The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-14
CRIME WAVE IN HONOLULU CALLS FOR NQUIR
Simplify Arms Gut and Curb
 tue Experts, Lady Rhonddo,
 British Woman Leader, Urges
By EDWARD STANLEY

close eye on the experts!" is Lady Rhondda's slogan for the next dis armament conference.
 Lady Rhondda is a viscountess, but she doesn't let the title dull her interest in her fellow man and his world.
 Owner of a rich fortune, she has restless energy and mind that works on decidedly liberal lines. She sits on the boards directors of many concerns and actively edits her lively weekly, Time and Tide"
 She sheds none of that aura of busy ness common to so many women who mix in public affairs. Calm and in her forties, she re- minds one in some ways of an American woman executive.
 Has Bobbed Hair
 Her hair is bobbed, brushed back, and she smiles quickly with gen. erous mouth. Sometimes she thinks with her eyes shut; again she clasps her hands about her knee. Her eyes are blue-grey; her speech concise, rapid, quiet and pleasant.
 Sitting beside a wide, reasonably tidy desk in her Bloomsbury office, with a bay of big, black-framed windows at her back, you know that she is running her own show, with a sure hand.
 All in all, Lady Rhondda probably is the outstanding woman in Eng land, and she is afraid the next disarmament conference may turn out to be just another old time week for the experts.
 Vigorous Act
 What needs to be done is some simple, vigorous act that the ordi- nary person can understand, she said. Let each nation agree to re- duce its armament budget by a minimum of 25 per cent" CShe ex- cepts nations totally disarmedD That 25 per cent cut would be ef- fective, something that everybody would understand.
 Then let the experts battle it out as to how the rest is to be spent.
 Disarmament Favored
 "The worlds present condition is all in favor of disarmament. Na- tions realize the need for cooper ation, that we are closer together than ever before and that a shock in one part of the world has an al- most immediate reaction in all the other parts. It wants security and stability.
 Governments want to save money, and reducing armaments is an economy satisfying both re- ality and morality.
 Furthermore, we all have made our promises, starting with the peace treaties. If we do not now make some real step toward dis armament, in fact, how can we expect the defeated nations not to demand their right to re-arm?
 And, if the world once more be- comes an armed camp, there is only one answer.
 Last Chance
 "This conference is our last chance, I believe. If it is turned over from the start about what size with their quarrels about what size guns on what kind of ships each nation may have, I think it will fail".
 Equally important, Lady Rhond- da feels, is an understanding, an agreement between nations on medium for world exchange.
 We must have in the next few months world meeting to con- slider an international currency that is safe and workable.
 International control of currency is impossible without international control of tariffs. As long as there are these barriers between nations they will breed the war spirit-and we shall repeat and repeat this dismal cycle of war and depres- sion."