Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1921, Page 31

EDITORIAL. PAGE NATIONAL PROBLEMS SPECIAL CABLE NEWS EDITORIAL SECTION Vovks Part 2—20 Pages COUNCILS AT MARION PLEASE LEGISLATORS Satisfied There Will Be Harmony Betweeil " Capitol Hill and the White House in Next Administration. . BY WILL P. KENNEDY. ITH the conferences at Marion ended, which were called by President-elect Harding to guide him in the selection of his cabinet and de- termining the policies of his admin- istration on vital issues, Congress as representing the people of the coun- try is pretty well satisfied that dur- ing the Harding regime it is to be a government not only with the consent of the governed, but with the best counsel of the governed. The leaders in Congress who have been in conference with Mr. Harding have come back thoroughly convinced that during the next four years the executive and legislative branches of the government are to co-operate as never before in the nation's history in the solution of the most gigantic problems that ever engaged the minds of the nation's elected representa- tives. These counselors include such men as Senators Smoot, who advised re- garding appropriations and reorgani- zation of government establishments; New, who is Mr. Harding's next friend, and ealked about general poli- cies; Knox, who specialized on for- eign relations; Curtis, appropriations; ‘Wadsworth, on military affairs and reorganization; House Leader Mon- dell, on House co-operation and re- garding the special session, and a general economy program; Chairman Good of the appropriations and budget committees, on the economy program and especially budget legislation; Repre- sentative Kahn, on Pacific coast prob- lems; Representatives Anthony and Tilson, on military appropriations and policy; Representatives .Fordney, Longworth, and Bachrach, on tariff problems. They are unanimous in saying that Mr. Harding invites and ‘welcomes ‘advice, is seeking the best advice he can get, and shows a dis- position to act not on each bit of ad- vice, ‘but on what seems best with all the facts and opinion before him. Harding s Good Listener. “I_found Harding a good listener,” says House Leader Mondeli, and that expresses the consensus of opinfon that he is eager to listén fo the Tep- resengatives of the people. An:illus- tration of how Mr. Harding is search- ing out what seems the best gdvice is shown in his invitation to Reprégent- ative J. Q. Tilson of Con: 3 is not now a member of $he: affairs committee, and who never was. chairman, but who Is candidered to be the best informed civilian on mili- tary matters. Tilson has been a stu- dent of the subject for twenty years, he has seen service in the Spanish- American war and on the Mexican border, he has an intimate knowledge of the manufacture of munitions and during the war gave a series of talks to his colleagues on various phases of national defense and munitions. Confidence that the big problems facing the next administration will be solved by common council between Mr. Harding and Congress is felt gen- erally on Capitol Hill. Those who ! men répresent committees from which will come important legislation. No Vision of Dominstion. It is emphasized that Mr. Harding, having served in the Sedate, knows the legislative angle, and will suf. fer no embarrassment in the neces sary co-operation where‘each depart- ment must be permitted to function in accordance with the constitutional power and duty of each.’ The leaders in Congress are satisfied’ that Mr. Harding has no vision” toward domi nating legislation. He may,-and most | likely will, dominate legislation, they say, but it will not be by dictation— @ trait absolutely foreign to him—| but by leadership, in, which he di- rects through helpful co-operation.. Mr. Harding will ‘come to ‘the presi- dency with views molded in the school of practical legisiation. He will not be embarrassed by obliga- tions to carry out a theoretical pro- gram which never. got beyond the stage of dialectics. Perhaps'no prede- cessor was better qualified from this angle to insure a sane program of legislation. His talent for absorbing counsel will make him the real leader of the country, the congressional visitors say, including the legislative pro- gram. This fact is already apparent, and will become more and more source of presidential popularity, the congressional council says, as his tal- ent for co-operation becomes better understood. Under Mr. Harding's leadefship the country will have thé advantage of the very best talent within its boun- daries. Consultation will be the first step; decision the last. Mr. Harding will invoke the first and direct the last. This is the resultant of the judgment of leaders on the Marion conferences. HOG ISLAND YARD SENDS LAST SHIP FOR FINAL RUN PHILADELPHIA, January 22.— Hog Island, once. the - world's greatest shipyrd, teday sent “its. last vessel, the “Army 'transport Atsne, on & trial run off the Dela- ware caped; dfd with its defivgey. I” o' the Emergency Rieot 3 at tiom next Thursday shipbuilding’. the big plnt will cease. Barly next month 'the American Intern: tional - Shipbuilding Corporation ~will " turn’ the yard over to the United States Shipping Board. © * ‘when Aboard © the, . Aisne sailed down® were men prowineht In business and governmentsl affairs in this city, Washington w York and 1 /muibér of Army of- ficers. A ety put through various 1 tests the vessel will return to the yard tomorrow and five days later will be turned over to the fleet corporation. The Aisne is 448 feet long, with a displace- ment of 13,460 tons. Her contract speed is fifteen knots an hour. Created as a war emergency, Hog Island at the peak of its opera- tions employed more than 36,000 WASHINGTON, D. -C, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1%L Cuba, Mexico and Japan to Present Big IP rOblemS 3 for the ,NeW AdminiStration Part Taken in the Government of Haiti BY N. 0. MESSENGER. UBA, Mexico and Japan will present in- ternational problems to the new admin- istration immediately upon its assum- ing office, and they may be of such an exigent character as to overshadow at the out- set the great question of the league of nations, international associations, disarmament and other so-called paramount issues. Deferment of the last-named policies for later considera- tion would be quite agreeable to many senators. The United Statas will be called upon to deal with Cuba in the capacity of guardianship. Under the Platt amendment the responsibili- ties of this nation in the premises are three- fold: First, to protect this country against the eftects which would follow chaos, anarchy or other disaster to Cuba through her own internal troubles; second, to assist Cuba to maintdin her independence as a nation; third, to guard against conditions which would warrant any foreign power intervening in Cuban affairs in any Way. If the reports coming out of Cuba are true | that the present situation holds the germs of a movement which might turn the control of the island over to non-Caucasian blood, a new ele- ment of gravity is recognized as possibly af- fecting domestic affairs in the United States. In many respects, political and, economical, . the present.day situation in Cuba is said to be 2s menacing and as consequential to the United States as that which existed in 1898 and prior to the Spanish-American conflict which resulted in the freeing of Cuba from the domination of Spain and put her upon her feet to toddle to- ward perpetual irfiependence. * ¥ % X At present the public gets but occasional glimpses of Cuba’s predicament and troubles, and public interest generally cannot be said to be aroused. In official circles, and in senatorial quarters, however, watchful and anxious eyes are being turned toward Cuba. Affairs are rapidly drawing to a head there, threatening to put Cuba suddenly on all the front pages some day, and foremost in the attention of the gov- ernment and Congress of the United States. The practical question which it is feared may be ultimately presented might be of interven- tion, and the scope and character of it. Such a finality, it Is hoped, may be averted, and the new administration will be looked to to use every means of averting it But the responsibility of the United States, it is recognized, is fixed, and the whole world will count upon this government living up to the spirit as well as the terms of the Platt amendment, which, if _effect, constitutes the United States the protector of Cuba against herself and guarantor. of ‘foreign interests in P ° nte * k k% ¥ Mexican affairs are expected to yield to treatment just as soon as Mexico's new presi- dent, Gen. Obregon, strikes his gait and shows it 10 lead to fair treatment of Americpn inves this nation. upon Mexico are for justice, and S T LI France Ready to Press Germany violation of Mexican basic law, must be abro- gated, and when done, and the new Mexican administration steps forward with clean hands, they. will receive a hearty grasp from the ex- tended hands of the American government gand poople, it is declared in congressional and offi- clal quarters. * *x % * A subject interesting senators at this time is whether the negotiations between this gov- ernment and Japan for settlement of the immi- gration -question will be effectuated through = treaty or the difficulty glossed over by another “gentlemen’s agreement”; and, whether the is- sue will be composed by the incumbent admin- istration or passed on to the mext? It is declared that if a treaty is presented to the Senate for ratification which nullifies the California alien land law the “states rights” question may be counted upon to come to the fore, presented not alone by California. Other western states are now considering énacting alien land laws similar to that of California, for protection against undesirable immigration. Oregon and Utah are agitated now, and Cal fornia is taking pains to arouse the whole coun- try to the issue. * kX% California makes the explicit demand in the memorial of the state legislature presented last ‘Wednesday to the Senate, the Fresident and the Secretary of State, that in any treaty hereafter made by the United States and Japan the alien land law shall be held inviolable, and charges that an attempt through a treaty to confer upon Japanese immigrants right to acquire land in contravention of the state law would be de- structive of the rights reserved to the states under the Constitution of the United States. Should these contentions be submitted in the Senate, during consideration of a treaty. they would find support from states rights upholders and Jead to a very important debate. It does not appear how a mere understanding between the two nations could nullify the land law, as such an agreement would not take the form of the supreme law of the land inherent in a treaty formally ratified. Nefther is ff apparent how Japan can rest content with dropping the case by assuring the carrying out strictly of the present “gentlemen’s agreement” to restrict im- migration, as the essence of Japan's position is to confirm the land tenures of the Japanese now in California. * X k X The strength of California’s attitude is con- strued to rest in the claim asserted that despite the treaty and the agreements heretofore made to limit immigration, approximately 100,000 Japanese are now in California and control one. eighth of the entire acreage of rich irrigated Jands. In other words, California having found the treaty an® the agreement ineffectual, has be reserved to her under the Constitution of the United States, to regulate land ownership within %er borders by aliens. i SRS While in the past California’s fight was wont to be regarded in the-esat-aa hisriecal unue; remote from-this sectfon, a new aspect will be been compelled to resort.to a right claimed to placed upon it by interjection of the “states rights” question, and the rest of the country will be invited to “sit up and take notice.” * k k% Fresident-elect Harding’s announcement prior to starting upon: his final outing in advauce of assuming the presidency that he would defer announcement 9f his cabinet selections until a day or two before his inauguration pleased some republicans and disgruntled others. -Those who are not satisfied with the men tacitly recognized as leading “possibilities” were gratified, seeing in the delayed selection further opportunity to urge their objections and to advance the Inter- ests of their .own favorites. Other republicans apprehended in the postponement, danger of in- creased friction over the cabinet and wider room for factional and personal differences. Mr. Harding himself acknowledged existence of these cross currents and clashing of personal interests, but disclaimed being concerned about them, accepting them as normal manifestations * without belng.laden with elements of harm to the party.., 1. consulting. the leading minds of the republican party about cabinet timber he could not fail to develop copflicting opinions as to the availability of men and the desirability of their appointment, according to the personal predilections of the 'men consulted. * k% % % The first reaction following his announce- ment was renewal of speculation {n senatorial circles whether Charles E. Hughes will be found heading the Cabinet list upen its publication. All the gossip from Marion and among the statesmienl and _ politicians at the Capitol has agreed in'the past ten days that Mr. Hughes at present tops all the names as the likely Secretary of Stafe. The query golng the rounds is whether Mr. Hughes or Mr, Harding may not change his mind between now and March 3 and some other name finally head the list. It is reported that Mr. Hughes’ personal preference is for the United States Supreme Court justice- ship, when there shall be a vacancy, and that it is. shared by his family. His eminent fitness for that place is recognized, and some of his well- wishers in the Senate would rather see him in it than in the office of Secretary of State. * k¥ % Senator Penrose, in a public statement, rather bluntly stated the feeling entertained by some of hig colleagues as to the unconcern of the Senate over the personality of the Secretary of State, In 3o far as the league of nations poli- cies are concerned, as, he points-out, the Senate of the United States will determine the question uninfluenced by the views of the head of the Department of State, whoever he may be. Senators feel assured that President Harding will nat propose any vital international policy until he is cofvinced’ that it will have the sup- port to:a compeiling. degree of republicans of the Senite. ' Ungnimous concurrence in #ny for- R S R TG Chieve mot Hovs UnG e rads himself backed by the weight of party opinion :Alone - If Lloyd George Persists in Temporizing BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN. ERMANY is doing her best to fulfill the treaty and Spa agreements. She should not be coerced as long as good intent is being proven.” —England. “Germany today is playing in - bad faith. She cannot be trusted. She is &« of council afterward Clemenceau. Millerand and Leygues showed disposition to con- sider that France's future interests lay in compromise with the British and American viewpoints. The treaty Versailles represented’ to French the extreme limit of leniency toward the enemy. Recent supreme agreements have shown a tendency to be less and less firm in force. Such the itself, but this employment French mind of today carrles with ft only one cont{ngency—the occupation grave doubt, even in the Quai d" is the threat the French today hold over the Germans|t® X°Ft his greatest persuasive pow- | tion here has amnounced. The work fulfillment of the peace treaty Wil “the {hings which she considers vital, . come without the employmient ofland all these are wrapped up in the | thel parchment of the treaty of Versailles. France today is ready to work with in Petuation of her policies. Orsay line cage, This being | building program will be opened. in Lloyd George may be forced | Panama City February 18, the lega- INQUIRY IS PROPOSED OF U.S.INTERVENTION and Santo Domingo May Be .- Investigated. : BY BEN McKELWAY. Senator. Hiram Johnson is now 1 before “the foreign relations committee of the Senate which would erapower that committee to in vestigate the part taken by civilians and the military forces of the United States in the government of Santo Domingo and Haiti. A review of such participation, taken from recent re- ports on the subject, is interesting. In 1907 a treaty was concluded be- tween the United States and Santo Domingo which, permitted the United States to supervise the collection of customs revenues of the Dominican republic, in order to guarantee the payment of the interest and amorti- of the .republi¢’s national zation debt. Improvement in the repub- lic's affaira were noted until a series of revolutionary movements led the government to increase the public debt without authority of the United States, thereby violating the treaty. The United States therefore sought a new treaty, providing for the con- tinued supervision of revenue collec- tions. the appointment of a financial adviser for the Dominican republic and supervision by the United States of the Dominican constabulary. Santo Domingo refused to sign this treaty. About this time civil war began in Santo Domingo and the United States tanded naval forces to prevent fur- ther bloodshed. Dr. Henriquez y Car- vajal wds elected provisional presi- dent. but the United States refused to recognize his government. until he agreed to the provisions of the pro- posed treaty of 1915. He refused, and the United States declined to pay to his government the revenues collected under the treaty of 1907. g This condition continued until the United States directed the naval offi- cer in charge of the naval forces in Dominican waters to assume direction of affairs, and in 1916 a temporary military government was proclaiméd. At that time there were 18,000 chil- dren attending school in Santo Do- mingo. Now there are 100,000 pupils, and the gross revenues of the repub- lic have increased from about $4,000, 000 to more than $7,000,000. The United States has begun steps toward a“withdrawgl of s ia Bunto Dominge and the appointment f a governing gommission of Do- ernment | Domingo: AL Although the government. of Haitl is directly under Haltidus, the United States has maintained: a military force ‘there to insire order sincé, July 28, 1015, than a century tranguillity .and-se- curity of life and‘property- exist: in Haiti. The .Haitian Reople’ them- selves are said to be.unwilling for this force of occupation to be: with- drawn, although there:are forces .at work to bring it about. . The United States is sald to be ready to With- action. * Kk Ok * * Bids for Panama's extensive road- RESOLUTION introduced b)’l For the first time.in more | draw from Haiti entirely, however, when conditions there warrant such, to participate in a competition for the design of a statue which will be | placed in Montevideo by the govern- ment of Uruguay. The statue Is in- ltended 0 represent the type of ‘8aucho,” or early settlers, who were the forerunners of the present in- habitants of the republic. Prizes of $1,500 and $1,000, respectively, will be awarded the first and second com- petitors. The government has ap- propriated approximately $60.000 in gold for the construction of the me- morial. * ok ok % Bernard Noll of the Department of Commierce left Washington last week for Rio de Janeiro, where he wiil become trade commissioner in the office of the commercial attache there. Before 1leaving for South America, Mr. Noll secured, through the chief clerk of the bureau of for- eign and domestic commerce. & po- |lice pass, signed by Maj. Harry L ’Gelu!ord, superintendent of police here, which he intends to use If nec- iessary. Although Mr. Noll antici- pates no need for such a pass, he has found in his travels in South America that such an identification is helpful. John Ettl, a sculptor of New York, i was in Washington last week. He in- iformed officials at the Pan-American building that the statue of Dr. James Orten, a former professor of natural history at Vassar College, will be {hipped to Peru in May and will be junveiled in August. Dr. Orten died |some years ago, while on a trip of { exploration in Peru and Bolivia. His |statue will be unveiled on a little lisland in the center of Lake Titicuca, | which lies on the borderland between Peru and Bolivia.” The statue was {bought with funds subscribed by the | students of Vassar. * % % % The “Argentine’ embassy here hus prepared and forwarded to Argentina a bulletin on how to increase produc- tion of hogs, prepared with the as- sistance of the department of agri- cultural education of the National ’ Harvester Company. * X % ¥ A Senste Committee lust week up- proved a resolution authorizing the { President tosreguire the sugar equal- ization bosad to' purchuse 14902 tons of s = ol #60m Argentina by the American Trading Compuny of New York, under an underscanding with. the Department of Justice and the Department of State. The sugar cost 21 cents & pound and now is worth sbout 7 cents, and the gov- ernment stands to lose approximately $2,780,000 by the transaction. Tae committee, it is understood, will re- }port the resolution out when all data jon the deal hus been examined. : % ¥ % A statué of soirvar, which has stood !on Bolivar Hill, in Central Park, New York, for more taan thirty years, wiil be replaced by another statue of tue South American hero, to be unveiled April 19. About five years ago the government of Venezuela decided to replace the ‘0ld statue with another which will be the gift of the Vene- have been called to Marion say “Harding has less of the pride of opinion than any other man ih pub- lic life.” They explain that this does not imply that he is colorless, but that counsel is his chief trait and de- cumion his prerogative. Like Lincoln, they say, his habit is “Come, let us reason on this question.” The- congressional visitors were par- ticularly impressed with the charag- teristic quality of his mind as ;shown in the ease with which he- relies upon the dictum “In the multitude of coun- cil there is safety.” This trait makes him approachable. None of those who visited him in Marion hesitated to suggest to him what seemed a proper course in a given case. He let it be flatly understood that he would freely hear any proper suggestion, without either being himself embar- rassed or suggesting an embarrass- ing situation for the adviser. not meeting the treaty ofgVersailles and she is not paying repl’nuoul de- manded, nor will she do so until proper suasion is brought to bea: France. £ ‘Here epitomized are the viewpoints of these two nations. In these state- ments, representing diverging atti- tudes of the leading statesmen of France and Great Britain, is seen con- tinuing trouble for governments in adjusting their after-the-war prob- lems, in so far as they appertain to Germany. Premier Lloyd George and Premier Briand of France aré to convene with statesmen directing the policies of the two nations in Paris this week. On the one hand will be arrayed pol- icies of a temporizing statesman; on the other those of one who, through the force of political expediency and well grounded suspicion of Germany, will demand the strict fulfillment of the treaty of Versailles as modified through subsequent agreements of the supreme allied council. ‘Want Payment ian Full Briand again has taken the helm in France, For the seventh time he has formed a cabinet composed of some of the strongest men of the nation, but men who are obsessed with the French viewpoint of making Germany pay in full and settle expeditiously accounts demanded by France for the infliction of hideous economic and financial scars through the course of the terrible four years' war. Briand will be less inclined to tem- porize with the British viewpoint than was Leygues, or even Millerand. Briand cannot do so. The French par- liament will not tolerate temporizing, and, ‘furthermore, arrayed against Briand, and ever watchful for an op- portunity to trip the present premier, is the Poincare group of statesmen, who are insisting that France act with force, cease concessions to Great Britain and compel, through French power alone 1t need be, full capituls- tion of Germany in order that the present uncertain financisl statys of the nation be relieved through indem- nities and that Germany be made im- potent in so far as military menace in the immediate future {is oconcerned. 'There can be no temporising by Bri- and if he does not wish to draw down the thunderbolts of the chamber and of that. element /in French political life. insisting, with popular clamor at {ts back, that Germany settle. During the peace conference and handling the situation brought on by Germany’s apparent disregard of the treaty and disposition to dodge—at least, procrastinate—in meeting 'its terms. It has been an easy matter. for Poincare to arouse popular.en- thusiasm for his principles. Every pergon in France has been borne down by war burdens. Relief would be popular, and, as Poincare has pointed out, relief can come only through Ger- many paying her obligations. Fur- thermore, the war has not been ended long enough for France to forget Germanic incursion. She has but to look at the livid scar across the reaches of beautiful northern France. It is not surprising to see popular ac- claim for the Poincare principle. zuelan government to the city of New York, and the new statue is now completed. Ceremonies for the unveil- ing are being planned jointly by the Department of State, the city govern- ment of New York and the Venezuelan legation here. Maay of. the South American diplomats in Washington are expected to attend. * ¥ % x Henry M. Hill, a former consul of Panama in Central America and now in Washington on private business, characterizes as “the most unfortu- nate act yet committed by the mili- tary authorities in the Panama-Canal Zone” the action of United States au- thorities in taking over a small tract of land near Colon, which it was claime@ was necessary for defense of the canal. g “The people of Panama find it diffi- cult to understand such an act of seizure of property by the United States,” he said, “especially since the recent visit to Panama of President- eleet Harding, who voiced his desire for maintenance of the most friendly and cordial relations between the peo- ples and the governments of the United States and Panama.” The Rurale Society of Buenos Aires, the leading awthority in the Argen- tine Republic on animal industry, has forwarded to the embassy here a re- port on the dalry industry in Argen- and is a possible action bitterly -op- |73 i Order to influence the French|Will extend over a period of four or posed by Lloyd George. According to |POHCY In the slightest in favor of|five vears the total cost of which reliable advices from London, Lloyd' Germany. Lloyd George will have the | 18 ©Stimated at approximately $7.- George hopes the question of Ruhr|bECking of Ttaly at practically every | 00000. of which $1,500,000 already occupation will not come up. He has|8tep; for Glolitti is a firm believer that | '° 2'2ilable in the Panama treasury. reason -to, for it is belleved a cef- {the economic salvation of the conti.|, ~> °PY Of the specifications which tainty that if it ever comes to an open |nent is wrapped up in an economical. | 125 Peen received In Washington Ibreak between Briand and the British |1y “sound Germany, Zlj Shoys that Eansina fwill 1ixe theintats but even Briand Ka ‘meodel iin road cons premier, France will proceed with her |may be forced to . of Illinois as its model in con: own devices In bringing Germany to |a1l in the ne‘ofln’l." Sy > lahaten Wad Braks DUILGE ’ . men and women. The first keel was 1aid at the yard February 12, 1918, and since then 122 vessels, of a total of 956,750 deadwelght tons, have been turned out. The produc- tion record reached its height in the one-year perfod from ‘April, 1919, to April, 1920, when seventy- nine steel cargo carriers were launched, an average of one ship every twenty-eight working hours, World’s Largest Telescope. A telescope which is claimed will be the largest in the world is to be erected in Vancouver, B. C. The lens will be ten feet in diameter. . ons which are to] Panama's plan is to have the roads Enes - link with and form part of a com- col France believes from a militaryj q. 5 standpoint she fs able to do so, loatn |, U"0°Ubtedly one of the main sub- | prehensive system which will con(;:ecl ov- as she may be to entering into any{icCt® Of the conference will be the|with roads of the Canal Zone. adventure of prolonged charaéter. method of reparations payments, | ernment officials here have been con- But under the treaty of Versallles | DOUSh Some stipulations may be|Sulted in connection with the whole France, if military measures were|™2d€ in regard to annual payments|Scheme and given their approval. taken, undoubtedly would assess the |PY Germany in the immediate future, * k% % tremendous cost of furthef incursion [t" {s-not believed either in Washing-| American sculptors have been asked against Germany. This wpuld be her [ton or London that there will be any ——— | tina which shows its rapid progress only recourse. radical departure from the lump sum ’ Is earched for Rare Plants ince 1914, when the total butter pro- c Barring the hinted eventuality of|indemnity payments agreed to by than 150,000 men today. Briand has|the German government, asking- the | Leygyes, unless Briand responds to Through VWilds of Africa - e |auction was 9,307 tons and cheesa w. 5413 tons. In 1920 the production promised curtailment to appease [allies to step into Germany and direct | the pressure of French industrialists, popular demand looking toward re- [the country out of a state of chaos in |who, after conference with German duction of military budgets, but it|case the government sees that it can- | mapufacturers and business men, are reached 20,939 tons of butter and 21,- 770 pounds of chéese. The Rurale Society now is busily en- may be taken for granted that this|not exist or emerge from tremen- k reduction will not come until the so- |dously heavy burdens imposed by the :f::,:,:; :::; PavmSLisinking, pare gaged in" organizing an internztionat dairy éxhibition to be held in Buenos called German menace is ended and [allies, Germany would go far toward Germany gets down to “sawing wood” [avoiding further French occupation, Alres during May. Invitations have been sent to American breeders of Maintains Large Army. American Tenor Is Hailed France maintains an army of marel ‘Al Successor O‘ Caruso 7 T %2 These qualities, not as well. known to the country at first, were the de- termining factors in the Chicago con- vention. Ever since election day most of Mr. Harding’s time has been given over to consultation. The small town of Marion has become the chamber of consultation, toward which have gone the best thought and brains of the country, representing the two major political parties. Some of these con- ferences had to do with cabinet se- lections—a matter heretofore looked upon as primarily personal, to be left entirely to the President. Mr. Harding has from the outset allowed the country into his secret— to surround himself with the best brains in Americi. Just how much the public will have to do with the selection of the official family remains to be seen, but those who have con- ferred with him feel sure that Mr. Harding wants to let the country 1 now the processes by which he is making the selection for the best in- terests of the country. There is small doubt, they say, that after all is said and done the cabinet in its personnel will be a Harding cabinet, determined by his own de- cisfon. Congr: reflecting the public feel- ing. 18 ‘well pleased to note the as- sured co-operation between the ex- ecutive ‘department headed by Mr. Harding and the two branches of Congress. The visitors invited to Marion have included leading figures in both branches of Congress. These actual payment is Tenure Rests in Firmness. In this there is a challenge to the viewpoint expressed by the Ameri- cans in the Paris peace conference and dominating the attitude of the British statesmen ever since. Briand, with customary French politeness, in- forms toth America and Britain that France has reached the limit of her concessions to conciMation with Ger- many. America’s viewpoint at the moment has little weight, but Bri- and’s statement may be taken as a direct warning to Lloyd George of England that he will get but little digtancs in any further policy of pro- crastjnation in the enforcement of the peace terms, and if need be Franoce Dected to proceed swiftly and surely, [0 .JN8kKe- STeater concessions to the for he.realizes that oniy-with- irm- {Fyench viewpoint than has been the ness will the French natidn be satis~,CA8 At.any.time since the peace con- fied. ki w1 ference in, Paris, France has much to gain by work- pe 2 1ng in closest unison with Great Brit=| - i ain In the development of a genersl|T. @ C. REFUSES REHEARING. united policy in regard to t B : ] he rest of Application of John E. Benton, Europe, but as has been pointed out: : by several statesmen in Paris, France | 4Rt} ©°F 1he Ameriony Fation of Rallway and Utilities Commission- has much more {o gain through com-|,ry ¢or a remearing of the recent de- plete capitulation in Germany than| i guthorising s merger of the she has through the perpetuation .of s, American, Wells Fargo and any policy in any other section of the tHern' Express companies into the world. Though ‘desiring to :kesp Mll|; Ballway Express Company |2ad in paying reparations demanded, |knowing as she does that it would S SIE LY = Re Complete, whether they be in the form of an- |but further increase trials and tribu- | . Bf and’ may be forced to abandon nual payments, as has been recently {lations which by virtue of the exi- | Lt LeYSUes pact of lump sum indem- proposed, in kind or in a lump sum. |gencies of the situation must esist| 1165 Hever wholly attractive to the It matters little to the French how |for a decade if not longer. -If the but if he does. the split be- dafry “cattle and marufacturers of dairy machinery and products. Ar- gentina has imported many dairy cattle from the United States and re- cent estimates place the number of paid as long French should show. force,d! . | tWeen the French and British gov- ree,- display £ dairy cows there, at approximately Agricultural explorer and botanist eof! ¢ it s realized. tendency to break away from British [ernments in so far'es Germany is con- The Influence of the Poincare politi- |domination, it is -believed ‘in Paris|cetned will be aimost complete and forelxn 13,000,000, witlf &w average milk pro- e B eed pud mlant|;uction of five quarts a day. cal group and popular judgment may |Germany might be inelined to spead'|esath nation may be expected to pur- best be seen in the most recent state- [UP her payments to France and heed [sue its own course in treating with ment of the new French premier, who | French demands. e et henbv i onaive Sanites declared emphatically: M5 nmibian af phecontirs orite The international dairy exhibition is not to be cenfused with the exhi- bition of American products which is being planned mnder the direction of “We have the warmest desire to be esire to Briand s a fire eater in ‘many other is prqven and events force con- the. American national expositions. on friendly footing with the British and American nations, but there Is a |2°18¢5 of the word. = The tenure. of|*°AlieRt realignment. pact signied at Versailles which must | 1S ‘Dosition today depends on 'his| Al m8Y: bo harmonfous in the ap- course of action in the wext' few. proaching conference, but if it is, it Sotnenio was o oumgre * onape exposition was scheduled for tion by his audlence 4t the end of may proceed alone. her irons in the fire France, if need | was dismissed ‘yesterday by thé Inter- | ¢hromgh : March, but, it is understood. will be the performance. A “Briand dsclares he hopes that this'be, will surrender nom-essentials ‘for'state Commission. - - timtes ....‘." -::‘n‘-m 3 postponed uvitil November. DR. R. L. SHANTZ, A bora in iburn, Me,, thirty- ago. He studied abroad de te a reputation for him- in Europe while singing under the name of Cario Marsiall, the Latin equivaient for Charles Marshall. Re- ceatly he made his debut with the company in the title vele tn be fulfilled. ; weeks and for this reason’ he is ex-|SPPears that Lloyd Geprge will have 41 B & 4 i B ¢