Am.jour,  Pharm.  j       Address  of  Francis  P.  Garvan  673 
After  outlining  the  development  of  the  peace  idea  and  the 
progress  of  war  weapons  up  to  the  discovery  of  war-  gases,  Mr. 
Garvan  said: 
"These  things  hit  at  the  heart  of  imagination,  surveying  what 
creative  chemistry  has  already  done  in  war  in  its  first  few  experi- 
mental steps,  we  stand  back  impressed  as  never  before  in  the  whole 
history  of  war  tools.  We  are  bound  by  sheer  intelligence  to  com- 
prehend that  chemical  science  'has  only  begun  to  fight.'  It  has  learned 
how  to  utilize,  not  very  skillfully,  a  few  gases.  It  has  not  done 
anything  beyond  small  scale  experimenting  with  radio  active  forces.' 
But  the  lessons  of  the  great  war  were  a  tremendous  impulse  to  the 
research  chemist.  The  creative  chemist  is  searching  out  among 
rare  elements,  such  as  radium,  arguments  against  warfare  that  can 
no  more  be  refuted  than  pigmy  man  can  oppose  the  tornado,  or  the 
earthquake,  or  contend  with  Vesuvius.  The  strange  stuff  that  il- 
luminates the.  dials  of  our  watches  may  be  the  very  medium  that 
will  eventually  produce  the  resistless  force  that  will  make  fighting' 
intolerable. 
"Chemists  are  seeking  through  forces  as  yet  imperfectly  com- 
prehended to  turn  man  toward  sanity.  They  are  aiming  at  his 
imagination.  Who  will  dare  say  they  are  pursuing  a  fruitless  quest 
after  the  experience  of  the  great  war  which  began  as  a  war  of  great 
steel  projectiles  and  ended  as  a  war  of  invisible  energy.  Hard-headed 
military  men,  usually  slow  to  convince  that  weapons  other  than  the 
traditional  arms  of  their  service  must  be  learned  and  relied  upon, 
join  nowadays  with  chemists  in  an  appeal  to  the  public  under- 
standing which  is  little  short  of  the  striking  appeal  made  by  the 
imaginative  story  of  Mr.  Wells,  for  they  realize  that  chemistry  is 
merely  on  the  brink  of  great  things,  and  none  see  so  clearly  as  they 
that  chemistry  aims  to  abolish  war  by  making  it  desperately  peril- 
ous to  great  nations  as  well  as  small,  to  governments  as  well  as  to 
the  led  peoples ;  to  vainglorious  politicians  as  well  as  to  the  obedient 
servants  in  uniform." 
Following  a  description  of  Dr.  Hugo  Schweitzer,  as  a  chemist, 
scientist  and  researcher,  a  German  spy,  secret  service  number 
963,192,637,  head  of  the  German  Secret  Service  in  America,  head 
of  the  system  by  which  every  effort  to  develop  the  organic  chemical 
industry  in  this  country  was  crushed  out,  head  of  the  system  of  dye 
