The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-19
PLANS TO
FOIL ENEMY READY
MANY DEVICES AND COMPOUNDS
HAD BEEN PERFECTED BY
AMERICA AND ALLIES.
THEY WILL NOT BE REVEALED
Tremendous Possibilities in warfare
of the Airpiane Under Automatic
Control Without Pilot, Successfully
Tested al Fort Worth, Tex.
Ev EDWARD 3. CLARK.

BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.
Wa>liugtnn-DlS Dispatches which have
been received by the war department
in Washington from Fort Worth Tex
telling of the exploits Of IN alrpIaIle
under automatic control and Win IA"
man aboard. have aroused deep III
tercSt. not only because new WAT
invention thus is perfected, hu' p'-
cause it calls attention 10 III" many |
plans either perfected or III Pt"''>,
of perfection which this country anu
its allies had with which To bring Tie
ror to an end in case il could not Ice
finished 10y ordinary means al "il'l'Ne'
Most of the war secrets ot the gov
eminent have been kept inNl"Iale- rue
fact that certain machines or certain
compoundS had been invented or us
covered which would aid in the raplu
prosecution of the war 10 the en-" W
victory has been disclosed tn the pun"
lie but the mechanism of the lhN'h-
tions and the nature of the compounds
never have been and probably never
will lac disclosed, the presumption p'
inc that the United States an" 'i'
allies will keep the secrets locker l"
their strong boxes until the ia! c"ih'>
when il may he necessary To press
Them into the service.
An airplanc under automatic con-
troll and with neither pilot nor %"
! server ON board carries with 1t a great
| load of possibilities. If machines vi
| this kind had been in possession vi
/ either of the armies in the h"Iu III
Eurone Notifications could have been
DESTROYED and cities and villages laIo
waste without SubjectinS any man oil
the allies to the danger of death.
Has Great Possibilities.
According to the reports from TEXAS
thp airplanc under automatic c"Il'r"
made a trip Of 100 miles ana lahn''
whore the men who dispatched ]
wanted it to land. If this mach'h'
had carried a cargo of high explosive
timed To explode when the landing wa
occurring, or 81 arranged that percuS
sion ensuing from slight jar woul
touch off the explosives, one can iiilas
inc what the damage would be.
II the Huns had had machine q
| this kind they could have lald farl
waste. and their Big Bertha. the Ions
distance cannon with the proJecui
from which they murdered ninety "o'
sinners in the church of ST. GerNals
on Good Friday, 1918, would haN
been cast into the shade as weapo
J of destruction and assassination.
MANY stories have been told abot
q new gas which the Americans wei
raadv to use at the French front VINE
the ormistice went into effect. LIZ
good many stories of terrible e
pines of destruction, the tale oi u
new gas was considerably eNag%e
oted. but enough is known dehhte
q IN make il assured that the chemlc
g comDound which was To he USED w
3 much more powerful than anythll
3 that had been used in the held.
If is not true that the gas won
&: have killed everything within gre
8 radius. or that it would have destroy
5 all the vegetation for miles aroul
d nor are some of the other fantaS
q stories about 1t true, but That IL
Il q noverful gas and one with elte'
Il which the enemy would find it hard
D meet there can be no doubt. 1t pr
y ably was an intensified form OF WI
n. is called mustard gas.
as Allies Had Many Things Ready.
" II is generally understood in
IT. circles round abvIt the army {
nd navy in Washington that these SIS
services of the United States ana
allies had various kinds of impro
machines with which to make warf
ng more quickly deadly to the enemy,
,r- otber mpchanisms with which to T
or, traIizc the efforts of the Hun to o.
en- come the allies with new contrivan
Try Means to detect the presence of
CHI marines. means to destroy submari
ing means TO send great loads of high
in plosivps to distant points, means
vat lure the enemy ships to points wi
Of destruction was certain, and other
of trivances were ready or nearly re
AS for use. The question is whethe
lar not one day the world will see
aer- these inventions in active opera
is Boishevism and Politics.
are lust how congress is going to
'eai proach the subject of bolShev
rea or rather anarchiSm, in the III
eep States, it is hard to say.
publican and Democratic member
the house and senate already are
ing some things that fairly ma,
old called bold. II is to be noticed,
rose ever. that most of these senators
cred members represent districts or :
yer, where the upheaving evils are N
]: manifest as they are elsewhere.
chances are that some members
senators who like their jobs d
than their duties will wabble on
,ar." shevism just as they have wabhl'
other things in the not dim past
The federal government is III
New TO some extent in its power to g
V on mate propaganda Of certain Kind
will be difficult task perhap
|. "I congress to frame proper legiSl
lesh- but some action is assured.
One word may be said with