The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-02

Ol Cue puIpOSc Ol Cdpdil duu OIueI powers Cd refrain from further aggression against China. A pledge made under such circumstances is a guarantee of immeasurable value. Unless Jap an carries out in good faith not only the letter but the spirit of this agreement, both Russia and China will be for her to reckon with under conditions not favorable to Japanese success. The treaty renders highly improbable, if not impossible, participation of the United States in such a war Whatever else may be said of this result of the peace conference, it will keep the American people out of an Asiatic war.
 If the pathetic faith of China in the ability of the United States to save her from the re- suits of agreements made with Japan under duress has been shattered it must be remem- bered that there was never ground for the hope that America would go to war to save China, deep though American sympathy with China is And it must also be remembered that na- ton which has failed in putting adequate force behind its national rights, ideals and interests, cannot escape the fate which has overcome pacifists in warning world since the begin ming of history.
 The Washington conference has made clear what sincerity, directness and common sense can accomplish where idealistic but impractical programs pompous phrases unrelated to the facts of human life unaccompanied by inflex- ible purposes, have failed, is they failed so miserably in the Versailles conference. World peace which was further away than ever after the peace of Versailles had been signed, has a in few momentous weeks been brought closer than even the most optimistic thought pos sible a year ago.
 The theory of President Harding out of which this historic conference grew, was that the cure for war and the causes of war was a conference of the representatives of the na- tions of the world assembled for the specific purpose of attaining peaceful international re lationships based upon faith and friendship, there face to face to discuss their problems as neighbors meet in any American community to compose their difference without resort to law or force. This was theory so simple and sin cere that the professional diplomats of the world had never thought of it. But 1t has ac- tualy worked and today the world faces the future with higher hope and greater courage and more determination to build a better civ iIiZatOn than 1t has ever had before.
 1t is to hoped that with the least possible delay, this group of treaties, effectuated through the leadership of America and repre- senting the Americanization of international relationships, with all that they promise to the peoples of the earth now suffering wars devastating effects and bearing wars heavy burdens, will be ratified, with whatever chang es consistent with their meaning the Senate may deem wise. Then the American govern ment and the American people may turn to the exclusive consideration of the grave domestic problems which confront them and which for nearly eight years have been subordinated to world problems.
 The heoric pioneers who settled this contin ent came to the wilderness over the perilous pathway of the ocean that they might found here a civilization freed from the errors and expressions of the Old World order.
 That we might cease to be parties to Old World quarrels and fight wars the outgrowth of Old World feuds and rivaleries our Revo- lutionary forefathers wagcd and won our war for independence.
 That we might be kept nation maintaining the ideals of the founders rather than become cockpit of contending petty states fashioned upon the European model Lincoln saved the Union.
 Now, after less than century and a half of national life, having crossed the Atlantic at the crucial moment in the worlds greatest war to end the struggle and save civilization from suicide, it has become the destiny of the Am erican republic, in conference held beside the