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lie News and Observer THE WIATUOt VmmUi tulW aae Weal Saturday i tniar fate e4 WATCH UEZL mm yt ir. Ih4 nutil v be far expirats la order U mrmi4 mdmlag a liagt ewwy. VOLCXIV.' NO. 142. TEN PACES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. C. SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1921. TEN PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS np VI 1 SOUGHT JUSTICE ONLY 111 CARRYINGOH WAR DURINGDECEWIBER Text of Hitherto Unpublished Speech To Newspaper Men Made Public DISCUSSED FRANKLY AIMS AND PURPOSES Presldont Explains Why More Soldiers Were Not Sent To France In Early Months of World War; Be- fused To Play Politics In Making Appointments URSHALF OGHTO VII IS STATE Famous French War Hero Will Make Stops at Gas tonia and Charlotte BULWINKLE ANNOUNCES MARSHAL'S ACCEPTANCE Alexander L. McCaskill Lands Job As Collector at Wilmirgton; Defeat of Harding On Surtax Rate Victory For Democrats and Simmons' Leadership WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW IN BY JOSEPH P. Tl'MVLTV (Slat Installment.) Chapter XXX II Speaking to ma on day about the conduct of the war, shortly after the delivery of his ar menage, be aaid : "We must not la our conduct of thii war-repeat the scandals of the Civil and the Spanish American wars. The politics of Generals and Admirals must be tabooed. We must find the best trained minds that we can get and we must back them up at every turn. Our policy must be the best man for every job, regardless of his political affiliations. This must be the only test, for after all, we are the trustees of the beys whose lives will be spent in this enterprise of war." This was not an easy policy to pursue. Lvery kind of harassing demand come from Democratic Sen Mors and Representatives to induce the President to recognize politlca considerations in the conduct of the war, the argument being that after all the responsibility for iU conduct resting with the Democrats, the ad: ministration of the war ought to he under Democratic tutelage through out. But the President was final in his resolvo to see the war through !o the end without political consid crations. The political predilections if Generals, Admirals and war work ers of every kind were ignored. Mr. Creel by furnishing a list of Republicans appointed by the I're si tlent to conspicuous office has dis proved the churge againt the Presi dent of niggardly IWtVfciwsfeip.. At ' though the President would not tol erate a coalition cabinet, he gave to Republicans all manner of oppor tunities to share it the conduct and. the credit of the war. I quote from Mr. Creel: .. ..TJia search fnt'tha 1st at man for the place'' was instituted without re gard to party, faction, blod strain, or creed, and the result was a com iiosite organization in which Demo crats, Republicans and Independents worked side by side, partisanship forgotten and service the one con sideration. "It stood recognised aa a matter of course that the soldier selected to command our forces in France might well develop into a presidential pos libility, yet this high place was given without question to General John J Pershing, a life-long Bepubliran and the son-in-law of Senator Warren one of the masters of the Republi can machine. ''Admiral William 8. Sims, avoci ferous Republican, was sent to Enj lish waters in high command, sud while Secretary Daniels was warned at the time that Sims' partisanship was of the. kind that would not recog nie the obligations of loyalty or patriotism, he waved the objection aide out of hit belief that Sims was "the best man for the job.' "For the head of the Aircraft Board, with its task of launching America's great aviation progress Mr. Howard K. Coflia, a Republican, was selected and at his right hand Mr. Coffin placed Col. Edward A Deeds, also .a Republican of vigo and regularity. It is to be rcmem bared also that when failure and corruption wera ehangod against the Aircraft Board, the man appointed by the President to conduct the high lr important investigation aas Charles E. Hughls." Long List of Republicans "Three Assistant Socreraries i War were appointed by Mr. Baker- Mr. Benedict Crowell, a Cleveland contractor; Dr. F. E. Keppel, dea of Columbia University, and Emmet J. Scott, formerly Bookeev Washing ton's secretary and all three were Republicans. Mr. K. R. Stettinius of the J. P. Morgan firm and a Repub licaa was made special assistant to the Secretary of War and placed i charge of supplies, a duty that he - had been discharging for the Allies. Maj. Gen. George W. Ooethals, after hia unfortunate experience in ship building, was given a second chance ss an assistant Chief of Staff. The Chief of Staff himself, Gen, Peyton ('. March, was a Republican no less definite and regular than General Goethali, Mr. Samuel McKoberts, president of the National City Bank and one of the pillars of the Repub lican party, was brought to Washing ton as chief of the procurement sec tion in the Ordnance Section, with the rank of brigadier-general; Maj. Gen E. R. Crowder was appointed Provost-Marshal general , alt hou gh nil Republicanism was well known, and bo objection of any kind was made when General Crowder put Charlei B. Warren, the Republican National Committeeman from Mich igan, in charge of appeal eases, a position of rare power. "The Emergency Fleet Corporation wsi virtually turned over to Bepub lieans under Charlei M. Schwab and Charlei Pier. Mr. ance McCor mirk, chairman of the Democratic National . Committee, was made - ehairntin'of the War Trad Board, but of the eight membera the fol lowing fire were Republicans: Albert Btrausa of New York, Alonxo E. Tay- Spurned In Love, Widower Wounds Woman, Kills Self Harvey Furman, Aged 59, Fires Bullet Into His Breast ' After Shooting Mrs. Mary Talton At 409 Dawson Street; Mrs. Talton Not Seriously Hurt CONFERENCE The News and Observer Bureau, SOS District National Bank Bid., By EDWARD E. BRITTON (By Special Leased Wire.) Washington, Nov. 18. Marshal Foch it to visit North Carolina. The definite announcement that the great Frenchman, the man who as the commanding officer of the arm ies of the Allies made the plans and issued the orders that resulted In an overwhelming victory for the forces fighting for civilisation, will make at least two stops in the State on his return trip from points in the West which he has agreed to visit. The announcement of this was mado today by Representative A. U Bulwiukle, of Gastonia, him self a veteran of the World War, having served overseas in rea serv ice. n"niajor in the famous Thirti eth Division. He and Senator Over man visited the War Department and finally Congressman Bulwmxie secured the promise of two etopa fur Marshal Foch in Norih Carolina. Gastonia and Charlotte The stops will be made at Gaston'i nd Charlotte, and at each pla'e larshal Foch is expected to speik ncfly. The exact date has lot et been determined, iul it will e sometime betweea the first and the mirtf'enth of Or .'ember. He is to bo in New York by December 14 nd it would appear now that he will bo se.ii and htar.l at Gastoua ud ClvrloUa frither on the It. a 1th or 12th of D.'Ci-mlef. As soou a the exact date is parted ufion full notice will be y.jfn in order tha' the people of Ncrtli Carolina may jte aa opportunity f showing him how he is admirei in that State. T'ae train will atop at Nth Gastonia n'hd CktrloUa'aei il.sliaU Fo i may apeak from the tear platform. As he speaks on! lench his re narks will have t" Lc turned iuo Iiiirliah. but thcra i I le no trou. le diiout this, as an ivrt intcrp..!tit will be with him. VI os who w-t o i.tjit what he cays !u the origiu 1 i:d better be o iibirg up on the Kreni"! that thrv ktivw. Invitations To Marshal. Senator Overman presented invi tations to hva Jlnrshal Foch visit Raleigh and Fayetteville, bul 'Vanr- ed that it would not be possible to have him to do so, as these points are off the main line of the route he will take. Ma.ior Bu!wiokle, who being congratulated here on his success on having Marshal roch step at Gastonia and Charlotte, is in furmed that Marshal Foch will pass thro vi eh Richmond on November 24 on his trip West, going as far as Los Angeles, then back by the Southern Pacific to New Orleans, then through Atlanta and on by the Southern Railway to Washington, with stops at Gastonia, and Char lotte. And there is a feeling here that now it ii known the route that he will travel through Noh Carolina there will be other places that will be uriging Marshal Fo-h to appear at the station! and speak. McCaskill Lands Safely. Alexander L. McCaskill, of Fay etteville, landed today as Collector of Customs for the Fifteenth Col lation District, with headquarters at Wilmington, and succeeds James H. Cowan, Mavor of Wilmington The nomination of Mr. McCaskill was held up by former Senator Marion Butler, but it did not take the nomination much time to be confirmed after it reached the Sen "ate. It is understood that there wai no opposition on the floor of the Senate when the nomination came up today. And former Senator Eutler sees another victory for the "Hog Combine and that the "tail has gone with the hide." as he put the matter to those who beat the air when the Met assui nomina tion wai announced. Hardim Defeat. The hammering that President Harding yesterday received at the hands of M Republicans of the House in refusing to acce nt his di rect protest and vote against a jC per cent surtax for tne nigner brackets on income continues to be the talk here. The Washington newipapers, which are b'ind followers of the nardirtg administration, naci as little) to say about the defeat of Prefliderit- Pardi.ng' as possible. The defeat of the proposition to idopt a'compromise 40 per cent rate as req.reeted by President Harding is justly regarded here as a very great J victory for the Democratic conten tion for Renator Simmons, the Demo- eratie :anking member of the finance committee, and for the program he laid down in his opening broadside directed against the Republican tax revision bill and Senate amendments It is a pajt of the history of the change forced, in the bill by Demo cratic ggressivena, that the speech of Serator Simmona and hia eavage attack on the bill in tht Senate wai followed by action of tht agricultural "bloc' Republican! in lupporting tha fa:mtnons program and forcing "If yoa won't marry me, must die together, said Harvey Furman, fifty-ame year old widower before he sent a bullet into the ihoulder of Mrs. Man Talton, widow, and then killed himself at tha woman's home. 409 N Dawson atreet early yesterday morning. Mrs. Talton, not seriously wounded, told th police that her refusal -to marry him waa respons ible for Furman 'a act. Furman, who waa an Indiana farm er, cams to Raleigh aeveral months ago. He boarded with Mrs. Talton and operated a shoo repair shop on North 8treet. Tho body was yester day taken is charge by hia son, John H. Furman, aa engineer of the Nor folk Southern Railroad. Burial will take place in Hazleton, Indiana. En gineer Furman distinguished himself several months ago by springing to the "cow catcher'' of hii locomotive and rescuing a child, whose presence on tha track had been discovered too late to atop the train. The attack upon Mrs. Talton, which waa made as the wai preparing breakfast in her kitchen yesterday morning, as the climax of a aeries of proposals of marriage on the part of Furman, according to statements made by the woman and her daugh ter. They stated that Mrs. Talton's refusal to accompany Furman to a moving picture show Thursday night waa followed by threats upon the woman'i life by Furman, but the thread were not taken seriously by the woman or her family. Affording to Mrs Talton, Furman came into her kitchen about 5:30 yesterday morning and besought her to accompany him to hia room, re newiag hia offer of marriage, tur man had oo no ihoeo and seemed distraught, savs Mrs. Talton. The man went out oMh room, declaring he would end it all. Ia a few mm ules Furman entered the kitchen again, carrying a pistol and uttered his melodramatic statement: "If you won't marry me, wo must die to aether." Mrs. Talton was seated ia a chair, and as ahe matted to rise rurman shot. The bullet passed through her shoulder and glanced off her neca. Without waiting to find out the effect of the shot. Furman turned the pta tol on himself and fired again, the second bullet penetrating his chest in the region of the heart and produo- in instant death. Mrs. Talton, who Is a mil worker, 37 years old, waa taken to Rex Hos pital, where her injury was pro nounced slight, but of luch a aa ture ss to cause her to be confined to the hospital for about, three weeks. Coroner J. E. Owens wai informed of the tragedy immediately after tae occurrence and immediately began an investigation. The coroner inter viewed Mrs. Talton, members of the family and neighbor! and itated last night that lie was satisfied that tur man wai killed by his) own hand. At the request of Coroner Owens, an examination of the body was made by Dr. Z. M. Caviness, who stated that the wound was of such a nature that it could have "been inflicted either by the deceased mT anothe person. I.C: HIES IIS FIRS! OMAN DELEGATE Mrs. J. LeGrand Everett, of Rockingham, To Go To General Conference TWO NEW MINISTERS RECEIVED BY BISHOP Conference Decides To Ad journ By Sunday Might and Appointments of Min isters Will Be Bead Then; Alumni Association Ban qset a Feature NINETY-TWO I BOARD TO ISSU ON FIVEPROJECTS Slight Increase In Costs of Hard Surface; Gravel Roads Drop Sharply Ninety two bida on five highway construction project! in the Fifth DisUict were sunmitted to the State Highway Commission yesterday and opened in the House of Representa tives at noon. Three of the pro jects provide for tha closing with hard surface grips in the Centra Highway in Davidson, Guilford and Alamance counties. The other projects wer lateral roads reach ing into CasweJl county. fWeoea ful bidders will bo announced today. Costs submitted yesterday ranged slightly higher than on the last previous letting held here November 8 for hard surfaced construction, and for gravel roads, the price ranged nharply downward from the former level to 23 cents per yard to 22 12 bid on the Haw River lanceville rnad. Hard surface pav ing advamed about 5 cents per square yard. Three hundred er moreVontrae tors crowded into the Hall of the House when the bids were opened and the bidding was fo lowed witl keen interest. Again the Lnion Paving Company wai the center of interest, with renewed wonder as to what the big Philadelphia con tracting company would offer. The native contractors have not yet re covered from the shock sustained hen this company underbid by quarter of a million dollars on three jobs aeveral wocka ago. On the basis of ihe bids submitted vesterdav the cost per mile of har surface mads has advanced to s'ight Iv above 25,fXX. On the three hard surface projects Jet, there were 27.18 miles of hard surface roads. The cost of gravel roads declined lome what in comparison with former let tings. The most radical cut in costs submitted was in solid rock eicava tion, bid at 50 per yard. WATERWAYS MEETING COMES TO A CLOSE E NEW RUL E JAPANESE REQUEST MAY LEAD TO SOME HOT TALK OVER NAVAL ARMAMENTS Wells Says Japan Needs To Apply Birth Contrbl I IHILDUP ON SHIP PROGRAM Savannah, Ga.. Nov. 18. -The At l.mtic Deeper Waterways Conventio adjourned today after a four days' session.' Officer! elected included the following: President, J. Hampton Moore. Pennsylvania; vice presidents ' . at large, John H. Small, North Caro Una; John N. Cole, Massachusetts.; Murray Hulhert, New York; Fred erick tf. Donnelly, New Jersey; Wil liam F. Hroening, Maryland; vice presidents, George T. 1-ieaeh, North Carolina; director, Louii T. Moore, North Carolina. The convention went on record ai opposing the St, Lawrence River ahip canal project. Decision Will Involve Work ing Rules For The Six Shop Crafts Chicago, Nov. K. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The United States Railroad Labor Board announced to night that new working rules for the six shop crafts probably will be eera. pleted and issued in time to become effective December 1. " Issuance of tho rulea. uaf'Wla re cent decision of tho boardt) te way for consideration of request! which may bo filed by the roads fo revision of the shop craft wige schedules. The new shop craft rules will af fect approximately 500,000 men on all Class One railroads in the coun try. Only 94 railroadi are directly concerned in the preient case, the others not having their aubmissions proper shape when the cise was taken up, but board members auuci pate that all the Class One railroads will probably carry out the decision without further hearings. The board's statement issued to night said: "Such satisfactory progress during the past week has been made in the consideration of rules and working conditions for the six ihop crafts that it ii altogether probable that these rules will be completed and will become effective December 1." The board members said tonight that the new rules have been practi callv completed in less than five months, while the national agree meat which they supersede, required the attention of railways, govern ment and labor representatives and experts for seven months before it wss completed. Tha labor bosrd's work cn the rules was interrupted by the threat ened railroad strike which wai avert ed October 27. A few d.iyi previously the board had announced t'.iat no further wage reductions for any class of employees would be consid ered by the board until working rules and agreement! in dispute for the class of employees bad been passed on. The board, it wai indicated to night, will next take up for consid rration the rules and working con ditions for the maintenance of way omplovcs. There are a large num bcr of disputed question! regarding these rulei already befbre the board and statisticians have prepared most ot the cases for presentation. PEACE WITH AUSTRIA FORMALLY DECLARED Washington, Nov, 18. Peace be tween the United States andjrnstna wsi ("eclared formally itulr procla mation signed today t Presiaen Haran g. 'Are We Going To Let Them Die?" 6ir Philip Gibhe, noted English war correspondent, ia bac from Rueaia. with a story of the Russian peasant that every American ought to read. It will be published in tomorrow a Newa and Observer. Giht tells a plain unvarnished story alout condition! aa hi found them in the into'rior of Russia- His article is limply written--in the stylo that made.his war letters in the Now York Times and thi London Chronicle the most widelv read reports of the World War. H. G. Wells, tho world'ajiest known living writer, will have another article tomorrow on the Washington Arms Conference. If you are-not readiug Wells, you are missing something. His treatment of tbi ques tions before tho conference is always fresh and invigorating. How Woodrow Wilson brought the Germans to capitulate will be described fully by Joseph P. Tumulty in tomorrow! Old Reliable Never befon have the full detaili been published. All tho facta, ail tho details, appear in tomorrow a paper. Then there will be Frank Simondt, whose wide knoweldge of foreign affairs ia recngnired on two continent, and the' always full and complete account! of tha Associated Press and other interesting features on the armi conference iu -tomorrow'! Nsws and Observer. William Jennings Bryan-'i expoiition of the Sunday School lessons is a rlew feature that trie Newa and Observer has recently added. Mr. Bryan is a hia best in writing on Biblical subjects and nothing from hii pen la recent rears hai met with such widespread approvsl ss this aew aerie. READ THE NEWS AND OBSERVER AND KNOW WHAT GOES ON By T. A. SIKE9 Njw Bern, Nov. IS. The North Carollua conference, in lession here today, availed itself of tho new law of tha church allowing womew aqua rights with male membera by elect ing Mrs. J. LeGrsnd Everett of Rock ingham, aa Hi first woman delegate to the General Conference. Rev, Thomas N. Ivcy, D. D., idi tor of the Christian Advocate, Nash ville, Tmn., was elected to lead the delegation of thii conference at Hot Springs next ipring. Rev. M. T. Plylar, presiding elder of the Dur ham district, wai the only other cleri cal delegate who wai elected today. Josrpn G. Brown, president of the Citizen! Nations! Bank, Raleign, lead th lay delegations. Two New Minister. Another feature of today's session waa the reception into full connec tion of two young ministers who nad Been on trial for two years. In re ceiving these young men, Bishop Darlington delivered a atrong ad dreas to them, setting forth the re quirementa for miniiter of th Go pel. He emphasized the meaning and importance of the ministry and told the young men that he feared "we are prone to drift away from Holy thnigj. p Some men, said the Bishop go through life treating their minis terial duties as a huge joke. "I wint you to alwayi have rever- anea tor divine things. If you can ot anrwer in the affirmative ques ons that I am about to ask you nd then keep them, it would be bet er f?r I5.u 1T here now. Some men lo not keep their word. They promise not to use tobacco for in stance., and thin use it. I am not a crank on that lubject, but I am a crank about preaehen keeping their vowa. The Bishop admonished th young men to devote themselves wholly to thewoik of th mmiitry. "You are not to sell sewing machines or life nsurance you are to preach the gos pel." Appointments Sonday. Tho conference decided fully this morning that it would adjourn on Sunday night, at which time Bishop Darlington will read th appoint ments of the preachers for next year. This will be the second time in the hisory of the conference that this has la.cn done. Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock special session of the conference ill be held, according to a resolution adopted this morning, when the matter of group insurance for the preachers will be considered. Thii is a movement to Insure every preacher in the eonferene to the amount of three thousand dollars, Nl premiums to be paid in the reg ula-udget of th church. Elect Newipiper. Msa Lath L. Gobble, of Greensboro, wai elected 8unday School field secretary for the North Carolina Conference upon nomination of the Sunday School Board. Mr. Gobble was (elected from a number of namaa which were presented to th board. Sine his graduation from Trinity Colleg a few years ago he has been doing? Teportorfal work on the Greensboro Newi and it is felt that the board is exceedingly fortunate in securing his services to lead the Sunday School work of the Conference for next year. It is understood that Mr. Oohble has ae eepted the work and will immediate ly enter upon his duties. Alnasnt Baaqnet A most delightful lorial event waj enjoyed by th eonforenre tonight in th basement of Centenary Church, the occasion being th an nual Trinity College Alumni Asso ciation banquet, when 350 former Students and friends of th Metho dist institution gathered together, ate turkey and all that belongs with it, listened to music by the New Bern Orchestra and heard some routing speeches. Dr. Albert Ander ion, one of th "older boys," aeted as toaxtmaster. He first introduced Rev.' A. W. Plyler, of th western North Carolina Conference alumni association, who brought greetings from th West .to. Ill East. ThjL is th firtt time that a messenger hi! been lent from on to th other but tt Ii to be perpetuated. Rev J. M. Ormund responded to the greetings of Mr. Plyler. Dr. W. P Few spoke of a greater Trinity and 8. W. Marr, of Raleigh, ipoke In th interest of the recent education al campaign. Marr Namsd President Mr. Marr was elected president of th association and v. C. B Culbreth, manager. Revs. J. M Daniels, L. D. Haymaa and B. B Slaughter were named as the esecu tire committee for th ensuing year Ret. J. T. Oibbi, D. D, led open Ing devotions at th opening of conference this morning. Bishop Darlington announced that h had transferred Rev. T. B. Cobl from th Weitero North Carolina Con fereaee, H. C. Ewing from South Georgia, J. C. Harmon from upper South Carolina and E. I Hlmaa Order Cessation of Work On Four Warships; Regarded As a Good Omen London, Nov. 18. (By tho Asso ciated Press.) Th Admiralty an nounced today that it had ordered the cessation of all work on the four warships of the Hood type. The ship building firms were notified yesterday not to incur any further liabilities on new nival construct!) a until further notice from tho Ad miralty. These contracts wsr awarded only two weeks ago. umciais oxpiainea mat xne practi cal effect of tho Admiralty' order Bould be th abaolut cessation of all warship work pending the out come of th Washington conference. Declares Over Population Obstacle In Way of Far Eastern Settlement VIEW OF FUTURE OF ISLAND EMPIRE GIVEN "Open Door" Policy In China Will Benefit Japan As Well As World it OBwfirmatlosi Of Order. Glasgow, Nov. 18. It ii officially stated that the contract! awarded the Clyde Ship Cardi for the con struction of three warship of the super-hood typo have been suspended. The steel works are affected hy the luspension. ORDER SHOWS WHICH WAY THE WIND IS BLOWING Washington, Nov. 18--(By the Associated Press.) Action of the British government announced from London today in ordering work stop ped on the four capital shipi of the Hood type, the only capital ship building program ou which tha Brit ih have been enlaced airice the armistice, came as no surprise here Ther wai much doubt, even before th ' eonferene on limitation of armament waa called, by. Proudest Harding that fho British would com nlete these ihipi. Their atatoi as to construction ois molt Ameflcaa tabulations has been earned- ae "doubtful."' Regarded Aa Final. In any case, deliberations of the technical eominieiion hcadd by .Ai liitant Secretary Rooscvc.lt and ia eluding highest naval o?f1als of the five powera represented in the con ference appear to have reached i point where th capital ahip ratio may b coniidered lettled, so far as the B'itish and American fleets are concerned. The American proposal thst Great Britain retain 18 battle ships and four battle cruiaera and the United State! 18 battjeships seems to have been accepted by the inerts which implies final accep- r . .. . i.ij - ane by tne eonrerence u i that tlement of the program. Tho British Admiralty order atopping work on the four new ships is only n added straw to ihow which way th wind is blowing. It is not clear, however, that the xperti have aa yet reached a con clusion as to Japans fleet iirengtp nrinal announcement yesterday by Admiral Baron Kato, heading the Japanese group, that Japan desired more than the ratio in th genera naval tonnage allowed for her ua der tho American proposal waa takea to mean that this is the point now being debated bv the five admirals of tha aub-eommitte and their staffs. THREE PERSONS HURT IN MOTOR ACCIDENT Young Men Riding Motor cycle In Hickory Crash Into Automobile Hickory, Nov. 18. Beid Poovey and Harold Essex, Hickory students of Lenoir College, wer seriously in jured, and Richard Hamilton, a com panion, suffered saver bruises when a motorcycle on which all three wer riding crashed into a Ford sedan on Tenth Avenue this afternoon. The hoys wen riding to college and Poovey wai driving. The car driven by Walter Hefner. Eisex waa riding in front of thi cycle with his legi over th hsndlo bar when the auto, which waa get ting in front of a truck, and tha motorcyel went together. Poovey and Essex each had a leg broken and wer otherwis badly bruised and cut. Hamilton, sitting behind escaped with minor injuries. The motorcycle wai a complete wreck and the automobile, a new one. was badly dsmaged. Poovey and Essex ar in a local hospital. JURY Or WOMEN DOES GOOD JOB WHERE JURY OF MALES HAD FAILED OkMchobeo, Fla, Nov. 1. A ry composed antlrely of wosaea retarned a verdict of gailty to day after deliberating 45 miaate ntr a gambling eas which had resulted ia a mistrial when give to a mal Jry yeaUrday. It waa aald to b th first tin that Florida jory had aver boost mad p wholly of worn!. They wer elected after all sssa In tho v. iro had boca duunisMd. Br H. G. WELLS (By Arrangement with th New York Wor'd and Chicago Tribune.) If we adopt aa our guiding prin cipl that China ia "Vorth while.' if we make up our minds, and seems to me that tha American pub lic at least is making up it mind that China ia to bring itself up to date and tq re organise itself aa a great tnun of Slates under pure ly Chinese control and that it ia to be protected by mutual agreement among the powera from outside in tfrterence during In ag of re organixation, then it i clear that all dream i of Kmpir i China or my fragments of China on th part of any other power must cease. New National Policy This building up of a united t'Cacoful China bv th oonsciou self denying action of the chief pow ers of the world is evidently, unde present conditions, th only sane policy before th powers assembled at Washington, but it is unhnppil quite diaoictrirallv opposed to al traditions of competitive nationality And I find a most extraordinary conflict going on ia men's mind here in Washington between the manifest sanities of the world litu tion and those habits of thought and artion in whi-h we have been bred. Competijiv national ism and the long established com petitive traditions of European diplo msry have gona far tnnards wreck ing the world; and they may yet go far toward wrecking the Wash ington Conference, We have all got these traditions strong in us, very one of u. These traditioui. these ideas of international intei course as a sort of gam to: best the other fellow, hsv as tough a vitality as the appetite of the w.tsi which will go on ' eating greedily after its abdomen has been cut off. Indeed, sums of the representatives of the powers at Washington seem still to be clinging to the ambition of finally devouring China-, or large parti -of China. -a feast which they will not have the remotest prospect of digciting. Means More Wars If that sort of thing goes on, a continuation of ar preparation, a renewal of ar and the consumma tion of the social smash now in progress is inevitable. Yet, on the face of that plain inevitable conse quence, my diplomatic friends in Washington go on talking about such insane projets as that of ceding Manchuria ti Japan right down to the Great Wall, of giving Japan practical possession of the mines of China, of giving "compensation" m th matter of Chinese railynw to France, of getting this ''advantage' or that for Great Britain, and so forth and 'so on. I remain per manently istounded before the for eign offiria's. They have such ex rellent brilliant mints, out alas! s" highly specialised o highly ape cialized that at times one doubts they hav ia -th general sens of whether they have, in the general sense of the word, ai'.r minds at all In the face of the universal hope fulness for satisfactory resu t from th conference, 1 find rayse'f full of doubts. The naval disarm iment proposal of Secretary Hughes nss ohviouslv meant onlv as the opening proposition, the quite sp'en did opcnir.2 proposition of the eon feren'-e. The second meeting, r felt would find Mr. Balfour, and Ad miral Kato and M. Briand in clo quenl sympathy, saying: '"Certainly All this, and more also. can do on the understanding thst a stah'e explicit, exhaustive, permanent Pa this Conference that will remove all causes of far whatever.'" But the second meeting was disappointing One nation after another agreed. a Mr. Balfour, that "Vld parliamen tary hand"' put it: '"in principle But." And nosf w are all play ing four-handed chess with reser tion of ulraterritorial privileges stions brpjt dockyards, nsval sta and the like. We ar a I trying to put the effective disarmament on to the other fello. .Meanwhile, the nine pavers are sitting in secret session qn the Pacific question and it is clear, fnm tte tumors, tht nine-handed ckesa is ia progreos there. f Leave China Aln YetBe fact, piain encugh to any one who is not Inst in the game of dip'.cn.a v, is that this conference is an occasion for geneiosity ard re nunciation. There isS no way out of the Pacific inftfg'.io except to disentangle China and form a self denying ordinance of at) tho pow. ets concerned to '.oave her alone while she reconstructs. I submit that even Jspan, most ic'.ent of all th chess playrs, will do best to fall in line with such a plan. Would a world covenant to pro tect China from aggression and to concede her the progressive aboli tions, cruisers, targ submarine merican Delegation Ready To Dispute Any Material ,: Change From Ratio In ' Hughes Plan BELIEVE ANY CHANGES WOULD UPSET ENTIRE PRINCIPLE OF PLANS Clear Delineation of Ameri can Position Turns Atten tion Again To Kara! Arm aments; Japanese Want Increase In Proportional Strength of Their Havy; Fall Conference Qettiaf Ready To Take Up Tarf Eastern Question Again -Today; Japanese Hesitant In Stating Position On Chinese "Ten Pointa, Preferring To Develop Policies Step By Step Sympathy For China'a Position Crowing Among: Delegates JAPANESE VIEWS WILE BE MADE KNOWN TODAT Washington, Now. II. (By tho Associated Prwsw). At o. morrow' meeting of tho "Big sNlna" Ambassador Shldehin, of th Japanese delegstioa, wilt present a statement of Ik Japans viewpoint la rsspossso to the proposals of th CklaoM delegate. (Continued oo Tig Two) Pavo th way for a clear eompro haniioa of world issue by reading I tho outline of Hiatory Vy H. G. Wellington, Nov. 18. (By the A sociattd Press). Japan's requeit fog an increase in the proportlosal strength of her nary may lead ipood ily to lome talk across th council table of the arms conference. The American delegation standi -ready to disuute stubbornly anv ma Verial change from th ratio act forth 'n the American plan. That ratio, ,t was emphaaued by high authorities today, reflesti exiiting; proportional strength and so cannot ho tlred without upsetting a- fun- , Hamjinlft) ftriiii-inla A&atKji wtinl nlttft JapansM Shar In effect, the American figures givo - Japan lix fighting ships to every ton owned by the United State and -every ten owned by Greit Britain. in Japanese nnvc hinted, out nVr formally announced, that they want aeven to ten. the naval experu mt the United States really beluv that five tp ten is nearer the proper allot ment. Great Britain has accepted the six to tenjiUn in principle, but hor spokesmen have been silent about the new Japanese proposals. If it turns out that the "slightly greater naval force auggested for Japan by Admiral Baron Kato) only amounts to the addition of one battle cruiser to the Japanese flgureg then the emphatic objection! of the Ameri an delegates may not b doom ed necrssarv. But if the suggestion comprehends a real change in propor tion, it is declared on authority that a determined diplomatic strugjlo will result. Armaments To Front : The clear delineation of th Amer ican position, on this subject lerved to turn attention again to naval armaments today while th Far East- to permit the power to work ont daUils of tbeir policy. Neither tho conference nor any of iti committee met during the day, but th niqo delegation! will assemble tomorrow in executive session to resum thour discussions of tho Fait Eait. Coincidint with the disclosure of th American viewpoint on naval re ductions it was revealed today that the administration doei not propose to limit the armament agreement if there is one. to the nations repre sented in the Washington confer ence. Whether a trealy or simply an "understanding" would com out of the negotiations, administration officials would not predict, but it waa said that whatever the form of agreement th other interested na tions would be asked to participate. No Congressional Action. Should no treaty requiring Senate confirmation result, it was. said1 to be the belief of the administration that th whole armament reduction' program could be put through wtthV out Congressional action. Interna tional "understandings" of policy do not require the approval of Con gress, and officials sny the proposed scrapping of warships could be ae .ompl'.siied under general authority -ilready possessed by the executive. There was every indication tonight 'hat all the powers would go into to morrow's Far Eastern conference1 fuiiy prepared to express their viewa on th p!su presented is a bssil of disciiMiou by China. During the two day reiess the foreign delega tion have been in touch with their governments, snd although not all may desire to make detailed state ir.epfs of tbeir views at this stag of th negotiations, there is a general expectation that lome progress will bo possible. - - -.- The Japaneie, in particular, indi cated th:it they preferred to have the.r f' .'cies developed itep by tic p ai th leftotintions continue. They were p. tmed to iV for an interpre tation of torn of the Chinese ''tea point,'' and icenitd specialty Inter ested ia th proposal for the re examination of all compact affe:fc (Ooatlnued en Sag Two) -4 (OonMnnei i Pig Tour) (Continued on Pag. Two) - (Oontintwd oa Pact Two). " V. t .