The Washington times., 1917-09-16

See at the top of this page picture illustrating the
old and new way of killing.
Men first killed each other fighting with nails and teeth
Then they threw stones and clubs Then the bow and
arrow great invention Then pitfalls and traps poisoned
arrows
Then war machines used by Alexander and Caesar gi
ganc cataputs throwing huge rocks and others hurng
arrows
Progress went on inspired by the desire to kill and there
came the old cannon with the round, solid bullet.
Now the thing is the that sends an explosive
shell loaded with bullets explodes and scaters death
around it when lands Our army treats this final but
it is already out Of date.
With the invention of the flying machine there an
end of this evolution of the idea Of THROWING something
at your enemy.
cannon can THROW an explosive shell ten miles, per
haps even twenty miles. But that is childish now
Fighting from will be done by BULLETS ON
WINGS
Put your great charge of dynamite and its scattering
bullets on supporting wings with an engine to carry
Such deathdealing bullet starting not with velocity
OF cannon ball. but at about two to five hundred miles an
hour VIII travel as far as you please twenty miles, hun
calculated
The kind of that the United States will make its
enemies will be WAR IN THE AIR and THROUGH the
air, with winged bullets floating on the air.
If we had the great Captain Mahan here now he would
be writing not about Sea Power but about 'Air Power
The air is the The flying machine is the new
We shall fight enemies with flying machines that will
carry And shall also fight them-and it ought to
begin at once-wh small flying machines carrying NO MAN
but carrying the highest explosive charge hundred FIVE
hundred thousand miles to the interior Of the enemys
country and there exploding.
Now the great question is the RANGE Of cannon With
the explosive carried its small individual ying
chine, the range would be unlimited
At great height in the flying machines could
carefully drop their explosives And at lesser height
deadly below them would fly the bullets on wings
dropping according to careful calculation cities and towns
making PEACE DESIRED making the men in the German
trenches demand permission to go home protect their
families
It will be objected and with reason at first that
cannot get with the dynamate charge mounted on sus
tanning wings and propelled by force accompanying it the
same ACCURACY that you get in cannon fire.
You viii not at first get such accuracy anything ap
preaching It. But you TRY it. and after you have tried
it and failed somebody WILL DO IT The main thing is
to begin trying NOW that you may be the first one to
DO IT.
The skill Of engineers will get eventually lust as much
accuracy Of great dynamite charge that goes on sustain
ing wings propelled by its engine as is now from the
use of long-range cannon
Vast numbers of attacking aerial torpedoes will make
mp in the beginning for lack of absolute accuracy
The mosquito is not very accurate insect but when IL
Is sufhclently numerous, it accomplshes its work
Meet fleet or an army attack fort or CITY with an
actual SWARM OF great dynamite Shells carried on min
iature aeroplane wings pro-