Show bat alff IN USH OF US WARFARE SERVICE DIMMER ATTRACTS MEM AEI OF prominence BECOMES USEFUL IN PEACE hew flow poison gas ga Is being employed flew speakers speaker admit the necessity elty tf t its ft development for self krotec I 1 tco in war by EDWARD 0 CLARK gam oue one of tile the most stalk g C bial lal social gatherings of recent fit n washington was tho the dinner e recent eLLent and former officers of i e warfare service arid and their ace f which bus baa just been held in i gion it was wan expected that the tha a r uld be a small one but inter c t the event was 0 so o great that it s to secure a large hall ia c r OTio the officers and their r guests ai 2 ere to la congressional interest ot of urs in all bran branches cLes of the arm armed vere es of the country but the inter eit at that thai has been shown hown in the chemical altare service ervice the newest of the ho 1 re and defensive branches bran chea of tie the army seemingly surpasses aur passes every arery teang tills in the interest line that has been kwo k wo lefor the dinner just jint held wai attended by many senators and representatives in congress by high officers of the army and navy and by a score or so BO of tho the most moat famous chemists in the united states brig gen amos A fries who was the me chief of the gas service in tile the american expeditionary forces Is today todar the chief of the chemical warfare service as it exists in time of peace ile he presided a at t the diffner and in the course of his bis opening remarks ho he touched on the developing uses of gas for service in the peace life of the ration it to Is now being used to avert tle the dangers of bubonic plague through the use of gas as an exterminator of rodents of various kinds which are plague carriers it Is of use for pro of vaults and safes gates from bur clars tars and it rapidly is coming into use me la in the police departments of the country as a means of routing armed bandits who have been run to cover must be B ready for fut future uro wars wan full fall cognizance was taken by the members of congress who spoke and bathers to others of th the fact that the world hopes that some means meana eventually cabi can be taken to avert all war so that it may never again be necessary to use any means of offense or defense against an enemy in the field but tio speaker was hopeful enough even t insinuate that such a hope la is to be fulfilled it also Is admitted by the most trustful of all those who hope for peace that it if a war does come some nation certainly will use gas which Is now recognized as the most potential element tot toi overcoming a toe loe that tho world knows the reasoning of congress in continuing the chemical warfare service and of making it a separate branch of the service in order that it might work its way to efficiency effectively and individually Is that even it if au an agreement shall be entered into among the nations of the world not to use gas every nation of tile tho world must be pre pared to defend itself with gas and to uso use it offensively it if some other nation breaks the agreement ani and it can be said definitely that the lessons of 0 the last war made men believe that the iho nation which thinks it can win a victory by the use of gas will not hesitate for a moment to bring it into the lines as a weapon dr W D bancroft of cornell university ve ver sity ralty who did such high 0 alpar chemical lines for the united stains government during tile ho war said at the dinner that it tile tho germans when they made up their minds to break the agreement not to use gas and did use it had realized fully lt its offensive power and had brought into the service the kind of gas which they later used they could have gono gone straight to the sea after their first gas offensive against the english at cypres ypres la in april 1015 wo we have the mot most deadly gas no secret has been made of tile the fact that the united states chemical warfare service has developed the most powerful gas over ever known one which Is Iii capable of destroying large forces of men concentrated within a given but of course somewhat limited area brig gen william mitchell Ml assistant chief tit of the air forces of 0 the united states said that bombing squadrons squad cons of airplanes making only one visit a weel week over now new york city could by the lie uso ilso bombs make the place absolutely sol uninhabitable even in ftp it 11 amoka joics and co cornera tito possibilities of the uso use of gas therefore are out auh it that th at it if any nation of tile tho world engorged in uses it toi to its full wilt bent arid othar pr nations firo are 4 not ot pre prepared to lo protect them themselves solves against Us its use and with it to counter offensives tile the enemy could wak lils lila will on any ally toe which could lio bo brought into tile the field arl against him TI so things go to show why it la iq mat p tile llo secretary of wat war hromy om ofil mid every member tit of congress take such a deep interest in tho the chem acol ter service bervice vice it now la in held 1 hat while the use ol of gas was conald ered only revel itlY to bo 60 a violation of nit nil the lie set bet rules of warfare it Is certain that any country fiust be in a condition to bicet meet it a gas gaia u which in the fatura any too foe may pui put into tho field it it X |