Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1922-01-02

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however, we have only two heliun
plants-in the gas fields of For
Worth and Pctrolia Texas, ana thu
work has been mostly experimental
In our day, however, when a thing once
gets started it moves swiftly.
Congress CGnyenes.
big day was the 9th. The trees 0!
Washington were covered with Il won
derful coat Of frost and snow. The
avenue was lined with hundreds OF
automobiles and thousands Of people
The president and his wife, cabinet Off
Icers, members of congress, ambassa-
doris. arms delegates, and every kind
land class of people were bent for Capt.
tOl Hill. The big airship, painted silver
and covered with snow, appearing like
Il great glittering silver cigar, added
itself to the hurry. The capitol was
lbeing iammed with people waiting for
THE gallery doors to be opened. The
Iprcsident was to read his first annual
message to the joint session of congress.
Crowds were in line four hours before
the doors were open, and the galleries
were packed three hours before the
president spoke. The representatives
of the nations were much interesting i'll
Mr.. Harding's statements concerning
the inseparability of the United States
from world affairs. but. he also said
European nations must use heroic
measures themselves. There was much
interest, and applause. too, when he
said: 1T is not desirable that Il labor
organization shall be permitted TO eX-
act unfair terms of employment or
subject the public to actual diStresSes
| in order to enforce its terms.
In an industrial society such as ours
| the strike, the lockout. and the boycott
are as much ont of place, and as dis
astrOus in their results as is war or
armed revolution in the domain OF poll
ties
Significant. The statement that
caused the most comment was that Il
president be given authority to make
changes in the tariff laws to suit Speci-
tic times and conditions. upon informa-
ton and advice of the tariff commits
sion.
There is one thing certan-"All
dressed up and no place to gO"-does
not apply to Washington people
The Most Important Event?
The young student in school these
days often learns more about past his
tory than he does about that which
takes place right under his eye. Be
tween his school days and manhood
there are many important connecting
links in history, and by the time he
may become Il public spirited man.
there is often decided gap in his his
tory education. The Washington
schools are taking up vigorously the
question of urging students to follow
the conference proceedings. and classes
are held in school. also. Who knows
but what this is the most important
event in the history of the world! me
daily statements of the proceedings
certainly have had much to interest the
higher student China, for instance.
Every human being on the face OF the
earth has proper reason to be interested
as to whether the nations shall war.
To remind us of how almost everything,
animate and inanimate, becomes IN
yolved, we might note the following eN-
tract from the annual report of Gen. n.
\. Fries. chief of the Chemical Warfare
Service:
"Our growth of understanding has
come to !, realization that the activities
Of peace and the activities OF war are
no longer capable of complete segre-
cation The wars of today and those
of the future will involve every activt!
of a nation and every inhabitant OF THAT
nation. At the outbreak of war, IA
tions will mobilize their man power and
their Industrial power and will strive
with all their facilities to find Il means
flat will win. and when the life of a
nation is at stake. no method OF war
fare that promises results will go I'M
used" and that we must not be de
ludcd with the idea that any particular
method of warfare can be abolished uil-
iii oll warfare can be abolished"
Scrapping hattleships will not stop
wars. because there are other methods
of warfare that are thousand times
n ore hateful and destructive. Subma-
riues. poison gas. etc. are on the con-
ference agenda and land armamentS
will probably be deferred. inc con-
ference has done much. but it has not
Idnnc all until these other questions are
settled. The times when kings co"io
carry ON wars from thirty to hulareo
years have past now is the time Tor
| the peoples to speak. \ short war no"
| is far more terrible than a long one
Iuscd to he. The boys and sirlS now
| il, their teens will lac the voting cur
zcns and eligible for cannoh-lWoer
when the ten-year holiday ends 1t IL