Arizona republican., 1921-11-12
"We, the People, Etc.

You are expected to do so and so" is the rather impertnent message sent by Los Angeles organi- xation to Harding in connection with the Limitations of armament conference The substance of massage appears to be that the president is +aexpected" by Los Angeles to enforce disarmament tupon the conference.
 We aware that Los Angeles is a considerable tovn-the biggest town we suppose the United Estates covering square miles against the yil lage of San Francisco with 46 miles and the 1ss square miles of the somewhat larger village of Chicago.
 Yet there is something in this "You-are-ex- pected' ultimatum to the president which reminds declaration of principles in the of the people of England. issued by the three talors of Tooley street.
 Desirable disarmament may be-we would all like to disarmament. every naval vessel ban- ished from the ocean. every soldier retired to civil life every bayonet and rifle and cannon put to
 constructive uset is unlikely that the subject of disarmament will be discussed at all. We should
 surprised. after the conference has adjourned If the verbatim reports of the proceedings should fail to contain mention of the word disarmament" in all the months of deliberation. The gentlemen who compose the confernece
 coming together discuss practical matters possible things and to indulge in bunk. We do not suppose that of them since the subject of the conference was preached has given moments consideration to disarmament. If among them, there is who has thought of it. he has { thought of 1t only as he has thought of the men nium any other desirable but immediately impos- sible thing. Men who do things waste time the paently impossible. No great inventor has cluttered up his efforts with strivings per petual motion.
 Beside, what the president may desire that the
 conference may do and what it may actually
 plish may be two widely different things. We may
 conceive that the president like the great majority of his countrymen desires may be whole
 sale limitation of ornaments. We suppose that
 every member of the conference desires the same thing. But 1t is possible that the European
 bers think they obstacles in their that
 not in the way of American limitation of arma
 ment.
 The Europeans not afraid of America and
 America is not afraid of them. So. if there
 no complications there would be nothing in the way
 of limitation or. matter. disarmament But
 the Europeans have peculiar problems of their own
 which will affect the of the deliberations And what may be done in the way of limitation will
 not be done in the first instance, the cause of peace. The conferees aware, that to reduce, to abolish armament would insure peace ,any more than peace assured when there was no
 armament
 The first thing is to free the world of the tre-
 mendous expense of maintaining armament ever
 increasing burden, which is crushing European tries and which is now bearing down heavily upon
 Even limitation is the first thing the
 conference program and imagine in the mind of
 the conferees, Is not the important The
 sgenda is made for the most part of measures
 for the reducing of friction at points of in
 various parts of the word-especally in the Pa
 cific and in the Far East. There the questions of the "open Door," China. Siberia and the islands
 of the Pacific. These questions alone occupy three fourths of the program. The European situation win be discussed though far 1t has been ad- vertsed in the program It will in under the head of added attraction"
 We do know who gave the name of "dsarna ment confei ence" but il was. certainly ii
 anthority and well-informed outsider. The presi-
 and others have gently but warnngly corrected