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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

In speaking of the strike in South Africa you say, in the editorial, "To Break a Strike", in this morning's issue of the CRIMSON, "The strike is unique in that for the first time airplanes have been used to quell the disturbance. Bombs have been dropped on commandos of strikers to excellent effect . . . This appears to be one of the best strike breaking methods yet devised, for by it, always providing it is used rightly, only the iniquitous are injured. The planes are available only to the government, so that they can not be used by the insurgents. Heretofore, the only way of dispersing armed bands of strikers has been by the use of troops, and in the pitched battle which invariably ensued numbers of the soldiers had to be killed--an unnecessary bloodshed. Now when a commando is discovered, an airplane can drop bombs on it without endangering the life of anyone except the strikers. Of course such a method could not be used in a strike in a city, but for a disturbance such as this in South Africa it seems to be ideal, and if it succeeds in breaking the strike it will have won its spurs with distinction".

The plan is indeed ideal. But it is not quite complete. As all strikers are iniquitous and all strikers should be exterminated, is it not foolhardy to kill off merely the workers? It is the mothers who breed future strikers. They too must be annihilated. If respectable people are ever to enjoy peace, the entire proletariat must be wiped out. By the expenditure of a few extra pounds of explosives, the air pilots can easily destroy the undesirable slum sections of our cities.

And why limit the government to the use of airplanes and bombs? Are we to waste the talents of our inventors who are so eager to supply us with muderous chemicals and poisonous gases? In the dull periods of history when no international disagreements are brewing, the war on labor will furnish us with an excellent laboratory in which to test our newest devices for efficient killing. ROBERT WORMSER '22 March 15, 1922.