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0 i ; MrkVFMRPO The Ballet A Decorative Art By Andreas Pavley v veil &PA vKktwt Couru) ol Fsthion Art MniiMinc. This lovely group is from the ballet of the Chicago Opera Company, which has conferred a lasting benefit on the artistic world by its presen ataion of the Ballet, and it is Miss Corden's intention to make this fea ture even more elaborate tl.ls season. Andreas Pavley and Serge Unkramsky, directors and premiers danseurs of the ballet, spent several months of the past spring and summer in an extensive tour of Europe in a quest for new material. rpHE treat awakening baa come I ana the ballet Is now recognized not only aa the art of motion, but the art which links all the others. Thin because it expresses both fornix of rhythm sound and vision. Alone of the arm, the apueal of the bnl!(!t Is complete. To the Intellect, wlih a tory 10 be unfolded To the emo' ens. with rnuaic, color di'SlKn and inotii v. a." Mi media. These elements ar wnmlly essential, needing only to he fufcil by Imagination, Inspiration and hunwr. Ballet directors and bincer di. Ijsi what architects and decorator do they build. The dance Brows Itr the bead before it ta depleted in the Itr! and feet. . In creating a new bullet the director, solo dancers and entire corps ar tabor tort. The Ideas conceive! by tt dlrvotor 'must be thcrjuglily tm- RAGGED CHILDREN PLAY BEFORE BLANK AND SILENT WINDOW FRONTS OFRUSS CITY ISy EDWIN W. IIULLINGER (United Press Staff Correspondent) Moscow, Nov. 17. Over the gol den minarets of the Kremlin, historic, fortified stronghold of the ancient czars and for centuries religious cap ital of Russia, floats the red flag of th; Revolution. At midnight and noon the great clock, which used to toll the hymn of the empire, now sends out over the Red Place a refrain of the Inter . nationale. 1 A new set of chimes was Installed in the tower. Several huge, red placards, with fte motto of the revolution in big, Mack letters, are plastered on the mediaeval walls of the fortress. One of the Woodiest fights of the Bol hevik revolution was fought in this square, now the "Red Place," and 150 Red soldiers are 'buried in a com mon grave at the foot of the wall, alongside John Reed, the American engineer and writer. Across the river, where Moscow's merchant princes and wealthy offi cials had their luxurious palaces and places of business, stands a lone Red guard, a peasant boy, at his sentry box at the gate of a courtyard. It was once the residence of a sugar magnate. It ,'is now a dormitory for Red officials and guest house for distinguished foreign visitors, in Mos cow on official missions. Ragged Urchins. Up and down the Sofiskaya Na nereihna (Russian for Riverside) a If ,raS2ed children are playing on the deserted sidewalk in front of long rows of silent window-fronts. The counting-houses have been locked for three years. Grass is sprouting be tween the cobblestones. . Up the great hill, past the Krem lin oyer rutty cobblestones and past long blocks of empty window-fronts the broad Theatre Place, formerly center of Moscow's business life, is swarming with peopled Some in old field gray, relics of service .during the war; .some in coarser workmen's clothes, a few in business suits which show traces of many winters and summersfor virtually no new clobhea have reached Russia during the six years of war and blockade: women in men's coats and patched skirts, some in old tailored suits, with handkerchiefs for hats on their heads, peasants with thair worldly property 192? BRIDGE PROGRAM , - . FOR ILLINOIS IS BIG, ,, By the United Press) n Washington. -Nov. 17 The Illinois department of Public Works has out lined a program for 1922 entailing the construction of Gl bridges with 109 concrete spans -and eight steel sPans. The concrete bridges range in span lengths irom; eiht to iQ -feet and the eteel cpnns 100 to 170 feet, ine largest bridge to be constructed is near Goodfiekl.. It will have four concrete spans of 50 feet each and one steel apart of 170 feet.. The Toad way will be 20 feet wide. Another of 1 ! IarrJ?er ProjtB is near Golden gate. This (bridge will have five con crete spans each 40 feet long and teel span of 125 feet, 10 -1091 planted In (he Imagination of each and every member as they proceed. The master first sketches mentally an outline of the whole work. Its In tent and story or message. Then erotiplnRx. re-grouplngs, postures, dmce JlKitres are tried out (n a form ot experimentation much like the artist draws his preliminary studies. These studies are made with human figures performed, not pencilled. Later they lire welded In a routine and perfected hy repeated rehearsals until the whole work Is completed. Each dancer has been tniined In the studio to appre all of these factors and their h-!e values, so that co-operatton la 'he ballet may be Intelligent. Bach imp. I also learns the technique of de s!;n much as a draughtsman learns It 'I'll.- mental training of a dancer s . : 1 j i t - an strict and thorough as the t.l.vleiil training. . rolled into a bundle on their should ers. All Look Alike. Ihey all look alike. They are all dressed very much alike. At first glance I thought they all were refu gees. Such is the impression the mass makes as a whole. They are all sober. All is orderly and disciplin ed. Several Red guards are in evi dence,, but they don't seem to be both ering. The traffic moves quietly. It is a nondescript traffic; shab by drotshkies, hand pushcarts, one horse trucks, peasants' carts I saw a procession of four hayloads sol emnly filing through the center of Moscow-and an occasional automo bile filled with Red officers or gov ernment officials. At the end of the place is the huge Metro-pole Hotel, now the foreign of fice. An immense placard on the wall labels it as the Second House Ljv... Tl-jae "nouses" are quite conspicuous throughout the center of the city formerly large hotels or big office buildings each with its huge placard in front, with Moscowski Soviet, People's Commit tee, Central Workmen's Committee, etc., on them. Inside is a businesslike scene it might have been a large commercial concern in the United States, with one department after another, ex cept that, instead of messenger boys and doormen, Red guards, with their inevitable long rifles and naked bayonets, are scattered throughout the corridors. A-Red guard sits drowsily at the door of every im portant office, his rifle, bayonet fix ed, leaning1 against his shoulder. You are struck by the large pro portion of young men and women. Everybody seems young. This worthy of note; because it is typical of the Bolshevik movement. H is a movement of young men. Commercial I.'ife. The small streets feeding into the Theater Place present a scene of gradually resuming petty commerc ial life. Between ibolted-up windows, little shops are .reopening clothing stoies, toy shops, music shops, milli ners, a few hardware, in fact, mer chants with "(rood that citiM' be, and mostly have been, packed away in cellars. The great number, how ever, are still closed. . WELFARE OFFICER IS INJURED IN ACCIDENT. : Rev. George B. Hanrahan, welfare superintendent, was painfully but not seriously hurt Wednesday after noon when his runabout was knock ed over an embankment near Fields Station by a truck said to belong to the West Contsruction Company. The car tumbled about 10 feet. Mr. Hnrahan is reported to have suffer ed two fractured ribs and severe bruises. . -. ' ' Montreal's Population. Montreal, Que., Nov. 17--Popula-tion figures issued by the census branch give Montreal Island 712.909 for'J!n, as compared with NW 7t in 1911, the increase of the decade being 28.51 per cent. THE Britain Wants a Substtute Before Giving Up Alliance Seeks "Agreement" Among Principal Powers French and British Army Pol icies May Clash at Arms Meet Inter national Poker is Started Behind Closed Doors Delegates Thresh Out World Questions Committee Meetings to Be Marked by Important Debates Washington, Nov. 16. The arms limitation con- ference today entered into an intricate maze of Far Eastern problems. For the first time the conference met in a closely guarded secret session. Just before the conference met in the beautiful council room there war no definite information as to whether Secretary Hughes behind closed doors would place be fore the delegates today America's program for set tling Far Eastern affairs. Washington, Nov. 16. Great Britain will not cancel the Anglo-Japanese alliance unless she gets at the arms confer ence a satisfactory substitute. This emanated today from persons conversant wholly with the British position. What the empire wants is an "agreement." "Alliance" is avoided as repugnant to American ideas. She wants this agreement among America, England, Ja pan and perhaps China. Behind closed doors the arms con fe. .... c is touay at work. Speuchmaking and handclapping is being done, while the period of ne gotiation or "international poker" is here. Upon what happens iii commit tee meetings from now on will depend the success or failure of the confer- French and British May Disagree. Land disarmament, heretofore sub merged by the vaster problem, of na val limitation, is destined to play an important and perhaps troublesome part in the anus parley. A clash between British and French viewpoints is in the cards. America today was said to be able to smooth out the clouds. Otherwise a storm is likely. France wants to keep her army of 8(K),U0U; England wants it reduced, holding that it and the policies be hind it are stumbling blocks to Brit ish commerce and industry. Ships That Navies Would Keep. Washington, Nov. lu'. -Following are the first-o'ass ships that the navies of the three big sea powers would keep under the "Hughes plan:" United States Maryland, Californ ia, Tennessee, Idaho, Mississippi, New Mexico, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Nevada, Texas, New York, Arkansas, Wyoming, Utah, Florida, North Dakota and Deleware 18, to talling 500,050 tons. Great Britain Royal Sovereign, Oak, Resolution, Rami lies, Revenge, Queen Elizabeth, Warsprite, Valiant, Bai-ham, Malaya, Benxow, Emperor of India, iron Duke, Marlborough, Erin, King George V, Centurion, Ajax, Hood, Renown, Repulse and XiKer 22 totalling (104,450 tons, or a little more than 100,000 tons more than Americas line of battle feet. Japun Nagato, Hiuga, Ise, Yama shiro, Fu-So, Settsu, Kirishima, Haruna, Hi-Yei, Kongo 10 totalling 290,700 tons, or r.ot quite three-fifths of American's tonnage and a little less than half of Britain's. New Chicago-Beertown Boulevard Be One of Finest Anywhere (By the United Press) Washington, Nov. 17. -A private highway. 200 feet wide, consisting of six roadbeds surfaced with asphalt and connecting Chicago and Mil waukee, has been proposed. Accord ing to Alfred E. Case of Channel Lane, 111., president of a Chicago or ganization urging the project, a $5, 000,000 corporation has been formed, authorised to issue bonds up to $10, 000,000 for the construction of the road. The plans contemplate that all cars on any one of the six high ways shall move in the same direc tion. Two are to be used for passen ger bus service, two for a toll road ior private passenger cars and two for toll freight roads. 'The highway will be elevated over all country rouds and railroad tracks," said Mr. Case. "It will be electric lighted and lined with trees, shrubs and flowers to make it one of the most beautiful drives in the world It will be fully protected by armed guards to insure the public against robbery by bandits and highwaymen." ; Few Big Fights in ' Sight for New York Season; Pugs. Shy . By HENRY L. FARRELL (United Press Staff Correspondent.) v:ew York. Nov. 15. When the Walker boxing bill was passed, New Yorkers sat back and dreamt of a championship bout every week. Tex Rickard did his best to make the dreams come true last winter, bu; the prospects are not so good as the new season approaches, Uickard and other promoters have a double difficulty in arraingMng championship bouts. In some divi sions there are no suitable opponents for the championships and in other classes where talent is more plentiful, tho title holders Tefuse to fight to a de !sion. . . Benny ' Leonard, the lightweight kinvf, has stated emphatically that he wi l not box in New York because of the general incompetance of the judges appointed by the boxing com mission to weigh the merits of the boxers. . .' ' " " The State Farm Bureau Federation at Salisbury recenb'y elected W. H. l b it of Charlotte president. KINSTON (N. C) FREE PRESS IS KEEPING STATE LOW IN LITERACY By MAX ABKKNFTHY Raleigh, Nov. 1G. Unless there is a halt, in the State's educational progress the next 10 years will show a much greater deerea:-e in illiter acy than was shown by the 1920 cen sus for the 10-year period prior to that year, according to Dr. K. (.,. Brooks, State superintendent of pub lic instruction. In the light of the progress North Carolina made in reducing its illiter acy during the last 10 years, there is every reason to believe that in an other decade the white illiteracy in this State will be wiped out. Longer time will in all probability be requir ed to do the same thing for the negro population, which is today keeping the State s average, far down the col umn. The 1920 census lumps both white and colored ' illiteracy together, and in so doing fails to tell of the pro gress North Carolina has made edu cationally in recent yearn. These figures show an average 13.1 per cent, illiteracy in this State at the present time as against 18.5 per cent 1O years ago. Since 1010 North Caro lina has reduced its white illiteracy from 12.3 per cent, to 8.2 per cent., and today there are only 13 counties where the white illiteracy percentage goes above 12 per cent. They are: Figures for Counties. Wilkej, 17.1 per cent; Yancey, 16.2; Graham, 15.9; Stokes, 14.5; Swain, 13.5; Surrv, 13.3; HurKe, 1.1.0; Mitch ell, 12.8; Avery, 12 8; Jackson, 12.7; Caldwell, 12.6; Greene, 12.5. Against these there are nine coun ties which are under five per cent. They are: New Hanover, 1.8 per cent.; Craven. 3.3; Mecklenburg, 3.5; Guilford, 4.1; Pender, 4.5; Rowan, 4.G; Buncombe, 4.8; Hoke, 4.8; War ren, 4.8. Two other big industrial counties are slightly above five per cent. They are Forsyth, with 6.3 per cent., and Durham, with 6.2 per cent. The others are between the five and the 12 percentage figures. School attendance in the State has increased nearly 10 per cent, among the white population since the 1910 census, there being 89.5 per cent, of the white school children in attend ance last year aa against 80.7 per cent, in 1910. These figures are bas ed on school children between the ages of 7 and 14 years. French Mourn High Prices But There is No Relief Yet (By the United Press.) Paris, Nov. 15. Despite the drop of prices in the United States, France can hope for no immediate and effec tive decrease in the cost of living for some time to come, in the opinion of Andre Paisant, Food minister of France. France must await: . (1) The restoration of her ex change. (2) Rehabilitation of her indus trial regions destroyed by the war and consequent restoration of hpr pre war producing capacity. Paisant explained that owing to the fact that France is now ob'.iged to buy extremely heavily in, foreign markets, particularly the United States, her merchants are obliged to regulate their tail figures to cover the losses due to the depreciated value of the franc. HP on the Job . at Washington Keep Service Men in Trim . Washington. Nov. 17. The dread ed "M. P." shines in all his g'ory again daring the Washington con ference. ' -While the American soldier is an -xcel.'ent fighting' man, he in a bit earless about his dress and Is prone to overlook an unseen button and lit tle details. Col. C. S. Babcock, chief stiff of- the army, district of Washington, is determined that the privates and officers shall look their bost in the nresence of the foreign plcninotentaries," REPRES'NTATIVES OF POWERS WHO SIT IN GREAT ARMS MEET Washington, Nov. 14. The dele rates of the principal powers and China to the Conference on Limita tion of Armament and Far Eastern Questions, are: United States. Charles Evans Uughes, secretary of state and head if the American delegation. ' Elihu Rodt, former secretary of state and United States senator, and recognized as one of this country'.' ablest statesmen. Henry Cabot Iodge, United States Senator from Massachusetts, chair man of the Senate Foreign Relation Committee, and Republican 'leader in the Senate. , Oscar W. Underwood, United States Senator from Alabama, Democratic iearier in the Senate. Great Britain. Arthur J. Balfour, lxrd President of the Council of Great. Britain, distinguished states man and prominent in the League of Nations. Lord Lee of Fareham, first lord of the British Admiralty. Sir Robert Borden, former prime minister of Canada, representing Canada. George Foster Poaixe, minister of dufense of Australia for Australia. V. S. Strinavaea Sastri, member ol the Vice-Regal Council of the Gov ernment of India, for India. Sir J. W. Salmond, Judge of Su ..K'cme: Court of New Zealand, for New Zealand. Sir Auckland Geddes, the British Ambassador to Washington, will act is a delegate in the absence of Prem ier Lloyd George. France. Anstide Briand, premier f France, heading the French dele gation. Jules .Tusserand, French ambassa lor to Washington, and dean of the Diplomatic Corps here. Rene Viviani, former premier of France. Albert Sarraut, minister of col onies in the French Government. Japan. Tomosaburo Kato, Vice Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, minister of marine of Japan ind head of the Japanese delegation Prince Tkugawa, president of the House of Peers of Japan. Kijuro Shidehara, Japanese am bassador at Washington. Italy. Signor Carlo Schanzer former minister of finance of Italy is head of the Italian delegation. Deputy Filippo Medo, leader of the Caiholic Party of Italy. . Senator Luigi Albcrtini, editor of Covriere de la Sera. ; Signor Rolandi Ricci, Italian am bassador to Washington. China. Dr. S. Alfred Sze, Chinese minister to Washington. V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese min if tcr to Great Britain. , Wang Chung-hui, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of China. C. C. Wu, son of Wu Ting-Fang, former minister to Washington, and who is active in the South Chm Government, has been invited by the recognized Chinese government at Peking to represent the southern revolutionary division of China, in accordance with the desires of the United States Government, but has not yet accepted. . Official Advisors. The delegations of the powers al so are accompanied by large numberf of advisors, political, naval, military, and so forth. Distinguished military and naval officers are among these advisors. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt and Ad miral Robert E. Coontz, chief of na val operations, are among the naval advisors to the American delegation, Marshal Foch will advise the dele gation from France. - Admiral Earl Beatty, commander of the British Grand Fleet, is senior naval expert of the British delegation. 5' Belgium, Holland and Portugal al so are , represented by a number oi delegates and advisors in the discus sion of Pacific and Far Eastern ques' lions in the .conference, and it b only to this phase of the conference that China is invited. Millions of Children Are Undernourished; Get Wrong Kind Food New York, Nov. 15. -Over 5,000,- 000 school children in the United States are suffering from malnutri tion, according to a bulletin issued by yie National Tuberculosis Associa tion today. Malnutrition, when car ried far enough, becomes plain star vation. .The vast majority of these nu lions of little ones are malnourish- el as a result, not of insufficient food, but of improper food. To relieve this situation a plan for instructing the children in correct health habits has been devised by tht asscciation in cooperation with Dr. W. R. P. Emerson of Boston, nutri tion expert, and will be inaugurated in schools throughout the country as soon as possible. . Pinnl Anneal for WKt mnrplanrl. Raleigh. Nov. 15. Final appeal for r-'cutive clemency in tne w. 1 Westmoreland - case from '' Iredell County, the prisoner having been nnvirfaH rrf first r)pii'Pf murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair November 21, will be made to Govern or Mormon tomorrow. . BRITAIN AGREES BALFOUR; WORDS ARE CHEERED JAPS WANT FEW MORE SHIPS. Both proposed some modifications. British reservations referred to submarines and replacements. Kato announced that Japan nage on replacements. He indicated clearly that Japan will ask that she be given a more favorable ratio than accorded under the Hughes scheme. Announcement of the intentions of Japan seemed to assure the success of the American plan for limitation of naval arm ament, however. BALrOUK 5 Washington, Nov. 15. Great principle" with America's sweeping program for limitation ot armaments, Arthur J. Balfour, head of the British delegation, stated officially before the conference today. The statement was greeted witn loua applause. TK Rritish leader stated that Great Britain is in fullest sympathy with the policy presented by the United States. The American plans, Balfour stated, are both reasonable and acceptable. Even greater cuts than those proposed by the United States should be made in submarines, British naval experts are inclined to think, Baltour said Shins That Must Go if Disarmament is larriea. Hasliinirton, Nov. U. -It tne Vmprican naval reduction wan is idopted the United States will have o discard the following snips uuun construction, all potential monsters rom 11.1 to 83 per cent, completed: Battleships: Colorado, Washington, West Virginia, South Dakota, Indiana, vinntnmi. North Carolina, planned to be the biggest vessel of war afloat, iowa and Massachusetts. Battle cruisers: Lexnitfton, t.onstei- ation, Saratoga, Ranger, Constitution md United States. Mammoth Fleet if Conference Fails. Washington. Nov. la.- It Hughes proposals for limitation of naval arm- .ments ie rurneu uown oy mt utn- es to immediately add 14 fiist line jHttleshins to the 10 now partially juilt and rush all 30 war vessels to ompletion in a few years. Members of Congress have been nformed th-.it this gigantic program s designed to far outstrip anything ingland or Japan could attempt. Al QUESTION IS SETTLED By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN . (Copyrighted by the United Press) Washington. Nov. 13. Washington in the center of world interest to day. Dispalcres arc coming in from nation's stand on disarmament. What a lesson in international morality it is! The language of diplomacy is sometimes UHed for concealing of answers pass between crafty diplomatists and they are approved by trafty nolilkians. Government control by a few selfiRh'ends has often continued over periods of years because those in them and because people were ignorant n..UAn nfirenr has set a new precedent and its practically unanimous ...,.. oi i.riH that "Honestv is the affairs. Strong Team for Rally at Christian Church; Paraguay Worker Comes C. Manly Morton, missionary to Paraguay; 'F. E. Smith, secretary of the Department of the Ministry of -he United Christian Missionary So :iety, and probably Miss Myrtle Az bell, missionary secretary of the Dis jip'es in North Carolina, will coni .ose an interesting team that will -onduct a rally at Gordon Street Christian Church Sunday morning. Messrs. Smith and Morton will also visit the Wheat Swamp and Airy Grove churches Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, one going to each place. Both Messrs. Morton and Smith were at the State convention at Greenville and impressed their hearers grean'y with their interest ing and forceful personalities. Mr. Morton and his wife were pioneer missionaries of the Disciples in Para guay. They are directing an impor tant school there. Mr. Smith is an experienced pastor and preacher of ability and is regarded as an au .hority on the subject of ministerial ecruitment. The meeting Sunday vill be of interest to all church people md Gordon Street Christian Church extends an inviation to all its friends good program. MEET AT CHICAGO; FEARING WAGE CUTS Chicago, Nov. 15. Renewed threats if a railroad strike were heard here today a.s leaders of two powerful inions met in secret session. Chiefs and general chairmen of the Irotherhoods of Locomotive En ;incers and Firemen met to discuss veil-founded reports, according to ailroad workers, that the United States Railroad Labor Board had idopted and is ready to announce vorking rules which labor considers mfavonible, and to discuss informa .ion said to be in the hands of the anions that the railroads were to ost notices of wage cuts this week. devolution Raging All Along Mexican Border, Say Reports (By the United Press) Calexico., Cal., Nov. 15. -Careful-'y planned revolution today threaten ed to throw Northern Mexico into open war against the Obregon gov srnment. Clashes were reported all iloug the line between supporters of Sstaban Cantu, deposed "dictator" of Lower California, and federal forces. 1 . False Alarm. Firemen answered a false alarm from King and East streets at mid night Wednesday night. PAGE FIVE ':?tl -ijc( " " 'i " mir FULLY, SAYS would present a plan or ton 3ffc.fcL.r1. Britain agrees "in spirit and ready it has 'been tentatively agreed unon bv aiUministrnUon1 leaaera in Congress, in the event the arms con ference ends in failure, it was re vealed today. .New Substitute for Alliance. Washington, Nov. 15. British rep resentatives were reported today to be working out a substitute for the nglo-Japanese alliance. Details were withheld, even as to whether a triple alliance of America, England and Japan was contemplated. Britain will make her answer to day to the American proposal for naval limitation. At today's session of . the limita tion of arms conference Arthur J. Balfour, head of the British delega tion, is to accept in principle the program of America. Dominions' Attitude. Washington, Nov. .--Representatives of tho British dominions fol lowed today's speech iby i Arthur J. Balfour with a spirit akin to suspi cion. The dominions appear not to favor going all the way with America in declaring a ten-year naval holiday. IN MATTER OF SHIPS all nations expressing approval of this ideas; crafty suggestions and crafty authority had been forced to brook of the real ends pursued, uui we best policy" even in International By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN (Copyrighted by the United Press) . Washington, Nov. 15. A spirit of hope pervades the capital. Those who doubted while they waited for tb delegates to assem'ble, now feel quits sure that, so far as fleets are con cerned,, the Question is Iprartkially settled. They argue, that the government has, in all possibility, already sound ed the governments of Great Britain and Japan and know, that they will, in due time, announce thoir accept ance of the plan of scrapping more than half of all the battlesfu'pa afloat . and will suspend building new ones ' for 10 years. The plans go farther; , they urge that no government can. reject the American offer, withwut being overthrown by the people at' home. Everywhere the world "is " weary of war and oppressed by the ' taxation imposed by war. The debts of the world are more than six tame-,' as great as they were when the firt gUn was fired. All the surging dis- . satisfaction among people would mtss . behind a protest if any government, stood in the way of this long step for disarmament. , International Tribunal. The conference will find that dis armament will 'be greatly aided Jby an international tribunal ior the set- . tleinent of disputes. Heretofore war . has been the only means provided for the arbitrament of international . questions. Fortunately, the confer ence, will have at hand and immedi- : ately available a plan thoroughly vn derstood and universally approved, namely, the plan which provides for,, the investigation of all 'disputes be fore resort to war. Arbitration treat- . ies cannot cover the subject out of which war is most likely to grow. "Vital interests"., alone compre hend every real cause of war, so that arbitration is only compulsory in few and relatively unimportant matter. The treaties for investigation close the gap and leave no cause out of which war could come without a pe riod of investigation in the 80 treaties negotiated by the United States with nearly all leading nations, one year's time has been provided for investiga- : tion and report, during which the con- . . trading parties have been pledged not to resort to force, but tney re-. served the right at the end of that, period to decide upon their own course and to act independently. These ' . treaties make war almost impossible between the United States and th governments with which the treaties were negotiated, governments which. " represent about three-quarters th population of the globe. . ' . In the League Covenant. The plan of these treaties was in- corpora ted in the covenant of the League of Nations and has therefore, been approved by all the nations rep resented in this conference. The United States Senate made no ob jection to this portion of the coven ant, as the proposed reservations Will show. It would seem easier to ex tend as far as possible the jurisdic- tion of courts of arbitration and then establish international tribunal with power to investigate all disputes which are not submitted to arbitra tion. With such a tribunal provided for the possibility of war would be so lessened that the nations would be willing to go farther in the direction . of disarmament without provision b. ing made for some such tribunal. It may ; be added that disarmament greatly increases the value of these tribunals for investigation; the less provision there is ' made for armie and navies the less the likelihood of the violation of any treaties.
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