection with that sta tion, so that messages between vessels at sea and Wilmington have good facilities for prompt handling. "After careful consideration of all features of the case, It .appears -to me that the department would not be war ranted in continuing the operation of the Wilmington . naval radio station." INSIST THAT PANAMA COMPLY WITH TREATY United States Sends Firm Note -. to Isthmian Country. . , WASHINGTON. March 17. Firm in sistence that : Panama immediately comply"- with the provisions of , the White arbitral award in settling its boundary dispute with Costa Rica was made by the' United States in the notd dispatched- to Panama by Secretary Hughes: early this week, fhe text' of which was made public 'here today." ; Provisions of the treaty under, which Panama and -Costa Rica agreed to sub mit to the arbitration- of Chief Justice Whit their disputed boundaries on the Atlantic side of the Cordilleras, were cited by this , government in 'support of its contention that the Jurisdiction of the arbiter liad not been exceeded in the award, as claimed by Panama in Its recent note to the state department. The United- States government fur-: ther insisted upon th observance' by Panama , of the previous award on the Pacific side -made by President Loubet of the French republic in 1900 and which 'it was declared was "unequiv ocally accepted" , by both Panama and Costa , Rica in the PorrasAnderson treaty of 1910, the same convention" in which the Atlantic, boundary was sub mitted to- re-arbitration by the Amertr can chief justice. - ."Notwithstanding this fact," the note stated. 'the government of Panama ap- parently has taken- no steps to fulfill its obligations to recognize the te'rrl-.- tory on the-Costa Rican side' of 'that line as subject to the jurisdiction of the government of Costa Rica, but , has continued Xo xerclse jurisdiction, over, the terri tory beyonds that territory un til the present time." - POISONING IS ALLEGED" uGREENSBQRQ. Ga., March 17. Mrs.i Will Williams and A.' L; Campbell "were : I ordered hel4 without bail at " a -com- j mltment bearing tonignt in. conectionl strike H. in tne- packing industry was with- the" alleged '.poisoning of .Mrs. least throughont the country, according Williams' husband." .Campbell is a sec- to officials . who - began, to. . count the tioit1 foreman and a boarder in the Wll- Wives and Babies who arrived in Nepv York recently on airs, John Truszzschler, ' Mr; and Mrs . - WHOLESALE: LIQUOR IS TO BE ENDED MAY 15 v ; - Commissioner Kramer Pro nounces Senterice Against ' BuSine WASHINGTON March; - 17. The wholesale liquor, r establishment, brother of the bar, will be -put to. death May 15, under, sentehee pronounced today by Prohibition, Commissioner Although ,an opiniohVendered by '"At torney General Palmar last December sad the wholesaler. Ijaa no-:iegal fight to confinue in' business, internal' revc auand decided to grant some time in which he .could un load stocks without to heavy mone tary loss- But Mr. Kramer's announce ment today made it clear there would be no further extension of time and the execution of A the. ( sentence would be carried out. . , , Mr. Kramer, however! opened the way for the retail druggist to obtain supplies for prescriptions, removing, the ban on withdrawals from bonded ware houses. For. several months such ware house doors have been closed. The or der . today makes1- it possible' for the retail druggist'; to transact business di rect . with the bonded warehouses. Wholesale druggists will, be taken care of later, Mr, Kramer indicated, by granting them 'similar-privileges. Dealings between retail druggists and other purchasers and the bonded warehouses .later-vAvill be limited by regulations ; which officials declared would be drastic jehough- to satisfy the most ardent dry advocate. They must be based,' however, it was added, on Mr, Palmer's , opinion. It is planned to put them In. effect about the time the wholesale Houses go out of existence'. , . .. So far as the Wholesaler is concerned, Mr. Kramer said1 his 'one task now is to get rid ofthe stocks" on. hand. He will not' be "alloyed . Yo ' increase his present holding) : but there are no strings tied to him in'' selling to drug gists, either wholesale., or retail be fore May 15. ' Officials; announced no figures ' concerning ' the, .'amount of li quor held by the wholesalers, but said they believed the .stocks . largely would be disposed of bVforec the 'doors are closed finally;"" '- " n ' ' f" 1 TILDEN AND MRS. ' M ALLOR Y WIN AT TENNIS AT BOSTON BOSTON, March 17. "William E. Til den, of Philadelphia, . ; world's tennis champion, and Mrs. Franklin I. Mal lOry, New oYrk,' national-woman sin gles turf title holder,, resumed their partnership todays in the newly insti tuted' indoor national- jmixed double tournament on th.e Longwodd Gricket club courts at Chestnut Hill.' They de feated .Mrs.-E. B."CoTe,. 2nd, of North Andover, and: Irving C; Wright, Bos ton, 6-3, 5-7.6-,3. . i - This 'was -the first playing together of -Mrs. . Mallory and Tilden prepara tory tr sailing for England, in May to engage in .the world's championship mixed, doubles -outdoors tennis tourna ment at Wimbledon, which' begins in June. Incidentally, it was Tilden's first appearance ln open competition since his -return from New Zealand, where . Jie playe in ithe Davis cup matches last' ryear;. ' "v CONSTABLE-IS KILLED IN, IRELAND AS A REPRISAL DUBLIN, VMarch- 17 (By - the Asso ciated ! PressO-TAs .a reprisal for the execution Monday. ;"of Thomas .Whelan In Mount. Joy prison. Constable O'Kane was shot dead, in Clifton, County -Gal way, last night,:,and another constable was " wounded.. Crown- forces ' made search es; to discover the authors of the shootings and .shot to death John Mc xAiiaiu, ,fTuvi aucgeu lu v c At tempted to evade arrest. .Three, bombs were thrown at a mil itary lorry Jast night in -Camden street. The soldiers returned the fire and some civilians Wfe wounded. . VOTE. FOR PACKING STRIKE CHICAGO, "j March 17. An almost unanimous vote In' favpr'of a- national ballots : tonight. , Definite returns fare GOVERNMENT AGAIN TO CO-OPERATE WltH THE BUSINESS OF COUNTRY American Business Men to Be Mobilized- Through Their Various Industries BUILD UP EXPORTS' President Harding Approves Measure That May Mean Pros perity for Nation By DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1021. by The Morning Star) WASHINGTON, March 17. President Harding has approved a course of ac tion that may mean more for the pros perity of America its. business Tevival and permanent development than anything else that has happened since the? .close of the European war. American business men are to be mobilized through their respective trades and industries. The United States government U again to render a measure of co-operation with private business which made possible during the war the building up of a huge export trade but which since then has been allowed to lapse partly throagh the dissolution of war agencies and partly through the fail ure of the American government to proclaim a definite foreign policy to ward Europe. - Through discussion by President Harding and his cabinet of plans which will be largely in the hands of Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, has led to the conyiction that America must, have foreign. markets as the way out of her industrial and agricultural de pression and that the 'American gov- ( eminent must adopt somewhat the same attitude of. helpfulness toward private business as European govern- v ments' are adopting. Secretary Hoover, will, therefore, call to Washington the representatives of all trade and industrial bodies. The leather manufacturers, the shoe deal ers, the lumber men, the grain men indeed all who have anything that can be sold abroad will-be summoned here in an effort to. bring, about , an agree ment in each industry so' as to benefit the whoie trade. ; The establishment not merely of permanent committees to.co operate? with the department pf , com merce in Washington but something even more far-reaching .than,,; that 'Is. contemplated, : namely American' export houses atiroad The trouble about the , whole question of foreign trade hereto fore has been -that American firms have not been permitted to. combine or have been unwilling to do so because of competitive conditions on this side of the Atlantic. . . ' The effort of the United States gov ernment will be to secure combina tions not in restraint of individual trade but in promotion of all Ameri can trade. The government of Great Britain, for instance, says to Its mer chants "you, of course, do not know the . credit standing of the merchants .in Czecho-Slovakia; . through our gov ernment agencies we can find that out and take the riskgo ahead and trade with Czecho-Slovakia and we will back you up." Under such conditions the European e merchant-has had. his own government back of him. The .new plan of the Harding administration just approved; is to put the United States govern ment back of the -merchant and the farmer and of course the exporter. To do this there must be the closest kind qf co-operation between trade organ izations and the units of American In dustry. There must also be financial co-operatton. - While the- Harding administration means to use the war finance corpora tion in this 'project, 1t is ' really in tended, that the private corporations organized under the Edge law shall be the basis of the ; export effort. Herbert Hoover's desire to make a real depart ment of commerce was to be sure not the incidental request of a cabinet member. It was made because he knew the department : of commerce always had the facilities .and; the agencies to ' promote Amerioan , trade but it was powerless to act unless the entire? gov ernment puts its shoulder to the wheel and American public opinion, support ed its plan. Many a secretary of com merce has .wanted to go far. Indeed to ward promoting American trade but in the past the effort has extended, merely to the-furnishing of information. New legislation has just been enacted per mitting combinations . of American firms in foreign trade. ' New conditions have been created, through the entry . into the Harding cabinet of men Ilka Herbert Hoover - who are not satisfied . with the ordinary.limitatlons of a gov- ' ernment department but who instinc tively seek to;; apply;the 'moral lnfiu ence of the government to the devel- . opment of business in America.: Back of the'.' whole plan, however, " is the specter of the League of Nations dispute. Until' there is peace between ' the United States and Germany or rather until there - Is agreement be tween the United States and the allies, who are the present receivers of.'Ger- many's assets the plans for American business expansion are mainly theoret- . ical. There Is every reason -to. believe, however, that tbe foreign policy of the Harding administration is ; slowly be ing moulded into something different" than was expected . during . - the cam paign by the so-called Irreconcilables. President Harding realizes that a sep arate peace . with Germany means a possible antagonism ,as between the ' United States and the. allied countries. Something like 80 per: cent; of Amer ica's trade, if , hot more, Is with the X s allies. To preserve the -friendship of -the allies is oneor .the first principles of the Harding foreign policy. Those in the cabinet who believe the present -League of Nations and treaty can be ;; used as a framework for American for eign policy havenot' yet abandoned hope but ,are encouraged to .believe that Mr. Harding's u fairness':, and - breadth or mind will make him see the wisdom of making. such proposals to Europe as will preserve America's freedom of action and at the same time maintain the greater Vart of the treaty of Versailles., ':. ... , . ., -1 n: h : 1 1 I U n it"! Hi; Ml I II.-, .. v.v,ri..- --.t t '- v.- l "!;! -' - t j ::: -'-' ' ;4j, ;r -V :j-V B. 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