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Show FORD'S 'U-FLIWER' TO FREE THE 7 SEAS s Diver to Carry a Man With 'a Pole to Stick 'a Pill' to a Ship's Hull. TO BUILD 1000 A DAY New Boat to Find Prey and Send It to Bottom Without With-out Exposing Herself. Ucurr r-Vu-rl hr,s InveniM a device to hi-inp aliont fr'-p.iom of the soa?, say; 1 tiic New York Times. Invcntor-HUe, he I irr:s tho juolilon s of t lie world solved through mechanical efilciency, and he now proposes a new .submarine that is tn put the hi? dreadnoughts Into the class j wiih the inuKiouuns and oilier monsters ! nf the den-I pa:U. First he is going to I nifike a nioril of his U-howt idea. ! .Mr. Korri (irmly believes that the sub- j marine is to become the master of the Mr. Ford said the onr weakness In the submarine now in use was that it must expose itself tn discharging a torpedo aL a n enemy ship. Remove this weakness, i hf argued, and the bluest battleship is helpless and to remove this disability of the submarine is his plan. "My idea of a submarine is a pill on a i pole," he said in homely phrase. "That is. a pole on the front end of tlje submarine subma-rine with a pill bomb on the end of it. The submarine a small one, carrying one man goes right up to the ship and sticks ilie pill against the hull. The submarine rlien withdraws and the torpedo goes off. That would settle that ship; and it can be done what's to prevent It? Needn't Expose Itself. "There would be no need for a submarine subma-rine of this kind to expose itself. It could sight the ship a long: way, off, and then make the trip to it under water. "When I get back home I am going to have a model of my Idea of a, submarine made in mv Detroit laboratory'. "The sea should be free, and It is the submarine that will make it free. That's already clear from the events of this war. "What have the battleships been doing in the wa.r? Keeping pretty well in the background, I think. They are out of date already. They are on their way to the Junk pile: they will not be able to stand up before the submarine." Ir. Ford's idea of national defense is a seacoast swarming with tiny submarines. subma-rines. ""What more do you wunt?" he asked, a.s he leaned forward with Intense eagerness. "It's like mosquitos. Turn enough loose on a man and he will surrender. sur-render. I should design these boats mostly most-ly for one man, and we can turn out thousands In this country if we have to. I can make a thousand a day myself. I would equip them with my four-cylinder motor." Easy to Get Men. "How about getting: the men to operate ihem?" "I don't think that "would be hard. It wouldn't be much, if any harder to learn how to run one than it is to learn to run an automobile. I haven't developed the idea fully as to this submarine. I am not ralklnir about it as something I sea clearly in Its "detail. It's something I am thinking think-ing about." "Wouldn't the range of such small submarines sub-marines be short?" "Xo, I think they could b made to travel a good way. "We might use fuel f rf VisHulI " o n H Tin 1 1 1 T-n a.A nimctlnnln crl v io one of the men with him nd got o nod of approval. "I think they could he made to have a range of as much as 500 miles." Mr. Ford added. , "How could they be taken across the i ocean?" "I don't think It would b necessary to ' take them across the seas. But if it be- l I J. W. HAWK , f j is " mH Manager Chalmers Motor Sales Chalmers. - A. L. TOURSSEN ; - ' ', - ' ? ' Manager RaiidaH-Dodd Auto Co. Buick, National, Oldsmobile, G. M. C. trucks. came necessary they could be taken in ships. They would not weigh more than two or three tons each." It was evident that a submarine offensive of-fensive by the United States was not pleasant for Mr. Ford to contemplate, but in answer to a question he said that if war came he would make the submarines, subma-rines, and it would be up to the government govern-ment to use them as It thought best "Think how Inexpensive the little submarines sub-marines would be," he exclaimed, reverting revert-ing to the general subject. "The submarine subma-rine will be the ruler of tho ocean of the future. It will rid the sea of its pests." Mr. Ford confirmed the report that the Ford Motor company would put up a large plant at Corft, Ireland. "We have just passed on the drawings for the buiid-ingp." buiid-ingp." he said, "and they will go forward at once. "We will put up a factory with an output of 50,000 cars a rear. We will Introduce the same working conditions there as we have in this country $j a day and the eight-hour day." |