The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-09-18

Frederick the
Greats father
selected the tall
- 49, est men he could
md for his
Arthur Br,..... guard. probably
kept them away
from the firing line. In battle ,hev
would have been killed first hit by
the bullets that 60 over the heads of
shorter men.
The wholesale killers of the old
days prepared their killings by
marching men up and down, drill
ing them, encouraging them with
titles, brass bands to lead them.
fancy uniforms. All that means
little now.
About 100 miles from Berlin there
is a station called Leuna. There
most useful work is done, in theory
and through study of the manufac-
ture OF synthetic petroleum; and
there most important, learned men
with big heads, spectacles and an
amount of education that would
make you dizzy if you could imag-
inc it, concentrate their brains on
the preparation of better, more eff
ficient poison gases and high ex-
plosives.
Every country has its similar
death laboratory; men perhaps as
efficient as those of Germany,
though Germany is the kingdom of
chemistry. the teacher of other ma
tons.
Henry Irving, on the stage of his
theater in London, prepared an inn
pressive presentation of the witches
in Macbeth" old, toothless hays,
preparing their hell-broth, with
power to summon spirits from the
dead and make them foretell the
future.
Far more efficient are those SOL
emn German chemists, physicists
and other professors, preparing the
real 'hel-broth a poison gas, upon
which the future Of civilization and
the domination of the earth may
depend for many centuries.
We had our periods of universal
barbarism and cannibalism, our
ages of flint, bronze and iron, our
many interesting forms of ruler
ship, planned to give one or a few
control over all the others. We had
the age of military feudalism, and
! many think that we are now seeing
the end Of industrial feudalism."
There may be in the centuries
ahead Of us q period of airprane-
poison gas rule, which will make
the peoples of the world as COM
pletely subject to a single dictator
ship as were the ancient galley
slaves, swinging their oars under
the lash.
we haven't seen and many to which
we devote too little thought, includ-
ing perhaps the fact that it is dam
gerous to be too rich if you are not
prepared to defend yourself against
burglars.
Those thousands of millions in
gold that we are hiding away in a
hole in the ground, as ingenuously
as any squirrel hiding his hickory
nuts, may bring us trouble some
day.
The thought of those ten thou
sand millions worth of gold bars
and dollars, hidden not very far be-
low the surface, might cause some
ingenious Asiatic OF European to
say to himself:
"For one or two billions / could
prepare the necessary machinery,
flying ships and poison gas incIud-
ed, to conquer the necessary areas
Of the United States and brighten
the others into submission. Having
laid down my layer Of gas, 1 would
descend and take the ten thousand
millions and 90 home with a clean
profit Of eight billions In gold"
Mussolini races his big Italian
built automobile, the engine burn
ing alcohol, made of Italian farm
products-no gasoline. Some law
makers in America suggest COM
pelling the use of 10 per cent alco-
hol in all fuel for American auto
mobiles. Fuel alcohol can be made
from corn, and the law, it is said,
would give work to 1000, 900 men on
10000, 900 acres of farm land.
1t seems impossible to believe the
hideous accounts of the maltreat-
ment and cruel deaths inflicted upon
women in the civil war now raging
In Spain.
That men should fight and muir
der each other is to be expected,
since they are at best half tiger,
half monkey" and often the mon
key gives way to the tiger. But
that they should infiict shameful i'll
treatment and hideous death on de-
fenseless women seems utterly un-
believable, even when you know
what men are, in q mob.
Q King Features Syndicate Inc
WNU Service.