Show UP DATE UP-TO-DATE IT IS hard to find much reason to quarrel 1 with the senate for br voting money to modernize mod mod- three old battleships which navy ex experts expert ex- ex pert had pronounced out of date Opponent Opponents llen nent of ot the measure asserted that all battleships bat bat- are obsolete anyway and declared that this nation is under no necessIty of ot of keeping its battle ne fleet t up to the level or Britain's but the senate voted the m modern modern- dern- dern funds in spite of these protests The London naval treaty would seem to have set a good gauge for the American Amerlean fleet If we are to maintain a naval establishment at all we might as well maintain a good one and as long a l i the heads heads' of our navy believe e that the battleship still has value we might as well keep our battleships up to The TAB general question of naval armament reduction reduction tion flon does not seem to enter into this particular lar Jar situation at all |