'Those of us who move up and down the Pacific Coast hear a good Ideal of loose talk about war and where it is next' to take place for, as [have previously indicated in these letters, there is a strong feeling that Japan has her attention directed to some definite objective. In this connexion I feel that it is a great mistake for Tokyo to endea-your to cloak what she is doing, for the more she tries to cover up her cements, particularly in air work, closely will she be watched and the bigger the crop of ugly rumours that. will follow.
Personally £ do not want to be were around when the next takes place. For I see that ings so entirely ghastly are scheduled to take place that the Fuman mind revolts at their possibility. Science ig man's greatest servant. but it looks as if she will jin the next war turn out to be his greatest enemy as she did in the last war. A scientific man in Chicago, peaking publicly the other day, sai hho thought that in 20 years armies will be unnecessary, and a small group of men, equipped with deadly Cavices, will destroy great centres of population at a single stroke, as they are ordered by their command. ers. Men, women and children will perish at the will of the scientist, and cities will be annihilated in a Yew moments by the simple pulling of a lever or the pushing of a button, chieh will control the devices of the scientists who will wage the wars.
jelence will absolutely control the wars, and a mere corporal's guard'
wage them.
This is the other side of the picture, where science enlightens the mind of man for his own benefit:
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