The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-14
Armistice Day.
(Boston News Bureau.)


 We shall have holiday November II. It will not be the ordinary somewhat perfunctory sort of holiday marking back to battles long ago." and devoted by most of to the levites of recreation It will con- cern primarily vital present. and it may affect tre mendousy long future In its secondary and more sentimental meaning it will commemorate very re- cent and grim war background,-in homage to our war dead. It may be the prelude to a greater holi- dayAfrom the crushing weight of armament and from the sinister shadow of questions" that might some day put that armament to work
 That the nation will earnestly follow the Presi- dents proposal for observance of this coming Arms tice Day, in the manner urged is made practically tain by many obvious conditions This applies to the lesser well to the greater purpose. The whole world appears to have calmer better view of it's debt to the dead It is three years since the guns ceased; and clearer perspective is had with the battle smoke all blown away. The honoring of unknown dead soldier, as ypifying the unselhsh rfce which saved us, has lately occurred will soon in other countries It is universal sentiment.
 Also there has firmly crystallized by prac- ticay universal yearnng to avert if be- to lessen in event, the risk of more such sacrifice and o more such burdens the living carry. During and since the have had much .'propaganda" of many sorts, skilfully steered. Here is urge that has little needed such engineering effort it has received to give it form and focus. It's ele- ments are of almost every sort,economic well as political and social. It is practically everybody s concern. And. by now, the significant psychological fact is that almost everybody however callous lettered, has come to recognize this.
 
 concerning which both the sentimental and the practical have been so nearly fused in working agreement. Often there is clash between these two viewpoints.- expense. Here direct aim is reduction of expense, huge scale. Here, also there is unusual lining up together of ele- ments within each camp that had frequently been in- harmonious.
 Here find that ideahstc ardor which formed much of the League of Nations support in this ry-and disarmament the largest single lure now yoked in harness with dollars and cents view of taxes, budgets and business. Also churches, women's organizations, etc,--whose influence poti- cay has been patent in other rectionsare credited with having largely inspired the Presidents plan for observance of November II 4 They will make the eason duly prayerfu. q sa's5 sef
 Moreover it should help good deal that the bit terest anti-League camp is committed, by its own aitvities, to support of the central idea Differences on detail should not weigh or be let weigh much. And we observe American Federation oN Labor and associations, from different angles, standing unit this If other subject.
 Congress, fresh from contact with back home '' reports the popular concern about disarmament even greater than that about unemployment. The latter is passing, the former a permanent, problem. The present causal relation between the two is now broadly felt. So too all the long discussion in Con gress on taxation has made thought of the future more definite and deep. Congress as Senator Under wood reminds it, should not unduly interfere with the conference programs; but it contribute to the setting or atmosphere The fact will continue to loom large that 93 cents of each government dollar went last year to pay for past possible future What future would be like has been graphically imagined by many publicistsy5
 The a3enda is Cor are) definitely before the world, well before the responsible parties the conference. in the corrected form given out by Sec retary Hughes. It apparently conforms well with the idea of an elastic program covering the subjects of war budgets tchefly naval) and the Far East Anony nous intimations of skeptcism from London may in view of the acceptance by the Powers and the absence of criticism to date from them. be taken with large grain of salt
 When the delegates gather in Washington they u hanE nEurc mud will h;,lo them. It should help them. It will be the American people. observing the holiday of November II.
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