The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-04
NO HUMANE WAR

HE CONCLUSION of Surgeon General Ireland, that poison l gas humane weapon is justified by the statistics battle but might justified by conditions to true that per cent who suffered gas casual ties died of their injuries against 2 cent that died o inflicted by other weapons.
 The figures need be ampified by the mortality of those who will die before their me because of injuries may die of the after effects of wounds that the relationship be changed in la of the humanity of gas.
 is a weapon perhaps in the position, with respect to the future that the ancient flint lock was to the high powered rifles that to be created The of the future may not be humane compared with missiles it may be humane only in the sense that the increased number bring may relatively sudden and painless It little early to feel about the humanity of in battle,
 It would be much better if people would get the ton that there anything humane about The object the destruction of the foe. The used to this end will be judged by their efficiency. No weapon vii! be rejected it humane if it confers preponder of power 10 conquer
 War is not a pink tea. War is not gentlemanly conlba according to fixed rules War is game where lives dies according to who kills first.
 War will not and cannot become humane War has steadily become nhumane The increased nhumanity arises from the increased knowledge which have destructive forces of nature and from the necessity which brings nations into the battle nes where only armies fought before.
 Upon what basis does Surgeon General Ireland pred cate the comparative humanity of gas attack?
 He says that fewer died
 In the millions killed, than had been killed in hundred years of earlier war.
 Applying the test of numbers killed is hundred times inhumane than has been.
 There is also the exposure discomfort of pain of the anguish of wounds and waiting
 The unspeakablY superior in inhumanity iudg- ed by these tests There surgery were improved hospitals, and suffering alleviated and lives saved that would have been lost in earlier days
 But the total number of individuals suffered was greater and the total discomfort and suffering greater Washington at Valley Forge had tmc compared with those who lay in the mud Flanders day after da and week after week. wearing most of the gas mask which in itself is inhumany.
 Get rid of the notion of humane is no such thing there will be any thing The more men know the efficiently and terribly they will kill until they know enough to make settlements reason instead raments of violence.
 The next great will be brought non-cobaan pop- uatlons almost much to the field Arshns will take of that
 And this is thing that should always been orseen Hereafter as war Is made will be democacies and deocraces systems in which the of the pie Is responsible for the industrial system makes the man at home soldier of the second line whose elimination may be than equivalent to the death of the battlefield.
 De It noted that in the the to keen te u at home sending to the trenches hoe in the main not experts Tn essential civil industries
 Aother reason why in the every effort will he made to bring the destruction civil nonn1aions
 It was said that in the United States as inc Arn7isfi signed that there had been developed gas which released anoVe sleeping city might slay half population War d the future will not be humane, be deadIier han ~ l Flo' VI