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NEWS REVIEW OF !
CURRENTEVENTS i
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Conference Agreeing on Naval *
Limitations but Apart on <
China Questions. J
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BRIAND'S ELOQUENT SPEECH j
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France's Need of Strong Army, Due r
to Fear of German Aggression, f
Convincingly Set Forth?Tax f
Bill Becomes Law and (
Congress Adjourns. (
By EDWARD W. PICKARD 1
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CONCORD and discord both were (
apparent In the armament confer- ^
ence last week. It appeared the
Hughes plan for naval holiday and (
limitation would soon be accepted ^
formally almost exactly as he pro- (
posed It. Great Britain Indorsed the
"5-5-3" ratio without reservation and
made It known that she desired only
to suggest some moaincuuuu ul mc
submarine and replacement features
of the plan as a whole. The Japanese,
though still arguing that they (
should have 70 per cent of the naval
strength of Great Britain and the
United States, evidently were pre- ]
pared to yield with the expectation
of some concessions in their favor
relatlie to China. But the British, at r
home, already are growing impatient. f
As soon as the Hughes plan was given 1
out the ndnilrnltv stopped work on *
battleships under construction. Thurs- (
day It announced that unless a de- 5
clslon relative to naval limitation (
were reached by the conference with- 1
In two weeks, work on the battleships (
would he resumed before Christmas. '
The admiralty may have been Influ- {
enced in this by the fact that our (
congress adjourned without ordering 1
cessation of work on our new snips.
As for the discord, which unfortunately
exists. It arises over two subjects?land
armament limitation and
China. Concerning the reduction of
armies the 111 feeling Is between
France and England and Is being
sedulously fostered by certain British
correspondents now Ju Washington,
notably H. O. Wells, who brazenly admits
that he Is doing his "own small
best to exacerbate It." his avowed
reason being that "a brisk qut*rrel
and some plain speaking may clear
the air for a better understanding."
PREMIER BRIAXD. In a wonderful
address, told the conference
and the world Just why France dare
not now reduce her land force too far.
Without hesitation he set forth frankly
his country's fears of Germany,
first, and of Russia, more remotely.
With facts and flirures he made plain
the possibility that Germany might
again and almost witmn a nay oe
come n powerful and dangerous military
nation, and that a considerable
portion of the German people look forward
to this he showed by quotations
from LudendorfT, who still has a la rue
following. Brlnnd did not fail to give
generous praise to Wlrth's government
and admitted there were many people
In Germany, especially among the
working classes, who want to work
and want no more war. The Germany
they represent, he said, France
would do all In her power to help.
But. he said, until there was a
"moral disarming" as well as a physical
In Germany, and unless France
was assured of the continued support
of the United States and Great Britain.
France could not lay herself open
to nttnck by Germany. "We have to
know," he said, "that France Is not
morally Isolated, that she still has '
with her the men of good will and
the hearts of nil people who have t
\ fought with her on the same battle- I
field." . <
As for the charge that Brland and 1
the French wno iouuw mm umr u .
hidden design to install in Europe
n sort of middle supremacy, this, the
premier said, "Is the most painful,
heart-rending and cruel thing a
Frenchman can hear."
It is impossible, much as one would
like to do so. to quote more of M.
Briand's eloquent speech. Suffice it
to say that to an unprejudiced mind
FARM BUREAU MAKES GAfflS
Extremely Satisfactory Report Made
to the Annua! Convention by the
Executive Secretary.
Atlanta, Oa.?The American Farm
Bureau federation ganed 227.S7S members
during 1020. and now numbers
007,270, J. \V. Coverdale of Chicago,
executive secretary, reported to the
federation's third annual convention
h?re. County farm bureaus included
In the organization number 1.4S0. Be- , f
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HooDr fnr tn? niirrhasp <
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idians from Montana and South Dakc
and his wife.
t was an ample reply to the antlrrench
propaganda of Wells et al.t
tnd that it did not fail of effect on
lis fellow conferees. Arthur Balfour
vas the first to respond, and Secreary
Hughes followed him. Both aslured
Brland that their countries ap>reciated
the position of France and
irtually pledged the support for
vhich he had pleaded, though of
course both were careful not to promse
an equivalent in international law
'or the Anglo-Franco-American de'enslve
treaty which Lloyd George,
^lemenceau and Wilson signed, but
vhich never was even submitted to
he American senate. Mr. Hughes ar anged
that the question of land armanent
should be further considered by
i committee, but the impression was
general that it would be permitted to
lie, at least so far as limitation is
oncerned; and this impression was
strengthened by the departure of M.
3riand and the French military secIon
for home, the premier being serure
in the belief that his country
vouid not now be asked to reduce its
irra.v further than its present plans
ontemplate. One other cause of de>ate
he had Interjected Into his argunent.
This was the claim of France
o keep an ample number of subma ines
for the defense of her long searoast.
"For what can France wish
submarines except to attack Engand?"
cried the propagandists at
)nce. To which the only adequate
eply Is laughter.
rT WAS foreseen that the Chinese
* problem would he the most troudesoine
for the conference, for obvious
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easons. A[ lius niuiiig 11 orriuo iv
iave come to n question whether the
Vnglo-Japanese treaty will be abrotated,
and if so, whether some sort
>f a tripartite agreement will be substituted
for it. Unless the former is
lone, probably the discussions will be
'ruitless; and unless the latter is
lone, it is likely Great Britain will
tot conseht to the former. On Monlay
the eight powers sitting in the
'ommittee on the Far East adopted
i program submitted by Eiihu Itoot
>y which these points were made
aire:
There will be no intervention by
'oreign powers in the present politcnl
struggle In China.
The territorial and administrative
ntegrity of the Asiatic republic is assured.
Japan and all the other nations
lgreed to refrain from a greedy scramble
for commercial rights and prlvieges
there.
The "open door" finds a new deflniion.
Baron Knto won a decided vlctorf
'or Japan when he persuaded the
'ominlttee virtually to recognize that
Vianchuria, though an integral part
)i China, is so thoroughly in possesdon
of the Japanese that the status
juo should lie maintained there. There
s ftivppi'pnre of views nmnnc the
Rrltish, French and Chinese ns to
low the Root principles nre to ho
ipplied to specific matters. At the
lose of the week the Chinese proposals-for
lifting foreign restrictions
>n China's customs revenue were heIn?
considered hy n subcommittee.
Ine concession had been won hy the
Oriental republic?permission to Increase
Its tariff rate from f? per cent
:o 12^ per cent. So far as Is now
ipparent. the Idea of restoring to
r^hinn the various parts of her territory
now held hy other powers has
rone Into the discard. That question
s complteated hy the fact that Rusdnns
have control of outer Mongolia
ind have set up a Mongolian soviet
here. Moreover Tehltcherln. Russian
nlnlster of foreign affairs, says they
ntend to stay there, and It Is he.vond
hought that any of the nations represented
In the Washington confer?rv/m
chmihl nn/loff fi Iro tr% mict thorn
I17"ni the final adoption of two
?? measures of Importance? tlie
ax hill and the anti-medicinal heer
>111?congress wound up the business
if the special session and adjourned
Wednesday afternoon. The senators
md representatives will have ahout
:en days' vacation before the regular
session meets. Enactment of the tax
>111 Into law means the repeal of the
ransportntlon taxes and a conslder\hle
number of other miscellaneous
axes on January 1. 1022. While the
epeal of the excess profits tax and
he chances In corporation Income
ax and Individual surtax rates also
elpts from January 1. to November 1 I
otaled $273,674.28 and expenditures i
239.W7.SS. Coverdale said. The larg- i
st Items of expenditure were for ad- <
nlnlstration. $.">7.4f?0.04: In connection
v11h legislation, $3T>,993.47. and organl- i
:atlon. $32,693.14. Special orgnnlza- i
Ion was pi von every state with the ]
xceptlon of South Carolina, which to I
late has shown no signs of farm bureau
activity, the executive secretary i
eported. i
The federation plans to bring the
arm Into the movies more extensive- j i
>r Red Cross Christmas stamps,
ta. 3?View of Funchal, Madeira,
become effective on that date, taxpayers
will not get the benefit of the
changes until they pay their taxes in
the early part of 1923 on income of
the calendar year 1922.
The Individual taxpayer will get the
benefit of increased exemptions applying
to dependents and to heads of
families with moderate incomes on
their taxes paid In 1922 on 1921 income.
The chief features of the new law
are substitution of a 12^ per cent flat
corporation Income tax for the excess
profits tax and the present normal
tax of 10 per cent, retention of present
normal taxes on individual incomes,
but a decrease in surtax rates,
the new maximum being 50 per cent
instead of 65, repeal of a number of
miscellaneous tnxes, and Imposition
of some new manufacturers' taxes.
EMONT REILY, governor of Por
to Rico, arrived in New York
the other day, and almost Immediately
afterward Senor Cordova-Davlla. resident
commissioner from the island in
Washington, received cabled instructions
from San Juan to request President
Hnrdlne to remove the governor
from office for Injudicious and indiscreet
actions. Among the specific
charges against Reliy are:
He publicly declared himself lender
of the insulnr Republican rinrty and
the "friend of the Socialist party."
Annulled the "moral power" of
Judges by announcing they would be
removed if a decision was rendered
"considered by the governor unjust."
Pardoned criminals "to please Socialist
leaders," and these criminals
Immediately committed new crimes.
"Directed or permitted" police to
break up reception organized to greet
Antonio Bnroelo, president of the senate,
and leader of the Unionist party,
"later promoting the police officer
who broke up the demonstration."
Appointed three departmental heads
"opposed to the spirit of the organic
net and to the laws of Porto Rico,"
on recommendation of "corporations
whose directors reside outside Porto
Rico."
DIPLOMATIC relations between the
United States and Germany were
resumed last week by exchange of
ambassadorial calls In Paris and by
the arrival In Washington of Baron
Edmund von Thermann as charge
d'affaires to prepare the embassy for
the coming of an ambassador. He is
fitting up the building with furnishings
plain and Inexpensive enough to
suit the most democratic, having
brought most of them from Rerlln.
Any extravagance would he inconsistent
with the poverty pleas of the
German government, which Is now
seeking foreign credits to enable It to
pay the' reparations and customs installments
due the allies early next
year.
The riots and strikes In Berlin, due
to high prices of food and the low
value of the mark, are spreading to
many other parts of the country, and
the government is said to be In fear
of monarchist and communist uprisings.
A general strike Is threatened
unless those arrested in the riots are
released.
TN" BELFAST, ton. there has beeq serlous
rioting, resulting In the death of
n dozen or more persons and the looting
of many stores. The clashes.
Judging from the cabled reports, seem
to have been instituted by the Orangemen.
Bombs were used freely and
with deadly effect, and the military
was unable to stop the sniping of the
Sinn Fein and Ulster factions. The
speaker of Pail Eirennn, Eoln MacNeill.
accuse*: the British government
of organizing "the most horrible of all
the kinds of war in Ireland?a war
as fanatical as the religious wars of
the Seveneenth century."
The Irish delegates met with the
British cabinet members on Wednesday,
hut what progress they made was
not made public.
AND yet more rioting?this time in
Bombay. The arrival there of
the prince of Wnles was the signal for
the onthreak and for four days there
was a wild time In the Indian city.
A score of persons were killed, hundreds
wounded and many flres started.
In the Malabar district the British
have been making some progress
against the rebels; several hundred
Moplahs were killed in two engagements.
I
ly next .venr. It purposes to produce |
nt least 12 feature films In addition
to n series of news reels and animated
artoons. Distribution will be through
<tate farm bureau federations or direct
to theaters. The federation has
ilso comideted arrangements to supply
county farm bureaus with portatie
projectors at cost.
The report covered national co-operitlve
marketing movements the federation
set umler way this year, and
reviewed In minute detail its other
activities.
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In Electric Phrases, Pictures a Ger
many With a Great Faction Which
Preaches Military Restoration.
Continental Hall, Washington.?Pre
mier Briand primarily addressed the
people of France and also continental
Europe as he defended the military
policy of France which three years
after the armistice maintains the largest
standing army' in the world.
In a dramatic hour, Aristide Briand,
seven times premier of France, out
lined the fears of France of an at
tempt at restoration of Prussianism
in the former Central Europe empires,
and Arthur James Balfour, heading
the British delegation, rose In his
place and, in solemn words, practically
pledged Great Britain to the aid
of France in any future threat of the
lust of military combination.
Briand, strong man of France, acknowledged
by Lloyd George as having
the best parliamentary voice in Eu
rope, was at his best as, in electric
phrases, he pictured a Germany disarmed
physically, but not morally,
and with a powerful faction preaching
the doctrines of military restoration
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Germany, ne sain, couiu uuw niuum/A
between six million and seven million
men trained in war, and her industrial
ingenuity would enable her to equip
them quickly as a menace to civilization
and the world.
In the face of that, the French
premier declared, France was ready
to reduce her army to half its former
strength, but not to the point which
he said, would expose France to peril,
Exports Advance Sharply.
Washington.?Exports* of cotton and
cottonseed oil advanced sharply in
volume but declined in value in Octo
ber as compared with the same month
a year ago, according to foreign trade,
San Juan Governor Assassinated.
Buenos Aires.?Dr. A. Mable Jones
governor of the province of San Juan,
was assassinated by men armed with
rifles as he was alighting from an automobile.
A friend who was with him
was also killed.
Walhalla.?Four young white men,
Dan Jamieson and "Bub" Tannery of
near Westminster and Frank and
Walter Shepard, brothers, of the Long
Creek section, were brought to the
Oconee county jail here by Sheriff
Alexander in connection with the
killing of Jack Freeman, negro, who
was shot near Westminster a party
of white men.
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