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Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-09-05 | Page 7 | "Let There be Light"

Type issue
Date 1921-09-05
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title "Let There be Light"
Type article
Date 1921-09-05
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 7
OCR Text j f I t Let There Be Light r I 4 t r A the d desires ire of a few se senators of they the thet y C t. t r old school variety who believe in star chamber sessions and oppose taking the general 5 r public into their confidence until any question is t decided to their own satisfaction a great mat mas' mas ma ma- s' s of members of the upper house of con con- I 5 gress ar are said to be in f favor vor of at least a certain amount of light being thrown upon the J deliberations of the coming international disarmament 1 0 ment conference to be held in Washington Jot Naturally the United States as the host of the international gathering should not dictate as asto 3 to the thc precise manner manner of procedure in respect to toj j pub publicity and oth other r plans for the gathering b but butr t r it t might be well velI to intimate that the general not only of America but of every every- country on the globe desires to be kept informed of the ther r proceedings pro e eddings dings of a convention called for the discussion dis dis- t of a question of vital importance to all the world It jt is natural to presume that the final outcome outcome outcome out- out come of the conference will depend upon the results results' of meetings between personal representatives I tives of various governments and such conferences conferences conferences confer- confer necessarily must be of a private nature j. j As to the proceedings of the conference itself the the public has a right to demand denland that it be kept informed of the discuss discussions ons and decisions If all the deliberations are to be conducted in s secret cr t it would be ju just t as well to cond conduct ct the negotiations negotiations by the use of code messages and save the ther r million dollars or or so that the United States must exp expend nd to entertain its guests This is the age of publicity in every sense of 4 the word and it is far better to trust to tC the ability of American newspaper men to truthfully and properly report the proceedings of such a gathering as the conference than to att attempt to hold star chamber sessions such as the executive sessions of the senate with a cerT certainty T T. l aJ at least least a portion of the h not ess essential facts will become known to the news ferrets ferret
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