Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1909 — Knowledge of Aeronautics Would Prepare Public For Future Wars. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Knowledge of Aeronautics Would Prepare Public For Future Wars.

By HUDSON MAXIM. Inventor.

I !*•••••••■♦ HE one thing now most needed in America is a ! j \ \ BROADER PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OF AEROg 3 I NAUTICS and the practical possibilities, probabili--3 3 \ * 3 * ties and utilities of the flying machine, especially as J > < | applied to national defense. ' FUTURE WARS WILL NOT BE DECIDED, AS HERETOFORE, BY ARTILLERY THUNDERING FROM HILL TO HILL. NAPOLEON’S DICTUM’THAT GOD FIGHTB ON THE SIDE OF THE STRONGEST ARTILLERY WILL NO LONGER HOLD TRUE. GOD WILL HEREAFTER FIGHT ON THE BIDE THAT HAS THE STRONGEST FLYING MACHINEB AND THE MOBT OF THEM. Although flying machines will not be able to carry any artillery, yet an army of raiders with the raiders’ outfit will be able to reconnoiter and ALIGHT IN DEFENSELESS PLACES, destroy bridges, rip up railroads, cut communications, burn towns, blow up magazines, stores and powder mills. As in future wars these visitations may come any night to any inland town, NO HOME WELL BE SAFE. Death and rapine may any moment come thundering at the door. No longer will war be confined to restricted areas whence women and children may be removed to places of safety. There will be NO REFUGE whither they can fly from the Huns and Vandals of war. The aeronaut can laugh at forts, coast fortifications and battleships. • THE FLYING MACHINE WILL MAKE IT THE INTIMATE LOCAL CONCERN OF ALL CITIZENB OF THE UNITED BTATES TO PREPARE FOR AERIAL NATIONAL DEFENSE. THE WORLD 18 MOVING FABT. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO BE LEFT BEHIND. THE TIME FOR RECOGNITION, FINANCIAL SUP* PORT AND ACTION 18 NOW.