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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 ,1921. THE OREGON DAILY v JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. PUBLIC BEGINS TO DISTRUST PARLEY'S SECRET SESSIONS By Itrau Hapftood CniUd Ntw BUH Correspondent Washington, No. J7. China's demand that the door of opportunity for trade ba left open to alt nation alike was the outstanding development of the big con frrcnc Wednesday. All proceedings were behind closed doors. Next tn Inttrest was the announcement last night bjr Premier Brland of France that he is prepared to make his state ment to the conference on France s posl tlon with respect to land armaments just as soon as Secretary Hutches can call the neat public meeting. Ths pre mler had no Indications as to the exact date of this session, but still expected It to ba on Friday. He said : i will open Frances book or rec ords for the Inspection of the whole world and show that In the face of Ger many n front and Ruasla behind her, "France, finds Itself obliged to maintain her armed forces at least at their pres sent strength." LAUD ARNAXEJT The question of land armaments, .how over, will not be settled at the present conference, but at another conclave to bo called next year, according to a well grounded report here. The American delegation wants an agreement on the . naval armament plan, and the ground work laid for a Far Eastern settlement as speedily as possible - Brland's statement would Involve pro tracted discussion, since It will inter lock land armaments with the question . of fulfillment of the Versailles treaty and the political situation In Europe generally. Therefore It Is generally ac repted that while land armaments may disco ne d In the conference, no defi nlte action will be taken at this time. BtCKECT DISTRUSTED Significant as are the Chinese terms. " Is Is true, nevertheless, that the moat Important news of today Is not the of ficial announcements. It la la tha man ner In which public opinion Is acting in resrd to the aocret seavlons. That not every committee meeting can o held In tha preeence of several hun ' a rd corrf apondenta la obvious. That delegates must have a chance to auk questions and make proposals that do tmt commit them to anything also is ob vious. Secrecy, to some extent, must be, but the public obviously distrusts it. The pubjtc obviously believes it may carry us bark to the old diplomacy. Nothing Is clearer In this town. Just now the center of the world's attention, than that if the administration Is to hold the enormous success scored on Satur day, the cards In the Far Eastern game as well ss In the disarmament game, must be laid on the table day by day. Otherwise the public Is capable of swing; -" ing away from tha administration's pro gram as suddenly as It swung to 1L rHOORA.Yt 1ST FRANK ' This la comment not on what hardened Wednesday, but on the public attitude as felt here. What happened. In actual prac tice, was all to ths good. The Chinese program was laid on the table, fully and frankly. Those who have been reading my forecaxta wtyl find no difficulty in observing that In any opinion this Cht- ' nes program Is also the American pro- i gram.- It would be abaMf call this a Pekrng program. . It I a ' program, not of a pre-Japaaeaa attacto government, but of very able delegate, whose Inde pendence of the frklrig government that appointed thetn was shown at Paris, and who work in absolute sympathy with the American delegates. BRITISH VIEW CLEAR The Brltiah view of developments up to now was made perfectly clear In the fourso of the day. According to that Mew the alliance between Japan and Oreat Britain Is by no means touched by the Chinese proposals, but the Brit ish will be very glad to give up the treaty provided some agreement can be substituted, either tripartite or with even more than threa nations partici pating. in reply to some comments on the proposed modifications In the naval holiday Idea, It was made clear that no proposal' whatever of the British gov ernment could be Interpreted as result ing In a larger total building than pro- posea ny air. iiugnes. DEBTS HOT TO COME TP v Tne ununn ao not expect the debt question to ne raised. They have brought two financial experU with them. They will be glad, however, to discuss that or -any other question that United or any omer: nation carea to oring up. t In regard to one, aaprct of the Chi nese proposal It may be said that tne British look upon the whole scheme of spheres of Influence as quite antiquated. The committee on Far Eastern ques tions, after it morning session, lunched with tha secretary of state. The Chi nese ' proposals were "handed in at the morning session. The committee met again in tha afternoon and decided upon tha best way to deal with them. There was no discussion of their merits. SUB-COMMITTEE CHOBEH A sub-committee of nine was appoint ed, consisting of the experts of dele gations, to decide on the best way the lararer , committee should take up the various points. The smaller com mittee will report to the larger commit tee tomorrow. The Japanese group, at which, many of the proposals strike directly, was very evidently taken back by the manner of their presentation, and refused to com ment on them last night, but win ex press today, through Ambassador Shide- hara, Us views for the benefit of the press. Through an official ot tne Japanese government it was stated, however, that the Chinese proposal to swing back the "open door" without qualification in any way and to extend it to all parts of the Chinese republic was "an absolutely-new principle." DESIRES ARE APPARENT I have already forecast in these dis patches what the Chinese position would be, and that it would be the basis of the American position. - Also I have fore told that it would be the central fact in the final plan agreed upon by the five powers. Although the Chinese say that certain specific applications of their principles will be made later, what they say today la clear to all who know the game that la going on. The announcement was made Wednes day that the Chinese proposal had been received. Informally, it was said that it was discussed. In addition to this It was hinted by some of the delegates that no particular attention would be paid to the program, as it was deemed Im possible to fulfillment. As a purveyor of news I am not In clined to take those hints too seriously. I know perfectly well that neither the British nor the Japanese care to go so far. but I am convinced they will have to do so, if they are. to get any settle ment backed by American opinion. PROGRESS DESIRED .soiice in clause & tne expression, "as soon as circumstances will permit." The Chinese program Is fully drawn, not to put everything Into effect at once but to mark a line of development. The open door Is ' defined," according to American policy, as equal (commercial opportunity. It shuts cut exclusive holds by other governments.. It doe not pre vent any tariff for' Chines develop ment. ' ' The pianificance of the fourth clause is largely in the fact that the present. method of Japanese penetration is grad ual and furtive. This Is to some extent also true of the British hold in South China. Hereafter any agreement not announced at the time is to be void. Clause 6 also shows the spirit of work ing things out gradually. China wants to get hold of her own government, economically and politically, but eke does not expect to do.it. all at once. '. A clause like this will not be likely to be executed at this eonfetence, but it will be on future agenda. Clauses -9 and 10. pre pare for these future meetings. AGBEES WITH V. 8. This, again,' rs In accord with the ad ministration's policy. What It wants to bring about is double In nature. It wishes to get settled as many specific questions -aa it can and then wishes to leave the road open and prepared for taking up and carrying further the re maining questions at a future time. All this fits in with the news sent out by this service Tuesday, that the Brit ish were likely to bring in sweeping suggestions of their own for the lessen ing of the grip of other powers on China: That news Is unofficially con firmed today. Just as Mr. Balfour coun tered Mr. Hughes by going even further and mentioning the submarine, so the British are working on a plan to make an offer about China eo sweeping that It will be accepted as a long step ahead. It is generally believed mag the Jap anese are prepared to give up Shantung, provided they are left alone in Man churia. One school of Japanese thought is aleo determined to get a strangle hold on Eastern Siberia, but it is not gen erally believed such a claim will be pressed. In that connection it may be noted that Eastern Siberia is at present under the control cf an interesting and lnde pendent de facto government, known as the Chita government, and that two rep resentatives of that government are now in Washington waiting for a hear ing. BEHIND .TIMES . At this point tne American policy, in the main so solid, runs into its insuf ferable stupid and academic Russian policy, which prevents it from having 'any dealings with tha actual and excel lent, government of Siberia, while It keeps tip a hollow relation to a Russian government as dead aa that of Hannibal, The remaining point of importance was that after the meeting of the Far Eastern committee. Secretary Hughes announced further, steps In the direct negotiations between this country and Japan in regard to Yap. Japan is to continue to administer the island, but is to allow to apply to it all treaties between the United States and Japan, and is to cede to the United States a site for her wireless plant. Some of the delegates are eo optimistic as to think there mar be a general agree ment on the Pacific policy reached with in 10 days, leaving many details to be worked out- in committee a branch of the work that may take several months. "HootchHoliday" IsProposed . ' ' , " . Corkage to Depend on Thirft Non-partisans in North Dakota Likely To Ask for Recount (Bi United News) Fargo, X. D Nov. 17. Demand for a i contest of the recall election is growing. A. A. Leiderbach, chairman of the North Dakota state executive committee of the Non-partisan league, said today. "If the league members demand a con test there is nothing for us to do but 50 through with if. We are the servants of the league," he added. Taxpayers in half a dozen counties have started a movement ajyl employed counsel to seek an injunction against the state canvassing board to prevent it certifying the election of Independents who won in the recall October 28. Re ports late today were that the injunction would be sought in the supreme court. The injunction,, to be effective, must be secured before November 23. X ' fW'' I Lineman Is Killed By Electric Shock Walla Walla. Wash, Nov. IT. Elde Harris, 50 years old, electric power line man, was killed here Wednesday afterv noon when cutting a live wire. He re- , ceived the full effect of the voltage on the city power lines-. Improper insulage of his cutting Instruments is attributed as the cause of his death. By Ring Lardaer (Copyright. 1921. by the Ben Syndicate.) Washington. Nov. 17. While we are waiting for the different committees to get ready with their reports it looks to me like this was a good time to open up the discussion of a subject which to my mind is pretty near as important as international dis armament namely de-alcoholixation of the neighborhood re duction of family liquor supplies. Just like the League of Nations failed to prevent war so has prohibition failed to even slow up drinking and not only that but it has made same 5 or S times as expensive so that now days the average family d,ont know where their next bootleggers coming from. Now gentlemen and friends, I am In the same position regards to drinking which the U. S. is In with respects to war namely, I dont want nothing for myself and I havent no intentions of invading a neighbors home and at tacking their supply, but for defensive purposes I have got to"keep enough in my own home so aa callers can't set around the living room and make funny cracks about how dry they are. So it looks like it was my duty to take the leadership in regards to hootch reduction the same as it was Mr Hughes duty to make the first suggestion about navies, and with the' above few lines of introduction I will go ahead and next holiday and It seems only fair that S quarts gtn. Smith 4 quarts ScotcH. S the amount to be purchased by each quarts gin. Lardner 1 quart gin. At faxnUy shall be In accordance with thatjiiiary cruisers and chaser: Brown IS familya thirst. In other words if the J quarts vermouth. IS quarts charred Browns is a thirstier family tnan my 'water. Smith ! Si quarts vermouth. 4 present my idears as I believe the time for dreams and flowery phases has past and the time for action has came. Well friends the Japan and England of my neighborhood an Long Island Is two, families who we call the Smiths and Browns and they are both married couples . like myself and got pretty near the same tonnage of children which we may leave the latter out of the present calculations as none of our kiddies has yet reached the age when people starts drinking these days, namely 11 years old. Once or twice per week the Smiths and Browns comes to our house or vice versa. The ladies of these three great powers is satisfied with a couple, rock tails apiece and personaly I dont touch nothing but Smith and Brown has always got their tongues hanging out. My mo tives Is therefore unselfish in offering the following suggestions which I hope that Smith and Brown will give them careful consideration and talk them over with their wives and give me their answer at the next plenary session be fore anybody gets too plenary. Article 1 It Is proposed that the first 10 day 8 of' every month shall be a 10 day hootch holiday during which no party to this agreement shall buy, manu facture or drink liquids of more than Vi of 1 per cent displacement. Article 2 Scrap all bottles which has already been opened and all or a part of their contents removed. Article 3 At the beginning of each holiday the corkage of the three families shall of been reduced to an amount just sufficient to take care of transients and west of Pittsburg. ' Article 4 At the end of the holiday the three families may buy such new corkage as will maintain them till the family why the Browne Is entitled to buy a whole lot bigger supply and on evenings when the party aint held at their house, they can bring along as much of their own supply as they think necessary to the success of the evening. Article 5 Getttng down to actual cork age I would submit the following figures as adequate to the needs of the three parties to this agreement : quarts charred water. Lardner 1 qsart vermouth. 1! quarts chare ed water. This Is my proposals friends aad wile I am aakiag them ;m a spirit of good fellowship and asatry towards all aad not barking them np with ' anything la the nature of a threat still I am la hopes' that they will be found acceptable with few or no chanjrea as an agreement in this matter la essential to lh futttr Destroyers. Brown S quarts Scotch, friendship of the three great powers. 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