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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL Futility of Disarmament Through Parley Accepted By Diplomats, Writer Says Treasury Head on Vacation WORKMEN MLfflL iff Latest Conference Declared Worst Farce Ever .Stapfl hv Ipatrup rif Nlatinnc- PuceeV Plays for Sympathy. Ml m Million Dollar K. C. Resi- By FRANK H. SIMONDS. to Make Way for Museum the end. a useless and even dangerous Anil that is exactly where the bol- shev.iaiA.com in.-- The oligarchy whk-rules at Moscow, which alms primarily at stirring up civil war In all- countries, which preaches violence from all Its political pulpits, is naturally not in' the least Interested In disarmament as a measure of peace, as naare the peoples of all .western Staff Correspondent. The latest April 14. flaseohr rhe'dlaarinifmenl coilferen e feu served to emphasise once more the two salient farts of the European situation. In the first place, neither disarmament nor tynltatton of armament can be brought about by contions. ference at the present hour, future possibilities of the Red Revolution Would In the second place, all ef method. Follow Total Disarmament. ' fort to do business with the Soviets be sure, they are interested In is hound to end In failure and some-ti- n theTo disarmament of other countries, .. worsa tha i failure. because it is their cardinal conception Inevitably the American must ask. domestic revolution the In the face of these two unmistakable that against in every country Is a bulwark facts, why Europe continues to hold army be that they are miswell It may these futile and foolish conferences at taken in their belief that If they coul4 Geneva, and why, similarly, It perse- - disarm France, Germany and Britabolish the military forces In each with Moscow, despite the Inevitable ain, state, then the red revolution would consequences? come automatically and triumphantly But they do believe it and therefore Unmistakable Signs of ANDREW W. MELLON, secretary of the treasury (right), sailed their proposal for complete disarmaPeac. Seen in Europe. aboard the S. S. Fort Victoria for his annual Easter vacation in ment is only one of their bits of All over Europe, there Is an unmisto Bermuda. Bis son Paul (left) accompanied him on the trjbs. strategy bring not peace but their takable desire for peace among the kind of war. 2 1 masses of the people. And. aside from But the Immediate objective of their e the sham has been transparent, - has gone to soviet Russia, whose Russia and Italy, where public opin- demonstration of Geneva was to ex- usual, i faldiscredit in to least purpose at mary promote win part, has, ion is subordinated to the decisions ' ploit the weakness of the other naall the teii upon the league, and profit everywhere. of dictatorship, this popular desire Is tions. They knew as everyone knew a political fact. The tory government that at the moment nothing could be In Hrltain. the coalition cabinet in accomplished In the direction of disFrance ami not; djaintosratlll!; Marx armament. But by boldly walking on combination in Germany, find tiiem- - to the center of the stage and proselves faced by a public demand that posing a sweeping program of disarthey do something to advance the mament, they put all their associates rause of peace and to forward the In a difficult situation. These assoof disarmament. ciates knew that all over Europe poptak Now each of the three governments ular opinion was demanding that knows perfectly well that at the pressomething be done. They were aware ent hour it Is impossible to arrive at also, that, with elections coming on in any formula by which there can be many countries, the left, the radicals, any general and combined restriction the socialists, the communists would of armaments. And the reason is that seize, upon the Geneva failure as a In Europe the question of armament campaign weapon. They were aware, is subordinated rigidly to that of setoo, that, in reality, nil the bolshevlst curity. It Is not a question of arm, propaganda published from the platform in Geneva was Intended to rerve primarily, but of politics. Again, no present discussion of the as ammunition for the red forces In . question Is practical, because Europe every country i:i approaching Is half armed and half disarmed. The defeated nations nf the war and GerDefeated Nations Seeking many In particular Jiave been disarmed and the size of their armaments Something Like Parity. for the future fixed by the peace Nor was the situation Improved treaties. Germany, Austria, Hungary when the the Turk and the and Bulgaria are, therefore, in no Bulgarian, German, the 'mutilated'' of the war, sense free agents. And as a conseto the Russian proposals the colgave quence their policy is Indicated In ad- or of approval. None of these counvance. They advocate a general distries desired disarmament on the boarmament down to their level. lshevlst basis, all were bitterly hostile to fjolshevism in all its.works, but all Washington Conference were equally interested in having abolOffers Working Example. ished those restrictions of their own If there were to be practical lim- arming, which were written in the itation of armaments in Europe and in treaties all save the Turk, who abolparticular as applied to land forces, ished his with the sword. In this situation there was nothing the single conceivable basis for such an undertaking would be something for the representatives of the formerrecalling the Washington naval for- ly allied- powers to do but assail the mula. Patently, the great powers, good faith and sincerity of the bolshe-vlstFrance, Britain, Italy and Germany, They could do it with Justice. could reasonably be regarded as conThey could say with exactitude that stituting states entitled to parity and the purpose of the bolshevlst proposals to this group Russia would naturally was to Qiabotage, not to promote disbelong, when Russia was once more armament. They could charge with restored to normal conditions. In the Justice) that T.ltvinov was really seeksame way the strength of the smaller ing to promote Civil war, by depriving states could be worked out upon a states cf the means of preserving order. proportionate basis. But it is absurd to think that France League Last Prett.ige, would consent, to. .the .strain ill t '' treaty of Versailles to the extent of By Latest Conference. permitting the French army to be re But what they could noVdo gas deto duced parity, with the Herman, where today It is four times as great. stroy the Impression of futility and the character of a. fiaroo which the And It Is absurd to imagine that Poland, facing bolshevlst Russia, would conference had. Nor could they In agree to a reduction of its own forces the slightest degree lessen the .value to the point proportionate to its status or the material Supplied by Geneva for as a nation. every communist and socialist camIt Is Just as Impossible to Imagine paign orator all over Europe. Nor that the German people will passive- could they Greatly lessen the iniury ly endure a situation in which their done to the league by one more failarmy Is a quarter as large as the ure in dealing with a question which French, a third as considerable as the nas caused so many failures on the Polish, and Inferior even to that of same ground. Thus at Geneva all The question It then very fairly the debate turns round the primary raised why under present circumquestion that Germany Is placed in a stances it should be necessary or wise to go on with the solemn farco position of Inferiority. And the German case is fortified by the fact that of a disarmament conference. in the treaty German disarmament In many ways this latest disarmawas described as a stepJn the gen- ment conference was the worst farce eral litnit.it:. t. The objective of the which has yet been staged at Geneva. German government and policy is not It was the most conspicuously futile. to arrive at disarmament In the world, Vet the fault was not with the league. hut at an equality of armaments be- The league hud nothing to do with It. tween Germany and the other great except supply a room and certain Moreover, while Germany is physical facilities. The same discuspowers. thus in a position of military weaksion might huve been held In Paris, ness, she is politically negligible. She Ixindon or Berne and the league Is only in part a great power. spared the evil consequences of the failure. Big Improvement Seen Disarmament Is not a league of naIn Franco. German Feeling. tions business. It is the affair of naOn the other hand, while there has tions which choose to discuss It. Evin ery Informed person in Eurojie recogbeen, an enormous improvement n relation and French nizes this fact, but once more, Gefear of a.new German attack has been neva has been made the "goat" bethe powers have used the league greatly reduced, France bases her oeyn cause security on the double guarantees of as a cover for their own impotence. As Tyocarno and Versailles, that is on the assurance of British aid if Germany wantonly attavjts her and upon the1 Miss Angelina Warnick i eras lues assurance of tie treatv of Vi that Germany's military forces shall Prize Song Writer always be limited. For the next seven years, during "O. It's a Joy to He a Senior Girl'' which her territory can be occupied no Is the title of the song by allied troops. Germany has choice hut to submit and any serious written by Miss Angellne Warnick of was Pleasant who awarded the Grove, would only destroy attempt at evasion song conthe great hope the Germans have of flO'prlze In the Juniorgirl Y. test I. M. A. the sponsored by Jj. obtaining evacuation in advance of the The words written by Miss Warnick date fixed by the treaty. The British are not prepared to have been set to music bv Roland auu "r tM'llB. ,111 ill abandon their neel; ra w far as Eli ;".rope Is concerned they have an es- - H he nexnssue of the Young Women's or tahlished position superiority. But A1 this deprives them of any logical ground for urging the h rench to re- duce thetr armies, since, as 'the Britih argued at the r'oolldge confer- ence, nations must be the Judge of their needs for security and French NNNNNNNNNNJNV jjTNN security Is based upon the army. As for the Italians, they are definitely following under fasclsmo a program of military and naval development. Reduction pf Armaments assNNNsHNNN Bff JH 9 W V Depends Upon Security Pacts. No responsible statesman in Rurope believes that real progress can be made In the direction, of the limitation of armaments by a conference. All accept the basic principle that the reduction of armies ran only follow the negotiation of security .pacts, whi h relieve nations of the necessity for maintaining great armies. Since the IV s how Ijocareo agreement. France, for example, has rut her military service trfcm two years to one. But this Is big Advanced Six model purely a domestic matter, the French low so a government saved the money bcause price. It was satisfied of the absence of danOENEVA, Dismantled - what-ever-- . . ; prl-th- 11 3928. and personal effects and furniture have been removed to other parts of the country. Persons offering to buy first were required to show they were not acquaintances of Hi dead woman andm rtOlSF. Idaho. Anrll 14 (AD. A that they intended to remove fn Kansas t'lty what they bought. Then spirited hunt for wood ticks and sheep lo lie used in tne preparation ticks to look through they were permitted the half hundred rooms of the home of spotted fever serum rs being con on the "desert between here ducted and 'make offers. That mode of sale was slow and fin- and Mountain Home, I It was learned ally trustees under the will arranged here today. to lump off to Ixiew's Inc.. the bulk 0.000. of the furnishings for f he company gave 'a pledge to use the ar- la Mfcesu Uciea lu tiuialers cities. Not one of the objects i in a 12.000,000 theater recently completed" 1y the company In Kansas Pity. rn accordance with the other provisions of the woman's will workmen have started tearing down the resl- I. o. e which r.nulred a quarter century to build. Panelling .mil. fiirmshHtgs of one room, tile late ( "olonel Nelson's study, have been presened Slid will be le- biillt Into the sit museum whPh rrbrt A conbeneficence madj possible. jc. Hunt for Ticks For Serum Begins Jewelry , - dence 1.5, A'reseA KANSAS' t'lt'Y. April H To make way for a new $;..Vrf.)00 art museum, for which close to L,0(KV0O0 a year will be spent for works of art, two unusual provisions in the will of the late Mrs. Ijura Nelson Klrkwood are being carried out here. Mrs. Klrkwood. daughter of William R... Nelson. Inherited the Kansas City Star. She Included In her will a re- 'fyrigM. quirement that her personal belongings Including the furniture of Oak hall. Kansas rtty's most palatial residence, should be sold to strangers and be taken more than 2.10 miles away by the purchasers. Will Require Removal Of Contents Sold. Her other requirement .was that the million dollar home be destroyed after death of her husband, Irwin It. Kirk-wooHe died last year. In accordance with the will, sale of the contents of the house hss Just No resident of Kanbeen completed. sas City and no person who knew Mrs. was Klrkwood permitted to buy. Her rl4 tractor has been paid $3j00. to raxc the building. He also will profit from sale of parts of the fracture to builders. One woman gave $200 for a front door that she vented to include In her new home. Another bought the tile floor of a hath that once had been used by Theodore Kooeevelt while a guest of Colonel Nelson. Tfco. :iri Inur. if will In 27" feet long and will occupy the present site of the home. A' few ninths ago, before sale of the contents of the home started. Inspection by the public was permitted. In one week almost 100,000 persons walked thtougrt under police guard. t'olonel Nelson's entire fortune was left in trust for purchase of art objects. Funds for the building were left By hln .id.. , b; Mrs. Klrkwood and by others Interested in art. The Kansas City SJar. principal part of the estate, was bought by employees of the paper, for 111,500,000, mi st of which they are paying in annual Installments. Conducting the seerch are Br. R. It. Parker of the government publln health service and Dr. J. 8. Dade of the state sheep commission. The two experts left here this morning In search of the vermin among the sheep herds on the desert range. A serious inshortage of the serum used in oculations against the disease today welfare the depart public prompted ment to ask additional serum. I'll Give You This Rupture Outfits tFREE It isn't easy exactly ho understand Air tex it. I see athes air until vou actually bre,. tVcan't likely imaeinew B h o w NNli ure in trie Dot anchors Ma Nk take one place whenj it would M INsBsV. 3BiPe"jN"N 2 c of them to wcieh an ounce. That is whv I want to send the Airtex absosample, a tape measure' and some other things for offer is not lazy lutely free so you can know. This a find where who know to for those but stamp people, or postal card this very minute. New Science Institute, 51-Carey Bldp;., Steubenville, Ohio. 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