MAN’S COMMON ENEMY

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8530, 19 October 1933, Page 3

MAN’S COMMON ENEMY

DISEASE GREATER MENACE THAN WAR. CAMPAIGN AGAINST GERMS. LONDON, September 12. While diplomats are apprehensive about, the possibility of a European war, Sir Oliver Lodge told the ’’Daily Mail” at the opening of the British Association Conference at Leicester that the “next tremendous war will be against enemies visible only through a microscope, and the enemy will be germs of deadly disease.” “I believe ultimately that nations will learn not to fight among themselves, and will be forced to combine against the common enemy of mankind. “We are not afraid of wild animals, but we have done little to combat invisible organisms, infinitely more dangerous than the most ferocious beasts. “Unhappily the scientists’ discoveries are frequently perverted to the destruction of human life. The blame lies on politicians and others, who must ensure that the inventions shall be used for the benefit of mankind.”