Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1921, Page 2

N UNUSED LANDS # Séo_:eiafy‘ Fall Revéals Great . prove necessary i ) 120 BILLION RICHE ‘Untapped Wealth in . Public Domain. ACRES TOTAL 400,000,000 First Annual Report Says United States Can Realize Vast Sum From Resources. TUntapped wealth estimated at a mini- mum of $150,000,000,000 is contained in the.more than 400,000,000 acres of land still held in the public domain, Secre- of the Interior Fall says in his firs anghal report, made public today. The bulk of this wealth is composed of coal and oil, the total coal deposits being estimated at_ 110,000,000,000 tons and the-oil deposits at 1325.000,000 barrel with an additional 50,000.090,000 barre of shale Sbil. $12:987,500,000 Secretary Fall says from development of these resources the federal govern- ment_would realize by way of rovalties, rentals, etc., a total of $12,387.500,000, divided as follows: 2 Bitumindus, 10.000,000.000 tons, at 10 000,001 cents royalty, $1. 000. Subbituminous, 30,000.000,000 tons, at 2,400,000.000. § cents royalty. Lignite. 0,000,000 tons, at 5 cents royalty. $2.500,000.000. (Note—Coal upon railroad lands, pri- vate grants, private lands in the public land states but not developed not esti- mated above.): Oil in public ownership (crude), 700,- 000,000 barrels, at $2, $1.400.000,000; at 12% cents royalty, $175,000,000. Shale oil, 50,000,000,000 barrels, at $2, £100,000.000,000; at 5 cents royalty, $5.- ©00.000,000. 0,000,000 tons, at $4, Phosphate, $14,000.000,000; at 2 per cent royalty, at $75, $l.- 5280,000,000. Potash, 20,000,000 tons, 500.000,000; at 2 per cent royalty, $30,- 000.060. 13,000,000 Horsepower in Streams. Waterpower, 13,000,000 horsepower. at 10 cents per horsepower per vear, $1.300.000. indian reservations: Oil. 600,000,000 barrels, at $3. $1,800,- 000,000 5 Phosphate, 1,000.000,000 tons, at $i, $4,000,000,000. Alask: Coal. 20,000,000,000 tons. all grades, at 6:tents royalty. $1.000,000,000. <Dil; 25,000,000 barrels, at $1, $25.000,- 000; it 10 per cent royalty, $2.500,000. . Waterpower, $2,500,000 horsepower, at 10 cents per horsepower per year, $250. U. S. Share , @urface value of public lands out- side of national forests: _Desert and semi-arid lands, 100,- + 080.000 acres, at §1. $100,000,000. Srazing land 00,000 acres, at $2, Grazing and forage lands, 15,000,- 000 acres, at $4. $60,000,000. . Rich Grasing Lands. “‘National forests Grazing lands, 110,000,000 acres, at 34 75.000,000. Timber, $580,000,000. Other resources, $145,000,000. History is now re i says Secretary Fall, measures and in prepari measures and in_prpearing for war, :in the creation of a Navy, etc., it has been found necessary to curtail such expenditures to the very utmost. 1 am justified in calling attention to the fact that the Department of In- terior — the home department —is ly equipped and prepared to do its part in the development of those * great natural resources which must be so developed if the tax burden upon this and fmtufe generations is to_be bosne at all” . Secretary Fall devotes a consider- able part of his report to reclamation projects, and in this connection he urgés that “an afiirmative strong policy be announced by the execu- tive” Outlines Yearly Progress. “The necessary advances can be made from year to yéar without be- coming an excessive burden upon the taxpayers,” the Secretary says, “and, as_has already been proven by ex- perience, one year's crop upon one ! acre of reclaimed irrigrated ground will be of a value largely in excess of the total amount expended in rendering such acre productive. Un- der the present system, or any pro- | posed legislation, of course, the cost | of such project will be repaid, and meanwhile the added wealth yielded will lighten the tax burdens upon | all the taxpayers of the countr H -Rd@erring to pending bills provid- ng for further reclamation acuvl-i ties, Mr. Fall says that if they are enacted additional opportunity for labor will be offered the unemployed and at the same time homes made for those who desire them. “This _department,”| he adds, thoroughly organized,' with sufficient force, and is ready to carry on an, work which such an enlightened pol- fcy as suggested might be assigned flo it in reclamation or other de- Velopment of our national resources.” Alaskan Riches Vast. . Discussing the situation in Alaska, the Interior Secretary declares the resources of that territory and “the wealth to be drawn therefrom in the future are almost incglculable.” “There are 21,000,000 acres of lands forests in that territory,” he says, nd many millions of acres upon the public .domain upon which settlers may depend for mining timbers, lumber for houses, etc. There are millions of acres of land fitted for culture and the agricultural re- ces are such that a large popu- on can be ‘supported in Alaska | ithout the importation of food- | @tuffs from the United States or other | countries Ask for Co-Ordina laska's resources have not -been develofd for various reasons, among others the lack of transportation and largely because of the fact that these resources are administered through some thirty-eight bureaus and va- rjous departments of this govern- ment. In my opinion authority to| administer the laws relative to Alaska's natural resources must be vested in some one department of this government that the activities charged with the administration of such laws may be properly co-ordi- nated. “Transportation is necessary, of course, and tl government has as- isted in so far'as the construction of «a railroad from Seward to Fairbanks is concerned, which road will be ready for operation within a few months Vast deposits of valuable metallifer- ous minerals and great coal mines are known to exist and must be made accessible to the raliroad and to ¢épast transportation. While no extensive oil development Has_as yet been made, it is well known to this department tha cations of valullble oil deposit: from-Point Barrow to the Seward peninsula.” : BANKER TO GO ON TRIAL. | R. Holmes of Sparta Charged With Violating Banking Laws. : SPARTA, Ga., December 8.—Trial of Robert Holmes on a charge of violatlon of state hafking laws, hich - followed the failure of the Rgnk -of Sparta, of which he was| president, will begin here tomorrow in superior court, it is announced. Judge James S. Park has ruled + that _all depositors and all officers, : directors and stockholders of the bank .and their relatives would be disqualified as jurors, and attorne; expressed the opinion that it mll‘: to hold the trial in some other county of the Ocmulgee Girguit in order to get a jury. New Greek Minister Assumes His Duties Here . B £ NAT, PuaTs JOHANNES GENNADIUS, The newly arrived Greek minister, who will take up his dutics fmmedi- ately. While not u delegate to the arms parley. it is understood the new minister will keep in close touch with developements in the conference which might vitally comcern his country. $2,220,611 DONATED TO CHARITY IN YEAR (Continued from First Page.) received the approval of the com- mittee for the year 1922: Red Cross., District of Columbia Chapter, 16 Jackson place. Aid Assoclation for the Blind, 3050 R street northwest. Red Cross, 17th and D northwest. Associated Charities, northwest. Association for Prevention of Tu- s of the District of Colum- H street northwest. tion for Works of Mercy of Mercy), Klingle road and Ros enue. Baptist Home for Children, 904 Newton street northeast. Big Sisters of the Distrlct of Co- lumbia, 324 Indiana avenue north- west s’ Club of Washington, 230 C street northwest Bey Scouts of America (D. C.), 417 McGill building, Bruen Home, 3535 11th street north- wes Camp Good Will, 923 H street northwest. Camp Pleasant, 923 H street north- west. Central Union Mission, 622 Louisi- ana avenue northwest. Child’'s Welfare Society, 3100 G street northwest. Children’s Country Home, road, D. C. Christ Chila Society, 324 Indiana avenue northwest. Christian and Eleanore Ruppert Home, Good Hope road, Anacostia, D. Church Orphanage Association of St. John's Parish, 20th and F streets northwest. Citizens' Reliet Association, 923 H street northwest. Community Service, 918 10th street northwest. 4 Council of Jewish Women, Wash- ., 1708 Milbourne place. Eastern Dispensary and ~Casualty Hospital, 708 Massachusetts avenue northeast. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, 1711 New York avenue northwest. ‘Bpiscopal * Eye, Ear -and Throat Hospital, 1147 15th_street northwest. Episcopal Home for Children, Ana. costia, D. C. Florence Crittenden Home and Help Mission, 218 3d street northwest. criendship House Association, 324 Virginia avenue southeast. G(‘nl]ewo;‘ncn‘s League, 806 17th street northwest. 3 Georgetown Industrial Center, 1440 Wisconsin_avenub northwest. George Washington University Hos- pital, 1339 H street northwest. Gospel Mission, 214 John Marshall lace northwest. Poly Family Day Nursery, 519 4th street northwest. ‘ Instructive Visiting Nurse Society, 1413 G street northwest. Jewish Foster Home, 3213 Q street orthwest. n-hu'enlle Protective Association, 203 streets 923 H street Grant |1 street northwest. Martha Home, 418 3d street north- ‘west. Masonic and_Eastern Star Home, !makoma Park, D. C. National Homeopathic Hospital, 2d and N streets northwest. National Training School for Wom- en and Girls, Lincoln Heights, D. C. veedlework Guild of America, 1870 voming avenue. w ¥ House, 470 N street Neighborhood southwest. Noel House Association, 1663 Kra- mer street northeast. Playground and Recreation Asso- ation of America, 1 Madison avenue ew York. Prisoners’ Aid Society, 1311 G street northwest. § Memorial *~ Hospital, 1140 orth Capitol street. Southern Relief Society, In 2402 Pennsylvanla avenue northwest. St. Mary’s Industrial School, Bal- timore, Md. St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, 4th and Channing streets northeast. St. Vincent' de Paul, 324 Indiana avenue northwest. Summer outings committee of the Association Charities, 923 H street northwest. Sunshine Home for Women, Inc., 339 C street northwest. Travelers' Aid Society, Union sta- tion. Trinity Community House, 3d. and C streets northwest. United Hebrew Charities, Eighth Street Temple. 3 Volunteers of America, 2809 M street northwest. Washington Co-operative Soclety, 810 18th street northwest. AL Washington Eye, ., Nose and Throat Hospital, 2517 Pennsylvania avenue northwest. ‘Washington Home for Foundlings, 1715 15th street northwest. Washington Home for Incurables, S and 32d streets northwast. Woman's Clinic, 1237 T northwest. Woman's Evening Clinic, 11th and L streets northwest. Women's Welfare Association, 1023 11th street northwest. Young Men's Christian Association, 1736 G street northw Young Men's Christian Association (colored), 1816 12th street northwest. Young Women’s Christian Assocla- tion, 1719 13th street northwest. Young Women’'s Christian Home, 311 C street northwest. Young Women's Hebrew Associa. tion, 11th street and Pennsylvania avenue northwest. Activities Inspected. Chairman Leese points out that the approvals by the committes are the result of a painstaking survey of the activities of the . socleties named above, and cover all the organiza- tions which permitted the inspection of his committee, as well as those which , were inspected 3ind found wanting. “The requiremen r e S 'oufi'l" eed Mol “Fllling - a n sufficien to warrant equipment and t&’mm:: » separate institution. TR s, “Local conoern govern: a board of responaible and reputable people in actual control its local rs. financial accounts open street of “Acourate el to_inspection by this committee. “Expenditure not out of propor- tion to results accomplished.” DIFERNG BUDG [ TOTALS EXPLANED District Figures Are Based { onVarying Designations for Estimates. The several totals for funds needed to run the District of Columbia in 1923 are not In any way discrepan- cies in amounts, but are due to the differences in designation, it was ex- plained at the bureau of the budget today. The book of estimates gave the es timated appropriations for the Dis- trict_of Columbia for 1923 as $2 570,876.75, while the comparative table of appropriations in the report of the director of the budget carried under the head of estimated budget expenditures for 1923, the total of 25,070,877, an apparent difference of 070, Difference Explained. The distinction is between the esti- mated appropriations and estimated expenditures, and 'is explained in this manner: A When ‘the District Commissioners as well as the heads of other branches of the government submitted their estimates for appropriations for the year 1923 they were told to prepare figures estimating the amounts of moneys from so-called ‘“permanent and indefinite appropriations” which ‘would be left over from 1942 to be paid in 1923, then estimate the amount which would be left over from 1923 to be paid in 1924, take the dif- ference between these two and apply it to the amount appropriated. In the case of the figures for 1923 it leaves an amount less than the ap- propriations. A case in point is the estimate of appropriations for the Washington aqueduct, an appropriation of $3,- 00 for which is requested. This appropriation will extend over a period of years, and the amount for each year will be charged only to that year in which it is used. Formerly Under Other Heads. The comparative statement of es- timates of appropriations carried the total of $27,195476.75. This is the amount included as the District total in the alternative budget submitted to Congress, and is more than $2,000,000 larger than the amount carried in the book of estimates. The explanation of this is that it in- clud estimates of appropriaticns for institutions and projects which heretofore were carried under other government heads, such, for instance, as the Zoological Park, which was formerly under the head of the Smithsonian Institutio: STRESS ‘SIX POINTS FOR HEALTH WEEK Tuberculosis Association Workers Boost Dr. Ballqu’s Recommendations. With heaith week and education week being observed simultaneously throughout the countr, ton Tuberculosis Asociation is stress- ing “six points” which it has steadily advocated since 1917. These six needs, it is pointed out, will be well provided for if Congress will accept the recommendations made by Supt. of Schools Ballou in his health sur- vey. Six Health Points. 1. A thorough medical examination of each child upon admission to the ppblic schools and annually there- after. 2. A careful charting of all physical defects found by such examinations. 3. A follow-up _system, chiefly through the school nurse, through which these defects may be correct- ed, so far as they are remedial by medical or dental attention. 4. The adoption of a complete sylla- bus for health teaching, as carefully prepared as the syllabus | teaching of any other subject, accord- ing to the ages-and grades of the children. 5. Making health teaching as im- portant as any other subject, and the employment of the same system of marks and requirements as that used for reading, writing or arith- metic. 6. The requirement that all reme: dial physical defects shall be cor- rected before the child receives a certificate of graduation. Co-Operation Is Needed. ‘The proposed program will require the hearty co-operation of parents and public sentiment must also be aroused it is declared. The Wagh- ington Tuberculosis ociation is anxious to do everything within its power to support Dr. Ballou in his health program and urges the co- operation of egerybody interested. One way to help is to buy Christma: B so that the association may continue its educational health prop- aganda, it is pointed out. Christmas seals are being sold faster this year by both children of the pub- lic and the private schools than in any previous year, it is stated. Already twenty-four of the public schools have reported their supplies sold out and have asked for more. If other schools do as well, the re- turns will be most gratifying and help- ful to the Washington Tuberculosis Association, whose work is so largely concerned with the physical welfare and the health of the Washington 18chool children. The booth sales of seals at the hotels, banks and depart- ment stores opened yesterday accord- ing to schedule. The reports at the headquarters of the Tuberculosis As- sociation, 923 H street northwest, show that 500,000 seals have been sold to lhlt-. not counting the school and booth sales. . —_— WATER PLEA DENIED, Chevy Chase Not Allowed to Draw From D. C. Supply. Request of the Washington subur- ban sanitary commigsion to have Dis- trict water extended to the homes of Chevy » Md., was refused by the Commissidners in board session to- day., ‘The ‘water for Ch Chas would have to come Zon the " high service station of the Distrist, which is taxed mere heavily at .the present time than any other part of the loual water system, 5 I the Washing- | for the| e funeral procession passing through the streets >t Morioks, the home town of the Japanese state: According to the old custo numbering thousands of m PEACE IN IRELAND IN NEW AGREEMENT ___(Continued from First Page.) dom regarding tariffs. The delegates of the dail eireann, however, ex- plained that it would be to Ireland’s advantage to have free trade between the two islands and that she would adopt this voluntarily. Definite promise of allegiance to the empire by the Sinn Fein is pro- vided in the Irish peace terms, the Central News states. The agreement, it says, is satisfactory to the Kkin in that it involves Ireland's associa- tion with the empire. Agreement Is Unexpected. The agreement, after a session which lasted more than three hours, came as an unexpected justification of the feeble hopes expressed last night after a day of conferences, during which it was at one time understood that tho negotiations had definitely broken down, and that only questions of continuing the truce in Ireland re- mained to be considered. Desmond Fitzgerald and Eamon J. Duggan, members of the Sinn Fein ipeace delegation, left for Dublin to- {day. It is thought they are carrying a draft of the agreement reached be- tween the British and Sinn Fein con- ferees early this morning. All other Sinn Fein delegates remained here. f the oriental peol women and children, Vital Questions at Issue SUDDENLY REACHED ' POPE GREATLY PLEASED. Message Received Here Conveys His Satisfaction on Peace. By the Associated Press. Pope Benedict, a message from Rome today said, expressed great satisfaction on loarning that an agreement had been reached by the British and Sinn Fein delegates’ af- fording a basis for settlement of the Irish question. The Irish struggle has been one of the greatest anxieties for the pontiff. Representatives of both sides have had very active friends in Rome. Pope Benedict did not conceal his sympathy wita what he regarded as the {just claims of the Irish people, but con- | @emned the use of violence on both | sides. | It is therefore quite natural that the { Pope should be glad that an under- standing has been reached by which, solving _the Irish question. an end will also be put to the discussions which have existed in Rome between the Irish and English and their re- spective supporters. DEFINES IRELAND'S STATUS. “The Irish Free State” Will Be Name, Birkenhead Asserts. By the Associated Prees. BIRMINGHAM, England, December 6.—Ireland hereafter will be known officially as “The Irish Free Staté,” under the agreement reached at last night's London conference, it was an- nounced by Lord Chancellor Birken- head in an address here today. “With one single important reser- vation,” declared Lord Birkenhead, “we place Ireland precisely in the po- sition of Canada, Australia, New Ze; land and South Africa. And there is no power, subject to the reservation ‘which I shall indicate, that is given to any one of these great self-govern- ing dominions that we shall not equal- 1y concede to the state which is to be created.” Lord Birkenhead said the parliament to be set up would be supreme in its own domain in matters of finance, but that arbitrators would determine the amount to be assumed by Ireland as her proportion of the national debt and war expenditure. ULSTER IS SKEPTICAL. Comment Withheld Until Text of New Terms Is Seen. By the Assoclated Press. BELFAST, December 6.—News of the agreement between the British and Sinn Fein delegates in London was published in the late editions of the Belfast morning newspapers. The Northern Whig says editorially that. until it is known how the terms originally rejected by the Sinn Fein- ers have bheen modified so as to s cure _their acceptance. Jjudgment should be suspended. Ulster's posi- tion has been repeatedly defined, and that, in all events, will not be dam- aged. The utmost concession has been made by Ulster, and whatever the consequences may be, the province cannot be a party to any further weakening of the links that bind her to Great Britain. “1t at M * the Northern Whig adds he southern Irish are willing to act as loyal citizens of the empire, Ulster will co-operate within the lim- its already defined, but there can be no closer association until they have given proof that they have pledged allegiance to the king, not as a move in & game, but in spirit and in truth.” Official ecircles today showed a dis- position to reserve comment on the reported -Irish agreement until the terms become known. Political lead- ers; however, are said to regard any compromise between the British and Sinn Fein delegates as defeat for Ulster. The views of the parties to tiations, they say, are so irreconel that it is dificult to imagine that what will: appeal to the Sinn Fein will be regarded as sati to be_eml mitted to the Bri the. dail eirp to make changi o U would be dealt with under this plan. N , the ensket was carried all the way on foot, and followed through the streets, the m: During Irish Negotiations The big questions at issue between | | 'the British government and the rep " | insistence that negofiations, but this move seemed ikely to be balked by De Valera's the Irish delegates resentatives of the Irish republican | ¥ 8 REC B o0 o ice must be ac- parliament have been: Shall Ireland become entirely inde- pendent or, if it remain within the British empire, shall there be two sep- | arate governments in Ireland, one for Ulster and one for the rest of the country? Prime Minister Lioyd George has re- fused to consider any proposal which would put Ireland outside the empire. The Sinn Feiners refused to admit that Ireland should be split in two parts. Ulster refused to unite in one par- iament with the 8inn Feiners. It has organized a parliament of its own under the government of Ireland act. The Sinn Felners refused to set up | a parliament for the south of Ireland. as proposed in that act. They ad- hered to their own Irish parliament, called the dail eireann., which they t up independently as the gov- body of the Irish republic. Situation as Truce Began. That was the situation when the truce began last July, after King George had made a' conclliatory speech at the opening of the new par- liament in Ulster. = The purpose of the latest negotia- tions defined by Lloyd George and accepted by the Sinn Fein representa- tives, is “to ascertain how the associ; tion of Ireland with the community of | nations, known as the British empire, may be best reconciled with Irish na- tional aspiration: The conferences began in July. Both sides have at times entertained high- er hopes of a final and satisfactory ttlement grob&bly than at any time since the Irish question became a thorn in the side of the British em- pire, but there have been several crises when the negotiations seemed doomed to failure. The first of these occurred when| Liloyd George offered to De Valera at | consultation in London a form of| | seclation™ self-government in Ireland something like that prevailing In the British, dominions. The dail eireann utterly | rejected this proposal on the ground | that it did not afford even genuine | dominion rule. For a time it seemed that a deadlock had been reached. i Lloyd George endeavored to resume | | cepted as having derived their au- | thority from a free and independent Ireland. The British premier re- fused to concede that point, as, he said, it would conatitute a recogni- tion at_the very outset of Ireland’s claims for separation from the Brit- ish_empire. This ohstacle was overcome by the two parties agreeing upon Lloyd George's formula that “the purpose of the conference should be to ascer- taln how Ireland's association With the empire might be best reconciled with Ireland’s national aspirations. Under that formula meetings have been in progress since early October The proceedings have been secret. It has been reported, however, that British representatives submitted & plan to give Ireland a status of “as- with the empire and to allow her an almost complete meas- ure of self-government to be exer- cised by separate parliaments in Ul ster and south Ireland, respectively. and by a central council jointly chosen. Ulster Again to Fromt. This, brought Ulster again into the negotiations and compelled Premier Lloyd George to defer his trip to the Washington conference on.limitation of armament so that he could devote | his time to an effort to overcome Ul- ster’s hesitation or objection to co- operate with the south of Ireland in any form of common government. The general understanding was that | the Sinn Fein delegates insisted that there must be no partition of Ireland into north and south with different {:rml of government and different re- tions to the empire. “To reconcile these conflicting view- } points Llogd Georse invited Sir James | Craig, the Ulster premier, to come to London in the first week in Novem- ber to talk things over. The situa tion was so delicate that.Sir James desired the support and advice of other Ulster leaders, and, finally, all the members of.the Ulster cabinet were called to London. Unionist opin- ion in England has been steadfastly against any “coercion of Ulster. was generally conceded that one of the most difficult stages of the ne- gotiatios had been reached. Sidelights on the Conference | Admiral Baron Kato, head of the Japanese delegation, was clad in uni- | form for the first time when he saw | the press representative yesterday. Formerly he had always appeared in civilian garb. He wore the undre: uniform ‘of the Japanese navy, which is as severely simple as could be imagined. It is of dark blue. with no trimings except the small badge of rank on the standing collar. A triple row of ribbons, representing various medals, gave a brilliant touch of color. Vice Admiral Kato, the chief naval ad- viser, who stood back in the crowd listening, wore the same costume, with the aiguelettes of an aid over the right shoulder. This accessory was of white cord instead of the usual gold. The Japanese are thorough. Just as the interpreter finished tranalating Baron Kato's brief, but important, MUST ADJUST WA TO UNKNOWN Forecasting possible eapons which might be used in the next war” is believed to be an im- possibility by the body of distin- guished jurists composing the sub- committee on laws of warfare. Therefore, instead of formulating rules that would be applicable for each new invention, the group has decided that the most practical method would be to map out & few hensive princip! along hi ::Z"ll:: 3 -nd’ let these prineipl be made to cover the future develep- t of '.l{onl. meAnuh%u:h he committee has 5‘. v advantage of all information able to the military and naval ex- erts, the members realize the futil. y in trying to imagine what the future may hold in destructive m chines and deadly chemicals. In the short period since the world war it is understood that several of the na- tions have made great strides in per- SISTER OF MRS. HUMES IS CROSS-EXAMINED Mrs. Hilda Portner Derby Tells of Domestic Life of Grahams, at Alienation Trial. Cross-examination of Mra. Hilda Portner Derby by former Justice ‘Wright, counsel for Lieut. Lorimer O. Grabam, U. 8. N,, who 18 suing A. L. Humes of New. York for $500,000 dam- ages for alleged alienation of the af- fections of his wife, Bisa Portner Humes, occupled the entire orning session of Circuit Division 1 ford and Hi te terday sn-{mn detailed l:w':onu l‘#‘ lomestic life of sha G% the diverce.in tald ef sttentions paid by Lieut. Graham to Mrs. Mary Black ennan,’ wife of a:Norfolk banker, speech, which the delegate had learned by heart, evidently, an attache brought in a great sheaf of mimeographed copies of the transiation for distribu- tion. Later, when Vice Foreign Minis- ter Hanihara had finished a brief dis- sertation on Shantung province, an- other attache handed out large and handsomely gotten-up maps of this much-discussed portion of China. ‘When Mr. Hanihara, in discussing stories to the effect that the Japanese have completely overrun Shantung, said, with a grin: “This is all bunl Baron Kato joined in the general laugh that followed. The principal diversion of C. A. Mon- | talto, secretary general of the Portu- guese delegation, is chess. He is an expert, and plays with surprising rapidity. He has had many games in his leisure hours since his arrival here, and, =o far, in spite of various handicaps given his opponents, has not lost & game. RFARE LAWS FUTURE WEAPONS destructive | fecting new weapons, an example of which is said to be a three-inch rapid-fire gun for airplanes which is designed to take up its own recoil so that it can be manipulated with great accuracy from a frail platform. The commit is said to feel thi the possibilities in the future of the airplane, submarine, poison gases and liquids capable of slaying multitudes are so vast that it would be In vain to try to make detailed rules for future fighting, because such regula- tions_necessarily would be most in- complete. and any pow: violate the rules could e loophole or another through this adequacy. A permanent commission whose duties wouls to keep in constant touch with developments and recom- ment changes in the rules is beéing considered. The five countries rep- resented on the committee, it has been pointed out, could sp only for their own military forces, and it is felt vital that other governments b invited to agree also to any regula tions formulated. who 18 suing him for $50,000 damages, and said Mrs. Glennan reciprocat Y, evidencing marked interest in t! ficer. ‘Mra. Derby repeated many of the statements of previous witnesses as to the domestic life of the Grahams ard declared that het had in- formed her in 1918 that stand Lorimer's treatment and neg: lect any- longer, and requested wit- ness to be her companion on the trip Yo Ren xamination Judge iem from n at Chicago. appear in_the lobby of tha ho- tel at Chi when they were regis- tering, and did take them for an au- u::z:i o ridé In Chicage, the witness The &.m”l session was taken up with testimony: former serv- -‘nt‘q and with the reading of deposi- tions. R cort He did It THOMPSON LOSES POINT. Tribune Victor in First Skirmish in $500,000 Suit. CHICAGO, December 6.—Mayor = liam H. Thompson lost the first legal skirmish in his suit against the Chi- cago Tribune, when Judge David M. Brothers of the circuit court yester- day overruled a demurrer filed by the mayor's attorneys to the pleas of jus- tification of the Tribune. The mayor's $500,000 libel suit was brought against the Tribune as a re- sult of eriticism by that ncwspaper of the mayo! war record. Attorney David H. Jackson, repre- senting Mayor Thompson, was given until December 23 to determine whether he will file & reply to the pleas or appeal the ruling. —_— WOOD 70 TAKE UP ISLANDS' DEFENSES By the Associated Press. MANILA. P. I, December 5.—At the conclusion of the Washington conference on limitation of arma ment Governor General Wood will take up with the authorities in Wash- ington the question of the defense of the Philippines, it was officially an- nounced today. Brig. Gen. Haan, who is coming to the Philippines to take charge of the organization of a tactical division of troops, Is expected to bring a state- ment of federal government's policy in this connection. Governor General Wood announced that the Philippine national guard was being disbanded, but that all available officers would be placed on the reserve list. All that remains of the national guard is a group of five officers and nineteen men, which is guarding the property of the organ ization. PRESIDENT ASKS PARTY UNITY IN HIS ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS (Continued from First Page.) front row of the press gallery was Josephus Daniels, former Secretary of the Navy, now correspondent of his own paper in Raleigh, N. C A precedent was established Chairman Fordney of the ways means committee and the “ac {minorit leader, Representative Finis Garrett of Tennessee, they got chairs placed on the floor of the House for about forty corres- pondents of foreign papers. This dele. gation wayg escorted by Robert Barry, representing the standing committee jof the press gallery. James Preston superintendent of ihe press gal and Henry Suydam, liaison officer among ihe correspondents at the in- ternational conference. Arms Delegates in Attendance. Every one of the official delegates to the international conference on limitations of armament occupied a seat in the diplomatic gallery today jwith the exception of Secretary Hughes and Senators Lodge and Un- derwood. Among those attending were Prince Tokagawa of Japan, Jonkheer Beelaerts van Blokland of ]lhe etherlands, Senator Shanzer, {Italy; Mr. Sgze, the Chinese minister jat Washington; Senator Pearce, Au- istralia; Sir John Salmon, New Zea- iland; Scrinavasa Sastri of India. Lord Lee of Fareham, British empire; M. Jules Jusserand, the French am- bassador at Washington; Sir Auck- land Geddes, the British ambassador t Washington: Sir Robert Borden of anada; Baron de Cartier, the Belgian ambassador at Washington; Mr. Hani- !nara, the Japanese vice minister of {foreign affairs; Mr. Wellington Koo, the Chinese minister at London; Baron Kato of Japan, M. Sarraut of France, Mr. Grouitch, minister of the Serbs. Croats and Slovenes at Washington, and Mme. Grouitch. Occupy Fromt Seats. The delegates to the conference on limitation of armament, headed by Secretary of State Hughes and Am- bassador Geddes of Great Britain, oc- cupied seats in the front row of the House chamber. Secretary Hughes entered the House at 12:15 and took a seat on the re- publican side. His appearance was greeted with an outburst of hand- clapping from the House members, who arose from their seats and re- mained standing for several minutes. A few moments later Ambassador Geddes, heading the delegates,to the arms limitation conference, marched to the floor and met prolonged ap- plause. by nd ng T Semators March Im. Speaker Gillett rapped for order at 12:20, shortly after which an attache of the House announced the Sen- of which marched in, headed by Sen- ator Cummins of Iowa, president pro tem in the absence of Vice President Coolidge, who is in Massachusetts at- tending the municipal elections. They filed immediately to their seats on both sides of the chamber while the ‘House members and the arms dele- gates stood in their places. As soon as Senator Cummins reach- ed the rostrum Speaker Gillett ap. pointed Representatives Madden, Mon- dell, Cannon, Garrett and Pou as a committee of the House to meet the President and escort him to the cha ber. Senator Cummins appointed as the Senate members of this committee ;| Senators Lodge, Hitchcock, Nelson, Simmons and Smoot. The committee immediately left the chamber. In Executive Gallery. . Mrs. Harding, accompanied by Brig. Gen. Sawyer and several other guests, appeared in the executive gallery at 12:27. She was immediately recog- nized, and there was & general out- burst of applause from the floor and in the galleries. All of those in the in- | hall rose and remained standing until Mrs. Harding took her seat In the front row of the gallery. Mrs. Hard- ing bowed her recognition of the re- ception given her. Promptly at 12:30 the President was announced, and he immediately began the reading of his message. There were frequent outbursts of applause. ‘When the President reached that point in his message in which he made reference to ‘‘our inseparability from world affairs” there was hand-clap- ping from the democratic side. President Liberally Applanded. From the republican side came con- siderable applause when the President declared for party responsibility in legislation. Again republicans ap- plauded when the President spoke of the “billion-dollar reduction in the tax draft upon the people.” Repub- lican members also expressed ap- proval of remarks stressing import- ance of the budget system. In asking the indulgence of Con- gress for hort ‘time in not comply- ing with the provision of the Jones shipping act, which would require termination of all existing commercial treaties, President Harding said “but power. and ships without comity of relationship will not give us the ex- ded -ade which is inseparably d with a great mercl t ma- and there he was interrupted by applause The President’s statements regard- ing agriculture and railroad rates were delivered without demonstration, but there was considerable applause when the executive declared for reg- ulation of labor organizations. 3 demonstration pronounced hen the wi ent de bor organizations should not be per- <itted to exact unfair terms or cause ate of the United States, the members | U.5. NOT “TRADING” FOR AGREEMENTS “Trial Balloons” Before Pub- lic Not Discussed in Con- ference Sessions. MAIN IDEA STILL STANDS Americans Feel Subjects Up for Discussion Are Too Grave to Be Hurried. BY LEROY T. VERNON. In the interim between open ses- slons of the conference on the limita- tion of armaments there has been much talk in Washinglon about trades” which will eventually bring labuul simultaneous agreements on naval disarmament and on the far ern_questions, and also about the form of the agreements. Up to this time these suggestions have been confined to “staff talk”—that is, they are subjects which entertain the din- |ner tables of the staffs of the various jdelegations and eventually reach the public in the form of “trial balloons " None of these subjects have yet been mentioned in the deliberations of the conference or of its committees. Americans Not “Trading.” Developments within the confer- ence itself up to this time plainly roint to the fact that the American [deleganon is not in the “trading” business. There has been 2 disposi- tion in many quarters to make it ap- pear that the United States is not only asking for naval disarmament, but that it is begging for it could be further f Secretary Hughe the conference th on naval disarmament he stated th tern on whi th ‘nited would consent to di He g the reasons i posal, economic, historical and senti mental, and invited the other powers {to consider it. That proposal wu< | based on a principle the fairness of { which no other power hax scrious! { questioned except in a few detail< {The main idea still stands, and the American delegation is standin- quarely behind it. 1f this plan w0t acceptable to the other powers there can be no agreement _other formula cquall atisfa is found, and upon thit {the United States would reach its idecision, just as is now being done by { Jupan. Subjects Discussed on Merits. The criticism has been made that “laying its cards on the table” on Inaval disarmament the Americau | delegation, in effect. disarmed itself, and thereby laid itself open to a jdemand for “trades” in reaching am |agreement on far castern questions. | This suggestion is based on the same jerroneous assumption that the | United States is asking or begging jthe conference to consent to nas {disarmament. and is ready to “pay iany reasonable pri to get such an jagreement. In the minds of the American delegation these two sub- jects have no relationship of that {kind. The United States stands ready to consent to naval disarma- {ment on the principle it has laid down. and it is also ready to reach an agree- lmenl on fal‘_ ecastern questions on the | basis of principles to be laid down |which will be as practical, clear and {understandable as the proposal on {naval disarmament. Each of these { questions, thus far. is being deter- { mined separately upon its merits, and } this method of procedure will be foi- ilowed through to the end. | No Line on Agreement: 1t is likewise clear that. with the exception of military alliances. no line !has vet been drawn by any delegation n the conference as to the form which agreements reached by the con- ference may take. That is a bride which the statesmen at the confere; table will not cross until they get (o it. The question of the fulfiliment of ]lhe agreements to be reached at this down American proposal conferen the last on the offic genda. In the meantime there is Ivast amount of “staffl talk” abou: treaties, arbitration treaties, con- sortiums, ententes and “gentlemen's agreements” which is whally foreigu to_the conference itsclf. Finally, there is a distinet feeling on the part of the American delegates that the subjects up for consideration at this conference are too importan not to say grave, to be disposed of i a hurry. From the American view point this conference was called for serious purpose; namely, to agree upon naval disarmament and to re move from the r eastern question all threats, suspicions and misunder- standings which might eventually lead to war if not disposed of in frank, open and careful way. It is clear, therefore, that the Washington conference is no place for anybody who is in a hurry. That is neither the spirit necessary to the accomplish- ment of agreements nor is it the at- mosphere conducive to deliberation {and complete understanding. It is im- {possible to say how long the confer- {ence will continue in action. It has |already accomplished more ‘in three weeks than anybody expected could be done, but that brief lapse of time may not measure the time yet neces- sary to bring about the agreements {which the conference was called to consummate. (Copyright, 1921.) SUGGESTS WAY TO AVERT ‘SCRAPPING’ OF CRUISERS Fast passenger vessels could be made out of the six American battle cruisers now under construction which would be scrapped under the limitation of arms program, Joseph ‘W. Powell, president of the Emer- gency Fleet Corporation, sald last night. At least three of them, he said, could be converted, and he added that they would be “the safest pas- senger ships afloat,” if that were done. Mr. Powell sald that as converted. the cruisers would reach a speed of about twenty-five knots, instead of the thirty-three knots they would make If their construction as war- craft should be continued. A large portion of the machinery designed to produce 180,000 horsepower for battle cruisers, he said, would be unnecessary and not economical jf {they were turned into commercial craft. One_of these battle cruisers con- verted into a passenger 'vessel, he said, would have accommodations for 1,000 first-class passengers, 2,000 sec- ond-class and 2,000 steerage, as well as space for 5000 tons of freight. Such a_ passenger ship, he asserted, would have the advantage of being the only really non-sinkable liner on the seas, because of the bulkhead construction of the hull. distress to the publie. 8 !tions for an industrial tribunal were |followed intently. but without ap- plause, except from a few republicans l-z the close of the subject. The President concluded his mes- : at 1:30 o'clock and immediately |]eft the chamber, egcorted by the joint {committee of both houses. There was a genersl outburst of applause both from the floor and from the galleries, which continmed until the President had _pa; through the doorway te the 16bby.