The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-24
NEW POISON GAS
FEARFUL WEAPON
Edison Could Extermi-
nate All Life in Big
City in 5 Minutes

ORANGE, y. j.. Nov. a3.-
Thomas a. Edison il opposed TO
seeking trade In China at the can
mons mouth" lie told me 50 in
these words in his laboratory today.
Would Leave Chinn Alone.
"If We cannot get business in
China in competition with the rest
Of the world" he said. I'VE should
get out. Every nation that is In
possession of Chinese territory or
spheres uf influence in china
should also get out China should
be left alone. other nations should
help her with money and credits
and, II desired, advice. but there
should be no question OF China's
right to exercise fun sovereignty
over her own territory.
II | were running Japan. I would
no more touch Chinese territory
than ] would touch cobra. japan
more than any nation in the world
should want TO see China intact and
independent China is "A vast mar
ket at the doorstep OF Japan. Japan
is better situated to supply this mar
ket than any other. country.
Japan Has Advantage
This is because she does not have
TO pay ocean freight rates over long
distances. She has everything to
gain by keeping out OF China herself
and urging every other nation to
keep out. because she needs only
an even chance to beat most of her
competitors. II Japan can buy our
cotton, make 1t into cloth and sell
II for less than We can put cotton
cloth into China, Japan should get
the trade.
Japan should strive TO he the
England OF the far cast--a great
manufacturing nation prospering on
foreign commerce. II she needs
more land for her people to live on.
let her buy it from Russia Rus
sia has more land than she needs
or can use, and buying land is
cheaper way to get 1t than going to
war
He breads the Next War.
Mr. Edison is OF the opinion that
the next war will bc a good thing
TO Keep out Of II. lie spoke Of great
progress that has been made since
hostiliues in Europe ceased, In the
manufacture of poison gas, II would
only be a question OF time he said,
until the Germans would learn OF
these discoveries, and, IL they should
care to do so, they could tly over
to Paris and In five minutes Kill
everybody with gas without break
ing a window pane.
Gould you kill everybody in
great city IN five minutcs2"I asked.
II think I could" he replied IL
could. at any rate, after 1 made few
more experiments,
Future vars" he continued, are
going to be waged almost exclusively
with airplanes, submarines and gas.
Battlcships will not count for
much, Guns are very spectacular
instruments for klling--they make
a great noise and explosive shells
blow great holes in the earth-but
guns do not carry destruction over
a broad area.
What the Chemists Know
"a bursting shell Kills only those
who are within few ieet OF Il. A
single charge of such gas as chem
lists now know how to make, Is suffi-
ciently deadly to kill every man,
woman and child in an area equiv
alcnt to five or six city blocks,
THAT Is why ! say II would not be
difficult to send flock OF airplanes
over city and kin every inhabitant
within five minutes without break
ing n pane OF glass. All that Is
necessary les 20 make gas that Is
very poisonous and very heavy.
Heavy Eas settles on the earth so
that no one in the vicinity can escape
it,'