The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-02-11
CHAIN SCIENCE.

man, disarmament is remedy for war; war
can be waged and by a totally disarmed
country-not with heavy guns and submarines,
but with Poison.
Does the great danger to mankind really lie in
chemistry and biology?
When Reichach speaks, the world can profita-
bly, listen with respect. He is one of Frances
greatest men While first of all an archaeolo-
gist, he is also an all-around scientist His books
have been translated into all languages
Let us cast off our state of auto-hypnosis and
consider what really is meant by disarmament
Had it ~een proposed a cetury ago. men would
have understood it as the ulscarding of swords
and fnt-lock nuskets.
One after the other, mans fighting nipple
ments have been rendered obsolete by the ap-
pearance of new devices.
TIL invention of the bow and arrow nullified
the offensive power of the man with war club.
Archers were put out of harness by the ap-
pearance of armor, which in turn lost its value
through the invention Of gunpowder
What would naval disarmament have meant
in 1862? The prohibition of wooden fighting
ships. No dreamed of ironclads, but in the
same year the Merrimac destroyed the union
fleet in Hampton Roads and it was no longer nee
essary to disarm wooden fighting vesses-they
had been eliminated by the arrival of steel bat
tleships.
If invention through the long march of misty
centuries has invariably changed the meaning
CT disarmament, is not Reinach correct? What
is to prevent the chemists biologists and electro
scientists rendering effectual the scrappng of
present fighting material by devising poison
gases, wireless thunderbolts and disease germs
to devastate enemy country with the swift
ness possible only to hidden death?
In the year 1347 Europe was invaded by the
forces of PESTS Major. Within "a months 25,-
600, 600 people had been killed. This invasion is
known in history The Black Plague. PESTS
Major, the dread germ, was brought from the
Crimea to Genoa by a single manufactured de
Mussis an Italian lawyer.
Consider what the Spanish influenza Infection
carried by a few sailors landing at Halifax and
Boston, has cost the United StSates. Four hun
dred thousand dead
Talk about 42-centimetre guns!
What good to discard submarines and heavy
artillery, if the scientists handful of them, in
their cynical conviction that war is the natural
bioogic state, devise death instruments like
flue and black plague?
We can take away from Germany every weap-
on she now has, even hunting rifles, and still she
may strike back through her chemists
How do we know what is going on inside the
German laboratories? This very instant they
may De discovering scientific instrument OF de-
struction with the powers of an earthquake or
tidal wave.
Steinmetz has suggested that future wars
could easily be fought with bacteria.
But disease germs comprise only one possb-
|ity
Why could not the scientists of any country
develop the wireless so that thunderbolts could
be hurled from great generators?
Ni6ola Tesla four years ago took out patent
1,119,732 on the fundamentals of such a ma
chine. A similar device has been utilized in
the Dakotas for fighting the rabbit pest, killing
a rabbit at 1O8 feet when near great power
plant.
Suppose the of science perfect this meth
cd of hurting death throughout the world at the
rate of hundreds of miles per second.
What good, then, would all this proposed dis
armament of submarines, artillery and poison
gas avail mankind?
Is there a remedy for this condition?
Yes, says Reinbach, there is a remedy but
only one:
The international control of every factory and
laboratory.
This way alone can the peaceful element of the
world know what possible evil-doers are schem-
ing amid their test tubes adj electrical appara-
tus
With the great laboratories open to interna-