The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-01
DISARMAMENT MEANS NOTHING; CHAIN
.,e,g THE MAD DOG OF SCIENCE -

man, disarmament is no remedy for war; war
can be waged and won by totally disarmed coun-
try-not with heavy guns and submarines, BIZ.
with poison.
Does the great danger to mankind really lie in
chemistry and biology? =,
When Reinach speaks, the world can proftably
listen with RESPECT. He is one of Frances great
est men, While first of all an archaeologist, he
is also an all-around scientist. His books have
been translated into all languages.
Let us cast off our state of auto-hyphosis and
consider what really is meant by disarmament.
Had it been proposed a century ago, men would
have understood it as the discarding of swords
and fint-lock musksts.
One after the other, mans fighting implements
have been rendered obsolete by the appearance of
new devices. .-El .&-.
The invention of the bow and arrow nuifed
the offensive power of the man with a war club.
Archers were put out of bu siness by the ap
pearance of armor, which in turn lost it's value
through the invention of gunpowder. via.
What would naval disarmament have meant in
1862? The prohibition of wooden fighting ships.
No one dreamed of ironcads, but in the same year
the Merrimac destroyed the union fleet in Hamp-
ton Roads, and it was no longer necessary to dis
eliminated by the arrival of steel |battleships.
If invention through the long march of misty
centuries has invariably changed the meaning of
disarmament, is not Reinach correct? What is
to prevent the chemists, biologists and electro
scientists rendering Intellectual the scrapping of
our present fighting material by devising poison
gases, wireless thlnderbolts and disease germs to
devastate an enemy country with the swiftness
possible only to hidden death? "'''
In the year 1347 Europe was invaded by the
forces of PESTS Major Within "a months 25,-
900 900 people had been killed. This invasion
is known in history as the Black Plague. PESTS
Major, the dread germ, was brought from Crimea
to Genoa by single manufactured de Mussis, an
Italian lawyer.
carried by few sailors landing at Halifax and
Boston, has cost the United States. j. -Four hum
dred thousand dead! IL
l. Talk about, 42-centimeter guns! !
What good Is discard submarines and heavy
artillery, If the scientists, handful Of them, in
their cynical conviction that was is the natural
biologic state, can deyise death instruments like
flu and black plague?F ssz ys,.,..:A.. a. .
| !. We can take away from Germany every weapon
she now has even hunting rifles, and still she may
SCrlKe DaCk through HeT CueHlISLS
How do we know what is going on inside the
German laboratories ?? This very instant they may
be discovering a scientific instrument Of destruc-
ton with, the powers Of an earthquake Or tidal
wavelr so Of on 3No9n& 20 "@is1. t<l,l "a Ia
Steinmetz has suggested that future war could
easily be fought with bacteria. -. f. .' =
But disease germs comprise only one possbil-
|ity.
Why could not the scientists of any country
develop the wireless so that thunderbots could
be hurled from great generators?
Nikola Tesla four years ago took out patent
,119, 1872 on the fundamentals of such a machine.
similar device has been utilized in the Dakotas
for fighting the rabbit pest killing rabbit at
1O8 feet when near great power plant.
. Suppose the men of science perfect this method
of hurting death throughout the world at the rate
Of hundreds Of miles per second. .s 81. r.
What good, then, would all this proposed dis
armament Of submarines, artillery and poison gas
avail mankind?
/ Is there remedy for this condition? 80.
Yes, says Reinach, there is a remedy, but only
one:
The international control of every factory and
laboratory. .s.#,~.r:=. :...
This way alone can the peaceful element of the
world know what possible evil doors are schem-
ing amid their test tubes and electrical appara-
tuS. ''
With the great laboratories open to interna-
tional inspectors with stern penalties for evil
doors before their plans are perfected, with huge
and alluring rewards for information concerning
scientific plots-in no other manner can disarma-
ment be more than pretense.