Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-09-23

main facts VIII be given 10 the press.
Many Of the meetings of the con-
ference will be open TO the press and
public. but as the hall in the Pam
American building which has been set
aside for the use of the conference is
not by any means a large one. some
strict attendance regulations will be
necessary.
An inside limit of 1000 official Wis
itors has been set by the authorities
In estimating the attendance at the
Forthcoming conference on disarma-
ment. This estimate takes no cog
milton of what may be called extran-
eous visitors
Newspaper men stationed in Wash
ington are making preparations to
welcome and to look after the COM
fort of some three hundred of their
comrades who are expected to arrive
here, perhaps properly enough, on or
about All Saints day from the Old
World and the New. If the conferees
decree that the conference is TO be
conducted along the open covenants
openly arrived at" plan, the newspa-
per men, resident ana alien alone
would fill the hall Of confab.
English and French to Be Used.
The proceedings of the conference
are to be written and printed in two
languages, English and French. There
will be some correspondents in WASH
ington who speak neither of these
languages, but they will get the news
all the same, for that is a way they
have. 1t is fully expected that every
European country will be represented
by newspaper writer's. and of course
Japan will have its writing represent
tatives on the spot
Recently in Washington there was
| formed an organization which is
called the Overseas Writers club. Its
membership is composed entirely of
present Washington correspondents
who at one time or another have
served their newspapers in foreign
fields. Il was this newly-formed or
ganization which gave a luncheon TO
Lord Northcliffe on his visit to Wash
ington. 1t was the clubs first formal
social function.
The State department has been con-
sulting members of the National Press
club, the Gridiron club. the Overseas
Writer'S club, and more directly than
was all others, the members Of the
standing committee of correspondents.
The State department in a general
way will look after the comfort and
TO some extent the amusement of all
the visitors from foreign countries,
but it is to he the special duty and
| pleasure of the newspaper men to
look after their colleagues. The quar-
ters of the National Press club are
none too large, but of course every
visiting writer win be given a guest
card, and in addition he will be given
a temporary card admitting him to
the two press galleries of congress.
Don't Hope to Abolish War.
The instant that the disarma-
ment conference was proposed there
were evidences that the American
people here there and elsewhere,
following the line of their sun
. thinkin thought" of 1914. 1915, 1916
and early 1917, were jumping to the
conclusion that war for all time was
to cease, thar the United States soon
would get rid of its army and navy
and that powder, shell, Greadnoughts,
gas and other weapons and munitions
of warfare soon would be sent into
the neither place of the forgotten.
SO it is that Washington today Is
getting results in the way of reflex on
President Harding's speech to the
members of the army war college in
which he made the attempt specifically
to dispel the apparent false hopes of
many of the American people that the
coming disarmament conference might
end war for all time.
1t actually was necessary for men
who understood the situation to write
words of warning because of the SEEM
ing widespread feeling that the con-
ference of the winter was certain TO
smooth the front of Mars and to keep
it smooth for all time. Officials point
is a wide difference between hope and
certainty The President finally felt
compelled himself TO make public his
views on the subject so that the Amer
lean people would not later hold him
responsible for making false prom
ises. OF course he never made any
promise. and all that he held out was
hope that ornaments might be
limited.
Limitation Not Disarmament.
Loose ",riting, of which many Of
US are guilty, is responsible for some
of the misunderstanding concerning
the scope of the coming conference.
It is not to be a disarmament confer.
ence, but a conference on the subject
Of the limitation of ornaments. There
is a difference between the two things
which needs no explaining.
Every government official seemingly
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