The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-12-31
Will RATIFY
PACIFIC PACT.
PREDICTS new
Republican Senator from In
diana Believes Only Three
Republicans Will Vote
Against 1t.
QUAKERS IN RUSSIA
PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU

WASHINGTON, Dec 31-Ratifica-
ton of the four-power Pacific treaty
is predicted by Senator Harry S. New
of Indiana, who is one of President
Harding's closest friends. He be-
lieves only three Republicans will vote
against it and he expects no organized
opposition to it on the part of the
Democrats
Senator New sees nothing of ANY
great moment" in the contradictory
constructions which have been placed
on the protection clause" of the
treaty, but Senators McNary of Ore
gon and King of Utah are insisting
upon the elimination of the Japanese
homeland from the protection provided
by the treaty.
The treaty makes for peace in the
Pacific, Senator New, who is a mem
Der of the foreign relations committee,
said. THAT was one of the principal
objectives of the conference. We
simply say to our foreign associates:
| Boys, We agree not 10 strike one
another. If we nave a difference of
| opinion, let us sit down and talk things
over and settle our disputes among
ourselves in a friendly way Could
any plan be more plain and simple
and more desirable?"
| Beneficial Results
| Under the naval reduction ration
! agreed to" the Indiana senator added.
Japan will not have enough capital
ships to cause us any trouble, and we
VIII surrender too many of them to
continue to be source of worry to
Japan. The beneficial result of the
! naval agreement will last longer than
the 1O-year period fixed by it, for it
would take several years to replace
the capital ships which are to be
! scrapped, and for any nation a party to
the agreement to get into fighting
trim again"
Speaking of his opposition to the
j protection clause of the treaty,
/ Senator McNary says: Il certainly
would support a reservation expressly
stpuiating that under no circum.
stances was the state Department. s
Interpretation 70 be regarded as the
official one of the United States gov.
eminent, and that under no conditions
would we feel bound by any provision
OF the treaty TO help protect the jap
anese homeland from armed aggres
sion"
ouakers in Russia.
Effect1ce relief work among the
starving Russians has been done by
the American Friends Service Com
mittee during the past wear. The work
began in the vicinity of Moscow. ir
August, 1920, supplies of milk. SOAP
fats and medicines being distributed
During the war over 100000 children
were reached in that section of Rus
sla. When the famine in the VoIga re
glon became acute, Quaker woman
Anna HaineS, went to Samara takins
5 sufficient supplies to feed 25 1000 chill
, dren. She and her assistants are still
feeding that number in three centers
81 could hear the children crying
two blocks away as | approached ont
: of the homes for abandoned children
IN Samara, the central CITY of the fam
inc area of Russia" Anna Hafne:
writes. "a steady wall that kept III
f like moan grew louder as we go
nearer The nurses could do nothins
except go around every morning anC
, separate the babies that were goin,
. TO die that day; and they went arount
, at different times later and felt then
, to see if they were cold In the eve
, ming those who had died during tn,
. day were gathered together and plae
ed in heaps outside the building
" A garbage cart stopped each night an,
the baby bodies were loaded in. Th
, garbage carts stopped in the sam
= way before all of the children's inst
y tutions in Samara and the other cite
in the Volga region"