The Cordova daily times., 1921-09-26
sCRAPPING ARMS TO END SCRAPS

some people are pfeulctllS tue lalluIe ol lilt conference for limitation of ornaments because they say it is impossible to, do away with wal for the reason that it is human to fight.
 But no practical person believes that nhta- ton of armament will do away with war. Even if every battIeshp and every gun were de stroyed men could still fight each other with cIubs or with rocks of they wanted to, just as they did in the stone age. The first battle on record and one which, according to the Bible did more harm to humanity than any succeed ing one because it furnished the bad example was fought before torpedoes and aircraft were ever thought of. It was the battle between Cain and AbIc the stronger won. The casualties were 5O per cent of the forces engaged.
 In the days of Rome there were neither shot nor she'll and yet more men were lost in battle considering the number engaged, than in mod crn warfare.
 BattIcships and submarines do not cause war, although they may encourage t because the av craze nation, like ths average child, likes to know just how every new toy will work. Wars are usually caused by greed and seIfishness, by lust of power, by the desire of one nation to make chattcls of the others; sometimes they come about throu9m an honest difference of opinion.
 It is obvious that the mere process of dis amming will not remedy all of these things. So long as human nature remains unchanged, just SO long men will fight And if they have neither battIcships or cannon, they will nso knives or clubs or anything else that happens to be handy. Let it not he forgotten that there were just as many wars before the cannon was invented as there have been since that import ant date in history.
 Then We may ask, what iS the Use of such q conference as has been called if people are liable to fight anyhow! The Use of it k that some way Iav h" found, not to change human nature, but to relieve the people of the world of the crush ing burdens of taxation due to the rNprndi tur"S for future wars.
 What We may hope to get out of the con ference k not an international agreement seek ing to establish Heaven on earth and raising the other region instead but recession of the mad pace with which the so-caIcd civilized nations of the world are building battIcships apd other devices calculated to destroy each other. Unless W" can find somcWay to slack cn the pace ii would appear that at some time in the near future all of the productive incrcm- cnt of the world will be used to prepare for the process of destruction. This can only moan the collapse of civilization.
 IHe NucStlOn lncn IS not so llUcN moral as economic. For, much as we may regret the fact the average nation in its policies is inn pelled not so much by morality as by economic necessity and the prospect of economic aggrand- iscment
 The idealists have been preaching for cen turies that war is wrong that it is immoral and mciviIized. And yet we go on having wars just the same. Every attempt to abol- ,,l mitted to the discredt of the human race, ends in failure. The latest attempt at Versailles to establish an international agreement for the benefit of international 'liberty and justice" ended in document which gave to the domin- ant force in the world today the right to deal with nations as it saw fit to deal with them, re- gardess of the demands of justice and the de- sres of the small and weak brethern every where
 This is true at Versailles as it is always true