The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-13

as ne ruSneQ Into the mousse, tOoh off his mittens and held his hands over the glowing logs of the open fire.
 of you would stay in the house this time of the evening like your sister," said Uncle Ted, you would not get cold"
 Well, mother wouldn't let my new dog in the house and I had to see if he was plenty warm out in the garage I got some more straw and gave him one of my blankets and he's all snug and warm now"
 "On the strength of that I'll not say any more,' said Uncle Ted. "Tell us story anyway, Uncle Ted, while we're sitting here by the fire" said Ruth
 Putting down his paper and re- moving his glasses, Uncle Ted said: q was just turning over in my mind the big problems the world is facing today and the sensible part the United States has played, thanks to the present Administration. All Europe is seething. Every confer ence they have held to adjust thelr troubles has blown up with no good results. War threatens in the Near East with the Turks drunk with newly gained power and France acts like a spoiled child because she cant get everything she wants in five minutes' time. Germany is crushed, whether right or wrong, and cannot make her payments as required in the Peace Treaty of Versailles. "But when going over all these things it makes me fairly boil to hear and read the criticisms of our foreign policy. The people who con tinue to talk about the World Clup nlan and who want the United States to jump into Europe's burning caldron, head first, ought to De locked up for safe keeping Ever since President Harding came lnto office he has conducted sane, sate and constructive foreign policy lie has refused to join in any Of these conferences of Europe where ne knows to join would mean troupe
 for the United States and no bene1l' T to anyone.
 "When we faced the dangerous prop lem in the Pacific, a problem WHICH was growing nearer and nearer u
 ,,or he sensed the time to act anc the Conference on the Llinlta'loA of Armaments was called. Japan sal
 a+ a table in Washington, Tn the
 open, and the two countries are no" genuine friends for the first time in wears. When the whole "orlo
 was drifting toward increasing arm aments at the end of the war; tha' same conference led the way to re | ducing those ornaments, thereoS
 lessening the ever-growing burden o' taxation upon the people of all the
 world President Harding has dem onstrated that he has the vision o1 a true statesman in judging the hour for action toward the affairs ol f Europe. He has courage and IS no'
 afraid to act. But he does not ac'
 hastily.
 "There is no reason why Europe could not enter into pact similar to the four-power Pacific pact which
 was the result of the Washington
 Conference. President Harding sug
 gested as much in his last address to Congress. Some are in favor oi
 loaning Germany money. But l for
 one cannot see what good that will
 do with Germany in her present
 state of unrest and poor manage
 ment. Some plan must be worked out to make Germany understand
 that she cannot evade her obliga tion to pay. How much, is another | matter, put Sue SuOulu pay dll ti1
 she is capable of paying in order
 that the great amount of damage
 which she caused may be repaired
 as far as possible. The Admins
 tration is certainly right in insisting
 that the matter of Germany's pay
 ment must be settled as a separate
 matter from the debts of the Allies
 They are two separate and distinct questions.
 While President Harding is ready when opportunity offers, to assist in international affairs, conference is in progress in Washington com posed of the United States and the five Central American countries, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador, to form treaties of understanding, limit the