The Cordova daily times., 1921-09-12
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1921
INGENIOUS, BUT NOT CONVINCING

Certain very clever correspondents and news svndicatcs established themselves during the eight years of Wilson because of various in side avenues of information which were kind Iy afforded them by the national administra- ton Needless to say these correspondents and syndicates, posing as nonpartisan, were at all times for Wilson.
 Since the Republicans have come into pow CT in Washington they have taken new tack. They are still pro Wilson but are compelled. because of circumstances, to try to be mor' subtle. Some of them have hit upon an in gcnious and, from their standpoint, an excel lent scheme. They cannot criticize the present administration without losing their mask of -partisanship. So they have adopted the cNpcdient of referring to every important ac- tion of President Harding and his cabinet as 'adopting the principles of the Wilson ad- minstration." In this manner they are at tempting to give the credit for the achieve mcnts of President Harding to the influence of their former chief and patron.
 When Ambassador Harvey was directed to sit informally in the meeting of the great council they hailed this as the adopting of Wilson's policy of interference in European affairs, although in fact the foreign policies of this administration and the preceding one are as far apart as the pocs
 Every act of Secretary Hughes k heraIdcd hy these political experts as resumption of the policy of Mr. Wilson and Mir. Colby, this in spite of the fact that in a great many of our foreign problems the preceding admins t~ation had developed no policy, whatever. Doubtless as time goes on, if President Hard ing attends the baseball games at Washing ton park with any regularity, this will br hailed too as a posthumous victory for the influence of Mr. Wilson.
 The latest pro-Wison propaganda of this kind was released just after invitations had gone out to the powers for the disarmamon conference.
 President Harding and Mr. Hughes are for 1npreparcdncss, was the startling announce mcnt of these "non-partisan" experts and it was added that by his note to the powers Sec rctary Hughes had reverted to Woodrow Will sons theory of disarmament.
 This k the first that the general public knew that Woodrow Wilson had any tangi- blc theory of disarmament It had been the general impression that he was in favor of general unprcparcdncss. That at least was the inference which could fairly be drown up on the policy of AIr. Wilson from the breaking out of the war in Europe until the entrance ti Allltilcd ultO JHc COnlllcJ. TOT three years while the world was on fire he sat supinelv in the White House, preaching neutrality, inde- cisive peace, and the doctrine of keeping out of war because were too proud to fight
 It only with war upon us that the ad- minlstration commenced to arm, and the waste and extravaganza due in part to the unnec- essary haste because of unpreparedness will not be forgotten in America by this genera ton.
 Of course President Harding and Secretary Hughes are in favor of disarmament. So are the American people. But they propose a practical kind of disarmament by which all the powers will disarm together, not a bliss ful state of unpreparedness on the part of their own country.
 This is not reverting to Woodrow Wilson's theory of appropriateness, nor is it a journey into the labyrinth of the league of nations. AEe,