New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-11-18
WAR DEBTS NOT
TO Be DISCUSSED
THIS SUBJECT is NOT TO BE
BROUGHT BEFORE CONFER
ENcE IN WASHINGTON.
IMMIGRATION ALSO BARRED
Consideration Will Be Given Only to
Limitation Of Armaments and Far
East Problems, Despite Many Ru-
mors to the Contrary.
BY EDWARD q. CLARK,

Observation-Disclosures of the adj
ninlstration still find it necessary TO
inform the public, sometimes an i'm
Fortunate public, that the conference
on limitation of armaments and Far
East problems is not to take up my
~eNtraneOus matters, and moreover can
not take them up.
Stories are still running through the
country to the effect that the confer
ees will give consideration to such
matters as the refunding of the debts
owed by foreign governments to the
United States, matter Of immigration,
and some other things which have
nothing to do with the subjects which
the President had in mind when he
Issued his invitation to the greater
powers to send 'missioners'' here to
attempt to do something to enable the
world to get rid of at least a part of
Its coat Of mail.
The sum of something like twelve
billions of dollars Is owed to the
United States by foreign governments.
A good many Americans seem to think
that this debt is not drawing any ill.,
terest. ii is to draw interest but an
arrangement was made by which the
interest Is not TO be paid until Il
season more convenient to the debtors.
immigration Not Included.
Immigration is a subject which many
people seem To think is to be "A matter
OF discussion AT the coming conference.
Under the call for the conference i'm
migration has no more place In the pro-
gram than the foreign Indebtedness.
The men who are coming here To rep
resent foreign countries, and the
members of our own delegation, are
neither financlers nor immigration ex-
perts. The foreigners are not author.
lied by their governments to discuss
anything except limitation of arma-
ana Far East problems, so they
cannot discuss e%Nlraneous matters il
they want to, unless they choose To
disobey orders.
If immigration should be taken up
in the conference, it probably would
lead Ia a general row The Japanese
would have very much TO say on this
subject. IL Is only II so-called gentle
mans agreement that keeps japanese
immigration out of this country to-.
day. Ii is recognized by the govern
ment officials that immigration as IA
subject for discussion in the CONFER
ence would be very much like a live
pmber In a powder magazine.
II the coming conference shall solve
all the problems connected with the
Far East and shall bring about a re-
of ornaments to an extent
hat will save the taxpayers of eacl,
some hundreds of millions of
lOllars yearly, it will have performed
1 task of some magnitude. As things
oOk, the conference is likely to last
or FIVE or six months. Ii foreign In
and immigration we're
brown into the conference chamber,
( would take another six months TO
the questions that were thrown
n with them, and il Is said the chances
ire that no real settlement could he
Some of The Washington officials
said that ii Is hard for them TO
how reports get abroad
hat this, thar or the other thing
which have no bearing on the program
f the conference are TO be discussed
the delegates. No suggestion ever
las been made by any official of
.iovernment that anything except
rmament limitation and Far East
'roblems are to be brought before the
onferees.
Propaganda Against Veterans.
Ia the city of Washington propa- ,
anda is under way to belittle the
and the sacrifices made by the [,
len who went to the front for their
ountry In the conflict which has lust /,
losed. !
There are certain circles in the CAP :
al city. and IN other places Ia the !
United States, In which veterans can
appear without soon learning that
here Is an atmosphere Of coldness to- !
ard them and a not infrequent effort '
} make them feel that some kind OF I
n APOLOGY is due from them because U
hey answered the call to the coiors. !
II is said that a great organization J
I former soldiers soon may take pub- L
C notice OF the subtle but Heverthe- Q
ss apparent efforts which are now v
ling made to discredit in the public v
ind the veterans Of the great war.
may he hard for Americans who 4
ve at n distance from the breeding .
of the microbes Of anti-Amer- a
anism to believe that such n thing Il
possible. but il Is possible. The !"
and the outspoken word. both d
with something Ike contempt. e
lsily are circling round. b
This sort of thing is marked i'm s.
~ashington from which. above all 9TH d
places, the natural thought is. it 7
ould be absent. There are curious
inpanion bodies in this attempt TO el
axe less than light Of the Uniform a.
ID of those who wear IL. The busiest C,
the are Americans of s;
NJ descent who are associated with II
@ or the other, or perhaps with an is