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PAGE SIX THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON USEOFGAS PROBLEM OF FUTURE Possibility of Limiting Poison Vapors De fends Upon Science Says General By Majgen, Sir F. Maurice. London, Nor. it. Major Lefe bure's study of chemical warfare, In his book "The Riddle of the Rhine," has presented to us In an authoritative form the dangers to whieh the unrestricted deve lopment of science directed to ds tructlon will expose humanity Since the subject of the use of poison gas In warfare was mooted at this year's meeting of the British Association there lias been much discussion In the press ' and I find that a number of scien tists have declared that the use of poison gas In their opinion not Inhuman, or at least not more Inhuman than the employment of explosive shell or other forms of destruction. Up to Scientists. " I desire to combat this view because, as I have stated previous ly, I believe that the possibility of limiting the use of poison in war depends largely upon the scientists. My opinion has now been endorsed by the Assembly of the League of Nations, which has adopted the report of its Third Commission on the reduc tion of armaments. That report contains the following passage: "It has been stated' that inven tions have been made or perfected since the war whereby wholesale destruction of the civil population would be possible by the dropping of poison bombs and the like from the air, nor is there any reason to suppose that the limits of in vention In these fiendish devices have been reached. And If, as seems possible to the committee to be arguable, the employment of these weapons will be rendered Im practicable If there were no secre cy about them, the possibility of obtaining complete publicity for scientific research In thv domain Is certainly worth exploring. Appeal to Science, "Accordingly the committee rec ommends that the Temporary Mixed Commission should be asked to consider whether an appeal should not be addressed to all sci entific men in the world, urging them to publish to the world the results of their discoveries in such matters, so that the knowledge of them, havlnf become public prop erty, their use as weapons of war by any single state may be rend ered Improbable." , PRESIDENT'S WIFE. OPENING AMISTICE WEEK, PLANTS ELMS i iyi.Mi'Cf-; m jwi-"! liftHM! '(PT JUBBBf. " 1 i w (Ahi1 6 fev jC ; Js jti trt " &. tT"h-5 -t v vT ' w ' 1 1 " am Mrs. Warren G. Harding turning the first sod tor two trees on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial. The elms, one for the Allied armleB and the'other for the Allied navtes, were donated by Charles L. Pack, president of the American Forestry association. . Todd Describes Life To Jurymen (Continued from page one) tar be warn led away from his story, he was able to return to It with out prompting. Tells Story of life. Assuming a conversational at titude and with apparent ease and a freedom of gestures, Todd nas started with the first time he met Byron and In chronological order Is telling events which transpired between himself and Byron. At times Todd's school teacher atti tude bursts forth and he shakes his index finger at the jury aa he endeavors to drive a point home. Some of the jurors appear to be interested, while others lean back In their chairs and gaze at the ceiling. The jury Is made up of a group of intelligent looking men and it has been hard up to the present time for old time court at taches to tell from the expressions on the faces of the individual members just how they regard, the case. .While the government was pre senting its side of the case Judge Bean was very insistent that the prosecution be allowed to proceed unhampered by the defense. Now that the defense Is putting on tes timony, the court appears to be equally anxious to safeguard Irs rights. For the first time during the entire trial Mrs. Todd was seen to smile Monday morning while Charles W. Shumway, superin tendent of the Vancouver, Wash., public schools was on the stand. Mrs. Todd's face continued to brighten all through his testi mony, and before he finished a distinct smile broKe forth. Prob ably no person In the court room, outside of the court reporter, has heard every word In the case, oth er than Mrs. Todd. Even Todd's attorneys at times have grown tired of listening to the evidence,! and have walked ovsr to a corner of the court room - and chatted! wtlh the clerk, newspapermen, or other attorneys In the room. All during the trial Mrs. Todd has oc cupied a cbalr inside the bar rail ing, directly behind her husband, and has almost glued her eyes on every witness from the time he. took the stand until he was ex cused. She was noticeably moved Monday, when Charles Robisou, one of the attorneys, said, "Todd, take the stand," and walked up to Todd, slapped him on the back and whispered something in his ear. By the time Todd had walked over to the witness stand Mrs. Todd appeared normal again, and as sumed her familiar pose thai of watching, the witness. Father of Four. Todd started out by telling the jury he is the father of four chil dren, and that he Baa lived with his family on a small farm three miles from Vancouver since Aa gust, 1920. Shortly after graduation from Simpson college, Todd said, be was elected principal of the Camas. Wash., school. In 1902 he was given a position In the Vancouver school, but did not accept It be cause he waB made head of the science department In the Phoe nix, Ariz., high school. After two years there he became assistant superintendent of a union high school, he said. In 1907 Todd be came an Instructor in the Stadium high school at Tacoma, where he remained for four years, after which he was superintendent of public Instruction ; at Auburn Wash., for Five years. In 1916 he became superintendent of the Salem school system, which post tion he occupied for four years. In August, 1920, he moved to Van couver. Wash., to engaged In the life Insurance business. - No Business" Training. Todd started out by telling the jury he had never bad any busi ness experience, except in public school matters. Before going fur ther in this matter he was inter rupted by his attorney, who sug- gsted he relate some of the Ufa history of bis brother, Dr. E. H. Todd, president of Puget Sound college at Tacoma. Considerable emphasis was laid upon the offi cial positions which Dr Todd has occupied, and later by Todd on the church positions he has held in addition to his school jobs. Todd told the jury ne was intro duced to Byron in 1908 by nis brother, who received a claim from Byron at that time in Jelfereon county. Wash. The first Salem person to whom Todd Introduced Byron was A. A. Lee, he said, a very personal friend. The next was Miss Mar garet Cosper, assistant superin tendent of schools. Todd then went down the list and named vic tim after victim in the deal. He told how some Salem people beg ged to be allowed to sign con tracts, and dwelt at length on the E. E. Bergman transaction, stat ing that Bergman had secured a claim with the aid of $1185 which he loaned him, but had never re turned the money. Todd said he gave Bergman $585 to pay for the claim for filing fees, $500 to pay Byron his location fee and $50 expense money. Todd .professed to know nothing about timber lands at that time, and said he believed every word Byron told him. The stories he told Salemites about the timber lands were not his own stories, he said, but Byron's. Each time Byron returned to Salem from Portland or Seattle. Be brougai with him Information- about addi tional claims, Todd said, always claiming that theae were the last to be had. Each feme the history of how Byron secured the claims grew more interesting and longer, the witness Bald.-- On one of these occasions while talking over the long distance telephone Todd said Byron prom ised to five $100 for every appli cant he secured, after he secured a claim for them. Todd said In ad dition to securing the applicants he was supposed to "round tnem up" for Byron, when the claims were ready for tiling. He admit ted, however, that Byron paid him $200 for Introducing Lloyd Lee and Darle Parker to him. These two men, said to be ex-service men, are said to have secured home steads through Byron. Todd later admitted he received first Information on Byron's crim inal record from Byron on Decem ber '4, in his office in Salem. This information was contained in a printed article taken from a Seat tle newspaper, Todd said. Byron is alleged to have denied every word in the story, except the part referring to his conviction In Port land, and to have blamed all his troubles on Frank E. Alley, who is a fugitive from Justice in a former case in which Byron was convict ed. Just before court adjourned Todd told the jury how Mr. Perry of Salem had been returned $1000 ot the $1(00 ha invested. Todd said the money was returned to him by wire from Portland by By ron, and that he turned the West era. Union order over to Perry. ; Gold Riming In Northern Mines TUESDAY, NOVBBa,. Get Nei Force (r Nuxated Freeport, 111., Nov. 22 Mining for gold in the rocky hills of north western Illinois is expected to be gin in the near future aa the re sult of the discovery ot gold In Stephenson county, Just -west of the village of Pearl City. A corporation is being formed to exploit 1.800 acres Of land in that region because of the belief that vast Quantities of gold may be had for the taking. According to promoters of the company ore taken from a depth ot from thirty to. fifty feet has produced from $11 to $18 a ton in gold. . Traces of gold were first dis covered on the Weimer farm, near Pearl City, more than a year ago. The find was made by well diggers William Weimmer, owner of the farm, sought to interest men with money In the gold prospects but failed. His widow, however, was more successful, especially- when, recently, the crop of ducks raised on the Weimer place were found to contain small bits of gold ore. often in t, Uin, th. BfuS-. stituent of acti. A In a form wbS. ganie iron Uk'-H blood, and lika n7 lentils and "pp, riches the hZi d blood meVi feeds what miitht' but it stimulate, ik l ufacture a iZt your money win l!. Z," ; by all druggg! 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