Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-04

( Special to Indiana Daily Times
! and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 4-Aemocrs OF
the advisory committee" to the Ameri-
can delegation at the armament confer
ence are by no means to be merely
decorative figures. 1t is at any rate the
plan Of the President and Secretary
Hughes that they shall be useful as well
as ornamental. Their primary function,
! 1t appears, will be to serve as the SPEAK
| ing trumpets through which the hopes,
wishes and suggestions OF the American
people at large shall be made articulate
to our delegation at the conference. Both
at the White House and the State De-
partment the makeup Of the advisory
committee is considered ideal for that
purpose. All key" branches of Ameri-
can life are represented-hnance, COM
MERGE agriculture labor aud women's &C
tivities The three pre-eminent faiths in
the United States-Protestant Roman
Catholicism and judaism have adherents
among the advisory twenty one. Geo
graphically, each section of the Union Is
provided for. Some surprise was ex-
pressed in Washington today that sena-
tor Borah is not on the committee.
! 1t would be impossible to exaggerate
the disappointment that fills Washing
! ton over definite suggestions that David
Lloyd George will be unable to attend
the armament conference There are still
hopes In official circles that the British
prime minister will yet find it possible
to be here. It has always been under
! stood that his coming was altogether
predetermined Washington knows that
Mr.. Lloyd George keenly desires TO par
ticipate in the conference and IS certain
he will do so If at all within the range
If practical possibilities. By general
consent much of the electricity of the
parley will be missing If IL. G." and his
Celtic temperament are absent.
sss
Thomas W. Lamont was In Washing
ton today to confer with the President
and Secretary Hughes regarding his re-
cent activities in Mexico. Although the
New York tanker was not able to report
the conclusion of negotiations with the
Obregon government regarding Mexico's
financial obligations in the United States
and Europe, 1t is understood Mr.. Lamont
assured both the White House and the
State Department that the way to agree
ment is still open. The junior member Of
the Morgan frm-himsef q graduate Of
the reportorial profession-could not be
persuaded TO uuOuTOeu himself Nneu HC
emerged from the White House offices.
mfr. Harding and ! discussed the fora
and fauna of Mexico" he said, leaving
It to the Imagination Of his interrogators
as TO the classification in which the Obre-
gon government belongs.
washington fills up from hour to hour
with foreign gentry. The streets are be-
ginning to look and sound cosmopolitan.
Hotels and shops are fiinging the flags
of conference nations to the breeze and
evolving picturesque show window effects
combining their colors. At the daily au-
dience with the chiefs Of executive de-
partments newspapermen from abroad
now are almost as numerous as Wash
ington correspondents. 1t is easy to
discern, from the eagerness of visiting
journalists to meet them that the three
big "Hs" of the Administration, Hard
ing, Hughes and Hoover-are the Ameri-
can statesmen in whom foreigners are
most interested. After the President,
the Secretary of State and the Secretary
of Commerce, the liveliest interest is
entered in Senator Borah.
Prince Lvoff. the first prime minister
of democratic Russia, who has teen in
Washington on conference affairs, had a
genuine thrill during his visit to the
congressional library. In Czarist days
when the hated and reactionary Russian
minister Of the interior, Stolypin, ruled