The Holbrook news., 1921-04-22
Still Menace to Peace Unless Checkmated by Intelligence
 of Other Nations.
BOGERT POINTS OUT DANGER
Scientist Declares What Country Needs Is WelI-Organized Chemical War fare Service-Exports Should
 Be Regulated.

Wilmington, DeI.-How German sci ence, unless checkmated by the intel ligence of other nations, still will men ace the peace of the world, was told by Dr. Marston T. Bogert of COlum- Dia 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 disarmament both for Ger many and the allies must provide for the definite reduction and control of the coal supply, of the fixatiOn 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 ufacturers 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 be very keen for the dismantling of the Krupp establishment at Essen, and yet not bat an eye over the cOntinu ance and expansion of mammoth ar senals, camouflaged 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 if the Essen plant were razed
 For example," asserted Doctor Bo- gert, Eff the allies fail to reduce di- rectly the present German supremacy in synthetic dye and nitrogen fixatiOn plants, there will be no safety for this country until we have a 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 and air, could be manufac- tured phosgene and chlorine
 "All that is necessary, therefore" observed Doctor Bogert, ironically, ''is 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-since cellulose, which is obtained from these sources, can be converted into alcohol. As all mod ern warfare depends upon nitric acid and as nitric acid is now being made from the nitrogen of the air, it 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 a nation having such skill in chemistry as has Germany, it would be necessary to