The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-10

Washington. Feb. 6.-Five treaties
the memorable products OF the
Washington conference, were signed
today with sober simplicity, typ's&i-
ly American.
In the stately D. A. R. hail, be-
meath the vari-colored banners OF
nine nations represented here, oc-
CURED the ceremony which crowned
three months Of arduous labor-a Ia
Dor marked with more fruitful results
toward world peace than centuries
of dreaming after such achievements.
1t was stirring scene. A dlstin-
guished company, headed by the pres
ident of the United States, saw the
delegation file to the great hall, a.
tach their signatures carefully and
file back to their places around the
great horse shoe table which had VT
messed so much making Of history the
past .,yelve weeks.
President Harding, the ceremony
done, addressed the gathering.
The delegations, the audience OF
beautiful women, senators who soon
will pass upon the treaties, diplomats
of many nations, and plain everyday
folk followed his words with rapt
attention.
The treaties, signed by the nine
powers were the Chinese customs doc
1ment and the Chinese "policy"
treaty giving China new deal and
new place in the sun; the treaties
signed up the five powers, America,
Britain, France, Italy and Japan
were the naval limitation, setting a
curb on naval building by scrapping
many craft and placing limit on fu-
ture ship construction, and the joint
poison gas and submarine limitation
document, while the treaty signed by
the four powers, America, Britain,
France and Japan was supplement
to the already signed four-power Pa
cifc treaty, defining clearly what ia
pans insular possessions are.
For two days, Sidney Smith, the
state departments chief Of protocol
had been affixing the red silk ribbons
an6 seals so thai all the delegates had
to do was to sign the papers along
side the red seals. The treaties
drawn in parallel columns of English
and French will rest within the ar
chives of the United States govern
ment, and If ratified, as all the delega-
tions expect, viii remain there an en-
during monument 70 American lead
ership n the age-oId effort to achieve
a curb on war.
President Harding's presence at to-
days session made it perhaps more
attractive for the curious The for
tunate had obtained their tickets
Saturday But long before 10
o'clock when today's session opened
a host CT women and men besieged
the hall attendants for an opportun-
ity to enter.
Within the building there was 2
tremendous jam. Every seat w&s
filed long before the president made
his appearance, amidst plaudits Of
the throng. Beautiful women, at
tired in the smartest creations of
Paris, New York and Washington
modistes; diplomats in somber morn
ing frocks; members of congress in
business suits-this was the compost
human picture. The hall itself was
without adornment except for the
flags long flung there. High above
the horseshoe table hung the en-
blems of each nation while attached
to a hollow circle ring above the CEN
ter hung another mass of banners.
Seated at the head was President
Harding, Secretary Hughes, the AM
crican delegation, the British and the
French delegations, while ranged at
the sides came the Italian, japanese,
Chinese, PortUgueses, Dutch and Bel
gian. The interpreters table had
been cleared away to make room for
the treaty table At this were seats
so the delegations could sign at LEI
sure, A busy state department at
tendant saw to it that the mass of
documents were not mixed.
II was 1000 g. M, when Hughes,
after Being greeted with food of ap-
pLausc, called the session to order.
i am happy to announce" he
said, that the treaty between China
and Japan relating TO shantung was
signed on Saturday"
He then announced that otn4r traa-
ties would now be signed IN alpha
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