Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-11-10
THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 1921.

"i'i pV iio
o. surprise in this country if the
Sooalled arms conference which is
to meet in Washington Saturday
with accredited representatives
i'll attendance from all the more
important nations of the world
comes to an end with nothing
Substantial having been accom-
pIlshed to reduce the war prepa.
ratlonS which have gone on for
the last three years at great speed
ahd on more extensive scale
than ever in America, England.
Japan and perhaps other coun-
tries. The Influence Of the presi-
dent of the United States is all.
p"rvadlng, and some months ago
President Harding was quoted as
saying that too much need not be
expected of the conference and
that tins country was not prepar-
cd to go as far in insisting upon u
reduction of armament as some
people desired. By this statement
ihc president showed Indifference
to the work of the conference.
Newspaper readers will recall
HAT there was considerable con.
1cntion in Congress over the
wording of the resolution request.
'ng the president to call the con.
terence and that the resolution
finally adopted was not what he
would have had. This circum.
stance may or may not have been
resented by the president. but in
amy event he does not seem to
have been overburdened with en-
thllslaSm over the plans for re-
lieVmg distraught world of the
possibility of recurrence of the
cataclysm which all but engulfed
civilization from 1914 to 1919.
Possibly he was preoccupied with,
laying plans for his regular week
erd pleasure trips. If the people
al the various nations to be rep.
resented at the conference could
nave their way a program of al.
most total disarmament would be
agreed upon, but unfortunately
those who suffer most from war
and the nightmare of ever pre-.
parlng for war will have few
'okcsmen at the conference.
There will be an abundance of
talk about the good will one for
the other of the nations partici-
patng in the conference and the
universal desire to lessen the dan
gel OF armed conflicts, but when
me test comes, which one of the
great powers will step to the
front and declare itself the ortho.
dox church by saying, 1--WE are
ready and anxious to discontinue
building battleships and making
other war preparations. Will the
other first class nations join us?"
1t any such proposition is made
IT will come from Great Britain
which, more than any other ma
ton, has entered the conference
with genuine desire to do some.
thing to relieve suffering human.
ity. The United States In the
background of everything there
looms the almighty dollar. We
must think first with tender so.
llcitude of the battleship builders.
the steel manufacturers and the
munitions makers.
Inquiry discloses the informa
tlon that few of the farmers of
the Fort Mill community are tax
ing steps to insure themselves ad-
vantage over the boil weevil next
year. At best the insect is hard
10 sombat, but from the expert
ence of other sections of the cot.
ton belt in which the farmers
nave had to contend with it for
years helpful lessons may be learn
ed. One of the best methods yet
discovered for staying the rava-
Scs OF the pest seems to be the
plowing under of of old cotton
stalks in the early fall. Govern.
mrnr tests show. as was pointed
out Ill the news columns of The
Times last week, that with tn:
early destruction of the stalks
from which the cotton has haan