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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, SUNDAY DECEMBER IB, 1921. Mutsu Gains History's Eye, JAPANESE TURN DOWN CHINESE Peaceful "NaOal Battle BORAH SEES NO INCONSISTENCY IN FRENCH AIM Senator Declares Conference Developments Do Not Make For BARNES IS SURE. PEACE IS FINAL' WITH IRELAND Terms Extremists' Violence As Unavailing As "Waves Against Rocks. Japan Skill In Keeping Her Great War Craft Out Of Way Of Hughes Torpedo Earns For Her Niche Above Actual Fighters. PROPOSED CUT -OF PERSONNEL TO HURT NAVY Captain Knox Declares It Will Make Force Weaker Than NOW 20,000 SHORT OF PEACE COMPLEMENT Twins Born In Different Towns Necessitate Dual Registry.

San Dee. 17. The long-legged, long-beaked bird that is usually associated with things maternal was responsible for a peculiar situation that followed the arrival of twins in the family of Mr. and Mrs. James I.

Collins, of Coronado, recently. Soon after the birth of a girl baby in the Coronado home Mrs. Collins was removed across the bay to a sanatorium in San Diego, where within an hour a son was born. By reason of the different places of birth the physician was required to register one-half of the twins in Coronado and the other half here. No similar instance has ever been recorded here and Health Department officials expressed doubt if there' are any two cities in the country that can claim an interest in one set of twins.

taking a chance with superstition where the future of the Grand Old Party is at stake. Hence, no schedule For those with short memories it may be explained that schedule was the rock on which political disaster lurked back in 1909 and 1910. It1 was the wool schedule of the Payne-Aldrich act, and that schedule of thafparticular act brought unmeasured burden "of misery" and Woe to the Republican party. As a matter of fact, schedule became such a notorious character, a sinister influence, one might that the present-day leaders of the party in matters of ways and means could not- bear the thought of ever hearing schedule mentioned in executive debate again. If the Ku Klux Klan wants to usurp all the Ks in the language it is entirely welcome to them so far as the Republican bigwigs are concerned.

To them the letter' simply does not exist. Senators 'Kellogg, Ken-drick, Kenyon, Keyes and King to the contrary nothwithstanding, situation. Senator Borah took the position that what -France proposed was in natural sequence to the course of Great Britain. and Japan in getting all they could, but be was out to bombard the four-power treaty, and besides, he did not attempt to justify the French laims in themselves. These facts were pointed out on all sides That France has not now a navy that would entitle her to 350,000 capital ship tonnage as a.

part of a naval reduction plan That "she is desperately pressed for money already and faces the probability that Germany will be unable to continue in full herrep-a rations payments, while she herself now finds it impossible to pay the debts she owes the United States and that she has no enemy on the sea of whom the world knows anything. Would Disclose Entire Scheme. It also was pointed out that "in almost' the next breath after Mr. Briand's plea that France be not morally isolated because she maintains her great army, she proposed a naval plan that would dislocate the naval reduction scheme of the present really potent naval powers, and that is bitterly, opposed by Great Britain, Italy, the United States and Japan. And yet, notwithstanding the unreasonableness and the unreality of it all, as the situation unfolded early in i lie day, there was apprehension in Washington.

There is no doubt that the British and American delegates were worried. Members of the latter delegation were nervously fearful of saying the wrong word, even for indirect quotation. They said nothing definite, publicly or privately, in their meeting with reporters. What they thought was the French claim was out of all reason. It was easy enough for any one who has followed all of the American proposals and discussions in weeks past to deduce iti The American view was that the French are not entitled to 3.2 or 3 or or anything near that in relation to i lie 5-5-3 raio for.

Great Britain, the I'nited and Japan, but to around 1.7 or 1.75. A curious conflict was apparent in the minds of some of the American delegates. Their reason told them that the French claims could not stand in logic and that the French national is such hat France could not dare the penalty of condemnation that would follow if insisted on a naval policy that would wreck this Conference. When they consulted their judgment they felt on perfectly safe ground. But even so, there were visible signs of mental sweating, and the impression was gathered that the very unreality of the situation gave rise- to keen anxiety that they were beset by dreads that in a state of unreality anything might happen.

Fears "Moral Slump" If Conference Fails AVoiuan Member Of Advisory Com niittee Declares Deleaatea Are Sincere In Effort. New York. Dec. 17. Failure of the Armament Conference would -cause the greatest moral slump in the history of the world, Mrs.

Thomas G. Winter, of one of four women appointed by President Harding as an advisory committee to assist the American delegates, declared today in an address to the New York Federation of Wom-pn's Clubs. Mrs. Winter, who is president of the American Federation of Women's Clubs, said delegates to the Conference were sincere in their efforts "because they know war's horrors and they the only way to end war." "Their attitude is one of hate for war." she declared. "While America doesn't exist for its army and navy, there are militaristic nations that do.

I.ut America has the leadership of the world, and if she could find her own soul surely she could assist other nations to find theirs." $40,000 In Stolen Goods Found In Burglar's Room New York Police Wound Him In Pistol Battle Wife Igrnorant Of His "Profession," New Dec. 17 (Special). Stolon property, valued by the police at was taken today from a locked hall bedroom in the apartment of Wil-lium Metallsky, of Brooklyn, alleged professional burglar, who was shot and seriously wounded -in a revolver duel with detectives. The key to the room was found on Metallsky when he was captured. Part of the.

property already has been identified by its owners, according to the police. Mrs. Pauline Schiffer Metallsky, wife of the wounded man, told the police that not only did she know nothing, of the contents of the room, but she had no inkling that her husband was a paroled convict or a burglar. She has left their home and returned to her mother's home in Brownsville, declaring that she will have nothing further to do with her husband. Metallsky has a bullet lodged either against or imbedded in his spine.

He is paralyzed from the waist down, and, according to physicians, probably will -not recover the use of his lower limbs. RAILWAY OFFER Former Hold To 20-Year Installments; Latter Want To Pay In Three Years. BOTH STANDING PAT MEETING ADJOURNS Nippon's Conditions Taken To Mean She Is Reaching Out For Control. By CnAELES Meez. Washington, Dec.

17 (Special). Mr. Zero and that lantern with which he pickets the Arms'Conference from morning night were the only bright spots visible around the Pan-American Building when the Shantung session broke up this afternoon, for Japan stood pat on a point which the Chinese delegates branded as unacceptable and the Conference adjourned in gloom. Japan had accepted China's offer of reimbursement in return for surrender of the Shantung Railway and had agreed to accept this reimbursement in the form of annual installments. The point at issue, to be taken up today, was the question of how many "annual installments" there should be.

And it was this which scattered the two delegations this evening with an agreement still beyond reach. China proposed to pay for surrender of the railway in three years. Japan flatly refused this offer and proposed 20 years instead. China -would not agree and there the matter stands. AVhat Deadlocked Parties.

To an American, whether his daily excursions into business consist. of juggling 20,000 shares of copper stock or wrapping up a pound, of coffee for the lady wrho lives in the apartment house across the street, the present status of this Shantung Railway situation must seem curious. Here is Japan about to turn over a railway in return for reimbursement. China is to supply the reimbursement, and China offers cash. And Japan replies "No, thank you.

We don't want cash. We don't accept it here. We only deal in long-time credit. In fact, if you'll promise not to pay us for 20 years -you can have this coffee at a lower figure." To an American. I repeat, this represents a singular situation.

And there is only one intelligible explanation that can lie behind it Japan prefers not to be paid at once prefers holding a mortgage for 20 years, because that situation will enable her to continue some form of "control," either financial or administrative, or both, in the meantime. 3aotlatlons Drawn Out. There-is, to be sure, a certain legal parallel which the Japanese apparently assert that they are following. It is a German parallel. Germany's railway contract with China has 23 more years to run.

Japan has lopped off three years, to make it a round number, and proposes 20. There is this parallel. But it is a parallel which the Japanese will only resort to if they wish to settle the Shantung railway issue on a good-old German pattern. Just where Japan is really standing i3 by no means clear. For a time it seemed likely that, without yielding an inch in Manchuria, Japan would attempt to settle the Shantung question in the interest of restoring good relations between herself and China.

The Shantung negotiations have been dragging. First the Japanese proposed to postpone the one vital issue the railway and to take up other minor matters first. For 10 days that kept the two delegations from coming to grips With the real problem. Then, when the railway question was finally reported, largely through a process of elimination, the Japanese tenta tively accepted China's offer of reimbursement but imposed conditions which completely alter that offer, knock out "reimbursement" and substitute "mortgage," and tonight we're around the circle again and back near the starting point. Chinese Delegates Defy Students9 Pleas Washington, Dec.

17 (Special). Chinese delegates today defied the will of their own people, as expressed in resolutions adopted by delegates from eight powerful Chinese and continued bargaining with Japan. Delegates from the students', workers' and commercial bodies had ordered them to break off these negotiations unless Japan backed down. At a meeting of what is called the Chinsee people's delegates in Washington last night the following resolution was adopted "That this meeting of the people's delegates disapproves of the reported acceptance on the part of our delegation of Japan's proposal for us to redeem the Kiao-Chow-Tsinan Railway by installments to cover a period of years; the delegates to reject any such arrangement at the latest by Saturday's conversations between the Chinese and Japanese delegates, and if Japan doesn't withdray this arrangement the delegates should break off the conversations immediately and "bring the question of Shantung before the Conference." This was signed by debates of the United Chambers of Commerce of China, the United Educational Association of China, the delegate from Shantung, the delegate from Shansi, the delegate from Tsintsin, the Workers' Union and the Students' Central. This is the most powerful public opinion in China.

CHILE VOLCANOES ACTIVE Two Near Argentine Border Emit Smoke Earth Shock' Reported. Santiago, Chile, Dec. 17. Advices from Valdivia confirm Buenos Aires dispatches that the volcanoes Puyehue and Caulle, near the Argentine border, are in eruption, emitting great volumes of smoke. Numerous earth shocks in the vicinity of Lake Puyehue, east of Valdivia, have been reported in the past four days.

The present disturbance is near Vil-larica, where violent quakes and volcanic eruptions occurred last December. Washington, Dec. 17 (Special). Although she may never fire a shot in anger, the fame of the battleship Mutsu will live long after the names of the valiant craft of Jellicoe and Beatty that turned the -Germans back at Jutland are forgotten. The Mutsu will be handed down in' history for the gallant part she played in the naval of Washington, when, escaping the Hughes torpedo aimed directly at her, she was allowed to live and reign for.

a goodly time as queen of the Pacific. It. is not "difficult to understand the compelling argument the Japanese made for this, their greatest naval vessel, quite apart from Any question of naval ratios or sacrifices the Japanese people have made to provide the money necessary for the Mutsu's construction. The 3Iutsu, to Japan, is more than a battleship. She is a symbol.

She stands for the transformation of Japan from a backward, isolated nation, into a world power of the first magnitude the treaty companion of the three great white powers of the world today. The Japanese sentiment which at taches to the Mutsu may he better ua-derstood when it is recalled that she is named for the great Emperor Mutsu-hito, who reigned supreme from 1867 to 1912 and who in 1868 overthrew the Shogunate which had ruled the country for more than 700 years. It was during the reign of Mutsuhito that Japan made her remarkable progress as a nation and that- national constitution was promulgated. Mutsuhito has been called "Emperor of the era of enlightenment" in Japan, and his funeral cortege in 1912 was witnessed by 2,000,000 people. G.

O. P. Slays At Letter K. The new Tariff bill, when it comes from the Finance Committee of the Senate within the next few days, wil be utterly and entirelyjbereft of a Schedule K. It will contain about every other letter in the but will be avoided as scrupulously as a dusky crap-shooter would avoid passing a graveyard in the dark of the moon.

One would scarcely suspect that the distinguished leaders of the Old Republican party are superstitious, but they are. Men like Joe Fordney, of the House, and Boise Penrose, of the Senate, are commonly known perhaps' as hardheaded. If one could purposely grope for a word, after the manner of Mr. Balfour, he would hesitate after that adjective "hard" long enough to convey to the audience the impression that what he really was about to say was "hardboiled." Nevertheless, these stalwart old poli ticians of House and Senate, and most of their associates as well, while they probably would scout the idea that there is anything in superstition while they might sit with equanimity at a dinner of 13 while they might walk without a tremor under a ladder, or audaciously raise an umbrella in the house and refuse to pick up a pin pointed toward them nevertheless, these stalwart lead ers do not feel they are warranted in JAPANESE CONSIDER SIBERIAN QUESTION Expected To Announce Intention Of Withdrawing Their Troops From There. "Washington, Dec.

17 (Special). The Arms Conference will not adjourn, in the opinion of leading delegates here, much before January 15. What to the Chinese are the most important questions affecting the Chinese Republic aside from the Snantung problem, which is practically settled, relate to an increase of the Chinese traffic and to eventual tariff autonomy the withdrawal of foreign troops from China and the China-Japanese treaties and agreements of 1915, which latter, however, in the opinion of well informed authorities, are not likely to be entertained by the Conference proper. Siberian Question IVot Up. The Siberian question has not yet been reported on the agenda.

There is an impression, however, that the Japanese delegation is prepared to submit to the Conference a statement which will make unnecessary any prolonged consideration of the Siberian question. It is expected in some quarters that the Japanese delegation will notify the Conference of the intention of the Japanese Government to withdraw her troops from the Siberian littoral at an approximate date, but will recite facta in support of arguments that it will be necessary to the economic life of Japan that the Siberian door be kept open. Japan expects the revival of a strong Russia and sees the possibility of a resumption of the eastward movement of the Russian people, their expansion in the west being effectually checked by the Western European nations. American Capital For Manchuria. It is intimated that there already exists an understanding in regard to South Manchuria, which assures the maintenance of the open door and equal opportunity, in that region, to which Japan is inviting American capital.

Heretofore American inveors have nit taken enthusiastically to the Manchu-rian field, owing to the political instability and the dubious character of the region due to the apprehension that Japan intended to annex and close it. FRANCE CALLS CLASS OF 1922 Senate Heeds War Minister's Plea Need Of Army. Paris, Dec. 17. The bill calling up Class 1922 of the army came before the Senate today.

December 6 it was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 495 to 69. The War Minister, M. Barthou, in the course of the debate, said that the class of 1920 could not be dismissed before the completion of its two years' full service. Earlier dismissal had been considered when it was thought that the Syrian corps could be repatriated and the Moroccan corps reduced, but the reports of Generals Gouraud and Lyau-ley showed that this would-be impossible. If the class of 1920 were dismissed in March, the class of 1922 incorporated in the following May, M.

Barthou pointed out, there would be an important hole in the effective forces for one month. The bill was voted without ACCEPTANCE ONLY A MATTER OF TIME He Asserts Pact Goes Miles Farther Than Anything Dreamed Of Before. By Geobge N. Barnes, M. P.

Special Wireless Dispatch to The Sun. Copyright 1921 by the Baltimore Sun. London, Dec. 17. The intransigeance of Eamonn de Valera anl Lord Carson may seem in America to have plunged the Irish settlement once more into hopeless confusion, but the view of the sturdy and Sane John Bull citizen i that a final peace is here at lastanl that the violence of the extremist leaders on both sides is as unavailing as that of the waves against the eternal rocks.

Ratification of the agreement b.v Parliament by an overwhelming vote meant more as an indication of Britain's determination for peace than most people imagine. The agreement goes miles further than anything dreamed of before. We have grown accustomed to regard "home rule" in terms of John Redmond's demands, which still left Ireland within the fiscal and defensive system of the United Kingdom. The scheme under consideration makes sad havoc of many previous professions. Ireland is to be a state in a community of free states hence the dangers and doubts of the iveek, which have been fed by De Va-lera's declaration of rejection and Carson's bitter hostility.

But John Bull is a practical as well as magnanimous and stolid type of humanity. He has faced the facts with equanimity and good will. He realized that throughout the world the growth of other dominions to the status of free states had disposed peoples toward a larger sympathy for Irish aspirations. Lord Morley and Lord Dunrayen in the House of Lords. Sir Samuel Hoare and the writer in the Commons, led off the debates and represented all shades of British politics in appreciation of the King's generous gesture at Belfas.

when he opened the Ulster Parliament, and in hearty indorsement of the agreement drawn up at Downing street. All Parties Blessed It. The leaders of all parties gave it thei blessing amidst scenes of unqualified enthusiasm. Even the Unionists, who have fought for generations against any separation of Irelnd from the Unitei Kingdom, courageously faced new needs based on new fcts. As for the prc-dominant partner," Lloyd George scores a magrjocent success.

If hesitation on the Irish side causeii anxiety it is because of the attitude taken by De Valera and the respect felt to be due him. But acceptance is only a matter, of time and patience. Thii Ilealy, P. O'Connor and the old Irish Nationalist loaders generally have pleaded" for peace. The Irish Catholica and the bishops are on the same sid'.

It is inconceivable that Mr. De Valera, even if he tried, cquld again lash his people into warfare. Ireland and Great Britain are destined in the near future to ta their places side by side as separate entities for internal government, but one in spirit in the family of free nations. Lands Work At Conference. Our concern with these grave matters has not turned our attention from th splendid work that is being done at Washington.

As a nation we had been exercised about the Japanese treaty. We gained from it in the past, for Japan had loyally played her part when were sorely pressed, and we felt that w-could not fairly dismiss her when our turn had been served. But uppermost in the hearts of our people is the ideal of hearty co-operation with the United States, and this also has been the primary principle of our international policy. How to reconcile our duty to Japau with this policy was a difficult question, happily solved in the best of all possible ways by absorbing the Anglo-Japanese treaty in a wider agreement. France as well as the United States and Japan are with us in a pact which guarantees that certain problems of the Far East will cease from troubling the world at least for 10 years.

It is a great achievement. Together with the reduction of armaments it gives the Washington Conference a historical significance. We can truly tay now "the world is rolling freedom's way and ripening ia her sorrow." Xext Problem 1m Reparation. The next task is the question of reparations and their adjustment to the industrial and economic needs of th world. That is the task to which Mr.

Lloyd George is now applying hia mind. His consultation with M. Briand this week' on the matter is a new step toward, let us hope, somevGefinitive of this disturbing problem. DINOSAUR rOOTPRINTS FOUND Left In? Connecticut Valley Sand- atone Aeon Asro. South Hadley, Mass Dec.

17. The Department of Geology at Moun Hol-yoke College, in replacing collections lost by fire, Yr.z obtained a slab of Connecticut Valley sandstone on which are found fossilized mud cracks and ripple-marks of bygone days, and with them seven footprints made giant dinosaurs. The footprints' show that at least two dinosaurs, one a big one, the other apparently its young, roamed over the mud fiats on their hind legs. The larger tracks are about eight inches long and the indicated stride four or five feet. DIED.

(Received Too Late for Classification.) MILLER. On December 17.1021, at Westminster, G. PARSONS MILLER, husband of Laura E. Miller (nee Jelks), at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. E.

G. Duncan. Frederick (Md.) pa per a please copy. IS Due itice of funeral will be given. ATTACKS.

TREATY AS MILITARY ALLIANCE Says Use Of Armed Force Is Clearly Implied By Its Terms. From The Sun Bureau. Washington, Dec. 17. Senator William E.

Borah, Republican irreconcilable on the four-power Pacific treaty, said today there was nothing "inconsistent" in the, demand of France that she be allowed to build 10 capital ships. In an interview, the Idaho Senator contended that developments of the Arms Conference do not constitute "real disarmament" nor make for "real and lasting The French position regarding" the five-five-three naval ratio program, Senator Borah observed, was "not in consistent with similar concessions Great Britain and Japan have already wrung from the Conference." "A flood of light," added Senator Borah, "is thrown upon the view which the four signatories to the four-power treaty take of it by the fact that, after signing Japan, still insists upon keep-ingthe Mutsu and Great Britain starts building two super-Hoods and France is demanding 10 capital ships. Protection On Mutual Interests. "Instead of the four-power treaty having ihe tendency to make its signatories less determined to have big navies and less determined to- continue naval construction, it seems to me to have had the opposite effect. Neither Great Britain, France nor Japan appears to be at all willing to place the least confidence in the four-power treaty.

This action since its signing shows that it is clearly intended as a military and naval alliance, and they propose to be prepared to protect their mutual interests in the Pacific and Far East." Taking issue with the administration view that the Pacific -pact does not obligate any nation to fight for another, Senator Borah insisted that there was no reasonable doubt that, under the agreement, the use of armed force was "clearly implied." There could be no other implication, he said, of the language providing that Under certain circumstances the powers "shall communicate with one another fully and frankly in order to arrive at an understanding as to the most efficient measures to be taken, jointly or separately, to meet the exigencies of the particular situation. France And England. "It seems incredible to me," Senator Borah continued, "that Great Britain and France, lately engaged in a struggle for tfceir preservation, should have any fear concerning their relationship to each other, in the future. They were allies in the World War and, in addition to that, they are both members of what is known as tLe League of Nations, associated together in an effort to promote peace, as they contend that organization will do. And besides all that, they are now members of the 'Pacific Picturesque Pioneer Dies; Dress Suit Brought Fame Seth Loee For Years, Had Onlyj Evening: Clothes To Be Found lit Xorthweit.

I Olmpia, Dec. 17. Seth Losee, an aged pioneer who died this week, was the most picturesque of, the early Northwest settlers. Possessing the only dress suit for miles around, he was always prominent in pioneer activities. Losee, who had been 'a.

lawyer in Cincinnati, early in life committed to memory tha Declaration of Independence which, while arrayed in the dress suit, he recited with great eclat at every Fourth of July celebration in the new country. As time went on. however, and the population in the-Northwest increased Losee was many times obliged to divide his dress suit reputation with others. School teachers borrowed it to inspire their pupils in dramatics, political aspirants leased it for so much per to compel a respectful hearing in the Columbia river settlements, some bridegrooms wore it, and once a Representative to the Territorial Government here wore it to help install Governor Mc-Graw. The renowned, suit was destined to be dishonored for in 1SS0 a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago was induced to wear it.

He was the envy of all passengers on the Union Pacific in the overland journey but once in the city the delegate was unpopular. He endured the tormenting for one day then expressed the dress suit back to Losee. More than 30 years ago the faded old dress suit was placed in the archives here among the treasured keepsakes of the old territorial days. WOULD CONSCRIPT 'NATION Men, Money And Manufactures Should Be Taken Over, Says Weeks. Dec.

17. Secretary of War Weeks is in favor of the mobilization of men, money and manufactories under a conscription law in the event of future war. Such a course, the War Secretary, declared in an address last night at the second annual reunion of the War In dustries Board, would preclude' profiteering and slacker lists. Secretary Weeks described the Draft law of the World War as "one very great piece of legislation carried on almost perfectly." Conscription of all men between 18 and 60 years of age, he would keep down prices during the war, reduce profiteering to a minimum and prevent wages from reaching untold heights. Had such a course been followed in the past war, he continued, "we would have avoided difficulties through which we are now going and with which we are not through yet." To Meet Hughes Plan Service Needs 38,000 More Men, He Asserts.

By AanruB Seass Hennxxg. Washington, Dec 17 (Special). With navy building competition halted by the naval holiday agreement, there will ensue, in the opinion, of American naval authorities, a keen competition in the efficiency of the restricted sea forces a competition in which the United States will be worsted, if the reduction of personnel proposed by Representa-i tive Kelley, of Michigan, in charge of naval appropriations in the House, should fie approved by- Congress. Capt. Dudley W.

Knox, U. S. is authority for the assertion that the Kelley proposal to cat the personnel in half would destroy the 5-5-3 ratio of the Hughes plan and make the actual ratio England, 5 Japan, 3 America, 2. U. S.

Xow Snort Of Allowance. "The Hughes said Captain Knox, "does not contemplate a reduction in the navy now in commission. The ships which America is scheduled to scrap constitute almost exclusively ships not yet completed and certain of the older ships which are nearly all out of commission. As a matter of fact, the prescribed allowances of Mr. Hughes for the United States are actually greater in total tonnage than ships now in commission.

In the cruiser class, for example, we are short about 00,000 tons of our allowance in aircraft carriers, about 40.000 tons, and in submarines about 6,000 tons. If these shortages are made good, it would require approximately 8,600 men and 436 officers to man the new ships alone on an ordinary peace basis of complement. "But it is not only in ships yet to be added to the navy that there exists a shortage of personnel. Acute deficiency exists at present. Our 8 battleships now in commission, which is the number allowed in the Hughes proposals, require 22.3S0 men as a complement under ordinary peace operating conditions whereas at present they have only about 19,000 men on board.

In other words, the battleships are on a basis of only 88 per cent, of ordinary peace complements. "Similarly, the 65 destroyers which we have in commission are operating on 84 per cent, of the normal peace complement, and the 213 destroyers in reserve on the very much reduced basis of 50 per cent. "The number of men afloat in the entire navy is approximately 78 per cent, of ordinary peace requirements, while the shore establishments average about 75 per cent." Xavy Short 2O.00O Men. "The total number of men now. in the navy is about This number, by the most conservative estimate, is 20,000 men short of the minimum requirements for keeping up efficiency of material and personnel of the present ncval establishment.

It is 30000 men short of the ordinary peace complements. There is a similar shortage of 2,000 line officers and many hundreds of staff officers. "When these figures, are digested," said Captain Knox, "it is apparent that talk of reducing the personnel of the present navy is folly. "It is with difficulty that tW necessary drills to keep up the rudimentary efficiency of the personnel can be held. Lack of men, money and fuel prevents the ships from being active enough to insure adequate training in fleet work and other higher forms of naval efficiency.

If further radical reduction of personnel Is made there is no question whatever but that our navy, already on the ragged edge of being merely a paper navy will become one in fact, and the country will deceive itself if it beliefe that the ratio of strength agreed trpon at the Conference represents even an approximate measure of our strength compared with the other navies. Efficiency Important. "It requires but little analysis to demonstrate even Jo laymen that when the number and size of ships are limited fee efficiency of each unit becomes doubly important. Competition in building may cease, but competition in efficiency will go on forever. This fundamental fact is already well recognized abroad.

Almost immediately after announcement of the Hughes proposals comments appeared in the Japanese press to the effect that their well-trained and efficient personnel would bring their actual strength to parity with the American notwithstanding the' lesser Japanese allowance in ships. The British press similarly made the point that the quality of their personnel would insure a superiority for the British navy over us. "These views are not mere bragga-; docio. They are based on the fact, little known in this" country, that both thei British and Japanese navies have long enlistment periods and keep an adequate number of really well-trained personnel available at all times, whereas we-have enlistments too Bhort to insure thorough training, and, worse, the number of our men and officers is now, and nearly always has been, very insufficient. "If we had actually in commission the 'Hughes the ordinary peace complements, afloat and ashore, would be 138,000 men and 7,600 line officers.

Hence the present personnel is insufficient, by about 38,000 men and 2,400 line officers, to man with normal peace complements the naval tonnage proposed by Mr. Hughes as appropriate to the national interests of the United States. "If Congress follows the lead of Mr. Kelley and reduces the personnel of the navy still further, our national legislature will effectively nullify the diplomatic accomplishments of our Secretary of State and his eminent American associates. To reduce the navy personnel by half the present quota, as Mr.

Kelley proposes, would be just as serious a matter as if Mr. Hughes had proposed the ratio of tonnage to be: America, 2 Great Britain, 5, and Japan, 3. The 5-5-3 plan would become merely food for American self-deception." TWO SHOT DEAD AND 10 WOUNDED IN BELFAST Fighting Becomes So Serious Crown Forces TJse Machine Guns. (Continued From Page 1.) Should the decision, as feared in some quarters, be for important modifications of the treaty there is a growing belief that Mr. Lloyd George will resort to a general election early in the year.

Christmas Trade A Factor. Irishmen themselves, 'according to Dublin reports, are irritated at the delay and want the matter settled, if only because of the uncertainty, which is detrimental to Christmas trade. The serious disorders and shootings at Belfast are also regarded as another reason for a quick settlement. The Prime Minister and Lord Birkenhead have gone to the country for the week-end. They will return to London Monday.

There has been no meeting between Sir James Craig, the Ulster Premier, and Mr. Lloyd George, and no development on the Ulster side of the problem. Pledges Aid To Sinn Fein. Washington, Dec. 17.

Assurance of support for the Irish cause should the Anglo-Irish treaty rejected by the Dail Eireann, coupled with congratulations to the Irish people on the "magnificent struggle which they have made for liberty and on the great progress which they have already made toward its achievement," was contained in a resolution adopted by the executive committee of the Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic and cabled tonisht to Eamonn de Valera. Naval Board To Probe Cause Of Collision One Of Seven Sailors Hart In Crash Between l'anama And Graham Dies In Hospital. New York, Bee. 17. A naval board of inquiry into the corision of the destroyed Graham and the passenger liner Panama off Sea Girt, N.

last night probably will be named next week, it was announced todsy at the offices of Admiral Hilary P. Jones, commander of the Atlantic fleet. Of the seven naval sailors injured when the Graham's plates were crushed in by the liner's bow, one of them, W. P. Kelly, 20 years oJ? seaman, first class, died tonight at the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn.

Responsibility for the collision was charged to the commsaider of the destroyer by Edwin A. Drake, vice-president of the Panama Railroad steamship line, operators of the Panama, who said the Graham sought to cross the bow of the liner. Capt. William F. Amsden, the Graham's commander, and other naval officers reserved their explanation of the crash pending appewance before the board of inquiry.

Construction Of Schools Shows National Impetus National Edacation Association Says Contracts To Be tet Total ,250. From The Sun Bureau. Washington, Dec. 17. School build ing construction is on the boom all over the country.

According to the National Education Association contracts about to be let approximate $20,553,250, xcill nrovide Beating capacity for 36,271 pupils. The President's Conference on Unemployment in announcing these figures today says reports irom nearly every State indicate that build-ins- is hpinfir Rneeded un and new school enterprises are rapidly taking shape. Col. Arthur Woods, of ew iorK, himdrpds of new school buildings are needed in every State; that hundreds of thousands of school children in the leading cities are in school only hniF timi fnr want of accommodations and other hundreds of thousands are seated in buildings whoe light and menace health. Some of the States rpnnrHnr extpnsive school building pro grams are: Pennsylvania, New York, soutn Carolina, Maine.

Kentucky, South Utah, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, $4004)00, and Jrlonaa, $700,000. MRS. DELM0NT ON PROBATION ArbncUle Witness Released On Bigamy. Charge. Fresno, Cal Dec.

17. Mrs. Bambini Maude Delmont, who swore to the San Francisco Police Court complaint charging Roscoe C. Arbuckle with murdering Virginia Rappe, was granted today one year on probation when she appeared in court for sentence on a charge of bigamy. s5he pleaded guilty last week.

complaint Mrs. Delmont swore out was reduced to one of manslaughter by the Police. Court and the jury which tried Arbuckle on it failed to agree. 7 Vivian! Cracks A Joke. Rene Viviani, former Premier of France, and, successor to Briand as head of the French delegation to the Washington Conference up to the time he sailed for France last Wednesday, shook his head somewhat sadly just before he departed from the capital and confessed that he might never, never become President of the republic.

For days he had been the subject of the most intense congratulation on the speech he had delivered at the head of 'the Conference table in stating France's ad herence to the tour-power act. "Ah, it was magnificent; some day it will make you President of France," cried- one of his countrymen. "Alas, tha't cannot said Viviani. "Et pourquoi pas?" asked the countryman in "Well," said M. Vivian "think for yourself.

How in the name' of phonetic justice could the ponjulace ever be expected to cry 'Vive Vive Viviani? It is out of the question. Therefore I shall not be president!" What Hughes Talked Aliont. Frank Simonds, war critic and at one time a political reporter, calls our at tention to a somewhat grievous error in our account last week of Secretary Hughes' first stump speech when he was a candidate for Governor in 1906. Frank Simonds" was a member of the memorable campaign party, as well as the writer. Simonds denies with all the characteristic vigor that is in hjm that Mr.

Hughes, on the occasion in question, confined his address to the bewhiskered apple farmers of Wayne county, New York, to the subjects of "bona fides" and "fiduciary obligations." "I remember, the occasion as well as if it were yesterday," said Mr. Simonds, "and I assert without the slightest fear of successful contradiction that Mr. Hughes also dwelt at great length upon 'undigested For heaven's sake, when'you set out to write history write it rights" CAPITAL SOCIETY'S 1IND ON CHRISTMAS Shopping And Charity Bazars Add To Already Well-Jilled Pro-grams Of Smart Set. By Betty Baxtek. Washington, Dec.

1,7. Just think, only a week from Christmas Between parties people are busily engaged these days shopping and attending bazars. Every, church and charitable effort imaginable gives some sort of a sale or ba-. zar at this time selling possible Christmas gifts in order to raise funds. Washington society is now at the height of a record-breaking season and the social calendars are just jammed with functions of every size and description.

All eociety, too, is being very gay right now; the delegates to the Arms Conference are still being feted, the diplomats and officials are in the midst of their official entertaining, the debutantes are busy every minute of every day and the residential set are entertaining constantly. No one seems to have a spare minute. And this brilliancy will continue for the next few weeks. Harding- Dinner Event Of Week. The event of the week, I suppose, was the dinner which President and Mrs.

Harding gave Thursday evening in compliment to the members of the Cabinet and their wives, the first of the regular official White House functions of the season. From now until Lent, President and Mrs. Harding will entertain at similar parties, including the New Year's reception at the White House in honor of members of the Diplo matic Corps, which is followed in about a week by a dinner for the heads of the various diplomatic missions and their wives. Next on the program of officials' entertainments will be the reception for the Justices of the Supreme Court and their wives; then comes the Congressional dinner, one for the Speaker of the House and then the Army and Navy reception. Thursday was a very busy evening in other ways, too, for that was the occasion of the Washington opera ball, When society attended to help raise funds for the Washington Opera Company.

It was preceded by many dinner parties. Coolidgres Have Busy Week. The Vice-President and Mrs. Coolidge, who were at the White House dinner, of course, were given a dinner Monday evening by the Under-Secretary of State and Mrs. Henry P.

Fletcher. The Coo-lidges were entertained at dinner Tuesday evening by Senator and Mrs. Joseph S. Frelinghuysen. The same day Mrs.

Coolidge presided as usual at the weekly luncheon of the, ladies of the Senate, but this luncheon was a particularly interesting one, for, instead of being just the regular informal picnic affair after a morning of sewing for the poor and needy, there were guests Of honor, and they were the wives of the Cabinet officers at' that. Port Slyer -Drill Attracts Many. The Coolidges, also Mrs. Hardingthe Secretary of War and Mrs. Weeks, the Assistant Secretary of War and Mrs.

J. May hew Wainwright and other distinguished persons all -motored to Fort Myer this afternoon to attend the army exhibition drill given there for the benefit of the army relief. It was followed by a tea dance given by the Commandant of the Post and Mrs. W. when they were assisted by Mrs.

Weeks and Mrs. Wainwright. 'NEGRO MIGRATION GROWS Increases From 440,534 In 1010 To In 1920. Washington, Dec. 17.

The total number of negroes reported as born in South-; orn States and living in the North and I West had incheased from 440,534 in .1910 to 7S0.794 in 1920, the Census Bureau announced today, Of the 10,381,309 negroes enumerated 5 in the. last census there were 38,575 i for whom no State of birth was reported. The 780,794 Southern-born negro shown to have migrated to the JJorth and West constituted 8.1 per cent, of the total of 9,000,943 negroes born in the Southern section. The proportion of Southern-born negroes who migrated I to the North and West, according to the report, was only about one-fourth larger than the proportion of those born in the latter region who migrated to the South. THREE FREED OF MURDER 4 1 Lively.

Pence "And Salter Exonerated By Jury In 51 Minutes. Welch, W. Dec. 17. C.

E. Lively, Buster Pence and William Salter charged with the killing of Ed Chambers, of, Matewan, on the Courthouse Bteps at Welch last August, were freed by the jury after 51 minutes of deliberation tonight. The case was given to the jury at 7.43 o'clock and at 8.34 they made their report to Judge James French Strother. The defendants were held under the indictment charging them with the killing of Sid Hatfield and gave bond, with the same bondsmen as had been security on the first charge..