The Cordova daily times., 1921-09-28
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2S, 1921
AMERICANS AT THE CONFERENCE

The announcement that President Harding has selected as American representatives to the limitation of armament conference Tn Washington in November Secretary of State Hughes. Elhu Root and Senators Lodge and Underwood, should delight every sturdy Am crican Mr. Hughes since March has eaped to international fame. While asserting Am erican rights, respect for them would logically require equal treatment of all other countries. With his trained intellect he seized on the vital fact that all that Germany conceded was the result of being defeated in the war; as the terms of the amistic made clear and that there was no diplomatic triumph in the Ncrs- allies Treaty. Nations seeking to parcel out rights conceded to all countries were acting without authority.
 Every move he had made has been a master Iy one All the straw men that superficial folk raised have been brushed away. All the lions in the path have disappeared. As a mist dispcllcr Nlr. Hughes is easily first among world statesmen. With incomparabIc vision, with honest purposes and with genuine cour age he has been establishing sanity in war maddened world.
 EIihu Root is chief of our elder statesmen. Winner of the Noble peace prize, he has de voted more attention to the manner of pro noting peace than any other statesman in the world. Age has not taken the edge from his intellect cooled his heart or Invested him of his sturdy Amcrcanism He has suffered in public opinion from distortions of his remarks qnd from misunderstandngS of his far lighted policies but there is no device of diplomacy lc cannot see through and there is no bug that can get under any chip, nobscrvcd by his wig liant eyes.
 Senator Lodge needs mo introduction to the world He has been in house and senate for 34 years and before that served two terms in the Massachusetts legislature. He was gradu- atcd from Harvard College % years ago, lat took his law degree and his degree of doctor of philosophy He chose literature as his pro fesSon and, beginning with his thesis on the "Thc I.and-I.aw of the Anglo -SaXons,' in 1876, he has written the most imposing shelf of books to the credit of any man in public life His research has covered the entire field of American history. He has the LI. D. re- gree from nine of the leading universities of America. He k also master of languages and for 20 years he spent his summer vacations in the capitals of Europe. meeting the greatest figures and studying conditions at first hand. He has always been sturdy American. His pride had made him independent of political
 
 to defend President CIcveland's Venezuelan note, he often differed with his bosom friend, Theodore Roosevelt, on foreign affairs, and op- posed many features of John Hays treaties he felt dangerous to this country. His fight on the League of Nations is known to all men.
 Senator Underwood is native Kentuckian, but he was educated in Alabama and began his practice of law there He lacks eight years of equalling Senator Lodges continuous congress sional service and he has been in the senate only six years and few months. He took to the senate all the prestige he had won in the house, rare achievement. He is recognized as one of the ablest men in his party and, but for his residence in Alabama, might have long ago been the Democratic choice for president While he voted with the Wilson Admnistra- tion on the League of Nations he clearly shower that he did not share the enthusiasm or the stubbornness of Senator Hitchcock, the