The Washington times., 1922-09-04

Advsrsity's Hard School.
Revenge and Efficiency.
The Danger Of Western
Europe.
ESQ, 900. 900 to 10000
900.
ARTHUR BRISBANE

by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. isiso
The greatest Of all schools
is still ADVERSELY, and ne
cessity is the mother Of in
vention.
France, the United States,
and Germany have experiment.
ed with gliding machines-fying
planes built without q motor,
depending for their navigation
upon the intelligence Of the
manager. ....... s
An American stayed up in
the air almost one minute with
out an engine. A Frenchman
stayed up one full minute
Two German students stayed
UP for MORE THAN TWO
HOURS each.
Adversity did it. France
won the war. Germany was
forbidden to build flying ma
chimes with engines, because 1t
was feared she might come
back through the air.
Thereupon, in adversity's
harsh school, Germany studied
the problem of flying machines
without engines, the only kind
she was allowed to build. And
thus far she has done just one
hundred and twenty times as
we'll as her victorious COM
petitors.
The flying machine without an
engine is not considered impor-
tant. But perhaps it is inn
portant, for experiments with
It are teaching the Germans
perfection in the building Of
airplane wings. With a small,
very light engine attached, and
only the weight of one man
and a few small bombs to carry,
it may be possible to send an
army of ten or a hundred thou
sand flying dynamiters through
the air. That would be a very
uncomfortable regiment appear
ing above a city at break OF
day, especially if it appeared to
make a first declaration Of war.
The English are beginning to
worry about that already.
What was a mere gliding
toy" might suddenly carry an
army of 100000 trained men
from Berlin to London through
the air. That would make the
Plague of Locusts seem tame.
One thing Europe's intelligent
men thoroughly understand. You
can conquer a people, like the
Germans. You can ruin and
impoverish, temporarily, other
nations, like Russia, Austria.
But modern war methods do
not permit complete extermiia-
tion Of populations, or leading
whole populations into slavery.
Therefore the nation con-
auered, ruined, impoverished re,
mains. It breeds children, and
It breeds REVENGE. .
And that the revenge will
come, a few years from now,
Is lust as certain as the rising
of the sun, unless something Is
done to eradicate the revenge
full spirit.
ENGLAND. France, and Italy
should know, and their intelli-
gent statesmen DO know, that
it is only a question of years,
possibly very few, when Russia
and Germany, having made
their plans secretly, will march
against Western Europe.
Italy may not be included IN
the struggle. For she is thor
oughl, disgusted with the treat
ment she got from her allies,
and she has a right to be dis
gusted.
Without her neutrality in the
beginning, making secure the
southeast frontier of France,
Germany would have won, and
without her active help later,
holding back Austria, Germany
would have won.
Italy may be left out Of the
next war, but, as Henry Ford
in his latest interview says,
that war is surely coming-un-
less common sense, realization
of facts, and some attempt at
q just compromise on economic
brutality can be reached.
Revenge in itself is a terrific
force. The French showed it in
the magnificent struggle that
they made and in their victory.
Every Frenchman was a des-
perate fighting man, his life
was nothing. France was every
thing.
When that new war comes,
treaties will have been made Sc
cretly. Poison gases and new
explosives will have been Gre
ated.
If the Government Of the
United States is unable, as it
is, to supervise and control its
illicit . whiskey makers and
sellers, how can foreign govern
ments supervise and control
seventy million people in Ger