The Seaforth News, 1929-06-20, Page 7'The Two -Dour W
The New' Republic Magazine
•,Carried An Article Recent-
�.. ]y That Gives a . Vivid
Picture of What the
Next War Will
Mean
By STUART CHASE
On Augiist'1a, 1028, the "Northern
Power" opened its attack on London.wreveuty-11ve airplanes, each carrying
500 pounds of "bombs," swooped dowt
upon' the city from the northeast.
They were met by an equal uumb
of defense Planes, by batteries of .
tt•airoraft guns, by an extensive b
loon system—by every known defense
against au air attack. But within
loss than 30 minutes after crossing
the oast -line, the deteuso planes had.
been, eluded, the attack had cantered
directly over London, "bombs" had
been dropped on predetermined tare
gets and the attacking force wag
wheeling back into tete north without
a,casualty,
livery specified objective ,was
bombed, Fifty thousand pounds of
theoretical explosives were dropped
through 10,000 feet, with the accuracy
of gun lira, Had 'these 22 tons of
bombs been tilled with di;pylieuyi
chloroarsine, half of the population of
London, men, women and oliildren,
would have been witted out.
This whole drama, to be sura, was
mimic warfare, but it was carried put
with great care, and the results I have
cited were the sober oonolusions of
army judges. All known methods 00
defense were Helpless before` 72 pilots,
Not a single attacking plane was
dawned. Imagine what might be dyne
with 500 plaaee—a force that every
one of the leading nations can readily
mobilize. France, for instance, is now
is a position to bring 4,000 planes into
action at the gall 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 mitt•
tary men admit to reporters that they
do not see how they could bring them-
selves to use .it. 'Government pun
chasing agents ' can also take their
choice of bombs filled with deadly
Plague or bacilli, or with anthrax for
the extermination of milk cows and
horses. Meanwhile the "radium ato-
mite," just discovered, 'is a niore
powerful explosive than T.N.T.; and
with a newly invented ,metal coin -
Round "a 400 -horse -power airplane
motor can be built so light tha to
Man can easily pick it up.'
Mak, And so, the instant tlt.o• bion
san4 planes leave Hamburg for the
gittoa of Eagle -MI, 1,$00 planes Wine
London ter the cities of Gerinanya
Their ways may eros, but, owing t0
the alipperiliess of space :and to the
beat° of non squadron to be en rte
way, the casualties will be taw, and
the eud of two oiyllizatioua, tustoad
of one, not long deigned, As aueh
things go, another tea minutes at the
outside.
There le at least one good thing to
be Bald aboutthe next war; it will
not peep us long on edge. We shall
not have to worry about finding, the
money for Liberty Bonds, or wonder
whether George is going .to got his
er commission. The whole }maltose wilt
l' be over in a couple ot .hours, With
Say that war is declared. ' In Bre-
men or Calais a thousand men climb
into the cockpits of their aircraft. A
starting signal; au hour or two of
flight, a little veering, dropping and
dodging, as the defense planes rise,
a casualty or two as the radium atm
Mite of the • auti•aircraft guns tries
vainly to 'nil a space 100 mile's square
and fourlanes deep, one muffled roar
after another as the bombs are
dropped per schedule Ie a
nd so to
Alf
iutents 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 yanishea from the
list of habitable place8 on the -planet.
Not even a rat,not evenan ant; not
even a roach, can survive; every liv-
Ing thing Stas ceased to breathe by
yirtue of diphenyl ,chloroarsine,
The airplane, in effect, has reduced
all other war weapons battleships,
fortresses, tanks -to so much scrap
iron, The only thing it cannot be
sire of harming is a submarine with
a hundred feet of ocean over it. Yet
a good submarine costs dbout_$5,000,-
000; it requires a crew of 30 men; its
aimed does not- exceed 20 miles an
hour submerged and it is not a very
straight shooter at best. A good air -
Plane may be had for $5,000, 100 crew
is one, it can travel at 200 miles au
hour and it can drop a bomb with
remarkable accuracy.
In short, it hardly pays to discuss
any mechanismot warfare except the
airplane. It is more deadly than any•
other weapon, alt factors considered,
and it is cheap. It can be built in a
few days and its cost, relatively speak-
ing is a trifle. Its primacy comes, as
I see it, from the fact that it eau op-
crate in three dimensions, where all
'other weapons are limited to one or
;two. 0. submarine can operate. in
;three dimensions, but only by slow
find eninl,ersome wallows, nor eau it
find much ^ or a belligerent nature to
pperate upon, except sharks,
For a three-dimensional offense
there is only the sorriest kind' of de-
' tense, as the attack on London
showed, Some genius has suggested
that piano wire be suspended from
balloolis to' trap an air offensive. He
'should receive a prize from a comic
weekly, And these bristling pictures
bf anti-alrct'aft guns in the Sunday
!supplements, together with accounts
of their rouge and aceuraey, are an
Insult to the intelligence, The only
way to keep -airplanes out of a met-
ropolitan area is to have enough anti-
aircraft.guns to fill 400 cubit miles
practically solid with steel splinters
and T,I1,T, 'Phis vs'o td involve, first,
a fantastic number of guns, and, sec.
ond, grave discomfort for, ie not the
positive slaughter of, the metropoli-
tan poptilatiott, who could not move
On the streets without umbrellas of
heavy steel.
Military .strategy, however, has an
answer for the three-dimensional at•
lungs full of dipheuyl chloraorsiue,
We shall not need to worry 'about
anything ever again, Personally,
though it may be contrary to the code
of the sporteman, I know when 1 am
beaten. And againet a throe-dimen,
sinal 'war -meanie, I have no Gond-
dense' of anything, except that the
unique association of electrons which
Comprise , myself ,; is . about to. form
new and interesting chemical corn.,
binatious,
The persona capable of imagining
a gbneral holocaust in advance are so
few, and of such slight Mittman, that
the world will not realize what it new,
faoee, until it has faced it, in a "fait
accompli;' Then, and not .until bleut,.
realization will come -possibly, as
the extras bring one incredible horror
after another, it will Dome very fast,
In a few days, perhaps atter the tore
belligerents have been laid to rest,,
the neutral world will be in a snflot
ent state of shock 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 ]tope 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 today, who
1s worn out with her all-night junket
ings,) •
Young girls of the
moment, 1
a
se
shoes
'The 1ar net are constantly pping,
Whose language runs riot, and who's
Some Gloom -chaser eudieesly lapping,
Can it tea1ly be true
What they're hinting et you,
And shall we at last catch yon nap-
' ping?
So vital 00 Iate years you've neon,
So assiduous when you go flapping
With intent, as is plain to be seen,
The licence of age to be capping—
And now your high jinke
End in twice twenty winks
Every afternoon, when you're ' caught
napping,
For the manner of life which today
Your 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."
Ten NgtOriOIIl-Traps
For Unwary Spellers
What words are moat commonly'
misspeled in the English language? A
survey of the orthography of students
at the University of California reveals
the ten words most frequently min
spelled by college students. Menibere
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 'wordy commonly misspelled by
college students as well as, many uni-
versity graduates are: exhilarate, Lyle
ocrisy, indispensable, lrreledant, one-
self, sacrilege, supersede, councilor,
embarrass.andharass.
Empire Development
London News of the World: We
cannot be consideredto have made
anythinglike full use of our oppor•
tunnies for creating new outlets for
our allowing populatipm.until' we have
devised some really effective system,
of Imperial development. In so far'
as the opening up of the Dominions to
Bottlers on a wholesale scale is cons
cerued, nothing can be done witltont
the Cooperation of their respective
Governments, . . The devolopment
of the territories under tite immediate
control of Whitehall constitutes' a dit•
ferent problem. In these regionstiles
a magnificent field for the investment
of British capital to
the great profit
of the British workmatt,
"Toin 10 a vile' insect!" '
"Send rifle some Insect powdoe--he
;.`lay take tete hitt,"
'�{ + The, R'tameke of the Byrd ,Antarctic Expeditloi
•
Vi$'Oi$4lized
PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE ANTARCTIC SHOWS BY RD NEARING HIS GOAL
A' view from one of Commander BYrd's ships on hie Antarctic expedition,' showing tete flagship approaching
the great ice barrier which can be seen dimly in the distance,
Over 300 Million
Lost E.isch Year d0.
sults from money spent on public
health than the smaller communities
Enormous Penalty -Through
`Preventable Illness 'Annual-
ly Though Larger Cana-
dian Cities Appear More
Healthy Than !the
Smaller Centres
HEALTH UNITS NEEDED
It Is not only Montreal that gets a
blacir eye -from the public health ern-
The Canadian Social Iiyg_ ione Coun-
cil figures out that Canada loses $311,-
000,000 through preventable illness
annually, .A further billion is lost
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 losses are enor-
mous when placed against the wealth
production of Canada.. .sit loss of $1,-
311,000,000 through preventable dis-
eases and premature deaths is greater
than the value of the field crops raised'
by all•Otto farmers of Canada last year,
this value ,being estimated by the Do.
minion Department of Agriculture at
$1,200,000,000. The annual return
from all farm live stock was about
$000,000,000.
The. manufacturing industries pro-
duce a gross value of a little over $3,-
000,000,000 a year; tate value added
to raw material by all the persons em-
ployed' in the manufacturing process
is :somewhat less than two billions a
3'ear... • :
Canadaian civilization would not
seem to be particitlarly eficiont, if its
capacity for wealth prodnctioa.Is eon -
treated with„its inability to prevent
the enormous economic. losses which
the Hygiene Council says are prevent-
able.
'Nor..particulariy humanitarian, sinoa
these losses imply a great deal of un-
necessary suffering and sorrow,
The Social Hygiene Council states
that, there are fewer deaths and less
sickness per Capita in the larger
cities of Canada than in the suzettes
cines and towns and the rural areae.
This is attributed to the possession
by the Iarger cities of competeut
health bureaus which, ger better re
Nile Waters
London Times (Ind.): The news
that a comprehensive agreement has
been reached by. the British and the
ki]gyptian Governmente on the subject
of the irrigation of Egypt and the Su-
dan will be received with general and
legitimate satisfaction in this country.
, Egypt, wait which this country
Lias been so closely associated for
hear'ly fifty years, has won back from
tete waste the ancient conquests of
the Pharaohs and of the Ptolemies,
The Sudan is largely virgin soil, but
even there tete, records and remains
of Ethiopian kings and the traditions
00 the ancients bear witness to a for-
mer civilization that perished as
much by the sands as by the swords
ofhe
t eticroaohfug desert. The new
Nile agreement Bolds out vast possi-
bilities for the agricultural future of
both`�countries. Its 'conclusion con-
verts the dreams of the great British
engineers who are •or were associated
with . the revival of scientific irriga-
tion in Egypt into confident and sober
elopes,
PACIFIC GERMANY
Sisley Huddleston in tete New
Statesman (Loudon):: Germany, as I
judge, cannot but have 0, sense of
gievance, but, nevertheless, her in•
tentious 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
them andh
I think c the majority of
Germans are convinced of this truth.
The Germans are on the side
of peace; andunless there is Incredi-
ble folly ,there will be 'oo groat con -
mat in which Germany will be engag-
ed in our generation..
•
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 sins -Years
than come to most men in a lifetime.
Even now a benignifnt fate linin. not
grown tired of playing directly into
his hands. Just as the Zinovieff letter
E;::ch Cou ted
One On hirer
Here are a couple of motoring
Wriest' subtle or not as you please
but "one on tke driver:
In one case a piece of instilated wire
: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 when the driver put his
Met 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
man had fust taken delivery of a new
car. While he left it unattended some,
loving friends firmly wired a kipper
round the car's exhaust pipe. As soon
aa the pipe heated up the kipper be-
gan to cook, and the smell worried the
driver immensely! Ile even put Sanaa
fresh oil in the pump.
Says Leisure is
Worse Than Work
London.—The subject of leisure,
and the right use of it was dealt with
by'H. 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 bad the mass of the people
enjoyed leisure to any great extent.
It was a problem obtem 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 'inore.parts of. machines.
It was that lack of 'interest in the
work that promoted the deinand for
more leisure. sure. That demand was na-
tural and inevitable. Eight hourshad
become general, Several hours pre-
'vailed in some trades; there was talk
02 six and even four hours in the
future.
But with 411 this extension of leis-
ure, a few knew how to use it,
came overwhelmingly to his rescue on
the eve•of the last election, so on the "The army should take tonty mar
eve of the present one the. American vied men."
suggestions for a .reduction in naval "'ally?"
armanrents place at his disposal a "Because they're trained to take
orders, of course." °
weapon of incom arabl �t
The Last Voyage of a German War -Ship
DO YOU KNOW THAT ENGLISHMEN iiP,`:`C. ii,,,U0011 ON SHIPS BOTTOM?
Unusual.p'icturo shows 'houses built on the to (form t 1
p ( c,iy its I otloli) of the German cruiser Seydlltz which
•
was recently raised „from Soaps, Flew. The Ina engage,] in sa: ;Aging- tIio�'cruiser lite right Pt her,' )
Flying fors Liss
Than a Cent a Mile
An achievement dor which 41020
nettle/1i engineers and cominercia
aviation concerns helve been waiting
—anti working for years,. was record
ed in the daily press the other day
when Capt, L, M. Woolson and hia
assistant flew a Stinaon airplane
equipped with n heavy -oil Diesel an-
gina some seven, hundred miles at a
fuel cost of $4,08, A.Yiation gasoline,
it is estimated, would have cost $20,00
for the carne journey—from Detroit
to Langley Field, Virginia, But, it is
explained, the ability' of this engine
(designed by Captain Woolson'ou the
Diesel principle and manufactured by
the Packard Motor Conopany)to burn
fuel oil is only ono of its claims to
superiority. As tato brew York World
explains:
"The Aieselized airplane, if it
proves successful, will be safer from
the fire hazard, while the elimination
of the electricignition system will,
make it easy to equip it with radio.
"Tho Diesel' engine take petroletun
oil, sprays it into a combustion cham-
ber Vied with highly compressed air,
and automatically ignites alto oxplo
sive mixture.”
C. B. Alien, 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
ine 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 mix with its fuel oil,
"Those who have seen oho engine
say there is no reason, if it proves
successful, why it may not be adapted
for ne in automobiles, thus revolution-
izing the costs of 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 load, an item
of importl,nce to conunerctal operators
of aircraft.
"Although the Diesel 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 111000
'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,"
Huge Sums Given
Charity In Britain
:`Mare Than $55,000,400 Do
dated hi Last 12 Months
LONDON,•.+ England is realizing
more than CM that charity begins at
hemv,ore '
e Mthan 411,000,000 has been
given to help the poor and the safs.
feeing during the past twelve months.
About 470,000,000 Is now invested
in stocks and shares en behalf of
hospitals homes and other charitable
institutio:a in the country.
It is possible that many thousands
of pounds in addition have been sub.
'aes now
crxdedscribedofltoy 1v107rious of, the.ofiiccbAratiial ortgan-r.
izaticns,
Anonymous gifts have been made t'e
local cats' and 'dogs' bones, to the
poor and needy, to the down -and -Data
and persons leaving prison. Hundreds
of pounds have been given to reduce
the National Debt, to assist Meal gm" -
eminent and buildhouses for workers
and to provide playing fields.
The largest gift was £1,000,000 to
various charities by Mrs. Emma
Grate Caird; the smallest was a
farthing to a hospital mond by a
schoo,
Whilelchildeducation and health have
received very generous recognition,
the hospitals and unemployed have
not been forgotten.:
Enormous gifts and banquets, not
included in the figure given above,
have been made to fund' Chaim at
Universities, and litany private . este.
tes have been handed over to the
authorities to be used as pleasure
grounds, while the figures of the
"Alexandra Rose" and "Poppy" day
collections show increases.
The sunt of £1,600,880 was subscrib-
ed to the miners' Distress Fund. Mr.
Bernhard Baron gave away £500,000.
Mrs. Lucy Greene, Sir Alfred L Jones,
and Mr. Walter M. 'Simpson gave
6350,000, 4325,000 ,and 4200,000
Twenty donors gave sums ranging
from £20,000 to 4150,000. Lord 'Beav-,
orbrook gave 425,000.
In addition, Lord Inchcape gave the
Chancellor otthe Exchequer 2500,000
eo be used to reduce the National
many magnificent gifts, including
£50,000,to save the Fondling Hospi-
tal large
`various-
charitable
o ..
1 site and gifts to v a
tus
charitable institutions and universi=
ties' and schools.
Lord Melchett subscribed 4100,000
for Jewish agricultural colonization.
Ideals,
"re you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost; that is
where they should be. Now put the
props under them," said Henry David
Thoreau. Helen Heller says we cau-
not always realize our ideals, but we
can always idealize our realities, and
out ideals must be practical if we
are to make a religion of them and
live by them, Phillips Broogs expres-
sed a high ideal in these -words: "We
reduce life to the pettiness of our
l ourlt-
hotted era t liv-
ing
living, �'P
os
daily
ing to the grandeur of life."' '
Again' from Thoreau, "Before we
cau adorn our houses with beautiful
objects the waifs must be stripped
and our lives must be stripped, and
house -keeping and beautiful: living be
laid for a foundation," Emerson
said, "Though we travel the world
over to find thebeautiful, we must
carry it with us or we And 1t not.".
]also, "The hand can never execute
anythingany higher than the charac-
ter can inspire."
Raskin must leave t een thinking ot
good 'book, whd Its . n'rote, "Make
for yourselves nests 00 pleasant
thoughts; bright fancies,• noble histor-
les, satisfied memories; treasure -
houses of precious and restful
thoaghts that time cannot destroy,
nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty
take front us; houses built without
hands Per our goals to live in."
,The Predominance of
Montreal
Saskatoon Star -Phoenix (Lib.). The
development of Montreal to its pres-
ent position has been an expensive
undertaking, but the Canadian people
are dobutless satisfied with the divi-
dends attuning front the investment.
They take pride in iVloutreal's corn-
nercial advauco and share with `
Moatrealers the bright hopes for the
future which the Harbour Commis -
eon expresses. Whore they cannot
sympathize with Montreal is in the
ballet that Montreal's present .pre-
dominance. ntust at all oasts be pre-
served, that "tete interests of Mont-
real are paramount,"- to use the words
at Mr. Tasctereau, in questions af-
feeting Canadian export trade routes.
Moutreal's hostility to the ` IIutdson
I3ay Railway and the St, Lawrence
waterway project has not enhanced
s prestige with the rest et the coun-
ty
Disarinairlelot
London Daily Mall (Ind, Cone.);
he people of Western Europa today
Mont, exception earnestly desire
at peace should prevail and that 1110
° n twist costly armaments, Which
ve now to bo maintained for safety,
ainst attack, should be reduced to
o minimum, They feet that•anothor
eat war would spell their ruin and
ght,even ,destroy civilization for the
neat 02 some sombre 'acid ? retro
ado system such . as Boisltevism.
ey look to their Governments to
the very utmost to follow up the
nation prdtidsalfi,wtth energy 0,114
od -wilt.
GABBY GERTIE
"When a girl throws an oil Can out
of her ear it means friction has been
eliminated."
"Do you embrace your opportuni-
ties?"
"Only the blonde ones."
Germany and South Africa
Sydney (N.S,W.) Sun: The passage
of the German trade treaty through
the South African Assembly has rais-
ed acutely the question of Dominion
power to make treaties without re-
ference to Britain. , - , The jubilatioa
of Berlin, however, seems a little dis-
proportionate. , South Africa has
a strong and bitter anti-British leaven,
composed of Dutch irreconpilables
and a section of the Labor Party, both
of whom are working'togetlier against
the imperial idea. In no other Domin-
ion is there such a powerful anti-Itn-
Aerial party. Australia and 6 New
Zealand are both solidly British, and
the Canadian French,, thoagh natural- it
ly not enthusiastic about British Im• t
perialism, find in it substantial ad-
vantages and concessions which could t
not be enjoyed under United States
dominance, T
wi
• A, reformer states that if Germany th
drank flouting but water she could con
pay what she owes, And It the Allies' ha
drank nothing but, water they would,ag
not need to press the debt,—Atlanta:Fth
Constitution. gr
1.— 111
The deadly citrus fiy has made: its be
appearance in Florida, but it is a corn- gr
fort to know that no natter what hap - .711
pens the orange. drink industry will 00
not be affected one way or tli'e other, A
-Tile Now .Yorker, go