Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-09
RAPS AERO WARE ARE
Protest issued by Arbitration
League in London.
CONFERENCE ON DRINKING
Habit of INDUCING Between Meals
Is Deplored by Physicians.
BEDSTEAD COMBINE FORMED
Cattle-Testing Station Favored.
Salvation Army to Extend
Work in India.
CONFERENCE ON DRINKING
BEDSTEAD COMBINE FORMED
By w. HAMILTON RHODES.
.or.,-n cor-c.,onacrcc o, uhe Star.

LONDON, February u, 1872.
The International Arbitration League
has issued a memorial protesting against
the use of aerial vessels in war. I'VE
appeal to all governments the memorial
states, ito foster by every means In their
power an international understanding
which shall preserve the world from what
will add a new hideousness to the pres
emit hideousness of warfare. Without
universal agreement no single power can
stay it's hand: every day Of ingenuity
and every pound of money spent dimin-
ishes the chance OF such agreement.
There are many who argue that be-
cause men fight on earth and water they
may just as well fight in the air. To
these we answer: There has never yet
been a moment when it was practically
possible to ban the war machines OF earth
and water. There is moment when II
is practically possible to ban those OF
the air. That moment Is now-before the
use Of these machines is proved, before
great vested intrests have formed. Gov
rnments are trustees, not only of the
present, but of the future OF mankind.
Fortune has placed this moment In the
hands of the governments Of today. We
pray Of them to use it wisely
In reference to this protest. Charles q.
Grey. the well known editor OF The Aero
plane points out that throughout the his
tory of war the greater the efhciency OF
the weapon used the less has been the
mortality. He says that as the mortal
ity has decreased the destruction of pro D
erty has increased, and argues from this
that war will ultimately stopped be-
cause 1t costs too much, not in life, but
in cash.
Will Live in Bombproof.
with the. advent OF the armed aero
plane" Mr.. Grey adds. lone may esti-
mate that in case of war every one will
so and live in boinb-proof excavations
in the country, and leave the towns to be
battered to pieces. The loss of lie will
be practically nil. and the destruction of
property absolute: and so by this proc
ess of a reductio ad absurdum the great
capitalists of the world will ultimately
be Influenced to put stop to war alto
gether."
Every city interest. professional ard
commercial, was represented at medical
conference at the Mansion House yester-
day, when the haDit of drinking between
meals was dep!ored.
That young men on going to the uni
versity or business took brandy and soda
at luncheon was, said Sir Thomas Bar
low, president of the Royal College OF
Physicians, a custom copied from older
men. Multiplied nips between meals are
far more disastrous than occasional de-
bauches followed by periods of absti-
nence," added Sir Thomas.
Report on Experiments.
Sir Thomas Clouston. ex-president Of
the Royal College of Physicians. Edin-
bursh, said that careful experiments in
Germany had shown that taking a GER
tain amount OF alcohol produced from 10
to 20 per cent OF error. An English pro-
lessor. who made similar experiments
with tea with a number of Oxford stu
dents. found that there was a Is per cent
Improvement and a diminution of error
Alcohol lowered the literary taste.
The lord mayor said II any scientist
could discover a non-injurious drink that
would give the same comfort as alcohol
then alcohol would almost 80 to the
winds. But II alcohol were such poison
as some fthe teetotalers said. he should
have been dead years ago. and yet he
stood there at the age Of eighty-two,
having been q moderate drinker all his
life. He called that temperance, and he
was even temperate now, with all the
temptations which confronted him-and
they were not few.
scheme is afOOt to establish a
cattle-testing station In this country.
which would abolish the disabilities under
which the export trade Is carried on at
present The authorities have taken a
sympathetic interest In the subject. but
are unable to make q move until the
importing states signify their acceptance
of an English certificate Of immunity
from tuberculosis as disclosed by the
tuberculin test. This. briefly. il the posi-
ton OF affairs. but 1t Is more than likely