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News Ob THE WEATHER Nrti Carallaa-I'artlr tUmtr aad coatlaeed Ud Friday and Sat Hayt fteeaaty Weal ahewcra. one aiid WATCH LABEL a year Bear. Bead renewal ire ity before aiptratloa ia aider evel Biasing alngle eepy. server VOL.CXIV. NO. 141. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH. N. C. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18. 1 92 1. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS House Accepts Maximum Surtax of 50 Per Cent Lower Body Vote In Favor of Senate Amendment To Tax Bill Despite Expressed Wish of Harding That There Be a Compromise At 40 Per Cent CONFERENCE SLOWS DOWN TO PERIOD QF DELIBERATE DISCUSSION OF QUESTIONS L T CONFERE WILSON WANTED RALEIGH CHURCH HARDING FAILS IN (10 DIVISIONS IN EASY WINNER FOR EFFORT TO BLOCK FFICIA FAMILY E ACTION IN HOUSE Refused To Heed Republican Demand For Coalition Cabinet DETERMINED TO CUT OUT ALL SCANDALS Long Before War With Ger many Declared, President Had Been Working On Plana Tor National De- V.i(ol TvTs "Psli . VI nutvu &1U VIA- tics'' In Conducting War WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM, BT JOSEPH P. TUMULTY. (20th Installment) . ' CHAPTER XXIX. CARRYING ON. The critics of the President will ask tba question: What was the Prcs ident doing to prepare the country for war, whifh to him eeemed in evitable! From the inside, and with eut the blare of trumpets, he was quietly engaged in conferring with .the heads of the Army and Navy Departments. Indeed, from the min ute the third Lusitania not was dis patched, actual preparations for war were botfun. Immediately upon the" dispatch of the note, the following statement was issued from the White House, under cLite of July 21, 1M16: "White iTouse, Washington, July 21, lP-lfi. "The President in nsso, intion with the heads of Departments, regardless of pres. nt day conditions or contro versies, has long been giving a great deal of consideration to the' prepa ration of a reasonable and adequate naval program, which he intends to propose, to Congress at the proper time. "That is one of the things he is now considering in the quiet of Cornell. He feci, now that the note lias lij-eji dispatched, that it is best, for the time being to drop the "dis cussion of it as far as he is con eerned, and is turning to questions of permanent national poller. ''Of course he realizes that he must have live best practical advice obtainable in this matter and is seeking for it from every available source. In fact it is known that the best' minds of the various depart merits of the Government, both of hte army, and the navy, are now and hare been at work on these import ai t matters for some time; that is. he is seeking advice fem the men in those departments who have been most directly ia touch with the new cond ti"ns of defence that have been evolved out of modern experience, lie not only wishes advice from those who have a knowledge of actual modern conditions of warfare, but he is seeking light from, tl,"'e who are able to understand and com prehend the altered conditions of land anil naval warfare. Ho wishes the navy to stand upon an equality with the most efficient and service able. '"As to the army, it is known here that he is preparing tn InciVr'po'ate in his next message to Congress n programme in regard to the develop ment and equipment of the army and a proper training of the citizens of the United States to arms which, while ""is every way consistent with American traditions and nat;onal policy, will be of such a character as to eommend itself to every pa triotie and practical mind. In this matter he is working with the Sec retary of War and his professional associates, who, it is understood, have reached some very detint'e con elusions on these exceedingly im portant matters. He is anxious to have a rrogram that JV.U1 be definite and positive, and wishes to have the information in hand before laying the matter before the committees of the Senate and Ho ise.'' Contemporaneously with this state ment was issued the following state ment, which was prepared by the President, but- issued over my name the full significance of which was not apparent at the time: The note (third Lusitania Bote) having been dispatched, the President felt that it was best to drop further discussion of the matter for the present, a far as he was concerned. He will be free now to devote his time to a full consideration of a natter that tli country has for a long time been thooghful of that is, a reasonable pro gram of national defense. Of course, this program will be eonsidored regardless of present day conditions. It is known that the President has been considering this im portant matter in all its aspects, and has been in touch with the Secretary of War and the Sec retary of the Navy regarding it. It is also known in official circles here that the President had ta"an steps before leaving for Cornish to instruct the Army and Nary Departments to make ready for his consideration a careful program of nations! de fence in preparation ror me presentation of hi views to f on ' gress at the proper time He desires to have the pro gram based on the most practic able lines obtainable from the departments and it is said that the best minds In the depart ments are at present at work on the subject. He hopes that tha program will express the best tradition! of the country and mot loae s'ight of modern experi ence. He is anxious to have a rvrorram that will ba definite ad positive, and wishes to nave tba information in hand before Washington, Not. 17. Disregard ing the expressed wish of President Harding, the House voted today, Jul to 173, to accept the Senate amend ment to the tax revision bill flxin; the maximum income surtax rate ut SO per cent on incomes of 1200,000 or more. Ninety four Republicans, most of thera from the Middle and Kar West, joined with the practically solid Dem ocratio minority in supporting the amendment. Announcement of the result brought applause from both sides of the chamber, with some of the Democrats breaking into cheers. Harding For 40 Pr Cent. Thre hours before the vote was taken, the House listened to the reading ,of a letter from President Harding to Chairman Fordney, of the House ways and means commit te, suggesting that the House and Senate compromise. The executive said he still believed the original House rate of 1!2 per cent was ''nearer to a just levy and the more promising one in relation to the pub lie treasury," but that in view of the .legislative situation ho thought it "wholly desirable" that there be u Compromise at 411 per cent. Immediately after it became known that tlie President had written Mr. Fordney, spoksmen for the "msurg ent" Republicans said tiia.-44er would not affect" tho result. They hail claimed a total of VI! Kepublican votes or one less than was cast for the amendment. Among the major ity members supporting the amend ment were Chairman Campbell, of tho rules committee; Representative tireen, of Iowa, ranking Republican on the ways and means committee, and Chairman Hagen, of the agri culture committee. Settle Biggest Isaue. This vote settled the biggest issue between the House and Senate on the tax revision bill and tho manages Hundred Thousand Dollars Donated To New Twin City Hospital By T. W. CI! AMBLISS. Rocky Mount, Nov. 17. In the closing hour of the Baptist State convention. Rev. Dr. B. W. Spiluian was elected to preside over the .ses sion of 1!22 to be held at Winalon-i-ulem. The customary resolutions were adopted by the convention ci pressing appreciation of the grac ious hospitality and the courtesies shown by the press of the State. The report of the Baptist hospital shows total testamentary gifts amounting to fldlMiio and other gifts total $2,0111). Tho Baptist hospital commission reported that plans for the first Baptist hospital at Winston Salem wire lieing prepared. This first unit is t'i be a modern hospital building of five stories with tH rooms and will cost tlHti.OOO. Work will be rushed to completion. The commission has been requested by tlie people of Winston Salem to use the over subscription in the endow ment of a ward in commemoration of the long service rendered that city and the denomination by Rev. Dr. II. A. Brown. Rev. B P. Mohan, of New Orleans, nddressed the convention on the work being done in the Baptist Bible Institute in, New Orleans. Biggest Seminary In World. Bisoiutions commending the action of the convention concerning the limitation of armaments, were re ceived from the North Carolina banners' Union in session at Ral eigh. Dr, W. H. Davis of the Southern Baptist Theological seminary at I,oui"ville, Ky., told of tlie work done in that institution. The seminary is now the largest theological semi nary in the world and no other institution in this country bas ,so largo a Greek department, he said. The crying need now is more room. North Carolina has " students in the seminary this year and the Tar Heels are among the best in the whole South, he declared. The convention instructed the board of missions to undertase a State-wide tithing campaign during the first three monxhs of lliiS, with' March as the victory month. Rev. A. C. Ilanihy will have full charge of the campaign ns enlist nu nt erretary. The annual report of the Bap list foundation showed testamentary gifts as follows: Baptist Hospita1, lft3.4"0; Thomasville Orphanage, JlS.'ioO;. Baptist schools, firi.nod; UeltiV liai.tist church. V,.m; College for two scholar 1,000; foreign missions. y'0, undo-ig-nnted, $IO.nfb Name Members of Boards. The convention by unanimous vote instructed the secretary to dedi cste the l'J-1 minutes of the con vention to the memorv of the late Dr. J. D. Hufham whl- death dur ing the year removed one of the greatest builders in the history of tits deromiwatioJi in this State. The Board of Missions named for next year is composed of the fol lowing: W. O. Riddick, W. B. Brad shsw, W. A. Smith, I. M. Mercer, .1. C. Turner, R. I McMillan, W. A. Cooper, L. E. M. Freeman. Charles Anderson, J. A. Campbell. T. I. Tavlor. J. 8. Bnvdor, W. O. Hall, J H. Matthews, R. R. Her ring, Fred N. Day, J. E. Welch, J. T. Joyner, Mm. I. T. Vaughn, Mrs. J. Tatea Killiari,' Vise Annie Lo gan. tv. - a.Mi,. ... . : , s-. 14 lip DWI WI.HW (Umillliir ill. Belt year ia composed of W. L. Po- - m i -rr- - -n V j- kV BAPTISTS CLOSE BIG CONVENTION from the two housea will resume their sessions tomorrow with tho hope or reaching an agreement on the bill by . Saturday night. If this hope is reaienVtha measure probably will be Bent to the President before the end of next week. , Tho intervention of the Trident in the tax revision right the second since the ways and means commit tee began drafting the measure three and a half months ago fol lowed a visit to the White House early toda. of Representative Mon de!), of Wyoming, tho Republican leader in the House. The President then summoned Chairman Fordney and Representative Longworth, of Ohio, of the ways and means com mittee, and expressed his views on the surtax. These were supple mented by a letter to Mr. Fordney. Attack on Harding. During the three hours' debate in the House, which was conducted under a special rule, the President was attacked for writing Mr. Ford ney. Representative Frear, Repub lican, Wisconsin, said the Presi dent's intervention "at the last min ute" was "unfair and unjust, ana that he should have made known his views to the Senate when the 50 per cent rate was under considera tion there. Representative Gamer, Democrat, Trxrrs, declared that if the President had views to submit, he should have done so in person or in a message1 to the House rather than in a let ter to a member of the body. Repre sentative Sinnott, Republican, Ore gon, declared that ho 'grieved be cause tho President had been given lad advice on this subject.'' Supporting the President's stand. Representative Mondcll and other Kepublican spokesmen sa;d the Re publican party had promisefl to re duce taxes and that the 50 per cent rate should not be approved by the 1,'ouse. STONE IS AGAIN T All Officers of Farmers' Or ganization Re-elected; Visit Fair ' R. W. H. Stone, of Greensboro, was again chosen president of the State Farmers' t'nin at the seeond day of Its annual session here yes tenlay. Dr. J. M. Templeton, of Cary was re elected vice president of the organization; and W. L. Bag uerl, of Raleigh, secretary and treasurer. In a series of resolutions passed during tlie day the Union declared itself in favor of taxation of all bonds by whatever unit of govern ment issued; government ownership of railroads; trade relations with Ifussia; disarmament by America regardless of action of other ua tionas, compelling Kuropo to pay its debts; referendum on war; system of taxes basis on ability to pay; tree school books; repeal of cot tou Iax; election of federal judges; high wage scale; no cotton on btate farms. In its platform adopted for the year, demand is made for more warehouses; good roads are to be fostered; and air property tax handled by the count.es themselves in building connecting roads. Lit tel to the farmer is seen in the S'tate road system. Six months schools, administered by county authorities without interference from the State is demanded. Attention is called to the '"failure of the State Insurance Department to enforce tho Blue Sky law," which resulted In the robbery of the farmer, The department's care lessness deserves severe condemna tion, tho platform says. The union '"rejoices in' the restoration of lo cal ic'f government in the ap praisal of land for taxes."' Most of the morning session yes tcrday was taken up with an old fashioned singing, with deorge MeCullers, and the renowned Larrv Woodall as leader ef their singing c asses. llie r.oener.er .ilethootsr church furnished the singers, but under the leadership of Mr. Woodall and Mr. MeCullers, the entire assemblage joined in the music-mak ing. The afternoon session wm given over to the election of officers and the transaction Oi routine busimss. Members of the executive committee were chosen as follows: If. Q. Alexander. Matthews; E. C. Vaines, Greensboro; W. B. Gibson, Stntesvil'e; J I, t'herry, Hobgond ; Olli,. Cruse, Salisbury; J. M. Ia I.yerly. Crescent; and J. R. Davis, tireensboro. Adjournment was taken at 4 o'clock, and the members went out to State College to inspect the In stitution and to visit the Students' Fair, in progress there since yee terday nuirning. Business sessions were resumed at 7:S0 o'clock last night, with prospects of sdjonrn ment early this morning. The ses sions are held behind closed r!oofS. V " Endorse Co-operation The movement for eo operative marketiryj of cotton and tobacco through growers own associations, which already has signed np the majority of the 'North Carolina growers, was endorsed by the Union yesterday. State organizationa of the Farmers Union in Virginia. Georgia and other southern states have already endorsed the eo-npera-. tive marketing of cotton and to bacco nnder the California or eom modity plan and the action of the UNION PRE IN jConfonel pa Page Two Wilmington and Elizabeth City Churches Outvoted On First Ballot METHODISTS OFFER PRAYERS FOR PEACE Bishop Darlington Blames Women's Dress and Pic - tnre Shows For Bad Mor als In Europe; IT. C. Con ference Asks Senate To Adopt Anti-Beer Bill By T. A. 8IKES New Bern, Nov. 17. The North Carolina Conference in session in this tity unanimously decided at the morning session to hold its next annual session in Raleigh in Eden- ton Street Methodist church. Three pressing invitations were extended for the meeting of 1P22. The first came from Elizabeth City through Rev. J. M. Ormond. Rev. W. W I'eele then in a strong appeal asked that the conference go to the'fai tol City and Rev, W. A. Htanbury nominated Grace church, Wilming ton'. The vote was taken, Edenton Street won, and that place was by unanimous vote selected. The tenference made the election of delegates to the General Confer ence which meets in Hot Springs. Ark., next May, a special order for 10 o'clock tomorrow. At that time a vote will be takeffor six clerical and six lay delegates. Pray For Peace la World An unusual service was held in Centenary church this afternoon at o'clock when a congregation that taxed the seating eapacity of that great church gathered together to offer prayers for the peace of the world. Revs. D. H. Tattle and li V. Bumpas were in charge of the exercises. Mr. Bumpas spoke elo quently of the different kinds of power in the world physical, intel lectual, but said that the power that the world needed today was divine power, and that it is at the com mand of all who will meet the con ditions. The services were turned into an old time experience meet injt and many of the ministers spoke of their relation to God ami the joy that they experienced from the knowledge of knowing Him. Bishop - Darlington adjourned his cabinet meeting and delivered a powerful address in elosiug the serviced The Bishop said that "We are living in the back wash of the recent World War.' Speaking of his recent visit to Europe, he de ciared .a decent man could hardly walls the streets of many of the European cities after night. He de scribed the morals across the waters as being just about as bad as it is possible for them to be, and assign ed as some of the causes the dress of the women and the picture shows, saying that the latter is one of the most damnable things of today. The service adjourned while the congre gation wus on its knees with earn est and eloquent prayers by Revs. J. D. Dundy and F. M. Hham burger. Conference ()a High Gear The feature of the conference this morning was the rapidity with whnh the conference transacted its busi ness. Bishop Darlington put the conference in high gear at the be ginning and the speed limit was ex corded during the business session. At the appoints hour for the assembling of the conference. Bishop Darlington called upon Hev. A, I). Wilcox to lead the religious exercises, after which the roll of the absentees of yesterday was call ed and practically all who failed to answer at the previous roll answered to their names. In speaking of the need of a special hour of prayer for world peace Bishop Darlington declared that it is tin.e to pause and be ex ceedingly reverent. He confessed that he was very much disturbed over the condition of the worid, and that we ought to be much in prayer that a world disaster might not be visited upon us- He exhort..! the preachers and all to be exceedingly reverent in the presenct of holy things, for said he, "when you lose reverence for holy things, we arc in a bad way. Minute question No. 2. "Who Re main on Trial," was called and John Ogiesby Long, Robert M. Trie, An drew J. Hoblis, Jr., E. It. (",eg. and John W. Harrell were adra n ' id t. th class of the second year ifter they had made their reorts and -their charscter was passed- Key. L. C B.rothers and W. O. Farrariwo ministers who had been tui triaAA two yars, wire reeled intoullj connection in the confer rnee. Rev. If. L. Brown, who had been ia this class was discontinued Two New Mtssionsriea The fact that two of the confer ence's young ministers had gone to the foreign field as missionaries dur ing the year was brought to the at- (Continued on Page Two) An Unpublished War Speech In Aprilt 161, President Wilson addressed the correspondents of foreign newspapers, then stationed in Washington, on the conduct of the war. This sweeh has never hefqr? been made public. It :!! be published tomorrow in the Tumulty series, now running in the Newi and Observer. - Another article by, K G. Wells on the Washington Auns Con ference will be published tomorrow. Wells is the world's best kpown living writer. He writes about questions of world moment with such clearness and such force that he grips ven the most casual reader. The Newa and Obeerver in presenting these two features is giving the leading featdro of two of New York s greatest papers. Kaeh New York paper has one of these features but neither has both. In the Old Reliable yon get them both. READ THE EW8 AND OBSERVE1 A.HD NOW WHAT COE8 OS President Tries To Aid "Big Business" In Getting Re lief From Taxes HOUSE REFUSES TO ACCEPT DICTATION Progressive Republicans Join Democrats In Voting Against Redaction In Surtaxes- pebate On New berry Case In Senate Gets Buried In Bigger News The New and Observer Bureau, 603 District National Bank Bldg., By EDWARD E. BRITTON (By Special I-eased Wire.) Washington, Nov. 17. President Harding got his bumps from the House this afternoon and proves once again the correctness of the old adage that "the pitcher that goes too often to the well gets broken." Emboldened by his succese in put ting the knife into the soldier bonus hill at the last moment, today he fried the earns kirtd of tactics in rushing in us a last hope for "big business" in holding down the sur taxes of the higher bracket to 4U ier cent, an advance of eight per cent cfi the figures of the Fordney monstrosity, and a cut of ten per cent of the 50 per cent of the com promise Senate amendment to the tax revision bill. But the President was handed a solar plexus by the House which re fused his verbal agreement with Kepublican House leaders to call on the Republicans of the House to vote for 4'T per cent, and his written plea via, a b'tter to Chairman Fordney for the Republicans to vote for the 40 per cent as a compromise on the House 3- per cent, and the Senate 50 r cent figures. The call of the President for votine down the 5it per cent proposition was defeated by a vote of nl to 1.3 Ilia nU is na irni mA at n.l aivan the "ha ha" bV f.' Kertnblirana of J the progressives who voted with the solid Democratic strength, minus three, the entire . North Carolina delegation voting for the 5l per cent. The biffing of President Harding was the more marked by the fact that 16 of the 22 members of the Ohio delegation voted te pay no attention o thj pita of the Ohio Republican Presiient. With Marion Ohio, the home town of. the Presi dent, a little over a week ago Demo cratic and over 70 per cent of the Ohio delegation voting directly in the face of President Harding's ap peal for a 4Tr per cent surtax on the war profiteers of the higher brack ets. Is is not evidence that "hell has broken loose in the Republican party!'' And it is because the western progressives and those in sympathy with the agricultural '"bloc" of the Senate went to the aid of the Democratic minority, a minority which first tried to have retained the fi. per cent tax, fought next f"r 5J per cent, and brought t!,e Republicans into enmp with a 50 per cent tax. The action of the House today now makes the 50 per cent surtax figure a certainty, thanks to the Democrats who fought valiantly to force wealth to bear its part ofthe burdens. Newberry Debate Overwhadowed. The Republicans have chosen a most opiiortune time for keeping from the attention of the American electorate the scandals of tho alleged purchase of a seat in the Senate by Truman H Newberry, of M cl.igan. in his campaign again't Henry Ford, for the election, and in the prelimi nary campaign for the rom!nat!on. With the newspapers clogged with the reports, the surmises, and the varied interpretations of the desires of the wiftifvris ' expressed or inti mated by their representatives nt the arms parley now going on iu Wash iugton, the Newberry m-i I'Morous af fair iu the Senate gets but scant space in the papers. In the Wash iugton papers tA:s morning the sur face of the debate in the Scn'.te yes terday on tho matter was search scratch! d and the out of t'.wn papers which have reached here hae ski le ton reporta. One Washington morn ing paper gave lew lhan a fifth of a column to the. del-ate, ai I the other a half column, I, td of these Wil. hidden on inside pjge?. In Lis defense of the outrageous spending of money on t c.;, if ot New herrv. .nator Siejeer, of M a soiiri, admits that there was some) Jjifl,"')!! ;,ent to sicire the Michi gan man's ele'tim, de. l.ir.ng that the money ru aii "icgi imately" ipeiit, enn to the sonic J.I.'niO to K.fcsi fur treat ng' in a resum ' aiily dry State, the adroit'cd records showing that about JltV. '"n was spent tn ncwspi'Cr juJlicitv, an expense so hug in m .kn-.g Trun,:in Nw berry known in Mo-big.'-n, a man who had been a se-rcttfry of the navy, that Senator Stanley, Democrat, (Continued on Pane Two) Chinese Put Squarely Up HARDING DRAFTED S "Inside Story" Has It That President Formulated Call For Conference Washington, Nov. 17. (By the As soeiatcd Press.) Who formulated and executed the call for the arnia ment confereneet Who evolved the American proposals for naval limlta tionf The country has been asking these questions for the last week and has been hesring a variety of answers. The best "inside story1, in Washing ton today has all the ear marks of being thti correct answer. President Harding, on one of his week end cruises down the Potomac early this autumn, so the story runs, locked himself in his stateroom one evening and left word that ho did not wish to be disturbed lecaiise be was writing. A little later, the Presi dent called to his room, one by one, some of the close friends in public life who had accompanied him and laid before them some sheeta of paper on which he had written with lead pencil and with frequent cor re. t loin and interlineations some thing which they all read with amase ment and greatest interest. It was the invitation to the nations to the arms conference. After soine conference among the party, it was decided to forward tlie text to Secretary Hughes, and the yacht Mayflower, laid up for the night iu the still waters of a secluded ove in ttie renches of the river, run d off from her wireless that night t the State Department the words which Inter were to ring around the world. Of course, the preliminary diplo matic feeler was transmitted to the nations concerned, but it is said that the text of the f. nul and formal in vitation as it later went out was substantially tha tame as President Harding had conceivcdc it that night while resting on the yacht May flower flown the river- ' The evolution of the concrete American proposals for naval limi tation Secretary Hughes' bomb shellalso heard around the world at the first session, is still another story. Some admirers have ascribed them to Secretary Hughes alone, while soma other persons have declared they were the composite effort of the four American delegates of whom Mr. Hughes is oue. Kvery body seems agreed that they were not drafted by naval officers and almost everybody had left out I'resi lent Harding until today's "inside story" began to circulate. The great secret, to which Arthur J. Balfour referred so artistically in his address of Tuesday, must in deed hsvc been well kept, because, between seven and ten men know it. That number includes the f"Ur Aniericau delegates and President Harding. The others worked on various phases , of the proposal. It is known, of course, that it was based on memoranda culled from the Navy Department, and it was car ried into execution by tho Amen can "Dig Four' whnh Secretary Hughes heads, but the "big idea" on which the rlan is built, the "in side story" says, came from Presi dent Harding. RESULTS0F AUTOPSY NOT YET ANNOUNCED Chapel Hill. Nov. 17 A specimen of the body of Mrs. Pauline lilovcr I. ik, of M rehead City, who died in a New Bcru hospital last Sunday from what a New Bern physician bad d'agrosed as peritonitis, was brought here today by Solicitor Jesse II. Davis and Dr. '. S. Barker, of No Bern, for a microscopic ex am, nation by Professor Bullitt, pa tiii.og-st at the I'nvjrtity of North Carol ra. Tie 1-oi'y of Mrs. Link w.is buried ..t Morcl.ril last Mi nday af' reo.m lei ias r iln: mcd yesti rdav by nnlor of Solictor Dnvis and a post mortem examination was held st the direc tinn of the coroners of Craien-and Carteret counties. Pending the re port ( f Professor Bullitt, the Solici tor is Withho'dit.g the result of the autopsy. l'r feor Bul'itt said today the eismlrjntinn will riot be completed ln.r ..several dais and that he will mate his report ti rn one except Dr. Barker ai d Solicitor Davis. U. S. SHIPS GET SHARE OF EGYPTIAN COTTON Washington, Nov. 17. A complete snd satisfactory understanding has been reached with the Liverpool lines covering both direct and in direct shipments of Egyptian cot ton. Vice President W. J. Iove, of the Emergency Fleet Corioration, announced today. The whole Egyptian eo'tnn traffic is under contract extending to Sep tombcr 30, P'22, to the British line. he said, but they wilt relinquish to the Shipping Board "a very fair rjroportion of the frame The negotiations growing out of claims of American shipowne-t to a fair share of the Kgypttan cotton shipment have been in progress for aearlj a year. 1 NVIATION Situation To Japanese Japan Seems To Be Hesitat ing Between Two Possi ble Courses Now CHINA'S PROPOSALS INSPIRED BY AMERICA' Both China and Japan United On Keeping West Out of East By FRANK H. 8IMOND9. Washington, Nov. 17. Thanks to the Chinese offensive on Wednesday the situation is now . squarely up to Japun. It remains lor her to disclose her own hum! l it the Far i.isi and tor the moment Japanese strategy stenis to be hesitating between a counter offensive and a passive de tense. It is true, however, tlist there ia a marked incliuatiou in well in formed quarters to regard the Chin ese gestuies as fa less Chinese than American. There is very goon authority tor tho suggestion that the ten proposals made by China ou Wednesday ere made ut the in stance of the l nited States for the double purpose of placing China on record and opening the way for a Japanese liccl-iiation. Proposals Inspired By America. 1 am reliao y iiiforuu-d that China only reluctant iy ieldc.1 to Ameri can suggestion in making her pro posals, winch have already become the ten coiuuiandiiicntn of the Cht nesei sitiiajuin. It is not suggested that tho I'lutcd States government had anything to do with the ch:irac ter of the Chinese proposals, al though they bear a striking rcsctu blauce to certain American prop ositions which have been ndv.iuee-l ill recent years and das, bu'. it is indicated that China Vould inver have moved us she did with out American impulsion. Nevertheless, the value of the Chinese move to American strategy lias been somewhat diminished by tho fact that the Chinese proposals were vague in the extreme. More over the Japanese have for the moment eluded the necessity ef definite utterance by a perfectly rea sellable request that China, indicate what she moans by" e"aetf at 'tier ten proposals and do what', outside of diplomatic language, we would call ''get down to brass tacks." The mere Westerner knows so little about realities or the mctlm-ls of the Orientnl mind - and soioo (if the methods of thought and of action are so different from our own -that it is foolish in the extrvuiu to un dertnko to interpret Chinese or Japanese nones or to do more than show what tliey seem to loc.in. l nited On One Issue. It is worth recalling, too. that while China and Japan are sop.rav on every other question they un united in tin ir i. sires t ke. p the West out of tho hast and 'lnn,i will lnue'the solid support 'of Japan against any project whn h s-igg te inter national control, political or economical, for China, with tin- pos nlde exception of that of the fmir power consortium. Now given the fact that China and Japan are united mi tins on. large issue it. Seems loss sure that they are separated on others. Is tin Pi kin government control ed bv the J:, panose) Does the l'ekin govern ment control tho delegation winch it has sent here f Is the Chinese policy reaJ or is it inspired bv Jap Jint se influences. Obviollsiv tli questions cannot be ansv.cn l imw. but evervonc w-hu undertakes to (stmiate the Japanese situation must at every moment ask himself tlosi questioliS. h'xcpt for these complexities one would say ou'right th.it it w ui.l app-nr that the Chines,, nianouver on Wedm v plnced the J-ipanee in an enib- -sing posi'mii. placed there in tie defensive and would ultimately force them to make a dis c oiti re of their posit ion. Two Course Open to Japan Such a disclosure, it is c' ar '.o-'iM take one of two font s. 'l i e J .p.i l.ese li-nv in, date Mr. Il'ii'!is aed c. roe out with a broad, f ' ' ''i' b" i lara! Oi covering tbc m):-!' c? the K-ir K.nst '1 r contrary accept the f hn sa's as the basis for il-s. express their opinion on .. lie propn Oil to 'd lb- ten propositions as 1! is d.si ussa in the conirt ittee. Mc Japanese friends tel! rre ti.-s la'er c.-i's- IK now the mo that h.n 0 en' I r.i' s.ippor'. Tli. v a'.o. !.-!! n-e t. ,t Co were taken I v nr rise bv ti e I I TH -ve proposal, arid they evpri -s ad niirntion for the skill with which the (',i,l,.e seized the i n i ! ' t a t t V e. 1 h I ' is the Japane-e statement. There is tiU another interesting angle. I nin again told bv my J i panose friends that there is a pro found diffcreme of opinion in the Japan1 se di IcgaMon as to the vis dotunr unwisdom of the suggestion taut tho Japanese ratio of naval strength be increased from e to 7. i. e. from (VI to "0 per cent I At least among the Japanese journa lists; who nre more cluselv in tioi-ii with American opinion than their statesmen, there is a strong fe, ling that the government will make n mistake if it does not accept Mr Hughes ' ground, aa to tjie capital ships without a major protest. This too, I present frankly as a Japanese statement. Is the 1'nited States presently to present a full program of its own (Continued: 6a Faga Two) - Far Eastern Neqotiations Held Up Pending Japan's Reply To Chinese Dec- -laration of Right OBJECTIONS MADE TO AMERICAN PLANS FOR " CUTTING DOWN NAVIES, Japan Makes Known Desirt Tsr "Slightly Greater" Naval 'strength, Whilr British Delegation Stands Firm In Opposition To 90,i 000 Tons In Submarine Quota Proposed By Secre tary Hughes; Conference Discusses Methods of Pro cedure On Far Eastern Questions and Adjourns Until Saturday uKeantime Approval of Chinese "Ten Points" Grows Among American, British, French and Italian Delegates Washington, Nov. 17. (By the At soatod Press The Far Rasters negotiations await the . reply ef Japan to China's declaration of right, and tho American move for limita tion of naval armament is slowing up because of objections raised both tjr Japan it n I Croat llritain. Discussion of the Kar Eastern priil.ieirs, which f . r the moment are in the foreground of tho arms con ference, wi re advanced by the "Big Nine" t" lav to the point of an agree ment that a general exchange of views on China's program should precede any consideration of specific . pointj. Su. h a general presentation of views Japan was unprepared to tn.iko and the ''Big Nine'1 adjourned until Sat i rd.-iy. Japan's Modification Meant mil-, J.fpau made known formally her desire to modify tha American plan of naval (imitation so as to give her a "slightly greater relative strength," and the oppositio of tho, British to the submarine quota suggested by the ITnited fitatef gave evi li-nco of such deterniinaioa as to attract the attention of the whole body of delegates. " The day's work seemed to Indicate Llli u t the first impetus of the ttnV ference wns giving way to a period of more deliberate discussion which might, preclude the possibility of out standing developments for tue im mediate future. Plans were madet however, to ti kle tho third big job of the ronferinec, the limitation tt land arinano iit, early next week al in open si ssinn", at which Premier Briand will make a far reaching de laration of the views of France, Method of Procedure. The "It g Nine's" session on Far K. intern quest!,. ns today was largely given over to a d iscijssion of the method of pro. ! b re. The derate to permit f.o h of' the powers to pre sent a general -'ii'i iiit nt on the atib .led. before altouipting to settle ape 'itic problems js under-iood to have had the oioloi,. uou.l of a'l the hoada of (l.-legat.oiis. although Japan made t plain she a - a -'i 1 the Chinese pit oTllv '"as a lass of' lll.sellss.nu.' It was lie- '. , a -i that w ! -a speeiile points aro r--! In d the ' nnesf, "ten poms'' t;ie fii I ! li - rl.iee-1 w ith the I'ems of the Amer I'an agenda In .leteriuinin ib ta.ls of procedure. Ilnron Shidehara III. A con'rip !''! I'a- ir to the two lav s' ile: ,y w s s i d to I e t!.o iHncse of Baron S' bhara, the Japanese am1 a-s:,,.,-, v. '.o ,s in charge of Far Last, ro p'.i' 1- ins ;,.r l.,s government. It w is u m b-r-' "i, I, however, that the time reipiii'-t to communicate with Tnkio ai d the dc'erininatton of the Jap.niepi' to g 'e most careful exami-i-,'i..n t'i the i 'too so proposals, have ,'! i,a.,M. to o ak - an immediate s'utili.cMt. of Japan's views irupos il. . I' is -ti-l that when UiH I p-s. -Mat on is r. viy it will be given to the p'.b' i- as all evidence of Japan's n.j,i:;ii- to proceed With the if;- .. - m in tho o en. Approve ( hins's Position. Tie An.- r..in g iv em no nt, whiea , r. J to be in general ti... i 'ijoi s,- j,Msition, con- 1, i e I'll the subject, but ' gen. ral approval esme -..(., .ai-' rs of the French . .-I ,. ,:,"..,. that Itsly , s:;,t The French de r v I'liiig.iess to give up !i r ra -rial pr iv i leges and to Kaiiaiig Tdicou pro Ip veruutont's title te . ( h i.- was un i'iestioncfl. ' a pi-j,to.e. ti.cy et t i'ti, l";t 'i."v also ia ' .1 ip.c's need of expan e garters, nu id not be) 'as to ,. n ti ace ,'r. w"h tlll ll li Its W oil 11 ! oi i Inn d th. thur cv'r: 'lour Has. .b 1 t;.: 1 reh, h I II I'.-r i 1 . I c "ed C Japanese Request. Formal n n a lu eincnt by 'Admiral Ba run h i'o tlat Japan w oil Id ask (of a gre t- r pi portion of strength than ha 1 1 a proposed for her i the American p ' became tonight the enter of afention in the naval armament negotiations. Making the tirst. explanation of the reservation woh which Japan anticirinted the plan, liar, n Iv to also announced that his government desired right to possess nt hast one ship of the tnoat form nl.'i hie defensive type included in the arum in cut of Oreat Britain and the l nited States. He explained that he did not refer, to submarine!, but would not indicate what elaai of ussel was in his mind. .British Objections. Tho view behind the British ob jections is that the quota of 90,009 tons in submarines suggested by th American plan for both Great Brlt (Continued e iege Two. , '"'