The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-04-15
Still Menace to Peace Unless
CheCkmated by Intelligence
Of Other Nations.
BOGERT POINTS OUT DANCER
Scientist Declares What Country Needs
Is Well. Organized Chemical War
fare SerViee-Exports Should
Be Regulated.

Wilmington, Del.-How German sci
ence, unless checkmated by the intel
lgence of other nations, still vii men
ace the peace OF the world was told
by DR. MarSton T. Bogert OF Column
bla university in an address, Sci
ence and Disarmament" delivered be-
fore the Delaware section Of the
American Chemical society.
Doctor BOgert said that in chemical
matters disarIpaDent both for Ger
many and the allies must provide for
the definite reduction and control OF
the coal supply of the tixation of
atmospheric nitrogen, which is the
mother substance Of all explosives,
and also the reduction of>the synthetic
dye plants which are the sources of
all poison gases and the actual man
ufncturerS of most Of the explosives
used in war.
Regulate Exports.
Exports of all such substances"
continued Doctor Bogert, SHOULD be
carefully regulated, for export trade
is the familiar excuse for the main
tenance and expansion of colossal
plants of latent war possibilities. The
same disarmament commission might
he very keen for the dismantllng of
the krupp establishment at Essen, and
yet not bat an eye over the continu-
ance and expansion of mammoth ar
senals. camOufaged as dye factories
or agricultural chemical works, al
though the actual military damage
inflicted upon Germany might be
much greater were the dye and nitro
gen factories destroyed than IL the
Essen plant were RACED.
For example," asserted Doctor Be-
CERT, IF the allies fall TO reduce d.
rectfy the present German supremacy
in synthetic dye and nitrogen fixation
plants there viii be no safety for this
country until we have development
of those vital industries here superior
TO that of Germany"
The Columbia scientist took excep-
ton to the view Of General March.
chief Of staff of the United States
army, who in opposing the extension
of the chemical warfare service said
that he would keep those substances
used In the manufacture of poison gas
from being imported into Germany,
and thus keep down the poison gas
output. The speaker said that from
such simple substances as salt, coke
or charcoal aud air, could be manufac-
tured phOSgene and chlorine.
"All that is necessary, therefore,"
observed Doctor Bogert, ironically, IFS
to remove from Germany all the salt
underground or close the salt mines,
and to exclude Germany from access
to the ocean; to place a similar ban
upon the sulphur mines and the smelt-
ing of sulphur ores; to interdict the
raising of sugar beets and other sac
charifereous crops, and TO cut down
all the forests-slnce eellulose, which
is obtained from these sources, can
he converted into alcohol As all mod
ern warfare depends upon nitric acid
and IS nitric acid Is now being made
from the nitrogen of the air, II is
equally clear that this manufacture
can be easily and completely stopped
by excluding the atmosphere also
from Germany. Except for these
slight objections, the plan is doubt
less an admirable one"
Chemical Warfare in infancy.
Doctor Bogert declared that in or
der to cope successfully with nation
having such skill In chemistry as has
Germany, II would be necessary to
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