Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-02
.JAPS DISLIKE
EXPERTS IDEA
OF NAVY RATIO
Consider Proportion Named
by America and Great
Britain Unfair.
HOPE STILL REMAINS
By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
| WASHINGTON, Dec 2-The experts
of the United States and Great Britain
seem to think that the naval facts sup
port the 60 per cent proportion offered
to Japan, but the naval experts of Japan
seem to arrive at different conclusions;
| in their judgment naval facts seem to
support 10 per cent proportion. The
world should not be alarmed at a failure
of experts to agree. 1t is a poor contro-
versy that cannot find experts to support
both sides.
| In a sanity trial the alienists are usu-
ally divided. One group sees insanity
| in every movement Of the accused; the
other group sees conclusive proof that
! the accused was rational when the deed
was done
( Even health experts do not always
agree When Chicago wanted to send her
sewerage down the canal and through
the Illinois River into the Mississippi St
Louis objected St Louis experts showed
that the health of st. Louis was in dam
ger. while the experts from Chicago
demonstrated that the flowing water
purified itself before it reached st. Louis
and some insisted that the Mississippi
River was even improved
WHY BOTHER
ABOUT EXPERTS?
Don't bother about the experts The
important question is what is desired by
the governments that employ the experts
Let the governments agree as to what
is desired and the experts can get to-
gether and show how it can be accom-
plished most easily and most quickly
| what a thing discussion ESPECIALLY
In the open! If Secretary Hughes had
conhdentially communicated his dis
armament proposition to the other
powers and they had made private
| answer, the world would still be in dark
ness and in doubt as to the outcome of
the conference, but an open statement
to the world brought an immediate re-
| Spouse and the world turned about and
faced toward peace. 1t used to be that
great crowds gathered to witness the
launching Of a new battleship AS the
| most destructive craft ever built (as
each new ship was descrbed) plunged
into the water for the first time a shout
| OF JOY went up from the watching null
titude. What a change has taken place!
They soon will begin the scrapping Of
battleships and larger crowds will assem-
| bic and the shouts will be louder still
when the first hammers blow announces
that the smashing has commenced.
| DIRECTION IS
IMPORTANT THING.
! The pathway that leads from the low
! est plane to which man can fall. up to
| the highest to which man can rise. is
| thronged with travellers, some ascending,
some descending. The question we ask
is not just where the traveller, but In
what direction he is going. Those who
are starting from the bottom will some
day meet and pass those who are start
ing from the top. So there is a pathway
leading from the abyss of war to the
summit of peace. The question is not
so much jus where a nation is on that
incline as whether it is descending or
ascending.
The world ascends until it could look
down into the abyss of international
bankruptcy. 1t seems to be turning and
this conference will mark a change in
direction. The conference deliberations
will not take the world TO the top. but
1t seems now certain that the upward
! progress will be great enough to make
world rejoice in the belief that war
will be put on the road to ultimate ex-
tinction.-Copyright, 1921, by United
! Press.