The Monticellonian., 1919-04-18
SECRET PLANS ID
 FO|L ENEMY READY
MANY DEVICES AND COMPOUNDS HAD BEEN PERFECTED BY
 AMERICA AND ALLIES.
THEY WILL NOT BE REVEALED
Tremendous Possibilities in Warfare of the Airplane Under Automatic Control Without Pilot, Successfully Tested at Fort Worth, Tex.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.

By EDWARD B. CLARK.
 shington-DispatcheS which have been received by the war department in Washington from Fort Worth. Tex, telling of the exploits of an airplane under automatic control and with no man aboard. have aroused deep in- tereSt, not only because a new war invention thus is perfected, but be- cause it calls attention to the many plans either perfected or in process of perfection which this country and it's allies had with which to bring the war to an end in case it could not he finished by ordinary means of offenSe.
 Most of the war secrets of the gov ernment have been kept inviolate. The fact that certain machines or certain compounds had been invented or dis covered which would aid in the rapid prosecution of the war to the end of victory has been disclosed to the pub lie, but the mechanism of the inven- tions and the nature of the compounds never have been and probably never will be disclosed, the presumption be- ing that the United States and the allies will keep the secrets locked i'll their strong boxes until the day comes when it may be necessary to press them into the service.
 An airplane under automatic con trol and with neither pilot nor ob- server on board carries with 1t great load of possibilities. If machines of this kind had been in possession of either of the armies in the field in Europe, Qualifications could have been destroyed and cities and villages laid waste without subiecting any man of the allies to the danger of death.
 Has Great Possibilities.
 According to the reports from Texas, the airplane under automatic control made a trip of 100 miles and landed where the men who dispatched it wanted it to land If this machine had carried a cargo of high explosives timed to explode when the landing was occurring or so arranged that porous sion ensuing from slight jar would touch off the explosives, one can imag- inc what the damage would be.
 If the Huns had had a machine of this kind they could have laid Paris waste, and their Big Bertha, the long distance cannon with the projectile from which they murdered ninety wor- shippers in the church of St. Gervaise on Good Friday. 1918, would have been cast into the shade as q weapon of destruction and assassination.
 Many stories have been told about new gas which the Americans were ready to use at the French front when the armistice went into effect. Like good many stories of terrible en- zines of destruction, the tale of the new gas was considerably exagger- ated, but enough is known definitely to make 1t assured that the chemical compound which was to be used was much more powerful than anything that had been used in the field.
 It is not true that the gas would have killed everything within great radius, or that it would have destroyed all the vegetation for miles around, nor are some of the other fantastic stories about it true, but that it was a powerful gas and one with effects which the enemy would find it hard to meet there can be no doubt. It prob ably was an intensified form of what is called mustard gas.
 Allies Had Many Things Ready.
 It is generally understood in the afr ph q navy in Washington that these sister services of the United States and the allies had various kinds of improved machines with which to make warfare more quickly deadly to the enemy, and other mechanisms with which to neu- trallze the efforts of the Hun to over come the allies with new cOntrivances.
 Means to detect the presence of sub marines, means to destroy submarines, means to send great loads of high ex- plosives to distant points, means to lure the enemy ships to points where destruction was certain, and other con trivances were ready or nearly ready for use The question is whether or not one day the world will see all these inventions in active operation.
 Boshevsm and Politics.
 Just how congress is going to ap- proach the subject of bolshevism, or rather anarchiSm, in the United States, it Is hard to say. Re publican and Democratic members of the house and senate already are say ing some things that fairly may be called bold. It is to be noticed, how ever, that most of these senators and members represent districts or states where the upheaving evils are not so manifest as they are elsewhere. The chances are that some members and senators who like their jobs better than their duties will wabble on bol- sheyism just as they have wabbled on other things in the not dim past
 The federal government is limited to some extent in its power to check mate propaganda of certain kinds. It will be d difficult task perhaps for congress to frame proper legislation, but some action is assured.