Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-09 | Page 1 | Harding in Favor of Strong Naval Policy

! ' A A fr ft fr A NO CHANGE IN I SHIP PROGRAM I 3EEIHIKEEY I Binding Agreement on Dis- I armament Wanted Before ! Policy is to Be Changed WOULD LIMIT ARMY FOR STRONGER NAVY Callers At Marion Give Information In-formation on General Financial Situation MARION. Ohio. Jan. S. A nava' i policy to keep the United States on. of the strongest sea powers until 1 bindluir disarm mont . r. mnnt e.,, sbbbbsss be reached, was discussed at a con-ference con-ference today between President-eleoi H Harding and R- presentative Butler of Pennsylvania, chairman of the house naval committee, it was. lndlcal although a final decision must wall H the attitude of Senator Hanli- H pointed to a continuation of th construction program now in progress Coupled with this program, how ever, would he a material cUrtallmen in civilian employes of the navy de-partment de-partment and various ecor.or les H the land station under navy jjrlsdic- W NT-s BTROXTJ STAA"i Mr. Harding long has favored an efficient navy and he g understood to feel a big navy policy might be H continued practical if steps are taken to curtail the strength of the army along lines he approved yester-day yester-day In conference with Chairman H Kahn of the houe military CO mm! He also faors strongly the reserve system for both army and navy, ami is understood to have indicated to Chairman Butler an adequate naval reserve should be considered a requl-site requl-site to national defense. The question of the navy hinges. however, on what progress may be H found possible in the movement for a general reduction of world armament Mi Rutler, who Is inclined to place little faith in the proposal, expects to develop In committee hearings ne$ week all information available on the probable consequences of disarms- nient This Informntlon he will turn H ! over to Mr Harding. (.! T WORLD SENTIMENT "I am determined to know," he said I in a statement, "what other nation.-sincerely nation.-sincerely desire in the way of an agreement to limit armament." Mr. Butler called Mr H r, ling's at-tentlon at-tentlon to the provision of the naval appropriation bill of 1911. requesting resident to make a canvass 5 H world sentiment on disarmament. He recommended that the new adminis-tratlon adminis-tratlon lake advantage of this authori- Another of Presldent-ele,-t Hard H ing's cullers today was Daniel : Raid, New Yorh manufacturer ind flnan-i flnan-i !er. who talked over the general fl-nam fl-nam lal s, I nation and g ive his opinion H on the problem of getting money sys-tems sys-tems hack to a sound basis. I ROES TAKlNt; LOSS B. R- Inman of Indianapolis, man-ager man-ager of the Indiana chamber of com- H :n. r -e. presented Senator Harding the results r,f i study made by his organ-i7.ii organ-i7.ii Hon Into financial conditions. He advised that there be no attempts to Psmedy the situation by piecemeal measures, but that f irmer.? manufac- turers and all other groups be pre-valb-d upon to take their share of after war depression. Although no definite date has been .in, i, ".ne ed, it is expected '.bat the v.. i! leave in about two weeks on his southern trip, it gen-erallv gen-erallv i--. understood most of the va-, va-, ition will be spent in Florida and that houseboat trip across- the Bvergladea lis one feature contom-plated. contom-plated. Mrs. Harding will leave several days In advance of the senator and will spend some time in Washington iml Now York shopping and attend-ing attend-ing to other personal err Ulds prepar- '. atory to becoming mistrc-s of the 1 White House. Later she will join th I party in Florida.