The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-02
IRWIN PUTS PEACE.
 TASK ID HUMANITY. IF UNITED STATES.
Correspondent Tells Scathing Horrors Which Future Wars Must Have-TraceS the
 Change in Tactics

Scathing horrors which can be ex- pected in wars of the future were told by Will Irwin, ace of corre- spondents, to an audience at the Jefferson theatre last night, which sat spellbound for most of the so minutes in which the famous news paperman told in forceful fashion the need of United States humani tarian influence to bring about last ing peace.
 Ours is the first nation to have grants power that refused to use it and now let it be known as one that is putting mankind on the way to peace" was the parting shot of the speaker as he stalked from the stage after giving a graphic closeup .of pre-war, war and postwar condi- tions in Europe
 The two greatest factors which makes war measure which must be halted were explained by the speaker as the changing of the code of civ ilized warfare which has taken the lid off killing of women and children and putting brains into the business of killing.
 Scientific and Cruel.
 The future fears which war may bring were forcefully told in the speakers reciting of the utilization of science to peak where the whole sale killing of humans will be a sim Ile matter. This goal is the plan to which military men must naturally look if they are to keep abreast ot the times and fit foes for the enemy, MT. Irwin told his hearers.
 War is no more a war of army against armies; il Is nation against nation" he said
 April 22, 1915, when the first yell low green gas cloud arose at Ypres marked new epoch in the history of war The skilled mind of the civil ian had entered war and the old tools were being cast aside. The military mind, never original, and always used to taking orders from above. was being supplanted by the same mind that marks business and science in peace times.
 'rhe old theory of war. hit him and hit him hard was no more out standing.
 old and New Gas.
 Tn 1918 came mustard gas which attacked the skin if not causing death and putting men out of action.
 Here in America has been invent cd the new Lewiscide gas a most deadly ethol gas. the product of the Ia f,, ,f ( Leland Stanford university.
 Tt is invisible; 1t has 55 times the spread of any formerly known gas; it kills through the sksn by being dead ly to cell life. One spot as big as a dollar on your body being touched by this gas and death Is certain. It works like cancer but with fmmeoiate speed
 Science is to the point where a dozen aeroplanes loaded with bombs can be directed by wireless to the capital city of country and destroy the brains of nation. Such a raid could be made so that not so much as the life of mouse would remain.
 Soldiers Say So.
 T am not telling you the fancies of a pacifcist. I am telling you what soldiers know and what military lead CTS in Europe are saying.
 "A war by baci1li is predicted in the next war, where a nation would be conquered by pestilence and plague by the enemy England had ready 10000 shells with anthrax ready tc turn loose had Germany started a war by bacilli in the great war.
 Even our country was not alooi for at Washington we had whea rust ready to distribute in Germany to stop her wheat crop of 1919 if the necessity arose.
 Gall it what you may. use the name of Wilson or Harding or any one, but the idea is right, the league plan is inevitable or by destructive war of the future the white race will iretrograde to savages and leave the world to the yellow and black"