GRIM PROSPECT

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23083, 23 December 1944, Page 7

GRIM PROSPECT

Robot Installations There are two destructive effects of robot bombs, writes the Washington correspondent of the “Christian Science Monitor.” One is the obvious fact that they are so devastating. Suppose we make a botch of this new peace as we did of the last one, and Europe starts rearming. Every antagonistic nation will set up robot installations directed at the principal cities of its rival. It cannot help itself, any more than it could help building tanks, planes and warships. But this time the armament race is far more terrible. This time by the mere pressure of a finger on a pushbutton a flight of these robots can be released that will wipe out a whole city. That is bad enough, but the second destructive effect is even worse. People have not seemed to grasp this yet. As long as you know your neighbour country is arming with these new robots—armament automata —you can have no security. No city can sleep soundly at night that knows these things are silently pointed at it across enemy borders. Think of the new emotional strain that will f>4ow any diplomatic crisis of the fuZire A surprise Pearl Harbour was bad enough when conducted by planes over hundreds of miles of sea. Bufr imagine the close-packed cities of Europe made vulnerable to this ne\v weapon, with its ever-increasing potential range and destructiveness.

What politician in Europe can, at the height of an International quarrel, take responsibility for delaying the release of these things, when his own cities may be crushed by the other nation’s surprise attack? Can people wait for a formal declaration of war any. longer when surprise may mean annihilation? If an international fire-alarm system to prevent future conflagrations by aggressor States is to be worth anything, it must act quickly. Robots do not wait. If the peace agency cannot move fast, it is hardy worth moving at all. Yet there are members of the United States Congress who are already attacking the Dumbarton Oaks proposals because they would commit the United States to fast action without long Senatorial debates In each case! IMPORTANT DIPPING RAMS Sheep Dip Manufacturers call farmers’ attention to the dangerous practice of dipping rams too late in the season. To avoid the likelihood of undesirable after-dipping effects, it Is essential that rams should be dipped early in the season and well before flushing occurs. No responsibility will be accepted for any damage or loss sustained owing to this instruction not being carried out. THE MOTH IS NO MYTH Irreparable damage is done annually to thousands of pounds worth of clothes by moths and silverfish. Spray inside your wardrobe with Mothpruf—it protects your clothes. At all stores. "Nulax” Constipation Herbs—-Pure safe and gentle herbs, roots and barks “Nulax” tones up the liver, kidneys, bowels and stomach. “Nulax,” 2/from Oddies, Chemists, c. Spring, 45 Clifford Avenue, Christchurch, manufacturer. ...