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Zurich Herald, 1929-06-13, Page 3W.. tack, And so, the instant the thou- •�' iss. The 1,40$.1 -lour lar sand lllai�eY leave Iiaznlnatrl for elle , althea of England, 1,500 planets leave ondOri foz the cities of Gernna.ty, The Ne �, l epllblie the hast way, tit 1, "I Magazine I Carried AnArticle Thei s:0.y May erose, but, owing to Recent- . �lptklrpss of space and to the 1y, , That •Gives a Vivid Picture of What the Next War Will Mean By sTUART CHASE ' Oii August' 13, 1028, the "Northern Tuwer'! opened.. its attack on London, Seventy -Ave airplanes, each carrying 500 pounces of "bombs," swooped down ul)on the city from the northeast, 'They were met by an equal' number SRIa senaitron to be on s. ties will be few, and w i civilizations; instead the eras•• a,: or one, *uat • berg delayed. As such things go, ailother ten minutes at the outside. • There is at least one good thing to be said about the next war: it will not iceep u$ long on edge. We shall not have to worry about finding the money for Liberty Bonds, or wonder whether George is going to get his commission, The whole business will 7iiN of defense planes, by .batteries of an- be over• in a couple of hours. 4t ti-aireiaft guns, by an extensivehal- full ofdiphenyl chloraorsine, loon system—by everyknowndefense we shall not need to ,Worry about against an ail' attack. , But within at.ything ever again. Personally, less than 30 minutes after crossing tate coast -line, the defense planes hacl beon eluded, the attack had 'centered directly over Loudon; "bombs" had been dropped on predetermined tar- gets and the attacking force was wheeling back into the north without a casualty. Every specified objective was bombed. Fifty thousand pounds of theoretical explosives were dropped through 16,000 feet, -with the accuracy of gun fire.. Had these 22. tons of bombs been filled -with dipyhenyl chloroarsine, half of the population of London, men, women and children; would have been Wiped out. This whole drama; to be sure, was mimic warfare, but it was carried out with great care, and .the results I have ,cited were the ,sober conclusions ot army judges. All known methods of defense were helpless before 75 pilots. Not a single attacking plane was downed. itixagine what might be clone With 500 planes—a force that every one of the leading nations can readily mobilize. France, for iastauce, is now in a position to bring 4,000 planes into action at the call of the radio. There are at least two varieties of poison gas against which no mask is of any protection. Cacodyl isocyanide ` is in ,the possession of all the great nations, a gas so frightful that mili- tary Hien. adinit to reporters that they •do not see how they could bring them- selves to use it. Government pur- chasing agents can also take their •choice of bombs felled with deadly plague or bacilli, or with anthrax for the extermination of milk cows and. horses. Meanwhile the "radium ato- nrite," . jast discovered, is a more powerful explosive than T.141`..T.; and with a newly invented metal cotu- ZPound "a 400 -horse -power airplane motor can be built so light tha to mancan easily pick it up?' , Say that war is declared. In Bre- men or Calais a thousand men climb into the cockpits of their aircraft. .A. starting signal, an hour or two of flight, a little veering, dropping and dodging, as the. defense planes rise, a casualty or two as the radium ato- mite of the anti-aircraft guns tries vainly to fill a space 100 miles square and foto• miles deep, one muffled roar atter another as the bombs are dropped per schedule and so, to all iuteiits and, purposes, the civilization founded by William the Conqueror, which gave Bacon, Newton and Watt to the world, comes, in something like half an hour, to a colse. Finished and done, London, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol—each now vanishes from the list of habitable places on the planet. Not even a rat, not even an ant, not even a roach, can survive; every liv- ing thing has ceased to breathe by virtue of diphenyl chloroarsine. though it may be contrary to the code of the sportsman, I know when I am beaten. And against a three-dlmen- sinal war -machine, I 'have no Cant - deuce: sof oni-dance-sof anything except that the uniclile association of _electrons which comprise myself is about to form new and interesting chemical com- binations. The persons capable of imagining a general holocaust in advance are so few, and of such slight influence, that the world will not realize what it now faces until it has faced it, in a "fait accompli." Then, and not until then, realization will come—possibly, as the extras bring one incredible horror after another, it will conte very fast. In a'tew days, perhaps after the two belligerents have been laid to rest, the neutral World will be in as suflici- I ent state of chock, to see 'that this sort of thing must stop forever. The surviving West, together with the East, will then banish the ma - Chine from war—which means, of course, the banishment of war. Or so the conclusion hangs, neatly balanced between the. Hope ,and the belief, within the mind. • Caught Napping (According to a "Gossip" column, the afternoon nap of our grandmoth- ers is now .becoming de rigueur for the Bright Young Thing to -day, who is worn out with her ail -night junket- ings.) Young girls shoes The parquet are constantly tapping, Whose language runs riot, and who's Some Gloom -chaser endlessly lapping, Can it really be true . What they're hinting of you, And shall we at last catch yoti nap - plug? ' of the .moment,* whose Tile Romance of the Ey'rd Antarctic Expedition Visualize:. PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE ANTARCTIC SHOWS BY RD NEARING HIS GOAL uachi A view from. one of Commandos Byrd's ships on his Antarctic expedition, showing- the flagship app'r the great ice barrier which can be seen dimly In the distance. ;;��//y�iillion front money spent on public Over 300 Jif llion health than the smaller communities do. Lost Each dear Enormous Penalty Through Preventable Illness Annual- ly Though Larger Cana- dian Cities Appear More Healthy Than the Smaller Centres The airplane, in effect, has reduced all other war weapons—battleships, fortresses, tanks—to so lunch scrap iron. The only thing it cannot be sure of harming is a submarine with a• liuuclred feet of ocean over it. Yet' a good submarine costs about $5,000,- 000; it requires a crew of 30 men; its 'peeddoes not exceed 20 .piles an hour submerged and it is not a very straight shooter at best. A good air- plane may be had for $5,000, its crew is one, it can travel at 200 miles an hour and it can drop a bomb with reinarkable accuracy. In short, it hardly pays to discuss any mechanism of warfare except,,,the airplane, It is more deadly than any other weapon, all "factors considered, a.ucl it is cheap. It can be built itt a few clays and its cost, relatively sneak- So vital of late years you've been, So assiduous when you go flapping With intent, as.is plain to be seen, The licence of age to he capping— And now your high links End in twice twenty winks Every afternoon, when you're caught napping. For the manner of life which to-d;ty Yeiir strength in your teens begins sapping, A great many moralists say That what you want's a jolly good slapping— But we'll tuck you (instead Of a spanking) in bed, Since all babies are better for napping.—"Daily Herald." Nile Waters London Times (Ind.): The news that a comprehensive agreement has been reached by the British and the Egyptian Governments on the subject of the irrigation of Egypt and the Su- dan will be received with general and legitimate satisfaction in this country. • Egypt, with which this country has been so closely associated for nearly fifty years, has won back from the waste the ancient conciuests of the Pharaohs and of the Ptolemies. The Sudan is largely virgin soil, but even there the records and remains of Ethiopian kings and the traditions of the ancients bear witness to a for- mer civilization that perished as much by the sands as by the swords of the encroaching desert. The new Nile agreement holds out vast possi- driver immensely? He even put some bilities for the agricultural future of fresh oil in the pump. both countries. Its conclusion con- verts the dreams of the great British engineers who are or were associated when tate revival of seientitic irriga- production of Canada. A loss of $1; tion in Egypt into confident and sober 311,000,000 through. preventable dis- hopes. eases and premature deaths is greater than the value of the field crops raised by all the farmers of Canada last year, this value being estimated by the Do- minion Department of Agriculture at: Judge, cannot but' have a sense of -$1,200,000,000. The annual return grievance, tut,, nevertheless, her in - from all .farm live stock was about tentions are pacific. It is not by war, in the view of the Germans, taking them in bulk, that conditions can be improved, War would only worsen theta, and I think the majority of Germans are convinced of this truth. The Germans are on the side of peace; and unless there is incredi- ble folly ,there will be no groat con- flict in which Germany will be engag- ed in our generation. HEALTH UNITS. NEEDED It is not only Montreal that gets a black eye 'from,: the public health :cru- saders. The Canadian Social Hygiene Coun- cil figures out that Canada loses $311; 000,000 through preventable illness. annually. A further billion. is dost through. premature deaths, it is also estimated by the same authority. Hence a campaign to cope with .con- trollable diseases and 'preventable deaths. These estimates of Iosses are enor- mous ti hen placed against the wealth • Each Counted Flying for Less Than .a Cent a Mile An aehieveitxent for which aero- nautical engineers and conunereial aviation concerns have been waiting —and working for years, was reeov'd•. ed in the daily press the other day when Capt. L. M. Woolson and his assistant flew a Stinson airplane equipped with a heavy -ail Diesel en- gine soma seven hundred miles at a fuel cost of $4,08, Aviation gasoline, it is estimated, would have cost $28,65 for the same journey--fronx. Detroit to Langley Field, Virginia. But, it is explained, the ability of this engine (designed by Captain Woolson on the Diesel principle and manufactured by. the Packard Motor Company) to 'burn fuel oil is only one of its claims to superiority. As the New York World explains: "The Dieselized airplane, if it proves successful, will be safer from the fire hazard, -while the elimination of the electricignition system will snake it easy to equip it with radio, "The Diesel engine take petroleum oil, sprays it into a combustion cham- ber filled with highly compressed air, and automatically ignites the explo- sive mixture." C. B. Allen, The World's aeronautic- al authority, was at Langley Field when the Woolson machine arrived, and he says: "The Packard -Diesel aircraft motor is a nine -cylinder, air-cooled radial en- gine resembling the Wright Whirl- wind in general appearance, save that it has but a single valve which func- tions both for exhaust and for taking in air to mil: with its fuel oil. "Those who• have seen the engine say there is no reason, if it proves successful, why it may not be adapted for ue in automobiles, thus revolution- izing the costs cf motoring as well as those of flying." In a Detroit dispatch to the New York Times, we learn that— "The economy in fuel load, amount- ing to a 40 per cent. saving, means • an equal increase in pay lead, an item of import:.uce to commercial operators of aircraft. "Although the Die:.el weighs more than gasoline engines of equal power, estimated at three pounds per horse- power as compared to two pounds per horse -power, the difference, it is said, is more than compensated by the dis- parity in weight of fuel loads." Of co•.rse, remarks the Baltimore, Sun: "It must not be assumed that the Diesel engine will immediately super- sede its gasoline rival. But to -day's news does indicate that the problem is on the way to solution. And that in turn is an evidence that the airplane industry is approaching the point *where it will be able to compete with existing transportation mediums on something like 'equal terms-" ng One On Driver Here are a couple of motoring stories: subtle or not as you please but "one on the driver: hated suite In one case a piece of insulated was bared at both ends. One end was connected to the earthing terminal of of the magneto and the other was led to a spot just under the accelerator pedal, so that `s'hen the driver put his foot down a connection was made and the magneto earthed. To the driver the symptoms seemed exactly those of a choked jet in the carburettor. The other trick was less subtle. A ratan had just takers delivery of a new car. While he lett it unattended some loving friends firmly wired a kipper round the car's exhaust pipe. As soon as the pipe heated up the kipper be- gan to cook, and the smell worried the PACIFIC GE M NY Sisley Huddleston in the Ne Statesman (London) : Germany, as w I $600,000,000. Tite manufacturing industries pro- duce a gross value of a little over $3,- 000,000,000 a year; the value added to raw material by all the persons em- ployed in the manufacturing process is somewhat less than two billions a year. Cauadaian civilization would not seem to be particularly efficient, if its• capacity for wealth production is con- trasted with its inability to prevent the enormous economic losses which the Hygiene Council says are prevent- able. Nor particularly humanitarign, since these losses imply a great deal of tut - necessary suffering and sorrow. Ten Notorious Traps For Unwary Spellers What words are most commonly misspeled in the English language? A survey of the orthography of students at the University of California reveals the ten words most frequently mis- spelled by college students. 1Vlembers of the faculty, declare that the words Most often found misspelled by Writers of all ages and classes are: separate, lose, ninety, privilege, Vil- lain, Chautauqua, accommodate, all right, repetition and ecstasy. Ten other words commonly misspelled by college students as well as many uni- versity graduates are: exhilarate, byii- ocrlsy, indispensable, irrelevant, one- self, sacrilege, supersede, councilor, embarrass and harass. . Empire Development I.,ondon News of the World We ingis a trifles- lis primacy comes, ascannot be con sitlored to have made i see it, from the fact that it can op- anything like full use, of our oppor- crate in three dimensions, Where all tlets for our growior creating e ng populat onuntil w t�we have devised some really effective system of Imperial development. Its so far other weapofts . are limited to one or two, A submarine can operate in three dimensions, but only by slow as the opening up the Dominions to iu d cumbersome wallows, nor can it settler's on a woof f e soak 1s con- cerned, much of a belligerent :nature to nothing can be done withooperate upon, except sharks• the co-operation of their respective lror a three-dimensional offense :there ia only the sorriest kind •of de- fense, as the attack on London sho`veeit Solite genius has suggested that piano wire be suspended front balloons to trap au Air offensive. He sltoulcl receive a prize from a comic. weekly. And these bristling pictures of. anti-aircraft guns in: the Sunday' supplements, together with, accounts of their range and accuracy, aro alt Insult to the intelligence The only way to keep airplanes out,of a met- ropolitan area Is to have enough anti- aircraft guns to 1111 400 cubic miles practically solid with steel splinters, and T,N,T. • This would involve, first, a, fantastic number of guns, and sec- ond, grave .discomfort for if not the positl'iVe slaughter of, the. inetrolioli- tats population, who could not stove on the streets witltoUt umbrellas of heavy Steel. Military si.rategy% however, has an aniwv tor the three.dimeligleital at. The Social Hygiene Council states that there are fewer deaths and less sickness per capita in the larger cities of Canada than in the smaller cities and towns and the rural areas. This is attributed to the possession by the larger cities of competent Mr. Baldwin's Luck London Daily Express (Ind. Cons.): The Prime Minister is the luckiest statesman of our times, He has had more chances in the last six years titan come to most hien in a lifetime. Even now a benignant fate has not grown tired ot playing directly into. Itis hands. Just as the Zinovieff letter came overwhelmingly to his rescue on the eve of the last election, so on the eve of the present one the American suggestions for a reduction in naval armaments place at his disposal a Health bureaus which get better re- weapon of incomparable potency. 3 Says Leisure is Worse Than Work Loudon.—The subject of leisure, and the right use of it was dealt with by II. Hamilton Fyfe at the Congress of the National Union of Students, at Aberystwyth, recently. There were some problems as old as the human mind, he said, but this was a new one, because not until re- cent years had the mass of the people enjoyed leisure to any great extent. it was a problem that arose out of the industrial revolution. During the 150 years which had passed since that event, machinery had been more and more developed, and workers in factories had become more and more parts of machines. It was that lack of interest in the, work that promoted the demand for more leisure. That demand was na- tural and inevitable. Eight hours had become general. Several hours pre- vailed in some trades; there was talk of six and even four hours in the future. But with all this extension of leis- ure, a few knew how to use it. Governments. . . , The development of the territories under the ituruecllate control of Whitehall constitutes a dif- ferent problem. In these regions lies a magnificent field for the investment of British capital to the great profit Of the British workman. "Toni is a vile insect." "Send hint some lasso$ powclet —he nxaz take the hint." "The army should take only mar Tied men." "Why?" "Because they're trained to take orders, of course." The Last Voyage of a German War Ship • GASSY GERTIE "When a girl throws an oil can out of her car it means friction has been eliminated." "Do you enrbrac�e your olrportuni- .les"" `Only the blowla ones." Germany and South Africa Sydney (N•S.vT.) Sun: The passage of the German trade treaty through the Louth African Assembly has rais- ed acutely lite question of Dominion power to make treaties without rO- ference to Britain, ... The jubilation of Berlin, however, r.eetltS a little dic- propnrtionatP. . . .Sonde Africa leas a strong and bitt.cr atrti-British leaven, composed of butch irrecoticilables and a section of the Labor Party, both of whom are working together against the imperial idea. In. no other Domin- ion is there such �itts povsealia f l antii--Iclw Aerial party. Zealand are both solidly 13ritislr, and the Canadian French, tho iglt natural- ly not enthusiastic about British Im- perialisnt, find in it snbstarrtial ad vantages coul not be enjoyed. undend r r which t United Statesd. dominance. A reformer states that if Germany drank nothing but water she could. Tay what she owes. And if the Allies' drank nothing but wator they woulcli not nod to press the debt.- Atlanta Constitution. s1 The death*• citrus fly has made its ,.•,���;,�,; alipoaraltce in Florida, but It is a cone!' ;:,•-^ ' '_".`"""""'" -.K'� fort to know that no ratter what hair - Betts the orange drink industry will .,., -. DO VOtI. {�N.OW Ai 1~yGLlal1MEN HAVE H aUSES OiJtSoHI rat BOTTOM/ Seydiitz tvhic� not be affected one way or the other, sltows,houses bulit on the toe? (form er'1y the battoln) of• the ea `etc tit . is rer� --The New Yd Otto Unusual picture ?vas ,recently ra.secl front Scapt� x!wlow. The men erigagel in sa.,;agiUg' th,.