American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1921-11-25
DISARMAMENT is
/. THEME OF MYERS
|NCHURCHSPEECH
SAYS WORLD HAS EXCEPTIONAL
REASONS FOR BEING THANKED
AT THIS TIME-PROMlSE OF Fu-
TURE REVEALED BY ENJOYS.
PROBLEMS ARE OUTLINED
Says Anchors of Civilization Dragging
And Disarmament Is Mighty Step
Toward Promised Land - United
States Had To Pay Price.

States Had To Pay Price.
Disarmament was the theme chosen
by Attorney NJ. M. Myers for his al
dress Mt the Thanksgiving program at
the Bethany Baptist Church, He en-
| lanrged on his theme. In part, as fol-
lows:
Tramping along In an existence
more or less humdrum, and burdened
each day by the sense of the oondi-
tion of personal and local stress now
upon us, we lose sight OF. or give no
heed to the large things that are for
ward In the world to-day. The tower
ing mountain. yonder, OF world affairs,
henefioent, is obsoured by the mole
Hill OF personal distress, because 1t
rises at our very feet. We are wor-
ried We have hard times here, we
say But It Is not so, not yet, Hard
times have not come,-jus the soft
times have gone, that's NIL. We have
happiness we have health; we have
hope; we have faith; we have peace.
! Not one OF us but has more OF these
! than IN strict Justice should be his.
Mans Justice IN eXemplified by the
, blindfold goddess holding out the ex-
aotly balanced scales TO weight our
good against our bad. Hut the In
, scrutable Justice OF heaven throws into
tho good side OF her scales great in
gots OF hor mercy and thereby we
3 bask In happiness beyond our desery-
| ing,
A big Year.
Truly, as Mr.. Ford said to me yes
terday, this has been a big year. A big
I, year In the world; and the biggest
good thing OF Il has been the confer
enoe on the Imitation OF ornaments
= And so, may | ask you, TO pause with
|, me moment In Thanksgiving spirit
4 In It's contemplation.
: : We bow 10 the inevitable, Gone are
" our fourteen points, We have deliver
ed up Korea TO annexation by the lit
: tie brown men. Manchurln has gone
likewise And, tho We hid our faces
In shame we delivered up Shantung
also. For our first duty IL TO our peo-
pie at homo and not the peoples else
where, Yes. we bow to the immediate
inevitable that thereby we may pave
= the way for our leadership OF the
Is world out OF the present labyrinth
q along some trail that man cannot yet
e see but which God surely has some.
N where laid out. lending into that for
Is ever OF peace of which we dream.
" lf-preseryatlon Is yet the strong
10 est law and impulses OF man and beast.
ar Ii is yet probably the highest law OF
10 man. For Il IN nowhere written that
| should suffer myself or my country
10 perish, that others may live and
thrive IN my stead. Hut rather that ir
N need be should In defense protect
them with my life. 90
oy Cites Great Britain.
w And 40 we have the British Empire
I'm this position az stated by Mr.. Bal
rs four at the conference the other day
w Suppose that u was familiar
III thought In your minds that there nev
rs er were at any moment of the year
within the limits of your state more
than seven weeks food for the popu
lation and that that food had to be re-
~ plenished by oversee communication.
Then if you will draw that picture
pt and II you Will see all that II Implies
an and all that II carried with II, you Will
re understand why II is that every citi-
lr- zen OF the British Empire, whether he
10 comes from the far dOmnlons OF the
he Pacific or whether he lives in the
IN small island In the North Sea. never
les can forget that II is by sea communi-
cation that he lives, and that without
- sea communications he and the empire
TO which he belongs would perish"
And all the other nations with their
like problems. but In lesser degree
have created a condition In the world
driving each hard upon the rocks OF
dissolution by bankruptcy IN ths pro
ectiOn OF It's own, And no man has yet
shown us a solution. ! wonder n our
anchors, tho dragging, will hold
until God points the way out.
Mighty Step Forward.
The conference on the limitation ol
armaments IL n first and mighty stel
toward the promised land. When W.
achieve its covenants we may then ses
and be able 10 take the next step for
ward. For Il II now apparent that on
Of this conference VIII come an agree
mcnt limiting naval construction ant
appreclabiy scrapping existing naya
armament. And the United States viii
pay for this result by our surrender
OF the opportunity. given US by thu
great war, OF becoming the supreme
naval country OF the world
And for our not insisting at thli
time on the detailed settlement OF al
Far Eastern questions, we will secure
the elimination o fthe Anglo-Japanes'
Alliance. And the elimination OF thi
alliance is for the present peace OF thu
world, indeed tremendous step for
ward: for II IL because OF this alliance
that Japan has had the temerity TO pre-
secure here designs and 10 urge he
demands with such malignant insis
tenee