Show FUTURE GAS WAR It is evident that chemistry chemistry wIll will play an important part in inan an any r future war Any program of national preparedness which does not provide adequate means for far meeting gas attacks and other forms of chemIcal warfare e is sadly defIcIent in in a branch of military activity WhICh may prove of vital Importance And inasmuch as the best defense IS a vigorous offensive our forces should be prepared to carry the fight into the enemy's camp While the use of poisonous gases is banned by the nations nation who were partIes to the arms alms seduction conference held in 1922 similar agreements were m in effect before the World War yet they did not prevent the employment of these destructive agencies when the urge of necessIty came As a matter of fact all the lead lead- leading leading ing natI nations ns are today busy uth the development of chemIcal war equipment legal regardless of their pledges not to use use it I Dr James F Norris Nonis former preSIdent of the American Chem Chem- Chemical ical Society sounded a note of warning on this subject when 1111 n said When the final pressure comes a nation wIll use any means available to save ItS lIfe He urged that our army con con- continue continue to study and develop the means of chemical warfare with adequate appropriations for the purpose as other armies are doing We Ve do not want to see another ar arVe We Ve did not want to see seethe seethe the last one But another war may come is almost certain to tp come sooner or later We should make reasonable preparations to meet any emergency by developing every branch of modern warfare To fail fail m in thIS would be to invIte disaster should war unhappIly be forced upon UbI us |