Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 127, Hammond, Lake County, 17 November 1921 — Page 1
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Judge Anderson in Federal court today dispensed with "monkey business" and eliminated "formality" in imposing sentence upon Nick Miscovtch. of Gary, for violation of the liquor laws after "the Lake county situation" had been given an airing: in court. The jury which convicted MJscovitch, a soft drink establishment proprietor, was out an hour. Judge Anderson imposed six months jail sentence and $600 fine on Miscovich. Judge Anderson had just heard a statement by Edward Brennan. a former prohibition agent, branding: Miscovich as a persistent law violator.
"If this man would tell the truth it would go a long ways toward cleaning up the Lake county situation," he eaid. relating a string of instances in which Jtfiscovich had been fined in the Gary courts and in each instance the "days had been suspended. "What do you mean "suspended?" the court asked. "Did they just go through this monkey business of impos
ing days and then not make the deiendant serve them?" Brennan replied: "It was a formality." "Well, It won't be any formality here," the judge declared.
MILLIONON PROJECT
Auto Maker After Muscle
Shoals Proposition Now Makes New Offer.
MIND
MM ADOPT CHICAGO PLAN
BY ALLAN' L. BENSON STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE (Copyright. li2l, uy the I. X. Service.) (Notice Is hereby served that infringement of this copyright will be vigorously prosecuted.) ABOARD TRAIN ENROUTE FROM DETROIT TO WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. Henry Ford has just given me an interview in which he said: "If the government will sell Us Muscle Shoals project I will put the south on the map." "Just what do you mean by that?" I inquired. "I will give employment to a million men in the south," he replied. "I will establish industries that will have a beneficial effect not only upen the south, but upon the whole country. 1 wil extract from the air, nitrates that will be sufficient in qufaiitity to fertilize the entire cotton belt. "Thomas A. Edison has been ready
for the past month to go with me to Muscle Shoals and give nie expert advice with regard to the nitrate plant. Mr. Edison and I will start south th" moment the government decides t turn the property over to roe. "If the government will let me go to work at Muscle Shoals I will establish a great aluminu plant in which
aluminum will not only be extracted, but manufactured into machinery parts. I will establish plants in which cotton will be spun and woven into cloth. I will put to work every horsepower that I can wring out of Muscle Shoals, no matter how many plants it may take to consume it. "From my experience in other places I have learned that one man is employed for each horsepower of mechanical energy in a plant. nrusce Shoals is good for 1. 000. 000 horsepower. That is why I say that if the government will let me, I will put a million men at work. "I will give the whole ration an object lesson, not only in the use of wa- J terpower, but in modern agriculture.!
The country is full of unused waterpower that should be harnessed and put to work.. There is a fall of p0 feet In the Mississippi River between St. Louis and New Orleans and not a dam on the river."
Did You Hear That
C. B. TIN'KHA.M sajs his sore toe has healed nicely, thank vou.
DAVE MILGRAM. of the M-B Bootshop has had a busy week shoeing customers.
LEW BARNES, said to be talked of as a candidate for republican district chairman, is in Indianapolis.
COUNTY SURVEYOR RAY SEELEY nicked several thousand dollars from the cliecka of the road contractors.
V J. KRISLER won a hat on the election but the other fellow hasn't paid up yet. More about this later.
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS presented their retiring comin.neier, II. E. Granger, with a handsome gold medal.
ONE hundred pennies. That's loot obtained by thieves who broke into gas station at Hohraan and Ogden streets this morning.
WIRE thieves get fourteen lengths of wire at spot four miles south of Hammond reports Postal Telegraph Co. to Hammond police.
ESTIONS
BEFORE IT New Chinese Bill of Rights May Free Nation From Aggression
SOLD MOONSHINE TO
BUY BABY'S MILK Then Everybody in the Court Room Shed Tears Until After She Had Left.
ESSION OF
LEGISLATURE NOT EXPECTED
BULLETIN r f NTERN ATION AL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 Oov.
Poor woman! Everybody in the Hammond court room pitied her. She was up for selling a quart of moonshine at ten cents a drink to buy milk for baby. Her name, Katie Shokos. her address, Gibson Subway. Poor woman' Judge Murray fched a properly judicial tear and discharged her. As she was leaving the court room sho dropped an object. Captain Buride picked it up. It was a bank book. It showed deposits of $l,S6o! Captain Bundo nearly swallowed the cigar he was smoking. The court was properly informed, but the court maintained its judicial dignity and the poor woman hastened to the bank to make another deposit.
HAMMOND is soon to have rubber gates at the R. R. crossings. This will greatly facilitate traffic and eliminate considerable breakage.
NO ret for the weary. After winning a hard city campaign. Republican Chairman Cylde Cleveland faces a county and state primary.
ATTY. JOSEPH CONROY is gradually regaining his strength following the operation for appendicitis at the Wesley hosplal last week.
MAYOR BROWN continues the "open door" policy at the city hall. There are no private conferences. The door of his office is always open.
Disarm Conference Close-Ups
Cray of Indiana, has made no definite plana for a special session of the Indiana legislature, ha announced here today In commenting upon reports that such a session was about to be called to provide for the construction of anew state reformatory. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. lnl., Nov. 17. There will lie no special session of the Indiana legislature to deal with removal of the state reformatory from Jeffersonvllle unless congress passes a re-apportionment bill. This opinion was expressed at the state house today, following publication of a Washington dispatch, stating that a special session Is "likely" to be held "in a few weeks" to broaden the act of the last legislature which provided
for removal of the reformatory to a site adjacent to the State Farm in Putnam county. This dispatch stated a special session probably would be necessitated by the fact that Colgate & Company are pressing for possesion of the reformatory property which they have purchased, and the fact that Putnam county rites stipulated as the future location of the reformatory have been found unsuitable, requiring revision of the act. Gov. McCray is in Washington today. He has conferred with representatives of the Colgate Co. and is to meet Representative Fairfield of Indiana in connection with the possibility of passage of a congressional reappointment act, but his chief mission in Washington wan not in con
nection with either of these matters. I Miss Adah Bush, seeretaiy to the gov- I
rnor. said today.
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SOULIAS & ROGERS, of the Hammond Candy Co., report a decided pickup in the candy business, especially since cold weather started.
ADVENTURES
Hammond 13 preparing to adopt the plan which Chicago is now using in dealing with the huilding situation. At the Chamber of Commerce luncheon today the chairman was authorized to appoint a committee which will get In touch with East Chicagei and Whiting and attempt to terure the co-operation in setting the machinery in motion. In Chicago a committee of leading citizen renresr:ntiriE: all carts of the
city was named to have complete charge irom -"arnmona. wnue cruising arouna of the building industry. This com- the country roads yesterday stopped tnlttee signs contracts with contrac-l t0 joo over two automobiles which had tors and also makes the negotiations' datT)age(1 ,n a coIIislon flve mies
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VERY LATEST
THE Parthenon orchestra, is the cause of a good deal of favorable comment. The cornetist Is especially clover. The organtst is a. gTea favorite,.
FRANK SORDER and Albert Murzyn, $35 Julia St., caught with liquor byDetectives Carlson and Warner are fined each $130. No Jail sentence;
THERE Is a sign on a building down on Fayette, street that rea1s: "Chickens dressed while you wait." 50c and up. The place seems to be busy.
tSPECIAL TO THE TIMES LA PORTE, IND., Nov. 17 Ed
wanger, the federal
Ber-
prohibiton agent
way the old strife between contractor
west of Michigan City. A short time
and employe will be avoided it is be- 1 later he came into LaPorte with Bert
lieved as the demands of both eIs-s must first be considered by the third party representing :tho public which foots the bills. Tte general committee is divided Into a number of sub-committees which handle different phases of the building industry. The plan was explained at the Chamber of Commerce by K J. Granger. A motion was made by A. M. Turner that Chairman Wilson appoint a committee of flve to be the nucleus of the larger organization which it is hoped win embrace Hammond, Whiting. East Chicago and even Gary. The motion was carried unanimously. Frank S. Betz who ha? Just returned from Europe was present at the meeting and accepted an invitation to be the speaker at next Thursday's luncheon. He will tell of condftions as he found them in Europe.
CHARGED WITH
TRAFFIC VIOLATION
Allen McArdle and Joseph Hanrahan, Chicago chauffeurs, operating two buses between Stat and Hohman streets and Sixty-third street, Chicago, spent last night in durance vile because they neglected to get bail
amounting to $150 each following the police station by Agent Berwanger.
their arrest on warrants sworn out by
THEY WORKED FAST
Pozywala, 4 PI Hendrick St., Michgan City, and Albert Kalzmiak, 1709 Ohio St., Michgan City. The two men had been driving a ford which crashed Into a Marmon car at the cross road. Berwanger liecided to search the Marmon for liquor. He found none so he turned to the remnants of the Ford and soon discovered a pint of moonshine. Pozywala atl Kalzniiak were intoxicated. It was learned that they were on their way home from a still. The place was raided later, but the still could not be found. Prosecutor Earle Rowley has a particular grudge against men who drive cars while intfixicated so when they were tried yesterday afternoon before
Judge Sowaher he insisted that they be soaked hard. Judge Kowasher agreed and gave them each $260 and 60 days on the penal farm. Joe Steininger, the Gary truck driver who was arrested several days ago near LaPorte with a truck load of beer was tried yesterday. He was fined $390 and
given a suspended jail sentence of six months. Prosecutor Rowley sprang a surprise when he insisted that the suspended sentence hang over the man for life instead of the term of the sentence as it is interpreted in many cities. Counsel for the defendant objected but Rowley produced a court decision in support of his contention and the judge wrote the sentence accordingly. The beer was destroyed in front of
L. J. GRANGER bought a dog guaranteed to hunt rabbits. He tried the hound out and It couldn't smell anything. It evidently has catarrh.
FURTHER evidence of the approach of winter. Girls are getting out the old goloshes and sewing on the buckles which were flapped off last winter.
HAMMOND citizen invents automobile with two steering wheels. The idea being that if driver is jolted out of seat he grabs the wheel and other end of seat.
LOWER the mail box to within easy reach and you will confer a great favor upon the mail carrier. This Is the plea contained In a letter to The Times from a mail carrier.
BY the way. S. Jinks, of the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co., seems to have been the only person who enjoyed the heavy fog of last evening. Jinks is from London.
REPRESENTATIVE OTTO FI FIELD, of Crown Point, candidate for county treasurer, was in Hammond today. Otto has an extensive acquaintance here and is very well liked.
DETECTIVE CHARLES CARLSON today disannexed Sweden and attached himself permanently to the United States- via. the naturalization route in Judge Crites' court.
BY MARLEN E. PEW STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE WA.-SHI.nU'I ON. Nov. 17. Foreign delegates are feeling easier today. They appear more at home. The secret sessions of the conference committees puts them into their natural habitat. The strain of saying everything "right out in meeting" after the fashion ol our soulful colored Methodist Episcopal brethren, ha.i been terrific in various sections of the gre;n table. It's new stuff. Premier Brian! expressed it as "diplomacy a la American." He proposes to try a bit ot it himself when he comes before the arms conference to discuss land armaments.
We know only In a general way, that the committee is working on the problems which strain relations between Japan and tho,( United States. All that is said and done behind these sound-proof walls is gravely Important, for war Is involved perhaps. War means your boy and treasure. To fettle those far eastern questions l the big business of this conference. Limitation of naval armament is a thrilling subject but what is accomp
lished here to bring order out of the chaos of China and to make the Japs feel easier within the limits of their Island sphere, is of breathe-less interest to the men who are called out to fight, and men, women and children who stay home to grieve and pay. Japan's problem is real to her. Her population increase has b"en so rapid that it has seemed that the island empire could nut hold and sustain the people. We learn here of a social phenomon on which may salve the problem. Japanese women are becoming more independent, are going
into Industry by thousands like worn- i en of Europe and America, and the ! birth rate in Japan is falling with ; amazing rapidity. If Japan can re- j strain imperialistic designs long enough, her o ver-evrowded condition
may solve itself. Washington is thronged with visi- ! tors. Of course, they cannot hope to j attend the plenary of the conference I but they may catch glimpses evf the ! world figures delegated here and they i
work at this business of glimpsing both day and night. The diplomats walk about the streets quite commonly and frequent hotel lobbies like ordinary guests, furnishing "eyefuls" for the folks from back home. bach, is lined $1.10 by Special Judge Murray for selling liquor. No Jail sentence. His son, Louis, ;o, is discharged. He lives at 272 Gostlin st.
(BII.I.ETIV.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BERLIN, Nov. IV. Tne allied reparations commission, which arrived here from Paris last week seeking first hand information, today notified the German government that the allies insist that January and February payments on Indemnity be paid as ordered. The payments amount to OuO.OOO.000 gold marks, which Germany insists she has been unable to find. (IUI.I.ETIV) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE AKRON, o., Nov. 1,. -.,iit persons were injured today when the Akron-Cleveland Motor Bus overturned near the county line at Beeksville. According to information here the steering gear br. ke and the bus plunged into a deep ditch beside the highway. IU"I.LETIX. INTERNATIONAL NEWS RVICE CUlf'AGO. N i v. I.". Or..- man was killed and several persons injured early today in a collision between two trains on the Oak Park elevated line at the Crawford avenue station. Dense fog is believed to have been responsible for the wreck. BULLETIN.) PARIS, Nov. 17. "The heroes of the world war will have died in vain if the hopes of all peoples are not realized at the Washington conference." Preside-nt Harding said in a message today replying to President Millerand's congratulating tiie American chief executive on opening of the armament limitation parley. BULLETIN.) PARIS, Nov. 17. France will not undertake discussions of any sort with the Russi.in government until guarantees have been given that all eltbt.3, including war damages owing to Prance from Russia, will be paid, the foreign office declared in a note sent to Great Britain today. (IltLLETIV.) MANILA, Nov. 17. Fifty-eight lives are believed to have been lost
as a result of the Inter-Island steamer Maria Luisa sinking in the China Sea just outside Manila Bay.
(BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LON'ION, Nov. 17. Cis.ei's reply to the government's ultimatum ordering the northern Ireland cabinet to accept the compromise propersals for Irish peace was delivered at Downing Street today. It was forwarded immediately to Premier Lloyd George at Bournemouth .
(Bl'lI.ETIVi INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 1 ,' . Indiana's war memorial plaza project will have no support at least for the present from Samuel Lewis Shank, mayor-elect of Indianapolis. In a speech at a theatre Shank declared he favors utilizing funds for a memorial hospital for disabled veterans and for the payment of a soldiers' bonus. (BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL HEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 17. J. H. Smith. 74. was buried beneath a pile of blazing corn when lightning set fire to his barn. His body with one leg and an arm broken, was found by neighbors. He is believed to have been killed by the lightning bolt. (BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 17. Edward Bawell. won an automobile in an American legion contest, only to have it demolished in a collision with another automob le as he drove it homeward. Mr. Gilbert Kauth, who was with him, was severely injured. (BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. Nov 17 Prohibition is winning cut. Roy A. Haynos of Washington, federal prohibition commissioner, declared in an address today before the national conference of the Methodist Episcopal church.
MAYOR BROWN urges a large attendance at the meeting tomorrow evening at the Chamber of Cnmmorce when plans for raising money for relief work will be decided upon.
T. D. Smith of the Hammond. East Chicago and Whiting Street Railways Company who alleged violation of state and city traffic laws on three counts. The men are charged with (1) violating law making compulsory registration of their motor vehicles, and display of registration plate on vehicle; (2) for failure to have vehicles equipped with mirror or reflector;
(3) for operating vehicle as chauffeur ! without obtaining license from state j
or displaying on clothing a badgeshowing possession of license to operate as chauffeur. Arraigned in court this morning the men refused to plead ana asked a continuance until next Wednesday when Ihey say they will be represented by counsel . The buses, now held by police, are said to be owned by the'Iteo Motor Company of Chicago.
These fellows worked so fast they almost worked themselves out of a job. George Bl-ockie, water superintendent, ha a gang of between 90 and 100 men employed in laying the 38 inch water main from the lake front to Huehn avenue via Calumet boule-vard. Yesterday the dirt flew high and fast. When the heavy fog from the Lake Georee moor-lands had almost obscured the workers as evening and the five o'clock whistle drew nearer George checked up on the fruits of the day's toil and found his men had laid 62 lengths of 12-foot water pipe. Then he found there wasn't any more pipe left. Fortunately t carload of the material not due for a couple of days, arrived this morning and the gang was tos. ins the sod again.
AUTO containing newly married couple whizzed through Hammond last
night bearing this legend in a sign on
BAD WRECK ON CHICAGO ELEVATED More Than Score of Passengers Injured In Worst Wreck on Road Known.
CHICAGO, Nov. 17 More than a
GEORGE BLOCKIE. water superln- j perhaps fatally, when an express train
tendent, has discontinue his subscrip
tion to the Chicago newspaper which carried the scurrilous1 pre-election Hammond story. He had been reading the paper for twenty years.
MISS LUCILLE CHAPMAN.
the rear: "M. and Dutch Just Mar-j Prade tots are slated to make V.it
neu.
Well, someone's "in dutch.'
JAMES WILKINSON, 191 Sheffield ave., arrested while at work at the Champion Auto Equipment Co., will be returned to Rock Island. 111., to face charges of wife desertion and non-support.
evening at two day festival at Lafajette school beginning tonight. It's a shop-around etunt. Visitors pick out own entertainment. I'ublic invited.
JAKE WIKER, on a ten day trip through southern Indiana, will visit his son at Richmond, following the close of
granu louge, l. j. w- i ill. umiitiiiii'uiis. j
wmch Jake is attending as a iiammonu delegate.
SO far Chas. Friedrlch hasn't divulged the name of the man mentioneel by
the telephone operator at the Indiana- j polis hotel. However, he says that a i
of the Chicago and Oak Park elevated railroad crashed into the rear of another express train here today. A dense fog which had settled over the city was blamed for the accident. The trains were crowded with people
Her i on their way to work. The crash luckol ; ily occurred at a station, where the
platform prevented the cars from toppling from the structure. The two expected to die are Patrick McGuire. a g-uard, who was imprisoned in wreckage for half an hour, and Walter Griffin, 13 years old, both of whose legs were crushed. The wreck was one of the worst in the history of the elevated road. The
TAKE A CHANCE tonight to attend the PLAY TOWN FESTIVAL AND CARNIVAL at LAFAYETTE SCHOOL. Don't JiUM H. U-17-1
WANTED A GOOD LINOTYPE OPERATOR; MUST BE RELIABLE. LAKE COUNTY TIMES. 11-15-2
IT is being said that one of Hammond's present aldermen went to Chicago and brought back the Journals which bore the pre-election slander and which were distributed free. You have four guesses.
HERE is a case where the fire came to the fire department. When the rubbish in a city dump cart caught fire the driver drove to the Central fire station where firemen extinguished the blaze with chemicals.
SOMEONE called Lockie Simpson's barber shop over the phone and asked to speak with one of the mechanics. When Lockie asked which one it developed that the fellow thought he was talking to a garage.
dozen anxious men have bought him ; communi ty in which the accident occigars and acted in a suspicious man- ; curred was thrown into great excitcner. j merit. Police patrols from four sta- : tions and ambulances sped to the scene.
The Injured were carried down lad-
SOMEON'E vouchsafes the information that: "Last evening the four Bloomberg sisters attended "Some Wild Oats" at the Orpheum. This is the first time in the history of the family that the four sisters were seen together at a public assembly."
SAYS WIFE OBJECTED TO SALVATION ARMY
March 3 and May 3 were the beginning and the end of the latest matri
monial venture of Charles Forsyth, 377 Truman ave., Hammond. His refusal to desert the Salvation Army is given as one of the reasons for the, separation between him aid his wife. Leafy. Forsyth says that Leafy criticized his mode of dress and objected to his keeping his children by a former marriage. She thought they should be sent to an Orphan's Home. Her objections to the Salvation Army were voiced even before they were married and she kept urging him to desert during the two months they lived together. lie refused. Charles adds that she would linger in bed late in the morning, fSVcing him to get his own breakfast and sometimes making him late to work. She would visit her home at Frankfort, Ind., and stay there two or three weeks at a time. Today he filed suit for divorce in the Hammond superior court through Attorneys Ibach, Gavit, Stinson & Ga-vit.
BRIAND WON'T ACT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, Nov. li. Premier Briand of France will not present any definite proposals for land disarmament to the conference in session here when he aldressos the next session, it was learned today. The French premier will content himself w-ith pre. senting the military needs of France and then letting thi conference itself shape definite pr jposals .
WASHINGTON, Not. 17 Public acceptance of the American disarmament proposals by Britain and Japan enables the Washington conference once more to be viewed as a whole. Some anxiety is being expressed here as to the course of far eastern discussions. Expectations of another spectacular statement here are not llxely to he fulfilled, all Indications being that that subject will be well explored in committee before being brought into public at all. The fact is that no party to the conference has a clear cut plan to propound though both America and Britain are credited with fairly definite Ideas on certain points. Matters on which action may he looked for are the following: A retrocession to China of territories at present held by Japan, Britain and France,
1 ders, others hobbling down the steps
of the station. Women, faces out and clothing torn, rushed to telephones to tell their families of the accident. An investigation was immediately started by company officials and the police.
JOHN DIETRICH, 16-year-old son of F. C. Dietrich, former Industrial high student, injured two years ago in a football game, will have to remain for another month in Augustine hospital. Chicago. His friends will be glad to know John's complete recovery is now assured.
THE law says that the city court shall be in session all day, but the Hammond court is closed by 11 o'clock. Night Police are worn out because they have
to stay up to appear in morning court. FRANK MANKOWSKI. soft drink j if the city court was held in the afproprietor. arrested by Detectives Ein- ternoon they would have a chance to get slie and Singer and Officer Kterry Rim- J their sleep.
SIX KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
JOHNSTOWN", PA., Nov. 17 Six persons including one woman, all of Johnstown, were instantly killed early today w hen an automobile In which they v. ere riding as passengers ran through a heavy steel railing on the Woodstale Brielge, in this city, anel dropped 40 feet to the ground below.
PROPHECY FULFILLED
And he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah II-IV. E. B. Cross, a retired minister of Hammond, says that Henry Ford's offer to buy the navies of the world and convert the steel into agricultural instruments 13 in line with the fulfillment of this prophecy.
BAZAAR AT LANSING
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) LA NS1 NG, Hi., Nov. 17. A bazaar will be hold at the Lansing public school, Friday evening. November 18, for the benefit of the Methodist church. Everybody Is welcome to attend.
BY GEORGE R. HOLMES STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE WASHING'ION, Nov. 17. Beti.nd the great bronze doors of the PanAmerican building, .symbol of peace and Justice among nations, and screened away from the gaze (if press and public, the powers today bgan settling" the fate of China. Be fore them was a new Chinese ""oiil of rights" ten general princixles, the practical application, of which would make the great celestial re.iuoiii of
the far east once more a nation freed from foreign greed and aggression.-
The fate- of China - which ts woven
so intricately into the whole fabric o the far eastern questions, is the most
delicate of all the questions whlcn the
powers will be called upon to settle here. It is the most prolific of dis
pute and dissension among the powers assembled and for this reason it is being taken up behind closed doors.
While the diplomats of the nine na
tions were thus engaged in seeking a solution of the treublesome issues
of the orient, the "committee of. ad
mirals" of the five major powers were
meeting privately to endeavor to
reach an agreement on the details of
Secretary of State Hughes program of naval limitation.
The policy of concurrent -considera
tion of naval limitation and the prob
lems of the far east, so strongly insisted upon by Secretary Hughes, Is being carried out. . .
Thus within six days of the initial
session, the conference has agre-.;d
upon the greatest program of naval
destruction and future regulation the world has ever seen, and has launch
ed fully into the most - difficult part
f the agenda. The progress already
attained has set a new mark of effi
ciency for internstlonal gatherings.
Publicly the diplomats engaged in
settling China's fate and the future policies of the orie-nt profess themselves optimistic of success. In private conversations they candidly
admit that If there is to be any failure
in the conference it will hinge ah.iut
the matters that are being taken up
today. Of all nations sitting about the table in the Pan-Americnn build
ing, only the United States has terri
torial concessions or "special privil
eges in ( hina s mainland. The
American policy Is constructed square
ly of the principle of the "open deor" laid down by Jeilin Hay, 22 years ago. It has for its object equal opportunity for all in the development of Chines" trade and resources and "special privileges" for none. China's "general principles" were before the diplomats today. They will be followed by a Chinese program of practical application of .those, principles to existing conditions. How far China's program is possible of execution is a matter for conjecture. The opposition is formidable. The Japanese have Shantung. " Mongolta an.l Manchuria the British Hong Kong and Wei-Pei-Wei. the French, Indo4 China, and the smaller powers hav interests commensurate with their size and influence. How soon there will be a public session at which will be discussal th questions of the far east was not forecast today by any of the diplomats.. It was regarded as certain that there will be no public exhibition of bickering until satisfactory progress baa been made in some specific points. Then it is probable that a plenary session will be arranged in order that the diplomats can give vedce publicly to their policies.
Rain and Colder-