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Show HEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Placing Germany in Voluntary Default Is Big Victory fcr Franco's Policy. PREMIERS IN SESSION MM Berlin 6ucgesta Four-Power Agree-nient Agree-nient for European Peace Borah'a Plan for World Conference Moiul Oil Lands Question May Dicrupt Lausanne Parley. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 5 C 1 t 1 1 ft SENATOR BORAH, headina a group of mild reservation-Ists reservation-Ists and Democrats, has offered an amendment to the naval appropriation? ap-propriation? bill requesting the President to call a world conference con-ference to discuss economic questions and further limitation of armament. What ! your opinion of the advisability of this action? GEItMANY has been declared, hy the reparations coinmlsr.iun. to he In voluutnry default In part of her rei-aratlons rei-aratlons puymenta. imnicly the wood deliveries due in 1022. This In Itself doesn't 'seem to be of greut Importance, but the action of the commission represents rep-resents a decided victory for France, which has contended for it Ions time that Ormniiy could be placed In voluntary volun-tary dffnult by n majority vote of the commission. Great lJrltaln. hoMInc the opposing view, had been supported by Itelglum and Italy, but is now deserted by them on this Issue and her representative repre-sentative ciiHt the only vote against the action. Mussolini appears to have swnng to the French slde'in tne reparations repara-tions dispute, and It may be that In the session of the allied premiers In Tails this week he und Theunls of r.e'plum will stand with Polneure, Iw Inj? Donar Law alone In his effort to restrain the Frenrn from taking radical rad-ical steps to collect from Germany. More thaa GO per cent of Germany's wood deliveries were made, but she said she could do no more und that tb deliveries for 1923 must tie greatly reduced. She also annouif she cim-not cim-not deliver the 00,000 tons of pure nitrogen due on reparations account beiose th German production of this commodity is already far below domestic domes-tic requirements. France, according to seml-olIMal j statements, -feels that unless she cruets forfcru from Germany sl e fHes absolute ruin, and consequently she Intends' In-tends' to pet th forfeits, even if payment pay-ment In full canot be obtained. However, How-ever, M. Toincare does not now I tend to seize the Ruhr valley by force of anus. His present plan Is to send In customs ofilcinls to collect revenues ond In this way wring reparations from Stlnnes and the other rich Industrialists Industrial-ists whose resources the German K"v-ernment K"v-ernment hns so far refused to draw Upon. These magnates have steudtly opposed all plans for payment of wiir obligations, nnd nt the same time have j been piling up vast fortunes in a country coun-try that claims to be poverty stricken and s'arvinu. Naturally the French are bitter nsnlnst them, nnd iMturnlly. too. France cannot stomach the Hr'tisli policy which calls nmlnly for gentle trcntinent of Germany so that l!rirl,:h trade may benefit. While Polncare's program does not Involve a military Invasion of tins Itulir, It provides for the une f the army to protect the civilian oll'.clals to be sent Into that region. Jm!;'Ing by Hie past, such protection will be necessary. G Kit MANY has Just made a sugiro. tlon to the United Slates which moy possibly meet with the approval of Prciddent Hardin?. It Is that our government sound the Kuropenn pavers pav-ers bs to tlielr disposition to enter Into o four -power nvveenie' t to pr--urvc Ihe pcue fctoi'.hir ft; the 1 i 1 1 i ? treaty. The four nations would be Great Ilrltaln, France, Italy and Germany, Ger-many, and the United States woufd be only an intermediary. Tlio peace term for Kurope might lie set at thirty jvups. It is argued this agreement would guar-anteo guar-anteo France npilnst aggression by Germany and enable her to reduce her big standing tinny, und also would guarantee Germany agnlnst further seizure of territory by the French. President Harding nnd Secretary of State Hughes are disposed to move very carefully In matters relating to Kurope, but It Is known that Mr. Harding believes some such pact, by which the natioi's will agree to consult one another before resorting to war, will prevent warfare more surely than will any league to preserve peuce. SENATOR P.OUAH'S resolution for a world conference on economics and urmatucnts. alluded to nt the betid of tl e column, not only hns caused u lot of discussion in Washington, but uiso has disrupted the young alliance between the farm and radical blocs In congress. The Idaho senator has seemingly broken away from the group of "Irreconcilable" nnd Johnson of California already has loudly announced an-nounced his opposition to the Ilonih plan. He says: "An economic parley, par-ley, of necessity, murt consider not only present conditions In Europe but the debts due t us. nnd, of course, the reparations due from Germany. Were we to Invite the interested nations to dlflciirs these subjects in order to arrive ar-rive at understandings nnd agreements, with a mental reservation to take no part In the ultimate solution, we would bo guilty of a species of bad fnlth, of which America has never bevn guilty nnd which Americans never con tolerate. tol-erate. "If we brlnjf the nations of the earth here to Washington for such a conference we'll dump Into America's lap the economic ills of Kurope und the reparations muddle. If, olildally. we sit down with the other nations who meet ot our lnvitution. and reach an understanding and ugreenient. we ' are in honor bound to carry out nnd j execute thut agreement, and the very instant we undertake to curry out an agreement to enforce reparations, that instant we nbundon the traditional policy of America. We become n part of the Europvan scheme of things and we enter upon that course from which we have so recently exenped and which our rc"ll) so overwhelmingly repudiated." repudi-ated." Mr. Rorah Insists there Is nothing inconsistent In his program, muinlnln-lug muinlnln-lug thut It Is to the United States to point a way ti stability und peace in Kurope but that U Is not necessary for this nation to enter Into pledges to curry out agreement. Rei aune the l'omh plan looks to the restoration of the European market for American agricultural products, It is regarded with favor by the members of the form bloc. ( CONTROL . of the Mosul oil fields niuy yK wreck the Lausanne pence Conference, Ismet Pushu noticed noti-ced the P.rltlsli delegates that Turkey would maintain her claim to ownership of the Mosul viiajet und could not accept the Htitisu contention that it Is a part f Iraq and therefore of Mesopotamia Meso-potamia over which there Is a British mamlute. In reply Murqul Curzon In-formeI In-formeI the Turks thai Great Itritaln never would abandon the Mosul vllu-jet vllu-jet nnd thut no prolongation of the conference would lulhienie the British goveriu..eot to reivde from its posltlou in tlds mutter. Lord Curzon said the P.ritlsli hud expelled the Turks from lite Mosul region nnd bad occupied nnd admin'Murcd It; thut they In-d promised to free the Anihs from Turk-ih Turk-ih fulu and to establish Liie government govern-ment of Ir:ii. und hud given their solemn sol-emn p'edge that no foreign cower should be allowed to tke miy of this tetrltory. To tliee pledges, be said, Rrituln would steadfastly i.dhere. L-ii'd Cm .n, however, agreed to have British Brit-ish experts meet with Turkish experts to (lctino tlio northern boundary of Iraq. This statement by Marquis Curzon is loo fiat to bo take!) as a bluff, and it (.rein certain that If the Turks do not wish to have tin; conference break up they must . lc! 1. The Ti:r!.s tuive inrreM that t!e non- ; ,Io:-li in minorities In Turi.ey t-Ln'. I enjoy en-joy frcdinii timler Turkish laws without with-out (i-t'nctl"n rs to untii-u, ill'y re- i llglon or language. They are also will-lug will-lug to allow the Greek patriarch to remain in Constantinople, but purely In a religious ctipuclty. The straits question. It Is believed, Willi be settled on the basis of un International commission com-mission that will supervise the passage of ships bu will have no control over the fortified uones. LOUISIANA'S great sensation the murder of two men by u mushed mob, the finding of tlielr decapitated bodies nnd the urrest of a fo. iner deputy dep-uty sherllT und a former mayor of the town of Mer Rouge begins to look like u tempest in u-teapot. So far no evidence evi-dence has been mude public that proves the crime wus committed by the Kit Klux Klan, und though the Klan It strong in thut part of the state, (here does not appear, nt this distance, to be any real need of the state troops which were culled out by Governor Parker. The bodies were brought to the surface of Lake La Fourche by u mysterious dynamite explosion whose authors have boon sought hy state nnd federal authorities. au-thorities. The former mayor of Mer Rouge, Dr. B. M. McKoln, wus arrested In Baltimore nod charged with murder. mur-der. He denies guilty knowledge of tlw crime and also denies having been a member of the Kliin. though he defends de-fends Its activities In his town. Both McKoln nnd the Klan were uvowed enemies of the bootleggers and moonshiners moon-shiners who flourished In that part of Louisiana, and thta fact explains much of the row. ' PROHIBITION and other reform movements, some of which have been classed us obnoxious purltunlsin, have lost one of their stuuiK-hest workers work-ers In the death of Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts, who for twenty-eight years has been superintendent of the International Interna-tional Reform bureau In Vuslilngton. With almoin fanutlcnl zeal be fought the liquor and narcotic evils, Sunday amusements, prize fights and other things he thought subversive of morals, and he wus a familiar figure In legislative legisla-tive lobbies and committee rooms in the national .capftul. More liberal-minded liberal-minded persons objected to lilm as ixild reformer nnd to his uppnn-at Influence In-fluence on congress, but he always fought buck at them wfth vigor and frequently with success. Doctor Crafts, who was seyenty-three years old, succumbed suc-cumbed to pneumonia. SENATOR CAPPER, hend of the farm bloc, says the ship subsidy bill, If enacted into law, will leud to raids on the treasury by all sorts of Industrie. "The losses a ship subsidy sub-sidy in uli probability would bring on Ibis country cannot be figured," he hays, "bill I cannot see bow the suit-sidy suit-sidy can do anything more than to pile up a lot of costs ngu'iisl the government, govern-ment, and start an International subsidy sub-sidy war w1Ht circles of International subsidies und a tery harmful series of ruld-4, or attempted raids, on the treasury treas-ury by Industries here et homo. Why throw good mcney after bad? Haven't we lost more than $3,000,000,000 of public money in a merchant murine that cannot operate? It seems to me onie other way out must b found." THE Workers' Party of America has Just held Its second annual convention, con-vention, in New York, iu the course of which It declared for "the dictatorship of the proletariat nnd the supplanting of the existing capitalist government with a soviet government." They did not ut this time accept openly und unqualifiedly un-qualifiedly (he principles of the communist com-munist Internationale at Moscow and It 4 program of nnued revolution, but tlio speakers made it quite plain that this was due not to lack of full sympathy sym-pathy with the liiternatlona'.e but to fear of prosecution and suppression by the federal government. The convention conven-tion sent u message to the Moscow Internationale In-ternationale reporting that It had "devoted "de-voted Itself to the constructive work of building a powerful revolutionary movement move-ment In America." Resolutions adopted urged ull workers In this country to Join In n movement to compel the government gov-ernment of the United Srates to recognize recog-nize soviet Russia and grant a long-term long-term loan for Russia's reconstruction, attacked the Ku Klux Klan and the American Legion nnd Indorsed tie Bus-siin Bus-siin -Ameii' an Industrial eotyn.' nth a. |