The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-17
Disarmament and Science

a startling warning comes from keinach' my bte"'
French scientist According to this Frenchman dlsarna
ment is no remedy for war; can be waged ana won
by totally dsarmed country-not with heavy guns ana
submarines, but with POISON.
Does the great danger to mankind really lie in chem
stry and biology? ~.
When Renach speaks, the world can protaoy listen
with respect He is of Frances greatest men, WINE
first of all archaeologist he is also an al-around
scientist His books have been translated into all anguages
Let us cast off state of auohypnoSls and consider
what really is meant by disarmament. .
Had it been proposed century ago men Wou!u nav
understood the discardng of swords and flmock
muSketS. -
been rendered obsolete by the appearance of devices
The invention of the bow and arrow nulifed the OIL
fensive power of the man with a war club
Archers put out of business by the appearance
which in turn lost its value thru the invention Of
gunpowder. .o
What would naval disarmament have meant in 1862?
The prohibition of wooden fighting ships No one dreamed
of oncad but in the same year the Merrmac DESTROYED
necessary disarm wooden fighting veSsels-they had
been eliminated by the arrival of steel batteshps.
II invention thru the long march of misty centuries
has invariably changed the meaning of disarmament not
Reinach correct What is to prevent the chemists boo
gss and electro scientists rendering Intellectual the scrap
ping of present fighting material by devsng poison
gases wireless thundebot and disease to dcvsate
enemy country with the swftness possible only TO
hidden death?
In the year 1S47 Europe invaded by the forces Of
PESTS Major. Within "a months 25.0O0000 people had
been killed The invasion is known in history the Black
Plague. PESTS Major the dread was brought from
the Crimea to Genoa BY SINGLE MAN-Gabriel de
Mussis, Italian lawyer.
Consider what the Spanish influenza infection carried
by landing at HallfaN Boston, mas cost
the United States. FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND
DEAD
Talk about 42centmeter guns
What good to discard submarines and heavy artillery,
il the scientists handful of them. in their cynical
vicon that is the natural boogc state, devise
death instruments like flu and black plague?
We take away from Germany every weapon she
has, hunting rifles, and still she strike back
thru her chemists.
How do know what is going inside the German
laboratories? This very instant they be discovering
scientific instrument of destruction with the powers of
earthquake tidal
Seinmetz has suggested that future could easily
be fought with bacteria.
But disease germs comprise only ONE possibility.
Why could not the scientists of any country develop
the wireless that thunderbos could be hurled great
generators?
Nikoa Tesla four years ago took out patent 1872
the fundamentals OF such a machine similar device
has been utilized the Dakotas for fighting the rabbit
pest, killing rabbit at 0S feet when great power
plant.
Suppose the men of science perfect this method of
hurting death thuout the world at the rate of hundreds of
miles second.
What good. then would all this proposed disarmament
of submarines, artillery and poison gas avail mankind?
Is there remedy for this condition?
Yes, Reinach, there is a remedy. but only
The international control Of every factory and laboa-
tory.
In this way alone the peaceful element Of the world
know what possible evdoers scheming amid their
tubes and electrical apparatus.
With the great laboratories open to international in
spectors with stern penalties for evdoers before their
plans perfected with huge and aurng rewards for
ner can disarmament be more than pretense
We ,ciH kno,c that Germany has really turned orer
neto leaf If the papers speak Of the first president