The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-01
WHY WE MUST END WAR

 starvation by influenza of other war lorne diseases
 The fighting the beginning of the conducted in eomparative old fashioned way Most of the modern weapons be being but the of them had been little developed.
 There were submarines flying machines traction engines guns other things There tanks and depth bombs War not in the beginning oucted very largely against non-oombaan populations The idea of sending merchantmen to the bottom, with all board development Not at first cities showered with high explosives Poison late Improvement As the war came toward weapons become submarine flying machines poison tanks and the constantly improving rain of high explosives
 these things had been brought to anything like the point of perfection which must have been arrived at in two more The United States would have hurled into the conteswthn another flying machines than there in the whole of Europe when the armistce signed And these flying machines would have had total carrying power five times great the combined carrying power of all aeropanes in existence Nov. II, 1918,
 The first time the Germans used they failed to have enough hand and they did not fully appreciate the deadly work their doing This fortunate Much military opinion the effect that with gas and skill it's the conflict would have been settled the spot in favor of Germany.
 On the date signed gas in infancy being developed prepara being made for the larger and efficient of gas The United States. especially preparing large quantities of reputed to be deadly than anything
 In the field of gases hero are probably others more dead the history every weapon that is improved It likely that during brief period which elapsed from the gas the signing the ar1nisce that possi lties of this weapon fully realized The outer edges of the art but reached.
 Truks came into the war almost at the end They were 8 @ % larger and faster Many kinds of tanks process elopmen adapted kinds branch
 service becoming constantly vaster the cost of ,houtaining it gigantic beyond computation.
 Unless men can have some security against more war: guarantee against increasing pledges making q, disarmament the provision tanks personnel
 be expensive than the former cost of maintaining cmy
 Flying machines comparatively simple meobanisns in the beginning, had been improved and refined ponditure of treasure this infancy
 There were planes observation photography and map o4TIo,, used for bombing There would have planes ships becoming bigger they carrying high explosives and gas bombs
 The ordinary implements of had been specialized into coslier and deader forms The shoulder rifle replaced with machine guns, and individual automatic guns
 Artillery had been built upon scale Napoleon dreamed of Smaller constructed by the hous- nds of thousand and Big Berhas essential to efficient
 No longer struggle between armies. was struggle between nations; struggle destined it's very nature to be universal No people might afford to leave out side the conflict any might be involved had become economically and ndustrialy unity neutral could exist who did not m some way aid one combaant to the injury of the other Another of conflict and all must it. to the last African and the ultimate white the American continent.
 The war became conflict between peoples in the millions that bore arms the the labor of the millions who did not bear arms who eonstu non-combatan service behind the trenches fca, 5000 miles distant from the actual fighting.
 More and brought by process of direct kill ing to noncombaans The sinngs the the bombing the land but tiny evidences of what the great must be- if it is permitted to happen
 In the next it will be possible to exinguh night while the citizens sleep Air craft carry ing tons of poison will fly four five hundred feet above the city sweeping down from the heights Each cargo letha frud which, heavier will settle upon the abodes of the inhabitants leaving to tell the tale only few.
 The mere cost preparation for war will rest upon the peoples appalling burden against which the working will rebel with terrible energy.
 It is not sufficient any to keep army a navy the service will cost than the naval the ships than the ships fleets tanks moving the surface will be expensive than ships used o,be.
 There must be told off service hundreds the trained engineers