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4HE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Buildine. North Ninth and Sailor ' Streets.

Entered at the Post Office at Richmond. Indiana, as Sec

ond ClaBS Mall Matter. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dlcpatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Negroes and White Responsibility The Christian Science Monitor editorially discusses race riots, arriving at the following conclusion : White responsibility for a just settlement of the Negro question in the United States is brought into broad relief by the race riots of the last fortnight in the national capital and in Chicago. That Washington, a city of diplomatists and world activities, the seat of the federal government, yet knowing the Negro as few great cities have the opportunity of knowing him, should, nevertheless, prove unable to prevent race differences from going to such extremities as have of late been a matter of record there, is an evidence of conditions that call for something other than superficial'- treatment with the police and the military. Armed patrols may keep order in the streets, but what is needed is that the heart of this situation shall be set right. Back of all the ill-feeling now existing between Negroes and whites in this country, it is probably fair to say, is the feeling of the Negroes that they have perfectly well-defined and incontrovertible rights under the federal constitution

that are not being recognized for Negroes as they are for white persons. The franchise right is involved, but not by a long way is it the principal right. The principal right, undoubtedly, is the right secured under such assurances as these: No state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. (Art XIV, Sec. 1 of Amendments). No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on indictment of a grand jury. (Art V. of Amendments.) In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy andpublic trial, by an Impartial jury of the state and district where the crime was comnitted, with witnesses for and against him, and with counsel to defend him. (Art. VI of Amendments.) The right assured by the sections of the constitution here summarized is nothing less than the right of an individual to justice under a popular government framed, as the preamble to the constitution expressly declares, to "establish justice," as well as to "insure domestic tranquillity" and to "promote the general welfare." And justice for a Negro, under the American form of government, can mean nothing less than that, if he maintains himself as Va decent, law-abiding citizen, he shall have such protection from the government as will assure him in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that if he does wrong he shall be punished and restrained in his wrongdoing by the processes of law, as provided by the government, under the constitution. It is not merely necessary that the whites agree to this, as already whites have stated it ; it is necessary that the whites stand back of these declarations and see them through. Thus a high order of citizenship is demanded.

For it is going to be made clear that crime is a matter of the individual, not of the mass. If an

individual Negro insults a write woman, it ia that individual who must be punished, not any man of black skin whom a mob takes a notion to go after. And if white men, singly or in groups, attack or injure Negroes, or undertake to punish even a criminal Negro without due process of law, then even the federal power itself should be called into play, if need be, to discover those indi

vidual white offenders and make them legally amenable. Mass judgments of individual guilt,

mob action to discover and punish culprits, are let us say it plainly too often tolerated with respect to Negroes when they would stir the

country if, similarly, and with similar persist

ence, applied to white men. It is time that such

injustice should be corrected. All Negroes are not bad, all whites are not good. It is time for this great community, the United States, to recognize this fact, and to bring out and make use of all that is good and true in each race by setting itself fairly and fearlessly to discover and to correct whatever is evil in each. The thing to be remembered, as a basis for thought and action in this matter, is that the true solution of the difficulty lies ki the discovery and correction of evil, no matter where or by whom expressed.

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

Hyphenism Again? A few nights ago a big gathering of GermanAmericans in Liederkranz hall, in New York, said and did things that should make the rest of us stop and think. Did those present rejoice in their American citizenship and in our victory in the war with the forces of cruelty and oppression ? , Not noticeably.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Louisa May Alcott was born in 18S2 and died In 1888. She was tha daughter of A. Bronson Alcott, the "Sage of Concord." Her early surroundings were of a highly Intellectual and literary character, and she naturally took to writing while still very young. In her sketch "Transcendental Oats" she describes in an amusing way the experience of a year at

Fruitlapds, where an attempt was

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made to establish an ideal commun

ity. Miss Alcott was obliged to be a wage earner to help out the family Income, ad so taught school, served as a governess and at times worked as a seamstress. Wearying of this, she wrote for the papers stories of a sensational nature, which were remunerative financially but unsatisfactory to her as a literary pursuit, and she abandoned this style of writing. In a Washington hospital she served as a nurse for a time, but the work was so hard that she failed in health, a'Yid when she recovere-1 she had to

L X $8W&$k&. travelled as attendant to an invalid, F and with her visited Europe, ft v ? " 'if After several attempts at literature. IT" M1ss Alcott wrote "Little Women." If . c which was. an immediate success, I t ' rearhlns- n Rnlo nf R7 (inn r.i.-.a in

three years. She wrote from the heart, and wove into the story incidents from the lives of herself and her three sisters at Concord. She afterward wrote "An Old Fashioned Girl," "Little Men," "Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag." "The Eight Cousins" and "Rose in Bloom," besides other stories and sketches. Miss Alcott had ambition and ability for a high grade of literary work: she made her success as a writer of children's stories. While her re

ceipts from some later work were large for those times, she declared that she was more proud of the first 832 she received than of the larger amounts later. One generation after another of young readers find pleasure in Miss Alcotfs cheery, healthful stories, and their vitality is indicated by their appearance on the movie screen.

Louisa May Alcott, 1S32-1SSS

FOLLOWS IN FAMOUS FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS

LITTLE WOMEN BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT Condensation by IMss Carolyn Wells

In their old-fashioned New England home the little women lived with Mrs. March, their brisk and cheery mother

always had a "can-I-help-you"

who always had a

look about her, and whom her four

This is what happened:

A speaker declared that Germans "must dojJ called

all in their power to bring the German spirit,! ,Pre"y m. the oldest, was is. and 1 i already showed domestic tastes and kultur and education to America and to the I talents, though she detested the drug-

ery of household work; and a little vain of her white hands, longed at heart to be a fine lady. Jo, 15, was tall, thin and coltish, and gloried in an unconcealed scorn of polite conventions. Beth, 13, was a loveable little thing, shy, fond of her dolls and devoted to music, which she tried hopefully to produce from the old,

jingling tinpan of a piano. Amy, 1,

world." Certainly this is no new idea. We were thoroughly fed up with this sort of talk during the period when England and France were battling desperately while America looked on. And how did the speaker propose to introduce kultur into America ? Why, by propaganda,

of course. Doesn t it seem remarkable that the , considered herself the flower of the

folly of this silly propaganda scheme hasn't been doraV1? bJ0?dev9fhe ad" J .... , , , - . , mitted that the trial ot her life was recognized before this time by its Old mends 7 her nose. For, when she was a baby,

A ino-o frrvm rinpinnnfi snpnVincr rmrlv in JO naa acciaenuy dropped ner into a

English and partly in German, said that Germans in America must do all in their power to support and strengthen the "dear old Fatherland." He was warmly applauded. Most of us have rejoiced in the belief that the war obliterated hyphenism. We had no better soldiers than most of our boys of German descent, many of whom won medals for bravery and wholehearted effort. Their elders, once we were in the war, seemed to yield at last in a desire to prove themselves 100 per cent American. Is hyphenism coming back? Are we to face the necessity of resisting a new infiltration of kultur? Are we to witness a revival of stealthy propaganda against England and France? Will hyphenism get into our national politics again to befoul and besmirch and degrade? Let us hope that our good Americans of German descent will answer for us, NO ! We have sampled kultur, and do not like it. Those who try to introduce it will fail, and get themselves disliked in the bargain. We're all going to be Americans now. We can sympathize with suffering, even in the lands of former enemies, but we've got to stick together for American spirit and American institutions.

Dinner Stories

Young C. C. Wo. Young C. C. Wu. son of the former ambassador from China to the United States, Wu Tins Fang, ia apparently following the profeaaion of hia father. He is a member of a delegation from China which im now in Washington protesting against the Shan tune settlement.

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evening

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was the name of the little brown An optimist is one who, having lost house that John Brooke had prepared ni3 euspenders. still believes his dig

nity will be upheld. Arthur H. Rose.

THE CROWD.

What Other Editors Say

SOME MYSTERIES OF PRICE MAKING From the Chicago News. TN. its handling of the situation in the meat packing industry the federal trade commission cannot be said

to have reflected credit on itself or on tho imperfectly understood act it is supposed to enforce. In the rolled fteel case tho commission has an exceptional opportunity of demonstrating the utility of the law which called it into being, and the possibility of determining a complex question without prejudice or unfairness to any of tho parties concerned. This latter case appears unique to the average reader, but experts initiated into the mysteries of price making affirm that it is, on tho contrary, typical. A decision duly reached in tho controversy will bear directly or indirectly on many other important products of corporate industry. This is why Chairman E. H. Gary of the United States Steel corporation has pronounced the caso "the biggest lawsuit ever tried in this country." The essential issue is this: Has a corporation or combination that controls many plants situated in several places the legal right to make one place a "basing point" for purposes of price fixing, ignoring differences in tho cost of production to the detriment of consumers who do not actually buy in or order from that place? Is it possible, in other words, to establish a uniform price in a given case and require every one to pay it, though the

cost of production varies with the place, the proximity to raw materials, the labor situation and transportation facilities? Many fabricators, or consumers, of steel complain that various eteel makers discriminate against the Chi

cago district on rolled steel produced at Gary by charging them prices baaed on the cost of production at Pittsburgh, for many years the basing point for that particular commodity. Sheel ia made more cheaply at Gary than at Pittsburgh, yet to buy at Gary is to reap no advantage, for the purchaser has to pay the Pittsburgh price plus a freight rate of $5.40 a ton, even though the shipment Is made at Gary. The practice 1 old, but the law against nniform trading and Industrial discrimination Is relatively new. To this law the consumers of rolled steel now appeal. It is said that the decision may revolutionize price making. Perhaps the time has come for such a revolution. The trade commission has a large Job on Its hands. It will have to conduct a thorough Inquiry and hear both .

sides. It has called for all the relevant facts, figures

and trade customs. It claims to have a perfectly open mind on the unfamiliar subject. Certainly a controversy j

of this sort should be approached with an open mind and a determination to master the whole question.

WAGES AND LIVING The alternative presented President Wilson by the head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is indicative of a wiser labor attitude toward wages and living. Rising living costs, the engineers' statement sets out, oblige the men to ask for an increase in wages, but they are of the opinion that "the true remedy for the situation and the one that will result in lifting the burden under which the whole people are struggling is for the government to take some adequate measures to reduce the cost of the necessaries of life to a figure that the present wages and income of the people wiU meet." In short, the men ask for higher wages, or preferably a reduction in living costs that will increase purchasing power of tho present wages. In times past labor bodies have not shown so thor

ough an understanding that an increase in wages does not settle the problems of labor. They have fought long and bitterly for wage advances as if nothing else mattered. After they got them they soon found themselves worse off than before because the cost of living, partly due to the generally increased -wages, had advanced more rapidly than wages. The custom has been to measure the prosperity of labor in terms of wages whereas a true

estimate can only be made by comparing the standard of living. With low prices a $10 a week wage may mean greater prosperity than $25 a week at the present time. Advancing the wages of trainmen will not improve their condition if nothing is done to stop the steadily upward price trend. The engineers are alert enough to understand what appears often to be misunderstood. Public opinion will not unanimously support a demand for higher wages by trainmen who are already. In relation to teachers, clerks and other workers, highly paid. It will support, and to the limit, any effort of the trainmen to bring down the cost of living. Higher railroad wages mean higher rates, higher prices, and would bring only temporary relief to relatively few, A reduction In living costs would better the lot of every man, woman and child in the United States.

coal hod and permanently flattened that feature, and though poor Amy slept with a patent clothespin pinching it, she couldn't attain the Grecian effect so much desired. Father March was an army chaplain in the Civil war, and in his absence Jo declared herself to be the man of the family. To add to their income, she went every day to read to Aunt March, a peppery old lady; and Meg, too, earned a small salary as daily nursery governess to a neighbor's children. In the big house next door to the Marches lived a rich old gentleman, Mr. Laurence, and his grandson, a jolly, chummy boy called Laurie. Though awe-inspiring at first, Mr. Laurence proved both kindly and generous, and even timid Beth mustered up courage to go over to the "Palace Beautiful,"

at twilight and play softly on the grand piano there. But, as she confessed to her mother, when she began she was so frightened that her feet chattered on the floor! The night Laurie took the other two girls to the theatre, Amy, though not invited, insisted on going too. Jo crossly declared she wouldn't go if Amy did, and furiously scolding her little f.ister, she slammed the door and went off, as Amy called out: "You'll be sorry for this, Jo. March! See if you ain't!" The child made good her threat by burning a prec;ous book which Jo had written, and on which she had spent three years of hard work. There was a terrible fracas, and though at her mother's bidding, Amy made contrite apology. Jo refused to be pacified. It was only when poor Amy was nearly drowned by falling through the ice that conscience-stricken Jo forgave her sister and learned a much-needed lesson in self-control.

Meg, too, learned a salutary lesson, when she went to visit some friends and had her first taste of 'Vanity Fair." Her sisters gladly lent her all their best things, and as she said to Jo: "You're a dear to lend me your gloves! I feel so rich and elegant with two new pairs and the old ones cleaned up for common!" Yet she soon saw that her wardrobe was sad

ly inadequate to the environment in ! or

wnich she found herself. Whereupon the rich friends lent her some of their own finery; and, after laughingly applying paint and powder, they laced her into a sky-blue silk dress, so low that modest Meg blushed at herself in the mirror, and Laurie, who was at the party, openly expressed his surprised disapproval. Chagrin and remorse followed, and it was not until after her confession to Marmee, that Meg realized the trumpery value of fashionable rivalry and the real worth of simplicity and contentment. All of the four girls had leanings toward a life of luxury and ease, and

wnen Airs. March smilingly proposed

that they try a whole week of "all play and no work," they agreed eager, ly. But the experiment was a miserable failure; and after mortifying' scenes at a company luncheon, a canary bird dead from neglect, several slight illnesses and lost tempers, the girls decided that lounging and larking didn't pay. Now John Brooke, the tutor of Laurie, was a secret admirer of pretty Meg. Discovering this, the mischievous boy wrote Meg a passtionate love letter, purporting to be from Brooke. This prank caused a terrible upset in both houses, but later on Brooke put the momentous question, and Meg meekly whispered. "Yes, John." and hid her face on his waistcoat. Jo, blundering In, was transfixed with astonishment and dismay, and exclaimed, "Oh, do somebody oome quick! John Brooke Is acting dread foUy, and Meg likes It!" At Christmas, Father March came home from the war, and great celebration was made. The neighbors from the Laurence house were invited, and there never was such a Christmas dinner as they had that day!

Later came the first break In their

for his bride, and it was a tiny affair

wun a lawn in front about as big as a pocket handkerchief! The wedding, beneath the June roses, was a simple homey one, and the bridal journey was only the walk from the March home to th dear little new house. "I'm too happy to care what anyone says I'm going to have my wedding just as I want it!" Meg had declared; and so, leaning on her husband's arm, her hands full of flowers, she went away, saying, "Thank you all for my happy wedding day. Good-by, good-by!" Jo developed into a writer of sensational stories. This, however, was because she found a profitable market for such work, and she wanted the money for herself and the others. For little Beth was ailing, and a summer stay at the seashore might, they all hoped, bring back the roses to her cheeks. But it didn't, and after a time the dark days came when gentle Beth, like a tired but trustful child, clung to the hands that had led her all through life, as her father and mother guided her tenderly through the Valley of the Shadow and gave her up to God. Then came a day when Laurie was invited to the Dovecote to see Meg's new baby. Jo appeared, a proud aunt, bearing a bundle on a pillow. "Shut your eyes and hold out your arms,"

she ordered, and Laurie, obeying, opened his eyes again," to see two babies! "Twins, by Jupiter!" he cried; "take 'em, quick, somebody! I'm going to laugh, and I shall drop 'em!" Laurie had loved Jo for years, but Jo, though truly sorry, couldn't respond. As she said, "It's impossible for people to make themselves love other people if they don't!" And so, after a time, Laurie decided that Amy was the only woman in the world who

could nil Jo s place and make him happy. And the two were very happy together. Amy taking great pride in her handsome husband. "Don't laugh," she said to him, "but your nose is such a comfort to me!" and 6he caressed the well-cut feature with artistic satisfaction. Jo found her fate in an elderly professor, wise and kind, but too poor

to tninK or marriage. For a year the

A FACE IN

To meet And part Is not so severe As having to part Without meeting. C. Blythe Sherwood.

There had been a quarreL everybody could see that the minute they came into the car. The woman sat with rigid Jaw, her hands folded forbiddingly over her stomach. The man scrooched down on his spine and glowered at the signs across the aisle. The car wondered. Then there came a dead silence as the car halted to let off a passenger. Into the silence came the woman's voice: "If It wasn't for me you'd be the bigest fool in San Francisco!" Then for the first time the man grinned, and the others grinned with him. A f"uaVr attended the wedding of a young lawyer of his acquaintance, anu on being presented to the bride, whom he had- never seen before, he surveyed the young woman critically and remarked: "William, I think thy bride has shown more Judgment in her choice than thee has " --

That seemed rather a back-handed comnllment for the bride until the old Quaker added: "Because It takes some penetration to discover thy

good qualities; but hers can be seen

at a glance." At a church conference a speaker began a tirade against the universities and education, expressing thankfulness that he had never been corrupted by contact with a college. After proceeding for a few minutes the bishop, who was In the chair, interrupted with the question: "Do I understand that Mr.Dobson is thankful for his Ignorance?" "Well, yes," was the answer; "you can put it that way if you like." "Well, all I have to say," said th prelate In sweet and musical tones "all I have to say Is that he has much to be thankful for."

Masonic Calendar

The people of London are blawsted discouraged with their telephone service, according to a recent cable. One business man became so jolly well angry that "he took his pistol out of his pocket and shot the instrument to bits." What would those Londoners do if they had our telephones to contend with? They would not jolly well take pistols out of their pockets and shoot the blawsted machines to bits, but would pull them off the desks and throw them out the bally, bloomln horffice windows. That's what we do, so 'elp us. No matter what they do In London, we have got 'em skinned here by several degrees.

GET OUT FROM UNDER, BILL! A horse died on Bill Vandermuth last Sunday. Mercyville (Iowa) Banner, The Little Old World As It Is. Miss Anna Jarvis started "Mothers'

Day"; a bachelor invented the safety pin, and we daresay that some of our college yells were conceived by deafmutes. A little old world full of incongruities. Buffalo News.

Monday, Aug. 4. Richmond Commandery No. 8, K. T. Stated conclave followed by work In the order of the Red Cross and Knights ot Malta degrees. Tuesday, Aug. 5 Richmond lodge. No. 196 F. & A. M., stated meeting. N. J. Hass, W. M.

Wednesday, Aug. 6 Webb lodge.

No. 24 F. & A. M., called meeting: work in the Master Mason degree, be

ginning at 6:30. Clarence W. Foreman, W. M. Thursday, Aug. 7 Wayne Council. No. 10. R. & S. M. Stated assembly. Friday, Aug. 8 King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M., stated convocation.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

Wayne County Man Escapes From Prison MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., August 4. Ross Miller, sentenced from Richmond to two to twenty-one years, and Elmer Eddens, sentenced from Gibson county to one to three years, escaned from the prison farm at New Carlisle Wedthe prison farm at New Carlisle. Seven men escaped there during July. Road Law Test Suit Has No Effect in County

The Rev. S. W

to be retailed as pastor of the First

Christian church

Edward Dye, resigned street car commissioner, was presented with a gold watch by city officials.

Outcome of the suit filed recently in Indianapolis courts to test the constitutionality of the new county unit road law, will have no effect on the roads of Wayne county, acording to W. O. Jones, county highway superintendent. There are no roads in the countv

Trawn was voted ! built under this law, although it

would have affected the construction of the Hagerstown pike, Jones said Saturday. All county roads are either built under the three mile road law, or by the state highway board.

Lots in Beallview addition were

pair worked and waited and hoped and i so,d for the Purpose of raising a bon-

mveu, ana men Aunt .Aiarcn died and i us iui uhur me .Nuuunai

left to Jo her fine old country place.

Here Jo and her professor set up their home, and established a boys' school, which became a great success. Jo lived a-very happy life, and as the years went on, two little lads of her own came to increase her happiness. Amy, too, had a dear child named Beth, but she was a frail little creature and the dread of losing her was the shadow over Amy's sunshine. But the little women and all their dear ones formed a happy, united family, of whom Jo truly wrote: Lives whose brave music long shall ring Like a spirit-stirring strain. Copyright. 1919. bv Post Puhliv,ir,

i Company (The Boston Post). All

rights reserved. Printed by permission

Automatic Tool company or Dayton to Richmond. -

Members of the Wayne county Medical society and their families picnicked in the Glen.

The engagement of Mabel Ford and Harry Karns was announced.

The partnership of Nicholson and brother was dissolved and a corporation was formed.

EDWARD KEELEY DIES

fBv Associated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Edward 8. Keeley, assistant treasurer of the

United States sugar equalization card.

ASKS BRITISH TO REMAIN

' (By Associated Pris5 PARIS, Aug. 4. Nicholas Tschaikovsky, president of the provisional government of North Russia, left yes-. terday for London. He will endeavor to induce the British government not to withdraw Its troops from Archangel.

SWISS WORKERS STRIKE

fFy Associated Press ZURICH, Switzerland, August 4. The labor executive committee of 01ten. Canton of Soleure, has proclaimed a general strike.

or. and arrangement with. Little, formerly vice nreBident In rhare-A of Brown & Co., authorized publishers. ! ,7 Y, Ti X- i,, charge of

(Published by special arran lament

with th McClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights reserved.) "Richard Carvel." by Winston Churchill, as condensed by the Hon. David I. Walsh, ex-Governor of Massachusetts and United States Senator, will be printed tomorrow.

The queen of Roumania has arrangeed for the publication of a book of fairy tales.

traffic ot the Chicago, Milwaukee and

St. Paul railway, died here.

LET SHIP CONTRACT

fny Associated Pres WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. Secretary Daniels announced that a contract for the building of battleship NC-54 to be named the Massachusetts, had been awarded to the Fore River Shipbuilding corporation, Quincy, Mass.

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK

WAKE UP ALIVEi A day usually ends in about the same way that it starts. If you start it. in good humor, with lots of zest and the determination to put something through that is worth while, then you are pretty sure of finishing up better than you began. The trouble is, however, that so many people wake up only half alive. Their bodies are drugged with tiredness and their minds with inactivity and poisoned thoughts. It makes all the difference in the world whether you wake up alive or not. A rested body, quieted nerves and a determined spirit, plus 10 minutes of exercise, mean that you who are wise enough to follow this plan, are very much alive when you wake up with all the faculties of your mind alert and ready for the fray. It always works. Go to sleep happy and you are almost sure to wake up happy. And the man who wakes up happy is always alive and finely equipped for whatever turns up. How about It? Do you wake up alive? If you do not there are reasons, and the most profitable hunt that you can enter into is to find these reasons. Then correct them and start to live. Care for the thoughts you think, the things you eat and drink, and the manner In which you use the mechanism of your body, and the world is going to be a good world to live In when you wake up.

PROTESTS TO SENATE AGAINST JAP THEFT

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Dr. H. K. Kong. Dr. H. K. Kung. special Chinese delegate to the peace conference. Is now in Washington, where he ia placing before United States senators the case of China against Japan in regard to Shantung. Dr. Kung is accompanied by Dr. Hsu. They carried the protest of the Chinese people to their delegates at the peace conference against the granting of Japan's demands on China.