Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1930, Page 6

STATE DEPARTNENT TAKES ON NEW LI Becomes Liveliest Cog in! Government Machine Under Hoover and Stimson. BY LEROY T. VERNON. Application of the Hoover foreign policies through the medium of a re- organized and modern foreign service, behind which is the driving power of President Hoover and Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, promises to translate the State Department this year from one of the “deadest” Gov- ernment departments into one of the liveliest cogs in the Government ma- chine. In close co-operation with the De- partment of Commerce, the State De- partment will look after American in- terests abroad as it never has before. At the same time it will carry on with | greater efficiency both the routine anc extraordinary matters which pertain exclusively to the realm of world poli- tics, moral and spiritual relationships and statesmanship, which is more re- mote from pure economics. Confronted, as it is, by the meeting of the naval powers at London this month, the public is liable to forget, as the State Department cannot, that the problem of naval reductions is only one of a hundred important items on the calendar of international relations which require the constant attention of those who deal with foreign affairs. ‘With every power at that conference and with many others as well, the State Department is now doing business on other important matters. Other Major Conferences. Nor is this the only major conference which the United States must attend, for the important subject of codifica- tion of international law will come up at The Hague in March, probably be- fore the London conference adjourns. In the meantime the President’s com- mission to determine the future policy toward Haiti will also go Into action. In building up his new diplomatic service, it is noteworthy that the Presi- dent has stressed business capacity as ‘well as other attributes commonly as- sociated with international statesman- ship. One has only to consider Am- bassadors Dawes, Edge and Sackett to understand that the President regards the modern problems of diplomacy as mainly, although not exclusively, eco- nomic. Believing, as he does, in the policy of “live and let live,” it is evi- dent that his Ambassadors go forth to their posts imbued with the idea that strengthened economic ties, rehabilita- tion, restoration and understanding, in which the United States and foreign nations share the benefits alike, con- stitute the best kind of diplomacy at! this hour. Press for New Treaties. Coupled with his strong desire for permanent world peace, for the removal of suspicions and fears and for an op- timistic rather than a pessimistic view- point, the President wants his repre- sentatives to take their cue from his own experience with Prime Minister Macdonald of Great Britain and co- operate for world benefit on a wider &cale than has ever imbued the Ameri- can foreign service before. For this season, this Government is pressing now for a new arbitration treaty with Great Britain, the old one having expired a year ago; for a new commercial treaty with France, a com- mercial and possibly a naturalization treaty with Italy, for a new arbitration treaty with Japan, for an understand- ing with China on the legal rights of “Americans there, for a waterways agree- ment with Canada and for the finan- cial rehabilitation of Mexico. It also wants a ratification of the new debt settlement with Germany. None of these problems is particularly complex except as to detail, with the possible exception of the proposed nat- uralization treaty with Italy. A week ago the Chinese problem looked bad, but the latest Nanking note on extrater- ritoriality evinces a surprising approach by the Nationalist Chinese government to the American point of view, namely, that the Chinese shall take over the total administration of justice in China gradually. International Conferences. This Government will participate in 8t least a dozen international confer- ences this year, of more or less im- portance, but all requiring minute at- tention. Many of them have to do with Pan-American relationships in special- ized matters. At the same time the United States will have something to do with the settlement of boundary dis- putes between Honduras and Guate- mala, Nicaragua and Honduras, Bolivia and Paraguay, while Ecuador and Peru have also resolved that if they cannot settle their boundary differences they will ask the United States to arbitrate. First and foremost in the public eve, however, are the coming Naval Confei- ence in London and the possibility that | the President may find an_opportunity o bring membership in the World Court before the Senate at this session. Standing squarely on the platform of the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact, the President’s foreign policy reaches toward Judicial determination of all causes or dispute on the one hand and toward reductions of arms and armaments as @ moral and economic application of the #ame principle on the other. The ex- tent to which the United States is in fact a world power is amply reflectea by the number, importance and scope ot the international problems now under consideration by the President and his advisers on foreign affairs, France Rejects Auto Rule. After a trial of two years France has just rejected the “priority to vehicles on the right” rule in its highway regu- lations. It was found that the rule p..ced great national highways on the same plane as country lanes when two such roads intersected, and therefore tended to slow down main-road traffic. Another new important road regulation ! is to the effect that all motor vehicles | must be fitted with appliances capable | of lighting the road for at least 328 feet | and dimming the glare without ceasing | to give sufficient light when meeting ‘other road users. | Oregon to Spend $29,500,000. SALEM, Ore.. January 4 (P)—Ore-| gon will spend $29.500,000 on public im- proements during 1930, Gov. A. W. Nor- ‘blad stated today in a message prepared in connection with President Hoover's Tecent appeal for a general speeding up ©of Federal, State, county and municipal projects. Nomad Traders Say Meteorite Killed 130 Reindeer in Siberia By the Associated Press PETROPAVLOVSK-ON-KAM. CHATKA, Siberia—A nomad tribe of native “Koryaks,” who arrived here to swap furs for clothing and ammunition, re- port that a few months ago a gigantic meteorite struck the northern part of Penjinskoe dis- trict in the vicinity of the River Pal and killed 130 of their rein- deer. The meteorite went deep into the frozen ground, forming a small lake. The fall of the “scorching devil” terrified the “Koryaks" their herds of reindeer over miles of frozen tundra before venturing to pitch camp. Even now they cannot be tempted to approach the vicinity of the “devil's lake.” THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. 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