The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-24
PRESIDENT AND DISARMAMENT


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PRESIDENT AND DISARMAMENT
Happenings in West Virginia illus
trate the truth of President Hard
ing's assertion that there never can
be total disarmament. The president
is no foolinsh idealist, remarks the
Harrisburg, (Pa.) Telegraph. He I'M
derstands the folly of permitting the
nation to become helpless in the
hands of any band of miscreants with
the leadership and organization suffi-
cient to dictate to the rest of us. AL
of sufficient strength to keep order
on land and a navy large enough to
protect our interest on the water.
But the president knows that the
armament burden we are carrying is
beyond our strength; that sooner or
later the race for military and naval
supremacy will exhaust the world
and civilization will fall of its own
weight. The object of his forthcom-
ing conference is not to totally dis
arm, but to limit armament, which in
turn means a reduction of military
and naval expenses totaling billions
of dollars a year in the budget of the
world.
An Iowa farmer who stopped at the
automobile camping grounds at Wal
lace Thursday night and fell into the
clutches of a reporter for the Press
Times, gives out figures on the actual
value of Iowa land which would
probably not look good. to most of the
owners of land in that justly famed
agricultural state. The tourist had
recently disposed of Iowa land for
$3.50 an acre which he had purchased |
50 years ago for $18 and after MAX !
ing the sale had the good sense to
make for the territory west of the
Rockies to reinvest. In his interview
he stated that a fair price for Iowa |
land under present conditions would |
be $75 an acre. while a price of 500 |
means that someone is stung. The
Iowa mans great mistake since COM
ing west is that he invested his mon
ey in Oregon, instead of the Palouse /
country He is now on his way to
his new home near Salem.
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President Upham's plea for re-
trenchment in the operating expenses
at the university, made at the first
formal faculty meeting last week,
meets with the approval of the peo-
pie of the state and has drawn words
of commentator from many news
papers 1t shows that the president
has a full realization of conditions as
they exist and has the interests of
the people of the state at heart. Too
many men in public positions refuse
o recognize the fact that we are not
low living under the same conditions
Is two years ago, when the high
price received for every commodity
President Upham is to be commended
or the practical and logical view
which he takes of conditions
Pa - "a
The Arbuckle case, with it's revolt
ng details, continues to occupy
Olumns of space in the newspapers
nd probably will for some time. The
eaders are finding out something.
but are now reading, with
gasp of establishment at every
ew development, to find out just how
ideOus the affair was and more
ian one will make up his mind, as
result, to keep within the bounds
decency. The affair carries les
IN, especially to the young, that
lould be needed.
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Whether we can blame the present
God of propaganda to Teutonic in
uence or not and say the idea was
Made in Germany" we are not going
try to decide, but we do know the
ails are loaded with it. Propo-
lnda to aid-or knock-every
Orthy or unworthy thing under the
N. Press bureaus turn out tons of
ctful, tortuous tracts, telling us
lat to do and how to do it-all for
purpose. We wonder there's paper
ough to go und-Lewiston BAN
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