Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 25 | New Efforts to Ban Arms Urged by Sen. Borah

10 1 BAN AN ARMS j BY BOt BO A 1 t v By WILLIAM E. E BORA BORAH j W Dec Jec 31 AP APIn APIn AP- AP In actual immediate results the failure of ot the Geneva s rIot not n necessarily immeasurable B Bat Bt lt lt it is most unfortunate that somi agreement was not reached Jf U this failure be taken as the end of all effort to bring about dIsarmament dis disarmament armament and if It it is to be accepted accept accept- ed as as' the full duty of ol nations or governments which had hoped for better results then the breakdown at Geneva neneva will amount to a a 30 alam- alam calamity ity well nigh incalculable in its widespread and conse cone If Jf the world l Is Is' to drop back into hopeless acquiescence in inthis inthis inthis this frightful tendency to pile tax burdens upon the masses already overburdened for th the purpose of maintaining great military establishments establishments and huge armaments then Geneva will be r remembered not as a disappointment but as s a disaster MUCH INVOLVED It t should not be bo accepted as the end nd of the effort to b bring ing about a reasonable limitation of armaments That is a a- struggle in which to too much involved to be given over i BO EO easily and so complacently If It W we are patient and persistent arid and wise In proportion to the seriousness seriousness seriousness serious serious- ness of th the thc task we shall not treat thI this this' as the end Pend but as an incident in lii the gre great t c cause use A great deal has been said and I 1 presume resume will be said aid as t to the re responsibility responsibility re- re for the failure to reach an agreement nt It seems to me better bet bet- ter however th that t we consider the future and what If it anything practically practically tlc lly possible can be done to carI carry carry car car- I ry forward successfully th Ute tile work which failed at Gen Geneva va When we reflect upon what it means if the world orId again plunges forward in building up gre great t military y establishments and Increasing armamentS armaments arma arma- ments mentS' when we reflect what It would mean nean if it a real naval race should hould be initiated between Great Britain and the United States and particularly In view of ot the economic conditions which now obtain we dare not desist from our efforts PEOPLE SUFFERING There is not a nation in the world today even our own but who whose e people are suffering and sacrificing under their tax burdens In some countries that burden i is so so great so 50 exacting and remorseless that th thousands and millions of people are deprived of the ordinary of life to say nothing of its comforts and pleasures Homes d are impoverished children underfed underfed under under- fed ed and kept out of school chool because of the burdens burdens- of government Eighty per cent of that burden comes from expenditures expenditures expendi expendi- tures relative to armaments and andi i w war r 4 To add to tIlls this burden to bear down yet more heavily upon the bended backs of ot these people upon whose energy and Intelligence after all all' civilization all rests ests is to recklessly reckless reckless- ly chall challenge civilization itself Those who believe in peace who b believe in disarmament who believe believe believe be be- lieve in economic sanity and economic eco eco- salvation must gird themselves them them- I. I selves anew to prevent the increase O of ot armaments and the tho of ot still sUll greater military ry cst establish establish- ments