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VOL. 24. No. 197.
SECOND EDITION
KINSTON, N. C..MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1921
SIX PAGES TODAY
PRICE TWO CENTS
THE
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Times Say s Britain Would Be
Certain
Influential London
Abrogation of Treaty With Japan as
Meaningless DocumentChinese Dele
gation Gets Down
dry" Openly Refers to Tokio's Avers
ion to "Washing
,Linen"-Will Talk
!' . (By the United Press)
. , Washington, Nov. 21. France will cut in half her effective
army by reducing by 50 per cent, the period of French military
service, Premier Briand today told the arms limitation confer
ence. This, he said, is France's offering to peace..
, "Tomorrow it is certain that by action of the French gov
ernment the period of military 'service will be cut in half," the
premier said. "As a result of this France's army may be said
to be reduced by half." Briand's pledge that France will cut
her army, now the biggest in the world, came after he had
painted a gloomy picture of the dangers facing France.
The French period of service, which Briand said would be
cut in half, is three years. 1 . .'
,v Washington, Nov. 21. Briand spoke for France today.
Addressing the Conference on Limitation of Armament, the
French premier brought before it the question of land arma
ment. The first part of Briand's speech was devoted to an
outline of the daneer Which, he
IV ; Germany, he said, still has
perhaps more than any other
throughout the world, the Premier added
' It was as had been exoected
by German hate which Briand
countrv. lonsinsr for disarmament, dared not do so
America, he pointed out, has not realized the situation
which lies at the very door of France, in Germany. With Lud
endorff teaching war doctrine?, France cannot close her eyes
r relax her vigilance, Briand said, for, he declared, the Teu
ton war lords have maintained to a large degree the confidence
of the German people.
i .. London, Nov. 21. Great Britain would be certain to join
the United States in the event of war between America and
Japan, the Times declared today in demanding abrogation of
. a a I 11" ."..:.'
the Angio-Japanese aiuance.
Briand to Pled.ee 'Army Reduction.
. Ur..Kinrrtn U 01 ..it I V, full
conference to be staged today Premier
Da&oa. -oi . r ranee, sTanomg ai ine
Bead of the worlds largest army, is
expected to pledge as much of a cut
in his nation's land force as he be
'Ueves compatible with national safe
ty. .
China to Press Details.
China's delegation will try hard to
thwart Japans openly expressed de-
sir for sidetracking the "details in
Far Eastern conference, seeing what
they call a Japanese effort to es
cape washing of soiled diplomatic
linen."
The Chinese let it 4e' known today
in advance of a Far Eastern commit
tee meeting at 4 o'clock that they
will soon press for open discussion
of a number of "details," such as
Shantung, Manchuria and secret
treaty questions.
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Presyt
erians Will . . ..
Take on More Pep to
Aid Home Missions
1 The Presbyterians here have been
notified that November 20-27 has
been set aside as Home Mission Week
in the Presbyterian Church through
out the south. It was decided at the
last General Assembly to appropri
ate. $720,000 for home mission work
during the current year. According
to- reports, collection for the first six
months are far behind the expecta
tions of the committee and special ef
forts are being made by the Presi.y
terians to make up the def kit.
' There are over 800 men and worn
to in the Southern Presbyterian
Church engaged in home mission
work and 10 nationalities are served,
W Addition to special work in the
mountain sections, where there are
250 workers.
Contributions last year by the va
rious synods are of "interest just at
this time in view of the requirements
lor work this year. They are as fol
w: Alabama, $15,124; Appalachia,
$21,096; Arkansas, $11,156; Florida,
. 12,169; Georgia, $33,724; Kentucky,
19.521; Louisiana, $23,580; Missis
sippi, $12j877; Missouri, $22,933;
North Carolina, $49,654f Oklahoma,
$1,490; South Carolina, $4(5,138; Ten
nessee, $16,837; Texas, $26,170; Vir
ginia, $84,733; West Virginia, $9,110.
PINK HILL POSTMASTER
! URGES CAREFUL ECONOMY.
Postmaster Jasper J. Smith of
Pink Hill is engaged in an effort to
protect the citizens of his community
from the dangers of speculative in
vestment, which last year cost the
American public $500,000,000 in
fraudulent stock transactions. To
eouteract th'ti menace, the postmas
ter has addressed a strong letter to
number oi representative citizens
urging the safe-guarding of their sav
ings by investment in United States
tres)ury certificates. Smith's letter
stated a "nest egg'.' for future fi-
aancial success was waiting at the
Postoffice in the form of securities
exactly suited to. every one's pocket
book, as they are issued in denomi
nations of $5, $25, $100 and $1,000.
These securities are insurable with
out cost against every form of loss
to the purchaser and bear four per
cent, interest, compounded quarterly,
if held tp maturity.
Join America in War
Newspaper Demands
to Subject of "Laun
of Soiled Diplomatic
to Limit
said, faced r ranee.
a spirit of revenge. France,
nation, wants to bring peace
a picture of France menaced
painted in explaining why his
IA1 FOREST LOSER
TO STATE COLLEGE;
TRINITY TIES N. Y.
Harvard Wins From Yale
in Annual Crimson-Blue
C 1 a s h Four Eastern
Carolina Teams Remain
in Championship Prelims.
(Special to Free Press.)
Raleigh, Nov. 21. State football
teams engaged in two major contests
Saturday. State College defeated
Wake Forest 14 to 0. while Trinity
all but won from New York Univer
sity on the latter s grounds, the
score being 7-7 as a result of a final
desperate rush which enabled the
New Yorkers to score.
The biggest game of the day in
the country was the annual Harvard
Yale match, the former winning 10
to 3. ' . .
As a -result of Fayetteville High
School's defeat of Wilmington 20 to
0, ony four teams are left in the
'Eastern championship preliminaries.
These are New Bern, Sanford, Dur
ham ahd Fayetteville. New Bern' and
Durham will meet Saturday, ana
Favctlevil'e and Sanford will
also
clash during the week.
BULLETINS
f-Bv the United Press.)
COTTON G1NNERS' REPORT.
Washington, Nov. 21. Bolton
ginned to November 14 from this
year's crop, counting round as
half bales, totalled 7,270,575
bales, the Census Bureau report
ed today. Lat year's total waH
8.914.542 bales.
FARMERS MEET.
' Atlanta, Nov. ZT. r armeris .
from 46 states gathered here to
day for the third annual conven
tion of the American Farm Bu
reau Federation. Governor Thom
as L. Hardwick of Georgia; J. R.
Howard, president of the feder
i ation, and Dr. Andrew Soules,
eminent agriculturalist, made the
principal speeches.
ACTIVITY IN COTTON
SPINNING lJUDSiai.
Washington, Nov. 21 The De
partment of Commerce, through the
Bureau of the Census, announces
that 34,221,646 cotton spindles were
operated at some time during the
montn oi vciaDer, cumtiu --
898,415 for September, 1921, and S3,
771,988 for October, 1920. The ag
gregate number of spindle hours for
the montn was i.noo,..,?
on an activity of 25 1-2 days (allow
ance being made for the observance
of Columbus Day in some states) of
8.6 hours per day, the average num
ber of spindles operated for the ,
month was 34,579t7fi5, which com
pares with 34,322,831 for September.1
PARAGUAY IS EAGER
FOR EDUCATION, IS
MISSIONARY'S WORD
Christian Worker Back
From South America Tells
of Growth of School and
Turning Away of Many
for Whom There is No
Room
(
A large and interesting congress
tion was present at the Gordon Street
Christian Church Sunday at the morn
ing hour to hear C. Manly Morton,
missionary to Paraguay, b. JS. Smith,
who had expected to be with Mr.
Morton, was unavoidably kept away
He will speak at the church Sunday,
November 27 at the evening hour.
" Mr. Morton stated that the diffi
culty of having to work without the
fellowship, presence and advice of co
workers, which lot fell to mission
arics, was made up in part by the con
sciousness oi power wnicn comes
through the . realization that those
who are carrying the Gospel to heath
en countries have the support and
prayers of the loyal Christian people
m the home land. He stressed the
especial need for orphanages in
South America, stating that in all
Argentine there was not a single orphanage.-
for boys. He emphasised
the fact that the schools, while sound
theoretically, lacked instructors to
instill the Christian faith. He said
in closing that the schools being car
ed for by Mrs. Morton and himself
had been enlarged to meet the rc
quirements of J 01 students, 38 over
the number taken in the preceding
year, but that more than were ad
mitted were turned away on account
of lack- of room, and that hundreds
who would have come had there been
adequate room, stayed away.
At the evening hour, Mr. Morton
and Miss Myrtle Azbell, State secre
tary of the Woman's Missionary So
ciety, made, interesting talks and
showed stereoptican pictures of the
mission stations and workers.
Ex-Senator DepewY
Original Nest-Egg a
Tidy Small Fortune
'By the United Pres)
Washington, Nov. 21. Saving
money is not so hard after a person
once acquires the habit.
Chauncey M. Depew, erstwhile
United States senator from New
York, put $100 in a PeekskiH, N, Y.,
savings bank in I860. It was his
first $100. Maybe Senator. Depsv
found, as many do, that the first $100
proved t6 be the hardest. Anyway,
in spite of the strenuous temptation,
he refused to draw upon that $100,
and, as a result of later prosperity,
finally forgot about it. Not long ago
Senator Depew entered the feesskul
bank to greet some old friends and
they reminded him of his "nest egg."
On computing ' the interest it was
found that the original deposit of
$100 had grown to $800, and owing
to the long period in which it had lain
undisturbed had achieved - the dis
tinction of being known as the bank's
star account.
Congress Gets Ready '
Adjourn, With Much
of Work Left Undone
(By the United Press)
Washington. Nov. 14. Republican
leaders were working today for ad
journment on Wednesday of the spe
cial session called by President Hard
ing for enactment of tax and traffic
regulation.
If Congress adjourns on Wednes
day as planned, major measures left
for consideration when tne regular
session begins will include railroad
refunding, foreign debt refunding and
the Fordney tariff revision bills.
BIG CORN CROP ' MEANS
BIG SUPPLY OF MEAT.
New York, Nov. 21.- Promise of a
corn crop of 3,152,000,000 bushels in
the United States alone coupled with
recent favorable reports on world
wheat and rice crops suggests, says
the Trade Record of the National City
Bank of New York, that the world's
supply of 'bread and meat will be
little 'below normal despite the short
age in the wheat fields of Russia. A
3,000,000,000jbushel corn crop in the
United States alone means probably
4.000.000.000 bushels for the entire
world, for the United States usually
produces three-fourths of the world's
corn outturn. And this trig corn crop
with us means in turn an unusually
big meat supply, especially of pork,
for a large part of the corn of the
United States is fed to swine on the
farms where it is grown and the meat
thus produced distributed to all parts
of the world in far greater values
than that of the corn in ithe natural
state. ;
Meeting of Legion. -""
The American Legion will meet in
the- post rooms Tuesday evening at
7:30 o'clock. :
RED CROSS PAGEANT
USHERS IN ANNUAL
ROLL CALL IN CITY
Large Audience Sees "Red
Cross of Peace" at
Grand Theatre
PRESENTATION SUCCESS
Without Complete Rehears
als Tableaux Are Given in
Fine Style Fifth Mem
bership Drive of Chapter
Gets Under Way
(By D. T. EDWARDS)
Before an audience that packed the
Grand Theatre as probably it has nev
er been packed before, local talent
Sunday afternoon presented the
peace-time program of the American
Red Cross in a spectacular and ex
ceedingly pleasing manner. It was
a notiafoje success Irom beginning to
end and reflects much credits, not on
ly upon Mrs. S. G. Walker, the a-en-
era! chairman, Mrs. Lee McB. White,
who had charge ot the music and the
pageant marshals, who were several
ly responsible for -the act. but umn
all who took part in it. The pageant
marshals were Me-sdams J. F. Par
rott, R. E. Copeland, S. C. Sitterson,
Dan W. Parrott. T. V. Moselev.
James A. Powers, N. J. Rouse, Frank
Marston, J. F'red Taylor and Misses
Mary Warren and Olive Spear. Over
200 people participated in the cast
and without a "hitch the pageant was
presented not having been prepared
for by a single complete rehearsal.
The Story Told.
In the prologue Mrs. Charles Man-
gum as the "Spirit of Humanity,"
called the hosts to the colors, th
tlammg red cross in a field of white.
Part first consisted of an introduc
tion to the peace program. Follow
ing a tableau, "llie apint of Hu
manity," the Red Cross in war was
shown amd Miss Hilda Randolph, as
Columbia, conferred upon the "Red
Crofs of Peace," represented by Miss
Phadra Norsworthy, a commission to
alleviate the sufferings of humanity.
After this the returned soldier in the
person of Larry Smith, wanted to
know what need there was for the
Red Gross of peace;' whereupon, she
presented the entire program wi five
actions, showing the nursing service,
the home service, the health service,
the disaster service and the Junior
Red Cross service.
The Community's Response.
Then, in part third, came the big
Red Cross roll call ensemble, to which
the community's response was at
tractively given by Mrs. Nan Good
son Howard in a promise to stand by
the Red Cross and by enrollment as
sist the organization to carry out its
program of helpfulness and mercy.
Chairman Whites Appeal.
Before the curtain was raised
Chairman Lee McB. White, of the
roll call, explained the purpose of the
pageant and laid special stress upon
the very efficient nursing service the
Red Cross is now maintaining in Le
noir County as an adjucent to the reg
ular public health service. This is
coEtmg the leharpter wbout a
month : and unless the chapter's ef
forts are sustained by the public
through enrollment it cannot main
tain the service it is now providing.
Further Roll Call Plans.
At a meeting held m the evening
Chairman White announced that the
RotaTy Club of the city had tendered
its services in connection with the
Roll Call this week; and Tom Mew
born, the club's president, signified
his intention of calling the directors
together tonight and. asking them to
make plans for canvassing the busi
ness districts of the city. ' In addition
Chairman ,White will meet with the
Red Cross executive committee at 4
o'clock this afternoon and arrange
for a canvass of the residential dis
tricts. The meeting will be held in
the Chamber of Commerce rooms.
Thus the fifth Red Cross roll call
is now on. it is tne spirit ot Hu
manity" asking the people, of Lenoir
County to answer the cajl to service,
local, national and world-wide in
scope as it is coming to us in these
days. And what nobler appeal can
be made than this What cause is
more sacred than lies in the uplift
of humanity?
Denial That Prince
of Wales Has Been
Killed by Indian
London. Nov. 21. Rumors circu
lated" on the streets here today that
the Prince of Wales had hecn assassi
nated in India were promptly denied
at Downing Street. 1 :
STATE NEWS
Miss Boall Woodward of Washing
ton, D. C, was killed instantly at
Chanel Hill Sunday night when an
automobile skidded in a village street
and knocked her down. '
The "Red Cross of Peace," "roll
call" pageant, is being shown at
Wilmington. ;
The Universities oi norma ana
North Carolina will play at Jackson
ville December 3. Lach team has
played the University of South Caro
lina to 7-7 tie, so that their chances
appear even.
The Manufacturers Kecord will
play up the port of Wilmington in
special articles. - .
PASTOR READ COMES
BACK TO QUEEN ST.
While Mr. Edwards Will
Leave City -Conference
Appointments Announced.
Those in New Bern Dis
trict Detailed
(Special to Free Press.
New Bern, Nov. 21 At the clos
ing of the North Carolina Methodist
Conference here last night Bishop
Darlington read the ministerial ap
pointments, the most important busi
ness of the week for the tens of
thousands Methodists in the confer
ence territory. The appointments
ran into hundreds.
Rev Charles L. Read was returned
to Queen Street church at Kinston.
He will serve another year with that
congregation and then be transferred.
Rev. John R. Edwards of Caswell
Street church, Kinston, was ordered
to transfer to Haw River circuit
Mr- Edwards has been at Kinston a
comparatively short time. A new
minister will take his place a pastor.
Rev. Hillary Humble, formerly of
Queen Street, goes to Fayetteville
after four years here, and - m his
place will come Rev. W. V. McRae,
now at Fayetteville.
The full list of New Bern district
appointments follows:
Presiding elder, F. M. Shamburg
er; Atlantic end Sea Level, E. J.
Lewis; Beaufort, E. B. aven: Crav
en circuit. D. A. Futrell; Dover cir
cuit, S. A. Nettles; Goldsboro, Elm
Street and Pikeville, C. P. Jerome;
St. John, J. W. Potter; ;St. Paul, G.
T. Adams; Goldsboro circuit. C. A.
Jones; Grifton circuit, S. T. Moyle;
Hanlowe circuit, W, T. Check; Hook
erton circuit, R. R. Grant; Jones cir
cuit, K. F. Duval; Kinston, Caswell
Street, J. M. Carraway; Q,uee" Stieet,
C. L. Read; IjaGrange circuit, R. E.
Pittman; Morchead City, W. A. Cade;
Mount Olive and Calypso, G. B.
Starling; Mount Olive circuit, W. F.
Craven; New Bern, Centenary," W.
V. McRae; Riverside and Ghent, Guy
Hamilton; Newport circuit, R. A.
J. K. Worthington; Oriental circuit.
U. r. f itzgerald; Famlico circuit, J.
A. Morris; Pink Hill circuit, R. W.
Barfield; Straits circuit, Samuel
Leffers; E. W. Glass supernumerary;
Snow Hill circuit. C. T. Rogers: Van-
demere' circuit, W. E. Hoeutt; stu
dent Boston University, tl. a. Hill,
Rector Says Church
.Wedding Should Be
No Show for Throng
Persons who flock to a wedding
merely to see the finery and without
proper regard for the sacredness of
the event and sanctity of the church
in which the ceremony is performed,
do a "dangerous thing for their
souls," the Rev. Francis J. H. Coffin,
rector of St. Mary's Episcopal
Church, declared in an address to
his congregation Sunday. Mn. Coffin
referred to the present-day tendency
to consider a marriage in church a
spectacle, and the proneness of many
who attend to forget to treat the
ceremony with the solemnity it de
serves. "The occasion is one of the most
solemn and sacred in the lives of the
bride and bridegroom," Mr. Coffin
declared, adding that to secure the
proper regard for a nuptial event's
sancity was a real problem for a
clergyman now.
Weather Outlook for the Period.
For South Atlantic and East Gulf
-States: Cold, with freezing tempera
ture in interior; frost, except south
ern Florida. Generally fair with
probability of rains middle of week.
Dr. Pptcat Head of
"Clce Club Coining to
City Tuesday Erening
The Wake Forest Glee Club and
owhefttra, under the leadership of Dr.
If ..Vint M Dnt.i ..rill rri..n n
cert Tuesday evenmtr. at 7:30 o'clock
in the Sunday school auditorium of
the r irst .Baptist vhurch. Wake for
est .College has always turned out a
splendid f!ee club and orchestra, and
the public is assured that the pro
gram of instrumental and vocal mu
sic will be up to the standard.
Dr. Poteat, the director, is no
stranger to the music lovers of Kins
ton, He is a musician of note. When
he was a post-graduate student in
Columbia University, Npw York, he
was the baritone soloist at the Brii-k
Presbyterian Church and also assist
ant organist of Columbia. While at
Columbia, he put to music Tennyson's
'Crossing the Bar," which the or
ganist oi the university said in his
estimation was the best musical in
terpretation of- this famous poem.
The general admission price will
be 60 cents, with no reserved seats.
TRINITY HAS BIG DEBATING ,
PROGRAM; SWATHMORE FIRST.
Durham, Nov. 21. With a record
of 17 victories out of the past 20 con
tests, Trinity College is this year ar
ranging a full program of intercolle
giate debates. - A contest with Swath
more will start the season. This
year's debate with Swathmore will
be the second in a series of three,
the f ii'st of which was won by Trini
ty. Swathmore has submitted the
following question for discussion:
"Resolved, that Congress should en
act legislation providing for a sales
tax."
Bryan is Optomistic
Over the Situation
Japan Has Done Fine Things by Confer
enceLittle Giant of East Deserves
Praise of Powers Down to Details, the
Big Principles Agreed Upon Military
Men Do Not Fisrure, Largely This a
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Meeting of Moral Forces and Taxpayers
of World
By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
(Copyrighted by the United Press)
Washington,! Nov. 21 Japan has delighted her friends
and disappointed, accordingly, her enemies. She has proposed
a settlement of the Far Eastern question that seems all that
could be desired. Baron Kato presented in his statement to
the Committee on the Far Eastern Problems four principles
that are broad enough to furnish the foundation for permanent
settlement of the controversy between Janan and China, and
as a matter of fact, between China and the rest of the world.
First, the open door second, equal opportunity in China; third,
the Chinese must themselves work out their domestic situation j
fourth, there shall be no interference in the international af
fairs of China. ! , v . ,
FACE U. S. COURT;
UNDER HEAVY BOND
Manning Charged With Vio
lation of Federal Law.
Friends Give $10,000 Bond
Required by Justice De
partment Men
(Special to Free Press.)
Raleigh, Nov. 21. Dr. John H
Manning, mayor of Durham and
brother 6f the Attorney-General of
the State, is scheduled to appear in
Federal Court here tomorrow to an
swer to a charge of violating the
Harrison narcotic law.
Manning was arrested at Durham
Saturday at the instance of the De
patment of Justice. : He is a member
of a prominent family of the State
and fa v.'idely known. ;
After his arrest Mayor Manning
waived a preliminary hearing and
was released iji $10,000 baij, given
by friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Dawson
to Celebrate Golden
Wedding November 3C
John If. Dawson, county treasurer
hei-e mnny years, nd Mrsj Annie
Dawson will celebrate the 60th anni
versary of their wedding Novemibet
30. Never has there been a golden
wedding m this vicinity to attract as
much interest as will this. "All the
folks" will not be present, it is prob
able, because Mr. and Mrs. Dawson's
relations and intimate friends are sc
numerous they couldn t all get on the
same block with the Dawson, residence
m Northwest Kinston.
Simple preparations are ; being
made for the event. The prospective
celebrators are planning to remain
at home all day tOcShake 'hands witn
callers. These will nuunber hundreds
at the least estimate. There will not
be many frills. "Cards" will be sent
out to as many of the friends of the
popular couple as they can think of,
but it will be impossible to get these
to everyone in the ranks of thrir
friends, so that a 'blanket "hid" will
be issued simultaneously with the in
vitations.' The septuagenarian county official
usually leads the Democratic .ticket.
William Jennings Bryan and some of
the "other boys" have been mighty
popular in Lenoir County in years
past, but never as popular a "Uncle
Johnny." He .makes no campaign.
He is reelected term after term just
as a matter of course. Sometimesiie
goes out on the "circuit" with "the
boys," gets up and tells the consti
tuency he is glad to see them, and
is cheered vociferously. The friendly
Mr. Dawson is probaibly without an
enemy in the world. He is -the fath
er of John G. Dawson, memher of the
General Assembly (from this county.
NO GRAVES IN POTTER'S
FIELD FOR LEGION MEN.
, (By the United Press.)
Ios Angeles, Cal., Nov. 21. Tha
little "dog tag" of the army is all
that saved "Private WiUiam Ausman,
No. W.r,m" from a grave in the
Potter's Field here following his
death by falling from a downtown
building. When Victory Post of the
American Legion learned that Jhe
former soldier faced a pauper's burial,
arrangement! were made for a mili
tary funeral. A firing squad and a
delegation of ligionnaires attended
the services at the mortuary, but
when the cortege drew up to a newly
dug grave in the Potter's Field, the
legion men objected to the burial
there of their comrade. The body
was interred at Forrest Lawn Ceme
tery. An investigation by the le
gionnaires revealed that several
World War heroes who died friendless
and penniless had been buried in the
Potter's Field. The bodies will be
disinterred,
The open door and equal opportun
ity for China is all that the other '
nations can ask. The riy.ht to work
out her own affairs is China's chief
convention. It admits China tj fuJl
fellowship with the other great na
tions. The policy proposed by Japan
is entirely consistent with the spirit
of the conference as embodied in too
proposal fur rehjtion of armaments.
Friendship -and goodwill re to fur
nish -.the foundation upon Which re.
lathing between China and other na-
ticms wiW be built. What can be moT
desirable? y -.. ,
Praise for Japan. A
Now, it will be in order' for hos
who have misrepresented Japan's at
titude to admit ithi'ir unis-take and tip
plaud "the little giaB of - tne Orir
ont" upon the justice and generosity
of her proposition. The three thi'igs
most taJked a'bout are the extent t .
which "navies can be reduced, the ex
tent to which armies can be -reduced,
and settlement of the ovcr-shaouw-ing
question of the Orient. . -
The first day idea-red away all :
doubt as to navies. The mere an
nouncement of the plan by Secretary
Hughes assured its acceptance, and
acceptances were announced even be
fore the holding ot ,the next session.,
' ,. Now comes the proposition of Ja
pan that pleases all nations, and this
Question is taken out of the list of
isputes and made a matter of de
tail. Land Forces.
Next comes the question of land
armaments, which the conference will
take up today when Premier Briand
explains- France's situation, 'flume
ean 'be little doubt that the delegates
will address themselves to this prop
osition in the same spirit that they
have shown the other, ulthough there i
may be difficulties of a different
-.haracter to overcome. V
The news (Tutt has leaked out to
ihe press indicates that the consulta
tion of experts on army ami navy
metiers does not mean that setliemenj;
of these questions is to he turned over
to the experts. It is no reflection.
on the professional soldier; and. p3W
fessionaf navy officer to say that .they
are human -and --dike oter people,
which is equivalent .to saying ithey
magnify tlwir calling. But as this
is not a time for magnifying profes
sions of arms, whether on land or sea,
it is quite natural that final decis
ion should Ibe reserved, for those who
take in all other groups that consti
tute a nation's population.
I think it was an English official
who said that military men, if allow
ed their way, would fortify the earth
against possible attack from th
moon. The delegates will conBuilfe
military and naval experts as one
would consult his tailor, not to find
jut how much to spend, but how wise
ly to spend that which is to be spent.
It is a great day for the world when
the moral forces of society, support
ed by L the taxpayers, can call ,th
world back to spiritual health, finan
cial Safety and industrial progress.
FOCH FOUND LOT FRENCH ' "
k RESERVES AT WOONSOCKETi
Providence, R. I., Nov. 2L It U1
be remembered that Woonsocket,
R. I., entered the World War bffia-a
the United States severed diplomatic)
relations. At legist, this city in
sent 138 French reservists to th
colors of Fiance. So when Marshal
Foch stopped off in Woonsocket to
be the guost of the American Legion
he was grcated by the survivors of
the poilu reserve contingent. There
were about fiO of them in their hori;
fcon blue uniforms and some of them
wept with the joy of seeing their
former commander. During the stay
of the Foch party, the marshal wa$
entertained by Andrew F. Young
Post of the Legion. In Providence,
Marshal Foch spoke at Brown Unif
vcrsity from the same place wher
Washington had addressed tha
Frenchmen who fought with th
Unted States during the ' Revolution
ary War. Many of the French wound
ed, at Yorktown wero cared for at
Brown.
Cotton
The market was stronger Monday
Local receipts, 25 to 30 ibales, wer
light. Prices here ranged from 16.60
downward,-except a few exceptional-'
ly good (bales, which sold higher. --'
Open. Olose,
January
March'
May ...
July ...
December
17.31
17.2.i
17.21
1S.H
16 57
17.33
17.85
17.00
16.55
17.20