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VOL CXIV. NO. 152.
SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY.
RALEIGH, N. C. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29. 1921.
SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY.
PRICE: FIVE CENTS
THOUSANDS DYING
IN RUSSIA'S GREAT
WHITE LONELINESS
PLACED LEAGUE
HERO OF FAfi
FIRST DIRECT ACTION TO
LIBERATE CHINESE FROM
INFLUENCE OF OUTSIDERS
E PARTIZAN
LOST BATTA
LEAD HERE IN
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HARDING'S HOPES
LlOli
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ABOV
CONSID
RAINS
GONE 1
WORLD
DISORDER
Sir Philip Gibbs Narrates
Harrowing Details of Suf
ferings of a Land Rav
aged By Starvation
THOUSANDS SWALLOW
BITS OF CLAY TO GIVE
SENSE OF BEING FILLED
Always Bmilinj, Even When
Oraj Death Sits Beiide
Them, The Peasants of
Bussia Tell Their Story
of Hopelessness; Mothers
Weep Silently As They
Show Gibbs Their Skele.
ton .Children; In Many
Hornet If o Tood But Straw
and Leaves and- Not Much
. of That; Assistance Given
But a Drop In The Backet
of Human Misery
Br SIR PHILIP GIBBS.
Bussia: I have in my waistcoat
pocket a small lump of blue day
arid 1 think 1 shall
take it out occas
ionally at dinner
tables as a re
minder to myself
and others of the
people I have met
in these recent
days in Russia who
sit down to tables
which are bare
boards.
This clay comes from a hill at
a place called Bitijarsk, not far from
the banks of the Volga and it
sold at 500 rubles pood, which is
about a sixtieth part of a ton. A
woman who gave it to me held out a
small handful and wept as she
showed it to me.
But I dared take no more than
the smallest "ptocs because it was
upon this clay flint she was keep
lug herself and her children alive
for little while.
Thousands Swallow Clay
Thousands of people are swallow
ing that stuff in the famine districts
of Bussia to give themselves the
sense of being oiled, though at the
coat of horriole internal pains,
Id on house, there is not even a
much as that. Thero is nothing, ft
all but fiusslan family dyin,; of
lunger, nearer death than all Ihur
neighbors .who are starving,
That was ia a village beyond the
Volga about Ivs vents from Tetihl,
the ekief town of the district which
I reached by boat
The president of the state had sent
a telegram from Kazan ordering a
carriage with a pair of good ho.nes
for the use of myself two compan
ions with an interpreter. But from
th landing stage there was no sign
at such means of travel.
I climbed a steep hill slippery with
now and mud and walked into a
town of wooden houses and a great
church of whitewashed brick, with
gilded crosses above pear shaped
dome. It seemed a dead place
though the guide books say it has
six thousand inhabitants. About the
wooden boo.ths of the market place
at few peasants were standing in the
mod, but I eould see no buying or
citing, and apart from some slabs
of black bread there seemed no goods
is the market. The streets were
empty except for a Bed soldier or
two. and here an! there a Tartar
looking fellow driving an empty cart
'with a lean-ribbed hone. Through
tha little windows of the wooden
houses pale faees stared out at me.
mostly the white wizened facet of
ickly children.. I bad an idea that
this) well-built town hid some plague
within ita wall some secret horror. I
The horror waa told to ua by a
man who smiled at ha spoke . very
softly, a dark man with hair unkempt
and unshorn, with large, melancholy
yea. He "waa president of the can
ton whom we found in office, with
hia offleialt.mf a mechanic, type like
himself.
Horses, he told us, would be ready
'immediately," and we resigned our
selves to hours of delay, knowing
tha Sunsiaa word sehichss.
A Tragedy Unveiled
It waa three hours'- before the
benam mad most of that time
tha peasant president of Tetiuehi
unveiled tha tragedy of hia people
ia the auadred villages or so which
formed hia commune. He answered
say questions through aa interpreter
with queer smiling shyness and slow
soft speech ; and tha facte told re
Tealed Mt aaJy the state ef hi own
toaniH but that af thousands of
eommaaea la the famiat territory
and ita eater edges.
Thero -ia great hanger in all the
Tillages. Bone are won tana
than. Ha pointed to their names
a a big map aad said, "Aon in
tha wont,"
They were tha Tillage farthest
ram tha Taiga aad were beyoad our
faaeh that day, horsea or a horses.
The people war feeding on hay.
rsa aad leaves, bat aow tha snow
faUing aad winter aa near aad
rvea tha grass aad leave are hard
ta fat. Thar J much typhus ia
tha Tillage ia sosse plae plaga
ad tha cholera,
I 'ask ad him th aaaa af tha fam-
Ue. He amiled at my qaoetioa ia
a aaaa bra way. .Tha harvest, he
aid, had aaaa nit destroyed- la
tha aid day hia district had pra
daead a aarphu af two anilllow goods
far aaie Doyen tts own aooda, Thi
year thay had nleed aa mora tha a
twatrw pood af grate aad pota
to "for aaaa te aad a half acre.
Tha Boriet' government had
down arvwateea hnadred ,
at aaad aara ta saw fat aaxt yea
. ...
0ejtiaad n faga lieuO
If
GIBBS VISITS RUSSIAN v
COTTAGE IN FAIMNE ABEA
Aa long aa I live
I shall remember that room and
la living death. A
middleaged man raised himself
from a wooden bench. He waa
like Lazarus rising from tha
grave He waa a man with a.
reddish beard, aa ragged that hi
clothes fell away from hi naked
body, showing hi thighbones,
arms sad ribs. There was a
flesh on him only yellow skin.
He was bleeding from the month
and was toa weak to stand. His
pale eyes ere deep la their
socket and hi face was a skull.
Over the stove when people
alee In sll Haaslaa cottages I
aw a woman and glrL They
wen lying together face down
ward and tamed their heada to
look at as. Tha womaa moaned
feebly bat the girl waa quiet.
Both were ' nearly dead and too
weak to speak, with the gray look
of death. At the end of the mom
was another flgnre, moat tragic
of all. It waa a boy of eighteen
or aa, a handaoms lad with Ine
festart snd a broad forehead.
He sat In a window neat with a
little smile aboat his Hps, bat
nearly dead. He toa was so weak
he eoald not move or tarn hia
heed or lift hi hands.
He t there patiently antil
death should come and sit beside
htm la a friendly way.
Then wss no food at all In the
house, nothing to sell for food.
POLICE IN FIGHT
ON WATERFRONT
Two Hundred New Orleans
Cops Battle With Union
Sympathizers
New Orleans, Nov. 28. Two hun
dred and fifty policemen battled for
an hour late toclny with tinion sym
pathizers of the striking liver front
workers. The biMls extended over
a spneo of five blocks in the vicinity
of the foot of Canal street. Numer
ous arrests were made knd a num
ber of injured war sent t hos
pital. Th clash was the Ant serious dis
turbance that has marked the strike,
in which 12,000 men are out. Bioting
started whea non union workers be
gan to leave their jobs for the day.
Iron bars, bricks, clubs and fists
were used freely by both sides.
Police reserves from every station
in the city and from across the river,
many of them armed with shot guns,
were called to the scene. Police
Superintendent MoloAy led his forces
in person, while officers and patrol
men alike plunged into the struggle,
plving clubs liberally. No shots were
fired.
According to an official estimate,
at least twenty men were seriously
beaten. Two bystanders were among
those bodily hurt. None of the in
jured eases reported will prove fatal,
hospital authorities say. The num
ber of arrests still was being tabu
lated tonijjht. Many men were sent
to outlying precincts stations, while
core of others were wrested from
the police by their friends.
Thousands witnessed the battle.
Tonight - heavy forces of hsrbor
guards were augmenting the police
on river front duty, and large re
serve were being held it the mot
central precincts station.
CHARLES E. WADDELL IS
NOW ON HEALTH BOARD
Charles E. Waddell of Asheville,
succeeds Colonel J. L. Ludlow, of
Winston-Balem, aa member of the
8tate Board of Health, according
to the announcement from the Gov
ernor's office yesterday.
Th term of Colonel Ludlow ex
pired in January but- he held o
pending the appointment ef a suc
cessor by Governor Morrison.
Colonel Ludlow held a place oa the
Stat Board of Health sine 1887
whea he was appointed by Governor
Scales, as one of the original mem
ben of the board.
CAPT. MANLY DIES AT
HIS HOME IN NORFOLK
Norfolk, Ta, Not. W.-Capt. Mat
thias E. Maaly, a aatir of New
Bern, N. C, but for the past 14
yean a resident of Norfolk, and
treasurer of tha Norfolk Southern
Bailway for SO yean, died this after
neon at hi residence, Botetourt
apartment, age 7a years. Captaia
Maaly waa a captaia ia the Coafede
rate army with aa excellent record
and on of th most prominent rail
road fgure ia Eastern North "Caro
lina aad Virginia. Ha was highly
eataeaed ia this city. Captaia
Maaly i survived by on brother,
Clement Manly, Winston-Salem; and
twa (later, Mis Sarah Manly, Ctfea,
N. T, aad Mrs. A. H. Maaly, af
Norfolk. Interment ia announced
for Wednesday morning ia tha fam
ily vault at New BeraJf. a
HEAD OF 1UCAE TKTJST
DIES IK HEW TOM
Nsw Terk, Nor. tA Robert B.
Hswley, president af th Cuban Am
erieaa Bun Company, died. at hi
horn today. Ha waa 71 yean aid.
Ha waa a member af th sugar S
aaae coast iseioa which was ap
pelated hut February by President
Meaaeal f Cuba ta taka akargt
ad . all agaa-mha-te ha man
t7 -v V " '
Wilson Negotiated Best
Treaty Possible Under
Circumstances
DIDN'T GET WHAT
HE ALWAYS WANTED
In Negotiating Famous Shan,
tnnf Agreement, He Had
To Consider Treaties Be
tween France and England
and Japan; Forced To
Change League Covenant
WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW
HIM BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY.
(31st Installment.)
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Continued.
WILSON THE LONE HAND
A dear Inside view of the feeling
of the man toward the treaty, his
deep heart interest In it, and his
characterization of the opposition
was disclosed in a speech delivered
by him to the members of the Demo
cratic National Committee at the
White House, Feb. 29, 1919. This
speech is now published, in part, for
the first time, aa follows:
The real issue of the day, gen
tlemen, is the League of Na
tions, and I think we must be
very careful to serve the coun
try in the right way with regard
to that issue, We ought not,
as I know you already feel
from the character of the action
you have just taken we ought
not even to create the appear
ance of trying to make that a
party issue. And I suggested
this to Mr. Cummings and the
others who sat by me: I think
it would be wise jf the several
National Committeemen were to
get in touch with their State
organization upon returning
home and suggest this course of
action that the Democratic
State organizations get into con
ference with the Republican
State organizations and y to
them:
'Her la the great inue upon
which the future peace of the
world depends; it ought not to
be made a party issue or to
divide upon party lines; tha
country ought ta support it re
gard leas of party (as yau stated
ia your resolution); aow we
propose to you that yea pas
resolutions supporting it, a we
intend to do, and we will not an
ticipate you in the matter if you ,
agree to that policy; let us stand
back of it and not make a party
issue of it''
Of course, If they decline, then
H is perfectly legitimate, it
seems to me, for the Democratio
organization if it pleases to pas
resolution, framing these reso
lutions in as non partisan lan
guage as ia possible, but never
theless doing what citizens ought
to do in matters of this sort.
But not without first making it
a matter of party record that it
has made these approaches to
the Bepublieaa organization
and has proposed this similarity
of action. In that way w ac
complish a double object. We
. put it op to them to support the
real opinion of their own people,
and we get instructed by the
resolutions, and V find where
the weak spots are and where
the fighting baa to be done for
this great issue. Because," be
lieve Be, gentlemen, the civiliz
ed world cannot afford to have
us lose this fight.
I tried to (tat la Boston
what it would mean to the peo
ple of the world if the United
States did not support this great
ideal with cordiality, but I waa
not able to (peak when I tried
fully to exprew my thought.
I tell you frankly, I choked p;
I could not ' do it. The thing
reaches the depth of tragedy.
There is a seoae in which I can
aea that th hope entertained by
th people of th world with
regard to oa is a tragical hope
tragical in this was, that it i
so great, eo far-reaching, it ran
oat to such depth that w caa-
(Continued oa Pag Nine.)
HISTORlCBUILDING
AT DAVIDSON BURNS
Dormitory at College Valued
at Quarter Million DoL
lars Destroyed
Charlotte, Not. ISv Th historic
Chambers at Davidson College, ised
a a dormitory ia which one hna
dred aad thirty tudeute ef tha la
st it ut ion were living, was burned
this morning, tha fire beiag discov
ered ia th cupola at 5 o'clock. Tha
structure waa a total lean, bat stu
dat succeeded ia saving th great
er part of their personal effects.
Th Cham ben building Waa erect
ed la 187S. It was th dormitory
which former President Wilsoa lived
while a student at Davidson.
Aathoritie at tha callega mtimat
thit rt will raoulra i2Mlo t m.
plae tha building. Inea ranee aa tha
eexreysa aormitory waa gtvea at
190,000.
AH stadeata wem ji-.-i-
owsed aad all work weai aa aa
saaj today. I vary aa ia eealdeat
H menu a better institution. This
afibsraaoa a In was moatia '
faculty aad student waa held. They
aag rraja u j-rsea waom All
Col. Charles W. Whittlesey
Believed To Have Ended
Life at Sea
LEAVES NEW YORK
FOR CUBAN CAPITAL
Captain of. ..Vessel Sends
Wireless To Friends That
He Has Disappeared; Sur
rounded By Germans In
Argonne, He Befnsed To
Surrender To The Enemy
New York, Nov.- 2. Lieut. Col.
Charles W. Whittlesey, hero of the
famous '"Lost Battalion, ha disap
peared from the ateamahip Toloa
on which he sailed Saturday for Ha
vana, according to a wireless message
received here today.
News of the famous soldier's dis
appearance came in the following
message received here from the
captain of his hhip:
"Passenger named C. W. Whittle
sey disappeared. Left several let
ters." Officials of the United Fruit Line,
operators of the ship, confirmed
the fact that the passenger in ques
tion waa Lieut. Whittlesey through
hia relatives.
Did Not Announce Plans.
Members of Mr. Whittlesey's law
firm here were at a lose to account
for his proposed visit to Cuba. When
he left the offices of the firm Fri
day he announced his intention,
they said, of attending the Army
Navy gnme on the following d.-iy.
It has sines been learned that
Colonel Whittlesey purchased . a
ticket for Havana the following
morning and sailed that day.
Jlia business associates declared
that his mind was elear and that he
apparently waa in good health other
wise when last seen. He seemed
cheerful, they added, and declared
they were unable to explain his
seemingly strange action in going
away aa he did, without notifying
them of his plan.
Attended Funeral of Unknown.
C. W. Whittlesey, the soldier's
uncle, declsred tonight that Colonel
Whittlesey attended the services for
the unknown dead at Washington on
Armistice day and had since appeared
depressed. Mr. Whittlesey say that
he last saw hi nephew on Friday
evening aad that he did net notice
any decided change ia his demeanor
at that time.
Colonel Whittlesey, who waa M and
unmarried, lived ia a bachelor apart
ment oa East 44th street When he
appeared at break faat Saturday
morning, he brought a suit caae down
from ' hia room. He did not say
where he waa going nnd his friends
did not consider the circumstance
unusual because ho was in the habit
of making frequent week-end and
business trips.
Colonel Whittlesey is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Whittlesey,
of Pittsfield, Mas. He ha two
brothers, Elisha, of Pittsfield, aad
Melzar of this city.
The crisp, laconic reply: "Ton go
to hell," hurled into the teeth of a
German officer, who called oa him
and his men to surrender, was the
rhetorical battlefield classic, which
brought Colonel Whittlesey into fame
overnight.
Befnacd to Surrender.
Surrounded in tha Argonne with
hi command, the first battalion of
th 308th infantry, T7th division,
Whittlesey had been cut off for four
days Without food or fresh water.
All but 87 men had been killed or
wounded. At duak on October 7,
IV IB, a blind folded Uerman bearing
a white flag, crossed the line. He
bore a message asking the Amrieans
to surrender, "ia th nam of hu
manity."
A few hour after the messenaer
had been sent back with Whittlesey's
reply, aa American advance took
plae and all were rescued.
Hia exploit waa rewarded by Pres
ident Wilsoa with the Congressional
Medal of Honor, the moat cherished
American war-time decoration, given
only for valor outside the regular
line of duty. Some month after
th armistice the German officer
who demanded Whittlesey's surrend
er added to hia. laurels by publish-
(Continued oa Pag Two)
STORM RAGING AL0NQ
NEW ENGLAND COAST
Telephone and Electric Light
Serrice Most Seriously
Affected
Boston, Nov. K. A storm of sleet
aad snow that reached Ita height
early today and then turned to raia
caused heavy damage acroaa central
New Eaglaad.
Telephone aad electric lirht ser-
Tieaa were moat seriously a (fee ted,
taa' eollapsa of ice ladea wire and
pal causing interruption that will
taka day to overcome. Suburbs
aorta of Beetoa war without light
toaight ia moat eaeea, aad at least
twa thousand subscriber in those
place without telephone. Tele
graph compaaiea also reported ser
Tiea breakdown aad (tract ears war
tailed ever a wida are north af
thia eity. Tha laaaelal low waa a
timated ta txeoad 11,000,000.
The few maria mishapa war aat
balterad to ba eriows. ,
TU Pollock Bip Sine . lightship,
with lore mea aa board, waa tors
laaaa from ita mooring by a aorth
aat gala. Tenlght, however, aha was
aakhorad fely aader tha ia af
Cap 04 ta Naataeket Bound. A
throe-masted sthooaor waa la trouble
art Black Island, with tha coast
gwd iatUg Aaln.t uJIi-.io
Uw iV - .
Simonds Says, European Na
tions Give President's
- Ideas Wrong Twist
NO POLICY FIXED NOR
ANY PLAN MATURrD
Each Country In Europe
Wants Backing of United
States But This Is Impos.
sible Since That Would
Lead To Clash With
Others
By FRANK H. SIMONDS.
Wahington, Nov. 2H. Three er
four dart of violent discussion of
the suggestion emerging from the
Whit Houro on Friday that the
present conference might be widen
ed and continued hare served to
permit the arrival at certain reason
able estimates ai to the purpose
of the nronosal itae'f and the eir-
eumatanee in which it waa mad.
.i ,o:.w t z
curacy that there haa been an sb- skull. 1 have sought my destination in the chief thoroughfare of en
surd exaggeration of what waa in other European capital at night by means of a pocket electric light. I at
reality an expression .of hope rather . . . . thM. mtmoTlf. ot desolation elear befor me. I do
disclosure of a matured plan. j
It is not true that there exists
at the present moment a elear or i
even a vague but more or leas tan- j
ginie plan tor the creation ot an
association of nations.
What is true that the President
and the Secretary of rltate seeing
the progress that haa been made
here in Washington have both con
sidered the possibility that when
the conference adjourned, if the
present success continued, there
would be some natural am logtcaf
reason for some resolution or ac
tion looking to some similar ses
sion here or elsewhere at a later
date.
Commllon Need Tim.
To take a simple illustration. The
other day it was resolved to appoint
committees to investigate subjects
of which the extraterritoriality sit
uation in China was one. Pueh a
commission could not report back
to the present conference be
cause there would not be time. Thus
it was agreed that it should report
to the governments here represented.
But would it not be natural that if
many such commissions were ap
pointed, thero should bo a new
international meeting, perhaps in
Washington
Agaia, supposinf that many far
Eastern questions remain unsettled
and necessarily unsettled, would it
not ba natural that these should
be later discussed in Washington!
Finally, a suggestion coming from
some European sources, not offl
cial, would it not he worth while to
undertake some sort of a far East
ern experiment in international
gatherings snd mske Washington
the clearing house for the necessary
exchange of official view oa Far
Eastern matters!
Now, I do not think I violate any
confidences when I say that the un
derlying idea in all this more or less
private discussion which went on
before the public disclosure of Fri
dsy was based upon the assumption
that nothing would be possible- un
less it should be a natural and a
logical development of what is now
taking place. Even more, the very
White House auggestion itself did
not Come as the consequence of a
carefully prearranged plan, but de
veloped itself in casual conversa
tion nnd wss the expression of hope
and not the revelation of policy.
Earope Belies Upoa Bop.
The fashion in which Europe
leaped upon the White House sug
gestion must give pause and invite
reflection. What we bad was the
expression of the President's hope
that sueeess In Washington might
lead to an extension of a bahit of
international conference and with
the extension an expansion in the
list of countries Invited to partici-
(CSntinued oa Page Two.)
TO TEST CLAYTON ACT
ON LABOR IMMUNITIES
Federal Grand Jury Betnrns
Indictment Against Olass
Workers
New Tork, Not. 88. Th federal
grand jury lato today returned an
indietment charging 61 individuals
and 63 corporation in the window
glaaa industry with violation of the
therm an antitrust law. Joseph Vf.
Neenaa. preaident of th National
Glaaa Worker' Union, also wa la
dieted oa similar charge.
Ia naming Preaident Neenaa th
indietment charge conspiracy be
tween th labor union and tha glass
producer to limit production thereby
enabling the defendants to arbitrar
ily maiataia excessive price for the
commodity. The Johnston Broker
age Qtmpaay, aa alleged selling
agency, aise was aamed la tha indict
ment. This agency, th Indictment
declares, wa part of "a prirw schem
to enibl th defendant ta eombiat,
ta die tat term af sal aad to (limi
ne t competition."
Indictment af Mr. Neenan, accord
ing ta William Uayward, Federal
district attorney, will teat tha valid
ity af provisions af th Claytoa act
aad tha civil sundries aerriea bill
sxtendiag tmmaaitiea ta labor or
ganisations aader tha ant i-trust lawa.
Tha aarperatiem defeadant aamed
ara. located la Delaware, Wtaf Vir
ginia, Iadiaaa, New Jersey, Wyom
ing, Kansas, Ohie, Peaaaylvanla,
Uliaoia Louisiana, Oklahoma aad
Texaa, They Include, Mr. Hay-ward
declared, th leadiag wladow glass
manufacturer at tha. Tatted. State
aad about twa-tairda hi tha window
America Holds Key To
Enfqrce World's Peace
United States Able To Reinstate Europe and Turn Back
Decline. Welle Says, and Is In So Strong a Position
That She Can Make Effectual DisarmairreTrr In
Europe Primary Condition of Her Assistance,
By H. G. WEI.I.S
(By Arrsngcment With ths Mrw York World and Chicago Tribune.)
In my next article I will report progress of the
Washington Conference; in this I will go on with my
icrount in general terms of what is happening in the
orld.
1 have written of a progressive rapid dissolution of
ur civilized organization the doniiuant fact of the
nreaent time. .It is very hard indeed to keep it in one's
mind here in this eily of plenty and lavish light that
anything of the wrt ta going on. It is amaiing how
they splash light about here; the Capitol ahines all night
like n full moon, an endless stream of light pours down
the Washington obelisk, light blinks and glitters and
unina about and anllls all over the
efthe collapse here myself,
.t a.
not see how Americans who have never seen anyinmg or me wrecacu
nlntfl of Eastern Euroue and the shabbiness and privation of the Center
can be expected to feel and see the
vivM in my thoughts. Here ia a country where money is still good; the
ten dollar notes' in my pocket assure me I can go down to the Treasury
l,,.r. .n.l mrt nld for them whenever 1 think tit. (1 believe triem eo
thoroughly that I do not even think
sive dissolution over there must read
hardest, most important fact in the world.
No Trace of European Shadow.
Evervwhere here there is festival.
rri-entiona. I am whirled off to a most
roasts and drips over a wood fire -think of that in Russia! Thanksgiving
Day was an inordinate feast. The portions of food they gne j.'U in
hotels, clubs, and restaurants are enormoita'Jjjr.-pwsent European stand
ards. One seems always to be eating little bits and throwing the rest
away. Neither New York nor Washington shows n trace yet, that I can
see. vof the Ehropean shadow. There is much (unemployment, but not
enough, vet to' alarm people. Nothing
tions either here or in New York. In the midst of this gay prosperity
comes a letter from ray wife, describing how the police hsd to censor the
bitter inscriptions upon the wreaths that were laid upon the London
cenotaph on Armistice Day and how the veterans of the flreat War who
marched in the unemployment processions in London wore pawn ticket
in the tdaee of their medals. I am
question: "Suppose America patches
lets Japan accumulate in Manchuria, Iberia and Anally t hina, cuts ner
naval expenditure to nothing and allows the rest of the world, including
tha old English speaking home, to
apart from the moral loas, will she suffer very greatly!
That is a very laterestir, speculation. . 1' .
America May Pall Throng.
I think ih may adjust to a self contained system, aad, la a sense.
pull through. It may involve coma
if rows more food than she can eat
American farmer ell o much of
great percentage, but enough to form
Given a Europe and Asia too impoverished and broken up to import
foodstuffs, that trade goes. The American farmer will have to sell to a
ihrunkeu demand; he wiil have either to shrink himself or undersell hi
fellow farmer. This will mean bad times for the American farmer as
Europe sinks, farmers will be unable
agriculturalists will be going out of
embarrassed by ever production.
a very marked but not overwhelming
internal trade is to the farmers whose
ing. Bad times, for the industrial
disaster, perhaps even very bad times.
so far as the overseas traffic goes,
there may ba less power of recovery, for with the fall of Europe into
barbarism, the center of American interests will shift to the interior.
But after a series of crises, a lot
not see why the United Btates if
little reduced from th large splendor of ite present habits, should not
still be getting along in a fashion. America la not tied up to the Euro
peas system, to live and die with it, as Franc or Britain is tied.
Little Danger rrom Asia Now.
And there I a limit to the areaa
iollapse of the cash and credit system in Europe. Outside the Euro
peanired seaeoast towns, Asia Minor ia not likely to go much lower
than it is at present, though moat of Europe sink to the level of the
Balkans and Asia Minor. The dissolution of Asia Minor resulted from
the great wars of the Eastern Empire and Prrwta; all that land was
ruined country before the dsys of
Europe may never recover. Given
ably be a collapse into conflict and
China, unhelped, may continue in a state of confusion which i steadily
destroying her ancient educated elaas and her ancient traditions without
replacing them by any modernized educational organization. But here
agaia -upon the western' Pacific, there msy be regions which "need not
go the whole wsy down to rityleasnese, illiteracy and the peasant life.
Japan is still solvent and energetic,
very little more than it has strained America, and her participation in
the world credit system is still so recent that, like America, she may be
able to draw herself together snd
and culture, unimpeded, over the whole of Eastern Asia. 81m will be the
more able to do thia if a phase of disarmament gives her time to rest
snd consolidate before her expansion is resumed. A war between Jspaa
and America would be a long and
topple both powers into the same
aow welters, but I am assuming that
wsr for the sake of China or such like
eager for California, An America,
would probably not trouble itself aeriously if presently Australia came
under Japanese domination. It would not trouble until the Monroe
Doctrine was invaded. And it would get along very comfortably aad
happily,
Caa America
So far mater'sl consideration go, therefore, there Is not much force
in aa appeal ta the ordinary plain maa in America to interest himself,
much less to exert himself, in the tangled troubles of Europe and Asia
aow. He caa remain a proudly "Isolated'' as his fathers; he can refuse
kelp, h caa "avoid entangling alliances," and rely on his own strength,
h can weather the smash, insist on pressing' any sparks of recovery
out of th European debtor, and so fsr as he and hia children, nnd pos
sibly even his children' children are concerned, America caa expect
to go oa living an extremely tolerable life. There will still b plenty
of Fords, plenty of food, movie and other amusing inventions; seed time,
harvest and thanksgiving; no armament and very light taxation aad as
high a percentage of moral, well regulated live as any community has
ever howa upoa- thi planet. Until that long distant time when the
great Asiatic empire of Japaa turn it attention seriously t expansion
la th New World.
A far as present material eoeslderationa go
But I belong to one of the races that have populated America. I kaow
th imagination of my awa people aad something of most of th people
who have seat their beat' to thi land, I have witched th peopl hero,
aad Ufteacd to them and read about them, there ha beea aa degeaoratioa
hera but progress and invigoration, and I will not believe that th
Aairieaa pirit, distilled from all tha best af Earope, will tolerat thia
rurreader at th future, thit quit hoggish abandonment af tha leadership
f maakiad that eoatiaaiag isolatioa im plica. Tha Aascrieaa people
haa growa great aaasraret; it still doe aot realize ita tmmaaa prodomle
aaaea saw la wealth, la strength, la hop, ksppiaess aad aabrokea cour
age amoag tha ehUdrca at sua. Tha cream af all tha whita raeee did
aot com ta this eoatinent ta reap aad aow aad aat aad waste, ssaeke ia
Ita hlrt lev ia a rocking chair, and lot th great world from which
ita father cam g hang. It did aot came her for sluggish aaaa. It
am hr for liberty aad ta mtk tha aew beginning af a great clviliia
Uoa apea oar globe. Th ysars af America a growth aad traiamg ar
omla r aa. dtta. .f?J10etWOaaJvjT
"sssssssssTBWs .
.. , 4 .. . (0atim4 am Pact Tn4
city. I find it hard to realize the
aad yet I have seen th treet
.. ..
... . .t i . i
vision I find it so hard to keep
fit.) My intimations of the progres
like a gloomy fiction. And it is the
I go to splendid bsils. to glittering
hilarious barbecue, aa ox ia ehains
of it has struck upon my pereep
forced by these eontrsst to the
up a fairly atable peace with Japan,
slide snd go over into th abyss
very sever stresses. At present, th
or waste; she exports foodstuffs. Th
his produr for export, not a very
an important item in hia affairs.
to buy as freely as usual, many
business. Firms like Ford will be
American manufacturers are also, ta
extent, exporters and much of their
purchasing power will be diminish
regions also, will follow the European
New York and the Eastern eities,
may suffer exceptionally. For them
of business failure and so on, I do
there is no war with Japan very
ef the Old World affected by the
Islam. It has never recovered and
an enfeebled Britain, there will prob
discord throughout most of India; and
the wsr has probably strained her
maintain herself and expand her rule
costly affair and it would, no doubt,
process of dissolution in which Europe
America takes no risk of such
remote cause and that Japan is not
indifferent to the fall of Europe,
Bemala boUtedt
Washington Arms Confer
ence Agrees To Withdrawal
of Foreign Postofficei
and Postal System
CHINA REQUIRED TO I
MAINTAIN EFFICIENT
SYSTEM.OF HER OWN
Japanese Alone Withheld
Approval of Filing; Exact
Date For Withdrawal!
Which it Tentatively Fixed
For January 1, 1913$
Question of Troop With
drawal May Lead Dele
gates Into Tronblesom
Questions of Far East?!
V. . CfL a i
SBIUVUO DUtlUtUIlg jiajTeja
ment Almost Bare To Be" .
Drawn Into The Disoms!
sions , 1
Washington, Nov. 28 (By th A.
sociated Press. Taking It firat
direct action toward th liberation
of China from foreign influeneoa
th Arms Conference agreed today
on the withdrawal ef foreiga post
offices and postal system from Chi
nese soil.
t
The decision waa conditioned only,
on the maintenance by China of,
efficient postal facilities ef her awa,
includinc retention sf the iiMaiit
domestic organizatioa by which a
French eo director general aot aa '
advisor to the Chines postal, author
ities. January 1, 1933, virtually waa
agreed upoa aa th data of with
ui rfapaoese mono wits
holding final approval oa that
point pending eonsultatioa with'
Tokio. Constituting th 'firat aoW
rrcte applicatioa of tha principle
of Chinese administrative integrity
a delineated in the 'four point
of Eliha Root, th postal agroomoak
ia expected to be followed tomor
row by another providing for grad
ual abolition of the system af i
tra territorial rights under which
foreign government hart t apl
their own eonrts ia China, aad by ;
discussion of China' reqaeet that
foreiga troop quartered withia
her border without treaty aaaetiem
ba withdrawn.
Troop Qaostioa Troableeataa J
Th question of troop withdrawal,
may lead tha delegates into soma of;
the most troublesome questioaa e.
th Far East. Borne of tha foreoaj
which the Chinese declare are la
China without authority are Japaa-1
ese quartered along the lino af the .
Shantung Bailway, and Other are)
within the debated territory af
South Manchuria. These aegotla-:
tions promise to touch apoa the).
8hantung and Manehuriaa eoatro- i
versies for the first time, although j
it is considered likely that tha real '
issues of these two problem will ba1
put over for discussion 'whea tha
conference take up, In tha vary
near future, the specific atbjeet of
railway leases.
Along with the foreign troop qua'
tion which for the present doea aot
deal with forces like the legatiaal
guards at lvkin authorised by
treaty, the Chinese will ask for a'
consideration of the status of cor j
tain foreign telegraph and wireleea
systems which they declare axt
in China without her consent. Tka,
general subject is expected after a
round table discussion to go to a
subcommittee.
In Japanese quarters ft waa mid''
tonight that . the Tokio f.0Tramtl.
was rrady to withdraw ita troop
from the areas not covered by treaty
stipulations as soon as China could
insure the safety of Japanese a-
tionalt and property within thoae
zones. Hi nee the Japanese force
are more widely affected than those!
of any other nation by th Chinese,'
request, the attitude of th Japan,
eve delegates was taken aa forecast-'
ing at least a declaration of prlnclt'
pie favorable to withdrawal. J
Give Tear of Grace 1
Although the foreiga goverameata
are to have a year of grace la which .'
to prepare for withdrawal of their
postairSy.atemt, from China, oaa fea
ture at the agreement ia expected
to become effective at ooa aa tha
eon fere nee confirms formally tha
sanction voted by th delegntea to
day la committee of the whole. Thia
anction refers to the introduetioa of
eontraliand into Chinese territory
through the foreign mailt, and give'
Chinese customs authorities tha right '
to search mail matter they may sus
pect No erplaaatioa of th aearah
clans wis contained in th eftVeial
anaouncement of the agreement, hat '
it was understood to have been la- -sorted
after the Chines had (harged '
that largo quaatitie of opium ware -
beiag carried through China ia
tha anti opium law.' Tha roteatioa
af tha prcoeat Freech to-diroctor,
U. Pieard Dettelaa, it wad said waa
stipulated solely la th tatereat af
efficient ae-operatioa af tha Chinee
postal tystesa, aad a that, China
would av tha benefit af foreiga (
osBwrivwcw sis ewvw
iga domiaatioa. ... " ,
Tha deelaratioa t be proseaUd
tomorrow extra territoriality waa '
drafted toonv hw a nVaammltte
headed by Senator Udg at tha
AaMricaa ielegatioa and wravidea
fog taa appaiatmoat af aa tatarna.
d Jssrbsa a u" t
tta,.iaai.iiia
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