Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-11-22
JORDAN LAUDS
HUGHES BRAND
OF. DIPLOMACY
Praises Arms Conference, and
Says Hardings Cabinet Best
Since Cleveland's.

says f1dTQlnX OdDAllct DCoS
Since Cleveland's.
Reiterating the highest hopes for the
outcome of the. disarmament conference
at Washington and paying high tribute
to the judgment Of President Harding
in the choice Of his advisers, DR.. David
Starr Jordan,--chancellor emeritus OF
Leland Stanford university of Califor-
mia and foremost among the worlds
peace workers, impressed his hearers
Of the great possibilities of such joint
international high commissions in the
settlement. of. international disputes at
the weekly luncheon of the kiwanis
club at Hotel Rainbow Monday noon.
He briefly traced the history and
results of few of such commissions
since the organization of the first COM
mission in Biblical times until the,
present. There have been 237 of such
Joint high commissions that have pre-
Of these the United States has been
represented on 80. DR.. Jordan, him
self, has been member of four, be-
tween this country and Great Britain,
Russia, JAPAN and Canada.
All, Can Be Settled
Quoting Elihu Root, member of the
delegation Of the United States to the
disarmament conference and former
has never been a dispute so great that
tied it through joint high commission
il both countries had been so dis
posed, and there has never been dis
pute so trivial but what any two ma
tons will fight over it if they are So
disposed Such a. commission could
have. punctured the bubble which was
responsible for the world war had it
not been for the crazy ambition Of q
few European militarists."
DIR. Jordan enthusiastically Endorsed
the new brand of diplomacy introduced
at the disarmament conference by Sec
rotary Hughes, declaring that his
statement at the opening of the confer
ence was the most statesmanlike off
cial utterance that has been made since
the war started in 1914. He repeated
his statment Of Sunday night concern;
ing the high regard in which he held
Secretary Hughes and declared that
President Harding has assembled the
strongest cabinet since the administra-
ton of Cleveland. and stated that in
his opinion Wilson's cabinet was weak
est Of all
Raps at "JfngoIsts'
. The speaker did not omit rap at
what he termed the jingoists who have
been predicting a war between Japan
and the United States on the ground
that Japan is evercrowded and is seek
ing new fields for expansion in the
Philippines and elsewhere. There is
no country that is overpopulated.' he
said There are congested spots, of
course. but to say that Japan or any
other country is overpopulated is only
partly true, japan does not want the
Philippines. They are expensive if
they are treated fairly and they are
more expensive if they are treated I'M
fairly"
According to DR.. Jordan, the new
japanese premier, korekiyo Takasahi,
with whom he is personally acquainted,
is an able statesman and an advocate
of peace, and he may be expected to
use his powerful influence to bring
about just settlement of the arma-
ment question.
Every business in this country la
bors under II per cent mortgage, due
IL Wal Sulti lHC spCdAtI, uuu lioSi
of the European countries have still
greater mortgage.
Like Leaning Ships
Great Britain and the United States
are like ships that are lying over on
their sides until their masts touch the
water. but being well ballasted will
right themselves. This is not so of
many Of the countries and some of the
nations will certainly never right them
selves and others will come up badly
damaged. There is no financial stand
ard in the world These conditions are
quite rs bad so you think-and a great
deal worse The greatest tragedy of
the war was the delay in the peace set
tlement after the signing Of the treaty
and am disposed to blame President
Wilson. who held out, hoping to realize
q great ideal
WAR and It's attendant evils has
caused great suffering among the ma
tons and we are all in one boat, the
good ship Earth"
DR.. Jordan was introduced by Mayor
Ray Armour. who also introduced
President Charles Ii. Clapp of the
Montana State university and Presi-
dent Sheldon g. Davis Of the State
Normal college, who spoke briefly.
liz iuHCHbVH was dtIcHuel by some
% kiwapians md guests and was pre-.
sided over by President Dr. C. J. Bre-
see
I, - Speaks to Teachers
DR.. Jordan made brief address to
teachers Of the history and civics de-
partments in the Methodist church in
the afternoon. His talk was extern.
p0raneous and devoted to the general
idea Of joint high commission and
specifically with the joint high COM
mission recently called to America. He
touched briefly on the naval holiday
as proposed by Secretary Hughes.
DR.. Jordan expressed the opinion
that the present conference in Wash
ington would prick the bubble Of naval
rivalry,"t
Lewistown Widow Dies