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in alfalfa now. Phone 491-R1. 18tfc
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FOR SALE-Four head work horses'
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WANTED-Man for Boise territory to
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WANTED-Some reliable men to take
up a territory each in the northwest
for selling Watkins products. Address
Fl. G. Martens. Nampa, 915 18th avenue
south.
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WANTED TO RENT-Ranch suitable
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46OW. 103-tfc
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LOST.

LOST-February 8, two-wheeled baby
store. Reward. Notify j. H. Turner.
Route 3. ism
Evening star., 1922-04-02
Sends New Plan,
Rival of FOrd's

Secretary Weeks has transmitted to
Congress an offer from Charles L.
Parsons Of this city for the develop
ment at Muscle Shoals. Ala, of an in
dustry for the fxation of nitrogen
and use Of the governments nitrate
plants for that purpose.
Mr.. Parsons offer was announced
yesterday by Chairman Kahn Of the
House military committee after an
executive meeting Of the committee
men had agreed on plans for future
proceedings with regard to the pri-
yate offers for Muscle Shoals which 1t
has under investigation.
Mr.. Kahn announced that execu-
tive sessions would begin April 10
for the purpose OF reaching an agree
ment among the committee members
which would clearly define In their
minds just what each OF the pro-
posals has to offer the government
and the advantage each has over the
other from q government standpoint.
Mr.. Parsons formerly was chief
chemical engineer OF the ordnance
bureau and was sent to Europe by
the government to advise 1t on the
European nitrate situation preliml-
nary to the installation Of nitrogen
fxation plants in this country.
Evening star., 1922-04-02
abandon the conference method and resort tc
a contest OF strength.

abandon the conference method and resort to
a contest OF strength.
The president of the miners union organi-
cation has kept constantly before the public
the statement that his men are ready and
willing at any time to go into general con-
ference with the operators. but that the lat
ter decline the meeting. Secretary Of Labor
Davis in his statement admitted this willing
ness on the part Of the miners.
Why. then. the public will ask. do the oper-
ators refuse to go into the conference?
An answer may be found in an official state
ment sent out by the Coal Age, which is edi-
ted by c. E. Lesher. who was formerly con-
nected with the geological survey and was
director of statistics for the fuel administra-
ton during the war. This statement says, In
part:
"The United Mine Workers have insisted
that there shall be four-state joint confer
ence, which shall agree a wage contract,
the effect of which would be to bind all
bituminous coal-producing fields. The parties
to four-state conference would be repre-
sentatives of the industry in Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio and western Pennsylvania These four
states are known the Central Competitive
Pennsylvania and southern Ohio-have refused
to enter joint conference, but have ex
pressed willingness to meet the miners in
separate state conferences.
'The position of the operators who oppose
the joint conference may be summarized as
follows: These operators unwilling to
surrender the natural advantages of their
districts which in the interest of the
public. the miners and the operators. and
unwilling to fly in the face Of a federal grand
jury which has already declared such
agreement to be in violation of the Sherman
Antitrust law. They further point out that
if their districts are to have any degree of
prosperity. both for the miner and the oper-
ator. their working scales must be with their
own men, regardless of what may be done in
other fields, only in this way will they be
able to compete with the growing production
Of union fields.
Union bituminous coal producers outside
Of the Central Competitive Field are opposed
Evening star., 1922-04-02
Art Work Plans
Meet Approval

Consideration was given by the
Commission OF Fine Arts Friday TO
preliminary design for the LIST d.
vision Memorial. as authorized by
Congress. Also to a revised model
of the Alfred Noble Memorial Foun-
tain, designed by Paul Bartlett. sculp-
tor, and Glenn Brown, architect, to
be erected by the American Society
Of Civil Engineers in Rawlins square.
south of the Interior Department
Maj. Gen. NJ. w. Ireland, surgeon
general of the Army, presented plans
for the first of a series of buildings
for the Army Medical College, located
in connection with Walter Reed Hos
pital. The designs were approved.
The college buildings will harmonic
with the hospital buildings and will
form an important and harmonious
composition. A design for the monu-
ment to Luigi Bartolucci-Dundas at
the Arlington national cemetery, was
approved. The commission also ap-
proved a statue of Edmund Burke, by
the late J. Hardard Thomas. sculptor.
of London. which the Sulgrave In
stitution proposes to give to the
United States and erect in this city.
The location has not been decided
upon. @
The commission had as their guests
at luncheon Col. Charles Keller, en-
gineer. commissioner. and Maj. NJ. c.
Tyler of the United States engineers
office, and in the afternoon inspected
with them a model of the lamp post
proposed for the new Georgetown
bridge. =
Evening star., 1922-04-02

soil ard potential commercial ad-
vantages.
TN conclusion. we are convinced that
1t would be a betrayal Of the Philippine
people. a misfortune to the American
people. a distinct step backward in the
path Of progress, and a discreditable
neglect Of our national duty were We to
withdraw from the islands and termi-
nate our relationship there without CIV
ing the Filipinos the best chance pos
sible to have an orderly and permanent
ly stable government"
Solution With Congress.
What is the solution Of the Philip
pine problem? What will Congress
do when the question of Philippine
independence comes to the front
again, as 1t surely will?
1t Is claimed by some that the So
called four-power treaty may have
an important bearing on the question
Of Philippine independence. 1t is even
said that this treaty may result in
Americas giving up practically all
Of her Pacific possessions. If SO, this
may hasten Philippine independence
Already the Filipinos are prepared
to inaugurate a new campaign based
on this hypothesis. It is argued tina,
the four-power pact will protect the
Philippines whether they are a part
of the United States or not, and
that there will be no further need OF
American protection. In the event
Of the latter development. the United
States may return soon to its former
status before the war with Spain
Then may come a separation Of the
United States from any colonial poll
cy whatever, called by some 1.-The
white mans burden" On the other
hand. projection of the United States
into world affairs may induce Con-
gress to hold the Philippines for the
welfare not only of the Filipinos, but
the United States.
This is a problem of serious pro-
portions. Which way shall Americas
course be directed? Shall America
let the Philippines go or hold on to
them? The problem must be met and
solved soon.
Evening star., 1922-04-02
to Watch Mine Strike Closely,
Resolved Public Shall Not Unduly Suffer

to the four-state conferences. They have not
been represented in these conferences in the
past. although their miners were. Conse-
quently, these operators hold that the miners
have been able to dominate the wage situation
to the detriment of the competitive standing
of the outside fields"
The Department of State has sent out
notices to the powers signatory to the treaties
brought out by the arms and far eastern con-
ference that the United States is prepared to
exchange ratifcations the treaties
are approved by the other powers 1t is
understood that the others have been with
holding action until it was shown what the
United States Senate would do with the
treaties At the State Department the opinion
Is held that all the nations concerned will
promptly put into motion the constitutional
processes for acceptance OF the treaties. 1t
is not thought that any nation will balk or
refuse to come into the concord.
1t is the view of State Department officials
that it will not be necessary for any of the
governments to take official note Of the reser-
vations adopted by the Senate. The fact that
they are attached to the treaty is regarded as
sufficient for the purpose.
When the other governments have ratified
and accepted, and the ratifications are ex-
changed. the treaties will be the law Of the
world, and the work Of the Washington con-
ference will have achieved its fullest fruition.
X X X
Then there may be resumption Of the talk
Of other world conferences 1t will be recalled
that President Harding at one time during the
session OF the Washington conference ex-
pressed the hope that this epochal meeting
was but the first OF others of its kind to fol-
low. Since then, however. nothing more has
been heard upon the subject.
Happily. there may be no occasion for world
readjustment, unless some cataclysm occurs
in Europe Asia. Peace and tranquility ap-
pear reasonably assured in the Pacific and
the menace Of great naval preparation is being
removed It may be taken for granted that
if fare-up does occur in Europe the
cess of the Washington conference will be
compulsory incentive to settlement by
ference, rather than by resort to war.
Evening star., 1922-04-02
BY N. O. MESSENGER.

HREsIDENT HARDING and his official
r family. the cabinet, were compelled
reluctantly to admit that the govern
ment had exhausted its powers in ef-
forts at conciliation between the coal oper-
ators and the miners. and for the present can
only stand by and witness the commencement
of what now threatens to be one of the great
est struggles between employers and employees
the country has experienced. The authority
and power of the government are limited In
the present stage of the controversy. At what
point the government can step in with ef-
fectiveness depends upon developments and
the trend the contest may take.
Assurance is at hand that the situation will
be watched with vigilance and the public will
be protected. The President is understood to
deeply deplore the obdurate attitude OF parties
to the strike and to view with sympathetic
anxiety the prospect of deprivation and suf-
ferng to the men. as we'll as the financial
loss to be incurred by the industry.
Secretary of Labor Davis, in official
statement on the strike last week. said that
there may be faults both sides. and judi
cial-minded persons reading the charges and
counter charges of the operators and miners
would be led to the conclusion that probably
this is true. The point is the average man
will probably think that il there are two
sides to the question WY not have the parties
meet and settle the differences. That is what
the government has thought and tried with
out avail to bring about.
i: * X X
1t was a commentary upon this spirit of
endurance rampant that on the day Secretary
Davis statement published, virtually de-
claring the governments efforts fruitless. the
State Department was sending out notices to
eight foreign countries of the ratification of
the treaties which came out OF the greatest
conference that history records. The differ
ences between the operators and the miners
are as but fly wheel compared with the
problems which that conference solved
Nine nations Of the earth could get together
and remove causes of irritation which threat
ened wars in the future. but two groups of
interests in domestic industry must needs
Evening star., 1922-04-02
NO MORE SHIPBUILDING
FOR TEN-YEAR PERIOD.

A provision of the naval treaty
which has appealed to the imagina-
tion of the American people. as well
as to that of the other peoples, is that
which establishes a naval building
holiday for ten years-so far as capi-
tai ships are concerned. This means
that the Navy is not to lay down any
new capital ships until the year 1891.
In that year it will lay down two
capital ships of $4,000 tons. which are
to replace the oldest of the vessels
now retained, when they are COM
pleted. which, it is estimated, will be
In 1894. The replacement table car
ried in the treaty provides for the
laying down of one or two capital
ships in each year after 1881. up to
and including 1889.
If the naval Limitation treaty con-
tinues to run on indefinitely beyond
December 81, 1886, the date fixed in
the treaty for the pact to continue in
force, undoubtedly there will be fur
ther arrangements made regarding
replacements.
Evening star., 1922-04-02
TREATY FIXES NO LIMIT
ON AUXILIARY CRAFT.

ON AUXILIARY CRAFT.
While the naval limitation treaty
does not fix a limit on the total ton
mage Of auxiliary naval craft. such
as cruisers. submarines, destroyers.
etc, and while the naval experts say
there is no hard and fixed rule for
the auxiliary tonnage per capital ship
for an efficient navy, 1t is to be ex-
pected that the United States will
seek to maintain a proper naval
strength in auxiliary ships as com
pared to that of the other powers. 1,
| is to be expected also that the United
States will seek to maintain its proper
! ratio in the matter of personnel, bott
commissioned and enlisted. for war.
ships are of little avail unless the
| trained crews necessary for manning
| and handling them are provided.
1t seems clear that there will bt
less difficulty in bringing about the
in keeping the United States Navy uI
| to the strength which the naval lin.
! itation treaty authorizes. The nava
| appropriation bill for the fiscal veal
| 1928, as 1t will be presented to the
| House. promises to be cut to the
| bone. Provision. 1t is said, will be
! made for only $1,000 men. In thi:
connection. however, it may be said
! that there will be a long and deter.
mined contest on the part Of many
! of the senators against drastic cuts
in the Navy. should the House SEND
| such bill to the Senate. Senator
Page, chairman OF the naval affairs
! committee; Senator Poindexter o;
Washington. ranking republican mem
ber Of the committee. and Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts,, republican
] leader, are all strongly opposed te
cutting the United States Navy below
/ the strength contemplated in tn.
naval Limitation treaty.
Evening star., 1922-04-02

Thomas A. McAuliffe, former pro-
hibition officer and formerly of the
internal revenue Office. became mixed
up with police officials in Hartford.
Conn, in violations Of the act. He was
charged in both the state and federal
courts with accepting bribe. The
federal authorities had tho state ac-
tion remanded to the federal court for
trial The state authorities protested
against this and carried the protest
to the Supreme Court Of the United
States. where it is still pending. In
the meantime. the suit in the federal
court is pending, but is expected to
come up soon.
W. A. Mcconnell. former prohibition
director in Pennsylvania, with forty
six others, is under indictment for
conspiracy to violate the prohibition
act.
Evening star., 1922-04-02
BY EDWARD NELSON D1NGLEY.

BY EDWARD NELSON DlNGLExs
Y YHAT Is the Philippine prob
Nn lem? What is it's back
v v ground? What are the es-
sential elements and the re-
spective claims? What bearing has
the solution Of this problem en- the
future of the United States? The pur-
pose Of this article is to answer these
questions briefly for the information
of the average reader.
Every one knows that the Philip
pine Islands came into the possession
Of the United States as the result Of
rule. With no primary intention Of
our own. war forced US into the
geography of the far east, precipi-
tated upon US a semi-colonial gov
ernment and gave US a problem new
and serious. Dewey's guns in Manila
bay echoed in every state of the Union
and made our pulses beat faster.
The treaty Of Paris closed the epi-
sode and nearly eight million peo-
Pile. living on the largest of the
group Of 5000 islands, comprising
total area Of 115.026 miles, came
under the United States government
and the American flag. That was in
1898.
Islands Yet in Politics.
It is we'll known that many Of our
leading statesmen opposed keeping
these islands. since they might be a
great political and economic burden.
Others, Of more or less emotional ma
ture, argued that "the flag should
never come down when once hoisted
aloft-" As time went on public opin-
ion divided and crept into politics.
The presidential campaign of 1900
was fought out somewhat on the
question of so-called Imperialism"
or a colonial form of government.
The election of that year fixed the
future policy Of the government to-
ward the Philippines, for sixteen
years at least; and the last months
of 1900 and first months of 1901 saw
the United States firmly established
there. AS If reading the future and
manifestly doubtful as to what policy
would be best, President Mckinley,
while the ink of the Paris treaty was
hardly dry, announced that "the
Philippines are ours not to exploit,
but to develop, to civilize, to edu-
cate, to train in the science Of self
government. This is the path which
we must follow or be recreant to a
mighty trust committed to u.s."
The first period of American occu-
patton was from August. 1893. to
July. 1901. A military governor ad-
ministered law under the War De-
partment. The conspicuous act was
the suppression of an insurrection
under Aguinaldo. A beginning was
made in schools. in, public health
measures and public works The Sec
ond period was from July. 1901, to
october. 1907, when the islands were
governed by the Philippine commits
sion, appointed by the President.
Work Of Taft and Wright. *
During this period Cows Taft and
Wright wrought their wonderful
work, in establishing order. a judicial
system and a currency system. The
third period was between 1907 ana
1918, when one-half of the legislative
powers (the lower house) was turned
over to body of elected Filipinos'
known as the Philippine assembly,
the commission being the upper house
or senate. During this period q broad
program of public works was laid
down. railroads were built, steamship
lines put into operation and a univer-
Evening star., 1922-04-02
DESTINED NEVER TO BE
PRIDE OF THE NAVY,

The four other battle cruisers, the
Constellation, Ranger. Constitution
and the United States. which were to
have been the pride of the navy, will
be scrapped. Under the provisions Of
the treaty, they cannot be converted
into merchantmen. With their tre-
mendously powerful engines and fuel
eating capacity, it is doubtful. it is
said. that they could have been profit
ably converted to merchantmen. even
for passenger service.
The rules laid down in the naval
treaty for the scrapping of vessels
are very exact. In the end the vessels
selected for scrapping must be sunk,
broken up, converted to target use or,
in the case Of France and Italy, not
more than two vessels may be re-
tanned for training purposes exclu-
siyely
Evening star., 1922-04-02
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
ME naval Limitation treaty
has been ratified by the
United States Senate. Its rati-

TINE naval Limitation treaty
has been ratified by the
United States Senate. Its rati-
fication by the British empire.
France, Italy and Japan-the other
signatories-is expected soon. When
the ratifications have been formally
exchanged, the duty of carrying into
effect the provisions of the treaty
will devolve upon the various gov
ernments-in the case OF the United
States, particularly upon Congress
and the Navy Department.
There are two aspects of the prob
lem of making the naval limitation
treaty effective, so far as the United
States is concerned.
In the first place, the treaty calls
for the scrapping of thirty capital
ships. built and building. with a total
tonnage of s2o,540 tons. Thirteen
Of these ships are under construc-
ton. and seventeen are older ships
OF the American Navy.
In the second place, it will be the
duty of Congress and the Navy De-
partment to see that the United States
maintains its place in the 5-5-3-
1.75-1.75 ratio of naval strength, SO
far as capital ships are concerned.
the basis of the agreement in the
naval treaty. This means that the
United States is to have a navy equal
in strength in capital ships to the
British empire. a navy strength in
the ratio Of to as compared to
that Of Japan and in the ratio of
to LIS for France and for Italy.
Evening star., 1922-04-02
GREAT BATTLESHIPS SOON
MUST co TO SCRAP PILE
Navy Department Already Making Plans
for Carrying Out Provisions of
Arms Limitation Treaty.

| probably the Washington and COL
orado-which otherwise would have
! gone on the scrap heap along with
the rest Of the ships now building.
When these two ships have been COM
pleted, the United States will then
scrap the Delaware and North Da-
kota, the two oldest and smallest of
the eighteen battleships the Navy is
to retain.
TWO CRUISERS ARE TO BE
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.
Special provision was made in the
naval treaty by which the nations
might convert not more than two of
their capital ships, built or building.
into aircraft carriers, recognized as
the probable capital ship of the fu-
ture. This provision was made SO as
to bring about an actual saving to
the nations in dollars and cents, since
they are authorized to have a fixed
total tonnage OF these carriers-in
the case of the United States 1876, 900
tons.
This country is preparing to take
advantage Of this provision by con-
verting into aircraft carriers two of
the six big battle cruisers now build
ing. all of which would otherwise
have gone on the scrap heap. The
two battle cruisers which probably
will be converted into aircraft car
riers are the Saratoga. building at
Camden. 81 per cent completed, and
the Lexington, building at Fore River.
about 20 per cent completed. The
battle cruisers, when completed. ac-
cording to original plans would have
a displacement OF upward of 10000
tons. But without their armor and
big guns gone they will have a dis
placement in the neighborhood of
$4,000 tons as converted. This, by
the way, is in excess of the tonnage
fixed for individual aircraft carriers
by the treaty, which was $4,000 tons
But special provision was included
for this conversion. and the other
nations were allowed to construct, If
they desired, not more than two air
| craft carriers, with a tonnage up to
! $4,000 tons