The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1922-03-30

United States Is and Japan TO- The
United States now has 33 capital
ships, Great Britain Al and Japan 81.
The capital ship tonnage of these
powers at the present time is: The
United States, 72S39O tons; Great
Britain, 1,015,S25 tons; Japan, 494,-
S2S tons. At the end Of 10 years the
United States will have $4,000 tons
of capital ships, Great Britain $685.
COO tons and Japan $4,000 tons.
Great and Generous.
The United States made a great and
generous offer. The capital ships which
we abandon, convert or destroy num-
Der % and they represent an expendi-
ture of $330,0OO,OO0. No nation has
ever before made such an offer as that
Great Britain met it and Japan met
1t. large portion of the navy Of
Great Britain had already been scrap
ped since the war, but that did not
affect the reduction. This great re-
duction in capital ships is the feature
Of the conference work which has most
impressed the world. 1t is the most
spectacular part of the work and Is Of
very great Importance, and yet 1t is
not so important as other provisions
OF the naval treaty to which compare
lively little notice has been paid.
We have provided for a naval holi-
day, which runs to 1947, during which
only ships for replacement can be built
Mo, t important of all we have limit
ed the tonnage, not only of capital
ships. but of auxiliary ships, and we
have limited the calibre of the guns for
all vessels. 1t means the end of naval
competition. 1t will no longer be nee
essary for any nation to be continual
iy increasing Der shiptOnnage and her
gun calibres in order to keep abreast
of or pass her neighbor. This naval
treaty, upon which our navy must be
based and continued, means a relief,
MT so much at the moment as in
itnre years, from the great burden
which has rested upon all maritime
nations because of great naval arma-
1nents. 1t will help also to maintain
the peace of the world. SO much for
cur first object.
Not An Alliance.
BY what is known as the four-power
treaty, signed by the United States,
France, Great Britain and Japan, we
terminate the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
That alliance was a breeder of sus-
picion in North America, both in Cana
Eda and the United States. 1t had an
unfortunate effect in Asia. 1t offered
q soil in which the seeds of war might
easily grow. 1t is gone. And that
treaty which relates only to the insu-
lar possessions and dominions of the
four powers in the Pacific merely pro-
vides that we shall respect each
others rights in such possessions and
dOminiOns and that il controversies
arise we shall consult before taking
any further measures.
There is no alliance in 1t, no mill
tary or naval force is hidden anywhere
In those simple paragraphs. The only
OligatiOn we assume is that of con-
Sultation and when the consultation
has been held each nation that was
In it, each party to the treaty, is as
free to do what she thinks right as
she was when she entered the doors
The treaty rests on the good inten-
lions, the better feeling of nations and
on the wold-wide desire that our child.
rem may be spared from the horrors
which were poured out upon us in the
war with Germany. That Is the second
result OF the conference. Now as to the
third.
The United States refused absolute.
ly to accept the proposition in regard
to Shantung I'm the treaty Of Versailles
and believed then, and believes now
that that province should be CONTROL.
ed by China, Of which it has always