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STATE DEPARTMENT
TAKES ON NEW LIFE
Becomes Liveliest Cog in
Government Machine Under
Hoover and Stimson.
BY LEROY I. VERNON.
Application of the Hoover foreign
policies through the medium of a re
organized and modern foreign service,
behind which is the driving power of
President Hoover and Secretary of
State Henry L. Stimson, promises to
translate the State Department this
year from one of the “deadest” Gov
ernment departments into one of the
liveliest cogs In the Government ma
chine.
In close co-operation with the De
partment of Commerce, the State De
partment will look after American in
terests abroad as it never has before.
At the same time it will carry on with I
greater efficiency both the routine ant
extraordinary matters which pertain
exclusively to the realm of world poli
tics, moral and spiritual relationships
and statesmanship, which is more re
mote from pure economics.
Confronted, as it is, by the meeting
of the naval powers at London this
month, the public is liable to forget, as
the State Department cannot, that the
problem of naval reductions Is only one
of a hundred important items on the t
calendar of international relations
which require the constant attention of |
those who deal with foreign affairs.
With every power at that conference |
and with many others as well, the State
Department is now doing business on
other important matters.
Other Major Conferences.
Nor is this the only major conference
which the United States must attend,
for the important subject of codifica
tion of international law' will come up
at The Hague in March, probably be
fore the London conference adjourns.
In the meantime the President’s com
mission to determine the future policy
toward Haiti will also go into action.
In building up his new diplomatic
service, it is noteworthy that the Presi
dent has stressed business capacity as
well as other attributes commonly as
sociated with international statesman
ship. One has only to consider Am
bassadors Dawes, Edge and Sackett to
understand that the President regards
the modern problems of diplomacy as
mainly, although not exclusively, eco
nomic. Believing, as he does, in the
policy of “live and let live,” it is evi
dent that his Ambassadors go forth to
their posts imbued with the idea that
strengthened economic ties, rehabilita
tion. restoration and understanding, in
which the United States and foreign
nations share the benefits alike, con
stitute the best kind of diplomacy at
this hour.
Press for New Treaties.
Coupled with his strong desire for
permanent world peace, for the removal
of suspicions and fears and for an op
timistic rather than a pessimistic view
point. the President wants his repre
sentatives to take their cue from his
own experience with Prime Minister
Macdonald of Great Britain and co
operate for world benefit on a wider
scale than has ever imbued the Ameri
can foreign service before.
For this season, this Government is
pressing now- for a new arbitration
treaty with Great Britain, the old one
having expired a year ago; for a new
commercial treaty with France, a com
mercial and possibly a naturalization
treaty with Italy, for a new arbitration
treaty with Japan, for an understand
ing with China on the legal rights of
Americans there, for a waterways agree
ment with Canada and for the finan
cial rehabilitation of Mexico. It also
wants a ratification of the new debt
settlement with Germany.
None of these problems Is particularly
complex except as to detail, with the
possible exception of the proposed nat
uralization treaty with Italy. A week
ago the Chinese problem looked bad.
but the latest Nanking note on extrater
ritoriality evinces a surprising approach
by the Nationalist Chinese government
to the American point of view, namely,
that the Chinese shall take over the
total administration of Justice in China
gradually.
International Conferences.
This Government will participate in
•t least a dozen international confer
ences this year, of more or less im
portance, but all requiring minute at
tention. Many of them have to do with
Pan-American relationships in special
ized matters. At the same time the
United States will have something to
do with the settlement of boundary dis
putes between Honduras and Guate
mala. Nicaragua and Honduras. Bolivia
and Paraguay, while Ecuador and Peru
have also resolved that if they cannot
settle their boundary differences they
will ask the United States to arbitrate.
First and foremost in the public eye,
however, are the coming Naval Confer
ence in London and the possibility that I
the President may find an opportunity
to bring membership in the World Coui c
before the Senate at this session.
Standing squarely on the platform of
the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact, the
President's foreign policy reaches toward
judicial determination of all causes or
dispute on the one hand and toward
reductions of arms and armaments as
a moral and economic application of the
same principle on the other. The ex
tent to which the United States is in
fact a world power is amply reflected
by the number, importance and scope or
the international problems now under
consideration by the President and his
advisers on foreign affairs.
France Rejects Auto Rule.
After a trial of two years France has
Just rejected the “priority to vehicles
on the right” rule in its highway regu
lations. It was found that the rule
p' ced great national highways on the
same plane as country lanes when two
such roads intersected, and therefore
tended to slew down matn-road traffic.
Another new important road regulation
is to the effect that all motor vehicles j
must be fitted with appliances capable (
of lighting the road for at least 328 feet
and dimming the glare without ceasing
to give sufficient light when meeting
other road users.
Oregon to Spend $29,500,000.
SALEM. Ore.. January 4 (/Pi.—Ore
gon will spend $29,500,000 on puhlic Im
proements during 1930, Gov. A. W. Nor
blad stated today in a message prepared
In connection with President Hoover’s
recent appeal for a general speeding up
of Federal, State, county and municipal
projects.
Nomad Traders Say
Meteorite Killed 130
Reindeer in Siberia
By the Associated Press.
PETROPAVLOVSK-ON-KAM.
CHATKA. Siberia —A nomad
tribe of native "Koryaks.” who
arrived here to swap furs for
clothing and ammunition, re
port that a few months ago a
; gigantic meteorite struck the
i northern part of Penjinskoe dis
trict in the vicinity of the River
Pal and killed 130 of their rein
deer.
The meteorite went deep into
the frozen ground, forming a
small lake.
The fall of the “scorching
devil” terrified the "Koryaks” to
such an extent that they drove
their herds of reindeer over 200
miles of frozen tundra h»fore
venturing to pitch ramp Even
A now they cannot be tempted to
approach the vicinity of the
“devil's lake.”
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