Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-12-16
EACH lNvERPRETs MEANINGS
OF ARMS CONFERENCE AS HIS
PREJUDICE DICTATES.
READING PUBLIC CONFUSED
Certain Results Of the Great Meeting
Have Been and viii Be Reached
Despite the Exploitation of Individ-
ual Ideas.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK

ference to use the old, old saying thai
1.-THE wish is father to the thought "
There is an official interpreter in
the conference chamber who turns
French into English and English into
French. There are several scores OF
writer interpreters of the meanings
! of the meeting and a large part of
them make the wish father of the In
terpreted thought.
Ought one to say this? Well, yes,
because it is everlastingly true. HUI
man nature cannot be changed even
] by conference which looks toward
ultimate peace in the world. If a
writing interpreters thought Is read
his wish generally Is read.
If the American reading public will
/ take the speeches made by the chief
delegates to the great conference, and
viii read the straight news of the de-
veloping events of each day and will
do its own interpreting, 1t will prob
4 ably be better off than If it reads the
entirely contradictory interpretations
of the proceedings, past, present and
future, which are put forth by writ
ers of almost as many minds on the
subject as there are words in the min
utes of the days procedure.
Each Writer Follows His Bent.
In the writing craft as assembled
In Washington there are all kinds of
'isms' represented everything from
militalism to pacifism and actual yell
lowisin. Does any sane person expect
any one of these men or women to
change the current of lifetime
thought and belief into channels In
which they never ran before? Is it
to be expected that the men and wom-
en- who came here as haters of France
can see anything good in BRANDS
argument on the subject of land dis
armament? Is it to be expected that
over to the doctrine of total disarm-
ament for the United States, and car
ing nothing about the disarmament
of other powers, can see anything good
In Secretary Hughes plan for only a
partial scrapping of the forces of our
I
man or woman who came here hold
ing Japan as a suspect in everything
that It does, or has done, can write
anything but suspicion of Japan's
words and acts today in this city of
Washington? Is it to be expected
chat any contemners Of Great Brit
aims acts, past, present, or outlined
In the future, can write anything in
Interpretation of the acts of the con-
ference which viii not be inimical
In Spirit TO the fright Little Isle?
Speeches are maSe in the confer
ence chamber by leading men of ev-
cry country which is here represent
ed. These men are daily written down
as truth tellers, or, under a semi-po-
lite veil, as liars, and all this more
than occasionally in obedience to the
writer's thought which is the off
spring of his wish in the case.
Results That Won't BE Changed.
There are certain facts thus far to
come out of the conference which can
not be galnsaid. 1t is perfectly use
less to write that these facts ought
not to be facts, and that something
else ought to have been done. The
results have been reached and they
win stand until something or other
happens in the universe to knock
them down.
Navies are to be reduced. An agree
ment is to be made among the nations
collectively that certain things shall
be done for China. A happy way,
virtually, has been found out of the
difficulties which involved the Island
of zap. and some other things al
ready have been definitely settled.
/ Men and women have been moved
to attendance on this conference as
| listeners and as writer's by a desire
either to attack or to defend certain
nations and their ideals, or, as 1t may
be, their lack of ideals. Washington
/ also has become the exploiting place
/ of a variety of "isms" which have no
/ spiritual or physical connection with
the conference as called by the Presi.
dent OF the United States.
The proceedings of the conferees
have been straight-away thus far
They have tried to get into one path
and in that path to proceed to the
end sought. 1t must be edifying Il
Ithe foreign visitors to read banners
,arried in the hands of fatuous ones
proclalming a "Do This" or a "Don't
DO That" The fanatics, like the
poor, we have with us at all times
and they are a sight worse plague
than the poor. OF course the for
eigners have become familiar in theil
own land with manifestations of men
talities diseased, but not quite enough
SO to demand the victims RELOCATION
TO the asylums, but the wonder is toda,
just what the foreigners think of tbs
peculiar brand Of American fanatic
which is making pestilentia. SHOW
J Of himself or herself on the sidewalk
NJ Washington today.
Ships mat Won't Be Scrapped.