The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-11-18
POWERS CONFER
IN ARMS SESSION
United States Assumes Leader
ship in Move to Reduce
Wars Burden.
BRITAIN FAVORS aim
President Harding Opens Conference
Hailed as Greatest Humanitarian
Crusade-British Want Elastic
Replacement Program.

aSh1ngt0n-America took leader
ship Saturday in the first movement
In history for the elimination Of in
ternational menaces that threaten civ.
ilization with future war; This is gen
orally regarded as the greatest hui
manitarian crusade in the history OF
mankind. But it is also a practical
| scheme for material relief from the
overwhelming burden of taxation and
debt.
Reduced to simple terms the United
States seeks:
First = To prevent competition
among the great powers in the con-
struction of war machinery = naval,
land and air.
Second-To remove sources of in
ternational friction in the Pacific
ocean zone that may lead to future
conflict.
Hope for New Understanding.
1--WE are met for service to man
kind" said President Harding in the
opening address.
In all simplicity, in all honesty and
all honor, there may be written here
the avowals of world conscience re-
fined by the consuming fires of war,
and made more sensitive by the anx-
fous aftermath. 1 hope for that un-
derstanding which will emphasize the
guarantees of peace, and for commit
ments to less burdens and a better
order which will tranquilize the
world n foI, ~
there will be added glory to your flags
and ours, an dthe rejoicing of man
kind will make the transcending mu-
sic of all succeeding time.
Burdening Armament.
"Out of the cataclysm of the World
war came new fellowships, new con-
victions, new aspirations. 1t is ours
to make the most of them A world
staggering with debt needs its burden
lifted. Humanity, which has been
shocked by wanton destruction, would
minimize the agencies of that destruc-
ton. Contemplating the measureless
cost of war and the containing bur-
den Of armament, all thoughtful peo-
pies wish for real limitation of arma-
ment and would like war outlawed.
In soberest reflection the worlds hun
dreds of millions who pay in peace
and die in war wish their statesmen
to turn the expenditures for destruc-
ton into means of construction,
aimed at higher state for those who
live and follow after"
Great Britain Accepts.
Great Briatin's acceptance sin prin-
ciple" of the American proposals for
limitation of naval ornaments con-
templates an alteration of the plan in
several important details.
The British acceptance was present
ed at Tuesdays plenary session Of the
conference by Arthur ]. Balfour, head
OF the mission, who has plenipoten-
tiary powers. Japan's acceptance Gin
principle" although it has been fore
cast by the statements of Baron Adj
miral Kato, may be delayed. as the
Japanese mission is obliged to confer
with Tokyo.
Favors Elastic Program.
Instead of a fiat ten-year holiday,
Great Britain wants the replacement
program to be an elastic one-spread
over period of years.
The United States, Great Britain
feels, would have her at a disadyan.
tage in airplane carrying ships, under
the terms of the American proposals,
because while Great Britain has an
equipment of these craft the United
States would have to build new the
number allotted. These would be of
later design and of superior improve
ments, while the British ships would
be obsolete.