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Observer TES XTKATEZS Ymamt Krta Carrla--rJr ia th Hfiataia, WATCU LABEL JMt paper, lead fawal fv daya before eiplratie la order la eretd aMa (tuft May. V0L. O0V. NO. 164. THIRTY-SIX PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH. N. C. SUNDAY MORNING; DECEMBER II, 1921. THIRTY-SIX PAGES TODAY. u PRICE: SEVEN CENTS' The New s and Good Morning tib lkagui or nations, lim Th tfretnaat at th Coafaraaec yesterday for aa allUaea btween the Uailed State Great Britain, Franc and Japan t "respect the iaaolar posion aad dominions ia tha Ptelfie and to adjust eon troversles by joint conference ia, ao far ai tha term nay maka ft effe tire, tha League of Nation, Lim ited. All that th foor power agree eat hope to accomplish bow, and all Ilia rednetiaa la armament it is bow agreeing upon, would have been eeenrvd, aad Btoeh Inore, ia 1919 if tha Bepublieaa Resale had been guided by patriotism instead of partylra. The any "alliance" was a crime aad .Wilson a "traitor" betaus he wished a world league to settle die put, aad war, aad reduce .the costs of army and navy. New, ia a lim ited aad less effective way, tha Con ference. , baa adopted ,th Woodrow 'Wilson Ideas, and no wonder the people aeelaim him the greatest liv ing statesmsn. ' The people of the South are more and more disgusted that, when an accidental Senator shows bad man ners, he attribute it to "tout-hern blood." Southern blood asserts itself truly ia courtesy, self restraint, and good manners. It Is a misT.omer to eafl misbehavior and threat of vio lence a manifestation of Southern blood. Marshal Foch's train only missed the wreck on the Seaboard a few hours. Tha Seaboard speeded him through the State on schedule time and ia a way to win the thanks of all soldiers of tha World War and all who know tha eiivalrie Freach Marshal. Tha spirit of Andrew Jaeksoa was In evidence W hlonro whan that t a town.' gave splendid welcome to tha commander In chief of tha allied arm lee. Jaeksoa and Fork are bud diet in the pantheon af military leader and patriots. Tha Legislature wllj not reduce i the $300 xeaptioa from taxation en . tha thousands ef hard-working and poor John 8mitha in North Caro lina. Ta do ao would be for the North Caxolina Democrats to follow the example of tha Republicans in - Congress who exempted the rich and placed taxes on the overburdened poor. . The whole Stste is seriously try ina to find the war to a just and equitable tax system, to the rega latioa of bond issues, and to other difficult questions. The answer ia a Constitutional Convention to be held in 1923. Composed of able men it would give the time needed and writ a Constitution that its pre eat-dsy conditions. Tha last Constitutional Conven tioa in North Carolina waa held ia 1178. It oaly patched ap tha old . IMS Constitution. The crying need h f er a convention t writ a Cob atitatioa for tha North Carolina of tt Twentieth Ceatnry. If a far power slllsnffi will help the peace ef part of the world, that ia proof that the League of Nations was th remedy for all tha world. e Ifoaro lid Itself proud la ha re eepti af General Foeh. No city in the But eould have aardled tha mat mar perfectly. a T Legislator! D not paaa any new bin t exempt any hank or ia dlvidaal from taxation. If there in merit ia petitions, let th nutter ansa np before th regular aaaaiaal THE VEJ.THER ' leJegh, N 0, 19SL rTcnati North Carolina rlr Bandar and Monday l llttl ehaac la temnoratuTa. , TUsTMATTM High teasperatura , SS Law teasprtnr t Man tempswatur ........... 4i Dlda for th day ....... S Ararat daily axes aiac Jea- ary lint tE " nECmTATION (U iaehea) Aasenat f or th M boar - tug a S p. a. Total for U maU to eat A3 DUckacy tt th month g.40 DOcaancy alBe Jan- 1. 17.71 HUMIDITT . . S n. aa. U am. p. as. Cry VaTb .......11 40 47 W Vnlb . d0,- 41 Ul himidiry ...S7 43 W PIX88C1JI I s, m. ".. p. m. HIS BOARD OF HEALTH 'I! Piece Work System, Tried For Five Months Is Made Permanent DESIGNED FOR ECONOMY AND EFFICIENT WORK Will Develop Larger Degree of Local Interest, Xeipon sibility and Control In Public Health Matter. -Board Will Get More Ted eral Money The Stat Boara of Health ia aes sion here yesterday adopted aa a permanent policy the piece work system which has been in operation by agreement between county and State health authorities for five months. This, according to Dr. W. 8. Baa kin. State Health omeer, makea radical change in tha relation be Ueen tha State Board of Health aad the county health departments. The new, policy, outlined by Dr. Rankin in a statement issued yeeter day ia designed to 'more adequately insure the wise expenditure of funds hyaboth the State and counties In publia health work which is of mutual interest to both State and county and which ia carried on urgely through county officers. This change be says ia also designed to develou a lancer degree of local in tcrnt, responsibility, and control in publia health matters. The altera lion iu policy represents the pro duct of some ten years experience on the part of the Board in dealing with local health problems, and the board feels that in this nvw policy it has completed the foundation fur efficient local health service. Fall Membership Hera. With th full membership of the board present, including Charles A Waddell, of Ashcvillo, successor to J. L. Ludlow, of Winston Salem, the board repealed the policy heretofore observed providing lor a consult .ng engineer position formerly held i.y Col. Ludlow. This, it waa x y NEW PLAN FOR CO-OPERATION BTpiaiiicd, is -due to the f set that the Board now haa a fully organized a. ' well equipped engineering do partaicnt. Th Board yesterday set aside out of th appropriation mad by th Joaeral Assembly 125,000 ar as mack thereof a may b necessary to comply with th provision ef th Maternity aad Infancy Ac f Congress. By this act th State re ccives it pro-rata share of 11,000, 000 fund matched dollar for dollar by th State, for us ia carrying lorward and enlarging the activities heretofore conducted by tha Bureau of Hygiene ia thia State. In ad uitiou, the etate receives w:l!w- condition, $10,000 for the first year and to,uoo eaehv year for five successive years t be used in this work. Members of the board preseut at the meeting yesterday wero Dr. J. Honcll Way, Wayaesvillc, president; Dr. K. H. Lewis. Raleigh. Cbor:e A- Waddell, Aaheville; Dr. Toomas K. Anderson. Statesvillr: Dr. ( h irl.n nghinghouse, Oroenvlile: Dr. F. K. Harris, Henderson; Mr. Cyms Thompson, Jacksonville; Dr, E. J. Tucker, Boxboro; Dr- A. J. Cronell, Charlotte. Ranking SUtement 1 The new relation of State to eoun ty public health work is set forth in a statement issued yesterday by Dr. W. 8. Rankin, Secretary State Board of .Health. I'nnl within, recent months the State Board of Health and county authoritiea of twenty-two counties hare attempted to deal with their local public health problems on bud gets representing the pooled finan cial interests of the counties, the otate, ana ecrtain alhed agencies, namely, tha International Healto Board, the American Red Cross, and the United States Public Health 8erviee. There hav beea two gen eral principles of understanding which controlled the expenditure of the budgets. The nrst principle was that each Inaneial participant should hav th right to approv the personnel employed. The accomd principle was that th plaa af work to be followed should be deanitely stated ia writing and likewise re ceive th approval of each of th financial narticipaata. Under th abor plan it wa th privilege of any one of th interes ted agencies, state, county, or allied ageary, to nominate th personnel ar to pre pose th plan. Ia few Instances tha counties hav nomi nated their personnel and in every suck instance th other participants have approved. In moat Instances, however, th eounty authoritiea have akd th Stat to find and prop th personnel to b employed, nt being abl tkemselvea to find aatis faetory efiieiahi for th available alary. Th Meal authorities hav had th right to aggeat thlr Wa plaa f work, bat in practically nil nutaaeM th Btat haa bn naked to pre par and submit th plan to b followed, and, except la a ry few ease, th plan submitted by th State haa bsa adopted withoat aswdaaeata. " Dwwdrawtgai wf Old nan Th plan f work folUwed nntll within rseeat mtatha appear n ita fact to b, aad, aa a nutter f fact, ia, bath raasoaable and fairly aatia factory to all parti oenied. nothing in Prmaatry satiafaetory that aaa a imptwawi. Thar nr asvwrat diaadvaatagea in th frmr plaa af anark, whian, if paaaibto, artMW aawidO. T first diaadvaatag C th fr- aMt-elnn rk ihat, -m a The Need of New State The State of North Carolina of 1921-22 is not the Commonwealth we knew in 1875 when the last Constitutional Convention was held. It was then imply an agricultural State, the industrial expan sion pressing slowly under the handicap of war im poverishment. Reconstruction and war had left their marks," but the spirit and courage of . the. peo ple had not been broken. The men and women of that generation quailed before no hardship and met every demand to preserve the integrity of the Commonwealth and the civilization upon which the larger development and greater progress rest. In 1 875 a Constitutional Convention was held, but nearness to the war and war issues, and the lack of a real working majority in either party com posing the body, prevented the writing of a new Constitution. The changes were devised to meet imperative conditions of that day, but did not em brace the needed declarations in the fundamental chart of the State. Since that time there has been much tinkering with the Constitution, not a few amendments to meet the changing conditions,' but the Constitution of today in its essence is the Con stitution of 1 868 plus amendments hr 1 875, and at various other dates. The 1 868 document contained sections which should not be changed, and some of the more recent amendments should be incor porated, at least in spirit in the new Constitution which the State jieeds in the new day upon which it has entered. Instead of continuing patching the roof of a leaking house, the wise man in sunshine puts on a new roof. Instead of living in the small house, with outworn shingles, the wise man with the enlarge ment of his family, builds him a larger and more suitable house, commodious enough for his pres ent and future comfort and the pleasure of those who seek his hospitable shelter. He says in the spirit oLjOliver Wendell Holmes in "The Cham bered Nautilus,' which should be the spirit of all North Carolina today: ' "Build thee mor stately mansions, 0 my aoul, Aa th swift waaona roll I - Lear thy towvaaltad paetj.-.- :' "- Let caek aew tempi, nobler than th last. Shut the from heaven with n lorn mor vast, Till tho at length art fr, -Leaving thin atgrwa ahell by life's aaresting sea. The State has outgrown its present Constitu tion. It has moved to higher levels, but in its fun damental charter it is still living in a "low-vaulted past," and in a large sense the need is to movelnto a "temple, nobler than the last." There are three questions which 'are giving serious concern to the most thoughtful men of both parties, which call for a new Constitution. They are the questions of taxation and the limitation upon bond issues and the educational policy. When revaluation was undertaken the pledge was made that the gross increase in taxation would not exceed ten per cent. When the slump in agri cultural products made itself felt in the slump of the value of land, the attempt was made to make the valuation "speak the truth." Conditions have brought about higher rates of taxation, in some counties many times more than the ten per cent. Bond issues on cities and towns and other sub divisions should be limited, and there is need of wiser constitutional provisions than now exist which will hedge all bond issues about with every possible safeguard. The Constitution requires a six months' school which cannot be carried out within the limi tation of taxation. This conflict should not exist in the written Constitution of the State, leaving it to judicial interpretation, another name for judicial law-making. Are the judicial provisions in the Con stitution? Are there not other great things which will be unfettered by a new Constitution? At the last sessionjartbe General Assembly the Senate; by an almost unanimous vote of both political parties, voted in favor of submitting the question of a Constitutional Convention to the peo ple bf the State. The House did not then concur. At a previous session both houses favored a Con stitutional Convention but it failed by default. Today taxation, policies of educational ad vance, bond issues and other questions which legis lation finds it difficult to adjust all demand for the best settlement the calling of Constitutional Con vention and tha writing of a new State Constitution. . The special session of the Legislature can serve the State today and tomorrow by calling an election to be held at the ''next general election" on the ques tion of a Constitutional Convention and the elec tion of the members of the Convention if the people approve holding a Convention. It will put in the best way the .solution of many difficult and vexed quvslions. , Unless this special session submits the ques tion, no Convention can be had before 1925. If it is calH by the body now in session, the Conven tion can be held in the spring 6f 1923. . ' i, ," To Legislators! "Who knows but you Tlie Hour Is A Constitution hate been caHed, to the i TAX AT 39 CENTS Measure Introduced In House wouia witnaraw Hignt oi Mandamus OFFERED BY MATTHEWS TO CLARIFY SITUATION This Is Most Important Mat ter In Honss For Day; feenats Passes Sams Bill For Prompt Payment of Obligations of Political Subdivisions Thirty nin cents is set as the limit U which counties may go in levying taxes for the schools ia a measure introduced ia the Hous of Representatives yesterday hy Mat thews f Bertie, to answer assaalts that hsv been made upon the ad ministration of the schools and to clsrify the general educational sit nation. The bill stipulates that no mandamus will lie against the county commissioners to fore ttiat body to levy a tax in excess of the 38 cent limit. AU tax levies that' have been dl reeled by th State Department of Kducation for the present year, of whatever rnte, are validated in the provisions of the bill, and counties that have resisted tli mandate of the Department to levy above 30 cents are direrted to levy up to 39 cents. Three counties in the Kt.ite have held out against the HtJe Hoard, and out of this oppolitio; grew the litigation on which the Kupreine Court handed down its de cision during the past week. The educations! bill was the prln cipal messnre before the House ves terday. In the Henivle the Hams bill providing more effectual means for the prompt payment of the oblige tions of political subdivisions of the Htste waa advanced to the third reading. The Erwin bill em powering municipalities to create planning commissions and the Walker bill iacreasing the legal speed limit for motor vehirlea were passed and sent to the House for letion. Both the Senate and House adjourned until S o'clock Monday evening. Vktwry Tor Breaks. If th Ustthewi educational bill paeaaa. and it ha formidable back' Ing in th Hous and Senate, Btat Superintendent Brook will have eonaolidated all that he has won in his light to hav th counties levy sufficient taxes to support th schools oa hi enlarged program, but restrictions are thrown around him in filng the limit at 39 cents and Withdrawing the mandamus rtrovls ioa that, it is believed satisfy the critic who charge reckless extra va ganc. Section three of the bill direct the Department of Kdueation to re due spec is I appropriations from the school funds from approximately 1800,000 to UL7M. The present schedule of tescher salaries will be maintained, but not inereised. County Boards of Commissioners shall not be required to levy more than seven and a half cents for the building fund. Retrenchment and economy, without crippling the schools, is the declared intent of the framers of the bill. It was drawn after extended conferences between administration leaders and that wing of th General Assembly led by Representative Bowie opuosinc Dr. Brooks, Schools Whole Shew. Matters of schools occupied the center and both wings of the stage in the Honse yesterday morning. The school deficit resolution, held up all the week by the opposition of Mr. Bowie, passed the House by an 83 to 4 rot after Mr. Bowie had with drawn hia amendment striking out th 7R,000 appropriation to th In dian Normal School at Pembroke. A letter from Dr. Brook explained that much of the fund waa already obligated in contract. With that out of the way the House waded through a vast array of second and third reading roil call bills, most of them local in charac ter, until the Administration bill providing for th consolidation of school districts by eounty boards of education was reached. Opposition developed and from that debat that brought 6peaker Orier down from th diix to take a hand. Hlta Sectflid Snag The bill was eonscrvatir in its nroviiions. Kenresentativ Mntthf.fi explained, providing for lot of te people in th district concerned be fore there was consolidation, but the House bad grown wary. Mr. Gner liked not the Idea of consolidating if. it meant that already' itall.shcd school buildings were to be scrapped. II wanted it to go back to commit- te for fuller investigation. It west back by a substantial majority. Thirty iv atw bill flowed across th reading-clerk's desk, all of them entirely local ar th one offered to elarify th school tang, and th Hall bill that would exempt all new buidings ia th Btat from taxation for a period of two year. Mr. Hall thinks that th bill would give a de cided impetus asw eaaitraetioa ia th State. . ' N new legislatloa eaa get Into th House"-after th expiration of th morning hoar asxt Tsesdsy, Bales th Hous I xtraded to roconddcr a molutioa ffri by Mr. Wright. of On il ford. H wanted ta put stop to Bw legislatWa Meaday, bat th Hon misted that th grwand that staay f th aabra would b Mt f U city Moaday, gad anahl to get their bill iitrwdncfd e tiaa. ' Not Satardsy ia th tha set for ajdjrnit. Th rwaalatioa win OF COUNTY SCHOO FOUR POWERS FORMALLY ACCEPT NEW AGREEMENT TERMINA TE OLD ALLIANCE N. C. MAY BE THIRD Preliminary Estimates Indi cates That Such Will Be The Case MAY BE LED ONLY BY TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA Value of Minor Crops The Unknown Quantity Which Makes Estimates Uncer tain; Government Figures To Be Made Known De cember Seventeenth Commissioner of Agriculture W. A Graham and Agricultural Statistician Frank Tarker are eagerly awaiting the annual Census Bureau figures jrjing the value of agricultural crops for ie states of ta l oion far the rear 1921. These figures are due to be given out about December I7tl. In the meantime Major Graham and Mr. Parker are doing a little figuring of their own snd they have ground for hoping that instead of being sixth in the list ss was the ease last year, North Carolina may be third or certainly fourth. According to their calculations and estimates Texas will be first with around fH75,0W,0O0; California will be second with something like I.19A, OOO.nnO snd North Carolina third with around .'tOO,000,iH0. Certain unknown quantities enter ing into th equation ntake it pos sitile thst the final results will be different from what It appears now they will be. One of these unknown quantities is the value of th crops other than the 23 principal crops oa which the figures have been esti mated on the basis of th November crop reports. Mr. Tarter, assuming that these crops will bear the same relation to the whole na in 109, the latest figure at hia command, esti mates that the total value will b aa stated, about three hundred million. Vain f rrlncipal Crap Estimated valuas f th principal crops calculated from th NottmW rp re pens ar aa follewe: Craas Prwhlttiaa Vak Cora, tmtnts 4.1M,S M..S Wfcest ) .... 4.S4S. T.US.0S4 QBts. ..... Urt.SO 1.1)8. 0" Harfcy, btls ... I MS I. SM kit. kvahrla It. . UuekwkMt, kwheb U.OOS T7.SAS Rice, bwMi 4. SO (. PoUtM. buslwta . t.Ofi. l..o8 Imt potatoes, aa. IS.tM.SO l.;i,oe All kar. toot 7. 14.Ml.oee TvhMso. sounds . .IS5.SO0.SSX M.SS.o Mnt ottoa. pomit IXT.70. M.I71.KO Sum, baskets . ... ll.en SS.M Clover ssml. bushsls n ee t4.eoe Pwiut. bushels .. ,7.SS l.llt.SO ApaUB, busWIs .... T41.tS l.t2.M ToUl !!M.tA4.SM Adding to this amount the value of nil other crops calculated from the ivuy ngurea toe estimalea tout or around three hundred million dolart ia reached Vale In the Peak Tear A comparison of these figures with those of the penk year of 1919 shows how valura of crop hav shrunk. In that year the value of North Caro lina's crops (none of the figures in clude livestock) waa 1654,804,000, and the Htste was fourth. Tesaa was first with (lo4JHX.000. Next came Iowa with t4:i,4A5,000. Figures for other lesding farm states in thst year wer Illinois, S803,&!7,000 ; Cal ifornia, 1510,1(17,000; New York, $4,408,000: Pennsylvania, PU4, 910,000. Comparative figure for last year when the great slump had gutten un der way but hud not atruck the coun try with full fore are: Tela (727, 400,000: Iowa, S499.191.000: Illinois, $459,179,000; California, $475,750,000; New York, $456,507,000; North Caro Una, $412,117,000. Mr. Farker says that revised figures for 1920 may put North Carolina in fifth instead of sixth place- ' Bskr raad Gnilty Bailev. da.. Dee. 10. A verdict of guilty was returned today against V. H. hlaquarie, former cashier of the Baxlcy Banking Company, who was charged with th mlexrlement of $18,000. He waa sentenced to srv a year and a day ia th penitentiary. rad Not Callty Chatt.inooga. Tsnn.. Pec. 10. Dr. T. P. Allen was found act guilty this morning at Day ton where he was on trial charred with killing- Brush Garden hi re on May 18 last PA UE OF CROPS FOR SHAME! (Monroe Journal) The Senate of North Carolina yesterday passed a bill reducing the personal property exemption from $300 to $100. Whether it will pass the House or not remains to be seen. The Senate passed the same bill at the last regular session but the House refused to do to. ' This is peanut business of the smallest kind. The same forces that are demanding that we return to the old system of levying no tax upon thousands of acres of unused land in eastern pNorth Carolina aad else where held by speculators are demandinfhat the tax assessors be required to ransack the home of every poor white man end negro who has nothing else end find his little dab of household stuff said his cow end pig end put them ufxA the tax books. There is prosperity end wealth enough in this State to pay the taxes with out resorting to such ihsmelrsa basmese ee this. , - Y Private Car of Thos W. La mont. New York Finan cier, urns Over Pinehurst, Dec. 10. Thomas W. Lamont, of the house of J. P. Mor g.in and Co. and a party of his friends, including Arthur H. Loekett and William Cruger Cushman, bud a aarrow esea from death or serious injury this morning when Heaboard southbound train. No. 1, on which they were travelling to Pinehurst, encountered a hroken rail about 30 miles north of here, near Cameron, and promptly rolled over. Mr, La ment's party left New York yester day afternoon irr a private ear t- tarhed to th Peahoard flyer and they arrived at Pinehurst this morn ing attired in an amusing variety of rout umes and traveling in a bat tered flivver. The-most remarkable thing about the accident was that although three of the rear ears including the Vine hnrst sleeper and Mr. Lamont'a pri vate car. left the rajls and turned over or plunged down the embank ment, not a soul vi ss injured. It oe eurred at a spot just south -of a bridge over Crane Creek, a mile and a lislf south of Cameron, a spot over which Marshal i'oeh s ncrth hound train had Jiassed in snfetv a few hours earlier, and it was due to the slowing for the bridge that the accident resulted in nothing worse than an ineitrienble miiing up of the luggage aad cloths ot the passengers. 'Very few of th paasengera had finished dressing fur hreakfsst when th thing occurred, but all of them mad the beet of the situation, don ned such apparel aa they could lay hands on, commandeered all the stray Fords in the vicinity and made their way to Pinehurst in time for a belated breakfast, leaving the lug gage, etc., to be gathered up and sent on by truck. Only th three Pullmans la the rear wer derailed, the engine and front cars having passed over the pot aafely. Traffic oa th main line of th Seaboard was blocked for about tlx honr. Passengers were transferred to tkr train going south. PEANUT ASSOCIATION NOW IN OPERATION Scotland Neck, Dee. lO.-Th Vir ginia Carolina Peanut Grnncri' As sociation, Inc. which waa organized during the summer months is now, so far aa Scotland Neck and the sur rounding town sr concerned ac tively functioning, and daily large quantities of peanuts ar being brought to market here, from whence they ar shipped to the stor sge warehouse of the corporation at Suffolk, Norfolk and Petersburg. L. M. Pittman and B. O. Nchlett are the representatives of the con cern st this point and both are kept busy weighing, grading, and mark ing the peanuts that are being brought in to fill the guarantees of the large pesnut farmers from this aeetion who have from the beginning taken no little interest in the estab lishing aad working of the associa tion. Sir Robert Borden III. Washington, Dee. lo. (By the As socisU'd Press). tir Robert Borden, Canada's representative at the arm ament eonfrrepce, was unable to at tend tnd.iy'e plenary aessioa of the conference, being confined to his hotel by whst his physician described aa a severe cold. Award Nobel Prise Christiana, Norway, Dee. 10. (By the Asaoeisted Press.) The Nobel pear prise for 1921, it waa officially announced today, ha been divided equally between Hjalmar Branting, Premier of Sweden, aad Christian Inge, of Norway, secretary of the Interparliamentary Union. V. 8. Steel Tankage Reavrt. New York, Dee. 10. The monthly tonnage report of the United States Wteel Corporation, mad public to day, showed 4,250,542 tons of un filled orders on nsnd November SO. This i decras fms October's unfilled orders, which totalled 4,286,- ton. (IE SEABOARD WRECK Quadruple Arrangement To Preserve Peace In The Pacific Is Announced To The World SENATE MUST RATIFY NEW TREATY IN ORDER TO MAKE IT BINDING Agreement Is For a Period of Ten Tears and Is Confined Entirely To The Pacific; Terms Provide That Four Powers Are To ' Xespset Each Others' Island Pos session! and Are To Meet In Cnninlrntinn Tsi Tha Event of a Dispute or, Threat; Is Expected To Hasten Decision On Hav Ratio and Other Important Questions; Delegates Re gard It As Putting The Conference Over The Top of The Hill Washington, Dec. 10. (By th As sociated Press.) A new quadruple sgruement to preserve peace in the witters of the Pacific win announced lo the MorM today vbjr the United Wates, Great BritainX Japan and Frnlice. As a consideration of tha interna tional realignment treat Britain aad J.'tpan agreed to consign to th scrap heap the Anglo Japanese Alliance, long vieaed with apprehension ia both America and Asia. Ten-Year Treaty. The provisions of th agreement, which is in the form of a ten year treaty, are confined to ''the region of the Pacific Oceai." Under them tha four poccrr ar to respect each others' island ugtrssions and tj meet in corisiiltnti'in if a dispute iritef i-r if the rights of any of th fi'it are threatened by any other poaer. Announcement of the treaty terms was made st a plenary session of th arms conferei-c by ocnutor LiAii, of th American delegation, and wa followed by espies .ons of approval bjr th plenipotentiaries of Great Hritain, France, Japan, Italy, China, Itei'giuni, th Netherlands and Por tugal. Senate Mast Ratify. To be binding oa the United Btates th treaty must be ratified by th Senate, severs! of whose members withheld comment tonight pending a further study of th test. Open war waa declared on it by tome of the "irreconcilable" group of th Versailles tresty fight, but Republi can leaders and some Democrat de clared rntitieiitiou was certain. Th signatures of th representa tives of th powers have not yet beea affixed ta the document, and there a) aa intimation that they may b with held until tha question of naval ratio haa been settled definitely. Th naval aituation remains unchanged pending word from Tokio, but ther ia general confidence that approval of the American "533" plaa will he made unanimous in th very Bear future. Acceptance Certain. In lieu of signature, th principal delegates have put their initials oa the official copy of th treaty, and Senator tadge said tonight that this act of affirmation was to b Inter preted as aie.sning that the document haa beea 'npproved to all Intent nd purposes.'' The treaty agreement is srpeowu ia itself to hasten a decision aot only on the naval ratio but OB all the other issues befor th arm conference. The delegate Delis v they are over the top of th hill, and a British spokesman want so inr wi night aa to characterise today's ses- sion aa practically in mesa wp ss th conference" so far aa major eon- siderauons are concernvu. Una of the first impulse f oat of th Senators was to' com par and contrast th treaty with th LeaguS of Nations covenant, which so lately a the center of a bitter Senate fight. By aa official spokesman f the American delegation, it was pointed out tonight, that a featur of th covenant on which attack wa conducted was omitted from th four-power peace agreement. Ia Ar tie I Ten of th League th mem bers sgreed to respct aad pre serve" each others' territorial in tegrity, but in the new treaty th pledge is to "respect" territorial rights in the Pacific Th emission ef th gaaranto te "preserve" the iategrity of forsiga nation is declared by th Ameri can delegates to constitute aa all important distinction between aa al liance and a compact for peaceful aolutioa of future controversies. Ldg Ed Treaty. Senator Lodge spoke aa follows: "I should be insensible indeed If I did ,ot feel deeply gratified by th opportunity which haa worn t ' ni to lay befor th conference a draft of a treaty, th term ef which hav beta agreed up by fear f tb great powers of th earth ia regard te th islands f th Pacific, whisk USQy CVIl VI Ul vivurr mm y i a r dominion. I will begin by ra-lag- t th conference the treaty which i both brief aad simpl and which I am tur is full f mass ing aad importance te thwerida . peace. "Th TJaitid State f America, th Butisk Empire, rraae aac jb- SMB. . "With view fa th preserv-atie af th gsneral peace aad the asaU ' teaaaee ef their rlghta ta relation '. '. lOaatteaed aa Page Tear) ' i fiuuiM f:U a, as. Bajavat K aa, (OaatbrMd fift J kingdom for such time m thU? V .(Oittnxd m fags TI , v