The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-03
DISARMAMENT
 IS ACITATINC
 WHOLE WORLD
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

Correspondence). - Today, with the whole world suffering from the recent Armageddon, men are more than ever, in every land, urging that the nations disarm.
 The plan is not new After nearly every big war the same proposal has been made. Every effort to limit ar maments, since the time that Caesars legions conquered Gaul, down to the present, had ended in failure. Pessi- mists point to this historical fact and declare that the present agitation for limitation of armament will follow the usual course of all history and also end in failure.
 There can be no doubt that the year 1921 is the most probitious time of any in the past twenty centuries to seriously consider disarmament. To- day the world is suffering as never be- fore from the results of a great con flict Economic conditions in every country in Europe could not be worse, following the most disastrous war in the history of the world The people of the nations have their backs bowed down to the ground with the burden of war taxation. Revenues of all the nations are needed to pay the war debts. But on the top of the already gigantic burden all the first-class na- tions including the United States, are going right ahead building up their armies and their navies again, in pre- paration for the next world war. Un- der such tremendous financial bur dens it is impossible for the war-like nations to reconstruct their produc- tive industries, upon which rests the basis of the welfare, prosperity, and happiness of the people. The peoples recognize the appalling situation, and this explains the insistent demand for disarmament in nearly every nation, more so in some than in others.
 There are two illustrations in re- cent history where disarmament was demanded, after disastrous wars. The first was at the congress of Vienna, and the second at the Hague Peace conference, following the Spanish American war. Both efforts ended in dismal failures, and there was no dis armament-in fact the nations armed with redoubled energy and prepared for the recent World war, the seeds of which are not generally acknowl- edged by historians to have been sown at the congress of Vienna.
 Following the terrible Napoleonic wars, which devastated Europe al- most as badly as the recent World war, the need of putting an end to all wars was strongly impressed on the people of the European nations. This was voiced at the congress of Vienna. But instead of agreeing to complete or partial disarmament the congress of Vienna established the so-called balance of power" and other al- dances, which eventually resulted in the World war, or at least was one of the chief contributing factors which precipitated that conflict. At the congress of Vienna an effort was made by Prince Metternlich, the great Austrian statesman toward disarma- ment. Metternich proposed that a conference be called which would Jim 1t armaments of the then great DOW CTS. Russian plentipotentiaries agreed to the proposal, and Austria favored the plan. But nothing ever came of that attempt at disarming. Later Ma poleon III conducted an extensive cor respondence with view to starting a movement among the nations for disarmament. Nothing came of that, either.
 Later Czar Nicholas promoted the Hague Tribunal, which Andrew Car- negie backed with millions and sun ported in the United States with the