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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, OREGON. II OPINION GROWING ITHAT JAPAN MAY ! BE 1 BACK ph of ths 'question will oot b con sidered. I . r I Br 5orss Hr' f " tatorwl Srrtr Buff Corrmpoadrat Washington. Nov. 20 (Sutiday.) That Japan Is tho final question bark of this oonferano la even clearer on a quiet Bandar than It Is In the confusion of crowded working; days. Tils day la a pauae, with the churchgolng! and trips to ls nearbr country, but the hush Is heavy with surmls about the Intention f the Inacrutlble Nipponese. " No matter If tomorrow does belong t Franca ; that Is merely a staged dem nitration. The brilliant premier will ' make an adroit and touching speech. lis will, tell us again that as nobody .1.1 will guarantee safety to France. France herself blunt sek security In her arm and her strangle hold on Ger many. ' No matter If the rumor prove true that , Belgium will have something to aay about her army. To be sure, such a mora would be outside the main pur pose of the conferentje, but no more outside thsn the leading act of Monsieur BrUnd. rremter Brlsnd today personally com municated to Secretary of State Hughes, Arthur Balfour and Senator Schanser the substance of his addreaa. BBIA5D YISIT8 Hl'OHEt Senator 8-hanser called at M. Brl and's headquarters In the morning, and this afternoon the French prime min ister vlalted Mr Balfour and Secretary Hughes. In addition to outlining what he plans to say In statins; France's case tomor ' row. Premier Brland Inquired as to the opinions of the American.; British and Italian delexaten-ln-chlef as to what the procedure should be after he speaks. It was understood tonight that as a result of the conferences, this general program waa agreed upon : After Premier Brland's explanation of Francs' contention that she cannot Jeopardize her national security by re ducing her land forces below the present strength of ftjO.aoo unless there should bo given her a practical guarantee of safety. It will be determined not to. un dertake any limitation of land arma . menta at the present conference. Probably Mr. Balfour. U In under , stood tonlicht, will state that France has substantiated her claims to a special 'case and, therefore the time Is not pro pitious for Other nations to insist upon reductions In hrr navy. The guarantee ANOTHER BOMB FEARED None of these things could take first place away from Japan tomorrow. The only foreseeable event that could atand up in Interest against the Japanese puzsJe would ' be aaother bomb from Mr. Hughes. ' Such a bomb la faintly rumored bow and then, as due tomor row, but the rumors apparently are due to abellahock; the ahellabock that has existed for Just eight days. Since the big bomb of November 12, nobody's nerves are quite normal. And the sever ity with which the American attitude has been explained since that the ratio of capital shlpe remains as laid down or we enter the armament race has not taken away the nervous anticipation of more shelL Tomorrow at 4 o'clock In the after noon Is when serious dealings with Japan begin again. That Is when the Far Eastern committee meets to see what Is to follow up the generous - and vague sentiments yesterday. Not long can the question be avoided of what lay behind these altruistic phrases, which, as Mr. Balfour amiably pointed out, nobody has contested for a long, long time. On the armament question, Japan has raised the only serious obstacle, but no body expects her In the end to hold out against a program on which the United States and Great Britain unite. Where she does have the power to throw In a monkey wrench that can stop the works Is In the enterprise of agree lng to some kind of action that will keep China hereafter from being the mere prey and . toy of countries which she looks upon as less civilised than herself. , I am supposed to Interject an edi torial opinion into these news stories only seml-occaslonally, but I pause here to observe that In this opinion of China, that at bottom she is fully as civilized as those who .have despoiled her, I heart ily concur. 05 E MAJT TO DECIDE The final decision of Japan rests with one man. That man is not Admiral Baron Kato. He is not Marquis Shide hara. He is not any member of the Japanese delegation. He is not any leader in the Japanese parliament. Nor Is he the mikado. He is an old gentleman of 85, known as Prince Tamagada. When the delegation here knows what this old gentfeman thinks. It will know what it has to do. That is the difference between the Chinese delegation and the Japanese. The Chinese delegation Is more authori tative than the government at Pekin The Japanese delegation must be guided by the cable. Prince Yamagada is in practice the re gent of Japan. The mikado has become little more than a shell of -authority. Parliament has gained power in many departments, but none whatever where army, navy and foreign policy are con cerned. The prince is the only remaining older statesman except Marquis Matusakata, who is senile and no longer counts The 85-year-old dictator is In lusty health. but when be dies a system will die with him. -j There is no one to take bis place :no one to carry on the tradition of abso lute obedience to UwgtaU as distin guishable from and above the people.. rRKSS RE3I058TBATES Tamagada rules, but new elements stir ander his feet. Ask somebody-1 who really knows the East what Is the most dra matic incident since the bang of years ago and he will make an answer you would never guess. He will cot select the Chinese 10 points or Mr. Balfour's speech , or Baron Kato's little runin with the American program. ' He will select an episode that in our newspapers served only for a few lines of passing comedy. Of the Americans most saturated with knowledge of Ja pan not one' believed in advance that it could possibly occur inai a group oi some 20 newspaper men could call on Admiral Baron Kato to remonstrate against the behavior of' Japan and not lose their official neaas on tne instant. But they did call and they did remon strate. In Japan they qould not have called on him at all. There they are so far removed from the great ones that It would not enter into the head of one cf them to send in his decorative visit' Irg card to one so august as the admiral tsron. Even now the wise ones are wondering what will be the outcome of the unpre cedented act. Today I heard an excep tionally well informed specialist In Jap anese matters say he believed at least half of them would lose their jobs. Others wonder If things are moving faater than we think in old Japan. ECONOMICS COME 3SEXT If Japan stands as a clear first in uiiderlylng interest the second place nhould go to the rumor that plans for an economic conference are already being laid. The rumor may be somewhat ahead of the actual formal facts, but there is no dcubt that economic and financial mat ttrs are showing their troublesome heads with every passing hour, and that the Interest in having such a conference is strong. My own Judgment is that it will not be called until the smoke from this con ference has died down. Two things will probably prevent either such a confer ence soon after this one or the alter native of interjecting economic and fin ancial matters Into the present parley. One is the fear of complicating matters so that the two main purposes will not bo accomplished. The other is the fear of alarming that element in American opinion that does not like the sugges tion of looking Into the whole question cf what part war debts are playing in the psbsent industrial turmoiL tal ship than th Hujhaa program sO-i tows tnenv The United States cannot afford to permit Japan's, offensive fighting strength to increase y this amount The time for the exercise of statesman ship at the conference has now arrived. There are numerous difficulties In the way of winning Japan to the American position, yet, if ibis Is oot done, either the conference win be a failure or America will have to make greater sac rifices than any other power. The Japanese reactionaries are un familiar with sentiment and interna' tional morality. They feel no world re sponsibility ; only a responsibility for securing a proprietary interest in China for Japan. This gives the Japanese negotiators an advantage. Both the United States and Great Britain have to recognise the force of a moral public sentiment In formulating their policies. There is danger, therefore, that the Japanese re actionaries may count upon western "public opinion to compel an acceptance of Japanese demands rather than see the conference fail. A struggle of momentous character has been proceeding between the Japa nese military party and the Japanese Liberals since the Invitations to the wasnington gathering were issued. The militarists want to use the conference as a means for demonstrating to China that the western powers axe afralit of Japan and that China has no alterna tive beyond accepting Japanese dicta tion at Pekin. The Liberals desire to convince the world of Japan's good faith and wish to make China Japan's friend. This conflict will determine whether the Japanese government shall continue as a military oligarchy under the con trol of mediaeval clan rulers, or whether a democracy shall be estab lished with a ministry responsible to the people. The first week's proceedings at the Washington conference baa gives un fortunate proof that the. sinister power behind the Japanese government is not yet being overcome. This is the real reason why the present deadlock baa oc curred. The bene is now between the conference and Japanese militarism. Ths conference can go a long way to ward giving the militarists in Tokio a fatal blow. But not if the various dele gations at Washington remain divided. Japan will prove herself fully a match for a divided conference.. The United States will be defeated in its purioce if It continues to bold an aloof attitude and refuses to engage in any cooperation. Chicago Thousands Cheer Italian Hero: Speaks at Banquet (By United JJew) Chicago. Nov. 21. Chicago gave Gen eral Armando Diax, Italy's war hero, a tremendous ovation Sunday. He was greeted by 60.000 cheering Americans of Italian descent upon his arrival, while guns on the lake front boomed an uprorious salute. His prog ress to his hotel waa virtually over flow ers, as bis former countrymen tossed their nosegay contributions in his path. Following the official welcome and speeches, he attended mass celebrated by Archbishop Mundelln and was accorded the degree of honorary doctor of laws by Loyola university. He later reviewed a parade of 60,000 veterans of the World war, patriotic so cieties and school children. The parade of Italian and other national societies with many striking costumes added color to the long procession. General Dlas spoke later at a banquet in bis honor. f i BANK ROBBED OF MANY SECURITIES Spokane, Wash-. Nov. 21. (V. P.) Several thousand dollars In securities were looted from the state bank at Spangle early this morning, according to reports from President Newland of the bank reaching F. S. Alkus of the Burns Detective Agency and the sheriffs office here. Breaking in a back door, the yeggs smashed and battered their way through a solid brick wall into the vault ' Once inside they- rifled many safety deposit boxes of securities. Jewelry and cash. The main safe of the bank was not 1 touched, the reports said. A check of the amount missing is being made, a telephone message from Spangle said The same bank was held up several weeks ago, a girl cashier being chloro formed and shot through the arm, ac cording to her story to officers. . The robbers were never captured. The sheriffs office here has a posse out attempting to trail the bandits' car through the snow. JOSEPH BEYER, 8. DIES Centralis, Wash., Nov. 21. Joseph Bever, aged 86, Civil war veteran, died Sunday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Verna Huntington, in this city. He had lived here for IS years. Another daughter, Mra W. P. Hudson of Port lands and a son. E. E. Bever, of Lewis ton. Idaho, also survive. MpNPAXKOVEMBER 21, 1S21. Our Special This'1 Week Whilt Thty Lost I Portland Seattle New York San Francisco Los Angeles Electric Curling Irons 5-M- A Very Suitable Christmas Present Buy Now at Reduced Price ' Remember the location e.p. Scott & Co. 306 Oak St., Bet. 5th and 6th OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS Stenographers BAIVJK YOUR SALARY at the State Bank Friendly Service" Where Fifth Crosses Stark With Which Is Consolidated the Peoples Bank The name on the label MILITARISTS OF JAPAN P ABLET'S FIRST OFFENDERS By J. W. T. Mason (Written lor the Trotted Tress) The disarmament conference has reached Its first deadlock. The Japa nese militarists are the offenders. 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