Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-20 | Page 1 | To Disarm is Asinine Says Gen, Bullard

TO DISARM IS j ASHE SAYS CEBJULUBD Propositions to Limit Armament Arma-ment Are Tricks, Soldier Declares to Club MUST NOT ABANDON FINANCIAL SUPREMACY j Speaker Maintains Culture and 1 Arms Are Linked, Examples Are Cited NEW YORK, Feb. 19. Major Gen-1 eral Bullard, commander of the second sec-ond corps area, opposed disarmament In an address today before the National Nation-al Republican club, which he punctuated punctu-ated with rebuke o for Us proponents "Any proposition of disarmament or any limitations of armament Is a I trick" he said, "cither to gain or I maintain an advantage. Coming from 1 representatives of different nations, the discussion always consists of, first, a nice diplomatic expression of profound pro-found benevobnee and friendship toward to-ward all other nations; second, the truth, regretful but to them undeniable, undeni-able, that they are forced by the other nations to arm and keep armed T01 hear l hem Is to laugh." ASININE KINDNESS DIseuSBlng th- subject from a "pure-' ly American Standpoint," the general declared "disarmament for us would mean the abandonment of our financial finan-cial superiority over other nations-" "We have It," he added. "Are wo willing to abandon It to put ourselves on a level with others? That would bo a9lnlno kindness.'.' Disarmament alone,: he continued, does not obviate war, for unarmed Of ill-armcu peoples are 1 contlnuall) ut .ar Culture and arms were linked by the speaker, who pointed point-ed to Gre.it Britain ami Japan now J and the Germany of pre-war days asj examples. Japan was alluded to as, a marked example of ''progrcsslveness.j and rapidly Increasing enlighten-j ment " OTHERS ARE M RETS, it Is a significant tact." he de-1 clared. "that from the monkey to the American the state of their culture! and their advancement corresponded to the state Of their armament. The monkeys that had had sense enough! to pick up and U6e a stick developed I into me::. The others remained mon-r keys " Rear Admiral Sims declared that the; navj 1b useless unless it is prepared. I!.- emphasized that new Inventions, Fhould be tested. Tho torpedo boat, he said, had been looked on as a formidable for-midable antagonist against anv bat- j tlPHblp and remained so until the de-, htroyer was Invented At the begin-, nlng of the war, he stated the submarine subma-rine was declared impracticable CLAIMS FOR AIRPLANE. "Man things arc claimed for the airplane." he said "If claims could j do It, the navy would be abolished " He advocated adoption of tho airplane air-plane carrier, saying thla would be the battleship of the future Speaking of the use. of gas, the ad- mlral admitted It was brutal. but characterized It as a legitimate weapon. weap-on. The object of war is to destroy lives, ' he added