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New-York tribune., 1921-12-04

and Mrs. Egan, both sitting behind
Mr.. Hughes, enter into an animated
but noiseless discussion. Slowly the
galleries begin to show vacancies. Some
OF the correspondents start writing the
stories that they are to send out in
the afternoon. The ushers occupy the
empty seats. Every one begins to take
little less note of the speaker and
pays little more attention to the rest
or the house. No smoking is allowed.
which adds to the restlessness of the
correspondents.
Rapid Exit Marks Ending
OF Perfect Open Session
NJ. Cazenave, of the French delega-
tion, wearing his monocle firmly, be-
gins to nod, and as his muscles relax
the eyepiece drops out, and, waking
with start, he sits up, readjusts it,
tries bravely to pay attention for a
minute and suddenly mods again.
The delegate OF India readjusts his
turban. Lord Lee sits way back in his
chair and examines the skylights at
tentively. Every one begins to think
of lunch. Wives make an early geta-
way SO as to be home in time to have
everything ready when the guests ar
rive. People who had dates for the
MONDAY meal debate with themselves
whether they shall stay and be late, or
leave now and run the risk of missing
more frequent.
AS the interpreting commences again,
there are numerous acid comments on
the waste of time involved in using
two official languages. One or two of
the advisory committee get up and
leave. Mr. Balfour signals to his secre-
tary, who approaches the green table
respectfully and bends over as the head
of the British delegation whispers in
his ear. Mr.. Bryan pulls on his
famous cape, and the correspondents
put away their pencils and the backs
of envelopes on which they have been
writing.
/ At last Mr.. Hughes arises. sIs il
I the pleasure of the delegates that the
conference shall adjourn to meet al
the cali of the chairman? If so, a
motion of adjournment is in order
And before even the formalities arr
completed the audience reaches for it,
hats and coats, and as Mr.. Hughes call:
out Adjourned" is already making
for the doors.
And so ends the open session.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04

American has to avoid is taking an un-
duly partisan view, or being deluded
by the outward appearances of a dis
pute which goes down to the very
depths of things. Above all, the thing
that the American has to avoid is the
assumption that one country is right
and the other country is wrong, or that
the United States can afford to back
one country against the other or be-
come involved itself in the dispute.
British Journalists Here,
Led by Wells, Renew Assault
Bearing in mind these circumstances
let us now turn to the Washington
manifestation of long continued
quarrel. Again I repeat that it is in
accurate to say that French policy or
French interest have been unsym-
pathetically or uniustly treated by all
British Journalists. On the contrary,
I am not aware of any French jour
nalist who has manifested for Great
Britain anything like the generous
sympathy which has been the unfail-
ing attitude Of the distinguished editor
sof "The London Times," Wickham
Steed. Yet the fact has been that a
considerable group Of the British jour-
nalists, the most conspicuous of whom
lis H. G. Wells, has, on American soil,
renewed the assault upon the French
army and the French policy which has
been going on in Europe for three
years. There has been in the minds
of these men curious mingling Of
national self-interest and of interna
tional idealism; Of noble conceptions
and of ridiculously mean misjudg-
ments. AT bottom these men have be-
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
French Also Try to Exploit
Anglo-American Differences

sweetly, and occupied a seat unmolest-
ed throughout the whole of the meet
ing.
Mr.. Hughes, having f1shed the for
malities, calls upon the first speaker
| for discussion of the question on the
order Of the day, and then sits down
The delegates listen attentively at
first, as the spokesman of Britain or
France expounds to the peoples of the
world in general and to America in
particular the view Of his country on
the question. AS he speaks the Jap
anese translator sitting next to. the
inscrutable Admiral Kato makes notes
in Japanese, at which the admiral
glances from time to time. NJ. Jusse-
rand also makes notes for the mem
bers of the French delegation if par
ticularly important point comes up
Senator Lodge sits back, washing
his hands in the air, looking as if the
questions were an old story to him,
and occasionally screwing up his eyes
and wrinkling his high forehead. Mr..
Root, little less mobile than the
Senator from Massachusetts, gazes at
the ceiling and meditates, and Senator
| Underwood sits patiently, with his
hands folded before him. The French
by his side look bored if the talk is in
English, while Prince Tokugawa, of
the Japanese delegation, always cheer
| full and volatile, bitches himself in his
/ chair and follows the speaker atten-
/ lively.
! Admiral kato. except for his glances
| at the interpreters notes. maintains
an expression of complete immobility
and looks like a sage cut in stone. Oc-
casionally he binks, but for the most
| part he sits still and hardly moves an
eyelash.
At the end of the table, DR.. yelling
ton Koo, small, youthful looking and
bland, watches the speaker intently
and occasionally whispers to DR.. SEE,
! Among the Dutch delegates Jonkher
van Karnebeek sits back with his
/ hands folded before him, his dark hair
and skin giving him the appearance
Of Portuguese rather than Hol-
lander. Baron de Cartier, of Belgium,
sits silent, and near him the Italians
occasionally exchange few words to
assure themselves that they have COR
reetly understood a phrase. The long
silk-bearded Senator Schanzer, head OF
the Italian delegation. awaits his turn
in the most scrupuiouslv polite man
ner, to indicate position contrary t.
that OF France.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04

Justices of the Supreme
Court, diplomats, Senators, politicians
and their wives, and hundreds Of news
paper men from the corners of the
world goodnaturedly jostle one an
other on the steps Of the D. A. r.
building in Washington in their at
tempt to present to the doorman their
tickets for the open session of the
Conference on the Limitation of Arma-
ment. Limousines and sedans are con-
stantly driving up and adding their
, passengers to the crowd at the foot of
che steps. There is subdued excite
! ment and anticipation in the air.
Slowly the crowd moves up the steps
and passes into the building, to be met
by Immediately groomed ushers and
shown to their places in the confer
ence room, which is somewhat smaller
than Aeolian Hall and has rows of
seats around three sides. In the
center, where the orchestra seats
would be if it were theatey, there is a
/ large open space in which green tables
are arranged in the form of hollow
square. In the back of the hall, where
the stage should properly be, there are
two rows of plain chairs, Behind them
are two groups Of flags, the first con-
tanning the banners of England, France
Italy, Japan and America and the Sec
ond those Of Holland, Portugal, Bel
gium and China. There are galleries
around the three sides, which fill
rapidly, and the two stage boxes or
each side of the proscenium already
are occupied by the wives of Cabinet
ministers and their friends.
Hughes's Gavel Pounds
For Order Promptly at IL
As the public finds its seats the
members of the delegations begin to
arrive, and soon the space around the
green tables, which has been roped of
from the public, begins to- I'll up with
specialists, advisers, secretaries and
attaches, who stand around and gossip
and search the audience for their
friends. Every one is most carefully
dressed in cutaways and high collars
and there is goodly sprinkling OF
uniforms throughout the gathering
General Buat, chief Of staff Of the
French army, stands in his blue uni
form talking to Admirai de Bon. of the
French navy. Several British staff off,
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04

lieved that the main objective of the
Washington conference should be and
should be made the elimination Of the
French army and then an immediate
restoration of peace conditions in Eu-
rope, with all that this would mean
for the economic recovery of Great
Britain.
Moreover, they have believed that it
was possible to enlist the United
States-the public firsts and then the
government-in a. crusade against the
French army as a menace to world
peace and world recovery.
Thus we have before the conference
and during the conference a steady
stream of articles representing the
view of this group of Englishmen and
picturing France as chauvinistic, i'm
perialistic, the real menace to world
restoration. We have constantly had
presented to us the spectacle of d
penitcnt Germany, struggling Russia,
a stricken Europe, all prevented from
a return to normality by the existence
in France of 3 Napoleonic spirit and
by the presence in Europe of one coun-
try seeking to dominate the Continent
for its own selfish ends.
All that has happened in Washington
has really resulted, l think, mainly
from the effect upon the French of a
repetition here in this country of an
attack which they have borne in
Europe for many, many months. They
were conscious from the beginning that
such an attack tended morally to
isolate them in a country which did not
understand European conditions and
which shared the British tradition
against standing armies. Necessarily
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Bryan Sits Back Beaming
Over Material for His Pen

William Jennings Bryan sits back
and beams as he meditates upon the
scene which he will describe to his
readers. William Allen White, of Kan
sas fame, is there, watching the Sec
retary of State intently. Colonel Rep
ington and Wickham Steed, of the Brit
ish press. and all the we'll known
French correspondents are present, and
mixed in with them goodly sptinkling
of Japanese and Chinese. Even the
press of distant India is represented,
as well rs papers in South America.
Some sit back and watch. Others, take
notes. A few make it a special point
to watch the reactions OF the foreign
delegations.
Among the public are former Secre-
taries of State and ambassadors, the
wives of prominent Senator'S and other
officials and many military and naval
men. AT one session even handsome
young lady from New York, who had
made bet that she would go to the
session without ticket, marched right
By the guards and doorman, smiling
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
gloFrench Agreement Is Vital for the Peace of Europe
France and Great Britain
\ Have Divergent Interests
Stlvency OF Germany Means Nothing to French.
While Economic Existence of England De-
pends Upon Stabilized Condition of
Former Enemy

the 100000 mark, that in France had
hardly reached $4,000.
IT follows then that France has no
domestic or economic reason to hold
back in demanding that Germany pay
for wanton destruction in the war be-
cause OF any apprehension that extreme
demands might lead to the economic
disintegration of Germany. with the
corresponding overturning of the whole
economic system of the world and thus
ultimately do injury to France herself
by the reflex. France can economically
and industriously support an extreme
policy toward Germany without run
ming any great risks to herself.
Now, the situation as to Great
Britain is exactly the reverse. On the
island which holds England, Scotland
and Wales and is much less than half
the area of France is population of
approximately forty three millions. In
the nineteenth century the industrial
development of Great Britain was
such that it became vast factory.
1t consented voluntarily to transfer
nation which gave it industrial suprem-
acy in the world, but led to an ex
pansion of population and restriction
of food production making the country
dependent upon foreign markets and
foreign food supplies for its existence,
England Must Restore
Markets or Face Bankruptcy
At the present moment the situation
with respect to Great Britain is unmis.
taxable. II cannot itself feed more
than SO,00o,000 of the 43,o00,Oo0 in
habitants. It's accumulated capital of
past decades has been greatly impaired
by the war. If it is to maintain it's
population it can only do SO by selling
its manufactured articles abroad and
applying the proceeds to purchase food
for its home population. If the mar
kets cannot be restored then a certain
number Of millions of Englishmen must
migrate or the state itself be bank
rupted by trying to maintain them in
idleness.
All British policy is directed, then. to
obtaining as soon as possible the res
toration Of the markets of the world,
and in practice restoring the market
and the purchasing power of Germany
and of General Europe generally. Fail
ing this, the evil conditions existing
in England will be perpetuated and
the consequences unmistakable.
France, on the other hand, feeling
that she herself has no vital concern
in the central European markets, d.
rects her attention at once to two
things-to obtaining from Germany the
reparations fixed by the Allies and to
providing against possible recur-
renee Of German aggression twice
repeated in fifty years. If Germany
does not pay, if she does not resign
all thought of revenge and of new at
tack, the interests Of France will be
better served if Germany does not re-
cover financially or industrially.
Now. there you have in brief the
fundamental causes Of Anglo-French
differences from the moment of the
Paris conference onward. What the
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Isolated to a degree in country which
shared with England, the home Of their
accusers, the same tongue, the French
have borne with increasing resentmen.
an offensive coming from only one Sec
ton of the British public, to be sure,
but which more and more completely
in their eyes assumed the character Of
a British assault.
French Also Try to Exploit
Anglo-American Differences
In estimating the situation it is
necessary to point out in the interests
of the facts that there was on the
French side an unmistakably active, il
limited, campaign to exploit Anglo
American differences. real or assumed.
There was at least one French journal
of great circulation which deliberately
undertook policy Of -pricking, with
the hope of separating Britain and
America for the profit of France.
Now, given the existing situation, it
was obvious from the beginning that
an Anglo-French quarrel in Washington
was not only likely, but almost inev-
liable. NJ. BRAND came here with the
hope, if not with the expectation. of
obtaining some guaranty. Abandon
ing this hope Immediately upon arrival,
he fell back upon the second line, which
was an assurance that the French view
of their own military necessities would
not be called into question, and he and
all the other French representatives
found themselves at once in the pres
ence Of a campaign by certain British
journalists obviously directed at enlist
! ing American support for the reduction
of the French army.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Controversy Of Newspapers
Becomes international Issue
III. G. Wells Leads Continued Assault of British
Journalists as Press Attack of London Is
Renewed in Washington; French
Writers Retaate

effort and resources went to producing
the steel necessary to feed French can
non and later feed American guns. Thus,
while Great Britain, the United States
and Japan during the World War enor-
mously expanded their respective fleets,
the French abandoned their building
program altogether and, suffering
losses in their fleet, found themselves
1t the end Of the war become ridicu-.
lously weak on the water.
Financial coQditions in France have
been such that there has been no at
tempt to complete the ships which were
building when the war broke out, nor
has there been any effort to undertake
an ambitious program to restore France
as naval power. On the other hand
a submarine feet can be built relative
ly inexpensively and the American ar
gument that the submarine is a weapon
of the weak has found support in
France. But above and beyond all else
France in the Washington conference.
finding her army attacked by certain
British journalists and political ele-
ments, and seeing in the submarine a
difference of opinion between the
United States and Great Britain. an
opening for counter offensive, en-
Enthusiastically. if perhaps unwisely,
seized upon the opportunity.
If it were not for the gravity of the
situation the result Of this French
counter offensive would be ridiculous.
In point of fact, France and Great
Britain have lived together without
war from the Battle of Waterloo to the
present moment-more than century.
Twice in that time they have been
allies in war, and even to-day they re-
main closely bound by common neces-
sites and by recent associations. To
imagine that France was planning an
offensive war against Great Britain or
expecting defensive war is absurd.
British Writers Conceive
Menace in French Submarines
Nevertheless, so tense had become
the situation between the French and
the British groups here and so bitter
was the feeling in Europe that no
sooner had the French answered an
unofficial British attack on the French
army by a championship of the abstract
principle presented by Mr.. Hughes in
the matter Of submarine fleets than we
had and still have real British out
break of passion. Fl. G. Wells could
see France already plotting war, and
far more sober-minded British CORE
spondents found themselves confronted
by French submarine feet constitut-
ing a threat aimed directly at Great
Britain.
Now, from the American point of
view, it is apparent that the whole
of the latter phase of the Washington
conference in regard to the Anglo
French dispute was a case of nerves.
The British Journalists attack upon
the French army invited and received
an Official French riposte in the matter
of the submarine, and the French
| riposte in the matter of the submarine
transferred the battle from America TO
Europe and from Seventeenth Street
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04

opposite the French. Next to the Brit
ish are the Italians, and between them
and the Portuguese are the Belgians
and the Dutch. In the center of this
hollow square are three little tables. AT
one sits John W. Garrett, the secretary
general of the conference. At another
are four stenographers. and at the
third sits the inimitable Mr.. Gamer
lynck, the official interpreter of the
conference. Diplomatic secretaries fit
| ting back and forth with messages
complete the picture. All eyes are
! turned upon Mr.. Hughes.
The press occupies the sections on
the right and left of the house In
the front row, directly behind the ad-
visers and specialists Of the delega-
tions, are a series of schoolboy desks,
at which sit the representatives Of the
various press services that furnish con-
| temporaneous accounts of the confer
ence. AS MIR. Hughes speaks they take
notes, and every few minutes put them
iii opSSioiiy mar hcu cHVtlOpeS ana nGHQ
them back to messengers, who carry
them to the telegraph operators. In
this manner news OF the conference is
; flashed to the world almost instan-
taneously. Back of these special re-
/ porters are the representatives Of
newspapers and magazines from every
nation.
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g lar as Germany is concerned. it
sss ss. be difficult to imagine greater
sssssrgence of interest than that be-
zen Great Britain and France.
ssace Is q self-contained country OF
;uVuoo people, capable Of feeding all
~ h population, having valuable colo
sssss % be sure, but dependent neither
sn us colonial markets nor upon the
sets Of the world for its own ex-
Never having become indus
'lzed to the degree OF all Of the
great powers, the paralysis of the
fsal system Of tho world as q
Ct the war has had very little
! UPON France. Thus, for example,
3 Unemployment In England passed
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
By Nicholas Roosevelt

~w yASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-"Show
wv your tickets, please. Have
your tickets ready"
Evening star., 1921-01-18
CHILDREN EXHIBIT
INTERPRETATIONS
District School Pupils Show
Skill at Exhibition in VIII
son Normal. ,

A miniature world and what hap
pens in it was placed on exhibition
| last night at the Wilson Normal
School, 11th and Harvard streets. The
| exhibits are the work of pupils in the
! nature study department, of the pub
lie schools. and all Washington is in
vited to the show, which is open
! every day from 9 am. to pm. and
from to 9 pm, including Friday.
This exhibition follows three
| month study of tree values which has
been followed by a vote for a ma
tional tree, which the American
Forestry Association is compiling
ballot for which appears in The Even
ing Star. will be announced as soon
as 1T can be counted. Not only are
the pupils voting, but Igrown-ups,
too, are marking ballots.
At the Wilson Normal exhibition
will be found almost everything that
can be made of wood. There, too. are
all kinds of insect exhibits and minia-
ture reproductions of history having
to do with trees. The Force School
the treaty with the Indians by Will
liam Penn. They have also repro
duced Gen. Washington with his
troops beneath a famous elm.
The Monroe School has sent it's en-
tire bird corner" to the exhibition
The Normal School children have
done a garden in clay. while the Cor
caran School contributes furniture
done in walnut. The Dennison and
Abbot schools have sent work in hickory
complete bedroom set is shown
by the smallwood vocational pupils
The girls made the wall paper and
the bedding, while the boys made the
set of furniture to scale. The Ross
School made companion set for the
dining room.
The Emery School shows a model
for a new American dollar. Gales
School specialiZes in pine. while the
Weightman pupils devote their ex-
hibit to the value Of the apple tree.
hickory horned devil is in the ex-
hibit from the portable school at 18th
and Monroe streets northeast. The
work Of the deadly carpenter wasp"
is a feature of the exhibit from the
Addison School. The sycamore and
what can be done with it is shown
by the Blair and Monroe schools.
A piece Of an oak from Gettysburg
is in the exhibit from the Buchanan
and it's part in literature and history
is shown by the Jackson, Lenox.
Powell, Grover Cleveland, Brent and
Park View Schools.
The Park View School has the honor
Of having an exhibit in every classi-
fication, and the Takoma School has
turned in eighty-one birdhouses. These
homes for the birds fill one of the long
halls, and for the best of these the
American Forestry Association will
award blue ribbons.
Evening star., 1921-01-18
OPPOSE EX-SERVICE MEN
TAKING THEIR PLACES
Organized q. S. Employees Object to
Replacement Under Army Re
organization Act.

Organized government employees are
opposed to the replacement of civilian
clerical workers by enlisted men. as
would be required by certain pro-
visions in the Army reorganization
act.
President Luther Steward of the Ma
tional Federation Of Federal Employees
has made statement to this effect
before the House committee on military
affairs. in regard to the contemplated
replacement of civilian clerks with SOL
diers at Army posts.
A committee of employees which
visited the War Department was as
sured, it is understood. that the con-
templated replacement of about 1000
clerks throughout the country would
AFFECT only employees at the various
isolated Army posts
1t was not understood here today
that the requirements would take
place either in the War Department
personnel in the National Capital or
in any other large cities of the coun-
try.
Evening star., 1921-01-18

thousands of coke ovens which dot
this section of Pennsylvania. Much
of this wealth came from the gardens
which the company provides with
every house. but some workers and
their families were more ambitious
than their neighbors and "farmed'
354 additional plots which the COM
pany leased for them.
The report of the welfare depart
ment of the company just made pub
lie shows that 1854 individual fami-
Evening star., 1921-01-18
POPE DISTRIBUTES AIMS.
Poor Children of Central Europe
Given Many Lire in 1920.

ROME. January 1S.-Pope Benedict
received and distributed among the
poverty stricken children of central
Europe in the past year 16.474,6O4 lire.
says the Observatoro Romano. This
included the Pope's personal donation
of 100000 lire.
OF this sum, German children re-
ceived about 100000 lire. those of
Austria 1864, 900. of Poland 100000
Hungary 1.291,O0o, and those of
Czechoslovakia 100000. Children of
other nations received smaller sums.