Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1921 — Page 9

CLOUDS OF WAR TO BE REMOVED FROMPACIFIC Purpose of Arms Conclave to Dispel Dangers in Far East. BURDENS WEARY WORLD Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Washington, Nov. 12.—President Harding's conference on limitation of armament opened in Washington. Around a rectangular liorseshoe in Continental Memorial Hall at the marble palace of ths Daughters of the American Ilevolutlon nine great nations assembled. They are here at the Invitation of the United States to transact momentous business—to consider, bluntly put. practical measures for averting another world war. this time In Asia, not Europe. The Washington conference is meeting under another name. But tne prevention of a holocaust in the Pacific, with race fighting race in n death grapple for supremacy, is the real, undistinguished and unescapable purpose of the conclave. America approaches the issue in what it believes to be the common-sense way. It alms to remove the dangers of war from the Far East, and. If that be attainable, to ask our sister naval and military powers to join us In reducing the sinews of war. MR. BALFOUR'S PROPHECY. The conference barometer, in American estimation, registers prospects of fair weather. The sun of our hopes may not shine with desired Intensity before clouds and squalls; even storms, have come and gone. But President Harding and Secretary Hughes are convinced that eventually the skies will be clear —that when the hour of adjournment arrives the conference will look back upon a record of worth-while things accomplished. Balfour says: “The conference will not fail of results.” The people of the United States may rest assured on one score—the American delegation's inflexible purpose is to exhaust every human agency to lift from the shoulders of a war-worn and tax-burdened universe the staggering load of insensate expenditure on armament. If President Harding could talk la heart-to-heart fashion with every man and woman in the republic he would say something like this: “There is nothing super-idealistic about the Washington conference. It Is just a plain life-and-death and bread-and-butter proposition for the peonle of

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the earth. We are using up our substance in a competition In man-killing machinery. Let's stop It.” ALL NATIONS FEEL ASSURED. Every nation of the nine the United States has summoned to the horseshoe has given us assurance, it too, wants to stop it. Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, far less able from too standpoint of worldly goods than America to continue pouring out their treasure on roankilling mechanism, want to-stop. Their taxpayers, like ours, are reeling and groaning under well-high intolerable burdens. The other four nations which will sit in council at Washington are not pri- i marlly interested in armament limitation, | but they are directly interested in the : problems of the Pacific and the Far East, where the United States scents danger to the peace of the world and, because of th it. perpetuation of the armament orgy, i F vm the peoples of the Netherlands, Bel- ! glum, Portugal and China—particularly I China—wells up a no less urgent clamor , for international action designed to stamp out the embers of anew Armageddo. j President Harding sees hope for his con- I fereace because bf this globe-girdling : passion for relief from the menace of ; another devastation. lie is convinced ' from the ardor with which east ha* joined with West in promoting the conference | that Orient like Occident is determined | to conduct it to seme tangible purpose.

FORMALITY OF OPENING SESSION. Proceedings at the opening session of the conference were formal, marked by businesslike brevity r.nd an absence ol pomp or futile speech-making. To the capacity of Continental Memorial Hall the public of the world was present, though the number necessarily was exceedingly limited. It roughly was 1.100. The I nited States Government feels that in providing facilities for the press of fourteen nations, present in the flesh to the extent of more than two hundred newspaper correspondents, and for the full staffs of ail foreign embassies and legations in Washington, the demnnds of “pitih-ss publicity" have been adequately met. It wiil be for the conference itself when permanently organized for transaction of business, to decide bow many more sessions are to be open. Ihe influence of the United States, it has been officially declared, will be exerted in the direction of the largest number of public sessions compatible with progress. Even if these are numerous, it is probable the real business of tho conference will be done in private negotiation among delegations or in conference committees. Woodrow Wilson found that “open covenants openly* arrived at" was splendid in theory at Paris, but nsuperably difficult in practice. The ways of diplomacy have changed, but little in the post-Versailles era. Only optimistic souls foresee sessions in Washington in the full light or day that will be anything but cut-and-dried performances, interesting as forensic spectacles, but of little actual import as far as the vitals of the conference are concerned. On the nature of the program com-

ml t tea’s report depends the order in which the two branches of the conference—Far Eastern “Principles and Policies," and armament—will be taken up. It Is an exceedingly important issue. There have been hints that Japan want3 limitation of armament tackled first. Her delegates are represented as figuring that America lays paramount stress on armament reduction, and that if substantial progress is recorded in that direction ' there will be a stronger likelihood of i Japanese “successes” in the realm of Far | Eastern discussion. If that is Japan’s ! deep strategy—there is no reliable authority for asserting that It is—her plans will unwittingly be aided tytd abetted by those I “disarmament" zealots in this country who clamor that nothing counts at Washington except curtailment of armament. T-ie Harding Administration thinks there are many other things that count, and count essentially. Jf there is a decision to transfer Far Eastern problems to place number 2 on the program, it will be tanta mount to an initial rebuff for America's conference poliey. The United States will not sock to hector the conference into J making the Far East point number 1 in j the agenda, but it earnestly believes that j is the place where it belongs. CHINA'S STAND

i NOT CLEAR. I If there is any one particular cloud on the conference horizon it is that which envelops the role Chinn will play. It Is undoubtedly within the province of China to make or mar the conference. If she is stubbornly opposed to concessions to Japan or to the idea of accepting international aid In extricating herself from the political and economic morass, in which the Chinese people are : now entangled then the conference may , be headed for Its first deadlock. The Anglo-Japanese alliance conjures \ up disquieting visions of another dead- | lock. Shantung, despite Japan's claim j that it is a fait accompli sealed at Ver- i sailles, will Inevitably mean locked horns at the conference, sooner or later. How. when, how much and how long warship 1 building shall cease, suggests debates interminable and perhaps indeterminable.! What will the confernoe say when France ■declares she can not demobilize a soldier or raise a fort until assured In some, form of impregnable defense against an- j other German assault? It is questions like these —and ethers | no less transcendent —that inspire the; dreams of statesmen in America, Britain, j France, Japan, Italy, China, Holland, j Belgium and Portugal as they sleep tonight In peaceful contemplation of what the morrow and after —Is destined to tiring fortli in Washington.—Copyright. 1021, by Public Ledger Company. ROWS 180,000 MILES. LOWESTOFT, England, Nov. 12.-Ben-| jamin Tripp, who has rowed from Burgh to Lowestoft every day for fifty years with fresh vegetables for ships, is re- ' tiring at TB. He has rowed 1(10.000 miles j in fifty years.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1921.

American Delegates for Armament Conference Diplomatic and Dignified

WASHINGTON. Nov. 12.—There are people in Washington who, having looked over the Department of State as now coni' stitutod and the American delegation to the conference for the limitation of armaments, believe that the era of shirtsleeve diplomacy has gone forever. No one, for example, would regard Charles Evans Hughes as a shirt-sleeve diplomat. He Is a man of impeccable manners, who has a Just conception of the proper dignity that should hedge a Secretary of State. The fact is, of course, that our Secretaries of State, as our Presidents, hove always—or almost alj ways—managed to rise to meet the demands of their office. Not that there is any question of Mr, Hughes’ extreme fitness for tills post, but one would not have to go hack very fur into American hlftory to discover one or two secretaries whose rising was not conspicuous and whose shirt-sleeves were a good deal In I evidence. When the conference for the limitation of armaments moots and Washington is full of prime ministers, foreign ministers, princes, field-marshals and hordes of lessee magniflcoH the United States Governemnt will be r.tile to step forth as host with men to represent it who are inferior neither in diplomatic experience onr in cosmopolitan knowledge of .the world to those of any European delegation.

SECRETARY HUGHES BRILLIANT THINKER. The Secretary of State it is true has not had a long diplomatic career, but such a career, observers point out, does not necessarily mean clearness and directness of thought—"thinking through," ns Sec- : rotary Hughes himself would cal! it. The lucidity and simplicity of Mr. Hughes' mental processes will be more ( than a match, it is thought, for anything , that may be Imported into Washington. Upsides, the conference isn’t going to j be an affair of barter, bicker and concession, so one hears. Since the question of the renewal of ! the Anglo-Japanese alliance betook itself j so neatly from tile international foreground the diplomatic corps in Washing- | ton has had little patience for references ; to American ‘'shirt-sleeve" diplomacy, l and one hears intimations that many of I the corps are now studying the Hughes ! method, with a view to possible Improve- I meat of their own professional know!- t edge. If Mr. Hughes Is not a shirt-sleeve dip i loniHf. neither does he go to on other j extreme and think in terniß of frills and frontiers. Those who have had the I opportunity of observing him at close range expect him to impress European j statesmen ns being a fine type of Amor- i

lean in public office, appreciative of the ! niceties of international Intercourse, j Elihu lloot, the second member of the j American delegation, cannot be regarded as a shirt-sleeve diplomat either—not by a long stretch of the imagination. Mr. [ Root Is a simple man in his personal (manners, but he carries with him an air | of being internationally minded, of see- : ing z situation as a whole. Many stories !told of the remarkable Impression I created by Mr. Root upon foreign statesj men. He met some of them at The Hague lit connection with conferences looking | toward world peace, and his selection to ' lie a ißeinber of the permanent court of : International Justice- an honor which he | was forced to decline—is regarded as a I natural sequel to his international popu- ! larity. | .Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massaj cliUsetts, has been accorded many epithets, not a few of which were undoubtedly Intended to bo sarcastic. Among j those have been such appellations as ("Yankee Aristocrat" and the "Codfish I Duke.”. There has been practically no fiisj position even among Senator Lodge s po- ! litieal enemies, however, to deny ids thori ough familiarity with foreign affairs. | Those who have an intimate acquaintance with Washington will attest to the popularity of Senator Lodge with the diplomatic corps. Contrary to the idea rather prevalent in some quarters outside Washington, Mr. Lodge is ouo of the most accessible of public men. ■ LODGE WATCHES j FOREIGN AFFAIRS. | During practically the whole of his I public, career Mr. Lodge has taken a | profound interest in foreign nfirulrs, and this interest, coupled with his long servilc on the Foreign Relations Commlti tee, his extensive travels and his voluminous correspondence with connections in I various foreign countries, has jPlven him j n deep insight into diplomacy, past, present and future. As for Senator Underwood the other I member of the American delegation, he. I too, is the direct antithesis of all that |ls connoted by the aa It were—chetuisI inn phrase. Quiet, almost reserved, he is j always convincing anil in the past he has ! invariably proved Influential In gatherings I where be li:ik chosen to exert his talents 'ln the United States Senate It is said of him that he leads without appearing to do so.

NEW AUTOMATIC PHONE NUMBERS TO BE PUT IN USE Growth and Change of City Supply Telephone Company Chief Problem, The trouble with Indianapolis, from the standpoint of the telephone engineer, lis that the pesky town refuses to stay put. Frank Wampler, general manager of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, in announcing today that new numbers for all automatic phonos will be changed at midnight tonight, says the hardest problem confronting his staff is nut merely that of rebuilding and reorganizing the city's telephone service. The real job consists of so arranging facilities that they will take care of the city’s demands for service next month and next year and the year after that. “If the cifr would quit growing and promise to stay where it is in point of 1 population, our job would be simplified.'' said Mr. Wampler. “But it won’t quit growing, and we don't want it to. PROVIDE FOR GROWTH OF CITY'. "We are tmkirig tonight the biggest single step in the direction of complete unification of tlie old automatic system and the manual system. We have not progressed as rapidly as might lie wished, because we have had to build I for the future instead of merely for the ! [.resent. For example, in rearranging j the numbers for the automatic, or rat- ( chine i witdt ng subscribers, we have had i to bear in mind the fact that In a few years the city’s growth will require more than 100,000 telephones.! It was pla ; n tlint with this Increase and the joining of the two systems, the old system of numbers would not be adequate. Under the old system five figures were sufficient to form all the needful combinations, but the city’s steady growth soon will add j so many subscribers that s'x numbers i will be necessary tp form nil the combinations. “It should be understood that the two systems are not yet connected. How soon that can he done, we cannot yet say. The task is intricate nnd we do not wish to make a prediction that might not be full!tiled, but we hope to be able to announce the date for complete unification before very long. # “In reorganizing the numbering and dial system of the automatic plant, we have taken the biggest step toward unification. As many as three hundred trained men have been busy at one flnie, and more than five hundred have been ! engaged on the Job during its progress, j About 7.000 miies of wire in aerlni and ; underground cables hag had to be put | In place to provide necessary new con-

nectlng paths. This phase alone is a tremendous task.” Mr. Wampler issued the following summary of information regarding the new numbers. INFORMATION ABOUT NEW NUMBERS. "Automatic subscribers in calling another telephone after midnight will dial the first two letters of the office name in addition to the numerals. Lincoln 2154 will be dialed L-I-2-1-5-4, nnd so on. In the main automatic office downtown j there are two exchanges, one of them I called, ‘Lincoln’ and the other. ‘Riley.’ j The residence part of the city just north j 9* the business district has been named • ‘Kenwood,’ and the northeast section, j ‘Brookside.’ The southeast portion has ! been designated ’Stewart.’ j “It is quite important that subscribers call from the directory, and that they | do not rely upon their memory In dialing ; f° r numbers. New numbers for the po- | lice and fire departments will be found J on the front cover of the new directory, | copies of which have been supplied to all subscribers to the automatic service, i “We have added fourteen units of switchbords to the Bell facilities in order to handle the long distance messages formerly handled over the long distance lines of the automatic company. After midnight, therefore, all long ' distance points reached exclusively by the Bell system will be available to the automatic telephone users. The automatic subscriber may call long distance by dinli ihg the number 211, and the operator will ! thereupon handle the call in the usual manner.” One new feature that has been added I to the automatic apparatus, Mr. Wampler said, is an audible signal called the "dial tone.” It is a humming sound- - board in the receiver after it has been ! taken off the hook in making a call, \ when the automatic apparatus is ready jto receive the call. It corresponds in a way with the manual operator's “Number, please?" Plan for Partition of German-Austria? BAu 13, Nov. 12.—France has completed negotiations with Jugo-Slaria for partition of German-Austria, according to persistent reports here today. It was said the details will be announced Nov. 20. The scheme was said to include the ag grandlzemeut of Bavaria by creation of a South German Catholic state. The negotiations were believed to lie the result of trouble between France and Italy over the general fighting in the Balkans and Near East. France was believed to take the attitude that these conflicts justified her claim that she needed a strong army.

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STREET FROWNS ON JAP WAR TALK Says Island Nation Faces Big Economic Problem. War with Japan is the last thing that should be considered by this eountry, according to statements made by Julian Street, author nnd Journalist, in an illustrated lecture entitled “Mysterious Japan," before the Contemporary Club at the Propylaeum last night. “Japtn should not be blamed for not understanding our foreign poliey,” ie said, "for In the Far East we have none to understand. For many year* Japan nnd the Japs have been the political j footballs of California politicians. I “I do not believe we are justified in referring to the Japanese as an ‘inferior race,' for they are not; in fact, they are 1 exceedingly industrious and thrifty. They are one of the few peoples who are not asking for shorter working hours nnd more pay in the same breath, ‘‘The problem confronting .Tapah today i is an economic problem and t serious one, for, despite the intensive cultivation of the soil, she is forced to import tha greater part of her food supply. “The Japanese are essentially a nationloving people. Like the French, they have come to look upon the soil of Japan as sacred soil, and they endure military, rule only because they realize what it lias doue for them." Srnn JPs Attorneys Fix Time for_Argimieiit WAUKEGAN. 111., Nov. 12.—Argument of motions for dismissal of indictments charging Governor Len Small and Verne Curtis with embezzlement of State funds will open in Lake County court Dec. 3- Attorneys for both the Governor and tlie State today informed Judge Clfiirp C. Edwards of their agreement to start arguments on tiie motions for dismissal on that date. The agreement between the opposing attorneys provides for them to be present Dec. 5, os the State's atorney will ba prepared to go ahead with the arguments Although no date for the actual stair of the trial has been agreed upon, it is believed it will not get under way before the holidays. CREDIT MEN TO BE HOSTS. Members of the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men will be hosts next Friday evening at a dinner In the Riley room of the Claypool Hotel to the Robert Morris Associates, bunk credit men of tbs United States. One of the Robert Morris men will address the local association it the luncheon Thursday at the Claypool.

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