The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-11
CONFERENCE ON ARMS
 IS FAR REMOVED FROM HATREDS OF EUROPE
James w. Gerard Sees Great Difference Between Washington Conference and Those of Vienna and Versailles - Declares Recent Peace Con- gress Was Ruled by Hatred - Calls President Harding Idea1ist with Feet on Ground

The word "mandate' was given a new application, namely, to express the old seizure of enemies territory and chat distinction which we and our Allies have made between the Ger man people and their fool rulers dis appeared. On an unfortunate and misled people was placed the burden of a crushing indemnity and a new Alsace-Iorraine question created and new war of revenge made certain when that portion of the part of Ger country from which France hopes a war alliance.
 Illusion About "War Profits."
 Never was more apparent that which Norman Angel1 has called "The Great Illusion"-an Illusion that war profits the conQueror.
 The back of the world of conuuer- orS and conquered breaks under the burden of taxation to prepare for new ters not. Few realize that of all the money we pay in taxes at least 90 per cent. goes for war preparations or for the results of war. That great sum wisely spent would reclaim deserts, stamp out sickness. improve living conditions, prolong life, educate all the people, reduce the workman's hours of. toll. and give to the life of everyone a share of we1l-being, of amusement and hope not impossible, but improbable today.
 So at most opportune moment fTeS1Qent Hard1ng mas called the na- 1 tons into conference to consider the question of Limitation of Armament and- closely related thereto, questions which in the Pacific and Far East bear within themselves the restless germs of future wars.
 The congress of Vienna met in the capital city of despotism at a time when the poorer people were slaves; | calling, when the Jews were perse- cuted, their marriage to Christians made crime, trades in which they could engage limited, and their bod bounds of the poisonous Ghettos of l Central Europe. The Car of Rus l sia, whose people were not to be | freed from slavery until 1866, dom in a 'Holy Allianca'' of despots to crush democracy wherever it should | lift its head.
 The congress of Versailles met where hatred. perhaps a just hatred but hatred, nevertheless, ruled. In Ing Paris, the Arch of Triumph erected to celebrate the conquest of Europe by France, that arch which had then witnessed the backward revenge when, in 1870, the armies of Germany marched through it into the conquered city of Paris, In the pal, ace rooms Louis XIV: had planned 
 Palatinate and added Alsace to France. The political chief of the 1 country in which the congress was held was Glenn enceau-a tiger, who. | like tiger reused, had most ably and patriottca1ly defended his fatherland, but who wrote the treaty of peace with a tigers claw.
 The congress called by President Harding meets in a place far remov- ed from the theatre of the hatreds of Europe, for we do not hate in this country as they a1 do in ETe0pe PreTpet t5a Gn French novelist and analyst of char acter, and Ferrero, the renowned his- | torian of ancient Rome, both told me most in America was the absence of that hatred so often encountered in Europe, both In public and private
 Kindly Strength of Harding.
 Only the weak conceal weakness behind a mask of surliness and con tempt-a strong man can allow his heart to show. The most distin- Harding is his kindly strength. He, of course, desires to realize great ideals-to go down in history's pages as one who has accomplished great things for all mankind. He is like all of us in America, an fdea1ist, but an idealist with his feet on the ground.
 Eirst among his advisers stands his Secretary of State. Charles Evans Hughes.
 We of the bar of New York know him and respect his great talents. his power to obtain results. Contact with life has mel1owed the original stern Puritanisn of his character and given him the diplomatic touch. Tn all the broad continent of America there Is no man better fitted for his great task.
 But the man whose drive created this congress is not a nember-Bor- ah of Idaho,- farseeing and forceful apostle of Peace. Hon will. however. lend the power of his DAne, the force Iof his eloQuence to bring e solution