The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-01-19
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Copyright. Western Newspaper Union
VIII.
WHAT PERSHING THINKS

WHAT PERSHING THINKS
The appropriations of the five great
/ powers for military and naval pur-
poses in the year 1920 alone reached
total of SIG, 442, 251,1 01, a sum only
about $2,000OO0,0O0 more than the
total for the whole fourteen years be-
( fore the war.
/ 1t all comes down to this so far as
/ you are concerned:
Every morning when you go to
work, or when you stay at home sick
on a working day, or even if you
are out of a job, it has been arranged
for you to pay your fair share out
of what you earn or should earn, Of
over $5,0O0,0OO a day for the support
| of the army and navy. That is the
estimate for the fiscal year 1922
/ over $5,0OO0O0 a day. / have General
/ Pershing's word for it. You will have
/ TO pay ii. Five million dollars every
working day is a pile of money TO
/ spend for insurance against attack.
And Of course that is not all the
/ cost. What is the big idea? What do
/ you think about it? You will have to
I pay the bin. Do you think about 1t
I at all? General Pershing does. This
is what he thinks:
"As we consider the causes of the
World war and comprehend its hor-
rors avar, ,binl,in,. ,,on and woman
rpuet fool thar measures should no
taken to preyant another such cal.
amitv ono s+pn i'm that direction
,ro,,1d no IN rad,,oa evnardit,,rae for
armament ON, own estimates for
ravoI and military nrrnosos conta,n-
rIata an onrrourfation for tbe fscol
yaar 1000 or ovor e.. oOoOoo Tor evarv
WORKING dav in tbe wear II is a
gloomy. rro.n.ct +bo+ tho nations ,lo,
evuenGftnrs. aroo+er than e,..,. before
in re,cetf,nes
"T+ would ar,agr tr,a+ rocer+ a,-.
nerippcps ,bonid he enorob IA con.
vince avervbol,, NJ tho dangar of a
renewal of This couretifiop Eut ono
nation cannot reduce ornaments nm
. less all do. II is time that enlightened
. utuFItt everywhere GIIulI 11uNtTf lsp
10 reach some rational agreement
which would NOT only relieve the
world Of its heavy financial burden
but which I'm itself yould go far to-
vurd tGe prevention of war We are
not warIike people. We do NOT
wish n pynaud at the eynense Of any
other nation. and we have no DESIGNS
oil auybodv. II other naoule feel the
same toward MS Dpd toward each
osher il seems unreasonable that they
should be unwilling 10 consent in
r~iDcfpIe TO some Limitation Of srmg-
ments, TO be carried out when other
uations succeed I'm establishing stable.
governments and are willing 10 recog-
nize the wisdom Of such course
: Otherwise, NAV we not seriously ask
ourselves whether civilization is
failure, and whether we are to regard
war as an unavoidable scourge that
mankind must suffer?
There are other considerations
which sbonld prompt rs 10 make every
effort TO bring shout curtaiIment of
these expenditures throughout the
world. particularly in the war-worn
countries of Europe. The people of
Europe have always been our best
/ customers and are largely dependent
upon US for certain necessities. We
must look to them TO buy the products
of our farms, mines and factories.
/ The prosperity of our people depends
in no small measure upon the unln-
terrupted flow of commodities abroad.
We have stocks Of cotton, wheat and
other products greatly in excess Of
our own requirements, which the
people Of Europe sOrely need but
which we cannot sell and they can
not buy because their fiscal systems
have broken down, their currencies
have deprecated, and their purchasing
power Is exhausted.
1.-THE first step to take I'm the re-
habilltation of the finances of all these
countries is to reduce the cost of