The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1920-07-06


THE GkEENEVlLLE DAILA
through their air bOmbardmenta with the comparatively
small losses they experienced That they would thus
have been used there dsubt in face Of the record
made Of efforts to accomplish vast destruction ia ths
cities and the determination Of hospitals AT the be.
ginning Of the it thought that airships would
destroy dreadnaugh and other vessels but e handicap
Of being compelled to fly at great height for safety
and to aim bombs while In motion negatveA the poten
TALLY Of bomb dropping In naval combat, but with
bombing machines that hover their mark until
they have the exact range the almost immunity Of YES
sells would seem to disappear. What would hay hap
pensd to transports and to over 100000 Sold
fleets Of aerons had been able to remain STATIONARY el
them until they able to land huge INT bombs on
their decks?
One of the statements made in connection with this
invention is that win tend to render war impossible
because Of its desucveness That fallacy completely
exploded by the recent war, not before Every new
weapon Of destruction has been greeted with the same
prophecy When the Calling gun was invented soon
after civil peace prophets hailed it as 50 de-
structve that armies could stand up against it, yet
it but toy compared with the machine guns used
in the late war, and how soldiers faced those and
swept them away, great loss Of life to be sure is
proud story for Americans When the Hesuyus was built
with guns to hurl dynamite, she to destroy fort
cations at win and render defense impossible She fail
ed to do that but the modern high explosive shell did
not fail yet the went on. Hand grenades Of the
fhse type old weapon. In the days before mod
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would have been declared able to render the defense Of
ntrenchments impossible because producing conditions
of destruction which defending troops could endure
but rtench life under bombs and gigantic shells was en-
dured The limit Of human courage has not yet been
reached Space will not permit the mention of the many
scientific discoveries which predicted to put end
to war by their desructveness, but went on and
still goes 1t will go in spite of this aerion
and its horrible power for destruction.
E. M House, the silent former advisor Of President
Wilson, has just said that need be feared for
generation because of the exhaustion Of the nations and
the lessons Of the No person living probably
has had better opportunity than he to study the effects
Of the and the destruction wrought the financial
don Of the combaans and the desire Of them all
again to have such experience On that side Of the
question he speaks by the book But he ignores human
nature There will be wars in spite of the recent hor
rors and the present exhaustion No people could be
exhausted impressed with the horrors of
war than the Poles Over their land the contendng Rus
sian and German armies surged and resurged destroying
billions of property and millions of lives. Poland Isl
crying aloud for help keep her people from starvation
yet she is carrying on war with Soviet Russia which,
prior to the gigantic world struggle would have been
called large war; Other spheres Of fighting exist
throughout the world and nations talk belligereny
about their interests as they ever did, Even the United
States engaged in building the largest navy the world
saw to the number and quality of huge fighting
ships Nations will fight in the future in the past
spite Of the added instruments Of death and the new
destruction Of cities and the lives Of noncombatants be-
hind the lines the aerion bombing machine assures In
formation agreements to such Of desruc
ton viii be futile long as single nation is willing
to break them, Germany in the late war. There
but one check upon which appeals to the expert
ence and common sense of men, and that organization
against it by the nations Of the world Multiplying the
instruments of destruction will not prevent it, will
the tremendous cost The only hope lies in providing
the for settling all international questions peace
ably and aunon of nations that will outlaw any nation
group of atoms which refuses to make of those
means to achieve its ends To such world organiza
ton the United States will add its tremendous power when
it can be done in such way be assured that
power will be used to create support war in
stead of preventing it.-St Louis Globe-Democrat
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