Evening star., 1923-06-28

Gen. Pershing has developed a plan
of defense of continental United
States. approved by the War Depart
ment and heralded as proof against
any invasion. The details and essen
tial features are not published. for no
plan could be effective If the enemy
knew It's weak spots in advance of
attack.
One feature Of the defense will con-
sist in putting a barbed wire en-
tanglement along our entire shore,
especially strong where landing par
ties might be halted. There, In con-
fusion, the enemy would be at the
mines.
The published reports do not state
lover the fence" with the aid of air.
planes, sent aloft at sea from plane
carriers. The next war will not be
fought as any previous war has ever
been. Wire entanglements, which
were almost new In the world war,
will be useless If ships can stand
thirty miles offshore and lombard
cities. or send torpedoes through
w
from fifty or one hundred miles at
sea.
There are many predictions of what
the future will bring into war meth
be obsolete tomorrow. The. chief of
air defense of American forces in
England prophesfed year before
armistice that. before long. the art
whole divisions would be mounted"
in either airplanes or dirigible bal
looms. each carrying fifty men. and
would leap over the intrenched enemy
and suddenly attack from the rear
Now, instead of thousands playing
battle leapfrog. or fighting in the
clouds, like Tennyson foresaw, few
men will carry enormous bombs
capable of annihilating city or an
intrenched army with one explosion
such carriers may ascend bearing no
crew, and be guided by wireless from
station 100 miles away. An air
plane is being tested at Dayton this
q 10.0o0-pound bomb, which would
destroy a large city with one ex-
If Gen. Pershing will build his wire
get to lock the gates. We may rest
in fancied security until the bombs
begin to fall. Whether the plan in
cludes overhead poultry netting to
catch the bombs is not announced.
New Jersey is reported to be wor-
ried as to how to bell It's cats so as
to give warning to squirrels; other
regions are troubled over fear of un-
muzzled dogs. but it remains for
Washington to appeal to the police
force to catch a $1,000 canary which
ssA "a
unbelled cat may have beaten the
police, for. owing to the rigid disci-
pline which forbids patrolmen to un-
button their coats. climbing trees of
especially for all but 1.-the and slen-
der officers. Birds have bad habits
of not staying in the same tree that
the man Is climbing, Laddie Boy
the Presidents $1,000 squirrel. What
can Laddie Boy do with canary.
beiled or unbelled? Thousand dollar
breakfasts for cat or dog are not
The Navy has undertaken to utilize
the "work-while-you-sl sleep" method
Of instruction. Special receivers of
the radio are attached 10 the ears of
the trainees, when they retire to
natures sweet restorer. balmy
Sleep" and all through the night les
sons will be repeated to the sub,
conscious mind OF the sleeper.
It used to be accepted that "there
10 no royal road to learning" but no
longer need we lose time from work
or play OF our. conscious wax ke-time.
simply in order to study dry lessons.
All that is needed is to park our sub
conscious mind upon q radio and let
scisnce take its course.
II any particular brafn-groove
seems shallow. so that the idea slips
out of 1t, the radio can be set to
digging 1t deeper. by repetition all
night, and no time lost from daily
vocation. ALI of Freud's completes
can thus he exercised. like pianist
drills the scales. Chronic sriorers may
not learn sc fast as those gentle
souls whose sub-conscious minds
ego softly all their days"-or nights
but there will be added attach
ments to meet such cases.
u & n
Some psychologists define an idea
as AN explosion or discharge of the
brain cell; an. emotion as an activity