THE 



Ohio Journal of Science 



PUBLISHED BY THE 



Ohio State University Scientific Society 



Volume XVIII JANUARY, 1918 No. 8 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



With ROW — The Relation of War to Chemistry iii America G5 



ObkrholseR — New Light on the Status of Kmpidonax Trailii (Audubon)... 85 



ScHAFFNKR — Additions to the Catalog of Ohio Vascular Plants for lit 17 ',)9 



THE RELATION OF WAR TO CHEMISTRY IN AMERICA.* 



By James R. Withrow. 



War is an evil beyond the power of language to express. 

 To kill one's neighbor or one's enemy is so repellant a thought 

 that one cries out in horror at the idea and instinctively wants 

 to refuse to have any part in action or government which 

 involves such baseness irrespective of the provocation. It is 

 only with the greatest difficulty that we persuade ourselves to 

 act together in any such capacity except in spontaneous defense. 

 Were it not for the religious emphasis upon our duty to support 

 the civil magistrate in the execution of righteous law, and 

 therefore to resist aggression against such law, we would find 

 little ground to stand upon in our present crisis, except it be 

 the desire to bring annihilation upon the philosophy which 

 gave rise to this world war. 



It has become more and more apparent that we have been 

 dealing with a power in the case of Germany that is as unscru- 

 pulous as her acts are unmanly and cruel, and that the com- 

 plaints of her opponents against her since 1870 have probably 

 not been overdrawn. The pall of horror and indignation which 

 fell upon us during the invasion of Belgium and France was 



*The annual address before the Ohio Academy of Science, Columbus Meeting, 

 evening of April 6, 1917. 



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