Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1921, Page 5

KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR YOUR The Cluck Clucks Clan dignified { hens that d take the bus- iness of laying eggs seriously, reside at the WALLIS farm. But the fact that we take just as seriously the rule of getting those eggs before you at table the day Mrs. Hen consigns them to us, is what makes breakfast here a treat. {[The cof- fee, too, adds its tempt- ing share to the morn-. ing fare at WALLIS’ 12th and G Streets N.W. T Defects develop yes are righ BERNARD A. BAER OPTOMETRIST AND ORFICIAN 217-218 EVANS BUILDING 1420 New York Avenue ENS ClTheohi Hot Water or Vapor Is Best Call, write or phone for free estl- mate of cost. PLUMBING We are prepared to take care of any work of this kind. . Biggs Heating Co. W. H. Gottlieb, H. E. Huntsberry, Pres. Vice Pres. 917 H St. N.W. Phone 4886. CORNS Lift Off with Fingers Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little “Freezone” on an aching corn, in- atantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fin- gers. ly! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of “Freezone” for a few cents, suffi- cient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, without soreness or frritation. Spray “PREVENTOL”— it will .not harm- houge- furnishings or clothing, but it does destroy all insects. Ori Sale at Drug Stores . . Fadis THE' EVENING | INTERNATIONAL BOMBS IN NEWS AVERTED BY HUGHES' PRECISION Secretary Talks_Freely. But Leaves No Room for Garbling—Dynamite in Dis~ armamenthmbassadors Messengérs. STAR, herself on the proposition to discuss the problems of the Pacific, on which. after all, the plan to disarm is based. Uniless they can be solved by a ffiend- ly mutual agreenient we might as well get ready to sell the old farm and buy a few - more warships. ‘Whether war .comes or not, the pos- sibility that war might come is in the offing. But the reporters who at- tended the conference at the Depart- ment of State in.which the reply of Japan was discussed did not come away with - any .explosive theories ready to fulminate. Or, if they did, they erected those theories them- selves. What they learned—thdnks to a se- ‘| lection” of words, the extreme delicacy BY HERBERT COREY. It this sort of thing keeps up long enough the gentlemen of the press, as statesmen always call us when they want to be nice, who work in Wash- ington, will all become masters of the good old English language. It is get- ting dangerous nowadays to be loose in diction. The most valuable book of reference in the possession of the Washington correspondent is a dis- tionary. The second most valuable is that which pins down synonyms on a card and defines shades of meaning. Secretary of State Hughes is the rea- son. He is a master of words. Not only is he eloquent, which he is when he wishes to be, and fluent, which he is when he cares to be, but he is pre- cise -by nature, training, and plan. When he has his more or less daily conferences with the reporters he selects his words carefully, though at high speed. There iS never a sugges- tion of hesitation or selection. ~The language comes right out like water from g pump. Differences of Meaning. | “Then you are informed——" some unwary 4 He'is correctad. The Secretary of State has not been informed. To be informed conveys the suggestion that some one has_ toid him something either in the éar or on a piece of paper. He has not been informed in that sense. He is aware of certain facts, and he has toted those facts up and reached a conclusion. But he has not been informed. And the reporter can put that in his meerschaum and take a puff. The Secretary is not at all put out, but he does not care to have meaning read into his words !that do not properly belong there. He not only hews to the line, but he shaves the line to a hair. A state- ment by Mr. Hughes is as clear and pellucid and utterly unmisunderstand- able as anything in all English litera- ture. This trait has been particularly no- ticeable during his morning conferences upon the plan to hold a disarmament conference in Washington. He scught what is technically known as “a good press” on this matter. It has been desire that nothing be said which might offend any tender national sensi- bilities. The disarmament idea is full of gunpowder and loose matches, ar how. If he can juggle the match he: about so they will not suffer any fri tion he proposes to do it. At the same time he seems desirous of giving the press all the news there is. He wants the American public fully informed. for only in that way can be arousé helpful interest in the great international prob- lems which lie at the-base of the dis- armament scheme. Therefore, he has been careful to present the exact shade —the exact shade down to the most tender nuance—of meaning. How One Reporter Erred. “The British government has kept the American _government informed as 1o the progress of negotiations with Ja- pan.” one reporter wrote one day. Mr. Hughes denied this flatly. There can be no doubt whatever that his de- nial was literally accurate. What may have been the fact is that Ambassador Harvey and others have been sitting about clubs in London with Lord Cur- our quaint American dialect as an earf: over the Scotch and soda each evenin, It would obviously be the duty of proper ambassador to send that_infor- mation on to his government. That is what ambassadors are for, and that about all they are for in these degener ate days of fast cables. It may have occurred to the English hosts of the American visitor that he- would pass the word on to Washington. But that was distinctly not a giving-of information by the British government. Now that the incident has passed it is obvious that a suggestion of that sort would have dug a deep hole for Great Britain's_statesmen and pushed them into it. They were engaged in negotiat- ing a renewal of a trealy of long stand- ing with Japan. Washington was known 1o be mot precisely delighted at the rrospect of this treaty renewal. Wash- ington has believed, and has made no bones_of saying, that there are problems in the Pacific which need attention. Such as an oven door into China, for example, Great Britain's colonies have rather sided with Washington. Came as Club Gossip If Great Br i Washington as to-what was going on there might seem to be a certain flavor of bad faith attached to the informing. But she didn't. What- ever Mr. Harvey or Whoozoo may have heard in Lopdon came as club gossip and no more. One may, of course, wink the other eye. A wink is never conclusive evidence save in mixed company. The reporters wanted to find out how the preliminaries to the treaty announcement were conducted. Their curiosity became agony when Lord Northcliffe, in his peculiarly quiet— almost inaudible—fashion, suggested that Lloyd George had tried to steal a few thunders from President Hard- ing. One gathers from Lord North- cliffe’s statements and those of his journalistic possessions that Mr. Harding and Mr. Hughes opened the “informal” negotiations for the dis- armament conference. It began to gather weight. Great Britain and her colonies wanted it, France wants it under conditions, Italy wants it, for Italy above most other European countries is setting her feet upon the path of that com- mercial _prosperity which accom- panies peace. Then, still assuming that Northcliffe is right, Lloyd George saw a chance to “put some- thing over.” He announced that on a certain day he would have an an- nouncement to make to parliament in re the east and disarmament. State Department Active One infers that Mr. Hughes is ar- ganized to protect himself in the game of diplomacy. Hardly had Mr. Lloyd George made this statement than Mr. ~Hughes announced in Washingtod that, at the direction of the President, he was about to ask the powers, etc., to join, etc. Lloyd George was to have made his state- ment of a Monday and the Hughes statement went to the press on the preceding Sunday evening after a day of activity about the department. Usually the department is as noisy as a graveyard in the dark of the moon of a Sunday. The spurt of the Sunday referred to may have been occasioned by Mr. Lloyd George's at- tempt to hairbrand Mr. Hughes' dis- armament critter. Or it may have been due solely to Mr. Hughes' recog- nition of that powerful fact first un- carthed by Theodore Roosevelt, that more space is procurable on the first page of a Monday morning than_on any other morning of the week. But the reporters were not informed as to the manner in which the negotia- tions antecedent to the treaty had been conducted. g 3 . “They were very informal, indee said_Mr. Hughes, or something like it. His words are not being gquoted, but he gave the Impression that they were too informal even to be consid- cred-informal. They were hazy, neb- ulous, cloudy and vague. One gath- ers that two gentlemen sitting in a club—a club which might have been in London, say, or Washington— talked over the advisability of a dis- armament conference. Then they talked with other people and wrote chatty little notes to others. TWothing formal. Nothing even informal. Just a little non-binding, pleasant, social hour. But one reflects that shirt- sleeve "diplomacy may have seen its last as well as its best day: Diplomacy of Other Times. That sort of thing—this club gossip informality—swings ht back to the methods of the diplomacy of other times. For ghe last few years shirt sleeves have been in vogue in theory in American diplomacy, even if they were not always worn in practice. There is the priceless story of the minister to a certain smail state who answered the ring at the 1 doorbell in person, attired in & striped shirt and other essentials, being warm. A gold-laced’ chamber- lain of the court met him. ‘The queen,” sal “desires your attendance at dinner this evening.” “Doggone it said the minister, “you tell the cueen I can’t come to- night. I got some friends from home visiting me. little was done v the ambassadors and ministers in Kurope except at the suggestion and with the assent of Washington. Usually they were not ipermitted to do anything. They were merely expensive messengers who de- livered state papers and inisted on! getting a receipt. This new—or very old—plan of telling an ambassador what it is desired to done, and then permitting him to work in his own way, comes close to being the old- style diplomacy as ever was. All the Union ambassadors and ministers in Europe work that way. They spend their lives going to country houses for week ends and frustrating the plans of pretty women and dropping in at clubs and having their paper: stolen and everything. Lacked Precise Information. Now the conference has been agreed to by every one. Not a matchhead bas been inflamed. Every sharp cor- ner has been rounded. But just a little less care on the part of the Sec- rétary of ‘State in selecting his words might conceivably have made trouble. There were some very tender national the day | id the chamberlain, | | During the Wilson administration : of which could only be measurcd by & micrometer—was merely that Japan had said nothing whatever about the plan ‘o talk over her own aifairs in the Pac'fic. Nothing ' else. .That's all there was. There wasn't any more. 5 di WASHINGTON, D. 0., WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1921 AIR STATION TO CLOSE. |[CONDEMNS AUTO SEARCH.! Spectal Dlagtch to The Suar. | BALTIMORE, July 27.—The police| have nd right tasearch any one's auto- | mobile, even If it is suspected that it contains whisky. This s the ruling of nited States Commissioner Supplee.’ who yesterday dismissed a charge of having whisky in his possession un- Clawtully filed againt Harry Bilson ! gt 113 Oakley avenue. 7 Bilson was arrested by a policem: as he started to drive off in his ma- chine from in front of a hotel. The his move, officers declured, is in| poilceman said he saw Bilson: come sut of the hotel with a package, which_he placed on the automobile seat. The “ouiceman said he opencd Secretary Denby Sends :Orders to Big Plant at Cape May. CAPE MAY, N. J. July 27.—The United States Navy air station here. one of the largest on the Atlantic coast, has been ordered closed after August 1 by Secretary of the Navy Denby. Lieut. Edward Wilder, commandant jot ‘he station, toluy received tele- graphic orders from Mr. Denby to stop ! 'all operations except construction al- 're_il_dy approved by the Department. line with *he general efforts of the Navy Department :o keep inside re- uced appropriations. The funny .part is that while Hughes is discussing these affairs w the reporters, he seems to enjoy him- self. His eyes shine. His teeth glisten. His well-trimmed beard seems to ripple ! with happiness. He never pauses for a | word or hesitates or boggles or selects. | He is fluent and self-possessed. And all | the time He is master of the job. When ihe gets through—when he has smiled his last smile into the friendly faces that smile back—the reporters: go out. TUsually they go sadly. He hasn’t mis- | placed one syllable or inflection. He has made no mistakes. There has not ! | been one tiny word or accent upon which might be hung an excuse for a better or a bigger or a different story than the one he proposed to give them. He can- jnot be trapped or coaxed or fuddled. | His statement has meant one thing, and | one thing only, and not another atom of meaning can be read into it. It Is a_fine piece of work on the part of the Secretary of State. 3ut it cer- tainly does restrict the intellectual ac- tivities of the reporters. \FRANCE STAYS IN RUSSIA. | Senator Prolongs Visit, But Will * Sail for . S. on August 17. RIGA. July 26.—United States Sen- ator Joseph I France has decided to il i sensibilities involved. The old report- ers here look back at Mr. Hughes' predecessors, or some of them. Mr. Bryan did not know or care much!go to Berlin. ‘He has sent a telegram | about the work of his department. Mr. Lansing was repressed. Mr. Colby | terdam, which is due to sail from Rot- | had hardly warmed to his job before |terdam for New York August 17. the ax fell. News of our interna- tional relations was secured then from other offices in the State Depart- ment, sometimes, and from embassies and propagandists and hunches and cable dispatches. A dozen instances were recalled when reporters, with the best intentions in the world. had stepped on the international match head through their failure to be pri cise—or through their inability to se- cure precise information. Nowadays it_is different. Japan assented to the disarmament conference. But she did not express are fore only .. Shirts. . . $2 and sizes only three left 4 —one 34, $60 Si 46...... 37 short 36...... 37 stout. breasted; one..... breasted; one-.... 1 840 1 845 38...000 1 $50 - 37. 1 $80 85...... 40...... 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