Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-12-08

there will not be so many guns to shoot |
people with. Isn't this a sign2 Gas
furnishes a splendid euthanasia, and
that's why some 200 chemists are
working night and day, or day and
night, synthesizing chemicals to pro-
mote quick death. There's an objec-
ton to using mustard gas or phosgene
because it hurts so. The new combin-
alton, when smelled, will be like a |
dip in the lethal spring. Whole cities
can be converted to fertilizer in few
painless minutes. All that is neces-
sary is to drop few several-ton pack
ages from a ship in the air and outside
of the crack as it falls there will be
no hubbub or excitement of the peo-
pie below. The inhabitants will be
smothered almost at once. We are be-
coming almost as humane as old Mont
PeIee.
So
When Mont PeIee exploded some
twenty years ago, friend told me,
who was there at the time, that he
noticed a rent in the mountain side
and blue jet of gas was shot hori-
zontally over the city. This gas was
searingly hot, and everything - man,
animal, and building to the waters
edge was flicked out in the twinkling
of an eye. He said that it was amaz-
ing to see people on the street before
him topple over and in moment be-
come cooked as if in an oven.
y y = y
There seems ito be scarcely any lin
it to heat. In the Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes" innumerable fun
eroles have been formed and the gass-
es coming out range in temperature
from 400 and 100 degrees. Meals
are readily cooked over the less vio-
lent vents. The new discovery Of this
earthquake and volcanic land us an
epoch in geography. With the excep-
ton of the violent volcanic outburst
recently in Kamchatka, the explosions
in Alaska are probably the greatest
within recorded history. Imagine a
valley % miles long and several miles
wide filled 400 feet deep. with super
heated sand thrown from the earth's
depths. ..
Man gets his lessons in destruction
from the destructive agencies of the
Eearth. Volcano-big gun; super
heated gas-phOsgene and mustard
Ega''.
1t is easy to be seen that the white
lpeople are becoming more civilized
lust half as much in fact. In 1856
l65 years ago-l46 Europeans were
Imprisoned in a guardroom. Is by IS
feet, by Hindu-a brown man. In
the morning I23 Of them were dead.
That was the famous BLACK Hole Of
Calcutta"
Only a few days ago a white man
an Englishman, put 100 recalcitrants
in railway carriage and locked them
lin. When they arrived at their destin-
alton, 81 were taken out dead!
Civilization has improved fifty per-
cent in l65 years. Not bad! not bad!
It's a mistake. Chicago is not going
to get her five-cent fare-yet. A cute
little temporary injunction" has been
issued and some more legal garbage
will have to be INDUCED in before the
long-suffering public shall have come
into its own. The Mayor, backed uE
by the great Hearst newspapers, de
clare no truce will be declared unit
Chicago has municipal ownership fo
its traction lines.
1893
Mayor Couzins, many-times million
aire, but whale of fine fellow, anc
much hated by vested interests, il
= knocking the Detroit Traction Com
pany in the midriff right along. HI
is competing against them and order
ed them to tear up their old tracks
? The traction company's franchise OF
some of the lines expired and wher
/ they will not sell reasonably to the city
the mayor builds road. Some may
or.
@%ET
The City Manager Plan in Daven
port, Iowa, is going to have rough
Shedding. For the first time the So.
cialists and big business men generally
are against the plan. What's the mat.
terp Somebody must be sick. Seem:
to us that the Socialists couldn't dc
worse than be strong for it. All thai
is needed is to put up twenty or TWEEN.
ty-five big business men for the com
missioners' Jobs at nothing for a year