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The Washington times., 1921-11-06
TERRIBLE WEAPONS

That may sound bloodthirsty.
As q matter Of fact. It is the com.
mon sense Of a true man Of peace.
Experimentally every terrible way
Of war making should be developed
without pause or hindrance.
But II should be experiment, dis
covery, perfection and that only.
There should be no quantity manu-
facture. With war making scienca
at its presenl stage. the expenditure
of $5,00O,00 or $10, ZOO, 900 annually
by the United States or England. or
any other advanced nation, would
produce instruments Of death 50 ter
rible that presently all men and
every nation would well know that
war would mean the end Of civiliza~
ton.
Presently we would find the
world In abject terror Of itself and
its abilities. Then we might call a
conference promising far more than
can now be expected of that which
is to meet in Washington.
Bring about that situation and
humanity is going to say:
"I think I'd better quit killing
and try peaceable negotiation
IF every nation knew that II
could not attack another and, to use
a slang phrase. get away with It,
there would be an end OF arrogance.
feel sure that through expert
ments, utilizing present and ap-
proaching scientific knowledge TO
its full. such knowledge might be
brought about.
AT the end OF five-year period
devoted to unceasing research and
experiment, another conference, at
which knowledge OF the dreadful
potentialities revealed by such re-
search would be well known or fully
revealed. no matter how tremend-
ously all experimenters tried to keep
their results secret, would find the
delegates more willing to DO reason
able.
A question had been suggested TO
me to ask Mr.. Edison. II wns
couched as follows:
Consider Asia. OF course we
know there will be no danger from
any Asiatic nation for, say, fifty
years, but is II not our Job to be far
seeing In world-len dership as we
have been farseeinE in our home
leadership toward democracy7"
The Washington times., 1921-11-06
CANT STOP SECRECY"

Ought she to keep 1t? I don't
know. It's not my job to know.
But this Is a human world. Some
international conferences have
failed because they tried to violate
the laws of human nature. One
OF the chief of these is locking
out for Number One.
Here is a good thing to remem-
ber: We've got to keep as sane
about peace as we should keep
about war"
asked Mr.. Edison about the
various suggestions that have been
made with regard to plans for
making the approaching confer
encc open and above board, speak
ing particularly Of the thought in
many minds that open sessions
might remove the dangers of secret
diplomacy.
mo" said Mr.. Edison. Whether
or not the. sessions shall be open.
secret diplomacy will run riot
down in Washington as the con-
ference progresses. 1t would be as
utterly unreasonable to expect ac-
tual frankness as 1t would be
to expect actual unselfishness
at such a meeting. Secret deal
ing cannot be prevented. I am
not certain that 1t ought to
be. 1t would require a group Of
supermen as delegates-or of in.
efficient citizens Of the repre-
sented nations.
The Washington times., 1921-11-06
SHOULD CHECK JAPAN

"There should be no. Japanese
conquests OF Russian territory. but
Japan might purchase some of II.
giving in payment bonds which all
the other powers could well afford
to guarantee. In fact the other
nations could afford TO take up
some of them, actually helping
Japan to make payments.
"All the world should see to II that
Japan desists from her endeavors to
take territory already fully used and
needed by any other people. Un-
doubtedly she should get out OF
Shantung, and II she hesitates about
II her departure should be speeded
by the balance of the world.
But. also. Britain should get out
OF Hongkong. Portugal should get
out of the small territory which she
holds, France should get out of
Cochin China and so on. A rule
should be a rule. China should be
let alone. not only by Japan, but by
everybody else.
"But we must not forget that as
the thing stapds. today, II is not the
government Of Japan which is ma
king her aggressive, II Is her birth
rate. She has got to have an outlet.
III the conference at Washington,
and the government of the world, in
cluding the United States, will real
ize this; II the people and the gov
ernment Of Japan will stop to think
that warfare is the costliest way OF
buying territory, and begin to think
of other means whereby II might be
got, that problem may be solved.
"Japan's problem is commercial"
no more political than mine when /
The Washington times., 1921-11-06
ENFORCING REDUCTION

Suppose the plane drops on a
sleeping city gas bombs with a small
amount OF explosive TO spread tho
gas over, say. twenty acres!
1T Is very obvious to me that ws
must be extremely tolerant of all
French fears, extremely considerate
Cf all French suggestions, extremely
sympathetic with the French posi-
ton.
II have spoken about reasonable
would be relieved II an agreement
covering the next five years were
consummated. Germany can't do
much in five years any more than
Japan-even Britain could motif
the conference adopts agreements
that all armament not more than 10
or l5 per .. n, advanced in it's con-
struction forthwith shall be brought
TO an end of building.
II don't know about requiring
that ships and material which are
further on than that shall be lmme-
diately scrapped. Perhaps the pres
sure TO finish will be irresistible.
Human nature remains human ma
ture and governments and taxpayers
are part Of il.
n iuI uIrf agreement that all gov
ernments should throw their secrets
and secret places open to inspection
by an international commission
might be useful. but IL anything of
this sort is agreed upon we must be
careful not to let ourselves be film
famed.
II cannot see why such a commits
sion might not have the right at any
time TO visit any source of armament
IN any country and see to il that
agreements were carried out with
honesty and intelligence.
II have suggested not a thing
which is beyond the bounds Of
reason, not a thing beyond the
bounds OF immediate possibility. The
efforts Of very small percentage of
the people of the world are required
to put through anything. The bust
ness of the world of every sort Is
The Washington times., 1921-11-06

with interest everything that has
been printed about Japan's strange
position and alleged belligerent In
tent.
There IL a way whereby such
thoughts may be put out OF her
head. They grow there because
she must have land for her In
creasing population. Whether or
not we like the japanese We must
admit that.
Japan must have a place for
her surplus population, but she
must get II by purchase, not by
secret diplomacy or conquest. The
problem OF the Aslatic Is most
difficult. Sanitation preserves
from periodical decimation by ro-
current plaques populations which
without IL increased so speedily
that nothing save such plaques
kept II down TO a proportion which
could get support from off the
land on which. IL lived.
81. personally. am certain that
to help Japan get new and gen
erously large areas on which TO
live would be far cheaper than 10
build warships with which TO fight
her. i believe the other nations
should assist her to get land, not
by giving up OF their own any
portion which they hold materially
valuable or sentimentally holy, but
by helping her to get some terri
tory which is not in use at present.
Russia has great areas unreas.
onably distant from her center OF
government which might be given
TO the Japanese. What right has
she to stand above them, growing.
II anybody dares approach? She
has done nothing TO develop them;
her present plight is one OF the
most awful spectacles that the
world ever has known. She can
not and never could manage what
she has.
The Washington times., 1921-11-06
Hermit Lost His Life
Seeking Hidden Coin

MARSHALL. Mich, Nov. 5.-Jere-
miah Craig. aged reclue who was
burned to death when his shanty was
destroyed. lost his life trying to save
his money. II is believed he had 5000
hidden in the north corner OF the rear
room and that he raced through tho
fire to secure this, succumbing TO tho
heat. fire and smoke just as he
reached the point where the money
might have been hidden.
AS soon as p )ssible neighbors car
ried the body from the building. Sew
eral silver dollars and a number Of
pennies were found embedded in the
flesh on the hip where the pocket
book had burned from the coin.
The Washington times., 1921-11-06
WARNS OF LOADED DICE

"Denial is the diplomats chief
stock In trade. The delegates at
Washington will have their pockets
full or loaded dice. There will be
overy sort of underground work
there, as there was at Paris. as
there must be at any meeting Of
this sort. 1t would be silly to ex-
pect otherwise"
I asked Mr.. Edison for his opinion
on the disputed question of an open
conference.
II believe" said he. that the ses-
sions Of the conference should be
secret. and that a digest of what oc-
ours, each day, should be given OUT
by the American Government and by
no other source of information. We
must be courteous and play Tho
game with our confreres.
Entirely wrong impressions may
arise out Of too free discussion OF
things which have not been accom-
plished, but are being worked fori
l know that that is true in business.
1 know It must be true at meetings
Of this sort which will occur in
Washington.
America must not expect too
much of this conference. It's agree
ments will be dependent upon CIR
cumstances. The people must
realize this or they will meet with
disappointment. The delegates
will be the servants Of their gov
ernments. Their agreements will
be like those OF trade representatives
who meet and solemnlv agree to
programs and then rush to the tele-
graph offices to notify their selling
agents TO cut prices.
THAT is why / suggest an agree
ment with regard TO the whole qu-s-
tion OF disarmament to last not more
than five years. Why pretend ~ Al
we can at this conference beget
something which will last forever
when we know well that we cannot7
- think there would be n real
safeguard in the adoption Of an in.
violable rule that NO agreement to
last long"r than five cave aE"uld
be reached
THE CONDITION Of iuy Md IL
such that an agreement uaI' now
to last five years only Is likely TO
BE- really observed.
The whole world II hard up.
Knowing that this condition vnl
The Washington times., 1921-11-06
STOP ARMS PLANTS

Quantity production of war ma
terials in peace time is sheer waste.
The whole world must stop It..
That's the really big Job Of the con-
ference. The insanity of govern.
ments which. after they have built
a thing and found It apparently
right. instantly proceed to the con-
struction OF excessive quantities at
the cost of millions only to find in
a short time that the original was
defective or has been superseded by
something better! That isn't fore
thought, it's stupidity. Quantity
production, a rapid process, should
not go into operation until the need
arises.
"If governments would realize
this principle and then go on expert
menting with death dealing devices.
ceaselessly, inexorably. without
counting cost experimenting doesn't
cost much: it's manufacture in large
quantities which swells taxation)
the world soon would be full Of such
death dealing devices as would
make war utterly impossible. Soon
all the general staffs would be found
useless, because no general staff
would find 1t possible to meet scien-
tific achievements in devising in.
struments of death.
Then, when war came, II reason
ably prepared to ward away the first
threatened attacks. we could proceed
with the construction In great num-
bers of the best available and most
perfectly developed device as II
might be at that particular mo-
ment-"
Have you. yourself. any sugges-
tons to make to the conference"
II have not" said Mr.. Edison,
with emphasis. But l know one
procedure that might tend to lessen
likelihood of wars. No competent
government in the world ever ought
to cease experimentation with war
making machinery and substances.
This, I think at this time. Is espe-
cially true with regard to aviation
and asphyxiating and other war
gaSc0.
The Washington times., 1921-11-06
BAR AMERICAS TO JAPS

Reason must be followed In this
matter as In others. Neither we nor
others must be asked TO Hospitality
invite the Japanese TO room with us.
There Is an innate prejudice against
mixing races, and doubtless II has
firm foundation in some wise. en-
tirely beneficent law.
California will not consent 10 an
inpouring OF the Japanese and you
and l can't blame her. But IL Japan
should issue "A couple OF billion dol
lars worth OF bonds guaranteed
under safeguards by the other ma.
tions or the world. she might buy
land or China or OF Russia at fair
prices.
THE Koreans, even (they certain
ly have been unhappy where they
are since first Japan got after them)
might be hired to go elsewhere II a
good place were found for them,
near other people OF their own or
similar characteristics.
1T Is the judgment OF the worlds
practical mem that the Japanese
would would do far better with the
Korean territory than Koreans ever
have.
But II cannot be too emphatically
stated that our own, or the
Canadian. or the Mexican or South
American Pacific Coasts must not be
invaded by Japanese populations.
Race antagonisms involving actual
color are more fundamental and inn
possible to appease than any
European quarrel could be.
Commerce and not war must
solve humanity's problems In the
future. II the people Of the North
had paid the South to free it's slaves.
letting paymentsSrun through long
period, say. OF fifty years. 1t would
have been far cheaper than the civil
war
The Washington times., 1921-11-06
PRIVATE UNDERSTANDING

I'VE must be cautious in our
judgment Of these things. 40
ceptance Of the responsibilities OF
government representation may Of
necessity transform an honest man
into the opposite.Ss There will be
some of that soH Of thing upon
our own part II we comeout Of the
conference without loss Of prestige
and advantaPe Don't forget that
this world Is Just as human now as
when the apple episode occurred
In Eden
THE competent representative Of
any government is likely to think.
and may be justified in thinking.
when the interests Of the country
sending him are threatened. that
the end justifies the means.
THE war did not reveal tho inner
secrets of the governments. All
sorts OF strictly private understand
ings now exist affecting practically
every portion of the world. no mat
ter how much this may be denied
by diplomats.
The Washington times., 1921-11-06

terial and other. make US far less
desperately interested in the prob
lens OF disarmament than certain
other nations must be. At the Limi-
tations OF Armament Conference we
should make a point of one thing,
and that is to heed more carefully
each request that France makes OF
us and the world. She is in a ba
position and always must be unless
something more is done to help her
achieve safety.
Disarmament may seem a very
simple thing TO us, but to France 1t
Is not simple. She land even u
can imagine many very dreadfuI
things which might occur to her Il
she did not keep herself protected in
some way; her worries are quite JUS
titled
The Washington times., 1921-11-06
PREPARATION URGED

Small groups run even demo
cratic countries. More participate
in the national government here
than elsewhere, but by no means all
the people here take part. In
Britain, speaking OF the United
Kingdom, the condition may be
much like ours, but Look at India
and Africa.
"I could put the actual bosses
OF the nations OF the world upon
the tiny island OF Bermuda with
out crowding IL. A lot OF room
for golf links would be left. II is
only a small number that must be
brought TO see the light. Some
way must be found OF doing it,"
/ asked Mr.. Edison II he could
see any limit TO the future pos
sibilities OF instruments OF war
making.
"I cannot" he replied, emphat-
ically. High explosives. long
range guns, poison gases, wire.
less communication and wireless
direction OF ships and aircraft
offer limitless possibilities beyond
which minds constantly advance.
At the present moment / see no
way of utilizing atomic energy.
but that doesn't mean that II cam
not be done.
Develop all these things as
rapidly as possible and let the
other fellow know that you have
done IL. He won't try to fight you
then, and II he is doing the sams
thing youIl look at him from the
corner OF your eye and step vide
when you see him rather than sp-
preaching him and swearing at
f..n when your fist is doubled"
CCopyright, 1921, by Edward Marshall
Syndicate, Inc.'
The Washington times., 1921-11-06
Wire Fence to Prevent
Suicide of States Deer

LEWISTON, Pa, Nov. 5.-A two
strand wire fence will be stretched
along the top of the Red Rock. near
Anderson station. TO prevent deer
from leaping over that precipice TO
the tracks below, where two fine
specimens have been killed In the past
year.
The State Game Commission will
furnish the wire and Warden Zimmer-
man will string II among the trees to
act as warning to deer approaching
at high speed
The Washington times., 1921-11-06
JAPAN'S NEED FOR LAND
Mr.. Edison threw up his hands In

Mr.. Edison threw up his hand. In
an expressive gesture.
Fifty years." said he. "Good
Lord don't know enough to speak
~ four or five years. lot alone n
time ns long as fifty years. The
problems are too complicated now
and new complications will arise
with every twelve months.
1T is sure, for instance. that some
conGested nations must have more
land on which 20 ffva. Z have rsA1
The Washington times., 1921-11-06

need to build an addition 10 my fac
tory.
What do / do when / am too
crowded on the land l have? l go
and buy a piece. All right. Japan
can go and buy "a piece OF land
which some one else can spare-and
all the balance OF the world should
help her do II. just as the banks help
me when l am forced TO get new
sites.
The Washington times., 1921-11-06

done by little groups. not by
maJOrtties. and. ! think, always viii
be. Where majority IL the rule the
small groups guide II. the benefit OF
the majority power lying In the
fact that II IL Christening 20 the
small groups 90 know that they may
be easily shorn OF their power II they
go wrong.
The Washington times., 1921-11-06
GERMANY HATES FRANCE

For the moment It is true. o.
course, that she is safe enough, be-.
cause Of Germany's financial pros
tration and general Decentralization.
But GernIany's prostration, we all
know, will not last long.
What then? France asks, and
her question is quite justified. We
Of the United States. must not for
The Washington times., 1921-11-06

Priced as low; ssh 90 per dozen upward:
#4Ss;peeeiaZ ~ HYlas;G 5Ras)(
Ind iYidual or Gf foup r ortraiits made 81
::11barB Bratb are; Pres nts thaf=#I oli;f
Friend sWi1 L %sT 4. cas- 1ife% Ind It hat:
You e am Easi11 ford it 8 /. Oh We.
The Washington times., 1921-11-06

PORTtAfg The Dual ffi al Una l<es;;
:1Baf6 Fortt Ytaits S 50 Desirabl is the:
itict off Fine and I Her fore, it::
lis Ess initial toS "a nSe fnients
Af Once for CHRIS S'Is MAS Del live ry.2;
Jf$ifoy;s 70 IS MI 7lo sa1pI zse1ie::s
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-13
GRAZING LANDS
FAST FILLING UP
Trainloads Of Cattle From
Texas and New Mex
leo to Usage
yTOE PASTURES GOOD
Resumption Of Peace in Mex
leo Has Induced Shipping
Of Many Cattle to South

sess..i 20 The world.
pONt'A cry, MAY i2.-Catcle
no she trainload are arriving daily
o., the present ,.me for both the
n,oe indian country and western
os,ec ,atturcs and will amount
srcr,uliy In both districts to ap-
nr,,Ir.lt,ly $1,000 to 5000 head.
,u are from either Texas or New
V,,,ro one trairload Of 1900
hoad from san Angelo was unloaded
yos,,ra4y al sumner for the Otoe
nssfuros and cattle men there be
tie,e -hc total in that district will
No, befVecn 1000 and 5000 head,
,he,fas ,n the western Usage they
all Total around 1000 head. II
4. figured ON leasing Otoe pasture
l,nds on 20 basis OF one steer 10 four
,,rss Uf land and in the Usage one
,n oyc acres. IN both districts grass
s unusually good this spring and
average acres per head could run
lower.
Cat,lcmcn arriving from New
u,yiro declare the drouth has been
nrolonccd that they had really hut
ono rain during 1920 and but very
low rains since 1915. IL. has been
necessary therefore, to take the
,.,,e our of that area entirely and
many were shipped into Texas Tor
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-13
COMMENCEMENT
ON AT NORMAN
University of Oklahoma
Exercises Take Place
First Week of June

Special f. rn. World.
NORMAN. MAY 12-Mr Robert
I. Ninsou, president of the rniycrs-
ity OF Texas viii deliver the com-
mcucomout address when AGA sem
iors of the University ~ oklahoma
receive their degrees June l. 1t was
announced 10y university authgritlcs
recently
The commencement Nddrcss VIII
ho iu the u,N university auditorium
TU,sdJ' morning at 1880 follow
.ul the annual commencement pa
r1d' by faculty members and cuudi
dates for graduation. Tho 1921
bacyi'aurvato sermon viii be de
ivcrcd sunday June b, at 10 -. m.,
by Rev. Charles Wcith. pastor of
the Presbyterian church of Ard
more. \ commencement concert
will hc given in the university audi
torium Monday night, June 2.
Tho annual University OF Okla
homt alumni reunion, which viii h'
attended by members of five "la~S"H
dating back as far as 1895, viii h"
held AT the university nt noon, Jhn'
CIa.spH 10 participatp lu th" r..
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-13
TlUO Tulsa FdUOriteS to Star
at the Orphelun Next Week

News of utmost importance
to Orpheum patrons rs an
nounced by the management
of that playhouse, when 1t de-
clares that Ogden and Benson.
two boys and a piano, Will be
offered as part of seven-act
star bill beginning Sunday.
Ogden and Benson are very
popular in Tulsa, having play
ed here for several years.
when vaudeville was offered
at the old Empress and the act
was presented during the
opening week of the new Or
pheum. An incident occurred
during their last appearance
.n Tulsa that was given prom
inence among the actor folk
and the public general.y,
when after the Saturday night
performance here both boys
iourneyed overseas, to take
part in the scrimmage in
France. The boys proved Just
as lively a pair on the battle
fields as they did on the Vaud-
eville platform and retired
after the armistice amidst ap-
plause.
Ogden and Benson present
an act this year that is said
to be unusually clever. Their
voices are still at their best
and their smart repartee a
sure bringer of laughs.
All indications point to a
real variety bill. at the Or
pheum next week. With Cor
rine Tilton in "A Chameleon
Revue" co-starring, there are
enough acts of a different
character to keep the most eX-
acting audience interested
and entertained.
As announced this week, the snc-
Cial reduction In prices will hold
forth for the balance of the season.
Tho sunday matinee prices have
been lowered from 30 cents to So
cents. The week night prices have
been dropped from 80 cents to s.
cents Seats are now selling for all
performances next Wcck.-Advt.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-13

wintering that are now being
brought 90 oklahoma pastures t.
fatton for market
For the first time In the history
OF the cattle Industry. according To-
cattlomsn many cattle are being
shipped 70 Mexico, rcNiNing the bust
ness I'm that country. wherc it was
shot" all topicccs during the va
rious revolutions the past few years
Mexico, they say was practically
denudcd of cattle and the movement
is now back into that country.
They have been bought by the train
load In the more southern United
states markets and shipped into
Mexico aud at the present time
many beef cattle are being shipped
into that country Local cattlcmcn
figure that, in the long run. this
fae' Will help stabilize the cattle
industry in this country.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-13
-Four Iirid for Mans Death.

CHlrAGD. May lc--TWo men and
two women were under arrest today
300 connection with tho staying ~
Nlhnnicl Brcak-tonc, u taNicuh
chauffeur Brcakstonc was shot to
death beside his cab which was
standing n front uf an apartment
house Police arrested four inmates
ut the apartment They blame a love
,ftair for tho shooting