Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-04-23
new METHODS OF
COMMUNICATION
Will AID PEACE
Are Now Willing To Give
Up Demands For Other
Concessions
(By The Associated Press. J

New York, April 22.-Developmentj
Of ter-communication promises a
chance that the league of nations
may accomplish its object of insur-
ing world peace, Melville E. Stone,
general manager of the Associated
Press, recently returned from the
peace conference, told the members
of the news association at their an
nual meeting and luncheon today.
Mr.. Stone doubted if anybody knew
whether the league project would
succeed, but said the representatives
of the associated powers had address
sed themselves to the formation of
the organization, intended, if posi-
BILE, to prevent recurrence of war,
which, he said had reached point,
through the advance of science,
where 4 future conflict would we'll
nigh mean human annihiliation. By
| the modern processes of inter-com-
munication, however, the nations
were inevitably brought closer to-
gether, he said, extending mems wise
ions and giving ga little promise"
that the failure of the congress of
| Vienna 100 years ago might be fol-
lowed something like success"
Envovs Harmonious.
1t was a mistake, Mr. Stone said,
to imagines that there had been an
unpleasant or angry situation between
the peace ENJOYS of the associated
powers, who had brought to their
task a sincere desire to solve great
problem. Despite the German hopes of
differences among the conquerors,
he added, they had agreed as to
principle.
Describing a visit to the devastat-
ed regions of France, Mr.. Stone de-
clared it had been "torn by the most
malign and outrageous savagery the
world had ever known" To bring
about it's rehabilitation, he asserted,
extension of long time credits by
American manufacturers was essen
TALLY scheme which he said could
be carried out through the banks,
with the federal reserve system to
fall back upon in case of emergency"
/ Clements Americas.
i In keeping with the Pan-American
spirit of the meeting inspired by the
recent addition of Is South Ameri-
can newspapers to the Associated
Press membership, Mr. Stone stat
ed that this extension of the service
gave assurance of the amity of the
western hemisphere. In like manner
in earlier days, he said, the organ
lization had been a material factor
In cementing the relations of the
northern and southern sections of the
United States, a union which made
possible, the national spirit eviden-
ced in the Spanish american war
and re-emphasized in the world con-
lflict.
Frank B. Noyes, president of the
association, who acted as toastmast-
err, expressed the belief that when
the peace terms were made public.
it would be found that despite all
the clashes of national interests,
America will have made good her
word"
with nations, as with Individuals"
ne said, "its seems both unfortunate
and inevitable that succeeding a
period of moral exaltation comes
reaction in which our less admirable
traits come momentarily at least
to the surface and appear to domin-
ate.
Criticism Follows.
so, after the spirit of heroic de-
termination, that freedom should not
perish from the earth and that
spirit had won an unexempled vic
tory, followed a period of fretful
criticisms, not at all confined to the
limits of this country.
Whatever was, was wrong. What |
ever might be done was surely going
to be wrong.