Show Enormous Naval Expenses In putting from 1000000 to 7000 000 into the construction of a battleship battle-ship nations are practically putting that amount Into an eggshell which may be crushed and ruined at a touch Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry won a memoiable vIctor very important In Its results with a fleet of ships which seventy days before his fight had been standing as living trees on tho shores of Lake Eric That was not so far back In tho history of the nations Now it takes tour years to build a battleship nnd fifteen minutes poihnps to destroy it Wo call this progress but the Joy of the nations over peace suggests that the worlds attention may presently become centered cen-tered on another sort of progress New York Mall 1 |