Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-27
THE REFEREE
tBy Albert Applet

1efTOrS
international politicians, who call
themselves statesmen, realize that
an ornaments race is on again.
There Is talk of a necessity for out
having submarines, flying bombers
and poison gas-particularly the
poison gas.
All very well, but eventually the
politicians will realize hat in our
scientific age disarmament must be
honest, absolute and complete all
along the line-not here and there,
barring some weapons, permitting
Others. Halfway disarmament can
not keep pace with the iends work
ing in laboratories to perfect new
killing devices.
The key to real disarmament Is to
disarm the politicians-the people
should strip them of their war-mak-
ing power.
Frightful
The next war will not be decided
in the air, under the water or by
death-dealing gases. These efficient
devices will be obsolete within so
years-and it takes that long for the
people. on the law of averages, to get
enough money saved up to finance
another big war.
We wonder what is doing in some
of the secret German laboratories
Let them find a way to spread germs
of some dread disease (and a method
to immunize themselves) and Ger
many wouldn't need flying machines,
U-boats and poison gas.
Future war weapons will be germs,
plant life blights to kill the enemy's
food supplies, and artificial light
ming. That future nay not be far
off.
Frankenstein
To checkmate robbers, the Federal
Reserve banks consider sending
money shipments by airplane. 1t
looks impossible to attack and rob
a flying bank, but some ingenious
Jesse James might be able to figure
it out. Not impossible. with-a con-
federate in the flying crew to make
it an inside job"
The Wright Brothers didn't figure
on this sort of thing when they
made the first successful flight in a
Observation-Disclosures machine. Nor did
they dream of the airplane's terrible
future as a a engine.
We are progressing mechanically
faster than we are able to keep
pace morally. Civilization already
is 200 years in advance of average
standards of conduct.
Painless
It's only a few generations since
the doctors strapped surgical pa
tients to the operating table. then
went after them with saws and
knives. The. inventors of anaesthe-
tics saved humanity untold agony in
cases where Supplying drugs could
not be used in operations with safe
ty to the patient. Those benefactors
were not d~estroyers, so no monu-
ments to them. Do you know who
invented chloroform? Ether?
Two wonderful new anaesthetics
recently have been discovered-in-
volving no discomfort, and with ra-
pid recovery. One is acetylene dilu-
ted with oxygen, discovered by Car
ter and Lukhardt of University o.
Chicago.
Anaesthetics save pain. especially
on the battlefield. On the other hand
this makes men more willing to be
butchered.
Caught
Uncle Sam this fiscal yea will col
lect $50 million dollars of back taxes
covering 1919, 1920, and 1921. Some
VI Ills lnNOlNSo 1iOllCDl oASpdICSs
Much of it represents uncovered
fraud.
The crooked dodgers are learn
ing that when they get into an argu-
ment with the national government
they are up against the real thing.
Uncle Sam isn't bunkoed and bluffed
as easily as states and municipali-
ties.
Flying
British military forces have a
%helicopter able to rise straight up in
the air 20 feet and stand still about
20 minutes. This little item, buried
in the news, is the forerunner of
fool-proof, safe flying fivvers that'll
be kept in garages with doors in the
roof.
You'll fly before you die often
and without danger,