May 25, 1930	Mr. McCay’s picture, above, shows a crowded business section in a great city, as it would look within five minutes after a gas attack by airships.    Automobiles and street cars, their drivers suddenly stricken, would run amuck and collide, subway entrances would be choked, sidewalks littered with human beings dropping dead in fearful agony, unable to struggle any further.    In a great city, bombed by airplanes, dropping modern explosives and poison gas, the scenes above would be repeated ten thousand times.    We that now live may witness scenes more terrible than this.    And what is more probable, we may be part of such scenes, WITHOUT SEEING THEM.    As surely as a trip-hammer has power to crush a fly, so surely has modern science, through aviation, high explosives and poison gases, power to crush any city at a blow, and destroy millions of live.    This is not a pleasent picture, far from it.    But it is better to think about it NOW, prepare for it and avoid it, than to REMEMBER AND TALK ABOUT IT AFTERWARD.    Concentrate your mind on the defense of your country. Such scenes as this are surely coming if war on a great scale ever starts again.    And the only way to prevent war is to be ready for it and by the national power of defense and retaliation strike terror in the enemy.
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