The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-05
by j. 3. MULLEN


forts of mankind substantial results
forever to terminate warfare.
There are among us those who decry
the efforts to stop war, asserting that
as long as emotions control the minds
of men, there will be strife, since the
inherent and natural proclivity of man
is to contend, physically. if need be. 1t
is as old as the Biblical story of Cain
and Abel and as new as yesterday, as
Poland threatens Silesia. The process
OF evolution is that thesideals of the
race are slowly but surely upward.
The more / peruse history and now
observe the abnormal, unfavorable eco
nomic conditions of the times, the hap
pier am that / am born an American.
We see other nations and other indi-
viduals composing those nations make
errers, but somehow and someway, no
matter what may be the offence or the
error we can see nothing but good in
our own country and in our own coun-
trymen. We may attack as we FIRE.
quently do. our own conduct, but let
the outsider make similar attack,
and we are in arms. This thing called
patriotism is one of the highest and
grandest Of all human emotions, and it
sometimes siezes hold OF the heartcords
and makes US better and greater than
we are.
In the inherent complexities incident
u the chaotic conditions because of the
war the very soul Of man. in seeking
an outlet for an inspiration, Is obsessed
by the troublous uncertainties that
surround US.
The unanimous adoption of the
Borah resolution by the senate provid-
ing that the president shall call i'm
mediately representatives of England,
Japan and America. looking to univer-
sal disarmament, Is splendid Wars must
not be any more. Nations no longer fight
sngly and Individually but by groups
and families and whole peoples. 1t is
now fundamental that no nation can
live by itself. 1t is interviewer with other
nations. and we are no longer indepen-
dent but dependent, so that when one
nation attacks another, all major ma
tions may become involved.
The next war, If there be one, will be
as much more deadly as the great war
over its predecessors. The ingenuity of
man in the harnessing of the powerful
forces Of nature will make the destruc-
tion of human life appalling.
The next war would be a war in
which, not only combatants, but women.
children, aged and nfirm will be treated
alike. lt will be a war in which science
and not Drawn will play tho important
individual h,..Y t,,fII
weakly. The training of armies with in
tricate present method of warfare on
earth below will avail little.
international regulations looking to
the enforcement of the rules OF civiliz-
led warfare will not be observed. These
: rules may be entered into In good faith.
but as the battle proceeds and the beas-
tial qualities of man, intensified by the
excitement Of conflict, rise to fever heat.
one so situated has no occasion TO resort
Y to the amenities. Men fighting In the
y gutter pay little attention to parlor Ell.
quette. Men about TO be killed do not
stop TO doff their hats in exchange Of
( civilized courtesies
There is being method devised
whereby. over a given area, typhoid
germs and the baclli Of small pox and
of leprosy and other OF the most loath.
some Of contagious diseases may be
scattered broadcast by bomb dropped
from an aeroplane or fired at great
distance by gun on land
The thought OF such a scourge Is
something terrible TO contemplate.
on the l1th Of November. the date OF
the armistice. one soldier out OF every
five on the Hun battlefront was ef-
fected with influenza. 1t may have been
that France scattered the virus neces-
sary TO bring about this deadly condi-
tion.
II is now no open secret that they
have invented heavy gas that can i'm
pregnate drinking water 10 that wells
creeks and sources OF supply may be
infected with this deadly poison, and on
drinking this water meet with instant
death.
1t Is now possible TO throw a fir,
bomb five miles. Conceive the idea Of
making these bombs larger and films
them full OF liquid oil. so that when they
burst this hot liquid would scatter In
all directions, so as TO set fire to every.
thing in the neishborhoai that woult
burn.
There Is method now devised b,
which missiles. called incendiary bombs
can be dropped from great heights or
unprotected fields OF grain and granar
les, depots and even cities. When the,
strike the conclusion Immediately de
velops ball OF fire which will burn FOL
eSeven minutes, even In a strong wind
This will set fire TO anything burnable
1t would be easy. therefore. for n squad
ron OF aeroplanes coming up from Mex
leo, say, 10 hover over I'll Paso o.
San Antonio. dropping thousands y
these little bombs destroying by Fir,
The cities In a night. Retrcating, IL 4
he hot summers day. burn the vege
tation-pastures. meadows and whca
fields-leaving the people and cattle (,
die In devastated regions. Such q plat
was contemplated by the Huns on Pari
and London, but they were notifie,
that for every incendlary bomb drop
ped on these two cities. there would b
ten dropped on the cities Of Germany
This threat Of reprisal-an this alone
caused them to desist from their hellisl
designs. Our own Chicago was almos
destroyed by u conflagration originatinl
from lamp kicked over by cow wha
would happen under rain Of fir
bombs3
There are two kinds OF gasses. on
called migratory gas which travels an,
Is swept away by the varying brecxes
Second, the lingering gas which by II
Very nature attaches itself to the cart
and to tress. shrubbery. rocks. build
lngs. fences and the like. Gases ar
further divsded-Those that affect IN
skin outside and other parts OF tn
body, such as the eyes mouth. nose an