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" Observer tee xnnmnt fATCULALZL e year . trmA renewal tv art before nHntiM' U r to ad eUsetsuj olngie eopy. Tsssiay and Wcdasss'sy, aot tasba -VOLOOV. NO. 159. SIXTEEN PACES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. G. TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 6. 1921. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY PRICEt FIVT CENTS The New and i VILSOH PLAYED FAVORITES AT F Refused To Take Any Part in Selection of Presiden tial Candidate MADE NO EFFORT IN BEHALF OF M'ADOO Strict' Impartiality Shows When He Made No Object tion To Palmer's Candi dacy ; Hoped For Adoption of League and Greatly Disappointed Over Eesnlt WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM, BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY (3Hth Installment! CHAPTER XLIV THE SAN FRANCISCO CONVEN TION At tli days of the Ban Francisco eonention approached, thou of u who were intimately associated with the President it the White House were warned by him that is the eon eeaUoa fight aeon-to take place - mu'it play no favorites; that the eon Tention muat be, ao far as the White Bene int concerned -- f ree neW and noufavor, and that oar attitude of "hands off" and strict neutrality most be maintained. Some weeks before the contention net, the President conferred with me regnrl inf tha nominations, snd admori.ih ed Die that the White House must keep hands off, saying that it !ia.l always been charted in tha past that every Administration sought to use ita influence in the organisation of the party to throw tha nomination this way or that. Speaking to me of the matter, he said: ''We must make it clear to every one who consults Us that our attitude is to be impartial in fact ts well as in spirit. Other Presidents have sought to influence the naming of their successors. Their efforts have frequently brought about, scandals and factional dis putes that have split the party. This must not happen with ui. We must not by any act seek to give the im pression that ws favor this or that man." This attitude was in no way an evidence of the President's indiffer ence to the nominee of the conven tion, or to what might happen at Ban Francisco. Ha was passionate ly anxious that his party's standard bearer should wia at tha election, if for ao other reason than to see ail own policies continued and the league of instioas vindicated. There was another and personal reason wtiy ha insisted that no White Hons Interference should be brought into play for any particular nomi nee. His son-in-law, William G. Me Adoo, was highly thought of ia con nection with the nomination, and therefor the Preaidcnt felt that he muat be more than ordinarily atrict ia insisting that we keep hands off. for anything that savored of nepo tism waa distasteful to him, and, therefore, he "leaned backward' in hia efforts to maintain a neutral po sition in tha Presidential eontest, and to take no part, ' directly or in directly, that might srem to give aid and comfort to the friends of his sun In law. While Mr. McAdoo's politi 'cat enemies were., busily engaged la opposing him on the ground of hia relationship to the President, si master of fttet, the President was making every effort to disasso ciate himself and his Administra tion from the talk that waa spread ing la- favor of MeAdee's candi dacy. While every effort waa being made by Mr. McAdoo's enemies to give the impression that the Fed era! machine waa being used to ad ranee hia candidacy, the President was engaged wholly ia ignoring the Cf-adidaey of MeAdoo. Misinterpreted Family Visits Ivory family visit which Mr. Me Adoo and his wife, the President's daughter, paid the White House, ws? distorted ia the newspaper reports carried to the country into long and serious conferences between the President and hia son in-law with reference to Mr. McAdoo's candidacy I know from my owa knowledge that the matter of the nomination was narer discussed between the President and Mr. MeAdoo. And Mr. McAdoo's real friends knew this, and were greatly irritated' at what they thought was the gross indiffer aea an the part of the President to tha political fortunes of his sou ls law. Bo meticulously careful was the President that ao 'one should A.m.. . B oi sae opinion was n waa attemp ting ta influence things ia Mr. Me- .Adoo s behalf, that the was never a discussion erest between the rrea ideat and myself regarding Mr. Me Adoo' candidacy, although we had aaavaosed the availability of ether Democratic candidates, as well s tha availability of. the Kepublieaa candidates. X had oftea been asked what the President's attitude would be toward Mr. McAdoo's candidacy were he free to take part ia tha campaign. My only snfawer to these inquiries was that tha President had a deep affoe- tioar and aa admiratioa for Mr. Me Adoo as a great executive, that grew stronger with each day's contact with laa. He felt that Mr. McAdoo's sym path See, like hfafbwa, were oa tha side at the sverage man; aad that Mr. MeAdoo waa a maa with a high Bens of pablie service. Aad while tha President ksu si lent with reference t MeAdoo, the basis of hia attitude was his eoa VietJoa that to asa his influence to advaae the cause of his soa-ia-law was, ia hia opinion, aa impropsr ase of a puUi trust. That ha was strictly impartial ia tha anatter of Presidential eaadidatea was shewa whea Mr,. Palmer, the Attorney Oeneral, requested m to convey a measags ta tha President with reference to hia (Palmer's) ean- - (Cer tinned am page thirteen RAHCISCQ Wield Gavel Over Special Session State Legislature Assembling Today J v W. R. COOPER, Wnaaiagtoa, Mcoteaaat Governor sad FrosiaWat Senate Special Session At 11 O'Clock Majority of Members Arriving Yesterday Want Short Session Representative Dough ton Here and Will Take His Seat in House Session May Develop Ser ious Attempt at State Legislation, With the idea of a short session uppermost in its mind, but neverthe less with its pockets distended with a motley of proposed legislation, the Ueneral Assembly of North. Carolina ill convene in special session to day at 11 o'clock st the call of the Governor to rectify technical defects in the Municipal Finance Act passed in the regular session, snd to pro vide means of taking care of the 70O.0UO deficit in the school fund. Hopes snd promises ox a short session, with ten flays as tne man mum of its duration wilted measur- sbly with the arrival of scores of Senators and House members yester day. Not one among them aave, perhaps, Kennedy, of Cumberland, is without at least one local measure to be dumped into the hopper a few minutes iast noon today, and some members make the boast of a trunk full of bills. Whatever its length, the session will be busy. Some Proposed Bills. The Australian liallot aa a State wide proposition, abolition of capi tal punishment, repeal of the pri mary law, a workmen's compensation sct.yso e changes in the Oeneral FI nance set relative to the taxes paid by banks, making the provisions the same as apply to reaeru income taxes, are proposals that have been embodied in bills to be offered as soon as the Bpeaker of the House and the President of the Benate de clare the session open for business todav. Rumors of other things about the lobbies of the hotels are so thick that they can be stirred with a stick, as thev say in the tape rear eouu try. Three members in the House who-.voted against the power eon tract bill over which the bitterest fight of- the regular session was waged, are lacking in the line up this mornim. and the thing wss de fcated by one vote in the early days of March. Then, too, Senator W. H. Sumner Burgwyn would repeal toe 30a tsx exemptioi Representative B. A. Doughton, bout whom much of the preconven ing gossip has centered, arrived iq Haitian late yesterday afternoon with the answer to the question of whether he would take bis seat when the Assembly convenes. He will take l:'i seat, and continue the chairman shit) of the House Finance commit tee, and the dominant place he has held for a generation as the leader of the Democratic wing. Proeaaent Pee Deogataa. Question of whether Mr. Doughton would serve in the session grew out of his appointment as Highwsy CONGRESS STARTS IN FOR ANOTHER SESSION Chief Interest Centers On President's Message To Be Made Today Washington, Dee. 5. Congress re assembled todsy with tha usual for mal ceremonies of a new session and with its legislative course fairly well charted. The opening program was routine, however, and waa viewed by smaller crowds thaa customary, interest in general was subordinated to President Harding's address which will bo delivered at a Joint sessioB at 12:30 e clock tomorrow, Hia recommendations wort expected to deal principally with tariff re vis ions, government economy and de velopment of the federal budget sys tem. Vs usual interest la tha President's appearaaea waa manifested ia riew of the assured attendance at specta tors of delegates sndeattaeb.es to the araumeat limitation conference. Ad miasioa ta the House chamber Is ta be by special card. Tha President today, devoted himself to work on the message, denying himself to vis Htort aad working to get hia address to Us printer tonight A largo majority of Senators and House members aaawered the Opes lac roll calls today after their tea- day recess since the adjournment of the extra sessloa. Tha opening gavsls toaaded tha beginning of tha irtt regular sessloa of he Bixty-sevsatk Congress which haa before it many oaths' work. Leaders expressed tat aope unigai ax completing wort by mid summer bet (need tha Possi bility of tha session continuing until fall. With tha bl-eaaial eongres tonal elections next November, much politics was regarded as assured for lam aesatow, . I 1 , " ism i v.. I i- ' V V'"(': i 0 HARRY P. CRIER, StatesrtlW, Speaher of the Hoaoe of Representatives Convenes This Morning Commissioner for the Seventh die triet No opposition has arisen in any quarter to his continuing in the office to jrhich he was elected. The Attorne General haa ruled that the Highway Commissionership is an appointment for a special purpose and is not included in the constitu tional inhibition against ene men holding two offices. Precedent for this decision Is abun dant Col. Bennehan Cameron, pros ent member of Senate from Durham county, was a member of the General Assembly when he was appointed a member of the State Highway Com mission five yesrs ago, and waa re elected to the General Assembly while serving as Commissioner. He filled both places without question. Speaker Orier and Senator Btubbs were members of tha House at the time ther were sppointed on the Code Commission, and were re-eleeted while members of the commission. Demand For Him. No protest is expected at the de aision. The need for his experienced leadership is generally admitted, and a majority of the members of both parties ia the House have urged him to return. Governor Morrison has also strongly urged him ta take the same riew of the matter at does the Attorney General, and hit friends throughout the State. Probability of a flurry la the Sen ate is promised in the fight that hss developed nround Beading Clerk C C. Broughton, who, lines the ad journment permitted himself to be decorated wish the office of mayor In hia home town. His eligibility to hold the two jobs has been seriously questioned, and s formidable cam paign to elect Judge Philip Cocke in his stead under Way, becked by Senators from tat west. Broughton has the opinion of the Attorney Oeneral to substantiate bis claim that .his municipal honors stand not in the way of his continuation as rending, clerk of the Benate, but Senator Gallert, who is behind the Cocke campaign does not accept that as flnal, and will present a resolu tion to the Senate this morning de ciaring the office vacant If that passes, he will present his candidate, and ia hopeful of enough rotes to put aim over. La, The Stock Law. The age-worn controversy over the stock law is not dead, as many hoped when the House sad Senate passed a state wide nseatiis last February. Hepresentatire Bell brought a neti tion with tea yards of aamos signed (Continued oa Pegs Two) SUPREME COURT HOLDS . PICKETING UNLAWFUL Matt Be Carried To Extent of "Importunity and Dogging" Washington, Dee. 6. Picketing In connection -with a labor strike ia ua justifiable if carried to the point of ''Importunity and dogging," the 8upreme Court ruled today. Decision aa to whether specific in stances of picketing come within the court's inhibition must be left for determination on the facts in each such ease, it was declared, but the eourt suggested that pickets should hare "the right of observation, com munieatioa ' and persuasion, and might further be limited to ''one representative for each point of in gross and caress." The opinion of the court, which waa read bjr Chief Justice Taft, was approred by all the Associate Justices except Mr. Clark, who djdj not state the grounds of hit dissent he ease arose out of a strike at the Amerieaa Steel Foundries plant i uranita ciry, ills., where 1.000 mea were normally employed. After shut ting down it resumed operations at aa open shop with about SS0 men. about one-half of whom belonged to labor uaions. The In-City Trades Council, upon the refusal of the manager of the plant ta negotiate, declared a strike . aad established picket, There was considerable vio lence W tha plekttera aatil the courts intervened aad restricted-! their, activities. The council there upon eontcatfd tha authority of the Man, v , : . - I IRISH ESI SETTLI I Terms of Agreement On New Proposals Not Announced at Close MEMBER OF CABINET MAKES STATEMENT Sinn Pelntrs Will Make No Comment On Situation; Delegates Look Tired and Grave After Conference at Downing Street; Certain Modifications Made Loneon, Dee. . (By the As sorlsted Presn.) It Is dally announced thst the foverauMnt flclsls snd the representatives of the Dall Elreann have reached aa agrsemcBt the terms of walrh will ao submitted for the arrests are of Parliament and of the Dall Elreann. A copy of tha agreement has kww sent -to Sir James Otlg the Ulster Premier by sweclal messenger. London, Dee. 5. (By the Asso dated Press.) The conference be tween the government ministers and Sinn Fein delegates reached n agreement at an early hour this morning on the new proposals, which underwent certain modifications for an Irish settlement. After a sessioa which lasted more thaa three hours, from 11:15 last night nntil 2:20 this morning, the meeting of the government ministers and Irish representatives in the Downing street reaidence of the Prime Minister sepsrated and member of the cabinet replying to a question as to how things stood, said : The newt isut bad; aa agree ment, in fact, has been reached, the terms of which will be eommnni noted to the press in time for Wednesday morning papers." The delegates looked very tired, grave as they left the Premier s resi denee to enter waiting ears. Asked whether he hsd anything to say Michael Collins, the Sinn Fein fi nance minister, aaswsred sharply. "Not a word." GENERALLY COLD ALL OVER SOUTHERN STATES Washington, Dee. S. Heavy snow fall brer portions of tha middle At Untie States and the upper Ohio Valley, freestng temperatures as far South as Montgomery, Ala., and heavy frosts to the Alabama coast and ia northwestern Florida duriSg the last 24 hours were reported to day to the weather bureau. Oeneral rains were reported dur ing the same period from the suoth- eastern States. Frosts as far south as central Florida were forecast. Generally fair weather was predicted elsewhere for east of the Mississippi river, with no material (hangs in tempera turn. SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO REVIEW LEAK CASE. Washington, Dee. 9. The 8u preme eourt declined today to enter into a review of the so-called ' Su preme' eourt leak ease" ia which a former secretary of one of the jus tieee and several associates, includ ing a former employee of the De partment of Justice were convicted in the eourt of the District of Columbia of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Governor And To Welcome The Governor aad his staff, the Supreme Court of North Carolina, and many men of prominence throughout the State have beea in vited to participate in the formal welcome that will be extended to Field Marshal Ferdinand Foeh, generalissimo of the Allied Armies in the World Wsr whss he reaches Monroe at 1:25 Frid.iy evening for a stay of three-quarters of aa hour. Into that brief period the town of Monroe will endeavor to erowd the welcome that the whole Bute would give the supreme eommsnder of the thirty million men who fought together against Germany. Monroe will have the honor of be ing the only towa in the State where he will stop. Hs will pass through Baleigh at 1:35 Saturday moraiag, reaching Washington at 1:35 and leaving immediately for West Point Ha will sail for France Monday morning. Originally, the Marshal's train waa routed from Atlanta by way of Oattonla, Charlotte and Greens boro but for various reasons ths itinerary wss changed, and Monroe substituted for Charlotte snd Gas tonia aa the place where the Mar shal would greet the State that furnished part of the Divisioa that broke dowa tha last defenses of the Oermaa Annies along the Weatera front Announcement was made several dayt ago that the party Tha Marshal is put to bed at 101 o'clock every Bight by but personal physician, who is traveling with him, aad towns along the route who hive hsd hopes of teeing him after the stop at Monroe will like lr be disacDointed. The Beaboard Air iiaa Bailway is preparing to afford the people of tha State op nortnnltr ta no ta Monroe aad- par ticipate in the welcome. Bpecui rates with ear aad half fare for 10 NIGH MEETING FOUR-POWER ENTENTE WITH JAPAN CONSIDERED AT ARMS CONGRESS; CHINESE DELEGATE RESIGNS JOB NOTHING DONE BY Ai CONGRESS REGARDING CHINA Secretary of Chinese Dele gation Hands In His Resignation HE CHARGES HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY POWERS Hone of China's Demands InrolTed Anything More Than Justice To China, 8ays Dr. Tyau, Who Charge Violation of His Country's Sorerelgnty Washing-ton, Dee. 8. (By the As soeiated Press.) Philip K. C. Tyau secretary general of the Chinese dele gatloa to the Washington conference and minister to Cuba, today cabled to Peking his reslgnatioa aa a mem ber of the delegation in protest against the "negative results" thus far achieved concerning China a de minds. Dr. Tyau told the Associated Press tonight that in resigning ne neicu without consulting the three Chinese delegates and his action represented his personal views. The delegation as notified after- tha cablegram had been sent to the Chinese government No Aetaal Results Achieve. T personally do not fed that any actual results have been acnievea by the Washington conference reO Harding Chins," Dr. Tyau said. They have been negative in actuality, ex cept in principle. Everything has been agreed to in principle and then turned over to sub committees. In no single ease China haa pre sented for settlement on the basis of the ten points proposed by the Chinese detention at the beginning of the conference, Dr. Tyau said, has anything more than justice to China been involved. None of the ten pointa required delayed actios, he said, because they were based on China's rights as a sovereign notion, "Everyone of the demands, he continued, "were for things taken from China in violation of treaty rights or through duress because the powers were strong enough to do it, They continue their violation of China's sovereignty snd then tie the settlement of the questions up in sub committees." Chsrges Highwsy Robbery. Beferring particularly to the with drawal of the foreiga poetomees from Chinese soil. Dr. Hyau said the ae tion of the conference in agreeing to accede to thia demand by China only after long investigation by commission was In direct violation of China's rights as sovereign nation If we attach our signature to any such proposition," he sdded, "we would be in the position of eondon ing highwsy robbery on the part of the powers. The powers have bees guilty pf highway robbery of thisl source of revenue, end instead of China pleading for restoration of the control of all postofBces on Chinese soil, China should demand indemnity for all the revenue she haa been robbed of by the powers maintain ing postofflcee in China. His Staff Marshal Foch return trip hare beeaannouneed. The swing nround the circle made by the Marshal under the auspices of the American Legion haa been mads more quirk than any other trans-continental tour on record. Within the past two weeks he has beea to the Pacific Coast, from Ore gon to Southern California, and back across by the Southera route, coming op through New Orleans. Hs will leave Atlanta Friday at noon, and will reach North Caro lina soil eight hours later. Brief stops will be made ia South Care Una. Every minute of the trip hat been carefully worked out, add the schedule maintained exactly. Details have been arranged by Alton T. Boberta, detailed by the American Legion to act aa represrntstive of the Amerieaa service mea. Hun dreds of invitations hsve been showered upon the Marshal, but his oricsl hosts hare declined all. from North1 Carolina except the etop at Monroe. Ha will not touch the State of Tennessee, where the men the Msrshal describes as the war's greatest soldier, lives. Invitation waa extended by the citizens of Fayetterille and General A. J. Bowley, commanding officer at Camp Bsagg to Marshal Foeh to visit the Cap Fear metropolis, snd while there present in person the Fourrager conferred upon the Fifth and Bereateenth Artillery Begtments which turned tha tide of battle at Chateau Thierry oa July 18, IBIS, and began the victorious offensive that brought eventual vic tory. The hoeft to the Allied Com maader have been unable to so ar range tha achedala as to enable him to stop at Fsvetteville. Sentimental reasons appealed ta tha Marshal ttroagly Whea he waa told that the t (Contlaaoj y?q Two.), jfc Organized Peace Only Means of Avoiding War Posaibilities of Another World War With Development of Air Warfare Vividly Described By H. G. Well.; We Muat Either Have An Association of Na tions or Prepare For Continuation of War. He Says (By Arrangement with the New Tork World and the Chicago Tnhus1 As exsminstioB of the situation France, England and Germany brinsjs elusion sj aa examination of the Tar inc. situation. There ia no other alternative thaa this: either to light it out anil eatahnsli Ins definite sscendenry of some one pow er or to form sn Alliance based on an esplir.it settle ment, aa alliance, indeed, sustaining a common etecu tive Commission to wstrh snd maintain the ebser vanee of that settlement. There is no way out of ar but aa organised peace. Washington illuminates thai point. We must be ' Mtlons In Conferencs growing into sn organic system of world controls tho world's peace, trnuathiu'rf"war. Ho it it worth war will be like. If you will not organise peace throues some such Asso eiatiop, then organise for war, for or to juur cmiurca. And for reasons Vet out In my ed by the experiences of the Washington gathering, a mere Ismitsiion of Armamenie csa ns nine more than a cut oui eipensivs noma ana so eneapen and facilitate war. The !!.. mf WU IV.. E Twenty-five More Injured In Head-On Collision In Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Ps Dec I. Ad ditional bodies recovered from the sasonUeriBg debris, and deaths of two of the Injared tonight Increased 11, ths list af fstal lajarlos so a result of the head. collision Between Phllsdelphla and Reading Roll way suburban passenger trains today. Four of the U aw mora la. Jured- were la a critical eoa dittsjsr. It wss feared other hod. Iso still were concealed by the hot ashes and twisted frsmo. work of the two wooden eoochss which ctught firs. Most of tho victims perished la the flsmaa which hroks oat almost ' Immediately after tho creak, for both trains consisted of roeden coaches. Rescuers were obliged to stand helpless at tho top of ths cat where tho crash occurred while the victinu enmeshed la tho wreckage, shrieked aa the flames tortured them. An outbound train from Phll sdelphla raa lata aa labooad from Newton In this cut which Is ti feet dees, narrow and curved. Its side wore covered with snow snd ks snd It was with the greetest disunity thst the Injured were dragged to the top. Heveral of the eharred bodies had aot been identified tonight and it waa thought that mors might lis in the am of wreckage. Train Orer-rsn Ita Orders A statement from the railway of fices said the accident "seems to be due to train 115 (that from Phila delphia) over running its orders." An investigation haa been started by the railway another haa been or dersd by the Slate, while Bucks County officials have announced that they will conducct a third. The cut is situsted between the Wood m on t snd Paper Mills stations. The road ia single tracked. The southbound train carrying to Phila delphia, makee no stops between Southampton and Bryn Athyn. The outbound train usually waits on a siding for it to pass.- The wngmcet is ssid to haw waited ten minutes, and when a local tint was late pgss ed, to hare assumed it to he the other and proceeded. The curve with its steeD. rockr wat.s hid each on coming train from fhe engineer of the other. In the middle of the cut the two locomotive crashed. That of the northbound train rote in the air, and then toppled backwards, frilling, np-tide down, over the track. The southbound locomotive veered to the east and wedged itself in between the rock well and the wreckage. ' Rescue Work DifllcuH. Aid was summoned from nesrbv stations and ambulances, wrecking crews led firs companies battened ta the scene. A special train was tent out by the Reading officio's with nurses and blankets hut the uninjured passengers sr,d ths coun try folk bad teeompliahed nesrly all the rescue worlr. possible when they arrived. Firemen found their work ex treraely difficult becsus: of the pre cipitous tides of the !'h. They poured water pumped from a aenr by treek Into the burnie; debrit, and climbed dowa the slippery sides ta work their way slowly upwards scnla bearing lbs Injured snd dy Inr. The roads were he.ivy ith snow whteh. also Increased tht diffi culties of the. rescue parties. The tiriding was hampered by ths t -j . ,.-.! . . .i.. .u: j.a, for there waa aeltheer telephone nor telegraph ommaaieaUea at th spot. TWENTY-ONE Dl IN TRAIN WRECK that has arisen in Kitrope betseen us nut to eiat-tly the asms con prepared to see an Association of for world affairs and the keeping of or wo must be prewired for n cos considering whst that continuation of certainly war will come again to you. earlier Darters, reasons innl, Milr. strategic true. It may indeed even H me Bote here in passim thst the case for some Association of Na tidns to discuss and control ths com mon interests of mankind rests on a wider basis than the mere preveu tion of wsr; the economic and so rial divisions and discords of man kind provide, perhaps, ln( the long run, a stronger and more eonclu sive argument for human unity than ths mere wsr svil, but in thia paper I will nnrrow the issue down to war simply, and ask the reader to eon aider the probable nature of war In the fnture If the development of warfare is not checked by deliberate human effort. And I will not deal with the 111 equipped, cut throat wr that has beea going on, and, thanks to the divisions and rivalriee of -France and Britain, ia likely still to o on ia Eastern Europe for some Urns to come; the wsrs of the little, self determined nations that the Treaty of Versailles set Joose upon etch other; the rsids of Poland Into Vk minis, and of Roumanin into Hun gary, and of Herbia into Albania ths old-fashioned game enlivened ny rape and rounery that was brought to its highest perfection long ago In the Thirty Years War ineae are not ao much wars as ipssms of snergy, phasea of scceler ated destruction, in the rotting body of bast European civilization. Bu I mean the sort of war that will some if presently France attacks England, or if America and JapanJ start in ror a good, long, mutually destructive struggle. You may say that war between France and Eng land is unthinkable, but so far- from that being the ease, certain worthy souls in France have been thinking about it hard. Hard hut not in tclligentlyt They do not understand the moral Impossibility of Britain lighting America, they have never heard of Canada, they have never eiamined the test of the Anglo Japanese Alliance, and so they dream of a wonderful time when America will bo fighting England and Japan, and when France, with magnificent gestures and with sub marines snd Senegalese at last gloriously justified, will "come her aid. So France will divide and rule and clamber to dizry destinies. Blushing and embarrassed American statesmen have already had to listen, I guess, to some insidiou whispers. Even among our die tresses there is something smusing in the thought of this hot bresth of Old World diplomacy on the fresh Amerirsn cheek. I do not say that these srs ths thoughts snd acts of France, or of any great section of the French people, but they are ccr t.iinly the thoughts and proceedings of a heisy Nationalist minority in t'rnnco which is st present in s po sition of dsngcrous ascendency there. Still, apart from the fatt that the British nill always refuse to fight America, there does seem to bs no resl reason why, in ths sbsence of a developing pence alliance, to pre vent it, either of the other two matches I have cited should not be played. In the long run, you can not avoid fighting if you avoid com prehensile alliances and standing arrangements for the settlement of difference J with ths people yoa may other ise fight. New Conception or War. 8o let us try and imagine a war between s pair of these four pow ers, five or-ten yesrs ahead. They havs avoided any entangling al liances, or agreements, or settle ments, kept their freedom -affection and are thoroughly prepared. Let ns aot fall Into tho trap of suubosing that thene wars will fol low ths lines of the Great Wtr of 1914,18 snd thst wo shall have a rapid line-up of great entrenched armies, with massed parks of srtil lerr bshlnd them, tank attacks and all the rest of it. That sort af war is already out of fashion, aad the fact that these wara that wt ere considering will ho oversea wart out tny possibility af tuck a dead' lock of land armies out of the eat. The oembetaaU will have to est (OssUlnaod eat rag Tare-) CONSIDER TREATY TO INCLUDE Fi POIRSJ EAST Latest Suggestion Propose) tntentc For Four Great Nations AMERICA LOOKING ON nilDlsjn iirnnriiTiua uunniu ntuuilAllUH5 Naval Problem Involves Ho Proposal Tor Political Agreement of Any Charac ter; Proposal for 4 -Power Entente " Suggested " "iy " Uoyd George Washington, Dee. 5. -(By the As sociated Press.) The question of a three or four power agreement to replace the Anglo Japanese alliance is demanding increased attentlea among the arms delegates while they wait for Jupan to define her posi tion on the naval ratio. The latest suggestion, contemplat ing an entente to include the United "iHiee, urent Britain, Japan and France, hns developed to the point where a tentative treaty draft is un der consideration in some quarter although it hns not been formally presented to the conference. There are indications that th -Japanese delr-gates and British as well, are consulting their home governments on such s propo sition at the smne time thst they lire ssking for further instructions in regard to the naval ratio. America Looting On. On the part of the American gov eminent there apparently isno dis position to entcrtuin sn entente pro posal, st least at the present .stage of the negotiations. Later such a suggestion may receive eonsidsrstloa provided it includes no requirement! counter to American publie opinion. Upon high authority it wat ssid today that the naval problem tt it wat referred to Tokia after the last meeting of the "big three" Involves ne proposal for a political agreement of any character but is concerned solely with the navsl and military aspects of the situation. The Amer ican delegation adherea to its ex pectation that the naval issue will be settled without conditioning tha decision on any tort of a political rearrangement. Japanese Explain Delay. ' Admiral Baron Katn, of the Japa nese delegation, said tonight how. ever, that the naval question in volved issues which are of far-reaching effect upon the National and International life of Japan and OB the policies of great powers for de cades to come and perhapa perma nently. These issues, he said, should bs brought to the full knowledge snd consideration of his government bo fore definite sctlon is taken. The delay in presenting JapaaV definite position oa ratio, declared the Japanese statesman, is duo wholly to the difficulties of cable communication and the desire of tha Japanese government to act circum spectly in so important a decision. It has been indicated that it may be late In the week before the Japa nese are ready to return a reply to the latest nnvsl proposition. Meantime the conference outward ly is concerning itself with ques tions of collateral significance. Th committee on draft, beaded by EUh Root, held a meeting today -nd dei bated the problem of foreign tele graph and radio facilities in China, virtually deciding to bring in a reso lution providing that aa many of these facilities as exist without treaty sanction shall have only a curtailed use hereafter. The committee of the whole oa the Far East is to meet again oa Wednesday bringing the full mema borahip of the conference together cgain after a recess of four days. An open session of the conference Itself moy be held late In the week but no plans for it hsvs been made. Two Questions Become Tangled. The American belief that the naval question can be settled independent of political issues, although borne out thus fur by the direction taken by the negotiations, apparently ia not readily accepted in all quarters. A British spokesman recently de clared that in the British view th naval and Far Eastern problems were hound up in the same sheaf aad there have been Indication! of a like opla the publie announcement of Admiral Baron Kato that he waa ready ta consider a naval agreemeat without reference to the political eentidera- tifttia Involved. It it considered possible that fa the present period of waiting tha two threads of negotiation may become to tangled in the foreign capital at to give the America delegatloa considerable trouble in separating ( them when the discussions ber are resumed. It would not surprise torn observers if thers should be aa at tempt to make the final reply of eaa er more of the govsrnmenta condi tional upon a political agreemeat ag, eae tort or another. Lloyd George Made Prspsssl, '' Th proposal for a four power eateate as now advaaetd la eoaaid- IWU M . . 0 w .- n - tioa af David Uoyd Oeorge, mad several weeks ago ia parliament, tha (Catiae4 a Pag TjJt f -
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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