Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1921, Page 73

g 3 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 30, 1921—PART 4. AMERICAN SUCCEEDS. IN DIVIDING RHINE FLEET WITHOUT STRIFE AMONG NATIONS BY #DWARD MARSHALL. NEWYORK, October 29, 1921. D. HINES, Returned to This Country W incompleteness of the peace up to the present time. The removal of these adverse (factors is proving to be an alarmingly slow proceeding. armament in the alljed countries, and in general, and largely as the result of the foregoing processes, to restore a condition of greater confidence which will admit of the giving of credits to enable some of the coun- tries most desperately situated to ‘turn the corner’ and get away from the excessive issue of paper money. “But our people are likely to ask the question, ‘What interest or ob- ligation has the United States in all these things? anxiously @await them from some other quarter. “Such participation as I have In mind would not call for the assump- t!an of any obligation in strictly European affairs. It merely contem- plates friendly advice and mediation in those affairs which do not involve our own immediate interests, and, further, contemplatés, of course, our adoption of a courageous and liberal attitude with respect to such mat- ters as do Involve our immediate in- AROUND THE CITY SUPERIOR person bought rouge. And while she waied for her change she remarked to a scentless soap woman who hap- pened to by standing next: the them! P. 8. Meaning shops. LOOKL’\'G for work 18 the hardest work in the world. A philosopher shops—may prosperity bless & WERICA, alons, can sxeeithy s the el e e ke T States has both a prac- | terests, as, for example, the ques- said world.” That is the Euro- « After Difficult Task, Says Europe Is on | |, AL best the elimination of such | e Merost and & moral duty in tigne'ih the Pacite. . “It 1 had the making of Jaws 1| Ehilosopners sre e o comon: o > pean picture as it Appears V. { N d G Di I ingly difficult. The difficulty is enor- these matters. ¢ has been|in the © promotio onp aurther step | should put an end to this traffic In a |%a¥. dandclions in springtime, so that erge o ew an reat isaster—On y mously enhanced on account of the| “Its practical Interes the “elimination of ‘the Simicuities 1 |superstition the world fs happily rid | Fheh YOU come across one unexpect- to W. D. Hines, accepted by both the allies and the Germans. because he is American and therefore not prejudiced as final arbiter in the disposition of the many million dol- lars' worth of river craft left in dispute after-the war, who this week returned to the United States, his vast task ended. His opportunities to study France, Germany. Austria and some of the America Can Save From Ruin—Money in Some Countries Has Ceased to Have Value and Problems Seem Unsolvable—All Depends on Coming Conference in Washington. embittered hatreds and distrusts which the war has left in its wake. A still further obstacle of a serious character. in my opinion, arises out of the-structure and processes of the European form of government, & mat- ter which our people have never had occasion to study and understand. “I do not believe the present gov- ernmental methods in the countries I have studied would be strikingly successful in dealing even with the normal difficulties which must arise in government, but they fall short in strikingly emphasized recently by va- rious comments of American business men and particularly by the expres- sions of the United States ‘Chamber of Commerce, which has suggested how fully our business opportunities and even our problem of unemploy- ment are involved in these world- wide difficulties. “Our moral interest and duty arise primarily out of the fact that we have a supreme opportunity to lead the world in peace; a country which has that opportunity is under gravest have outlined, and this step, 1 admit does Involve our assuming a commi ment in European affairs. It is, there- fore, on a different footing from my foregoing suggestions as to our act- ing as mediator in the affairs which do not concern us. Nevertheless, 1 believe this further step is the great- st single step which could be made toward clearing up the world-wide problems I have already referred to. * ok ok ok K(THA'I' step would be for the United of. We are too civilized a people to longer tolerate the make-believes of a dead past.” What she meant were witches on broomsticks—commeroialized crones flying all over the shop, dangles and swings of pumpkin lanterns, roached- up black cats with baneful green glass eyes, and masks that looked exactly like hobgoblins ought to, but probably don’t. And as the soap wom- an was too kind or too diplomatic, or, maybe, too dull to mention that paint edly it is just as well to tab her down, this one "being a woman. She had seated herself at a cafe table along- side another woman, and as quite a large bundle she was carrying had come unwrapped and the other woman had a couple of rubber bands o help out, the two naturally started a little talk, beginning with the silko- line—pinky-red roses flowerad over white with summery leaves between. “I always get this sort of gay stuff for curtains. with the same style cr tonne for sofa cushions and covers— ind I've got a couple of cockatoos, small new countries during his the most startling way when those | obligation to utilize it to the utmost. eighteen months of service were un- endeavoring to administer them at- | Our opportunity is unparalleled. States and Great Britain to |9% & mid-age face is somewhat of a |one macaw and a half dozen birds in Lzl tempt to make them meet the utterly D] Join In underwriting th: th make-believe of an awfully dead past, | cages—a tropic atmosphere takes off Daralleled. . In an exclusive inter- abformal requirements of the present * kK * (e € the peace of the | that was all there was o it, excepi |the dreariness of a long winter alone world by promising to go to the aid |that—you know how one thing brings |in the country. Any weapon is good view for The Sunday Star he ex-| plalned the appalling general danger which now threatens Europe, and de- clared that, at the conference upon limitation of armaments in Wash- ington, America. having once saved the world through fighting men, agaln may save it; this time through the work of men who tRink. That not one of his —decisicns. although they involved tremendous values, has been questioned by any of the nations interested is. he says, regarded abroad as an American. not a_personal. achlevement, due rather te the American spirit of fair play and keen anxiety for justice, rather than to the arbitrafor's indlvidual ability. Mr. Hipes is an extremely modest man. “I sailed from the United States time. In general, in these countries. there is no two-party system such as we have in America. Instead these countries are likely to find their par- llaments divided into anywhere from ten to twenty different politica groups, varying from the extreme radical to the uitra conservative. “Nothing, of course, can be accom plished without some of these groups beinkg temporarily combined to form and support a ministry. Whenover the oppositian groups, in turn acting in combination, can succeed in carry- ing through any substantial criticism of the ministry the government—that is, prime minister and cabinet—must fall and another must be formed with the support of the victorious com- bination, which, at least, for the mo- ment and often’ for not much longer, will refrain from making any formai firmclsm of the actions of the minis- Ty. “WHILE we are rightly interested from a practical standpoint in the solution of all problems ‘which affect the world, we are wonderfully ree from direct interest in most of those which are most puzzling at the present time. This gives us an atti- tude of comparative detachment, fit- ting us to act as an adviser whose advice will be received and considered | in a friendly spirit. “This .was illustrated by the cor- diality with which my own decisions have been‘received by all the nations interested, despite their conflicting interests and their intense antago- nisms. “This was wholly due to the fact that 1 was a citizen of the United| of France in case of unprovoked ag- gression on the part of Germany. uch an assurance would relieve on _another: Did you ever throw a bail of yarn out of the window and then wind it to fight with, so long as it win, The rubber woman suggested that it would also give old Father Snow 1 France of the heavy burden of an enormous army, would remove what in, hoping to find your own true love at the end of the string? And did he chance to see what summer looked like, but after that one bright remark 1 believe is the greatest element of disquiet in the situation, and the re- sult would be a far-reaching reaction amellorating the existing European g‘l;l}culllel both political and finan- cver show up? And do you remember that tme you walked backward around the block with your mouth full of salt? Ana that other time when you went up the steps backward—every spell had to she kept quiet to learn some things that only philosophy can teach after it has gone through the mill: “I am fifty, but I call myself forty- five. Nobody believes me, though, of course, they pretend—and I like them “Personally, I do not believe that France or any other European nation is imperialistic or militaristic at the present time. All want peace more than they want anything else in the world, but after two invasions within fifty years France feels that she must maintain a large army to protect herself fron’ future misadventure un- be worked backward in those beloved days that were backward themselves <—holding your lighted candle so shoulder into the glass and vision your young man, or your chum's young man, or any young man that was a nice young man? And did you for thelr fibbings. Like Macbeth, 1 was born an orphan and never had a relative that 1 know of. For all the vears of my vouth I fought the world; a small she-David, with no saving stone in my sling—and let me tell you, in case you don’t know it, hunt- ing work is the hardest work in the world. Then I struck a good job that less she can rely on other guarant, ces against it. If these guarantees should not be forthcoming and _if France, therefore, should feel under The superior person may not like it, but there will be dances and games tomorrow night, and every good old led to a good investment, and now 1 am able to own a chip of a house in the country, where I can dig and be ¢ 30, 1920, and spent sixteen and nl“h’,u 'm‘m.nn at e post.” sald Mr. * * k% States and, therefore, honestly could| ;) Halloween night that comes along,|happy—a mercerized happiness, like Hines. “The peace treaty provided hat attitude of complete de- | (1€ NeCessity of maintaining a very | but the spirit will be that of prank- | near-siik that you can't tell from real that fthese matters of the allocation ¢«T'HIS leads to instability and an ::;m:n'l 8t hich . oniy the United }:;fi; a;':‘:;;r;lher;hlt would be per- |ish jest. Sophistication has taken |unless you are a judge—and I am not of shipping on the international excessive concern upon the |States and its citizens can have In|sentiment should d::ulgp ;:l‘-l;ll:;lullc ::al.);-elh:n::uahfTan!utl::e:o‘znsoruul:u;: ipjl;t;lol{:eo‘:l:A;r;::’n;{«:‘.nl:l&av;hz“r;zlln rivers Rhine. Elbe, Oder and Danube phould be decided by an arbitrator Tamed by the United States. At the conference of ambassadors in the spring of 1920 the President was re- q"“fi to make this appointment regardless of America’s position with regard to the peace treaty. My long effort was most interesting and marked by no unpleasant incidents. * ok ok % uAS to the Rhine the general ques-| the tion was as to how much of German fleet of river craft should go to France; as to the Elbe the question was as to what German vessels should be glven to Czecho- slovakia: as to the Danube the ques- tion was as to what proportions of the German. Austrian and Hunga- rian fleets should be given to Czecho- slovakia, Jugoslavia and Kumania, and also as to the extent to which the cap- tures made by France, Jugoslavia and Rumania of German, Austrian, Hunga- rian and Bulgarian vessels should be regarded as valid. “My main office was in Paris. but; a branch was needed In Vienna. I %ad occasion (» make trips of in- _pection on the ithine and Elbe and iwo journeys of a month each through the Danube countries. These extensive journeys and my long stay abroad gave me a most unusual op- portunity for observation “In_greater or less degree.” con- tinued Mr. Hines. who was unwilling. because of his official connections, to speak specifically of particular na- tions, “the observations which I find it possible to make will apply to the general. situation in continental Eu- rope. My reaction after studying that which it was my privilege to see that of many—the world, having de- voted too much of its energy and resources to the making of war and too little to the making of peace. now whirls very near to terrible disaster. hink America alone can save it. Vo one could have covered the great territory 1 have seen without! being utterly appalled by the tre-! mendous strides humanity has made in the destructive arts. During the war its Inventive genius. devoted to the purposes of ruln. rose to heights which woulgehave been sublime it they had .wrought construction, not destructle “While. destruction was pri- marily direbted at physical things. it actually has appallingly affected the less tangible and more precious. such as, for instance. ideals. financial re- lationships, bases of commerce and Jall those other things which, although more or less invisible, none the less are vital to the life. the happiness and the comfort of humanity in all parts of the world. “During the war the United States showed its capacity for creating and using destructive engines of war and in that war performed the immense public service of bringing the great conflict to an end. Now it must en- | deavor to make a corresponding con- tribution to the establishment of a permanent and effective peace. With everybody whom I know in Europe. with all American officials and travel- lers who know. as I do. the great need, I am hoping that this contribu- tion_may be made at the arms con- fereMee in Washington. * ¥ X X ¢« THE world desperately needs. and, if my expnerience in Europe has taught me anything, gladly will ac- cept American leadership—the contri- Bution to world peace Which only the United States can make. In that part of Europe from which I have returned tfe situation as it stands is infinitely distressing. It is difficult to exag- gerate the needs which must be sat- isfied if conditions are to be created which will insure a real dissemin: tion of comfort and tranquility. “#A great deal of the physical debris of the great conflict has been cleared away, many homes, bridges and rail- ways have been rebuilt, barbed-wire entanglements have been changed into fertile flelds, fenced and fit for culti- -vation; much livestock has been found to replace that which was killed; slowly and painfully Europe has been patting together those physical things which the war tore apart. “There has been some, but far less re-establishment of the intangible. ness has found ways of re-estab- Tfshing to a considerabie degree com- merdlal intercourse between the na- tlons; despite the destruction of their financial and transportation facilities and the new political barriers which have been created through customs duties and other restrictions at the frontier, growing partly out of the need for funds, partly out of the sup- posed need for conserving the home supply of food and raw materials and partly out of intensified animosities which the war has left behind. “But meither the physical recon- struction nor the partial resumption of business can restore the world to a reasonable condition of well-being. It needs something more— some- hing which, I think, America alone ightly can supply. “The financial conditions of the vari- ous European countries which I vis- jted and studied so far have defled all afforts which have been made toward their readjustment on an effective hasis. There is little, if any, evi- dence that budgets can be balanced, mnd_what progress has been made in this direction seems to have been only through taxation so drastic as to be highly discouraging to enter- se, “What {s one to say about z n: tion which cannot balance budgets HINES, WHO HAS JUST RETURNED TO AMERICA AFTER DIVIDING THE RHINE FLEET WITHOUT A QUARREL, | should become general the time soon | must come when the government will find itself unable to pay its army of employes, including operatives of the railways and other public utilities, in any money which will supply their needs. These comments are merely suggestive of the numerous influences, impossible to catalogue, which the war started and which o far nobody enable them to obtain credits with which they can buy such foreign raw materials as they may need. * ok k% “BUT unless checked these condi- tions will be disastrous. For example, the Austrian crown has be- come so depreciated recently, as the result of the causes which I have |can stop, and which are making more | and more impossible the government- sugweated, that tradesmen in At | R Pockutes itself are sald to be refuing to take | .py.g0 menacing financial difficulties the money of their own government |are intensified by a long list of eon- in payment for the goods they have | troversics still unsettled, by the re- for sale and instead to be demanding | sulting political uncertainties, by the Payment. for their wares in foreign | continuing heavy cost in many coun- ey which nas not so greatly |tries of maintaining armed forces, and shrunk in value. by all those adverse factors which it such a movement | continue to operate on account of the The Hecht part of those in power with regard to hostile critictsm. Conditions thus created cannot.be favorable to the promulgation of bold policies in- volving that degree of consideration for the existing situation in other nations which is needed In order that present international difficulties may be amicably settled. “Such financial conditions as I have been attempting to outline are preva- lent in greater degree or less throughout Europe, and to be aggra- | vated in those countries actively in- voived in the war. It is evident that the solutions cannot be applied within any national boundaries, but must be as broad as the difficulties, which means that ‘they must be as broad as the world. * “The catastrophe wrought by the war has gone far beyond all prece- dent, and we have no standards by which to measure its extent or which enable us to predict the outcome. What I have said only faintly sug- gests the problems and the difficulties. Many other phases which I have not touched upon at all are contributing tactors of very great importance. “He would be a rash man who would undertake to set forth a com- plete program of the things to be done to rescue the world from the plight in which the war has placed it. Comments as to a solution can |had endeavored to settle these dis- at best be only fragmentary and sug- gestive. “It is certain that among the steps which are in the right direction some of the most important are to remove the existing specific controversies as to boundaries, as to methods of mal ing reparation, and as to securing disarmament of the ex-enemy coun- tries; to_encourage a more friendly and confident co-operation between the different countries in economic matters where they have a common interest; to cut down the expense for Where prices _ 7th atF are guaranteed een Anne period dining room suite of Includes buffet, china closet, server, extension table, 5 side chairs and armchair, with genuine blue leather seats. This twin-bed suite, $18 A surprising value at the price. Five-piece mahogany or walnut - finish suite—drescer, chiffonier, semi-vanity and twin beds. Co. - Choice * suites . 'This 10-pc. walnut dining-room suite, $189 * genuine walnut. these times. “For instance, the most recent of my decisions settled disputes long standing as to the right and .title to the great fleet of tugs and barges on the Danube river, one of KEurope's most important waterways. France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania and Bulgaria all were involved in the conflicting inter- ests which concerned them. d am satisfied that if these various nations putes by direct negotiations they would have taken on political aspects and would have become causes of grave discord. “Instead, submitted to a citizen of the United States, with all the coun- tries feeling that he approached the matter from a disinterested stand- point, the disputes have ended in decigions received with the most gratifying cordiality, although each one of them required some one of the involved nations to give up to another some {mportant element of its fleet. “This situation of disinterestedness is not-a reason why the United States should feel at liberty to stand aloof, declaring, ‘I am not my brothec's keeper. On the contrary, it is the very reason why this country should endeavor to find ways whereby it may extird that help which only it can dive. | Not only should this country help by giving its advice, but it should aid also by its example. i Its greatest opportunity to fur- nish -such an example will be at the conference at Washington, where it can lead in the adoption of an att tude of reasonableness and liberality concerning questions of policy and in the making of such proposals with regard to limitation of armament as other nations may feel themselves | unable to advance, though they might | 7that F of any of these “I am a firm believer in the theory that ‘when a nation has a mighiy army, ‘all dressed up, but wifh no- where 1o go, its general staff will begin to look for places to which it may travel, and. looking for them, certainly will finti them soon or later: and when this spirit becomes rife in one country it begets imitators in others. It is a contagious disease. I believe the germ could be eliminated to the advantage of our own coun- try by the remedy 1 have suggested, I am aware of a very natural in- disposition on the part of the people of America to make any commitments with respect to Europe. On the oth- er hand, I cannot imagine any situa- tion in which the United States cauld afford to have France subjugated by the Germans, and, therefore, if that danger should materialize, 1 believe the ~ United States unhesitatingly would go to the assistance of France. ‘'To me, therefore, it seems evident that advantages of the most far- reaching importance may be obtained by underwriting the security of France, to start with, instead of being impelled to assure It after an attack has done much damage and again upset the equilibrium of Europe and the world. ~Such intervention could be undertaken and carried through ~ . minutes’ instruction here technique — after which ter’s touch. Any one can play a player-piano—a few world’s best music at your command. And these players are built to reproduce this music just as it comes from the mas- the shape of an apple paring as it fell to the floor! And there will be the rich, unstudied laughter of child- hood and the romance whispers of youth, but it won't be the Halloween of our own dreams. Oh, ves, there's going to be bushels of fun, but the only witches you are | Boing to see will be those same com- mercialized _crones flying_around in [ever meet up with success? . as we well know, only at a cost in- definitely greater than would be in- volved in the joint agreement of the nited States and Great Britain which would effectually prevent the occurence of any such emergenc: “But even though our countryme may not at once accept this specia remedy, which I believe would be so beneficent, of joining Great Britain in guaranteeing France against un- provoked aggression by Germany, 1 feel sure they will agree that it is| both practically and morally proper. and indeed of the highest importance, | that our country should unhesitating- | 1y aid by its advice and mediation in | matters in which it is not directly interested and by force of its great good example for fairhess and liber- | ality in matters where it has direct | terests." that you could look over your Ief\’ | The Hecht Co. announces gives you the automatic sust; you have the tion. sale, and the sale is was a tragedy, but when I had to face the inevitable, meaning my look- ing glass, why, 1 kissed life good-bye and have come to find the world quite satisfactory, so far as worlds go. A lone candle-power existence isn't what you could truthfully call lightsome, but it gives you a deso- (e amount of freedom to do, to be or to suffer, the same as if you were averb and no drawing strings to hold ne to earth, 1 am feeling like Colum- bus when he sighted land. I haven't Adimpsed any port yet, but semehow I feel that it is just around the bend —and the fear. of the unknown coun- try at hand is lessened by the ex- hilaratjon of adventure and the hope that it may make up to me for that her land: the kingdom of vouth hat T never had a chance to enjoy 11 what you are going find, of course, but of two uncer- tainties always choose the happy one. 1f there's enough left, I shall cover the screen—I ought to have bought more, but a pair of arms can only hold so much. The rubber woman offered first aid and the philosopher snipped off & sample and supplied details. If she can’t match it, five vards of the peach blossom pattern will do just as well. NANNIE LANCASTER. A phenomenal sale of AYER-PIANOS $2.50 weekly pays for it HERE, in brief, are the high lights of the most phe- .&. nomenal sale of player-pianos—good player- pianos—that has ever come hefore Washington music lovers. v They are- full 88-note players, with aining pedal, ivory keys. metal tubing and every other device found in the standard high-grade players. Though $395 is the lowest have ever been marked, each player goes out with the fullest guarantee of satisfac- rice they limited to the s Unusual conditions are behind this player-pianos on hand. No more to Many dollars clipped off the regular price—sav- ) Sompanisd by & corresponding depre- ings are extraordinary 618 F St. store open Monday evenings 7 to 9 tn spite of heavy. almost paralysing. lont Such situations everywhere Seem to be resulting in steady in- @rease in the issues of paper mone: be had at $395 when these are gone als in the value of the money sued and that of the old money al all others And In the long run :'."“.':."“‘"”w."m"m: This 3-pc. overstuffed suite, $189 The Hec bf C O. ‘ this aan mean n:'::u > businces : Large nnd;nlnlul'nnublr o::mflfl:d l;:‘l: ::::: .i:d-tluo - v 0 tive ta ry. Well constructed; with ap arms. - — i o 5 :':"'ii:' Tl"m I'E; Settee, armchair and rocker. i 7”] al I where prices :n.-nl-nlun‘ 7th at F % 'ca toaormally J-':*' - priees . \ . .