Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24
U. S. OIL MEN INTRODUCE
1921 MODES OF DIPLOMACY
Grievances With obreeon-show
How the World Is GoIna

How the World Is Going
TNHESE are the days of new and changing
i styles. The ankle .muff has appeared on
the Rue de la Paix. Longchamps reports
even shorter skirts. Elsewhere in Paris
swords and gold lace are still the rage.
The diplomatic mode established between
London and Dublin reflects what might be
called revolutionary departure from long
accepted fashions 1t runs to simple and
graceful lines and reveals none Of the starch
and steel Of the Victorian and Georgian
styles. which Downing street regarded
until recently as the most becoming of ALL
Simplicity and common sense will be the
vogue in most places for the time at least,
and it is cheering to see by the papers that
the United States isn't out of the parade.
But few people will at once appreciate the
utility and the significance of the new fash
ion in diplomacy just inauguratcd by Amer
lean oil men, who, instead of trying to stir
up tumult and trouble in Washington. packed
their snitcases today and started from New
York TO talk over with President Obregon.
OF Mexico. the troubles that are behind most
of the war talk heard on both sides of the
border
Big business men. like Presidents and
congressman and Ministers of State. have
peculiar. irking troubles of their own. 1t
them. especially in Europe. have been nc
custom"d to seek wrong ways out of their
difficulties
In the Old World of the pre- war days too
many captains of industry lurkcd behind
thrones and whispered and threatened and
urged and melted their various Governments
TO policies Of violence. So n good humored
squad Of business men tripping to Mexico
in broad daylight to argue their cases in the
open gives a wholesome tone to the days
ncws. These men they represent every
American corporation with large investments
in the Mexican petroleum fieds-nrr expert
mCntnS with fine now method. Under
the rules once fashionable they would stay
at home and try to persuade the Govern
ment to sond an army down to poke bayo-
nets in the ribs OF Obregon and his col
leagues.
II am glad" said Obrcgon. that they
have taken the shortest route.
OF course he is glad. ObrPgon has as fine
nm assortment of worries as any man alive
We. ourselves. have alwNvs been irritatcd
by talk Of military pressure on Mexico and
expeditions and invasions We have a
f"cl'nG a dolusion. if y"u will - that a
nation has right to make IT'S own laws
and live its own life and do as it will with
it's own property so long as it respects the
r'RhtS or It's h'ITHnnFS ana lhose WITH WHOM
1t does business. That doesn't moan. how
ever. tHat all III" rights Of tho situation in
the M"Tt"aa OIL fields are with the present
M"ylr"n E"vcrnm"nt.
The Mexican congress has manifested
somewhat Russian disposition 70 believe
t@at for"'Tn"rS wer" nrofting too greatly
th"opgh IN" ra" materials OF the country.
Ih" tart i tha' tn" raw materials of the
"orntr' would still be- under and in the
ground If II were not for tn" energy and
interest OF foreign investors. But the
Mexican Congress revised III" national Con-
Stltutlon to lmpoS" heavy taxes on all pPtro-
Irnm taken from f"T"iTn owned wells. Th"
OIL corporations grnmbI"n. They cried out
S"r''I" when they W"r" informed that the
n0lltlcGI rulers OF IN" land were determined
to max" this production INK r"tronrtivc over
Ion" n""'od Of wears. The bulk of the
accumulated tnN would in som" instances
nav" h"'n :" great aS :" mean virtual con-
fscnti"n b" tho Government Of highly de-
y"'on"d properties
obr"@on IS between tn" devil and the deep
sea. II" tS opposed frankly I" tn" principl"
which nnd"rIi"S ia" r"troactiro tax. But il
hO openly t"YOrS the oil corporation he will