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Show jf PROGRESS SLOW ( I DURING THE YEAR , J Heavy Taxes, Chaotic Financial Conditions and Minor Wars Hamper Recovery in 1921. HOPE COMES HEAR ITS END I Washington Conference on Armament Limitation the Most Event What PresidentImportant Hard- ' ing's Administration and the Congress Have . Accomplished. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Back to Normalcy was the slogan or 1921, .not only In America but in all. the. civilized nations of the world. But minor wars, internal economic dis turhflnces, chaotic financial conditions In Europe, widespread unemployment, famine in Russia and other hindrances made progress in the right direction slow, excepting, perhaps, In the United 1 L i j I States.- - When the year opened the peoples were , groaning under the burden of taxation and depression resulting from the World, war. As it drew to a close V I 4 they were still groaning but had hopefully turned their eyes toward Washington, where the representatives of great powers were negotiating international agreements that would eliminate some of the causes of wrar, especially, in the Far East, and limit the means of making war. In the success of this conference and of others that might grow out of it lay for the time being the hope of humanity, j Efforts to enforce the terms of the treaty of Versailles resulted In conflicts among some of the new nations created by that pact, and several of the older- - nations were involved warfare. Germany, working fast to recover her old position in the work of commerce, was hampered by the disastrous' decline in the value of the mark, and her leaders protested con tinually that she could not possibly pay the war indemnity. Peace negoti ations between the British government and Sinn Fein were brought to a sue cessful conclusion by which the Irish Free State was constituted. she showed signs of yielding to the view. Division of Upper Silesia between Germany and Poland caused a lot of trouble. A plebiscite was held there in March, but both sides asserted it was unfair and early ? May the region was Invaded by Polish irregulars. Thinly veiled support was given them by the Warsaw government and also by the French and there succeeded a long series of fights between them and German volunteer forces. The entente cordlale of the allies was near to rupture, but In June British troops entered the territory and began clearing out the Poles. The dispute was referred to the league council which In October announced the boundary lines. Neither nor Poland was satisfied but Germany both accepted the decision. All through the year the Greeks fought, the Turkish nationalists in Anatolia, with varying fortune, while the allied powers held aloof, though offering mediation which Greece re fused. In November France made a treaty with the Kemalist government which aroused protests from Greai; Britain and led to diplomatic negotla tlonA The United States formally made peace with the central powers, the treaty with Austria being signed Au gust 24, that with Germany August 25, and the pact with Hungary August 29 In these treaties America reserved all that was given her by the treaty of Versailles which the senate had refused to ratify. general .... HEAVY WEIGHT COTTON REGULAR PRICE, $2.25 CLEARANCE SALE PRICE $1.49 EXTRA HEAVY WEIGHT REGULAR PRICE, $4.00 CLEARANCE SALE . PRICE $2.49 GARMENTS REGULAR PRICE, $4.00 CLEARANCE SALE , PRICE $2,90 Our Entire Stock of Mens Extra Trousers are included in this sale at : 30 ! ! DISCOUNT i i" ALL-WOO- L Christensen Co.s i ANNUAL JANUARY President Harding on July 10 issued Informal Invitations to Grea:: Britain France, Italy and Japan to send representatives to Washington for a conference on limitation of armament and Far East questions Acceptance from all was already as jsured by a process of feeling out, CLEARANCE SALE 1 Has Thus Far Proved to be a Great Money Saving Event for Hundreds and on August 11 the formal invita tions went out, China, Belgium, Hoi land and Portugal being asked to par tlclpate In discussions involving the Far East. The foremost statesmen of these nine powers were named as delegates and on November J2 the mo inentoqs conference opened with imposing ceremony. Almost immediate- re IFEASTT ly Secretary 'Hughes put forward Americas plan for reduction and limitation of naval armament, including a, naval holiday for ten years, the scrapping of all shipbuilding pro grams, destruction of vessels to a certain jloint and the maintenance of the navies of Ametlca, Great Britain basis. The plan and Japan on a v ' ir K Tomorrow We Offer Some Extraordinary Price Reductions On Our Fine High Grade Merchandise OUR ENTIRE LINE OF MENS SUITS VALUES UPj TO ; $60.00, INCLUDING A BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT OF CLOTHING I.. CLEARANCE SALE PRICE FOR INSTANCE 5-5- -8 was formally accepted by the delegates of those nations on December 15, and to the agreement were added clauses INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS for thq preservation of the status quo of naval bases and fortification in the The League of Nations, though western Pacific. Of almost equal Importance was the functioning without' the of the United States, accomplished four-powpact accepted by the con much during the year, chiefly through ferencq on December 13. This was its council, which met in Paris on cast la the form of a treaty by which February 21 and immediately referred the United States, Great Britain, proposed amendments to the covenant France! and Japan agreed to maintain e to a committee. President Wilson, peace n the Pacific, the who during January had withdrawn treaty being abrogated. the American representatives from the China offered some very difficult council ot ambassadors and the repato the conference and' all the on February 23 problems rations of her delegates were not commission, demands ' Bent to the Teague council a strong satisfied . The conferees, however, did protest against the inclusion of the enter into an agreement to remove island of Yap In territories subjected many pf the foreign restrictions on to the mandate of Japan, and also China land to respect the territorial formally demanded for America u and administrative Integrity of the voice In the disposal of the former oriental republic and preserve the open German colonies. The council In re door for trade and industry of all nawith not was concerned tions; Direct negotiations between the ply said It to and of allocation the Yap Japan Chinese and Japanese delegates reto take States United invited the part sulted in Japans agreeing to restore In discussions concerning the Turkish Shantung province to China upon reand African mandates. A month after ceiving payment for the railway. the Republican administration took It was evident from the first that oflice Secretary of State Hughes reitthe conference could nqt do much in erated Mr. Wilson's stand concerning the matter of limitation "of land armaYap and mandates la general, and ments so long as the situation In central Europe remained so unsettled. ;latei France and Italy Indorsed Amer I over Briand was present to give leas position in the controversy premier ' rethe Island, though Japan formally - I volce to Frances needs of protection jfused to give up her mandate. There-of an(j fears of aggression by Germany and possibly by Russia. Ills eloquente after that dispute was the subject confer-jthbetween drawn-out negotiations !long SpCech so far convinced the j as which and gave other powers ence that the United States Japan never be would United which the France a to surance that led treaty by she in which isolation moral assured was In the equal rights left States ' Yap and other islands mandated to feared. ' president Harding has clung to his Japan. The council of ambassadors in Janu- Idea that an association of nations can dis.be formed which would do what the ary gave Germany more time toto pass League of Nations cannot do, and on arm, appointed a commission on Austrias economic status, decided November 25 he put forward the sugbe gestion! of a continuing series of conthat Latvia and Esthonia should and ferences like that in Washington, recognized as sovereign states, at which presumably might result in the then fixed the German reparations The in formation of the association. 226,000,000,000 gold marks, payable ' cent everyfavor with 12 received and per idea was annual installments,! detax on exports during the period of where, except that the ..French murred at the proposed inclusion of payment. This reparations decision created consternation In Germany and Germany. Berlin at once began efforts to persuade the United States to intervene1 in her behalf. 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