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Part 2—8 Pages WASHINGTON, EDITORIAL SECTION he Sunday Star. 45 BERG SUNDAY MORN NG, MARCH 1, 1931 ACCORD POSSIBLE WHEN DEMOCRAT HEADS MEET Wets and Drys Begin to Wrangle as Spe- cial Party National Committee Parley Draws Near. r BY MARK SULLIVAN. ONGRESS ends at noon on ( ’ ‘Then, on Thurs- day, s March 5, will occur a wllflul event of decidedly major importance—a special #nd extraordinary meeting of the Dem~ scratic National Committee. Possibly the expiring of this Congress bught not to pass without repeating a faint witticism once perpetrated at the death of a preceding Congress by the late Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana, then Vice President, and by virtue of that post presiding officer of the Senate. ‘The customary formula for the Vice President’s announcement as Congress ends its last day is, “I declare the Sen- ate adjourned ‘sine die’ "—that’ is, “withcut date.” Marshall, whcse Hoosier humor and common sense was accom- {:med by a schooling that included tin, varied the formula with impish intent, saying, “I declare the Senate adjourned ‘sine Deo’ "—“without God.” Which witticlsm may serve the use- ful purpose of recalling some ancient truths, including the one which says that the world does not necessarily grow worse. If, to much of the public, '.he present Senate seems “without '—why, 50 did the Senate of Tom Marshall's day. Nevertheless, the coun- try survived and enjoyed a fairly happy 30 years after Marshall retired. Historic Row Predicted. If the preSent Senate seems to be pot favored by the presence of God, ®0 do many predict that the session of the Democratic National Committee next Thursday will lack the presence of at least that one of the gods whose beneficent function is to promote peace snd harmony. It is predicted, indeed, by the prophets of pessimism that the Democrats when they get together on ‘Thursday will have a historic row. ‘This forecast rests on the expectation that the committee will try to arrive at a formal party policy on prohibition. More narrowly, the provocative expec- tation is that the present wet officials of the party, Messrs. John J. Raskob and Jouett Shouse, will ask the com- mittee to go wet, and that the fight will consist of the drys opposing that Preliminary cannonading for the con- flict has already been heard. Hardly had Chairman Raskob issued his call for the meeting when the wet Demo- crats and dry Democrats began to ex- change “dirty looks.” Wet Democratic Senator Tydings of Maryland hap- pened to be making a wet speech in the Senate. Whereupon dry Democratic Senator Caraway, of Arkansas, taking a chip from the woodbox he habitually carries on his shoulder, asked Tydings ‘whether the wet sentiments the latter ‘was laiming were the sentiments that ob and the other wets would try to get the Democratic National Cominittee to adopt at its meeting. Raskob Held “Mistake.” day rate the chance fairly high. Hav- ing this vision of success next year the Democrats know that a fratricidal row will reduce it. ~ Agreement Essential. A fight in the Democratic National Committee would reduce the party’s chances of success in electing a Presi- dent next year in two ways. It would cause the respective factions to be bit- ter toward each other. Further, it would be notice to the public that the Demo- crats are fratricidally inclined—on pro- hibition and on some other questions— and the public is hesitant about giving control of the Government to a party that seems likely to manage the Gov- ernment in a chaotic spirit. To put it another way, the Democrats as they meet next Thursday wil! have among them many detonants of de- structive debate. But they will have also one of the most lolldifyi.n[ and mollifying agenhcies known ‘to political buman natyre, namely, the cohesive power of expectation of office. Democratic leaders know that if they are to win the presidential election of 1932 they must be able to march to the polls side by side in peace, wet shoulder rubbing dry shoulder. Once the vision is realized (if it is to be realized), once the election is won and the offices and perquisites taken over— at that time is the better day for the integnecine fight. All the Democratic leaders know this. All of them will be disposed to e themselves by the self-interest inherent in the situation. All of them, that is, who are Democrats first and wets (or drys) afterward. It is only those who are wets (or drys) first and Democrats afterward that will be prone to incite, or lnvlu or fail to take pains to avert, a fight. Raskob Has Troubles, ‘This brings us to Raskob and his troubles. The chief of his troubles arises from one condition, which may or may not be in Raskob’s mind, but is in the minds of many who oppose him. A good many Democrats think Raskob is a wet first and only a Democrat afterward. They may be wrong, but they think this about him. They sus- pect that, far from being a emuhten Democrat, or a Democrat by principle or inheritance, or a lifelong Democrat, he is one who is strongly moved to get rid of national orohibition—and thinks the Democratic party is a likely agency for that purpose. These Democrats think and are able to provide some concrete evidence for their assertion that Raskob had been & Republican within less than a year of the time when he was chosen by ex-Gov. Smith to be national chairman of the Democrati¢ party for the pur- poses of Smith's 1928 campaign for the presidency. This suspicion that Raskob is wet first and a Democrat afterward weighs against him far more than the mere fact of his wetness. Yet another reason for the truculence with which some Democrats treat the Dry | very mild mannered Mr. Raskob Hes in the Committee, is a “monumental mistake,”" and implies that the chief business of the coming meeting should be to get. rid of him. The principal Democratic newspapers in the country, anticipating that the coming meeting would be a contest, tried to count the ranks of the combatants. The estimate was that the fepresentatives of 25 sStates would be #ry, 20 wet m%fll doubdthll. ‘These fig- ced fight—long and bitter, Nevertheless-the present writer thinks the Democrats may get through their fneeting next Thursday without fratri- &ide, without mayhem, murder or other form t:fn fatality. One :elllm as on: says that to predict a meeting of mh will be unaccompanied by versy is to predict the lhnorm:\l R K true the cleavage in the Demo- pratic party on prohibition is wide and ; across the chasm dry Democrats wet Democrats glower at each other Wwith a malevolence not equal by any Elea in the Republican party. It is $rue t sooner or later the Demo- ts are going to fight this question t. And it is true that after the ulti- inate fight the wets are going to realize &he futility of their hope to overcome hibition through the agency of the mocratic y. All this, however, wait until a considerable time after Bext Tuesday's meeting. Accord Is Possible. Por thinking the Democrats may get gh Thursday’s meeting without a , there are at least two reasons. In the first place the Democratic National Committee is not Congress, nor the Pemocrats in Congress. The National commlwee is organized on a different basis. As & conscquence the personal ualities of the members of the National mmittee differ from the mualities of Senators and members of ngress. ‘The Democratic National Committee, e the corresponding Republican Na- nal Committee, is made up of two members (one man and one woman) from each of the States, Territories and dependencies. They are chossn (except | in a few States) by a process which | does not include popular election. They are chosen as a rule (without going into the mechanism in detail) by small com- mittees made up of leading Democrats in _their respective States. Members of the National Committee are, in short, the type of person who comes to the top through a mechanism of committees, as the expression of con- fidence held in their good sense and other steady going qualities by small pe of their fellow men who have E:’en in closs contact with them. Have Common Sense, Because members of the National Committee are chosen in this way they differ from the other sort of leader who arrives in the Senate or House or other forum by the processes of popular elec- tion. The members of the National Committee as a rule are not orators and do/not have the defects that go with that quality. They do not enjoy indulging in oratory for oratory's sake. They do not get into oratorical rows personal | g their feeling that he is not only not & Democrat, but not even a politician. He came to the chairmanship of the Demo- cratic National Committee straight from the world of business. He had had no previous political career, had not come to the top through the ordinary proc- esses of political promotion. Held Against Him. This fact weighs against Raskob In the minds of many Democratic leaders, Just as the somewhat corresponding fact has weight against President Hoover in the minds of many Republican poli- ticians. Politics, in the sense of public organization, is a fraternity—and it has the same attitude that any fraternity has toward an outsider who “crashes the gate.” b lh: public but knew it this sense of mutual and self-protective fraternity accounts for much of the virtuous in- dignation with which the Senate rejects or pursues persons who get themselves elected to that body largely as the fruit of expensive organization and publicity. The Senate puts its virtuous with- drawal of its from taint on the ground that it is shocked .at the use of 50 much money. Actually, much of the indignation is resentment against the outsider who tries to reach an upper grade of politics without going through the mill of political experience. Sena- tors tend to think there is only one proper path to that body. It begins with being a worker in the precinct and leads upward through the normal grades. Any other path, any shortcut, so Senators tend to think, is a case of “butting in.” To call next ‘Thursday's extraordi- nary meeting of the Democratic Na- tional Committee was an act of cour- age on Raskob's part. Possibly his lack of political ex| lence may account for his courage. The very unusualness of holding a meeun1 mittee at this time is enough count for much of. the ut what Raskob has in le purposes, as stated in Rllkob'l formal call, are simple e One i “to receive reports of the lpundld accomplishments secured durl'BL the last 18 months by the fine tion bullt up under the lblz direction and leadership of Jouett Shouse, chair- man of our Executive ttee.” Wet Move Seen. Everybody knows the meeting w not called for that purpose merely. Th part of it will take little time or mu . thought. Some committee or other w.ll W up a laudatory resolution of the ‘point - with - pride” variety and the committee will adopt with more or less rerhmcw cheers. They will do it istlessly, while their deeper minds wait alertly to see what the real fireworks are to be, It is the second of the two declared purposes of the meeting that contains some mystery, and the seeds of possible controversy—the purpose which Raskob describes as: “To discuss plans and policies to gov- ern our activities during the next 15 months; these discussions and decisions will be most important, and the pres- ence of every member is, therefore, earnestly requested.” to ac- tion of the National Com- | It is that one of the purposes that seems, in the eyes of some Democrats, to squint toward prohibition, or rather merely because a crowd is looking on and for the delectation of the crowd. zheyuznuwneocrwdor.nl- ry without being thereby irresistibly imoved to make l speech, preferably an ®motional speech. They are not sub- nfl to dehuch- of orato: Members of the National Committee short, $o0 common sense; who can refrain from fghting for the sake o( benenu to be gained by compromise o1 It is precuely be mltuuan “of these benefits of peace that may enable the tneeting next Thursday to be held with- out spectacular controversy, The mem- Ders of the National Committee know that the Democrats have some chance to win the presidential election next ear. As to how great their chance may judgment may differ. Presumably ®he persons who will meet next Thurs- toward anti-prohibition. Plans to End Deficit. One other matter Raskob mentioned in his call, in the manner of after- thought. The meeting will consider a “plan for soliciting funds to meet our deficit and ug on our work.” That weighs little with Raskob. He has per- sonally put up most of the money with which the organization has operated during 18 months past. The amount the committée ofes him is upward of a quarter million dollars. But let no one imagine Raskob has called this meeting just to get his money back, He has much money -M he is open-handed. Raskob has quality which is n.uly w ‘be more nn- erous than the of money; he has nu that he can make money; that he 15 & money- America Presses Onward Despite Great Economic Adjustment, Tremendous Projects Aiding Nation’s Advance Are Under Way BY SENATOR SIMEON D. FESS. N March 4—next Wednesday— the Hoover administration will be two years old. Half of the term of office to which Mr. Hoover was elected by an enor- mous majority will have elapsed. Here is a time for the casting up of accounts, to determine the standing of the Nation as an economic unit, of the President and of the party in power. National assets and liabilities—the real welfare of the Nation—cannot be truly measured and assayed by a count of partisan votes. Neither can the real success of a political party be deter- mined by mere reference to the size of the vote it controls in the legislative chambers of the Nation. Within the month just ended the Na- tion observed, in grateful remembrance and homage, the anniversary of Abra- ham Lincoln’s birth. Yet in 1865, when an assassin's bullet ended his life, the national balance sheet showed tremen- dous liabilities, tremendous losses, tre- mendous hazards impending. A great national debt had been created: the Southeyn States were impoverished; scores ‘of thousands of precious human lives had been du!-roy on the battle- fleld; our foreign trade had been dis. rupted; partisan and ucwm‘l animos| ties had been multiplied. national liabilities of go there was one great asset to be lwlied-—!.hn Union had been preserved. And swiftly, in the years that followed, there developed from that asset the world's greatest, richest, most powerful, most peaceful nation, sui BRITISH VOTERS’ SCHOOLS TERMED KEY TO NEW ERA Third Party to Rise in U. S. by Similar Educational Plan, Dr. J. R. Starr Predicts. . BY WAYNE PARRISH. ARIS..—When the British political parties opened schools and con- ducted courses for the education of their workers and electorates a few years ago they bey political change as significant as that caused by a revolution, amounting to a distinct change in a democratic form of government, according to Dr. Joseph R. Starr, political sclence authority of the University of Minnesota, who is passing & year in England making a research study of the British political !xwl‘tmzntt ith England leading the way, Dr. Starr belleves a new era in democracy is coming, with an enlightening elec- torate taking political power away from the bureaucratic system which exists today in most republican countries. In the Unllcd States, where he says a po- lmnl change is inevitable, he benevu thkm. following the methods now in Great Britain, will rise within the next two decades to gain power over the two old parties. Partisanship Limits Effect. Dr. Starr is making the study for the Bocial Science Research Council of New York, and revealed his first con- clusions in an interview in Paris, where he is Vll"lnl for a short time. Asserting that the British leaders do not themselves realize the importance of their experiments because they are seeking only to further their own pnrky causes, Dr. Starr visualizes as an out- growth of their adult education systems . vhn of government in which all par- Ues. will operate research bureaus, col- leges, extension courses and the like. Indications ol such a plan are not only an actuslity in Great Britain, he said, Imtlnonfluwlymmvrmcd Amon( the British projects in ldu!t education in politics Dr, Starr the Bonar Law Memorial College nt the Conservative party, which in January began its first 12 weeks’ course of edu- — e e e thought is distasteful that the party ove-olam-mw-ny one been made aware ‘some Democrats, however, the | amounts, cation, the first course of that length to be given by any party, and the many summer schools which the Independent Labor party and the Liberals have held. He belleves the Liberal party in a large measure owes its continued existence to its research bureaus and schools of education. Senate “Preserve of Rich.” ‘The United Stal.e! Senate, Dr. Starr said, is now a “rich man's preserve,” with the price of a seat so high that the poor man has no chance to be elected. Money has become one of the chief means of campaigni in the United States, he sald, adding that this factor would only tend to hasten the time when the two parties would have to give up their power to a third party which would treat governing as a more serious business than it has been to the older parties. “Democracy has finally become gen- eral the world over,” he said in describ- ing the trend of politics. “This has only been true since the war, particular- ly in the United States when woman suffrage was put into effect. But it happens that democracy has arrived at a time when life is most complicated. Politics has become emphatically eco- nomics and governments are harder to deal with now than ever before in the history of the world. “The real problem is how can the mass of people deal with complicated things—problems beyond their ordinary comprehension. What are the possibili- ities? If they can’t deal with thzm what are the alternatives? The alternative is dictatorship, and this hl& been demonstrated in such countries as Russia, Italy, Spain and Turkey. lx’efla{ Possible Dictators. “Another possibility s a dictatorshin of the expert, which 1s in effect bureau- cracy, when the conduct of the govern- ment falls into the hands of a few trained professional tain is excited about this. Many people say that England is there now and others fear that it is on top of them. "A fllll'fl alternative is that politics dominated by unserup i muum:uwhouommuum wink the msnmnmw-u Known metnods nd, (connunen Page.) NOW FARM Orderly but Not BY JAMES E. BOYLE, Professor of Rural Economy, Columbla University. OR the first seven or eight years after the World War the farm relief program was discussed in Congress and elsewhere as pure- ly a marketing problem. During the first three or four months under the agricultural marketing act of June, 1929, marketing was still being consid- ered as the major problem of farm re- lief. A way was to be found for mar- keting the surplus without depressing the price. Indeed, the more optimistic supporters of the new law teok the po- sition that the surplus could be either dumped abroad or withheld at home in such & manner as both to elevate and stabilize the price. During the last 10 or 12 months, how- ever, the farm relief program has shift- ed from a marketing program to an acreage reduction program. The farm- er is now told that the present surplus of wheat, cotton and ocher commodities has caused the price decline, and that the remedy lies in his own hands and is very simple—namely, acreage reduc- tion. In short, according to the new view- point, blind production is the disease, and the cure for this disease is the ad- justment of production to the needs of the market. » Wiy this shift in the farm relief pro- gram from marketing to production? Due to Disorderly Production. ‘This shift came because of a pro- found but reluctant realization of the truth that the farmers’ troubles were due fundamentally to disorderly duction rather than dlwrdefl.y mllkel- ing. This belated realization also took note of the fact that disorderly produc- tion went hand in hand with dhorderly land utilization. A few simple illustrations will make this new view ot farm relief problem show why so many States are now tonnuhun: urlcnltunl programs of their own to solve the problems of pro- duction and land utllization. If the land be considered as a factory or plant for producing food, then we see that the farmers have been | seat i e, yearOF —From a Colored Etching by Lulgl Kasimir. passing all others in the material well being of its people. In the dark days of 1865 the coun- try's welfare was in the hands of a new political unit, the Republican party. That party has continued in charge of the Nation’s affairs almost all the time since. In the sweep of economic circum- | stances during the last two years that nave almost engulfed governments and nations like the great flood of old, the United States of America remains the (Continued on Fourth Page.) BALANCED PRODUCTION RELIEF HOPE Forty Movements Under Way in U. S. to Co-ordinate Efforts for Better and More Curtailed Crops. economic equality with big business. One reason big business is big is be- cause it plans ahead and adopts a long- time policy based on these plans. ‘The Bell Telephone Co., for instance, has made economic surveys of many States and has mapped these States for a 50-year program -of expansion. The great electric power concerns have built dams and made their plans {?hmlny cases for the next 50 yea e an- thracite coal interests of Pennsylvania have surveyed the ground and blocked out their plans for the next 100 years. Decade of Over-Expansion. Contrast this with our agricultural development in the last 15 or 20 years. During the 10-year period ending in 1919, some 40,000,000 acres of our pas- ture lands were plowed up and put in crops, and 5,000,000 acres of our forests were cleared for crops. Was over- expansion. In the next five years, 1920 to 1925, about 31,000,000 acres of farm land went out of use. Over-expansion was, therefore, followed by sharp con- traction. This unwarranted and tragle over- expansion of our farm Jland has been due in part to war prices, in part to promotion schemes, land settlement en- terprises, colonization efforts, Federal reclamation policies and public and pri- vate booster movements of various kinds. If we make an inventory of these agencies we are surprised at their num- ber and activities. It includes private land companies, the railroads, the cities, the States and the Federal Gov- ernment, each one ac independent of all the others. This not cause orderly development: 4t causes chaos nnd anarchy in land development and Iand utilizatic “( am not in favor of reducing pro- duction,” said Secretary of Azrlculcure Neredith. “I am heariily in favor of maximum production, the largest pos- sible output of necessities and luxuries. s‘:’n we should have a balanced produc- By balanced production the Secretary meant an orderly production—an ad- uction to market de- rnulo of wheat acreage emunmtmmmmt acreage was cetm Tbhnlnmhw prices BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. ENEVA.—How great a role ls the United sum prepared to play in the League Disarma- ment c«mterenoe of next year? ‘Thi the question eagerly asked of all Americans, not alone in Geneva but all over the continent. the question itself discloses the and universal skepticism and lppr!hen- sion that have been awakened by the decision to fix the date for such an international gathering. Success for a conference without de- cisive American intervention is every- where regarded as out of the question, for the simple reason that’ Europe has in the past two years reverted to the old pre-war separation into groups and alli- ances, and as a consequence interna- tional gatherings have degenerated into struggles for prestige between opposed groups of rival powers. whether the problem under considera- tion concerns economies, armaments or lar less considerable issues, every con- tinental statesman is condemned in ad- vance to tactics designed to obtain or protect some interest of his country. \ In such &n atmosphere a disarma- ment eonference must in the nature of open the way to endless strug- gles between groups and nations. A sin- gle detail may serve to illuminate this situation. In recent years France, alarmed by the hostility of Fascist Italy and the evident possibility of an even- tual Italo-Gierman combination, has ex- pended mny hundreds of millions of dol::;:‘ for r«;rwzkiu bot’hhm German an in frontlers agal e danger of & war on two fronts. ‘Would Destroy Defenses. rate and lnmclu system of France has constructed. Since Germany is forbidden by treaty to construct fortifications at her French frontier, and Italy lacks the necessary money to imitate France, it is clear that this proposal aims at a naturally find no favor with the French. And in precisely the same way Italy, which cannot build to parity with Prance on the sea, seeks to bring about a reduction of French tonnage levels “{to a point which would /place Italy within striking distance. By contrast, Prance and her allies stand just as firmly on the thesis that before there can be any real reduction of armies there must be a political agreement binding all powers to accept their existing frontiers, and each to aggressor country. But such an agree- ment would _automatically deprive +| Germany of all chance of ever recover- ing the territories lost by the war, and now the basis of clnim é%r a revision of the peace treaties. viously, the will refuse any such demand. Proposal of Soviet. Meantime Soviet Russia came for- ward two years ago with the simple project that the way to disarm is to disarm, to demobilize armies and abolish fleets. But this, in turn, is merely a detail in the Bolshevist pro- gram, which aims at producing revolu- brought a 53 per cent increase in acre- |age in four years. In fouy years, the California raisin growers, 70,000 tons to 163,000 tons. Then elmg the war and war prices. The res) wwthuMuutwcmnsooo tons. A big “surplus” was left on the vines. During the season just closed {we have noted the vast efforts of the |n: Grape Control Board to bring about “orderly marketing” of the I 1930 crop, so as to prevent a price collapse. Surplus Depresses Price. But in spite of all eflrts at & wider and more orderly marketing of the|carri, 65,000 carloads, the price finally be- came severely depressed. The crop too big. The markets could m -b-orb such a large quantity. It wu lus production which was_the basic culty. Turn now fo a highl crop—peaches. ~ Carlot ents of peaches increased 100 per omt in six years, which is an increase far beyond any :xru.nslon of consumer demand. ‘Thus, 1920, the carlot lb.lpme’nu were 28,000 cars; in 1926 they were 67,000 cars. The year 1926 was the year of over- whelming calamity to peach growers, not because the marketing was dif- ferent from the ynn, but because the production for the consumers. Peaches ma compete with other fruits—apples, pears, plums, apricots, prunes, oranges, watermelons and grapes. Said a Southern farm paper in 192'1 concerning the peach sif “Unle heroic efforts are made to stop the uom mercial l_sllnnng of trees for a few years, unless we weed out the old and defective trees and strive to produce | ;. and market scientifically only the best quality product, last year’s troubles will be repeated and magnified.” Examples could be given, almost without lknlc of production of big sur- pluses, due to an increased acreage. These surpluses, unlike the surpluses due to weather, are within the immedi- ate control of the farmers. However, will be recurdng surpluses and short- ages, corTespo fluctuations in um priu. the farmer ets, and blames the market nzhn- thnn his blind production for it. At the present moment we have over-expansion of the wheat and cot- poultry and many other condition constitutes blind disorderly production, anarc) farm. Farm Journals Point Way. ‘The 500 farm papers in the country have been pointing out this situation for many years now. The State agri- cultural colleges have likewise devoted much time and attention to this prob- lem. So have various other agencies, pn’ticuhr!y durlnn the last !n years. of these combined efforts much ymneu has bten mnde mlonnu- Iating and carrying out agricultural production A careful canvass of the United States lhaw: at least 40 specific at- tempts to formulate distinct county, regional or State-wide pm:nm- of production. These beginnings clearly a trend toward a better hnngd and co-ordinated production. A few typical cases may be cited. mducucn‘ on One of the earliest of these programs X by Wisconsin in the and even with such commodities as | ¢ n- as long as production is blind there | . EUROPE WANTS U. S. LEAD | IN DISARMAMENT PARLEY, Without Strong American Role at Geneva Nations Fear Accomplishment Will Be Negligible. tions in all capitalistic countries’ and Dolieves the elimination of armies would be a useful preliminary step. Moreover, while Russia is at the moment in a systematic reorganization of vast military force, projects for rcduc- ton find little support in Rumania and Poland, which border the Saviet states. In a word, in any disarmament con- ferences held under present circum- stances the: real objective would be the preservation of existing advantages or the elimination of contemporary ob- stacles so far as the various great small powers of the continent concerned. And in fact it would generate into a battle between combination roughly expressed by formula Rome-Berlin-Moscow, and alliange including P-rls—wnuw-?ru\u de-Bucharest. ere would, of course, be a mmn group, made up of Britain and neutrals of the World War, the Scandi- navian countries, Holland and Switzer- land, which. would seek actual Iimita- tion without any special political na- tkmll murm" But this Idflnfinx le_program of one the omer and '.hulbmlngl the contemporary battle for pnee. ‘What Stimson Met. On a much larger scale, then, the present situation is precisely that which confronted the Five Power Naval Con- ference last Winter. - son, when he set out for Britain, con- fidently expected to find the repre. sentatives of four powers earn- tly seeking the limitation of mari- t actually ir nations’ private quarrel, which had been ptupfl n cerned dl-.mumenlumh Iflt'lfllnvllfl- of lpmly nuouum: order. Gn“lu ’:‘I;tuu Pive Power nmneepm lock and after interminable declined unilateral _disarmament, which would |¢o share in a punitive .action against any |ih, xé«‘%‘y‘ b s e e | A recen! gnuy been undermal that Benes, iw- cign minister of Czechoslovakia, preside at the conference. He is in it of service one of the oldest and Dawes. And already 'Ju group count as their first pmblbmly that Benes has hem elimi- Therelll familiar American concep- tion that an international conference is bound W?.Jndigfpmérfilg the representatives of nations in disagree- mzmclnbepenundedwputuukh- under nu same nuhogny m m" s e & was tried. pemh.b)e Promise in _Europe, saddle everywhere, and no government could conceivably consent to conditions which must be the minim limitation. 3 to obtain a peace treaties, France and har not modify their intention to defe status quo, the Italy of Mussolini is out for a redivision of the raw lnatzllls and colonial estates of European Soviet Russia is out for 'orld revom- Moreover, the economic crisis, so far from moderating centuated it. tries which are worst hit by notably Germany and Italy, are delib- erately seekin, m turn the lfienfiflaflfl ton acreage, of sugar beets, clmu fruits, | depress sentatives are frankly in the conference. They see the death of skeumlnn pearance of Austen the decline of Briand, the old Locarno has gone and the becoming a battleground of rh tional pclldu with the question of armament entangled fi AR .% the purposes 1t follows, then, that from next February, unless at the ment postponement is Eramre upon Wi R igh hand -nd occupy . grow l u would to see