The courier-index., 1917-08-03
PICTURES WORLD
AT CLOSE OF WAR
IMAGINATIVE GERMAN SAY S
INVENTIONS WOULD CEASE
TO SAVE LEGS


What will the world be like after the
war? A German scientists magma
tive after-war picture is the feature
of the latest number of the German
review, "Zukunft." The author, Prof.
Moritz Lesser, is a member of the
faculty of engineering of the Univer-
sity of Bonn.
The professor pictures, in fanciful
style. a world at peace, in friendly
international relationship making use
of the technical discoveries which
have been made during the war for
the development of commercial enter
prise The article in part is as fol-
lows:
"Three months after the end of the
war the directors of the leading banks
and corporations of Germany held
meeting to the number of 5000 in
the Reichstag, with the home secre-
tary for chairman, and founded a
company for the development and use
of inventions discovered during the
war; The object of the company was
to employ in peace the technical prog
ress which had been accomplished
under the stress of war, and the capt.
tai subscribed was 40 times as great
as required.
Zone object of the company was to
build submarines for pleasure trips
and to search for treasure lost during
tie war; The great shipping COM
panies followed suit by building deep
sea submarines in which one could
sail without seasickness. These ships /!
travelled on a cable laid under the sea
and were worked by an electric cur
rent from the land. They journeyed |
at incredible speed, making the jour-
ney from New York to Hamburg in !
48 hours.
TT 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 sue
cess, and large sums of money were /
made from this salvage work. There
was also huge profits in taking pass
engers in these ships for trips of ex
ploration and sightseeing along the
bottom of the sea. Ships we're found
which had gone down centuries ago, !
and one expedition recovered the
treasure of a whole continent which
was sunk in Spanish Armada.
Moreover, rich veins of coal and iron
and other minerals were discovered in
the sea.
Meanwhile wireless tclegraphy /
was perfected until it was possible to !
send a current around the entire I
world 1t was also possible to supply
airships with the current. A COM
pany was founded for passenger and
parcel SERVE without petrol, which be-
gan 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 a |
simple wireless contrivance.
At the same time the peace con- !
ference at The Hague, which repre-
sented all civilized nations, decided on
the complete disarmament of all the /
world without any restrictions. By |
this time every great power had es-
tablished a fleet of unnamed areo-
planes loaded with thousands of
bombs which were to be let loose by +
wireless current at the first mobiliza-
ion of the enemy over all his import
ant towns. In this way every hostile
town and base would be reduced to
ruin in few hours. This meant that
there could no longer be any war.
Other imaginary inventions describ-
ed by the writer included an American
spectral film which brought the
pictures of distant events as they hap
pened to the theatre and private
house. Another invention dispensed |
with the use of coal and gas by pre-
serving the heat and light of the sun.
Traffic problems in the worlds great
cities were solved by setting pave
ments and streets in motion. The ar
ticle concluded:
FINALLY, as inventions reduced the !
trouble of living more and more, the
people began to lose the use of their
limbs, since ,verything was done for
them. world conference was assem-
bled which forbade anyone inventing |
anything more
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