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The New York herald., 1921-11-30
WOOD AND FORBES
DENY FILIPINO PLEA
Say in Joint Report People Are
Not Yet Ready for
Independence.

WASHINGTON, Nov % - The
Philippine Islands should remain in
their present general status until the
people there have had time to absorb
and thoroughly master the power al
ready in their hands" Goy.-Gen. Leon
ard Wood and ". Cameron Forbes,
former Governor General. say in their
report to President Harding. based on
their six months' study of conditions in
the islands.
1--WE are convinced" they say. that
il would he q betrayal of the Philip
pine people and discrcditable neglect
of our national duty were we to with
draw from the islands and terminate
our relationship there without giving the
FDlipinog the best chance possible "a
have an orderly and permanently stable
government"
Some OF the general conclusions" fol-
low:
I'VE find the people happy. peaceful
and in the main prosperous and keenly
appreciative of the benefits of American
rule.
1--WE find everywhere among the
Christian Filipinos the desire for inde-
pendence, generally under the protection
and Americans are for continuance of
American control.
1--WE find that the Government Is not
reasonably freed from those underlying
causes which result in the destruction
OF government.
I'VE End that the public services are
relatively inefficient, due to lack of in
spections and to the too rapid transfer
of control to officials who have not had
the necessary training.
I'VE find that the civil service laws
have in the main been honestly admins
tered, but there Is a marked deteriora-
ton due to the injection OF politics.
1--WE find there is q disquieting lack
OF confidence in the administration OF
justice to an extent which constitutes o
menace to the stability OF the Govern
ment."
in the report are these:
I'VE recommend that the Governor
General have authority commensurate
with the responsibilities OF his position.
In case OF failure to secure tho neces-
ssry corrective action by the Philippine
Legislature we recommend that Con-
gress declare null and void legislation
which has been enacted diminishing,
limiting or dividing the authority
granted the Governor-General.
eve recommend that in case OF q
deadlock between the GoveInor-General
and the Philippine Senate in the con-
firmation of appointments, the Presi-
dent of the United States be authorized
to make the final decision
The New York herald., 1921-11-30

ing took place between two rival Cen
erals, followed by the usual looting--
January rs and February s, 1921.
is. Troops at Paotirgfu. Chilli prov
nice, looted 5000 buginess houses-Feb-
ruary l3. 1921.
10. At Shen-Hsien similar incident
took place--February 22, 1921.
20. a. Shashi. Hupeh province, tho
troops resorted 10 incendiarisn and
plundered stores resulting IN u damage
Of $4,000. O.000--February %, 1921.
81. At Chsngteh, Human province, two
rival Generals, with 10000 soldiers, had
a fiEht---Anril 1922, 1921.
%. At Chow-Chia-Kow, Human prov
ince, soldiers mutinied and looted
March t2, 1921. a similar incident hap
pened at Sinyang May 2. 1921
90. At Ichang, Hupeh province, SOL
diers killed 500 people and burned a
large number OF business houses. The
tax offices. Bank of China and Cham
Der OF Commerce were looted. British.
American and Japanese business firms
suffered n heavy damage-June 4-5,
1921.
"a. At wuchang. Hupeh province. =
mob OF soldiers looted the Government
mint and printing office and burned the
Bank OF China ard other banks and
large business houses. Moro tlrn 80
per cent. of the private houses were
looted The commander never punished
thc soldiers--June s. 1921.
% Troops at Wuhu. Aniu province.
demanded OF the Chamber Of Commerce
$3.50. O00 and got $40 00o--June .. 1921.
2s. At Hsiaokan. IIupeh province, SOL
dlers destroyed The railroad for two
miles. cut telegraph wire and inter-
rupted communications on the Pekin-
Hankow Railway FOR several days
August IS. 1921.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30

Special Despateh to THE NEW YosK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. G.. Nov. 20.
The American Government having an
nouneed that the naval ratio 5-5-3 IS the
irreducible minimum and tho japanese
delegation having elaborately explained
that only a ratio OF 1o-10-T-that is
seven capital ships to Great Britain'S
and Americas ten. instead OF three to
five--is the very least that Japan can
accept. pessimists are happy.
The conference, they croak. is on the
brink of destruction. Those persons who
would Like to see the conference wrecked,
and they are many, are to-day better
satisfied than they have been at any
time since it opened they are more
deeply sunk in their pessimism and con-
sequenty enjoying themselves even
ported the British and French delegates
refusing TO speak to one another and
the French and Italian delegates cx-
changing billingsgate across the coun-
ell tables.
Beaconsield at Berlin ordered his spe-
cial train and Wilson at Paris COM
manded steam up OF the George Wash
ington. Baron Kato's valet has not
yet been told to get the trunks read,
but that will be the next headline As.
a matter OF fact up TO this hour there
10 not the slightest cause for uneas!ness.
What will happen during the day OF
tomorrow it would be folly to predict,
but it can be said with fun knowledge
derived from authoritative sources, Civ
ing the news as it develops and not
views or speculate theories. nothing
has happened to alter the conservative
optimism OF my previous dispatches.
WHAT already has been done and tne
outlook for the future have been
summed UP for me by g man whose
by no one now here. He said:
when three men or honor pledge
themselves to an enterprise because II
Is for their common good, even though
they may be Influenced by different mo-
tives, there ought to be no fear that the
enterprise will not be carried out. That
is the position of the United states. Eng
land and Japan regarding naval reduc-
ton.
"rhe proposals made by the United
States, so far as they affect capital
ships. have been accepted by England
and Japan, hence why not consider that
question disposed OF instead OF regarding
II as a rock upon which the conference
may split?
"As for japanese objections, they are
not as formidable as they sound when
decorated with large headlines in the
newspapers. The japanese are able
diplomats. They know what they want
and they are playing their own game
with great shrewdness, but would you
count them shrewd II they caused the
conference to fail? Does not that ques-
ton quiet any doubts that may exist?
specifically, in regard to the Mutsu,
about which so much has been said.
The Japanese of course, would like TO
retain her in their navy. The Americans
and British we'll understand the Japa-
nese feeling, and neither British nor
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
Extra rntcrritorial Problem.

Take, for instance, the question of eX-
traterritoriaiity Foreign nations would
not be reluctant to forego extraterritorial
rights, If they feel fairly sure that the
Chinese administration is capable of
protecting foreigners. Japan, for one,
would welcome the day when foreign
Jurisdiction in China was consigned to
the limbo of oblivion. This was made
clear in the Japanese memorandum sub
mitted to tive Far Eastern committee on
November 20.
No nation can be more sympathetic
toward China than Japan on the ques-
ton of extraterritorial rights. Up to
1898 Japan herself suffered from the
same institutions which fixed the
stigma OF inferiority. For twenty years
Japan's domestic and foreign policy had
centred upon endeavor to remove that
stigma.
An impartial observer cannot fail to
notice a radical difference between the
Japanese method and the Chinese tactics
in dealing with extraterritoriallty.
Japan did not go abroad to air her
grievance and demand its abroEation OF
foreign governments. Instead she stayed
homo and eevoted all her energies to
the administrative and judicial reforma-
ton necessary to attain the desired end.
Had China emulated the Japanese
method she would have accomplished the
seme purpose long ago. Japan knew
the futility OF attempting to shake off
the foreign yoke by anti-foreign agita-
tion. The best way was to win the con-
fideuce of foreign nations by rehabilitat-
ing her own affairs.
The Japauese memorandum submitted
TO the conference November 20 expresses
the belief that existing difficulties in
China lie no less in her domestic situa-
ton than In her external relations" This
significance OF this statement may not
have been fully realized By the other
delegations. but the time will come when
the world will heartily appreciate and
indorse that Japanese statement.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
II Japan Keeps Her Then
America and Britain Will
Build Equivalent.
BURDEN RESTS ON TOXIC
london Morning Posts Cor
respondent Reviews the
Conference Situation.
BY A. MAURICE LOW

Correspondent OF the London Morning
Post.
Special Dsspdtch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
Indiana Lads Corn Wins
Board of Trade Prize

NHICAGO. Nov. 29.--Frank
l Lux, fifteen-year-old Shelby
vile Qnd.) boy. won the
sweepstakes in the junior corn
contest tonight at the interna-
tional grain and hay show. The
judges declared his ten ear sample
the best ever exhibited here. In a
previous junior State contest In In
diana the boy raised 101.6 bushels
of corn on a single acre.
District winners in the contest
for which a special premium list
was offered by the Chicago Board
OF Trade in addition to the $4,000
in prizes. included Eugene Troyer
of Lafontaine, Ind.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
By EDWIN c. HILL.

Special Despatch to THE NEW YORK rIEraLp.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. g., Nov. 2S.
China, vast 7nysterioua. incredibly
ancient, is tho touchstone OF the confer
ence. The wise men of Washington.
striving to solve the riddle OF the East.
are aware that the extremely modernized
Chinese in morning coats and silk hats,
here to speak for their country, are not,
after all. the people for whom the West
would plan. At an Immense distance
behind these Occidentalized spokesmeri
are millions upon millions living and
thinking as they Iced and thought in
the time Of Marco Polo.
They know, as they approach the
problem of China, that they are dealing
with race OF mankind contradictory
and antthetical in character. disposition
ard habit or thought from any of the
peoples OF Europe or the New World.
There is scarcely an institution or a
characteristic of the Chinese that is not
the reverse of the corresponding institu-
ton or Characteristic of the Aryan peo-
pies. The effort to protect the China OF
to-day is hampered by the difficulty of
understanding the Chinese, unchanged
ir five thousand years.
1.-THE sons OF Han, the yellow men
whom I shall never know" Herbert S.
German wrote, with fascinating imagery,
for this newspaper some years ago, con-
tributing these verses Of poetic truth
Behind their stclid masks they hide a
thousand buried years:
The rivers OF achievement glide beneat Il,
their unshed tears
What mystery Is in their hearts, what vision
In their eyes,
Is secret as the silent moon that mounts tho
lonely skies.
Connected with the Chinese advisory
staff is a wise old counsellor, not too
modernized to have lost sympathy with
tho ages old customs OF his people yet
familiar enough with the ways of the
West to realize the almost hopeless bar
riers of indelibiy inherited habits of
thought and conduct. He Will talk to
you in English or in French, this sage,
as he puffs a cigarette made in North
Carolina and regards the daggerlike
finger nail of his left hand. his sole
visible tribute TO ancient custom. II IS
his belief that the complete reversal in
the Chinese OF everything that Western
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
1t Is One Of Best Means of
Shaking Off Foreign YoEe,
Says Kawakami.
MANY DISORDERS CITED
Her Salvation Must Come
From Within. Asserts Jap
ancsc Correspondent.
By *. K. kAwAKAMI.

special Correspondent Of the Jill
Shtmpo, Toxic.
Special Despatch TO THE NEW YoRK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. c.. Nov. 20.
BY the application OF the Root formula
the committee on Far Eastern and Paci-
flc problems Is making rapid progress
in the disposition of various specific
questions concerning China 1t has
come TO an agreement upon the quea-
ton of the foreign post offices in China
It will probably proceed to organize
an international commission or commits
sions to institute thorouellgoing in
vestigation into the tariff and extrater-
rtorality question in China, because
hasty conclusions in such complicated
matters are unwise.
AS for foreign troops and police forces,
they will be withdrawn, probably with
the condition that China must guarantee
the security of the lives and property
of foreigners A similar condition is
attached 10 the agreement or the COM
mittee to abolish foreign post offices.
That agreement cbiges China ito
maintain an efficient postal service" to
make no changes in the present posta !
administrations so far as tie status OF
the foreign ccdirector general is con-
ccrued."
The adjustment of Chinese questions
such ms arc now being discussed at the
conference hinges. in the last analysis.
upon one central question, namely. ad-
ministrative efficiency and honesty.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
LOOKING IN
on the conference
Western Attempt to Protect China the Mysterious
Hampered by Difficulty of Understanding Minds
Living Still in Time of Marco Polo

peoples are used to is probably the
strengest circumstance in the history
of mankind.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30

Special Correspondent Of the Jill
Shtmpo, Toxic.
I Special Despatch TO TIE NEv, YoF,5 HrEnr.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
China's Internal Troubles.

China's salvation must come from
within and not from without. 1t lies In
the removal OF obstacles she has placed
in her own way, rather than in lifting
the burdens imposed upon her by foreign
nations. No more convincing fact in
support of this statement can be found
than the following list Of Internal
troubles which have taken place in
China in the last year. This list has
been prepared after q careful study OF
Chinese newspapers:
/. Fighting between Yunnan and SEE
chuan troops az Chunl5ing. An English
merchant was killed in the riot and a
British gunboat fred at the city-Octo-
Der II. 1920
9 The troops at Hochien, Chlih prov
ince. extorted 81 900 from native ner-
chants and looted fifty OF the largest
stores-October 81, 1920.
3. Troops at KaoyaDg, Chilih province,
demanded 100000 OF merchants and
looted thirty neleirboring villages and
killed more than 100 people---November
II TO 22. 1920.
4. In Hsu-Chang. Honang province, n
mob, consisting largely of soldiers,
looted l 900 business houses, including
the Bank OF China and post office F;
moro than forty people were killed
November 7. 1920.
s. At Kwei-yang. kveichow province,
troops mutinied and plundered and killed
almost hundred people. including a
bank presiden; and n local magistrate
November 10, 1920.
6. At Ping-Klang, Human province.
the troops shot tho commander and
plundered the city--Sovember II. 1920.
z. The trpops at Hwang-Chow, Hupeh
province, eztorted a large gum from
local ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IS. 1920.
s. At Chung -Hsians soldiers looted
the principal stores-Noyciaber 22 and
%. 1890.
Q. In Tienmcn. Hupeh province. troops
had an orgy of looting "a,
1920.
10. In Lln-IIsiang. Human province.
troops mutinied and plundcrod--Novem-
bcr 25. 1890.
Customs Houses Looted.
II. At Yangshln@ and Funchikow,
Hupeh province, troops plundered the
custom houses and many b sine IS
houses and extorted largo sum from
the local magistrates and merchants
November Is, 1920.
10. In Ichang. Hur-h province. a mob
of soldiers and coolies resortod to incen-
utariSTn ana iOOteu ttOTcs, lnCluu1DE
fourteen Japanese business houses. store
house of Japanese steamship company
wsg burned--November 20, 1890.
19. At Tayei. Hupai province. The
troops mutinied and plundered--Novem-
Der 80. 1920.
"a. Troops at ChinH -Chur, 1Tupeh
province. eNtortcd 5000 from merchants
--Deccnlber 10. 1920.
Is Soldiers az Changsha, Human prov
lnce, plundered tho Government printing
office where paper currency was made.
and looted the ncighboring cities--De-
cember 5-S. 1870.
Is. Troops at Yochow, Human prov
ince. looted the railway station and
stores and interrupted train communica-
ton. January 25-27, 1921.
~. &, TTeinyu Tians'p province. light
The New York herald., 1921-11-30

peoples are used to is probably the
strengest circumstance in the history
of mankind.
"Yet is It very remarkable" he says
as he loosen5 the tobacco in his cigar
ette, that children born in China o.
European or American parents and
spending their early life in China swiftly
and sympathetically absorb not only the
Chinese language, very difficult for an
adult to learn with any facility at all,
but trend definitely toward Chinese
habits of thought and passive action.
Explain that If you can"
Among Western peoples it is an act
IF politeness and gesture OF respect
TO uncover tho head for n woman or
IN Difference to age. Among the Chinese
it Is bad manners, insulting, TO tako
,ne's hat off. Why this is constitutes
q puzzle as unfathomable >ss the mys-
terry of why roses in China, according
20 my friend the philosopher. have no
fragrance. It is as if the Chinese lived
in another dimension and were gov
erned by mysterious laws that set them
wholly apart from other races of tho
,arth.
"Yet we were not always so, the
amiable philosopher gays. up to about
six hundred years before the birth OF
Christ China was the most progressive
nation in the world. We were familiar
with methods and machines that were
not discovered in the West until cen
turtles later. IF China had gone on from
that point, had kept her eyes to the
future. no nation In the world, not Eng
land, France or the United States. would
surpass her But she stopDed--dead,
Something happened which killed prog
ress and turned her face to the past,
That was the complete acceptance of
the doctrines OF Confucius. He taught
the virtues and glory of the past Prog
'ess was arrested. All China. chrystal-
zed into the people we know to-day"
He essays no prediction as to what
,an be made Of Ch.na in a decade. in
century or even in a thousand years,
but he suggests patiently that nothing
can ever be done until the peoples of
the West, whatever their good wishes
ettain truer understanding of Chinese
character. II very much doubt" he
says. that China can ever be civilized
in the Westara zense,"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-09-23
TO DEPORT FOUR TO RUSSIA
Communication of Sentences Against
Prisoners for Violating War Laws
Is Under Consideration.

Washington. sept. 14.-Commuta-
ton of the sentences Of four federal
prisoners convicted Of offenses against
the war laws, conditional upon their
deportation to soviet Russia, Is I'M
derstood to be under consideration by
government officials. The prisoners
were said to be Jacob Abrams, Sam
uel Lipman, Hyman Lackowsky and
Mollie STEINER. They were convicted,
1t was said, for activities against the
draft act during the war. The three
men are imprisoned at Atlanta and
the woman at Jefferson City, Mo.
Should such action be decided upon,
It was explained, the prisoners would
not be pardoned, but their sentences
would merely expire upon condition
of their going to Russia and not re-
turning to this country. Should they
return, it was asserted, they would rem
der themselves liable to Imprisonment
again.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-09-23
u. S. TO GET YAP-GUAM CABLE
Japanese Paper Says America VIII Be
Given Share in Control of
Wires.

Tokyo, Sept. 19.-The Asahi Shin
bun prints what it claims is an out
line of the methods by which the prob
lem of control over the island of zap
will be settled. These are:
1. The Guam-Yap cable will go to
the United States, the Yap-Shanghai
cable to Japan and the Yap-Menado
cable to Holland.
2. Japan will recognize American
freedom of communications on Yap-
In other words, the United States &C
ouires extra territoriality concerning
communications and the right to es-
tablish wireless station free from
japanese censorship. control or restric-
ton.
8. The United States refrains for the
present from recognition of Japan's
mandate over the islands north of the
equator.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-09-23
SEIZED AFTER GUN BATTLE
PekIn (III.) Man Arrested Accused Of
Theft OF Automobile-Three
Youths Held.

Ottawa, Ill.,, Sept. 14.-Mike Comski,
80 years old, Of Pekin, Is said to have
confessed the theft of touring car
when he was captured near Troy
Grove, H., 10 miles north of here,
after a gun fight in cornfield with La
Sale County deputies. Three youths,
Edward S. Hayes, Waterloo, Ia. ;
Maurice Thompson of North Waterloo,
To-, and Charles Johnson, New York,
who we're with Comski, also were ar
rested. They claim they had been in
vited for ride by the alleged auto
mobile thief.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-09-23
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO
GET AMERICAN HELP
Financial Rehabilitation of the Coun-
try Is Undertaken by Group
of Bankers.

Washington, Sept. discrimination
of the plan for financial rehabilitation
Of Mexico and liquidation of the ex-
ternal debt through the agency OF
the international bankers committee,
headed by Thomas w. Lamont OF
J. 2. Morgan & Co., was officially an
nounced here.
BY statement released simultane-
ously in New York and Washington
the early departure of Mr.. Lamont for
Mexico City to discuss the status OF
outstanding foreign obligations OF the
Mexico government was announced
Furthermore it was shown that the
State department is cognizant Of the
mission.
This formal statement. the first
word on the move which has been OBJ.
vious from Mr.. Lamont's recent con
ferences in Washington with admins
tration leaders and with the Mexican
charge daffaires, DIR. Manuel Tellez
read as follows:
"rhe international committee OF
bankers on Mexico has requested Its
acting chairman, Thomas w. Lamont
to accept the invitation extended some
time ago by the Mexican government
officials and at his early convenience
to proceed to Mexico for the purpose
of discussing there the status OF the
outstanding foreign obligations OF the
Mexican government.
"Mr. Lamont has been asked by the
other sections of the international com
mittee, namely the British, French
Swiss, Dutch and Belgian, to represent
their interests during the pending dis
cussions in Mexico City. The Depart
ment of State at Washington is cog
infant Of the fact that the information
al committees representative viii
shortly visit Mexico"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-09-23
IkIIS SAYS FEWER MEN 8
IDLE NOW THAN IN 1914
Labor Secretary Declares General
Situation for Workingman Is Good
All Business Getting Better.

Washington, Sept. 15.-ThOSe who
are disturbed over the 5,735, 900 unem-
ployed of today overlook that in 1914
there were 100000 out of work,
larger percentage of whom were men
and actual breadwinners than in the
present unemployed, Secretary Davis
said in a statement.
Declaring that the country has Juss
passed through period when every
effort was made to induce women ana
others who had not worked for wages
or salaries before to work and save
starving Europe" Mr.. Davis said pres
ent unemployment figures include great
numbers of persons upon whose EARL
ings no one actually is dependent.
"While we have our unemployed, let
us not forget the 100000 who are
still at work." the statement said. "A
further encouraging fact is that $780,
100000 now is available about the
country in the form of bonds already
issued or appropriated by the state,
county and municipal governments for
public works. Undoubtedly this Will
be organized intelligently.'
Positive signs of business recovery
have been furnished by the commits
sioner of labor statistics, Secretary
Davis declared, adding:
"Some of these signs have an aspect
of their own. put them out for 9TH
ers to interpret as they please. But
one must have his head very much In
the air these days not to notice the
growing prevalence of silk hosiery and
the use of silks in general"