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I The Slew TUX WEATHER laoresslag cfcuadlassa aad bssbo. at welder ffUm4 by rata tn Att Msaday Mte. WATCH LABEL oa yaw aaaer. Bead rmnl area says before etairatlea la erase te avoid iWh sisgis copy. server RALEIGH. N. C. SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 4. 1921. THIRTY-SIX PACES TODAY. THIRTY-SIX PAGES TODAY. PRICE: SEVEN CENTS and Ob yOLCXIV. NO. 157. Lively fight on plan of harding TO REFUND DEBTS Scrapping Ahead For Back era of the President'i Pro Oram In Congress - iai niPB on it ire btfp5'" 4 dULUICn DUI1UO DILL.' DUE TO COME UP ALSO Hewberry Scandal Another Irkiome Subject For Re publican Legislators; Tour Great Powers Reported To Have Reached Agreement On Far Zait Problem Ths News and Observer Bureau, B03 District Natioaal Bank Bldg By EDWARD B. BB1TTON (By Special Leased Wire) - Washington, Dees - all aigna fails in Congressionalweather tbers is to be a lively fight in the big building on Capitol Hill when the regular session gets down to business after the call to order is beard on Monday. That there is crapping ahead between-those who would rush through President Hard ing'i program and those who will oppose it is clearly manifested in the events of the special session ami in the remarks made by members of both House and Senate. Tho storm center in the Senate is expected to lie for a while about the bill by which plana are proposed to be set for the refunding of the til, 000,000,000 foreign debt. President Harding at a dinner he gave at tho While House Inst night with Hi publican leaders as guests gave the word to take np tho foreign debt matter immediately. This is not pleasing to Senator Lodg.1, whose position has been that there ought to be no talk in Congress about the money that is owed us 'iy European countries while the Arms conference ia on, that the subjoei might be per sona non grata to the delegates at tho conference, for be realizes Hut there is to be some lambasting going on, ami (lint things will be said that might provoke e, row. But President Harding has over ridden the Ldelge opposition and hus given the order for ''full stea.ru ahead" on the foreign debt business. Open hostility to the proposition ha" been manifested among Senators de pit the fact that Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has declared that refunding proeesaes in this, country and in Europe must be held np with Increased tnaneial troubles until the bill is passed. Will Take Up Bonn The soldier bonus bill is likely to nave" another hearing soon aftsr tho session begins. It ia said that sev eral Senators, among; them Senators MegVllar, of Tennessee; Simmons, of North Carolina, and Walsh, of Massachusetts, are considering the advisability of pressing for action on bills to make the soldier bonus payable out of the interest on the foreign debt. That this subject will bo interjected into the debate on the debt refunding bill goes without saying. It has 'been unofficially given out that President Harding will say nothing in his message to Congress about soldier bonus, but whether he opens his mouth on the subject or not it is going to make its appearance before the Senate. And when it does the men who have been hacking tho proposition will make themselves heard. The delay of the Republicans in living up to the promises made to former service men Ut pass the adjusted compensation bill will he the theme of many speeches by advocates of the hill, especially from the advocates on the Democratic side. The Newberry scandal in the pur chase of a Senatorial scat will hare another speech-making airing early after the Senate meets, and there will be no let np among the Demo crats ia letting the country hear about that malodorous affair. The Republican Senators backing New berry are doing all that is possible to pat on the soft pedal as to the afiehigaa scandal, but they are not getting away with their purpose. There will be a tight around that latter, as also a live time about the tariff when it gets n the Sen ate from the finance committee. Senate Republicans talk of having the measure enacted into law by the end ef January, which means a strapping time ef some weeks. But tb outside feeling is thst it will be way after the close of January before Presideat Harding gets a chases to aiga that measure. There ia also scrapping ahead oa the rail road fttndtug bill, and the Presl dent's subsidy position oa the mer sAaat marine. Aad it most aot be forgottea that freaa variowa sources there, it to be areck verbal hammering ef President Harding's proposed "Gentlemen's Agreeatsat" Assoeiatioa of Nations. Tli see ad ether things give promise of a beetle time for the forthcom ing session. P ewers Reach Aa Agreemaet. More rumor about agreements hutius bees reached ia the Arms Conference went the. rouada today. One is that the Anglo Japanese alliance haa bee dednitely ic rap-fed prd" with he aaderstaadinc that there is to be a "gentlemen's agree ment" for an alliance to be entered lata by the United States, Great Britain, Japan and France. Oa that basis Jama i (aid to be ready te accept the 5-5 3, ef 10-10 asval ratio of the Hughes proposal. The aesr elliaaee, ar "aaderstaadiaf" is, ao ft ia said, ta be that the powers ia it agree to de all ia their ability ta abserve aad snaiataia peace la the Pacific and Far East, the aoa fortincatioa ef the Pacific Island : being a part ef the agreement, the JJapaaoM, ' VadKlaaal ; (Osatlaaed a Pag Two) ' SHIPBUILDER SAYS HE WILL COME BACK I ' VA I . ta lSmaWX I, i (Lines U. JUorse, .sciv lo.i ship builder, who has been requested by Attorney General Daugherty to re turn from -franco on the -next steamer in connection with the Fed ernl i n vest igat tone of transactions between Morse and the Shipping Board. Morse was detained Havre, France, but was later allowed to leave the ship when he promised to return to the United States vol untsrily. Latest dispatches state hs will sail for home Monday. The French are reported to have refused him permission to remain in that country. ' FOR U. S. MONDAY Shipbuilder Notifies Attorney General of Intention To Return Washington, Dec. 3. Charles W. Morse, shipbuilder and financier, who sailed for Francs a few days before it became publicly known that his ship contracts were to be made subject to grand jury inquiry, notified Attorney General Daugherty late today that he woufQ return to the United States, sailing from Havre Monday night. Mr. Morse was directed by the Attorney Gen eral to sail Monday from Havre. The Attorney General alto sent a cablegram to the American embassy at Paris requesting that steps be takes to bring about the return of Morse on tbo steamer Paris. MORSE DENIED PERMISSION TO LAND BY THB FRENCH Paris, Dec. 3. (By the Associated Press.) The French Ministry of the Interior today issued an order deny ing Charles W. Morse the right to land in Fapnce and requiring him to return to the United States oa the first available steamer, which would he the Paris, sailing Monday from Havre. Issuance of this order was eon firmed in a letter from the French foreign office to the American em bassy. The interior department has the right to refuse entry to any (foreigner whom, it judges undesir able. MORSE WANTS TO REMAIN ABROAD UNTIL JANUARY Havre, Dec. 3. (By the Associated Press.) Charles W. Morse tonight was awaiting fur'her word from United States Attorney General Daugherty regarding the shipbuild er's request to bo allowed t remain in Europe until January 5 for medi cal treatment. Mr. Morse, who ar rived here from New York yesterday on the steamer Paris, has been or dered to return n the first boat by Ameican federal officials who are investigating his shipbuilding con tracts during the war. Earlier in the day he had received a cable message from the American Attorney General instructing him to return to America as aeon as pos sible, but before this message had arrived Mr. Morse hsd seat a second ible message, requesting he be a lowed to consult Professor Maehia fava, a Rome specialist, before; re turning to America. Ne Legal Steps. Owing to the sb:ence in America ef W. H. P. Enrich, a Paris attorney, Mr. Morse decided late today aot to see further legal advice while await ing the reply from Attorney General Daugherty. to his aeeond message. He said tonight he would be guided by the contents of this reply. Mr . Morse told the Associated Press correspondent tonight that the American government's desire to see (Continued oa Page Two) NEGRO SEAMAN GETS DAMAGES FOR ATTACK Bostoa, Dee, 3. Bemford Pow ell, a negro seaman, was awarded MOO damages ia the Federal court here Wday against George F. Popps, cap tain of the schooner Lillian E. Kerr, who shot him la the back daring a voyage from Jacksonvillecempleted here a few dsys ago. Howell had saed for KflUO. Judge George W. Aadersea d acid Howell had aot seed a haife ia aa attack ea Captain Poppa, which the latter said caused him te Ira. 'This shooting ap of sailors aa the high teas lr the tort, ef indul gence by captains that should be paid for,'' the court added. 'Ion hart tot ta show eaase if yea are goinj te shoot defeaseless mea at Expect Dies. MORSE WILL SAIL Bostoa, Dec, I Mrs. Mary Joha soa Lincoln, aa authority aa eeok ery aad household economies aad widely knewa as a writer aad Vee taer aa domestic science, died at bar heme' yesterday after a paralytic stroke. She was If years eld.-, : :..'. V ... . i. vi; -V: is,: (SPECIAL SESSION OF LEGISLATURE TO MEET TUESDAY Only Two Definite Matters of Legislation Placed on Calendar MUNICIPAL FINANCES AND SCHOOL DEFICIT Indications That No General Lefislation Will Be Un dertaken, Although Meat nrts For Australian Bal lot, and Abolition of Capi tal Punishment Readj With bnt two definite tasks laid oat for it, the one correcting the Municipal Finance Act aad tho other to make provision to take rare of a $700,000 deficit ia the public school fnnd for 1920 II. most of the mem bers ea record for making their stay ia Raleigh aa brief aa may be, the General Assembly will convene Tuesday morning for what may go down in history as one of its short est sessions. 8 li days as a minimum and ten for a maximum duration of the session ia the expressed views of many members of the Assembly, it is believed that the Saturday week following the .opening will eee the adjournment of the session. Both of the measures that are te he pass ed upon require full aix days for roll rail ,an dtwo days for organiza tion of the session are regarded as sufficient. But there is ne accounting for legislatures. hile loaders are ex pressing hope for a short session, there is ao definite asu ranee for one. Both branches of the Genersl As sembly have already considered the Finance act that will be offered for the cities. It was passed in due form at the regular session last February, hut technical defects de veloped later that resulted in its being declared inoperative "y the State Supreme court. The deficit in the school fund can be taken care of in a resolution authorizing ti.e State Treasurer to sell bonds to take care of the amount Other legislation has been suggest ed by various members, much of it entirety local ia nature, aad requir ing ao extended attention at tho lands of the Assembly. Measures of 8tnte-wfcee impertaaee have been prepared, aad will be submitted ea tl.c opening day, bat it is thought ur'jkely thst any serious effort will be Biade to put them through. Abo lition of capital punishment, end the provision ef a 8tate-wide Austra lian ballot are included ia billa that hue been prepared. The deftc ia the Municipal Finance act developed ia the Senate after it had passed the House, and had nego tiated In third reading ia the Sen ate. Senator Same, of Forsythe, ask ed that the, vote by which it passed its third reading ia the upper house be re-considered, aad the bil! brought back for an amendment effecting Winstoa-Selem. It wss brought bark, the amendment adopt ed, aad there aetioa seems to have stopped. Bill Was Recommended. , Examination ef the Senate Jour BtT some months after the sessioa dSjourned disclosed the fact that the in ths Senate had not been recorded and, under the constitution, it was held to be invalid. A test esse was prepared by the Raleigh City Com miasjonera aad the Supreme Court asked to pass upon ita validity. The Court held that the law was aeree tive ia its passage, aad the munici palities of the State were without machinery for conducting their finances, snd without law fot levying taxes, except under the obsolete statute intended to- have beea re pealed ia the defective ad Agitatioa for a special sessioa te correct the defect ia the law began immediately, and the Governor was urged te call the sessioa early is July ia time far the municipalities (Continued ea Page Two.) THINK PUBLICITY FOR DR. LORENZ HARMFUL ChicafO Physicians Issue Statement la Rerard To Vienna Surf eon Chicago, Dee. 'Sv Twelve Chicago physicians issued a Joint statement today pointing eat the harm oa in valids they thought would srise from publicity gives to Dr. Adolph Lo res, the Visas sargeea, who Is ex pected te visit Chicago soon. It was aa son need aaometally that a num ber ef Chicago hospitals had decided not to invite Dr. Loreas to their clinics. The statement said that the Amer ieaa medical professioa looks with disfavor oa aewspsper publicity of the type Dr. Lores x has received. aad added: -Such publicity Inevitably will arouse a response smustiag to hys teria which will briag so saaay aa fertaaate cripples of sH aorta so ataay iaearable that earefsl, delib erate exsmiaatioa of their ills will bo physically ampossibla aad bitter disappointment wiU seats to saaay hopefnl sufferers tod ta expect the Impossible. J"The public da aot realise that the first opera ties, or treat meat, iu s de formity esse ia eary tho betdaaiag aad few surgeons are willisg ta tshs upea themselves- the rwpoasibility and trouble iavetred la girlag the paeveperative earo, which may last srverai sai oaths or years, la which hsva bosav operated by seats REQUEST DISCHARGE OF JURY IN ARBUCalLE CASE NO VERDICT REACHED YET Saa Francisco, Dec L The Jury in the Reacee Arbuckle mass. slssghter case must reach a decm iea er eentlaae Its delibersttoae st iesst until IS o'cleck tesaorrow, Jadge Harold Lesderkach, the trial judge. Indicated after he had received a request ef couaael for beta aides late today that the Jury be discharged. , Ths Judgs said hs would eon. slier tesaorrow, if bo verdict had keen returned by that time, whether he weald held t'e "Jury longer. . The reuaesl far Its dis charge was asads am the ground that Ike iurors were "tired out sad that It weald be eeerctoa to keep them bslletiag further.' It wss made st spsroilmstely p. m. after the Jurors hsd been out ef the court room mere than ti Bears aad had spent nlae hoars la balloting or dlacuaalen. The Jury was glvea a rirsas ef two hoars for dinner at 4. JS p. m. Corridor gossip said 17 ballets had beea taken, all 11 ta 1 ia favor ef acquittal. ACCEPTS RAILWAY RATE REDUCT I. C. C. Issues Orders Allow ing Roads to Reduce Rates 10 Per Cent ' Washington,- Dec. 3. Voluntary railroad proposals for inauguration of a 10 per eent decrease in rates on prnctieally all farm, range and orchard products in United States outside ef Jiem F.ngland, were se eepted today by the Interstate Com merce Commission. Orders were is sued allowing the rsilroada to dls regard all usual restrictions in niak ing up the new rate scheduVs as well as such violations of the long and short haul elause of the Inter state Commerce Act as might be brought about by percentage reduc tions. The orders also permit the rates to be put into effect on one day's notice "on ss early a date and in aa inexpensive a manner ns pos sible," for a six months' experimental period. Lets Order Stand. At tho same time, the commission left standing its order of October SO requiring aa approximate 1012 per eent rate decrease on grain, grata products and hay throughout the eatire trans Mississippi district, -which the railrosds were late in structed to put into effect by De eember 37. The railroad executives, ia applying to ths commission last week, suggested that the general 10 per eent decrease on sgricuitursl products which they contemplated should apply to ths Western grains and hay aa well as to the other com modifies and become. a substitute for the Id I 2 per cent cut. No men tion of fnis point in the railroad procedure was made by the com mis sios today except that grain, graia products and hav in Western tern tory were omitted from the permis- so ry orders accepting the general de crease. New England Rates. Reductions in New England terri tory, where the financial status of carriers is held not to justify s full 10 per rent deeresse, were also eon templated ia ths voluntary applies tion last week, and in the com mis sion's orders today, the roads con cerned were given permission to make such decreases aa they found possible, effective sf'er a five-day notice period. While the commission swept away all administrative barriers to the 10 per cent decrease, it was pointed out that further ateps would have to be taken by the railroad managements before the lower rate basis actually comes into effect. The commission's failure to consider the 10 per eent decrease on grams and huy as a substitute for the greater reduction it previously had ordered it waa said might bring about further proceed ings and conferences. At the same time, the commission's investigation into a reasonublenesa of the general level of transporta tHa rates in the United States will begin next week, and A the railroads are disposed to withdraw their vol untary offer, the tariffs cn the agri cultural products may bo left to ad judication ia that proceeding. CONVICTED MAN TO ASK DEPARTMENT AID TJnlontowa, Pa., Dec. 3. Sentenced here today to die in the electric chair, John Shurilla, who had been convicted of the killing of Joe Grego, at Wickhaven, Pa., announced through hia counsel that he would ask the good officers of the Navy Do psrtmfH to intervene on the giound that hs had contributed Important inventions to ths government during ths world wsr. Sburllla wss arrested in Pitts burgh ia 1920 ehsrged with shop lifting snd ths police stated 'lint documents found in his effects indi cated he had been a spy in the service of Germany during the war. Hs was turned over to the authori ties here oa the murder charge, snd fas prosecution at the trial brought evidence to shew thst the night be fore he waa to be married he killed Grego, robbed him of $400 snd in tended to use the money to psy his wedding expenses. Shurilla present ed ao defease. OTHER OF UNDERWOOD SICK AT BIRMINGHAM Wasatagtoa, Dec 3.-(By ths As sociated Press.) Senator Underwood, saa of the American srms confer ence delegates, received word todsy that hia -Mother, who far past SO years of age, wss ill at Irmlngham, Alabama. Mr. Underwood, it was said, atight be sailed away from the esarfereaee to her bedside, FORD AND EDISON INSPECT ALABAMA E Detroit Manufacturer Also Accompanied By Large Engineering Staff FORD DECLARES HE IS AGENT OF GOVERNMENT Purpose of Inspection Trip Is To Allow Mr. Edison Op portunity To Visualize Power Possibilities of Great Plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama Florence, Ala., Dee. 3. Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison, late to day inspected the great Wilson dnm which constitutes t ie nucleus around which Ford proposes to build an in dustrial empire in the South. On arrival here, Mr. Ford and Mr Eilisoa proceeded to Wilson dam driving through the streets of Flor enee where they accorded a tremend ous ovation. En Trrtite to Florence Mr. Ford talked freely to newspaper men who were on hit speciul train He emphasized the fact that he had not in fliiv wnv ehanaed his original bid fur the Muni'le Shoals project and that his visit nas mainly to ul Ipw Mr. Edison to visualize the pro ject in its entirety and to verify the original figures submitted by Ford'i engineers. Point of Difference. The main point of difference he tween him and the government, Mr Ford said, lav in the cost of coinplo tion of Wilson dam. Estimates of army engineers range from furtv two million to fifty live million dol lars and Mr. Ford contends that hii original figure of twenty million i ample for the work. The autoinobili manufacturer declared that his sob interest in Muscle Shoals was not commercial, "We want Muscle Shoals," he said "because we want a job and we want to help provide cheap fertilizei for the farmers of the nation." When asked what he knew about nitrates, Mr. Ford said: "I don't know a thing about nilrab-s -Mr Edison is here to take care of that Wo might make aluminum, we niiaht "Wiake cloth, we might mnke steel or wo might make automobile parts we won t need nearly all the Dower we will have to make nitrates." EDISON SAYS plANT HAS UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES. Florence, Ala., Dec. 3. Tho Indus trial possibilities of Muscle Shoals are practically unlimited, Thomas A. Edison said here tonight. It was at the end of a busy day spent with Henry Ford in a resurvey of the government airoperty. "Mr. Ford's offer is substantial.'' Mr. Ellison said, "and beats what anybody else would bid. The gov eminent should accept it." Stop at Nashivlle. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 3. Henry Ford, accompanied by Thomns A. Edison, enrouts to Muscle Shoals, stopped here for a few minutes this morning being greeted at the station by s large and enthusiastic crowd which called loudly for speeches when the two industrisl captains sp pearcd on the platform of their specoial ear. There was no speech making, bow ever and after a short Btop the train went South. A special car carrying a Nashville delegation headed by Governor Taylor and Mayor Wilsoe, was attached to the train here. M'CASKILL SWORN IN TO COLLECT CUSTOMS Cumberland Republican Re ceives "To Warm Welcome In Wilmington "ilmington, Dee. 3. Alexander L. McCaskill, well known Cumberland county Republican, who was for 13 y.ars postmaster at Fayetteville, officially became collector of cus torus for the customs district of North Carolina when he took the oath of office here this morning. Al though this is hia first visit to Wil mington since he was appointed, he reccifed no warm welcome from the local Republicans, as practically none of them favored his appointment. Owing to the fact that the eollee torship psys but $2,500 annually, Mr. McCaskill is not sure whether he will remove his residence from Fayette ville to Wilmington or not. It is generally believed that there is soon to be a movement made to increase ths psy of the collector in this State. Will Visit Niagara. Washington, Dee. 3. (By the As sedated Press.) Several members the French arms conference dele gation left Washington tonight to visit Niagara Falls. , The party included Albert Sarrsnt, Minister of Colonies, Madamo Vivl ani, wife of the former Premier, M. Carteron and M. Bassee. M. Ponsot will leave the party at Niagara Falls and go to Montral where he served as eounsul general for sometime. Taak Steam Overdue. , New- York, Dec. 3. The tank stesmship Santa Rita, which sailed from New Orleans, October 20 for Spezia, Italy, today was reported 18 days overdue. She carries a crew of about 40 men, signed at Baltimore whence she sailed Octo ber 7 to take cargo at Mew Or leans. Major Myers Dead. Nashville, Dee. H. Major Herschel J. Myers, rat rise presideat of the Thirtieth Division Assoeiatioa and aa officer ia the Tenaeasee Natioaal Guard, died hart tonight at a local bmitlL ' "' ' - : ' -l NTRAT PROJECT THREE POWERS WILLING TO GIVE UP CERTAIN OF THEIR RIGHTS IN CHINA Need Binding Alliance To Relieve A ntagon ism H. G. Wells Presents "The Plain Facts of the Case" In Quarrel Between France And England And Sub mits That America Can Take Initiative In Bringing About Effective European Alliance By H. G. WEI LS the New York World (By Arrangcmeut with If we are to get to any fundamental improvement in the present rela Hons of nations, If e are to achieve that change of heart which is needed as the fundamental thing for the establishment of it world peace, then we must look t lie faets of interna tionxl tril lion squarely in the f ice. It is no good pre tending there is no iir when there i. a jar. This lui jhw dTjZT ness of the world peace effort, of who'll the Wa.hing fgi.''rsi '"n Conference is now" the eeiif:e,"is io.t to smooth over v,V- '( international difficult iea; it is to expo.e, eiamine, diag JSJ 1 nose and cure them. fjf i Jr Now here is this Franco Itritish clash, a plain quar re! and one ery disturbing to t!n American audience. The Americans generally don't like tins quarrel. They arc torn between a very sttonu traditional affection fur the trench mid a kind of liking Tor About the liritii.li. They would like just simply want peace. But there quarrelr Or was it inevitable I Perhaps it is soincihing wry fundamental tu the European situation. Perhaps if v.e analvre it and probe rijiht ilnwn lo the final cause i . it, we the aima and ends of the Washington RECEIVE CHARTER Association Controlling 190, 000000 Lbs. Tobacco In corporated Here The Hurley Tobacco flroucrs i o operative Association, controlling nearly RO,noo,ftO0 pounds of bur- ley tobacco and with W.OiiO mem bers, the largest cn operative asso ciation ever organized in America, has been incorporated in the State of North Carojina. Charter wns filed with the Secretary of State by W. T. Joyner of Raleigh, at torney. As toon ss it is mads legal te do so, which is expected to be st ths coming session of the gen eral ssscsnbly, the Association will be re lueorporat,cd in Kentucky. Aaron Sopiro, who drew the mar keting contract, will return to Ken lucky December 9, to adviasin other matlers of detail in connection with the permanent organization and the elections, which will be held Decern her 12, and which will be followed by the district meetings of delegates, which will choose directors for the twenty two districts. Those direc ort will handle the affairs of the M ,ii10 members of the association and the sale of their tobacco. Mr. Sapiro probably will remain in Ken tucky until the association haa named its directors and is actually ready for business. Notice has gone out to every to baeco grower who signed the con tract that the association had been "duly and legally Incorporated" and that each grower would rceeivo in struetiona in due course telling lulu where to deliver his tobacco to the association. Ths noticce is siKiie-i by Hubert W. Bingham, chairman of the organisation committee, iiikI Joseph I'assonneau, organization manager. KEY TO THE ALAMO IS STOLEN BY BURGLARS Snu Antonio, Teias, Dec. .1. A cordon of police guarded the Alamo last night as city detectives search ed for the man who stole tnn key to the historic old building. The key was stolen from the purse of the matron of the Alamo. A gold watch, one of the article.) returned from the body of an .merican soldier who died in France to his mother, the keeper, was also taken. MANUFACTURERS CLOSE PINEHURST MEETING Urge Federal Government To Take Steps To Combat Boll Weevil Pinehurst, Dee. 3.-Thc Cotton Manufacturers' Association of North Carolina wound up ita semi annual convention at Pinohurst today with a business meeting snd an eztensive achedule of entertainments. The only resolution of genersl interest that was passed was one culling upon the National government lo iucrease its activities against the boll weevil and the pink boll warm, "which threaten the prosperity or our rtoutniano anu a disaster to our whole country." The lighter side of the dsy's aetivi ties included the final session of the sstoelation's golf tournament, s clock golf tourney for the women guests, sUesdanes at the annual North Car olina race meeting ss the guests of the Pineirurst Jockey Club, s bridge whist tournament, a tea at the conn- 4ry club with Mrs. Leonard Tufts, Mrs. U. D. Emery and Mrs. o. n. Newcomb, ia the role of hostesses aad a ball at the Caorlina i- the evening. Residents of Raleigh snd vicinity who sttended the convention in cluded; Wilt D. Bright snd T. B. Webb, of Raleigh; Mr. and Mrs. Bugg and Mr. aad Mrs. W. A. Erwln, ef Durham; Mr. and Mrs. T- N. Webb, Mr. aad Mrs. J. H. Webb snd Mr. aad aba. J. C. Webb, of W- BURLEY GROWERS and the Clm'Stjo Tribune) at least one or two congenial thiniri- to hear no more of it, therefore. They the quarrel is. Wa it an avoidable may learn something worth while for t'oufen ore. Not ('laah ef Peopl Now b t its it one very impo This ci;ish is i pteseut I'reio h present Hrit.-h is not a clash 1 rs get a firm hold upon rt;int fact indeed i clash between the go eminent and th guerniucnt, but it tween all the Prem-h and all the llntish. It is not an outbreak of national antipathy i.ny humble, irr mcilable thing of that sort. Tlo'ie are elements r rsnee strongly opposed to the French government upon the issues raised ,m I It . a dispute. There is a sect inn of the English press fantas tically ou the ''Prem-h" side nod bit teriy opposed eten to the public cri tieism of the public npeeches of the French Premier in England. The party polilos of both Prance and lliitaiu and, what is worse, those hitter ntiiuiosities that (enter upon political personalities, have got into this dispunte. It mnv help to clear the issue if we disregard the attitude of the two governments in miming the aides to the dispute snd if, in stead of speaking of the "French" or the "British' sides, we speak of the heep Oermnny Down and the ''(live Germany a Chance sides, or better, if we call thm the "Insist ers," who insist upon the uttermost f.;rthing of repayment and peiiitenreJ from Germany, mid the ''Relievers, t who don I. ror it is upon Germany that the whole dispute turns. There is a very powerful "insiater party in ' r ji t main; mere ia a growing "lieliever" party in France And while France has been steadily Insister since the armistice, Bri tnin and the Uritish government has ehnngi d round, from "Insister' to 'Kehcver in the last year or lo This change tins produced eitraordi nary strains and recriminations be tween French and Uritish political groups and individuals, as sue cliRtigf ef front must always do. Such disputes often mnke for more noise than deep and vital national mintindcrMaiidiiigs und it is well that tho intelligent observer, and particu larly the American observer, should distinguish the nolo of tho dii eerted party man in n race, from the not of genuine patriotic anger. French Position Perfectly Legal I lie beginuiiiKs of the 'present trouble are to be found in the Y suillc Conference. There the only Iteltevers set-in to have been the Am nean representnt ives. J hose were the days of the Uritish khaki elec tion, when "Hang the Kaiser'1 and Make the Germans Pay'1 were the slogans that carried Mr. Lloyd George to power. For aliout four mouths, tho dispute went on he tween moderation and overwhelm iug demands. America stood alone for moderation. The Uritish insist ed upon the uttermost farthing at least ns strenuously as the French and it was General Smuts, of s people, who added the last straw to the intolerable burden of indebted ut'ss that was then piled upon van quished and ruined Germany. And both America and Britain were par ties to toe arrangements that give r ranee the power, the Shylock right, of carving into Germany and disin tegrating her more and more, if Germany fail to keen up with the impossible payments that were then fixed upon her. The position of the French govern nient in this business is therefore S perfectly legal snd logical one France can adhere, as M. Briand sja she will, to the treaty of Ver aailes, she can flout and disregard any disposition of the Washington Conference to qualify or revise that treaty, and the British government. in a hopelessly embarrassed and il logical position, can appeal only to the hard logic of reality. Britain is much more dependent upon her overseas trade man trance and so the British have earlier realized the enormous injur' that the social and economic breakdown of Russia has done and the still more enormous in jury that the breaking up of Cen ral European civilization will do "'Vou are quite within your rights," these newly converted Believers say to the obdurate lnaisters, but you will wreck all Europe." That idea of the possible destruction of civili zation has not yet entered so many minds in France as it has in Bri tain. Germany is nearer to France than to Britain and the fear of a renascent and vindictive Germany is greater in trance than is Britain la the French mind, the possibitUy of a Gorman invssion for revenge twenty years benee still ovenhadvwt (Costlased on Page Tour) Japan, Great Britain and France Forming Agree ment To Withdraw From Certain Parts of Republic 1 i NAVAL NEGOTIATIONS APPARENTLY AT THEIR MOST HOPEFUL STAGE Impression Growing; That American, British and Japanese Governments Are Considering An Agree ment Which Will Include Acceptance of Hughes' "6-5-3" Ratio and Settle, ment of Question of Pa cific Fortifications; Japan Signifies Willingness To Give Up Shantung Lease; Far Eastern Negotiations Continue Favorable Prog ress . Washington, Dec. 3. (By ths As sociated Press'. -Ths naval ratio negotiations, apparently at ' thsir most favorable stage since the srms conference hegan swatted on Tokie today while the representatives of Great Britain, Japan snd Erases were coming together in s condition al agreement f.,r withdrawal from portions of thei. leased territory ia China. Considering Agreement Outward developments contributed nothing to the status of the naval discussions, but tho impression grsw in usually well informed circles thst the AmofVan- British and JspsnesS governments were considering ia provisional form sn agreement that not only would include acceptaaes of the American 3 5-3 ratio, bat would have to .'o as well with Pa ciftc fortifications and some of the political problems of the Far East. Infinite action, however, will have to wait for several days while the Japanese delegates feel oit the St titude of their home government to ward the newest phase of the aefo tiations as it shapes up from last night's conference between the heads of the American, British aad Japanese delegations. Results Kept Secret. In the meantime what actually oc curred at the meeting of the "Big Three" is a rlotely guarded secret, sll sutboritatire spokesmen refusing to take notice of Ike resulting crop of guestct, eonj'ctures and sur mises as to whst "alliances," "under, standings'' or "compromises'' might be in contemplation. In the Fsr Eattara negotiations, on the other hand, the developmeats centering about the Chinese lessee were of so pronounced a character ns to ba regarded generally aa mak ing among the most important of the whole conference. Ths British, Jspanese and French in turn el pressed their willingness to giro ap eertsin of their holdings ia Chins, and although definite undertsklsgs are yet to be formulated, the more was accepted by the friends tt China as promising a substantial modification of the principle of "spheres of influence.'' Would Lesve Shsataag. The much discussed Shantung lease was umong those Japan offered to abandon as soon as China makes satisfactory policing arrsngemsnts, hut at the same time the conference waa reminded that the whole Shaa tung problem was under consider ation in direct negotiations here be tween China and Japan. A willing ness to i' isc ii si the (south Maschuriaa lease also was evinced by the Japa nese, although they insisted thai Japan'a treaty righta in that seetloa must be preserved to her. Tonight the conference and all its sub divisions, after three weeba of continuous work, went into recess un til nest Wednesday. Many of ths delegates, it was said, have impor tant personal affairs preasing for at. tention, and most of them wanted to be present Monday snd Tuesday at the opening of the new sessioa of Congress. The interim also will per. mit the Japanese to advise them selves fully as to the attitude of Tokio. and will make it possible for Arthur J. Balfour snd othar members of the British delegation to fulfill a Series of engagements ia New York. Air of CenSdeace ..In all the major delegstieos res. Sdesco apparently Was Increasing tonight that the response from Tokio would he favorable, and that a mora definite basis of negotiation would develop soon after the reassembling of the delegates next week. .Ths members of the conferenre have aa thought that a Anal agreement will be possible in the immediate future, however, because many details re- .main to be determined. Of growing prominence amoag the side issues of ths naval problem is ths Anglo Japanese Alliance. That is a subject which the British, Japa nese and Americans all refer ta guardedly, but there hare bee a -many hints that both Great Britain aad Japan would prefer to haee ut0 United States a party to any koa. .! - . .1. . 1 Tinuance oi uie irvaij-, vr-wvww mw . be willing to make a bow agree aaest by which the three would aalW te preserve peace ia tho Far East.."." Op pasts A 111 spso - . The crui of the whole ejuostlea lies la the fact that aha Anssrkaa. delegatioa is totally opposed to oa. lH. . i.w iwiimwI If It am (Coatlaaed oa Pago Tiro)
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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