Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-11
WORLD FTER
WAR DESCRIBED
BY A GERMAN
Subs will Make Trip from N.
Y. to Hamburg in 4s Hours,
Says Scientist.

Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 10.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES will the
world be like after the war? A Ger
man SCIENTISTS imaginative after
war picture is the feature of the lat
est number Of the. German review,
"Zukunft.' The author, Professor
Moritz Lesser, is a member Of n
faculty of engineering Of the Univer-
sity of Bonn.
The professor pictures, in fancifui
style, a world at peace, in friendly In
ternational relationship making use or
the technical discoveries which have
been made during the war for the de-
velopment Of commercial enterprise.
The article in part is as follows:
Three months after the end OF the
war, the directors of the leading banks
and corporations Of Germany held q
meeting to the number of 5000 in the
Reichstag, with the home secretary
for chairman, and founded a company
For the Development and Use of In
v~entions Discovered During the War;
The object of the company was to IN
ploy in peace the technical progress
which had been accomplished under
the stress of war, and the capital sub
scribed was forty times as great as
required.
zone object of the company was to
build submarines for pleasure trips
and to search for treasure lost during
the war. The great shipping COM
panies followed suit by building deep
sea submarines, in which n could
sail without seasickness. Those ships
travelled on a cable laid under the
sea, and were worked by an electric
ed at incredible speed, making the
Journey from New York to Hamburg
in 48 hours.
"It was found possible to build a
submarine which sank to a depth OF
more than a mile. and from this
sprang the International company for
raising the ships sunk during the war.
The work was an immense success,
and large sums of money were made
also huge profit in taking passengers
in these ships for trips of exploration
and sightseeing along the bottom Of
the sea. Ships were found which had
gone down centuries ago., and one ex-
petition recovered the treasure of a
whole continent which was sunk in a
Spanish Armada. Moreover, rich
veins of coal and iron and other min
erals were discovered in he sea.
Meanwhile wireless telegraphy was
perfected until it was possible to send
a current around the entire world. II
was also possible to supply airships
with the current. A company was
founded for a passenger and parcel
service without petrol, which began
serving all important parts of the
world. The parcel traffic no longer
needed human pilots. because the air
ships were guided from the land by 8
simple wireless contrivance.
cat the same time, the Peace Con
ference at the Hague, which repre-
sented all civilized nations, decided or
the complete disarmament of all tn
world without any restrictions. B!
this time every great power had es
tablished a feet of unnamed areo
planes loaded with thousands o
bombs which were to be let loose b.
wireless current at the first mobiliza
ton of the enemy e all his import
ant towns. In this a every hostil,
town and base would be reduced t
ruin in a few hours. This mean tina
there could no longer be any war"
Other imaginary inventions describ
ed by the writer include an American
spectral film which brought tn
, pictures of distant vents as they hap
pened to the theater and privat
house. Another invention dispense'
5 with the use of coal and gas by pre-
!, serving the heat n light of the sur
Traffic problems in the worlds grea
!, cities were solved by setting pave
ments and streets in motion. The ar
ticle concludes:
Finally, as inventions reduced tn
!, trouble of living more and more, tn
people began to lose the use of thei
!, limbs, since everything was done 70