Entered as second-class mail matter August 20, at the Post Office at Tryon, N. C
under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879*
lEhc %vytm patlir Bulletin
Vol. 5
TRYON, N. C. TUESDAY, OCT 4, 1932.
Trgjoii Gardena Qinb Women
Are liarited to Pick Cotton
The ladies of the Mill Spring Community have invited the
members of the Tryon Garden club to a cotton picking contest
to be held Friday, Oct. 7 at 2 p. m. on the farm of Mrs. H. E.
Thompson at Mill Spring. A prize will be given to the Tryon
woman picking the most cotton in a given time. Refreshments
follow. All those connected in any way with the annual
garden tours are also invited.
Disarmament
By PHILIP B. WINDSOR, Associate Editor of Tryon Daily Bulletin
The question of reduction of armaments involves some considerations
which are ordinarily overlooked by those zealous advocates of disarma
ment as a means of assuring peace or vast economic benefits to the
world. If people could be persuaded to use their own brains instead of
allowing interested politicians and statesmen to do their thinking for
them, they would arrive at some very interesting and highly instructive
conclusions about this question, some of which may be suggested as
follows:
In general, other things being equal or remaining unchanged, the re
duction of armaments tends to increase the relative military or fighting
••power of the numerically greater nations. Thus, if armaments could be
reduced to zero, Soviet Russia would emerge as the strongest military
power in the world -with the possible exception of China- and would
be able to pursue her avowed aim of converting the rest of the world
to Bolshevism without serious opposition,
Applying this principle to the present European situation, it is at
once apparent that, if France reduces her armaments vis-a-vis unarmed
,?, Germany, the result would be to increase the fighting power of
Germany relative to France, The logical conclusion is that if we may as
sume that peace in Europe has been maintained since the Armistice on
ly because of the overwhelming superiority in military power of France
and her allies vis-a vis the defeated nations and their possible ally, Italy,
any decrease in this superiority would tend to increase rather than to
dimish the probability of war-always given the fact that the incentive to
war remained unaltered i.e. revindications for lost territories, need for
expansion for overpopulated areas, trade advantages, etc.
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