A PARAGRAPH on the editorial page of one of the most influential dailies of the country says, “Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society of London have publicly advocated polygamy as the only hope of repopulating Europe after the war.” Let it be hoped that this is a false report, although the authority for the statement seems to be quite unquestionable. But whether or not the Royal Geographical Society is advocating such a thing, we know that the moral tone of the world will be immeasurably lowered by the brutal conflict that is now in progress. And yet the majority of men and women are insisting that out of this war will come a great moral uplift.
This is a time when men should think and act wisely, and not allow themselves to be deceived by the drift of popular opinion. God’s word says, speaking of these very times in which we live, that “evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.” And those who have their eyes open to fact, can see that the divine Book is true. Those who stand on what the Book says, will have a firm foundation.
Three-Inch Machine Gun
The dispatches report that a man connected with one of our American arsenals has about completed a 3-inch machine gun. The ordinary machine gun throws a missile about like a rifle bullet, raining a regular stream of lead upon an advancing enemy; but this invention will make a machine gun out of a 3-inch field piece, which throws a shell ranging from fourteen to eighteen pounds, according to the make of the weapon.
Think of what it will mean for an army to be equipped with such slaughtering devices! The rapidity of fire of the largest guns has been increased some ten or twelve times during recent years; and now if these larger weapons are made to carry the machine attachment so that they will pour a steady stream of these missiles, like water from a garden hose, what will be the terror of their destructiveness! It is not at all surprising that the dispatch says this invention will revolutionize the modern cannon.