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TITE MOUSING ORECOXIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1921
COKFEnENCE WHS
FREEDOM OF SEA
Hughes' Speech Held Knell of
British Control.
IMPERIALISM IS BEATEN
French Editor Says English He
gemony Disappeared on After
noon of November 13.
BY STEPHANE LAUZANXE. '
Kdltor-ln-Chlef of Le Matin.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Nov. 20'.
(Special.) A great many people
ask me:
"What difference If there between
th. Paris conference of 1919 anil the
Washington conference of 1921?"
My answer is invariably the same:
"The difference is this: In Paris,
from the very first day, America ivrs
beaten and England got what she
wanted, whereas at the Washington
conference, from the very first, Eng
land was beaten and America got what
she wanted."
And that the exact truth.
When in 1918 America came to the
Tarig conference she sailed with vague
and preconceived Ideas, but she took
with her at least one clear and well
defined principle the principle of the
freedom of the seas. America meant
by that at .east so we understood
that after having crushed imperialism
upon land, there must be no imperial
ism of the sea, and no nation, however
a-reat its role in the history or clvui
zatton, must be allowed to be In a
position to dictate one day Its sov
ereign wishes to the universe because
he holds sway over the oceans of
the universe.
Problem Already Settled.
But when America landed for the
conference ahe learned to her stupe
faction that thia vital, this essential
problem, which meant so much to her,
had already been settled. It was Bet
tied In the twinkling of an eye by Mr.
Lloyd George and Mr. Clemenceau.
Head the account that Mr. Clemenceau
himself gave of this remarkable ex
ample of sleight of hand before the
French chamber of deputies:
"I have seen President Wilson' said
he. "I communicated to him a con
versation I had had, before his ar
rival, wi'h Mr. Lloyd George. In the
course of that conversation, Mr. Lloyd
George asked me: "Do you admit that
without the English fleet this war
would not have been won?' 'Yes.' said
I. 'Then,' pursued Mr. Lloyd George,
'Will you do anything that will pre
vent the English fleet in the future
from acting In the same way and ren
dering the same service?' 'No,' said I.
And Mr. Wilson stated to me that he
did not wish to do anything to oppose
either of us in any way.'
America la Beaten.
You have read, have you not, this
extraordinary story? Read It again,
slowfy, watch In hand. You will see
that the dialogue of Mr. Lloyd George
and Mr. Clemenceau took exactly two
minutes and a half. So in two min
utes and a half. In 1918, Mr. Lloyd
George settled, to England's advan
tage, the controverted question of the
freedom of the seas. In two minutes
and a half, even before anything was
discussed. America was beaten.
And now let us take' the meeting
of Saturday, November 12, at Memo
rial hall. Read once again Mr,
Hughes' speech. It is longer than the
conversation between Mr. Clemenceau
and Mr. Lloyd George. It lasted 40
minutes. But when the secretary of
state, in his deep voice, gave out the
figures which allowed only 500,000
tons of Ironclads to England and
500,000 tons to America, it took but a
few seconds. And those seconds were
historical. They proclaimed the
equality of the two navies. They pro
claimed that there was no longer one
mistress of the seas, but two. They
proclaimed, as a matter of fact, that
henceforth the seas would be free
because they would not longer be
subjected to a single dominion. They
publicly wiped out. In the face of all
peoples, the mysterious colloquy be
tween Mr. Lloyd George and Mr.
C'lememceau. In a few seconds Mr.
Hughes avenged Mr. Wilson's defeat,
situation la Dramatic.
This Is what makes the dramatic
Interest of the Washington confer
ence, and what differentiates it from
the Paris conference. In the first of
these two men secretly settled the
question of tho empire of the sea. In
the later conference one man pub
licly stated the new principle. And
the impression produced on the pub
lic was so strong that all had to
bow down to it.
Any number of philosophic conclu
sions can be drawn therefrom. The
only cure one is that in this world,
when a principle Is fair, it always
prevails in the end. The American
principle that no one people has the
right of dominatrtis on land or on
the sea to the-exclusion of others is
a principle of Justice. It is as just
as that of the pendulum that has
ruled our terrestrial globe for 40
centuries. There always will be na
tions superior to others through
their intelligence, their work, their
organization. But there should be no
one nation dominating all others.
When the French academy, which
Is at work on a great dictionary, re
vises the letter "H" and comes to the
word "hegemony." it will have to add
this remark: "English hegemony dis
appeared on November 12. 1921, after
a speech by Mr. Hughes, the United
Stales secretary of state."
10,000 ARE GDHVEHTED
TWO OltE;OX MISSIONARIES
ACTIVE IN. AFRICA.
Rev. and Mrs. Fred W. Neal Take
Charge of New Field at Head of
Congo; Long Journeys Made.
ALBANY COLLEGE, Albany, Or.,
Nov. 20. (Special.) Fred W. Neal,
graduate of Albany college, is now in
charge of a Presbyterian mission
field more than 100 miles In diameter
ultuated near the head of the Congo
basin in Africa, according to letters
received on the campus.. It Is a new
field heretofore unoccupied and lies
between what was heretofore the
farthest advanced Christian mission
ary field In the interior of Africa and
a field In which exponents of Mo
hammedanism are working among
the natives.
Rev. and Mrs. Neal. who have ob
tained more than 10,000 conversions
In the first seven years of their mis
sionary work, opened up this) new
field upon their return to Africa from
their furlough, which was spent In
Portland and other parts of the' Pa
cific northwest, and which ended
about a year ago.
Tho central mtloa in this new
field Is at Edea and there are eight
substations. A population of many
hundreds of thousands is included in
the district. Rev. Mr. Neal is at the
head of 158 evangelists and teachers,
most of whom are natives trained at
the Elal mission where Rev. Neal
formerly was stationed. In his super
visory work Rev. Mr. Neal makes the
round of the eight substations every
four months, traveling most of the
time on foot. In a recent letter re
ceived at the college he told of mak
ing one of these Journeys in company
with the English governor-general of
the province.
Mrs. Neal Is a graduate nurse and
this training has given her an oppor
tunity to be of much service in their
work. She superintends the central
mission and dispensary work. .
HUTCHIH5 FUNERAL SET
SEKVICES FOR PIOXEER WILL
BE HELD TOMOKIIOW.
Death of Aged Man Follows Week
. of Illness After Attack
of Heart Failure.
. Ths funeral of Charles Hutchlns,
one of the oldest of Oregon's pioneers,
who died Saturday afternoon, will be
held tomorrow afternoon from the
C'hnrleM Ilurrblns. pioneer of
1SJII, who died Saturday at the
ase of IKi years.
Holman chapel. Mr. Hutchlns died at
the Glenn Haven Rest home. East
Twenty-eighth and East Alder streets,
after a week of illness following an
attack of heart failure.
He was of New England stock, his
parents going from Massachusetts to
West Virginia shortly before his
birth In 1828 and returning shortly
afterwards. Both of them died dur
ing his early boyhood, which -was
passed in New York City. Before he
was 20 years old he and ten other men
bought a ship and started (or San
Francisco.
In 1849 he came to Portland and
opened uj a general store on Front
street. This, one of the earliest In
the city, he conducted until he became
an Indian reservation agent. Later
he went to San Francisco to live for
a while.
Upon the death of his wife he made
his home with Mrs. Lottie Pound Gil
bert, 4928 Seventy-first street South
east, nntil a year a so, when failing
health caused htm to become an in
mate of the Glenn Haven Rest home.
It was thought for several days he
would recover from his attack of
heart failure, but a relapse Saturday
brought death quickly.
STATE HIGHWAYS LAUDED
Eugene Minister Finds Them Bet
ter Than California's.
EUGENE. Or., Nov. 20. (Special.)
As a whole, Oregon highways are
better than the highways In Cali
fornia, said Rev. E. V. Stivers, pastor
of the First Christian church of thin
city, who with Mrs. Stivers arrived
home yesterday in their car from a
trip to Stockton, San Francisco,
Berkeley and other California points.
The roads are excellent all the way
to California, said Dr. Stivers. They
were forced to take one short detour
going south but none coming back,
and the unpaved sections of the high
way in Oregon were in good shapo
for winter travel.
Dr. and Mrs. Stivers found a great
deal of Interest among California
motorists in the new highway
through Oregon and in Its scenery
and he predicted that there will be
a greater influx of tourists from that
state into Oregon next summer than
ever before.
OFFICER DETAILED TO HILL
MILITARY ACADEMY.
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t Captain Earl Flegel.
T Captain Earl Flegel. who ar
rived Inst night from Texas, ac
companied by Mrs. Flegel, will
take up his duties immediately
as Instructor of military science
at Hill Military academy. Cap
tain Flegel is the son of A. F.
Flegel of this city. His wife
was Miss Barbara Steiner
of Palem. She Is the daughter
of Dr. R. Lee Steiner and she Is
a Kappa Kappa Gamma of the
University of Washington. Cap
tain Flegel will have charge of
the drill and all military work
at the academy. 'He was wel
comed at the, depot last night -by
a numtir-iof relatives and
old friends.'. ,M! attended Jef
ferson high school when he
lived in Portland several years
ago before going to college and
entering the service during the
war.
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BEUEVED
Till
Hughes, Balfour and Kato
Clear Up Points.
TONNAGE SOUGHT AS BASIS
Nipponese Experts Point Out That
Battle Cruiser Speedier but
Inferior to Dreadnought.
WASHINGTON. D. O. Nov. 20. (By
the Associated Press.) As a result of
the conference yesterday between Sec
retary Hughes, Mr. Balfour and Ad
miral Baron Kato, at which the naval
question was canvassed in the light
of the Japanese reservations, the
greatest confidence was expressed In
authoritative Japanese circles tonight
that an accord eventually would be
reached. The conference, it was said,
effectually "cleared the air" of many
misunderstood points.
It was believed a partial explana
tion, at least, lay in the statement ob
tained at the headquarters of one del
egation, that the three great naval
powers might have varying estimates
of the actual, existing strength of
their navies which, being harmonized,
might suggest a way of 'a settlement
of ratios.
The position of Japan was set forth
tonight as that of determination to
attain a favorable agreement. Jap
anese experts were emphatic in de
claring tonnage was the logical basis
of rational displacements. They point
ed out that a battle cruiser might
possess greater speed but that she was
inferior to a dreadnought in strength
of armor and number of guns and
that in a naval engagement would be
at a disadvantage. Therefore, the fact
British and Japanese capital ships in
cluded battle cruisers was not to them
an indication of superiority and
fchould not be counted as such, they
insisted.'
Japan has no positive programme
concerning the general question of
China, it was learned, but as various
points are presented, Japan will ex
plain her position. In Japanese cir
cles some anxiety was apparent as to
the concrete questions which China
might bring up. Emphasis was laid
on the Japanese contention that the
Chinese delegates represent only the
Pekin government, which does not
control a great part of China.
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JACKSON COUNTY SPORTSMEN
FORM ORGANIZATION.
Officers Elected by New Associa
tion and Proposal to Form
State Body Discussed.
MEDFORD, Or Nov. 20. (Special.)
Jackson county sportsmen organized
the Jackson County Game Protective
association at a meeting held in the
American Legion hall here Thursday
night. It was announced that the as
sociation would co-operate with Jose
phine county sportsmen In regulating
fishing and hunting in the Rogue
River valley.
Discussion of a proposal to form a
state sportsmen's organization, in
which each county would have one
representative on the executive com
mittee, was a feature of the meeting.
It was contended that this system
would give the less populous counties
an equal standing with the more pop
ulous, and eliminate jealousy.
A resolution opposing inclusion of
Diamond lake and the surrounding
territory in Crater Lake National
park was tabled after discussion.
C. M. Thomas was elected president
of the new organization and E. H.
Gould secretary. Vice-presidents from
various sections of the county, to
function as an executive committee,
also were chosen.
Speakers from out of town included
Colonel George H. Kelly of the state
game commission; A. E. Burghduff,
state game warden: Representative
Johnson of- Josephine county, and
Wilfred Allen, journalist and sports
man of Josephine county.
FARMERS RUM CARRIERS
Jury at Eugene Finds Three Young
Men Guilty.
EUGENE, Or.. Nov. 20. (Special.)
Zeno Hansard, Evert Hansard and
Jim Criss, young farmers living in
the vicinity of Mohawk, -were found
guilty by a Jury in circuit court yes
terday on the charge of transporting
liquor. They were accused of carry
ing an automobile load of moonshine
from the place where it was alleged
they manufactured It to Roseburg.
Dora Stone, found at the Hansard
residence when the men were ar
rested, turned state's evidence.
SPECIAL SESSION IS NEXT
(Continued From First Page.)
exposition by a tax, said they be
lieved Governor Olcott should call a
special session in January. The
problem of saving the roads, they
said, was equally as Important as the
adoption of a measure referring to
the voters the question of voting a
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tax for exposition purposes. Unless
proper traffic legislation Is enacted
this winter, they averred many of the
main traveled highways will be
ruined before the regular session of
the lawmakers in the year 1923.
Vote in Hay Sought.
Should the legislature assemble In
January the measure providing for
the exposition tax would be submit
ted to the voters at the time of hold
ing the primary election next May.
Should the special session not be
called. It would be necessary to sub
mit the question by initiative petition
at the November election in Novem
ber, 1922. The cost of circulating
these petitions would be heavy.
Governor Olcott had not returned
here tonight from Eugene, and as yet
it Is not believed he has made no defi
nite statement as to whether be will
call a special session.
The cost of calling the legislature
into special session will not exceed
$12,000, according to Sam A. Kozer,
secretary of state. This is less than
the average cost of constructing one
mile of hard surfaced highway.
Under the exposition plan Jl, 000, 000
will be raised by popular subscription,
$2,000,000 will be raised by tax in
Portland and $3,000,000 by tax in the
state at large. .
BRITAIN INDORSES RATIO
(Continued From First Page.) '
up land armaments. At an open ses
sion Premier Briand is expected to
present considerations behind France's
present enormous army outlay and to
invite discussion from the other
powers. Italy is said to be ready to
set forth ber views and Mr. Hughes is
understood to be considering a briel
statement for the United States.
Despite the divergence of opinion
on some features of the American na
val plan, there is evidence of a virtu
ally unanimous confidence in the out
come.
But the far - eastern questions to
come up at an executive meeting of
the delegates tomorrow are regarded
as lending themselves less easily to
rapid decision. They involve such a
maze of interlacing diplomatic red
tape that if an agreement is reached
even on the general principles, some
delegates will be well satisfied.
Far East Question Delicate.
Problems affecting China are con
sidered virtually incapable of nego
tiation along such exact lines as may
be pursued as to armament. It is
said by some delegates that probably
it will be necessary to deal with the
subjects set out In the agenda and
with the ten points of the Chinese
proposition on general lines. The
statement by the Japanese delegates
Saturday Is regarded as showing an
indisposition by Japan to go far into
details and the Chinese have been
reminded that Japan came to the con
ference only after a clear understand
ing with Secretary Hughes that no
nation could be bound by the con
ference against its will, even though
all others were united against it.
Private conversations between the
delegates seem to be developing a
view that the far eastern question
should be treated by the conference
by elimination. Several of China's
ten points are known to be acceptable
to all delegations and it is suggested
that these should be adopted, thus
making sure -of at least some accom
plishments. Others must be discussed
to some extent in the privacy of com
mittees. Compromise Are Expected.
Some American delegates believe
that compromises can be reached on
the debatable propositions. Such, for
instance, would be the Chinese ap
peal for the abolition of extra terri
torial Jurisdiction. There is a pros
pect that provision will be made for
this with the understanding that the
change will be made gradually to con-
lorm to the development of a modern
judicial system in China.
Finally is the view expressed by
some delegates that the whole com
plex far east problems in the end are
likely to be dealt with by the confer
ence through a solemn declaration of
principles to the observance of which j
nations party to the conference would :
be bound only in honor.
CONVERSATIONS GET RESULTS
American Groups Busy Talking to
Foreign Delegations.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 20. (By
the Associated Press.) Informal
"conversations" between leading
members of the armament delega
tions are proving the most effective
way of getting results and to this
method of assuring a "meeting of
minds" is being ascribed credit for
much for the success gained by the,
conference.
Most of the time of the American
group between meetings of tho con
ference or of Its committees has been
devoted to conversation with mem
bers of foreign delegations.
Immediately following the an
nouncement of the American naval
plan there were conversations be
tween the American delegates and
prominent foreign delegates, Includ-
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lng Marshal Foch and Admiral Beatty.
Now that attention Is centering on
far eastern questions, the same type
of conversations are proceeding.
PREMIER HELD V. S. AS FRIEND
Hara Said to Have Counted Break
ing of Relationship 'Unthinkable.'
WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 20. The
late Premier Hara of Japan viewed
the United States as "the strongest
and longest friend of Japan," Rev. K.
Tsunashima of Tokio said today in an
address. He quoted Premier Hara as
holding it "unthinkable that this
friendship" should be broken.
"Strains may come and misunder
standings may arise," the speaker said
the premier said not long before he
was assassinated, "but that the time
should ever come when they shall be
unable to find a solution to their prob
lems that to my "mind is absolutely
unthinkable."
HeifeU to riay Here Again.
A large crowd of Portland music
lovers is expected to attend the re
turn engagement of Jascha Helfetz,
young violinist who appeared at the
Heilig theater last Wednesday night
in a successful recital. The drawing
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recital was arranged for next Wednes
day night. Persons attending the
concert last Wednesday night reached
the theater with difficulty through
streets and sidewalks packed with
the throngs participating in the
parade and celebration for the 1925
exposition.
Railroad Fireman Killed.
LA FAYETTE, Ind.. Nov. 20. Mil
burn Saylor, 29, of Indianapolis, a Big
lour railroad fireman, who several
ytars ago was a prominent contender
for the lightweight boxing champion-
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