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THE MORMXO OREGONIAN", FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1920
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300 MILLIONS ARMY
HOUSING PLAN COS
I
Scheme for Permanent Posts
Requires 10 to 12 Years.
HOUSE COMMITTEE BALKS
Baker Says Programme Is Only
One of Steps Toward Change
in. Theory of "Our Army."
WASHINGTON, Dec. SO. A J50.
000,000 item for army post permanent
construction submitted by the rar
department and refused by the house
appropriations committee in report
Ing out the sundry civil supply bill
vas the first step in a new army
housing- project contemplating- esti
mated expenditures of more than
$300,000,000 over a period of 10 to 1
years.
Details of the scheme formulated
by the general staff, are revealed In
testmony taken by the committee and
made public today.
In urging- congressional approval of
the plan. Secretary Baker recom
mended that many existing- army
posts, particularly those near large
cities, be abandoned and sold, the
funds to be used in financing the
new project. He did not. however,
submit any list of posts which might
be so disposed of.
Mr. Baker said the proposed pro
gramme was "simply making a start
toward a complete change In the
whole theory of our army," n line
with the army reorganization.
Quarters for 8O.0U0.
In existing permanent posts and
forts, Mr. Baker said, there were
quarters for 80,000 men as against
the army strength of 280,000 au
thorized. At present, be added, the troops
were housed in "perishable and per
ishing structures at the wartime
camps which should last not more
than a year or two longer."
Kxplaining the committee's action
to the bouse. Representative Good
(Iowa), chairman, said the project
was an example of "ambitious and
unw'se schemes proposed by govern
ment executives involving expendi
tures of hundreds of millions. He
said general staff officers at the
hearings had told Secretary Baker,
who did not know, that the cost of
the project would reach seven or
eight hundred millions.
Poor Time for Sew Drbtn.
"he country is not in condition
to authorize such expenditure," Mr.
Good said, "and the committee dis
allowed the request for money for
any such purpose at the present
Lime.
Jn justification of the new plan
Mr. Baker in his testimony before the
committee said:
"We know now from this war that
quite independently of its size, the
army would be relatively a useless
army if it were kept in outlying pouts
under conditions which obtained prior
to our going into the world war. '. If
we are going to have an effective
army at all. it must be aggregated
Into very much larger units and all
training co-ordinated between the
various arms."
Kt30,000,000 KMimnted Coat.
"The rough" estimate of the total
cost of the new project prepared by
the general staff and based on pres
ent prices of material and labor was
J330.O0O.00O. It included plans for
housing the seven existing regular
divisions and for additional divisions
at Camp Sherman, Ohio, and Camp
Devins, Mass.. upon the return of the
troops from Germany.
Stationing of heavy artillery bri
gades, composed of coast artillery
troops, at Camps Jackson, N. C, and
Lew-is, Wash., in addition to the in
fantry divisions, was proposed.
KNOX AND HARDING MEET
(Continued From First Pase.)
ables had lately recruited. Th sec
ond question obviously is: What
course will Harding now follow?
HAYS ALSO IX COXFEREXCE
my suggestion to Harding and in no
sense presumes to reflect what is in
Senator Harding's mind."
The statement recited that immed
iately after March 4, Knox will re!n
troduce his resolution for a separate
peace with Germany. Parenthetically,
he added that he was cure the sen
ate would adopt the resolution.
The statement repeated that text
of the resolution, providing for a sep
arate peace witn Germany by joint
resolution or congress for the dispo
union or German property in the
t nited Mates, and other necessary
details of such a peace, and for ihe
president to negotiate a new treaty
of commerce, and amity with Ger
many. Leagne Substitute Offered.
To this resolution for peace with
Germany by getting action of con
gress. Senator Knox said, he would
add a paragraph as follows this
being of course. In effect, Knox's
substitute for the league of nations:
it is the declared policy of tire
United States in order to meet fully
and fairly our obligations to our
selves, and to the world that the free
dom and peace of Europe being again
threatened by any power or combina
tion of powers, the United States will
regard such a situation with grave
concern as a menace to its own peace
and freedom, will consult with the
other powers affected with a view to
devising means for the removal of
such menace, and will, the necessity
arising in the future, co-operate with
the friends of civilization for its de
fense." That is Knox's Idea of what he
called "an association of nations."
That is his substitute for the league
. of nations. The whole significance of
this Knox episode is interpreted by
the more mature minds among the
observers here to mean that Knox
does not stand alone.
Others Believed Consulted.
That he drew his statement up in
consultation with several other irre
concilable republican senators. That
is in effect a declaration by these
senators that they will oppose the
plan that Harding has been evolving
through conferences with "best
minds" outside the senate, and that
going even further, these senators
propose to insist upon and fight for
a larger .share in the management of
American foreign relations encroach
ing as far as they can on the cus
tomary prerogative of the president
in that field.
Two questions now arise. The first
Is, how many other senators are back
of Knox? Our guess here in Marion
is that Knox has got behind him a
considerable, force, a force measur
ably larger than the irreconcilable
group was last winter.
Before I left Washington, I knew of
mar than one- convert tb fereson-Sil-
Cabinet Appointments Problem
Discussed With Dangherty.
MARIOX, O.. Dec. 30. The senate
Irreconcilables had their big inning
today in President-elect Harding's
"meeting of minds," and their spokes
man went away from Marion declar
ing unbounded confidence that no
foundation timbers for the new asso
ciation of nations would be taken
from the covenant of Versailles.
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, once
secretary of state, and throughout
the treaty fight a leader of the re
jectionists. brought to the president
elect the warning of bitter opposition
should he attempt to revive the
covenant in any form as a basis for
his new peace society.
"I am assured," said the Pennsyl
vania senator afterwards, "that b
has no such idea in mind."
Mr. Harding's conference with Mr.
Knox dovetailed with another of un
usual importance in which the presi
dent-elect took up with his rankln
political advisers, Harry M. Daugh
erty and Will H. Hays, the problem
of cabinet appointments. No con
elusions were revealed but there were
indications that the two party leaders
had been summoned to give a final
opinion on two or three of the most
important posts. One of the appoint
ments foreshadowed for the near fu
ture is that of secretary of state,
place for which Charles Evans
Hughes is understood to be under
serious consideration.
A secretary of the treasury seems
likely to be named at the same time
and speculation for that position
gives greatest prominence to the
names of Charles G. Dawes and John
W. Weeks. Most of the other posts
will be filled later and those close to
Mr. Harding say that nothing like
complete cabinet slate has yet been
seriously considered.
Plans for the inauguration also
were discussed by the president-elect
and Mrs. Harding during the day with
Mr. Hays, Mr. Daugherty, Senator
Knox and officials of the Washington
inaugural committee.
Senator Knox is chairman of the
congressional committee participat
ing in arrangements for the inau
guration, and it was'partly to discuss
that subject that he came to Marion.
He also was one of thos long ago
selected by Mr. Harding as a conferee
on the association of nations plan
and the confidence reposed in his
judgment by the president-elect has
led to frequent mention of his name
as a possible head of the state depart
ment.
Other circumstances surrounding
the visit, however, clothed it with pe
culiar significance. Rumblings of
apprehensions have been heard more
than once in the camp of the senate
irreconcilables, as Mr. Taft, Mr. Hoo
ver and other friends of the Ver
sailles league succeeded one another
at the president-elect's council table
or publicly expressed confidence that
the Versailles covenant would be the
foundation of a new peace plan.
Fresh from conferences with his
colleagues, Mr. Knox is understood
to" have pictured to the president
elect in graphic fashion the possibil
ities of a new factional fight should
the new administration ask the sen
ate to accept any sort of membership
in the league.
I never credited Tenorts that he
would use the league machinery a
basis for the proposed association,"
said Senator Knox. "I could not im
agine how he could misconstrue '.he
mandate of the American people or
backtrack on speeches delivered dur
ing the campaign.
"After talking with him I am more
than ever confident that he w'H do
tic such thing. I am assured that
l'- has no set idea in mind and I
am convinced that he is going to
work out something that will be en
tirely satisfactory not only to the
senate but to the country."
In a memorandum submitted to
Senator Harding, Senator Knox sug
gested that a declaration of policy
by the leading nations, pledging them
to consult and co-operate if civiliza
tion and peace were threatened in the
future would be sufficient basis for
the new peace society.
He proposed that such a declara
tion be appended to the Knox peace
resolution, which he plans to reintro
duce at the extra session of congress
after March 4.
The purposes of this resolution
were set forth at length in the
memorandum, which said the measure
would terminate the technical state
of war, request the president to ne
gotiate a treaty of amity and com
merce with Germany, repeal war leg
islation and hold Germany to the
promises she made in the Versailles
treaty and the armistice agreement.
The section proposed as an amend
ment would declare that when the
peace of' Kurope again was threat
ened, the United States would "re
gard such a situation as a menace
to its own peace and freedom" and
would consult with the powers with
a view of co-operation in the defense
of civilization.
"The passage of this resolution, as
it is proposed to be -amended," the
memorandum contended, "would pro
vide a simple and satisfactory method
of adjusting our relations with Ger
many. The declaration of a polio
such as indicated, followed by a simi
lar declaration by other nations,
would constitute an association of na
tions, bound together by a common
purpose, thatneither parchment, seal
ing wax, signatures nor blue ribbons
could make more obligatory or effect
ive. "Such a declaration of policy would
not interfere with the codification of
international law, the creation of a
court to decide international differ
ences, of adjustable character, nor the
appointment of commissions to In
vestigate critical questions that
threaten war. On the other hand, it
would stand in the background as a
great moral, force, whose tendency
should be to encourage nations to
agree.
"If this had been the avowed and
united policy of the United States be
fore July, 1914, it is, in my judgment,
very improbable that the war would
have occurred."
1
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mow SEEKS
ECONOMIC REFORM
Time to Begin Reconstruction
Soviet Congress Is Told.
PREPAREDNESS IS URGED
Russian Ruler Fears Possible Sur
prises and Insists Upon
Strengthening Red Army.'
BY CYRIX. BROWN. -
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
BERLIN, Dec. 30. (Special wireless
dispatch.) "We can now go at the
work of economic reconstruction with
greater security than before, but we
must be on watch; we must maintain
our fighting preparedness at all costs,
to defend ourselves against possible
surprise attacks: we must strengthen
the fighting potentialities of the Red
army.
In these words Nicolai Lenine sum
marized the present situation in a
speech which has been telegraphed
here, before the Pan-Russia soviet
congress, which rose to its commun
istic feet- as Lenine appeared on the
tribune and acclaimed him leader of
the world-revolution. The speech is
reported in a wireless dispatch from
Moscow.
According to the report, Lenine
strove hard to strike an optimistic
key. "War was forced upon us," he
said to the delegates, by the big
Polish land owners and capitalists, un
der pressure of western Europe. Cap
italism now has been rebuked by a
peace far more favorable to -us than
the peace we offered to Poland before
Polish hostilities began.
All Attacks Defeated.
The "entente's policy, of military
intervention as a means of suppress
ing soviet power is in a state of col
lapse. Steadily the number of states
that are making peace with us is in
creasing. One may now say that the
final peace treaty with Poland will be
signed in the immediate future. The
war forced upon us by the White
Guards was terminated when the Red
army gave the decisive blow to
Wrangel."
M. Rykow, head of the supreme eco
nomic council, followed Lenine with
summary of trie economic situation
and the outlook for Russia.
Since the beginning of the war,"
he said, "production has fallen off
not only in Russia, but also in the
capitalistic countries. So grave was
the food situation that up to Decem
ber 1 we could supply rations to only
600,000 workers. Since then we have
been able to furnish extra rations' to
,600.000. We have not yet tood
nough for full rations for all the
workers.
'It was necessary at first to nour
ish the most vital and most essen-
ial members of our economic system.
Consumption of fuel for railroads and
ndustries in the first ten months of
the year was six and one-half times
greater than the consumption for the
whole of last year. In .these ten
months we obtained twice as much
wood as in all of 1919. We got 350,-
000,000 poods (36 pounds per pood)
f coal and Azerbaijan gave up 116,-
00,000 poods of crude oil, the first we
had received In two years.
Supplies Still Needed. .
Conquest of border states brought
us many raw materials with which
we helped the soap, wool and oil in
dustries. Our factories already have
000,000 poods of cotton and of the
,000,000 spindles in the country 70
per cent will be working by the end
of 1921.
At first we lived on our old stocks
of finished goods. Then we began to
work our factories, and that work is
rapidly increasing through fresh sup-
pics of raw materials. Conclusion of
war and the advent of peace will en
able us to reinforce the -workers in
town and country with men demobil
ized from the red guards. ' --
"Nevertheless, we cannot feel wholly
reassured by the upward trend of
production: - If we carry out com
pletely the programme so far formu
lated we shall have only one-fifth of
ur requirements in pig iron. The
same holds good in other fields of
production.
"In 1921 we shall have no work
without ample stocks, and we must
irst provide for the most necessary
requirements. The Donez corl basin
suffers from shortage of food and of
echnical supplies which were for
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been consumed or destroyed. Before
the war the Donez basin produced
yearly 600,000,000 poods of coal.
Our economic plan for lsi cans
for 75 per cent of pre-war production.
Congress should resolve to Drtng pro
jected. The first to be 'built in soviet
Russia will be in the Donez basin
as the most important source of fuel
supplies for our industries.
No concrete action was taken upon
any proposed measures at the opening
duction up to 600,000.000 poods. We session, but the congress sent greet-
must give the miners food and certain i ings and compliments to the leaders
machinery from abroad.
Other things are lacking in tne
Ural districts. We must provide food
for the 300,000 Horses that transport
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to furnish the miners in the Ural NOISY WELCOME BARRED
districts witn tecnnicai supplies, auu
of the French proletariat and to the
several soviet republics in the Russian
federation
equipment."
Electricity Offers Hope.
M. Kryzanowski, addressing the
congress upon plans ror tne aevei
opment of Russian agriculture, out
lined an optimistic programme for in
crease of production with the help of
electrical agencies. He said Russian
agriculture always iiad been behind
the times. Even before the war crop
failures and famines were of common
and regular occurrence.
"Technical cultivation of the soil
with the help of electricity," he said,
"will break the vicious circle. '. Dis
tricts subject to drought will be irri
gated by electricity, and districts
with too much moisture will be
drained by electricity. The draining
of the moorlands will give us 30,000,
000 acres of new and splendid soil,
perhaps in the next year or so.
"Electrification will be applied to
other activities. It will make pos
sible the feeding of the entire urban
population of soviet Russia; it will
play an extraordinary role in re
habilitating the transport system of
the country 'by making our weak
railroads efficient.
"We are poor in met,als. , The
scarcity can be corrected by elec
tricity. Indeed, the plan of electrifi
cation, if carried out, is calculated
within 10 years to heal the wounds
of war and to raise the economic
level of Russia twice as high as ever
before.
"The energy which the Individual
power stations will generate will be
equal to that of 16,000,000 men. Twen-
erly imported. Equipment there hm ty-seven such power plants are pro-
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outside, as hapless as Anna, the match
eirlt peering in at the warmth and
revelry.
Time was when such a night meant
boundless mirth, some measure of
jollity decanted into the seasonable
flagon, but this, too, is with the dear,
dead past. The chap, wight or per
sonage who does any decanting nowa
days is assuming his own risk and
laying odds that the new year will
dawn for him in sackcloth and ashes
for the police have been cautioned
to especial vigilance in this particular.
One of the most Innocuous ways to
wait the demise of 1920 and hail the
advent of 1921, is to organize a fam
ily watch party, brew a jorum of hot
lemonade and play draw domjnoes
until, the clock strikes 12.
Adjournment Next in Order.
After which the alarm clock is
wound, the cat shut in the basement,
the doors double-barred against the
"talkative burglar," and an adjourn
ment taken. The utter innocence of
an evening such as this cannot pos
sibly, arouse the ire of the police or
violate the regulations of the common
council. A cup of safe tea first may
be served to all hands.
It is important also to note that
this season, in conformance with a
long-established custom, heralds the
new year at the initial instant of
January 1 but that tomorrow morn-
ng, even to the seventh son of a
seventh son, will be much like that
of yesterday.
Ex-Oregon Man Buys Paper.
SAN BERNARDINO, Ca'., Dec. 30.
The Evening Index, owned by W. S.
Conger, superintendent of the state
capitol building and grounds at Sacra
mento, was today purchased by Clar
ence Hedges, recently owner of the
Chronicle at The Dalles, Or., and for
merly a publisher of Cential Califor
nia newspapers.
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