Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 29, 1921, Page 2

SIS . or three semi-disconsolate strangers, THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ~ 7 ™7 SEEMINGLY, ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH HAVE THEIR REPRESENTATIVES THERE. 8 1 ' ¥ SO £ = LOGINGS ARE HARD TO FIND Plcturesque Garb, Strange Uniforms and Many For;lan Tongues Make the Cit interesting — Chinese Prove THpmselves Clover Linguists. 7 By EDWARD B. CLARK. ;- Washington.—Washington now is in the largest sense ‘the capital city of the World. In truth, Washfngton has ‘Peen the cosmopolitan ceuter of things ever since the World war began. Cer- tainly the eyes of all the peoples of the earth ara on this Potomac town today. 5 Washington resldents do' not know thelr eity. It is changed in the pro- ierbial twinkling of an eye from an oyergrown country village to a place restless with movement and crowded with activities, Is Washington ever to return to normalcy? Perhaps so, and perhaps not; but there are those In this town who hope that such may be the case. . “TOnce on a time, and a time:not so loug ago, one at certaln £easons could go into the lobby of the great- est hotel in this city and find, say, two swho were wondering how they hap- pened to 1and In a desert. 'There were ®ensons of the year mot long ago when the hotels in this town shut off from use whole floors of thelr build- ings and discharged fully one-half the membera of their staff of employees. Does anything of thar. kind bappen in Washington téday? It does not, and the condition, while not in the re- mote past, already is forgotten. A wvisitor to this town is lucky today if he can And a place to lay his head, and luckler if he [s not compelled to gcowl at the charge for his bed and joard, which he finds set down upon the bill which is presented to him. Washington hotel men, boarding house women -and . .apartment house owners are not called upon frequently to speed the parting guest, Everyone hangs ou to what he has in the way of | ,n habitation, and counts himselt for- tunate. if the roof does not leak and there 1s not an all-night jazz band do- ing 'business next door. i Peoples of the World There. ! This is & picturesque place today, wndfin a way, to American eyes, it is u sort of a grotesque place. The East #nd . the West and the middle lands have met here. One sees strange civ- Mllan garb and strange uniforms. Men und women, however, seem to be pret- ty near alike the world over, In a Human npature way, for the visitors from here, there and the other place are pleasant-spoken folk, genial-faced and us gratetul for courtesies'as cats for Agsi "TAre_the peoples of the world here? Go for your answer into any one of' ten hotels. You will hear French ag the dominant language In one, Japap- €se In another, Italian in another. Slo- ~vak in another, and other languages in others. The Washington monu- ment, albelt it is a completed struc- ture, might well stand today for the Tower of Babel Interpreters are here In consider- able numbers. Tfé trouble with some few of the interpreters g they do not know how to “interp.” Some of them learned their English fn the schools of thelr native land, and as there is a vast difference between a school- tanght language and- & community- taught language, the difficulties of some of the interpreters may be un- derstood. They are willing gentlemen, but:there are frequent Americanisms which are beyond the scopé of thelr understandings and beyond the trick of thelir tongues, Chinese Know. “American” Tongue. The Chinese always have been noted as good caplers. It is said that their artisaus can reproduce anythlng on earth, when ouce it 1s presehted to them for study, The old school-book story of the English sailor who took hig patched trousers to a Chinese tailor and asked him to make him a new pair, is of course famillar. The Chinese tailor reproduced the trousers, patches and all. 8o it is, perhapd, with Epglish. The student Chinese seem to be able to reproduce thes English language more perfectly (han it les within the pow- er bf the European to do. "The Chi- best’ who are here know American | glafig as they know the language of the | American savant. They can talk “Egst side” ‘or “Harvard” at wil They are 8 wonderful lot. Hnglish and French are the lan- gu&ges of _.the conference. It (s luch' that French was included, for ond or two of the great Frenchmen | who! are here do not know “Yes” or #No" In English. Of course, all the | proceedings of the conferenceeventu- | aliy will be translated into almost ev- | ery tongue on earth, but first they will go into English and then into French. | It 4s said that the diplomacy of this| conference will not be that king of di- plomacy which uses language to con- ‘ceal thoughts, Popular Support Asked. It is not a “presumption of knowl- edge”. to say that the Amerlcan ad- ministration and the American congress have 8 heart desire for an_intelligent, | Interested and gupporting pwbite ‘sentl- | ment for the conference on the Ilimlta- tion of armament which now has, be- gun its sessions, Today men of many-nations are sit- ting down together in an attempt to right the world. Milllons of the earth’s people are watching the pro- ceedings and hoping for relief from in- tolerable burdens. The administra- tion is asking for the support of all Americans for the endeavor which it {nitlated. The United States already has promised, if the others agree to follow sult, to scrap many warships. . This is the time of the beginning of what not at all lightly may be callad a “showdown” on wir and on<armds ments. ' Every conferee plenipoten- tlary knows that thie people of his country want success to come out of the lnbor that has just started in this Capital city. It will not be long before the Amer- ican people, watching the progress of [ tbe conference, will be able to deter- ). 1wine whether the rulers and the diplo- mats and the “professional” officials of the countries of the world desire suc- cess, or hope that the old order which gave to them the opportunity, but not the right, to shape natlonal destinles shall prevail. In articles which have attempted to give the Washington view of the vari- ous ‘contending elements which enter into the work In hand, the extreme| pacifists, the dullards who won’t un- derstand, and the militarists all have been described after their kind. Washington belleves today that some of the opponents of success will try to influence the conferees this way or that way and will resort to all kinds of technlcal and delaying dodge: This Shows the Exact Size Beautiful Volume Just as it Looks— PERCY W. LONG, A. M., Ph. D. Harvard University . This is more than a dictionary, for | Bvery page alive—every line up-to- Money Back If Not Satisfied! NEW AND AUTHORITATIVE | Acknowledged authorities from the great seats of learning have been brought together to make this dictionary an absolute author- jty—with ALL the NEW words and the correct pronunciations. No American Suspicion of Japan. " It is going to be something of an American diplomatic task to keep the| wvarlous conferees in the straight path to the main point, “the limitation ot armament.” It can be said, of course, | With a certain definiteness, that If some | problems: are solved satisfactorily; ai ‘limitation’quickly can be put upon.the ' ‘armaents of the world, The_prickly pear cactus grows in the path leading ‘throggh“the chaparral , intricacies of dlplomacy as, it affects the-Far East, Tn this conpection it can be said to- day, ‘that, the American governiment Fgemingly- entertains-ng: suspicion . of the ‘good faltli of ‘thé' Japanese, who are naturally most concerned in the: methods of the solution of Oriental problems. It remains for the’ Japanese' to show as the conference proceeds, whether or not the faith of the Amer- fean State department Is misplaced. There scems to be a recognition in ‘Wasington of the need of Japan for space somewhere for her surplus popu- | ‘lation and for enlarged trade condi- tions which will make her people pros- perous. Military and Naval Men Agree. There are advisers in military and naval matters for each country’s body of conferees. Thus far in the pre- liminaries there has not come from a single soldier or sailor an intimation ot a desire that present conditions in} armaments shall continue. American | naval men seem to be willing to cut; armaments, and so do American army men, although they know of the pos- sibility of a loss of the means of lve- lihood for many of their brethren trained to arms. The American saflors HIGHEST RANKING AMERICAN SC JOHNC. ROLFE, Ph. it contal ! tain things to be set forth by the rep- l.in hear Universiy of Pennsylvania . ; ns twenty-two-supplémentary - dictionaries, placing thousands_of new words wil date. Full of information needed daily. Beautiful EiluStra&iQns i D°8‘ ture identification he would not be Ty~ ing there as the representative not only ‘of the unknown dead, but of all the living, And yet there are other fathers and mothers who, not realizing that the government made absolutely I certain. that the unknown forever wns | to remain-unknown, are writing letters |'to the authorities in Washington today. {asking for’ the measurements of the body . of the dead, unknown, asking the color ‘of his hair, his complexion and whether ‘there were such and such+ sears upon his body. ey ' # loply goes to show how hope sernal in the breast of the ost one’s family, and of ;course it §od@8*fo show also that those jwho seek’ such information 3% not {know, and do not allow themselves to ‘know, that the unknown must, because (of the very circumstances in the Case, {forever remain unknown. ced in n proposd many of -théir ships. What has been said, here of Amwerl- can military men applies equally strongly to the representatives of ‘the larmed 'services of other countries. They seem to be looking at the whole ‘matter unselfishly, and ns. truth gen- lerally s to_be found with the unl- ‘form, there ‘Is. litfle reason to doubt the sincerity of the proféssional sol- ‘dlerd gnd; gailors.” by 1t ‘Wppears ‘foday as If there willbe plentys pf. publ for the proceedings ‘of the eonferente.* There will be exce- wtlve séssions, ,of course, lm\we suel AP sessiéng are necessary. ThePe are cert’ jmembers 0 serap i .resentatives of each nation which they probably do not wish:to-get forth pub- Itely ‘because; of *possible * misunder- standings. The American delegation, ‘however, will know and understand, ‘and the American delegation is made jup’ of men who are sympathetic with ‘the' cduse in hand ‘and who ‘can bé ‘depended upon to guard the interests ,of the American people [ S One Cause for: Argument. HSome men’ keep on arguing,” said| Jud Tuokins, “not because tliey aref sure, they're right, but because they hate to end an interesting conversas tion.” ' | 'Unknown Must Be Always Unknown. There probably is not in the United States a father or mother whose son was reported among the missing in the World war, and of whom nothing been heard, ‘who does not hope 1l hope of seeing the loved | one alive again gone, that the unknown soldier now resting in Arlington ceme- tery is the household son who went forth to _ l There fatliers and nothers in Easy to Catch House Mica.’ House mice have a habit of follow= ing the walls of & room as they run about, and a trap placed behind a table leg or small object where mice naturally run need not be baited, Fine Linen Found on Mummies. 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