Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-07
ARMS FARLEY
NOT A PANACEA.
SAYS SEN. NEW
Not Expected All Armies of
World VIII Be Dis
banded.
DRAFT BOARDS MEET

DRAFT BOARDS ME q
at is not to be expected that all the
armies of the world will be disbanded,
or the navies strapped. Indeed, if we
can halt where we are burden, the
weight of which scarcely can be imag.
med, much less foretold, will be spared
the world" declared United States Sena-
tor Harry S. New in speaking of the
coming disarmament conference at the
third annual meeting of the Indiana Sc
Iective Service Association at the Cham
Der of Commerce Tuesday night
Senator New said the thing from which
he hopes most sis the growing realiza-
ton of the great fact that the nations
cannot go on indefinitely and forever In
taxing their people for colossal arma-
ments. That they will maintain armies
and navies is not only certain but neces~
sary. but there are limits which can
only be fixed by mutual agreement" He
warned that too much should not be e1-
pected of the conference, and bespoke
support for the President against foes
of the Administration. whom he predicted
will attempt to embarass the Nations
representatives az the conference by de
manding that they hold out for the i'm
possible.
Ex-Governor James P. Goodrich praised
the Indiana draft board members, who
comprise the membership of the assO-
citation, for their spirit, which he said
is that which always ha spushed this
State to the front in time of war.
Achievements of the 10th Field Arth
lery in the last German offensive were
described by Sidney S. Miller, a major
in the outfit. Lucius 3. Swift, Indian
apoIis, served as POSTMASTER.
The Soldier bonus" is impossible of
attainment at this time because laborers
Who ssbled the Government for extreme
wages during the war have put the
Nation too deeply in debt TO make COM
pensation appropriations the Senator
said.
az feel. Ike the soldier, that he has
been wronged by that man." he said
1.-THE approval given to the fine pur-
pose Of President Harding in promoting
this conference will not be limited to
any class, nor to any country. It VIII
be world wide and universal. While we
hope for great things. it will not do to
thunder in the index and predict too
much. The ambitions, the rivalries and
resentments of nations still exist and it
will occasion no surprise if it develops
that some of the. participants will enter
the conference with suspicious and mis-
givings which they win find it difficult
to yield.
indeed the President himself has
sought in 4 recent speech. to impress
upon the mind Of the public the posi-
bility that we may gain less than we
had hoped for. The caution has been
uttered not in a spirit Of pessimism, but
from a sense of great responsibility and
concern. Difficulties presented will come
far more from others than from our
selves It is beyond the'power Of this
Government wholly to dictate the meth
DDS Of procedure, or to define absolutely
the range Of the subjects to be consid
cred.
1.-THE efficiency of. ornaments is COM
parative. Suppose we have today twelve
battleships and their attendant compile
Eient of auxiliary vessels of various
types, and some other nation has six
and corresponding auxiliaries. IF we
proceed to build twelve more and the
other nation six more we shall find each
other relatively where we were before
the expansion. If the conference does
no more than to reach an agreement
that we shall remain as we are, it will
have accomplished much. for it will have
saved TO US many hundreds of millions.
at is a matter of knowledge common
to those having relation to the military
the last shot Of the great war was fred
the worlds chemists and engineers have
developed gases and destructive forces
far more terrible than the most appalling
that were employed in that monster CON
h1ct If an enga cement can be entered
into that will arrest this a great gain
will have been made"
Beyond the possibility that the limits
Of armament may be fixed there is the
hope, but not the certainty that some
of the points of friction from which wars
may come may be considered and agree
ments concerning them reached Senator
New said.
But get the proposition right IT
is not to engage with others to main
tain national boundaries with which we
have no concern; not an enga cement to
enter upon war at the behest Of some
one else; not to make of ourselves q
collection agency; not to join with some
one else to keep subject peoples in sub
lection. 1t is but to propose to Others
all Others-that the United States is
more than willing to prove its faith
by its deeds. to provide for peace by
ceasing to provide for mutual destruc-
ton, and IL that be pacifism. make the
most Of it."
New officers Of the association were
SieCIeu dl an AFTERNOON session as 1Oi-
lows: Edward H Knight, Indianapolis.
president; DR.. D. R Saunders, FRANC
Lin and George o. Dix, Terre Haute. vice
presidents; Harry B. Dynes, Indlanapo-
lis, secretary; Ben H. Afford. Anderson.
treasurer and William Patterson, Oxford,
J. J. Heavey, Huntington, DR.. w. w.
Tindle, Shelbyville, and NJ. r. Hollings-
worth, Princeton, members of the
executive committee.