Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-01-20
TREATY To MEAN
LEAGUE Of PAM
PACIFIC LANDS
Speaker Declares Four
Power Treaty to Bring
About That End; Praised
American Leaders.

Washington, Jan. 19.-The
four-power Pacific treaty was de-
scribed as the probable progenitor
Of a Pan-Pacific league of nations
by Alexander Hume Ford of Homo
olu-, directing the newly organized
Pan-Pacific union, in an address
tonight before the National Coun-
ell for Limitations Of Armaments.
He quoted Senator Lodge as hav-
ing said that "if there ever is to
be an effective league of nations
it will have its beginning in the
Pacific"
"A Pan-Pacific league Of ma
tons" Mr.. Ford asserted "is now
in the course of construction.
These master builders, President
Harding, Secretary Hughes and
Senator Lodge, have. driven the
first piling home and the nations
OF the Pacific have already begun
to gather material for the laying
Of the foundation and with the
help of a hoping world the struc-
ture will grow to completion.
1t has been clearly shown in
Washington that the old world
powers look forward to the time
when they will gladly trust the
countries Of the Pacific to manage
their own affairs. It has also been
clearly demonstrated in Washing
ton that the countries of the Pa
cific are learning to trust each oth-
er and to deserve to be so trusted.
WhenAthe time comes, as 1t will,
that the peoples of the Pacific
grow in education until they them
selves understand and trust each
other, then the countries about the
greatest of oceans will work to-
gether for their Joint Advancement
and there will be no more spheres
of influence nor need of them. The
one fleet then afloat will give po-
lice protection to the whole world.
We have seen the dawn of this
great era here at the Washington
conference and some of US shall
live to see it's midday glory"
The Pan-Pacific union, Mr.. Ford
said. is preparing for the first Pan
Pacific Commercial conference, to
be held next fall to take up the fol-
lowing questions:
Transportation and port facili-
ties with n study of trade routes
in connection with supplies of raw
material and points of accumula-
ton.
Food and fuel supplies, includ-
ing survey of present supplies.
location, quantity, control, new
sources of supply, regulation of
prices and guarantees of universal
availability to all transportation
lines of all nations without dis
elimination.
Gable and wireless communica-
tlon with survey of present facil-
tiles and their control of same and
the establishing of lower special
rates for the press and time sched-
ule reserved for same.
Banking and exchange with a
discussion as to possibilities of les
sening present exchange fluctua-
tions.
Raw materials with a survey Of
present conditions as to source and
character of supply and their inter-
change.
"Standardizatton OF weights,
coinage and the protec-
tion of patents and trademarks.
international trade.
Hawaii" Mr.. Ford said In con-
sis an American territory
peopled by men of all races of the
Pacific, an almost neutral meeting
ground where no race prejudice ex-
lists. 1t is the interracial expert.
mental station of the Pacific and
here, where China's first president,
Sun Vat Sen was born and educat-
ed. is being worked out as in d
plans for a real Paw
Pacific league of nations, that will
Tighten and illuminate the whole
world To the carrying forward Of
the ideals expressed at the confer
ence IN Washington, the Pan-Pa-
cific union will bend its energies,
guided by It's leaders who are the
actual heads of the governments of
Pacific lands"