North Carolina Newspapers

..1 M. '' TUB WEATHER A WATCULAtZL a year paper. sUal NHtil ire daya before eiplratpa la ardor U avoid missing a alalia tepy, , ; u me new erver ky teal ralae Ivy Saadaysdgfcti Bfeaday fertly eleudy, VOL OCIV. NO. 156. THIRTY-SIX PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. C. SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 27. 1921. THIRTY-SIX PAGES TODAY. PRICE: SEVEN CENTS THREE LIVES-LOST IN EXPLOSION OF N SEABOARD ENGINE E TO NA VAL LIMIT A TION PLAN VETERAN CELEBRATES flIS 100TH BIRTHDAY r--.'.V PRINCIPAL ITEM BEFORE CONFERENCE THIS WEEIC OPERATION FOR A OF L . ' ' ' UDGE SUGGESTS UROPE AGAIN FRONT AS RESULT MOTHER OF NEW PROPOSA Engineer H. W. Gerow and Fireman Jim Jones, Both of Raleigh, and Brake man E. J. Murphy, of Middleburg, Dead ENGINE COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED BY FORCE; TWO CARS WRECKED Conductor R. L. Barklej, of Baleigh, and Flagman En. fus Faison, of Raleigh, Only Surviving Members of Train Crew; Neither Knew That Explosion Had Occurred; Brilliant Light and Dull Thud Only Indi cation of Catastrophe; Hoboes Rentier Good Ser. . . vice Assisting With Engi neer and Brakemen, Who Were Not Killed Outright Engineer, fireman, and head brake- eian of 8ea.hoar) .Aii: Line Freight, Second No. 86, were hurled 150 feet ad killed in in engine explosion one mile eouth of Youngsvillo- last night it 8:40. The engineer, II. W. Gerow, of Rnleigh, died 'M minute after the accident; the fireman, Jim Jones, colored, of Ka'eigh, was killed outright; and the head brako nian, E. J. Murphy, of Middleburg, died three hours later in the hospi tal at Wake Forest College. The explosion, J'ct unaccounted for, completely wrecked the engine, i-atnpultiiig the rab a hundred yards down the track and the boiler plnlc fifty yards. Ocrow and Murphy were picked up on west side of the traek whi e the body of Jim Jones was found nn the east side. K. U Barkley, of Raleigh, condue tor, and Rufus Faison, of Raleigh. flagman, are the only surviving members of the train crew who left Baleigh last night bound for Nor lina. Faison and Barkley were in the caboose when the engine stopped abfupt y. Neither knew what had happened. HtMIe Faison went back to f'.ag behind, Barkley went for ward to the engine. Two hoboes, whhe men, who had jumped on the train at the Pamlico junction, joined him. Together,' the three men found Uerow and Murphy, bringing them under the ears to the east side of the track. Only two height ears had tumbled from the traek, hut the, engine was de molished. Both Murphy and Perow were living. "Are you badly hurt!" Barkley wked Gerow. "I'm dying. Giro ma water. Tell my wife and children not to grieve," the dying man said, giving Barkley his wntch to turn over, to his wife. Mnrphy Goea te Hospital The railroad track, at this point, is Uaa than a hundred yards across a corn field to the high nay. An auto mobile passed. At Barkley's diree tion one of the hoboes hailed it, the plan being to send Gerow and Murphy to the hospital at Wake Forest. . Gerow died before he eould be gotten to the ear. Murphy, how aver, was carried to the hospital where he died of burns and a broken arm, and perhaps somme internal in juries at midnight. In Raleigh, the rumor came that Oerow was being brought to a hos pital here. Mrs. Gerow in an auto mobile left immediately for the scene of the explosion, only to find her husband dead. Beta Explosion Tom Young, - a 'f amer living (we. hundred yards or more from the scene was en his front porch when the - explosion occurred. ' . "There was not much noise, a aort of dull thud that shook the house,' ha aaid. A great flame spread out about the engine and pieces of iron aad burning coal began to fall around. 1 rushed down as fast as 1 could fa. Tom Pearson, a neighbor, had gone before me. The conductor was talking to Mr. Gerow when I gat there."' Tke Conductor, H. 1 Barkley J thoroughly shaken by his experience, stood ia the telegraph office at waae Forest and told of tha explosion Ha had heard nothing. The stop- piag of tha train and a bright flasi af light were the only indications at tha tragedy. Even then ha eould not be certain what had happened. Lee rue Thirty Minnies Later ' Fliaon, flajman, knew even leas. WKa tha tnin atnniMMi he went back down tka track in tbeSrforauneo f bra duty. , Only thirty minutes la tar aid be learn, from a passerby that tka explosion had wrecked the angina and killed t)r wounded bis fallow trainmen. '' Last night, a .stream of automobiles from Rslsigh aad from the north as 4ut a Henderson brought the crowd. Tkey covered tha' brake field lined toe' railraad track, aad gitbered la littM knots about Area hastily kia dledV . To wrecking crew, from Baleigh waa already at wark, tka big erane eloariag tka wrecksga aad nuking H possible for trafie to continue. But yrklle Ike machinery groaned aad daaked. red light tkrew a dull grow agalast elouda af khwlng steam. All erenad tsateraa af th trainmen bobbed back aad ferth. It waa eeber crowd. .1 :- V - i aWsno Otbor Wrote. ' If r. . Barkley, tka surviving eoa daetor, recalled bat aight tkat four year ago, appreiimstely, Barry Gae- iCoatiauei aa. Pag ligtteoa.) ' it WINNER OF STATE SPELLING CONTEST i WILSON MORTON, Loaisburg. Thirteen years old, and an all tound boy, Wilson Morton is the champion speller of North Carolina GrumnraT Grades, so declared after the contest held in the Raleigh High Sell o 1 auditorium November 23. But Wilson isn't a spelling freak. Be isn't a freak of any sort. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mor ton, of Luuisburg, and his father is the superintendent of the Duke foundation for Ixiuisburg College. Wilson is a boys' boy, generally good atall his studies, with a par ticular aptitude for cartooning. TS Neuse Merchant Abandons Appeal To Supreme Court and Will Serve Sentence A. J. Honeycutt, wealthy merchant of Neuso, who has been twice con victed in Federal aourt hers for rs eeiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen, yesterday abnn doned hia appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States and will begin on February1 1 a five year sentence in the Federal prison at Atlanta. The ease against Dr. J. R. Lowery, prominent Baleigh physician, charg ed with violation of the anti narcotic law, was postponed until December 14. and all other important cases were postponed or continued for the term, leaving next week clear for the regular calendar, r hich includes ensrs from Wayne, Person, Johnston and Harnett counties. Cases allied with the Honeycutt case were continued until December VI. The defendants in these cases Include one additional case against T. K. Hold'ng, Jr., Wake Forest druggist, who has been once convict ed and once acquitted of charges of receiving stolen goods, snd cases against R.J-'., "ichola and H. Borg mann, tno Raleigh detectives, charg ed with intimidating government wit nesses against Honeycutt. Both were arrested Inst Wednesday fn a bench warrant issued by Judge Cononr and held until Friday without hail. Nichols is now out under a bond of 92,500, while Borgmann is in jail i)i default of a bond of r,000. The case against L. H. Grimes of Bosky , Mount, wlio .i. charged, with violation of the Mtnn white slave net, has been continued for the term. The defendant's bond was reduced from $5JJ00 to (2,300, and he fur nished the reduced bond. The eases against thirty-odd Syrian aaerehants from Eastern North Carolina, charged with using the United States mails to obtain merchandise fraudulently, which were set for next week have been con tinued for the term. The so-called automobile eases against defendants irom several states, enargea wnn in terstate traffic ia stolen automobiles are set for tha week of December 6. Hoaoycatt Surrender Sarariaea. Surrender yesterday by Honey cutt came in the nature of a com plete surprise as it had been ex pected that the Neuse man would eontinua tha hard legal battle that ho has maintained sinea hit arrest more than a year ago. Honeycutt was Irst tied a year ago, convict H and sentenced" to sVve years ia tie prison at Atlanta aad a fa of $3, 000. Jjurt June ka was agaia triei. agaia convicted and received aa identical sentence. The defendant appealed in both cases to tha Circuit Court of Appeals. A new trial was granted ia tha first eaaa because of the introduction into evidence of cancelled checks and article of merchandis a hick kad been unlaw fully seised, but 'tka second verdict was affirmed. Tka opinion' of tka appellata court was delivered about two weeks ago and tka defendant announced, through hia attorneys, that ka would carry Ma appeal to ' tka kighest tribunal ia tka had. Tka agroeasoat reached yesttrday fesnlted from a proposition iub mitted by tka defeadaaYa attorneys, W. B. Jones aad James H. Poa, who succeeded CaL Albert & Cog aa Mr. Joexa' associate la tka eaaa. Tka lefeadant agreed to oarv tka Iva yeaa' sentence, pa tka $5,000 no, plea4 guilty, la all peadiag aaoa w.a pay tha eoota la all af (Csti Ttgfft'' L mm quits FIGHT IN COUR Recommends That It Be Made Impossible For Her To Bear Children MAKES SUGGESTION ON ADVICE OF PHYSICIAN a i !ri. Clyde Oatiidente Haled Into Denver Juvenile Court to Show Cauie Why Children Should Not Be Taken Away from AUegfti Filthy Home Denver, Colo., Nov. 26. Sitting in Ik- juvenile eourt here today, Judge '!ojal Graham, of Georgetown, rec mmende(t for Mrs. Clyde Cassi Jcne, of Denver, an operation that would make it impossible for her to liesr sny more children. Mrs. Gas xidcnti, who already is the mother of live, was haled before the judge on complaint of Denver social work its to show cause why her children should not be taken from her, th,c complaint alleging that the family home was filthy sad that the hil (Iron had been neglected and were under-nourished. fnyslelsn's Evidence. Dr. Ksy Hunderlsnd, testifying in the case, aaid he believed conditions at the Cassidente home were the re suit of the mother bearing children too fast. "What would you suggest as a remedy!" asked Judg Graham. "That Mrs. Cassidente aubmit tp a sterilizing operation,' replied Dr. (Sunderland. "I will continue this case until January 10," the Judge announce.), "and in the meantime 1 want the doctor's suggestion carried out." Dr. Hunderlund stated that the husband of Mrs. Cassidente, who j a notary, public and an Italian in terpreter, already had agreed to permit his wife to aubmit to soih an operation. banditTholTOp payroll messengers Secure Monej Bag; Contain, in; $28,000 After an Ex change of Shots Chelsea, Mass., Nov. 6 Four men held up an automobila from the First National Bank of Boston here today and stole payroll funds said to amount to 120,000. Tkey escaped in an automobile witk a New York registration number. One of the men was thought to have been wounded by a shot Bred by the bank messenger. The hold up took place la front of the A. G. Walton and Company ahoe factory on Spruce street. A score of shots were exchanged. The bank nutomohile, carrying the weekly pay roll for the factory, had stopped out side the company office, and us two messengers stepped from the ma chine with the money they were firfd upon by three of the bandhs. One of the latter seized the rnonly I n? and fled in their own automo bile. The others followed him, shoot ing as they went. A messenger who had remained in il! the bank ear, opened fire on th rubbers. ' While the exchange of shots' was in progress, the bandits d'sappeared in the direction of Everett. Officials of the shoe company said the stolen bag contained 128.444. DISORDERS CAUSED BY NEWSPAPER REPORTS Anti-French Demonstration! In 'Italy Become Serioui In Nature Turin, Italy, Nov. M.-(By the Associsted Press).' Anti French de monatratioss which were preripitat ed lsst night following newspaper nceounts alleging harsh words were used by Premier Briand, of France, to Senator 8ehanser, head ef the Italian delegation at Washington, were eonnnuea nere today with such intensity that 300 troops had to be called in to restore order. The most serious incident in con nection with the demonstration1 oc curred when tha mob found a Frenek flag and-burned it pbulicly midst hostile sec Initiations saiast Fraaea. TWENTY-PJINE KILLED IN BELFAST RIOTS Belfast, Nov. . (By the Asso ciated Press.) Official figures pub lished today place the number af persons killed during the last few days' disorders la Belfast at 27, and tka number of wounded at 92. Of tha number killed, according to the lgures, 13 were Protestants and 14 Catholics, aad of tha wounded 61 warn Protestants aad 31 Cathlotiea. It Wat decided today to put wire netting .over all the tram, ear wia dowi as, a protection sgsinit tka possible exploeioa of bombs. A aswsboy waa arrested this morn ing by tka police, wko aaid tkey found a bomb ia bia pocket. SHIPPING BOARD TO , SALVAGE WOOD SHIPS Newport News, Nov. I. Bhipni a Board representatives arc at. tka Ctaramoa wooden skip aaekarage to day to select f va waodea craft to scrap aad as Wage aa aa experiment Tka beard baa bona offsred 3,000 rota for tka chips bat. believes H eaa reallas a groats r aam by aeraa ping tbem and tka aaJvaginr af Ira it aa azpariaMaV , , , ....... .. , 1 CAPTAIN GEORGE CATHCY, Confederals Soldiers' Home, Raleigh. CAPTAIN CATHEY W GREAT DAY Eve of Hundredth Birthday Brings Veteran Much Joy Friends, flowcra and felicitations hailed Captain George L'athey at the Confederate Soldiera Home .yester day, the eve of hia hundredth birth day which he celebrates today. Cheery little wrbite haired man, he looks back over hia ninety ine other birthdays with kocn enjoyment and forward into the future with optim ist la philosophy. With Browning he can taste the "last of life for which bo first wsi made,' knowing that all of it is psrt of The Great Plan he is satisfied to oficy the poet's injunc tion: ''Trust God, see all, nor be afraid." Seventy nine years In the school room is the boast of the old gentle man, if he is capable of boasting of anything snvo the rather quiet on joyment of the fact that, though a Confederate soldier, he never sur rendered. When the end of the war came, Captain t'stlicy turned hia company over to his lieutenant and went home. "I couldn't surrender to a Yan kee,'' he said. But the seventy nins years of teaching have left no trscs of cynic ism in hit character snd no touch of nsperity to his disposition. He started teaching aa a hoy of eighteen in n little log sclmol house in Ire dell county. Wince then he has taught in (leorgia, in Swain, Gra ham, an 1 recently in Macon counties in North larolinn. Just si he wouldn't surrender to the Yankee, he isn't now willing to surrender to age. He is chiefly am hilinm I ..... ii.. ' ...... .... v .,,,ti uiub iue superin tendent of Macon county to give him another school to teach. - .Ttnipsrsnce the Word ' Temperahce in ail" things, In ,,Wofk, and play, aad daily habits' of con duet to this Captain (athcy at tributes his long life. This, snd the other fundamentals of clean living and upright character Captain Cnthey taught la the school room along witn reading, writing, and arith metic. Captain Cathey was born near Daville, Vs., November 27, 1821, his parents moving to Iredell county. North Carolina, while he was still .1 lad. It was here that he did his flrst teaching. With the family, he re moved to Georgia where he continued teaching. Be waa in Georgia at the oatbreak ef the War Between the Btsrtee, and serrnl as Captain of Ccnipany C, Georgia Legion, bosks' Brigade, but participated in no major operations. After the war, he want back to the achoorroom which ka left only two years ago to come to the Home from Macon county. He kaa. one son in Charlotte and three married daughters in Atlanta. Carries Thorn Lightly He carries hia hundred birthdays lightly. A little "misery'' in bis hip, lately, has interfered a bit with his kabit of walking down town to the theater. But ha , still walks much. Daily he reads Voth Baleigh papers and bia Bible and ia a rosdy conver sationalist, free to chat with anyone who wishes to chat. Last aight at the Home a birthday party was givea in' his honor. Col. Fred 'A. Oldt waa visiter of cere taeniae, aad the Johnson Pettigrew Chapter and Manly a Battery Chap ter U. D, C. made tha evening a sue ceaa. afuiie, including aa orchestra, aad singers from the State School for tka Bliad. made Captaia Cathey tad bia eemradee happy. Long Distance Messages. Low dee, Not. Assonacemeat waa aude Saturday by the Marconi Company f tka aecossful ' send lag for tka Irtt time at a series of teat aeoearee by wire las from Cataav reav Wales, direct U AsstrsJla.- President's Startling Sug gestion May Lead to Com plete ftevisal ANGLO-rRENCH ROW MAY BE DISMISSED Premier Llojd George Ma After All Find fceaion To Attend Washington Con. ference; Harding' Pro. posal Open New Horizons For Exploration By FRANK H. SIMON DS. Washington, Nov. 26. Two facts dominate .the history of the second neck ot the Washington conference, namely, the Anglo French row, which was not unexpected, and Presi dent Harding's Friday comment on the possible broadening of the n-oe of -the conference itself, which" is in reality th? most striking single circumstance lince Mr. Hughes' opening speech. As to the Anglo French row, every 'ioily has already taken its measure Vfd It mav now le dismissed so far i it has American aienficance. On rife other hand, the President'i startling proposal may lend to a revision of all estimates alike of time ad results so far as the con ference is concerned. Between the President's Inter iito nnsilt nnH Mr Ittiffitea iineninip unit. . ... . - i , M pectus it is obvious that tlierc tf a very nle difference. I'nder Mr. Hughes' impulse the conference has lii'cn working on tiie auljct of the limitation of armament with the idea that specific and definite agree ment here would be the main cuntri tuition or Ine garnering, and since this objective was simple snd re stricted there has lieen an eipecta tion that Christmas would see the work dnne and the delegates gone. Premier George May Come As it now stands, however, there nems every reason to believe that the conference will take on a new aspect more thoroughly reminiscent of Paria and that we may have a very considerable measure of Euro pean affairs brought in. One of the most immediate of the possibilities is that Lloyd George may after all find a reason ta so ass here and an opportunity eommeasurate with his political necessities. Such an oppor tunity has been lacking ever since the firat day of the conference be cause there hai been no plncce where he could be put in appropriately. In deed, aside from M. Briand'i one night stand, the Washington confer ence has had a single character, and tliat has been Mr. Hughes. The President's suggestion comes ss a profound surprise. It opens horizons far more considerable than anyone had eipected would he ci plored, and it may be many days before we can ace what boundaries are actually to be set to what may easily become a totally different sort of international gathering from that which has been described and ex pected in very recent days. European Qnestieaa Brongat In Up to the present moment, the Washington conference haa resolute ly set itself against any intcrmingl ing in European affairs. It has suc cessfully resisted a number of Brit ish, French, and Italian attempts to interest the United States in Euro pean problems. The result hsi been a profound dissppoinrment to every European, although this disappoint ment finds little expression in the public press either at horns or abroad. Moreover, even in- the case of Asia, the United Htittc. has,, to a surprising extent avoided assuming a leadership which would carry nitli it a similar assumption of re sponsibilitics. ' If now, however this Washington conference is to be transformed as s-'ems at least possible following President Harding's suggestion of yesterday we are bound to have Lloyd George come here to re open tho Britiah ease ' against French policy on the Continent; we are cer tain to have Germany come here to ask the United Btatea to act as .ar biter between Germany and her con querors. Indeed, save for Russia, which ia specifically listed ss unin vited by President Herding, it ii difficult to see why anybody in En rope should stay nway. In addition, the question of the League ot Nations seems likely to become pertinent again. The Waah ingtoa gathering eould hardly fail to be a rival of the Geneva asc '.a tioa. Competition between the two organisations might easily follow and it ia not Impossible that mem bers of tha elder might expeat in ducements to persuade them to traai fer their allegiance. Waealagtea Again at Sea It is true that there remains a very great lack of clarity ia the Washington mind as te exactly what the President himself was thinking of whea he reverted te his familiar topie ef the association of nations. The first impression was aad still lingers that he had deliberately transformed the whole character ef the present gsthering. Whea M. Briead went home there was a gen eral feeliag that we were seeing the beginning af the cad; that tha first dinnwf gwest waa going aad the aad ef the party in aight The eoafsreaee as eetliaed by tin Hughes i kit epeafag apeeea waa ebviously reach, lag its terns. New Washington Ss again frankly at sea aad It awaiting eagerly, alaxiieatiea aa4 explaaa- (CnpyrWnf 192T. VeClnra Jfewn. Possible Breakdown Of Civilization In Sight Break-Up of Modern Civilization In Central And Eastern Europe Need Spread No Further If Leading Nations of World Could WQrk Out Bankruptcy Ar rangement, Wells States By H. G. WEI.LR (Uy Arrangement With The New York World and the Chicago Tribune) In a previoua paper I have set out the plain fact of the. condition of central and eastern Europe, it is a brmk-up of the modern civilization system due to the smashing up of money, without which organized town jr t. lui, imi'-ij ,i ui i ii.ii, niuidnuii mm a 9lt-iimi II loll! C. J f munications are unworkable. If it goes on unchecked " in innuiai iuiHiuoiiiU iiniini aim, rnnri II iitiMi will follow Russia to a condition in which the towns will be dying or dead, empty and ruinous, the railroads passing out of use, and in which few people will lie left alive evceot iiiieitiicnl,il HiirinirutinfT miiunii an.) tnrlMkAl farmers, growing order aniOJig thrmselvc in-thwr owri fashion. We arc faced indeed with a return to barbarism over all these areas. They are going back to the conditions of rural Asia Minor, or the Balkans. How far is this degeneration going to spread! E Carolina Power & Light Go. Wins Decision From Cor poration Commission Taking into consideration the resolution of the eity eoinmissioneri withdrswing opposition to the Caro lina Power and Light Company's petition for an eight cent ear fare in Rnleigh, and the Chamber of Com merce's endorsement of that move, the 8tate Corporation Commission yesterday issued an order increaa ing the street car faxns in, Raleigh from seven to eight cents, with the provision for two tickets for fifteen cents. The petition of the Carolina Pow er and Light Company has been hanging fire since October, 112(1, un der an order of the commission temporarily declining the petition and calling upon the eity of Raleigh to appear on May, 1921, te show cause why the Increase should not be nlloned. At tflii hearing, the city maintained its opposition and the Carolina Power nnd Light Com pany renewed its petition. Since that time, the eity of Bal eigh has ordered the Caroling. Power and Light Company to do certain paving between its c. trncka on Hillsburo street snd on Bloodworth street. Having informally refused the proposal of the street ear com pany that lie allowed to discon tinue its Bmithfleld street line, on which considerable paving was in volved, the company came back with a proposal that the com mis era withdraw opposition to ita peti tion for increased rates. The Commissioners sought the ad vice of the Chamber of Commerce nnd received a unanimous endorse ment of the Carolina Power and Light Company's requesf. At a pub lie heuring called for by the Mayor, no one appeared to protest nguinst withdrawal of opposition, and a evolution was adopted by the Com missioned instructing the city at torncy o withdraw opposition for the city of Raleigh. This was done, anil the decision of the Corporation minission followed yesterday: The order of the Commission fol lows: t ''This application has been eon tn.ueil from time, to time since Oc tober, 1920, with the hone that in creased volume of business and operating economies would produce a satisfactory asturn without sny further increase ia fsres. At the last hearing, however, it was shown that net revenues have materially decreased during the present year at compared with the calendar year 1920. Maintenance costs have in creased rather than diminished nn account of increasing necessity for repnirs to street pavjng. The City of Raleigh is imposing npon the com pnny, which it has the right to do, additional street paving that will require additional capital expendi ture fit $35,000. It has been necrs inry also to male capital expendi ture, of $20,000 for additional ears. ' Under these circumstances the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce has, through its Board of Governors, ap proved the application of the pcti tinner for an increase of fars, and the ofSeiala of the City of RaK igh, represented st ' former hesrings ia opposition lo the petition, have withdrawn opposition. A cash fare ef 8 cents will be authorized with requirement that two tickets be sold for 15 cents, which is practically equivalent to a cash fare ef 7 12 cents, aa almost every passenger will buy a return ticket. If the re ports of the company under this rste ef fare at any time Indicate suf tie! nt earning to justify a redue tiea ef fares, the burden will he placed apea the company to justify the eontieuauce of the ratei of fare herein authorised. "0red, TKat from -and after January , 1922, and until fjrth r arder, tha Carolina Po r and Lcht Cesnpaay be authotirid to charge ( cents for single cash fores on its Rsleija street railway lines, and that It keep aa tale in eac'u car twe tieketa for IS teats. Also, that it cenllaue, tnder existing rules, to ell booh, tkketa for school children ea the basig af ronad trip for eaa fl f i,. "W , , - ; EIGHT CENT FAR FOR RALEIGH CARS their own food snd keeninc a rouili It Need Spresd No Farther. It us recognize at once that it need spread no- further. It is not sn inevitable proem. It eould be srrested, it could be turned back and a rapid restoration of our shat tered civilization could be set going right away, if the leading powers of the world, sinking their p.h'iv-al ambitions for a time, eouM met frankly, to work out a bankruptcy arrangement that wo.ild releaso thi impoverished nations from dt M Hiid give them again a valid money, a stable money with a trustworthy exchange valu", that couli be ac ceptcd with confidence ind saved without deterioration. Upon that. tilings could be set guing .ir;i n ituit hopefully. Eilucntlon has not so le generated ns yvt, habits of work and trading and intercourse are Mill strong enough to make su li a re eovery possible. Except perhaps in Rusiia. ia, for all we kuow, may sunken very deep. . But if there is no vigorous Rus uvt orli effort made soon, th trading cms the foreman class, the technically educated elms, the professional clsss, the teachers, and so forth, will have been broken up and dis perscd. These classes are eompara tively easy to deitroy, extremely hard to reconstruct. Modern civiliza tion will really have been destroy ed, if not for good, for a long period, over great areas if thesu classes go. At Present Spresding Rapidly. And the process is at present still preadiug rapidly. If it gets Ger many, and it seems to tie getting Germany, then Italy mav follow. Italy is linked very closely to Ger many economically and financially The death of Herman, will chill the economic, blood of Italy. Italy is passionately anxious to disarm on land and sea. But Italy cannot dis arm while France maintains a great army an I makes great naval prepara tions. Frnncc'i refusal to disarm prevents Italy from disarming. The lira iways and sinks; ill value fluctuates not perhaps so widely as do marks and crnner, but much tno widely for healthy industrial life and social security. And Italy is troubled by"Jts restless nationalists, a whooping, flag waving crew of posturing adventurers, without fore sight or any genuine love of coun try. If nothing is done, I think I would give Uermany about six months and north Italy two years be fore a revolutionary collapse occurs And France! This new rhetorical France which remains heavily armed while no man threatens, which builds new ships to. fight non existent German armies and guards itself against the threats of long dead German generals, one of M. Briand's hair-raising quota tions is to le found in the Encyrlo pedia Britannira and must be nearly 20 years stale the renascent France which jostles against Italy and Eng land and belieiel that it can hum bug America for good aad all while it dors these things; will it pull through amidst the general disaster of Europe! Will it achieve its mani fest ambition and remain dominant in Europe, the dominance of the last survivor, the rock upon the dung hill of a general decay! It doubt it. France, Tee, Might Cellasae. Watch the franc upon the ex change as the true meaning of the French sturch for "security" dnv. ns upon tl world. Watch the sub seription to the next French loan to nay for more submarines and mor KfcJtegalese. It mary proie to be too Uiffieult a feat after all for ranee te wreck the rest of r.urope, to de stroy her commerce by destroying her customers, and yet to save iier self. When France begins to break, ih may break very quickly. Under the surface of this exuberant French patriotism runs a deep tide Commimisin, riw and red and is'1 sanely logics!. We talk of the ssner, graver Tr-ree, the t ibitantial Frauee, that ia masked by Ce rh -ule of II. Briand and the fag wiving French Nations . sts, of a Franca generous enough to help a fall n foe aad great enough to think of the welfare of mankind. I wish we could hear some of that saner France. And soon. 1 eaa see actuing nut a war like orator empty and miscaievo hading France aad all Europe to de itruction. I de not see that it b possible for a France of armament and adventurers te dance along the edge ef Tha sbysa withent falling ia. Eaglaaa Ka letf siuatalnrag Whea we peas eat af tk Con- (CoaUaaed ea Fag Tvtl American and British Ex . perts Almost Ready To J ; Make Their Reports TT. . Full Conference FAR EAST COMMITTEE ' :: DEVELOPING POLICIES IN REGARD TO CHINA " Withdrawal of Foreign PssU offices from China Agreed -To In Principle; Sub-Cora- mittces To Draft Resolu tions un rostornoe and Extra . Territorial Prob lems For Adoption Later; Want To Bring Maral Ariamenti Ont Into Open Conference ; . President's ' Plua For "Association of ; . mJ, Nations" Becomes Topio of Absorbing Interest; No Official Comment By For eign Delegates . Washington, Nov. 26. 'By the Associated I'ress.) The problem ef naval limitation, left in the back ground while the Far Eastern nego tiations are developing step by step the policies of the powers toward China, has ben advanced to a poitt wheve it may soon resume a place of predominating interest ia the srms conference. Report This Week. It was indicated today .!iat beta the American and British experts had virtually completed their work on details of the American redua tton plan and would be ready to re" port to the conference early nest week. The Japanese experts had no similar announcement to nink.i, bnt it was assumed they would not per mit tliemsi hi'S to be put in the posl . tion of delaying seriously the prog ress of the negotiations. The crucial ponit in the discus wifins, as viewed by the American delegation at least, ia the "5-S J" ratio of capital ship strength whiek forms the basis of the Americaa piss, ind it is upon this feature that the considerations of the con ference are expected to center when it turns again to th-' naval question. It was said authoritatively that ia the opinion of the spokesmen of tha American government, all question! relating to auxiliary craft- are of collateral importance only aad can be settled easily once there ii aa l agreement on capital ships. Get Back Te Navies. Conference officials are under stood to feel that the attention af the delegates can be diverted front the Far Eastern problems to tka subject of navsl armament without complicating the procedure of- tha conference, and the American dele gation, in particular, has showa a desire to get back into the naval discussions as soon as the work ef the experts will permit. The Ameri can delegates are declared to be well satisfied with the progress made la the Far Eastern negotiations, bat impatient to get the naval negotia tions out of committee fox a more definite exchange of views among ' those who will actually htvs tka final decision. Agree On PoatoSkea. Anotiier of I h ma's problems reached the point of a virtual "agreement in principle" during tka day at a session of the committee ea the whole devoted to a discusaioa of the maintenance of foreiga peat offices a . postnl systems ea Chinese soil. The deW-gatca all agreed there should bo a withdrawal of the fore ign postal machinery as loo a as eon ditiorrs wsrrwitt and a sub committee headed by R nator Lodge, of the. American delegation, drew up foe later formal adoption a declaration of principles under which each ef. the powers wo ild investigate eoadi- ' tiom for itself and withdraw wkea it considered it practical to do so. Tha report is to be presented te the foil committee Monday, aad at the ssme time another sub-conntttes) will present for approval a re so hi tion declaring also for a gradual slwilition of the extraterritorial rights in China as soon as Chinas judical machinery will warrant the change.. It is exited that the die patch of an international commie mission of jurists to China to study the situation will be recommended in the nib committee report a4 agreed to by the conference. Chinese Facilitiaa. . ' Ta di.vui.Mon of the postal qiKtion today, the delegates ef Japan are understood to have ea pressed serious doubt whether the present i stal facilities of tka Chinese government would fully meet the demands mrje upon these -should the foreign systems with draw. It was also said to hate been ' suggested by somj delegate, tkat the Peking government might lad difficulty in enforcing referae which might be agreed te here, ta -view ef the unsettled state) ef tVe internal affairs uf China. Tka virtual deeisioa te leave Withdrawal te the discretion af sack ladivkiueit ' power was the result. ' rmideat ' Plea. ' Although ao formal men tioa af it ; was made ia tke committee sneetlag. resident Harding'! awgtsettea for a eeatinuaace ef tW eeafereaee piaa la later atleaal reratlonsalps srae a oneeL'ta ef abeorbtaf xaUreat la s print ceaverutieas between dele- '. sj ef the eVVtnteU waul ejeiw. eat ea It yublicly, and the ? ', (Ceatlased aa Ts T-)