Ithaca N.Y., Sept. 10.
Wars of the future will impose terrors dwarfing the atrocities of the last, Dr. Teo Hendrik Buekeland. of New York declared at Cornell University tonight in his annual address as President, the American Chemical Society.
"The largest and best protected cities, irrespective of their size or distance, will be continuously exposed to destruction and. mutilation," he said. "Death and torture of the inhabitants will occur whether they are slumbering in their beds at night or whether they are reading their newspaper in. their comfortable clubs or saying—their prayers in church. There will be way of safeguarding women or children, the old o the infirm, "The remedy seems to be more of a plain generous " week-day religion of deeds, rather than a Sunday religion of words; less hypocrisy, haughtiness, lying" and more decency and good will among peoples, in place of smug pedantic
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.