The Nevada County picayune., 1921-12-22


 prayer of all should be that they will succeed and then go on to complete dis armament But here is the trouble
 they go only a very short way towards
 disarmament, and it is limited to the
 navy Now why the navy and not the
 army, the aeroplane, the gas bomb and
 Tn the last two years it has been dis
 covered that the navy is getting unable
 to cope with the more improved wea
 pons of warfare and the great dread
 naughts'' have become the mot dreads''
 and they are passing fast into oblivion
 and if they don't hurry up at Washing
 ton and agree on the proportions, the
 navy will be thrust upon the scrapheap 1 by the aeroplane and the new chemical compounds that are now being perfect ed. The next war in all probability will be fought in the air and the navy will not be in it and q few flying ma chimes loaded with bombs of terrific explosive power can destroy q modern ] city in short time. One or two great
 airplanes equipped with the modern deadly bomb could destroy Little Rock l in 15 minutes and half dozen would
 blow Chicago or New York to atoms in
 a half hour.
 The weapons of the next great war will not be forged in great gun fac tories. but in chemical laboratories and
 aeroplane shops. In the past one could we'll have said to the nations, shotgun and cannon is coming into use and so now we can well say let us have a ten year naval holiday for the modern methods of war will be so superior to the hugh battle ships that the latter will be of no service and no defense in a great war of the future
 We should have real disarmament in all respects and all the nations. such as was proposed by the matchleSs Will NOIl dl ' VI Sdllitsn ibi tilt tt VI Nations and all the nations should be brought into if and all weapons should
 be included i'll the disarmament. pro posals If We would hear Christ speaking out today then He would say, "Lay side your repeating rifles, your gas bombs. your airplanes and your
 chemical laboratory. your T. \. T. and
 other combinations for they that draw
 the gas bomb will perish with gas
 bomb and they that use T. N. T. will perish with T. x. T." Each succeeding war in the future will be far more dis tructive than those which have pre- l ceeded it and the world will have one
 bloody orgie after another till they shall learn to listen to the voice of
 Christ. But they are not hearing Him they will agree to believe in God and the bloody Turk will stand on that atfOrm but Christ is left out of the
 world and so we can make agreements with Japan and Turkey and let them
 go their way but if one should call for an expression of faith in Christ as head of nations as He is of the church. there would be great outcry in all parts of the world and He could still
 be rejected and hy the world disowned Now listen to what the result will
 be if we do not put up anr weapons
 and completely diSarm and truly fol- low Jesus Christ as Leader and guide He says that they that take the sword will perish with the sword and did moi
 Rome. the strongest nation that tho sun has eyer shown upon. draw the sword and did she not perish with the
 sword? Did not Spain draw the sword
 and put il in the hands of the human
 butcher, the Duke of Ava. and has
 she not paid the penalty and has been
 in dying condition for three centuries.
 So Germany drew the sword and the
 poiscn gas and other destructive mis-
 Slcs of death and she has gone with
 Rome and Spain. So Henry Starr.
 noted bandit and rOhber, drew the gun and by the gun Inc perished and so Tom
 Slaughter drew the pistol and it was a pistol ball that went crashing
 through his brain. He put a frozen
 snake in his bosom to warm and bring
 to deliveranee and the revived or liberated snake struck his poisen fangs