Show THING TO HE UP LOST TIM AMERICA undertaking TO DO WHAT WAS PROVIDED FOR IN versailles TREATY REALIZED IN washington ratification of pact in 1919 would have speeded recovery from war effects and spared present administration much trouble by EDWARD B CLARK washington the new administration la Is reminded every day that ratification flea fi tion of the versailles ire 8 ty by the united states senate in 1919 would have the administration of a lot of 0 trouble everyone ot of the lending leading questions relating to international affairs that lire are now up would have been answered by ratification there la Is a general agreement that if 1 the treaty had lieen been disposed ot of nith within a couple of months after afier it was mas submitted to the senate on july 10 1919 2919 the world would by this time have been well on the road to recovery irom from the effects of a great war the president tile lie secretary of state ana the attorney general are still trying to find out what a congressional te ie ii I 8 1 p ai 14 11 jl ution means it if th r ti i i I 1 i i n i ratified no such r al n 01 i bior or have been prop ill not have been nee ei 11 I 1 n in N administration i i till all the worry tl 1 mi I the problem of v i uns ons resolution now th limitation of armaments s tt it at home and abri ld id lias has the lie liew administration to take the ilie initiative in a mo vinent for limitation of orma firma ments obviously it if the Versa versailles illOS treaty hod bad been ruti fled the united states would not hae been put to the necessity of 0 inviting the principal allied potters of the world horld to meet it in a conference ou on limitation 0 of armaments the men who wrote the treaty saw clearly that limitation of armaments must come if the horld orld was to be spared a greater burden of taxation than it could bear and it if effective steps toward preserving world pence peace were to be taken and so the treaty made provision for taking up the subject of disarmament or limitation of armar tient the representatives of other nations here while giving the plan for limitation of armaments their cordial support remark that it if the united states had ratified the treaty in the tall fail of 1919 limitation of armaments would la in all probability bo be effective today it Is reasonable to assume these diplomats point out that limitation of armaments would have been one of the first steps taken by the league of nations indeed tile the counell council did take up this subject at its first meeting but because the united states senate had bad not ratified the treaty the council did not deem it wise to undertake to commit the other powers to any plan for limitation then there Is the association of nations which the new administration has promised the world it presents a hard problem a problem that promises to give the new administration as much trouble as constitutional pence peace with the central powers of europe or limitation of armaments of course it if the versailles treaty had jeen ratified the new administration mould not be engaged en aged in trying to plan an association of nations equally as good as the league of nations trying to catch up the truth Is that the united states Is today trying to make up fur for almost two years of lost time in international affairs in four months aud and a half the new administration has become convinced that hat the work of the paris conference Mn terence was not after all wholly bad the treaty in its present form can never be accepted by the united states the administration says particularly ticul arly that portion of the treaty providing for the league of nations but this government realizes not only tile the importance but the necessity of the world doing things which the paris conference said it should do and for which that conference made provision in the treaty the principle underlying the foreign volley policy of the harding administration to almost identical with the principle which guided the wilson administration in dealing with world affairs the former administration advocated an after the aar w ar policy of world cooper co eo oper aaion the peace conference at paris undertook to bring about that coop coap co op ap through a league of nations the harding administration seems disposed to go as far as ag its ita predecessor in urging world operation cooperation co it has haa a way of its own in approaching international subjects it takes up tip things which the former adminis administration tr aaion handled and renames them but it Is striving to attain the same ends which the former administration sought to at tain war weapons weapon developed rapidly while the immediate purpose of the live five great powers in ill limitation of armaments Is to save money tile the ultimate object Is of churbe courbe to save human lives every one of the powers that will be represented in the conference liere here Is concerned over the rapid development of destructive weapons enmons en pons of war it Is say the ilie best of the tee army and navy ex if 1 the world could stand general war at this time in the 28 months that have good gona by since the armistice wits was signed developments in the production of death dealing instruments 0 of f war have co coma ul 0 with startling rapidity t Y the inventive Invent lva which the war set to work did not cease activity with the signing or of the armistice from week to week and month to month they beair h cone right on developing new instruments instrument for lining killing men inen in cose case of war the greatest developments have love of course boen been in the air and gas services in the meantime however all other implements implement s of war whether used by tile ilie army or the lie navy are being brought to a degree of efficiency never attained before these developments must be taken into consideration by the llie state statesmen tuen of the five great nations there Is ot of course coure a crying demand that money expenditures in preparations for war ile be reduced but after all the big thing as the lie lending leading statesmen of the d day ay vie view the situation Is for the great powers to get together on some plan tor for limiting tile the use of the new nev agencies for killing people by the wholesale gas too must be considered when it first became known that the united states intended to invite the principal allied powers to attend the conference here on limitation of armaments it as generally assumed that the conference would devote most of its time to a discussion of naval armaments now however partly as a insult of the experiments off the virginia copes capes and partly due to tile the fact that it is going to be generally known that everyone ot of the tha powers is engaged in developing new pois poisonous olious gases the lie general understanding is that the conference will probably devote much of its time to the question of ill what limitations s shall ball be placed on tin use of these implements 1 l ts of warfare it Of officers fiers of our aur army and navy swit say it ls is inevitable that civilized nations in ill ca cae cac e of another r war ar would permit the unlimited use of the destruct destructive he gases that are now in process of development it is well known that some of the powers have developed gases that could be used in the wholesale destruction of fleets and vessels vessel and of arms and men reserves to be made effective under the new military policy of the lie government the reserve officers training corps and the citizens training corps become an essential part of the lighting fighting organization annil able officers and enlisted men of the regular army may be assigned appropriate prop duties in connection with the national guard the organized reserve officers training corps arld and the training camps citizen offic tirs on the general start staff in the preparation of policies relating to tile the organization and training of the national guard and the organized re reserves seres the war nar force required for immediate mobilization in the event of femer emergency Is to be constituted in time thue of pence peare and filard as far as practicable through the or enlistment of qualified lulun alider such a system it Is reasonable tn ill expect that the units of or the national guard bill be maintained at strength to be effe effective ethe as a first ee e enforcement for the regular arini and that the units of the llie organized organised sed re reserves reveres will ill at least include K r corps of officers noncommissioned and specialists organized and trained to receive iz and train recruits required in un an emergency demanding the he large forces it Is with nith the requirements of this larger ivar inar establishment in view unit that the llie peace organization of the re regular u army anny roust must be determined th tho law provides a limited number of regular enlisted nien and a number of nf regular officers in excess of the number required nr f ir bervice kith tile regular army proper work for surplus officers this provision loii shows clearly the intention of congress that a portion iiii of tile the officers authorized tire are to hi be ein plowed in the administration anti and development of the national guard the organized deserves es erve erves the re berve officers training corps wid and the citizens training camps it is the presidents desire that the regular army shall be so organized as to arry out this intent of congress to the fullest extent As the regular army now contains more regiments and other units thau than can be maintained at effective effect iva le strength with the authorized authorize enlisted personnel it Is proposed to retain a suitable number of units at an enlisted strength effective for immediate military service and to place the unit units thus tendered rendered surplus out of coul commission mis until such time as congress shall authorize an increase la in the enlisted strength of the regular army thera ther will be assigned to the organizations organization retained in commission a sufficient number of officers to make them effective for immediate military service leaving officers not required for se gervice rv with regular organizations 0 ot r otherwise therie to be employed in the development 1 ot of the national guard the lie 01 organized reserves and the reserve cers training corps As the law provides for a military expansion by of the regular army from the organized citizen forces the president has directed that these fore force eil shall be di developed to the fullest extent and that the maximum practicable number of carefully selected officers of the regular a army be employed for that purpose the retention in th ill e regular army of 0 skeleton e donled cd military units ineffective for will mill tary service Is not deemed advisable advIs ablo |