The New York herald., 1921-11-25
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 25, 1921.
Think u Over.


Is there a man il :he Conference
for the Limitation of Armament who
would defend the submarine on any
Other ground than that of money?
Is there man in the Conference
for the Limitation of Armament who
would defend the use of poison gas
in warfare on any other ground than
that It will slaughter more men for a
given sum Of money than any other
agency?
Is there man in the Conference
for the Limitation of Armament who
doesn't know that battleships and
submarines and armies will be ut
terly worthless as forces for defence
or offence in another ten years Of
airplane development unless the air
plane as a fighting machine be elm
mated by international agreement:
Is there a man in the Celfcrance
for the Limitation of Armament whu
doesn't know that in another ten
years of airplane development COM
merce and transportation and manu-
featuring and merchandising and
human life itself in cities and even
in any considerable settlements will
be wholly at the mercy of the bomb
ing airplane unless it is eliminated
by international agreement?
Is there single survivor of the
Lusitania disaster who is now advo-
eating the submarine for national
defence? Is there a family any
where which lost dear ones from the
foul attacks of the submarine during
the war that is advocating the SUBJ
marine for national defence?
Is there a victim anywhere OF
poison gas attacks who would in
dorse it's use in warfare? Is there
an ex-soldier anywhere who himself
was gassed and who saw his COM
rades in agony and dead from poison
gas who would countenance its use
in warfare?
Is there man anywhere broken
and shattered in health from poison
gas, his life wreck, who wouldn't
cruelty the Government that would
countenance it's use in war on the
ground that it Will paralyze and kill
more men in battle on a given out
lay Of mcuey than any other MUIR
derous dev.ce?
Is there a man anywhere with
vision enough to see the airplane the
master and the terror of the world
who would countenance it's retention
as fighting machine on the ground
that it costs less than battleships
and armies?
The submarine should be elimi-
mated from the world by the great
Washington international conference.
Poison gas should be eliminated from
the world by the great Washington
international conference. Each is an
outlaw in its very nature.
The poisoning of wells, rivers and
reservoirs in warfare was eliminated
long ago by international agreement.
And so may the submarine and poi
son gas be eliminated by interna.
tional agreement.
The airplane should not be clint
mated. II Is destined to play very
important part in the world, so inn
portant a part, indeed, that the eye
VI man cannot visualize II at all IA
its completeness. Destruction of this
great gift to man is not necessary;
control is all that is necessary.
The airplane in war as q scout, aa
the eye Of the command, as a means
Of communication or in any other
humane and legitimate use is all
right. There can be no well founded
objection to its employment in this
way, while its use as a fighting ma
chine laden with poison gas shells
and bombs is intolerable. unthink.
able, hellish.
e IL possible that this Washington