Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1923, Page 39

STRONG U. S. DELEGATION IS GOING TO SANTIAGO Plans of Secretary Hughes for Attending Pan-American Conference Attract B ’ BY BEV MeE&LWAY. HE proposed vislt of Secretary Tughes to South America in coujunc with the opening of the Bfth pan-American con- gress in Santiago rext month is view- ad here as one of the most importnt steps of contemplated in rying out ident Harding's poli of uses for friction anc wniting the republies of the western hemispherd W sym- those ca removin bond of ding. | n 1ty prevent Mr. from Washington, he the ing of the to visit srazil and vathy and unde Provided v furthe Hughes' absenee attend conference Ne Burepean s¢ ne situat ¢ complications to plans to opes itia and Pery, Uruguay, Argentina, Tanama Tt is doubtful if there has ever heen time when the American republi were in closer aceord. The end the Central American conf ¥ last week 2l the submission t tration of the Chilean-1 have removed a of arbi- of eruvian con- the n ail ef th troversy major uses for friction betide \ e crption a vent resumption of relations the United States and Mexic Strikes Itesponsive Chord. "o o st ith the one of the culties which n-Ameriakn po ates has struck in the hegrts and thern sisters. surf ther op out from time to protests against alistie poliey,” commer- oliticully United £ it is die to misrepre this country’s motive from B 1= thioukhor s interpret docirine. Mucl to 1 alonsy weake ris aganda of rival Iy at foolish Undoubtedly th fey of the United responsive minds of heneath [ chord he the are mut- terings which « time in the “imper “ially States. cntation Tn part cutim of Lati tion of it traced and s on with outspoken and of the Part of of Monror to regard believe t a el t at the same who helieve Se through personal con- ders of Latin Amer- many of whom are ne dmit ations. can more at ome time than wise he hrought about by of reams upon ream: messages of friend he by to an them time t retury tact w an zovernn aders in amplish ould othe the intercha of piatitud <hip and & Latin American Sentiment, thinz of the importance with the Latin American countries regard the proposed visit of Secre- ary Hughes was indicated at the meeting of the governing board of the Pan-American Union last week. when the Brazilian ambassador, ad- dressing Mr. Hughes, declared: few months ago vyou made a trip to my country. Then vou had two high special missions, which we will \Iways remember very gratefull One was to represent this countr: and _to bring congratulations {rom the United States to my government and to the people of Brazil on the of the centennial anniver- The other return the visit of Dom Padro 1T to this country some Years 1z0. You had then two credentials signed by the President of the United R 0w you go on another ve Sion. with a special creden- h has no signature, hyt think. is as important, per- haj ¢ important, than the others. This is a credential of the people of the United States, accrediting you as an ador of the friendship I\ this country to the sister republics South and Central America. to A1 those nations how desirous this ‘ountry is th co-operate with them eing what can be done to make vis continent the continent of the sture.” “I have endeavor Hugles in reply tunity to emphasi of that co-operat detract from the Hugzhe us which was to which, 1 . sai “at ev retary v oppor- the importance m which does not sovereignty and in- Aependenc: any Latin_American trate, but. on the other hand, enables W11 the republics in the western hem- isphere to move forward toward the accomplishment of their ideals. hand in hand in gratifying progress, ¢ ture and material. The conference .t Santiago is one of great prom Tt i3 an opportunity which ought to be fully appreciated by all the peo- ples of the Americas. Secretary Root's Vinit. Those who remember the of Secretary of State Root, when he at- tended the opening of the third Pan- American Congress in Rio de Janeiro in 1906, forecast a like result from Mr. Hughes' visit. Mr. Root's trip in- cluded Uruguay., Argentina, Chile Peru, Panama and Colombia. His created . profound impression ut in America. His Zave birih to a_new unde: of this country’s policy to- epublics of “the western which lives to this das. been nothing since that plished quite as toward emphasizing the spirit of sincere friendship which actuates this country in her dealings with the pan-American nation: On the otiier hand. neither Mr, Knox nor Mr. McAdoo in their visits to South Amezica left any distinct im- pression Secretary of State Colby went to South America to T visit rour hroughic <peeelics nding ward (h hemispher h which “irst Page. further fact that the organized church eds a trial upon the orthodoxy of its literal ereed Is another gain frecdom. When it is established. as the controversy between the parson and the bishop established if, that the language of the creed is largely ymbolical and further that any in- terpretation may be put upon the symbolical language that individual reason dictates. the fires are quenched under the heretic's stake if the here- tie will only use a little tact in pro- claiming bis progressive dogma. Ambigulity is the water of amazing grace which has quenched what might have been a consuming fire. Sweet are the uses of ambiguity. The King's Heaven. ROM his tomb in old Egypt they are digging up the king who lived three thousand vears ago. The grandeur that was his on earth is expressed to posterity in gold and silver and preclous stones, and he seems to have been a mighty poten- tate. To minister to his needs and desires ten thousand courtiers, serv- ants and slaves devoted their lives ‘The human being of certaln sorts was eap In those days and metals Certaln sorts were dear. Probably . in his finer moments in his more But [ tor | Wide Interest. turn. officiall the visits to the United States of President Brum of Uruguay, in 1913, and President Pes- soa of Brazil, in 1919, and his short visit 10 Argentina was made because Argentina was neachy. Secretary Hughes' last visit to South America was a Lurried one to attend the open- ing of the Brazilian centennial last fummer, and at (he same time to re- turn the visit (o this country of Em- peror Dom Tedro 11, A Gathering of Leaders. Seerctary Flughes' presence at the cpening of the pan-Am confer- ence will add to its prestige. This country’s example in s reiary of State is being followed by the other Americau natlons, who are naming their foremost statesmen to represent them. It will be a gather- ng of the leaders in political and cconomic thought of the western world. The importance with which the United States regards the forthcoming pr edings of the confere; is no more plafnly illustrated than in the Choice of 1t= delegation. &ronp, composed of Ambassador Fletclier, as chairman, and Dr. George 1. Vinceut of the Rockefeller Found: tion. Eouator Frank B. Kellogg, Sena- tor ‘Atlee Pomerenc, former Senator Wiilard Saulsbu Frank T tridge of Vermont, Col. Wilian Lri Fowler and Dr. L. 8. Rowe, {s perhap: the strongest delegation which has cver represented the United States at uny Pan-Amerfean confererce, | Knows Latin Amerlea. Ambassador Fletcher is peculiarly | fitted for his task as chairman by hi ! knowledge of Latin American affairs jgained first hand while in the | diplomatic service .and as under | Seeretary of State. He has served in |€uba as a legution attache. He was !minister to Chile and the first am- bassador to that oountry, and his service there was marked by unusual He also a former ambassador to Mesico. George L. Vincent will attend the conference as an expert on public health and sanitation and will repre- n institution which is doing a work in South America along those lines His work as a director of these activities will enable him to speal with authority on matters of this nature which the congress will consider. snator Kellogg. Senator Pomerene and former Senator Saulsbury, in ad- dition to their familiarity with inter- national questions gained from sery- ice on the Senate foreign relations ommittee, are lawyers of note. whose legal advice will prove valuable. _ Frank L. Partridge. a lawyer and | banker of Vermont, served as a solicitor |in the Department ‘of State many vears ago, and afterward entered the diplo- | matic corps. His most important post was minister to Venezuela. In Touch With Diplomats. William Erfe Fowler, 2 Washington financier and economist, has been an | interested observer of Latin American |arasrs or many years ana has formea [strong friendships here in Washing- {ton with members of the Latin Amer- {ican diplomatic corps. He was one ‘er the very few men outside the diplomatic_corps who went to New York for the unveiling of the Bolivar |statue as a guest of the Venezuelan government Dr. LS. Rowe, director general of the Pan-American Union, is one of the foremost students of Latin Ameri- can affairs in the United States. e will altend the Santiago convention, not only as a government delegate, but s representative of the Pan- American Union, which decldes upon the questions to be discussed by the congress., While the Chileah proposal for a limitation of armament and _the Truguayan proposal for a pan-Amer- can league of nations have been con- sidercd the two most important ! questions for discussion on the pro- gram of the conference. the program is by no means confined to these i but ions vital to future pan-Ameri- can relations. Among these questions are: populurity. sent great | i } On Conference Agem: The organization of the Pan-Amer- Tnion by treaty, in accord- with a resolution adopted at last pan-American conference. This resolution reorganized the “Bu- reau of American Republics” under its present name of the Pan-Ameri- establishing its seat in ic ance the can Union, Washington. The results of the convention of jurists, which met at Rio de Janeiro in 1912 to effect a codification of in- ternational law. Publio health matters and the re- | sults of the international sanitary conferences held at various times | here and in Latin America. | Laws and regulations concerning co-operation among the Latin Ameri- | can countries in improving facllities for communication on ocean and land and in the alr. Co-operation concerning the super- vision of merchandise entering inter- national commerce. Measures to simplify passports and the adopttion of standard forms. Co-operation in studying agricul- | tural problems—including the uni- formity of agricultural statistics, elimination of animal discases and the interchange of useful plants and seeds. - | Consideration of methods for ju” | dicial or arbitral settlement of po | litical or commercial disputes be- tween the America |human hours of aspiration, he | dreamed, as we all do, of a day or a }maw‘ where things—meaning broad- {1y human relations—would be dif- | ferent. He seems to have had a |dream of heaven. Possibly he | thought of it as a place where some approximate justice would be done. Heaven is the place provided. in our philosophy of life to even things up— fo pare down the accumulation of the greedy, to add to the treasure of the humble, Well, he fis resurrected, bodily, at least, in a strange world. Men fly through the air like birds, talk through the air like gods, produce light and heat by turning buttons, make water spring from the wall by twisting faucets. Food is produced enough for all, even though in the passing century it {s inhumanly dis- tributed. Comforts that once were kings' luxuries are common now to those who once were slaves. A man steps to a ticket window and buve collapsible distance—a mile or a thousand miles, at his wili. And —miracles of miracles — the children of slaves, touching a button, may make kings talk and great singers sing and great bands play. Moreover, kings, poor devils, are only servants in gaudier livery than their fellows. Human sweat and blood, which 3,000 years ago was the cheap- est thing on earth, today may be had, but only for a price, often at only a good price. . The marvel of it all would fill the dead king's eyes with terror. And should he ask who made this new heaven from the old earth which he knew, men would have to tell him that it all came about bacause a voung man in Judca dramatized by hit death & philosophy that dignified the human soul dfng Ler Sec- | The present | rar- | covers a wide range of | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 'SECRETARY HUGHES AND DELEGATES TO PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE AT SANTIAGO|TURKS ARE NOT LIKELY { i i ! | i SECRETARY HUGHES ! { CoL. WiLLIAM ERIc FOWLER | 1 BY HENRY W. BUNN. HE following is a brief summar of the most important news of the world for the seven days ended February 1v. The Ruhr and the Rhineland.—The | struggle continues obscurely, not un- | like some Arthurian battle describ- ed by Tennyson. There has been little disorder during the week, but a great increase of sabotage has constrained | the French authorities to threaten | the death penalty for the mosi out- | rageous The embargo vn expe occupled Germany has been effective It has been extended to include by-products of coal On Sunday the 41l pushed forward the I (in Baden. opposite Strassburg) as to take in the railway junc of Appenweir and Offenburs; says the official statement. in rep: for the refusal of the Germun thorities to furnish al for the P: jOrient and Paris-Prague pre { whereas the Versailles treaty requ {that they furnish every facility trains of the lies crossing Germany, The defensive argument of the mans _that it is the fault of the ¥French through depriving them of coal that the required service is lack- ing. is a typical “passive-resist iargument. The argument in rebuttal—namn to seize important German_arteries of transportation— is an effective tit for the German tat nd then somic The latest French circle the important town of Elberfelt on What this may portend imagination. The Germa | | i | case the French Il bridgehead 1 i move is to en- manufacturing the Wupper. | intrigues the | railwaymen remain adamant in_their refusal to assist in | transportation of fuel to France or Belgium _or of supplies for, or per- | sonnel of, the occupying forces. West | of the Rhine they are all on strike. | In the Ruhr basin they seem to be for the most part at work assisting in services other than those named | above. The French have continued to I make it their first solicitude to main- | tain the distribution of adequate food supplies to the population. and their second to maintain the distribution of | adequate fuel supplies to the popul: tion and to the German industries; this to the retardation of their plan | to get coal on the move to France | and Belgium. They have a militarized belt line around the Ruhr basin, with complete French or Belgian person- nel. They have,just sent into the Rulir basin enough additional French rallwaymen to feed the belt line with coal cars from the complicated syi tem of cross lines. From now on. doubtless, attempts at sabotage will increase. but M. Trocquer, the French minister of public works, is confident. “The methodic transportation.” he de- clares, “of coal and coke to the allied countries, will soon be complete and effective.” The above is a very reassuring Govelopment from the French point of view. But over against it must be get a new development of a most disquieting sort. Some days ago the coal miners in the Sarre valley struck. and on the S8th 20,000 or so 1 raine coal miners went out. The o tensible {seus in each case ir a waie one. But the real cause of the Sarre strike is partly the desire of the| miners (fomented by agitators from | across the Rhine) to co-operate with | their countrymen, and partly com- munist agitation. Agitation by French communist leaders is responsible for the Lorraine strike; their object is political, though most of the miners are hornswoggled into the bellef that the issue Is purely economlic. Further strikes of French miners, among whom the communists are numerous and influential far beyond their num- bers, are threatened, The communist Jeaders are explciting the embarrass- ments of the French government in the interest of Moscow and general anarchy. Doubtless the French gov- ernment will know how to deal with them and will get the French strikers at work again, but the Sarre situ tion is more dubious. These strikes have already reduced the supply of coal to France by 40 per cent. Should thie situation get much worse, there might, of course, be dangerous politi- cal reactions within France: which | is, of course, the goal of the com- munists desire, The struggle pre- cipitated by the French occupation of the Ruhr seems to be broadening out and intensifying. 1 recur to the like- noss to some Arthurian battle in Tennyson's pages, an intense gloom brooding over tho blind struggie. 1 expect Poincare to win out, but the Week seems to me to end more dubi- his great experiment than did l ously for last week. 4o DR.L.5. Rowe I think main Other mine condition of other than mining, rman functionaries, of unoccupied German: terial change in these week hus heen reported. The very latest report (which, however, 1 cite doubtfully) culls for more modification of the nbove. The German railwaymen in the Ruhr are said » he on gencral strike again, thus further retarding the French plan for shipments of fuel to France and I have fairly indicated the developments of the week. of the situation—the the Ruhr basin, the great industries the attitude of the reactions etc.—no ma- during the neh personnel in order strbution of food and wesities to the Rubr popula- to in other ne tion Lausanne and After—on the 4th the L: > ended. No, wa leaving for Paris hief French dele Nothing s broken rupture— merely e confer- ence. The secretary general remains in Lausanne until further orders. The secretariat the conference continues to function normally.” What important, Ismet Pasha. z for Angora, de- clared hir f to the same effett to the secretary general of the confer- ence; he lded that the Mudania armistice remained effective. He left & secretury at Lausanne, Lord Curzon had sworn by his hopes of a dukedom to leave Lausanne on the 4th and he did. Ismet had pro- posed to ike out from the treaty offered him the economic and finan- cial clauses and those proposing a Substitute for the capitulations, leay- ing those matters to further negotia- tian, and 1o Sign the treaty so muti- lated. Lord Curzon, M. Bompard and the M quis Di arroni, the chief representatives of Great Britain. France and Italy, would not hear to such an arrangement. The treaty, they insisted. would be fatally imperfect, a mere makeshift, without the clauses Ismet proposes to lop off; the subject matter of those clauses had been exhaustively canvassed, further debate thereon yould be useless, they said. Lord Curzon quite justly urged upon Ismet that acceptance of the proferred terms “would place the Turkish state in a position not only of political independence and as- Cured sovereignty. but of _mili- tary and territorial security, such as Turkey never before enjoved even in the plentitude of her power.” No doubt Tsmet admitted in his mind the truth of the above, and most prob- ably, allowed full discretion. he would have signed the treaty without important modification. But almost certainly he had orders from Angora not to sign. Those country gentlemen of the Angora assembly are suffering from the combined effects of Igno- rance and swelled head. They are feeling their oats. The victory over Greece threatens to prove their un- doing. Unloss they give heed to the returning Ismet talking reason, as I feel sure he will, they are likely to imperil the legitimate gains achleved by their truly glorious nationalist movement. That is, if the allies con- tinue to stand together. race is lacking for any but the briefest notice of the new develop- ment at Smyrna. As the reader Knows, notification was given to the allied high' commissioners at Con- stantinople and to the commanders of foreign war vesseels in Smyrna har- bor, that after February 7 no foreign warships of 17000, would be allowed in Smyrna Larbor and that not more than one such insignificant craft of any foreign nation would be allowed there at & time. The high commissioners pro- tested vigorously to Angora and notl- fied their government: which tele- graphed Angora where o get off and ordered powerful warcraft te &myrna to test the Turkish order. That, of course, 18 the way to deai WIBY the Turk. The Smyrna com- mandant having been told to go to the devil by the-foreign naval com- manders in the harbor and seeing their ships cleared for action post- Heled “the operation of the order to Dontet 'of the 9th, Just ere the sun Sint down he informed those belli- o (and doubtless in consequence Giaappointed) gentlemen that by in- Structions from Angera “the status would be maintained until the vas settled by fllimr‘,m‘{“fi e This business will furnis e omie chapter for the historics. Angora's communications with the out- side world are Timited. Can it be that wan the preposterous expression of a bitis ‘Tunk at Angora caused by in- noe o ded: for Bompard, the declared There 1 is more departi issue Belgium, because of further de- | | mands on Fi greater tonnage than | the Smyrna order | un D. SENATOR POMERENE | The Story the Week Has Told correct advices from the west? That very astute person, Ferid Bey, Turk- ish’ representative at Paris, all and sundry to keep cool until Ismet gets to Angora. *x Austria—Three hundred thcusand persons—unemployed, their sympa- thizers, and others, pretending sympathizers, but really looking for trouble—demonstrated and pa- raded in Vienna on January 2 clamoring for doles. Attempts were made to break into banks, stores, etc, but the police managed to handle the situation. Yet, despite this demon- stration, there has been during the past few months a steady improve ment in Austria’s general conditior improvesient. however, too gradual for recognuition Ly the masses. Per- haps the best testimony to this im- provement Is furnisfied by the fact that for several months the Austrian paper crown hud been stable at about 80,000 to the dollar. i The league of nations' which has been in session at Paris since January has been putting the finishing touches on its plan for the rehabilitation of Austria. Sat- istied with the Austrian chancellor, Seipel's, report (indorsed by the league commissioner in Vienna) as couneil, | to the carrying out of budgetary and | other reforms prescribed by the coun- cil, the council has authorized the Austrian government to float an ex- ternal loan of 5,300,000 pounds. the first of a projected series of ioans which should total the equivalent of $00,000,000 Austrian gold crowns or about $140,000,000, the whole to be secured by Austrian state assets. The governments of Great Britain, ¥rance, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Spain. Belgium and Switzerland have among them engaged to guarantee the equivalent of 520.000,000 gold crowns: guarantors are still to be found for 80,000,000 crowns. ‘The' council are very sanguine that | t | their Austrian plan will succeed. I stands & good chance If Austria's neighbors will carry out their prom- ises to level the economic barriers R Tove i Rt barrers for o twspaver " T T SMITHSONIAN WILL HOUSE | MUSEUM OF PPOINTMENT of a joint com- mittee on a national museum of engineering and industry was announced in New York vesterday by the American Soclety of Mechanical Engineers. After hear- ing the claims advanced by those who favored New York, Chicago and other citles as the home of the new institu- tion, the sponsors of the movement, the announcement sald, have decided to accept the offer of the Smith- sonian Institution to establish at Washington the central “historical museum.” in affillation with which local “live museums” will be devel- oped in different sections of the country. The joint committee, representing the four founder engineering socie- ties, s composed of Clemens Herschel and Nelson, P. Lewis, American So- clety of Civil Engineers; Frederic A. Delano and Dr. George F. Kunz American Institute of Mining and Merallurgical Engineers; Reginald Pelham Bolton and Hoibrook Fitz John Porter, American Soolety of Me- chanical Engineers, and Edward D. Adams and Charles L. Clarke, Amer- jcan Institute -of Electrical Engi- neers. Mr. gorter is acting chair- man of the esmmittes. Mr. Delano was recently nominated for the board of regents of the Smithsonian Insti- tution. For Research Work. The museum is planned as a store- house for the records of American engineering achievement and as an institution affording opportunity for research to ‘he investigator and. stu- dent. 1In character it will be similar to, but larger, It was said, than for- elgn museums, such as the Sclence Museum at South Kensington, Lon- don; Conservatoire des Arts et Metlers at Paris and Deutsches Museum at h. Co-operation of the Fed- srated Amecrican Engineering Socic- ties has been obtained and it Is cx- only to act as custodian of the col- | Juatice, advises | C, FTEBRUARY 11, 1923-PART 2. YLETCHER WILLARD SAULSBURY they have raised against her. been suggested that the Ausirian plan might Le applied to Germany. ! Cntma—Some we 0 recalled, troops from Yun Nan and | Kwang provinces expelled Gen. Chen |Kwang Ming from Canton and took | possesslon of that city in the name of Sun Yat Sen | But the heroes | themselv Finally some |got the upper hand and with his myrmidous drove out Ajax Menelaus et al. and their henchmen. The dis- comfited ones encamped outside the {eity. And now ene hears that u Gen. | Somebody or other from Somewhere marching to join them. Achilles had best look to his arms and weapons. Sun Yat Sen was just |about to embark at Shanghai to re- {turn to Canton when he heard of { these doings, d declded to remain lin the one safe place in China until | the question of precedence among his followers should be decided fell out among United States of America—On the President Harding addressed Con- | gress joint session prompt action to recommendation of commission regarding !war debt to us and an early | the ship sutsidy bill. a bill was introduced in the House which proposes amendment of the debt-funding act so as to author settlement of the British indebtedne. in the manner recommended Ly the commission, and similar but not mome favorable settlements with other powers similarly indebted to the | United States. This bill was passed | by the House on Frid A similar | bill is before the Senate. i House and Senate voted §56,000,000 for rivers and harbors, while the im- | memorial pork-barrel jokes crackled give effect to the our debt-funding the British vote on |and a Brutus or two fought in vain | !for the taxpayer. ENGINEERING Ipected that ultimately the entire en gineering profession as well as in- dustry in general will aid in the de- velopment of the project. Almost from the day the national engineering societies were founded, beginning with the organization of the American Society of Civil Engi- neers in 1852, they have been the re- positories of symbols of the nation’s mechanical and industrial progress. To them were sent by their members and from other sources old plans, wood cuts, steel engravings, models and other evidences of early inven- tions_and_notable achievements ac- complished. During the years that have elapsed much of this memora- billa has been lost and the societles were compelled to refuse further ad- ditions to the collections. Helped by Carnegie’s Gift. ‘When in 1903, the statement of the American Soclety of Mechanical En- gineers sald, Andrew Carnegie erect- ed the Englneering Socleties Build- ing at 29 West 39th street, New York, engineers and industrialists again be- gan sending mementos to the socie- ties, now housed in one splendid structure. Subsequently a museum of safety devices was established there. Among the gifts was one from the executors of the estate of Capt. John Ericsson, who presented to the United Engineering Society a num- ber of models of hls inventions. Later more memorabilia of Capt. Ericsson were glven by his associates and others to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, of which he was a member, until a considerable collection of FEricasonia had been gathered. Space being lacking, fur- ther contributions were agaln de- clined. and for some yvears the Indi- vidual societies have been consider- ing the establishment of museums to preserve the records of pioneer effort in_engineering. Finally, a committee of the Ameri- can Society of Mechanical Engineers took up the: question with the Smith- sonian Institution, which agreed ne Tt has | requesting The same day | cisions—Danger BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN. HE allles negotiated for two months with the Turks at Lausanne and have little but sall and wormwood for their pains, The conference, designed to bring Deace to the near east, broke down miserably. Though the French declars that there is merely a lull and that nego- tiations will be resumed as soon as Ismet Pasha has consulted with his government at Angora, no such hopes lare held in well advised quarters. Rather it is believed the Turks will renig on ruch agreements as were ap- proached at Lausanne, and the Turks will keep the whole situation in a state of abeyance until there arrives !an even more opportune time to press | home their strictly nationalistic de- mands upon which Mustapha Kemal gained power and upon which his au- thority has been maintained. Downing street fn London has mo | delusions as to the possible outcome. Instead of fixed peace agreements there is only well defined conviction that during the next vear there must prevail w state of suspense such as prevailed after the Turks took it upon themselves to upset the treaty of Sevre: Anything can happen that will ini- tiate a war of far-reaching character. Tension Closing Hours. The closing hours of the Lausanne | conference were anything but amica- ble. Statesmen, weary of long delib- erations and constant sidestepping by the Turkish delegation, began snap- ping at each other in the final hours. Lord, Curzon, thoroughly worn out and impatient, left for London, lea ing delegations of other powers in Lausanune. The French made elev- enth-hour efforts to induce the Turks to sign. American observers also in- terceded, and the members of the Italian delegation speeded from one point to another in hectic endeavor reconcile conflicting viewpoints, t was written that there should no success. The Turks themselves left Lausanne possibly chuckling that they at least had succeeded in driv- ing the wedge between the Ilies, for this is exactly what result- {ed from the parley. | "During the closing days of the con- ference it was learned that Premler Poincare was negotiating _through the Turkish ambassador in Paris for a separate treaty. This at the very time the French delegation ostensibly was supporting the British at Lau- isanne. Poincare is declared to have {stated to the Turks that France could not be drawn into any conflict, even should the Lausanne parley fail, just at the moment that Curzon, under the jimpression that France was standing { with him, laid down deflance to the {Turks and threatened dire punis {ment in case they continued thel | wayward path and refused to consider ithe demands of the allies. Furthermore, it is Lt i i tated, the {that France reserved the right to make a separate treaty with the { Turks in case the Lausanne confer- | ence failed. tirs Storm in London. As might be expected, revelation !of Poincare's action stirred a storm Achilles | o¢ gigupprobation in London, and re- ! |1ations between France and England, {already ticklish because of the ench adventure in the Ruhr, were { further strained. In fact, Bonar Law | himself is said to have broken forth in no uncertain terms against so- i::alled French perfdy. { It is for this reason tiat the French are insisting that the Turkish nego- tiations_lLave not ended. Therefore they will not immediately start ne- gotiations for a separate treaty. With the Rhineland occupation a source of much friction. a French-Turkish pact would be about the finishing touch for the so-called Franco-British ac cord. As long as a status quo in 80 far as the Turks are concerned can be main- tained neither of the allies is com- pelled to pursue strictly national policies in dealing with Angora. However, the ailies apparently are accord in maintaining the terms of Mudania conference until some definite settlement has been reached. 1t is to sustain this accord, if nothing more, that other allies have joined with Great Britain in answering the Turkish threat at Smyrna and Ismed with a threat of force. Allied resistance to Turkish ulti- matiums at the moment may further influence the Turks to the view that the allies, particularly Great Britain mean business. At least the allies, in the face of dungerous tides, maintain the general i i | |1ection. but urged that it be made the {nucleus of a great National Museum {of Engineering and Industry. Out of these negotiations the present move- ment developed. “The museum,” it was stated, “will meet the requirements of the various engineering societies and the national ineed for an establishment where the | people can view graphically the steps {of jtion of mechanical power in the exploita- the natural resources by iin seventy-five years advanced from an agricultural nation to worl supremacy in commerce and industry Study of Forelgn Museums. A study of the plans and adminis- tractive organization of foreign mu- seums is under way. Coordination of local museums with the main Histor- ical Museum in Washington will, it was announced, provide for the in- terchange of exhibits, photographs, models and descriptions so that peo- ple of every section of the country may Dbenefit at first hand from the collections in all the museums. Some of these local museums al- ready exist and, through the co- operation of the American Associa- tion of Museums, the headquarters of which are at the Smithsonian In- stitution, it is proposed that they be developed into sectional museums, others being established as necessity requires to complete the national plan. The sectional idea was adopted in order to avoid massing exhibits in one center and to make them acces- sible to the country in general. The movement being essentially educa- tional, it will be necessary, it was sald, to co-operate with the federal, state and municipal agencies of education, _ HYGIENE BILL APPROVED. The House judiclary committee Fri- day ordered the so-called interdepart- mental hygiene bill to be reported out. Contrary to a general misunder- standing in Uncle Sam's workshop. this bill does not affect in any way the majority of government employes. It merely continues the orgunization that existed during the war to take care of soldiers, sailors and marines and protect them from the spregd of social disease. The bill reported out today, backed by Chairman Kahn of the House military affairs committee, places the administration of this or- A on under the Department of {in the development and utilization | means of which the United States has | TO SIGN PEACE PACI Army Clique May Dominate Angora De: of War Incident Is Great. appearance of co-operation lu (4 near east. It is doubted, however that there would have been such unity of action as at Smyrna In. cass the Turks had previously announced definite rejection of all Lausanne pro- posals, After rejection the time wiil come for England and France to act separately and in accordance witn their particular views. This t probably will do unlces some toward incident brings them toget in Joint military action against Turks. Under wnch clreumstu France could hardly withd Fraught With Danger. The whole situation fn the near eust is fraught with gravest danger i the Angora assembly votes to re. sist tho allies—as it believed it will do by virtue the military cliques in control there, cliques cages to gustain themselves in power—tiicn it will remain for England and tha Turk to begin a ted long and waiting game, unless actual conflict is initiated through somc untoward incident. That there will be such incidents s without question In the minds of close observers, inasmuch as Ismet Pusha would be overridien In every effort to resist the pro-wa party in Turkey While negotiati pended. it 1 fact that tiv ing their military in the straits and Greeks on the Mor are being unified, n a tremendous quantit munitions moved towa front. Only a small the Greeks from an army of 30,000 Turks, who were sent their in violi= tlon of the Mudania armistico agree- ments There is littlo question but that i1 Greeks arc being materially alded by the British, this being the better part of prudence in view of the extrem dangerous position occupied by Bri ish troops in Constantinople, they h ing practically surrounded by antas onistic Turks. Action by the Gredl in Thrace would afford a diversic at least and possibly prevent t Turks from attempting any n cracker movement on Constantinop!s which the earl ages of ¢ struggle might otherwise hecome tenable for the British forces Rely on Naval Strength. Great reliance is placed by the Bt ish, however, upon the naval stren of the fleet in the Dardanclles, most certainly the Turks would b their military plans seriously inte fered with even in the car of the struggle by British warship If the hould assist t sh the truly would 1 hands full, but in view of past Fren: effort rapprochement With the 1 Tur is believed in Washingto {that Poincare wili find some way emerging from the situation, and ticularly in view of the fact that da by day he finds his Rhineland under taking more and more a burden upo he French exchequer. The Frencl |government is not sure of the resulis |of the Ruyhr adventure and until tho situation becomes clear it cannot he er o a s, 1 ngth forces The naval at Chanak. a river in Thrace uplifted and of arms and 1the Thracean ver scparatcs it will be | French foreign office notified England |expected that the French will partici- pate heavily in engagements in more {remote corners. One of the most significant a nouncements of the past week cani ifrom Russia, where it was declare: eoviet officidls had decided agains participation in ANy War, even assisi- ance of German worker revolution- iste. It is known to be a fact, howeve that Russian war pians are all laid both to assist the Turks in case the Balkans once more are fired throug! Thracean developments and to aid the Germans in case Poland acts aggres sively. Tt is known that Polish ac tion against the Lithuanians at Neme would be regarded by the Russian sufficient excuse to usher in mill movements. Not Russ Taken Seriously. | | It cannot be denied that the R Isians showed good faith when th declared that Russia desires to devot {her attention to economic and com {mercial advance in preferance to cor Iflict. This is true. But the sovic iregime has not vet subordinated p litical interests to economiic and coi mercial welfare, and until the who |Russian political woof and warp {revised Russia will keep her ammic ready to act in case of a conflagia tion along her western fromtiers. 1 |fact. use of the army is counted upot {to aid in furthering the gospel of t! internationale. which closest obsert ers declare is tenacfous! clung | even to the exclusion of economic ad vance. Russia is hoping there will be war if her purposes can be achicvers otherwise, but if there is war in east ern Europe, Russia, through ler pe culiar situation, will be drawn in expects to b The Russian statement garded seriously. cannot be re Claims Tobacco Habit Should Be Abolis To the Editor of The Star: My experience has in tho past f months driven me to some sions which will perhaps together too radical to the in considering details and all the it terests of the h of Americ am ready to defend them against t tobacco interests, When men of politics are oppose they rfse and defend themselves tr any extent necessary: when men « business are siurred at and run down as the saying ie, they go to conur and flght it to a finish. When th liquor interests were being opposed they fought, and_fought for life and iT dare say, ainfst conquered. Bui the tobacco interests have as far u my knowledge zoes publicly defended themselves The_time when tobaccn is no longer to be ignored, but {s becoming one of the most stupendo problems of America. The result of the llguor was visible on all sides but the tobacco weed is deceitfull gnawing at the health of a nation. 1t 118 a coming, vital, political issue an n no longer be ignored as a merr ersonal ltberty."” The highest powers of my being are aroused against this evil, and | hereby challenge the tobaceo inter- ests, local or otherwise, or any « pable speaker who i3 working i their interests to meet mc on thirty days’ notice In any large auditoriun which may be secured to debuto Ui following question which T will firm 1o the best interests of “comins America”: Resolved, That the use of tobaceo i detrimental to the physical, mental and spiritual life of our nation: is injustice to the public; hence is in moral and should be abolished. Yours for “justice to our nation.” WINFRED MARTIN PATCH State Superintendent of Anti cotics in Y. P. B. of Woman's Chr tlan Temperance Union bhed conclu seem a public. Yer you never has come « Cupid’s Handicap. From Pittsburgh ChronicleTelegrapl Tha oung girl had refused millionaire who was twice her and he was very angry “Even Cupid.” he said nothing with you. You Ik fceberg. Wh hundred Cupiis might shoot at you all day long and not ono of them would make any impresgion on your stone-cold heart “Not if they used ‘an old beauw” retortgd the gurl could de