Show BETTER SHIPS NOT MU MUCH H BETTER MEN Things have haye changed somewhat in years All Allour Allour Allour our lives we e have been reading about the great Ar mada Inada It was ver very formidable no doubt in its time tUne It was waR made up of man many ships hut but their combined com corn hilled billed tonnage was while the tile English fleet opposing opposing op op- posing them was but of tons Now the Lusitania Lusi- Lusi tania and r are each of tons almost equal to that of the Armada almost double that of the combined fleet Heet of Howard and Blake while one shot from a modern ship would have sunk unk either ono of them and aud their combined attack upon such a craft as n the tile Dreadnought 01 or even upon either of A Admiral Evans E sixteen ships ship would be he like the assault of a a tree full of or sparrows upon a bald eagle Indeed one ono of Adm Admiral lal Evans' Evans ships hips would have destroyed the whole Armada as fast as it could have sailed from one to another and 1 without firing a shot hot And had hada a few fc got away in shallow water one shot for each one nile would have hae been enough But there were some men behind those thos e English guns that were as ns good goodas goodUS I as US England ever sent to sea The wod knew nothing noth- noth 1 i ing ing ng of f steam or electricity then or of turbine or corn com pound poun marine engines i they hind had to tr l trust t to tn the tile winds I for power and their heaviest gun gnu was not dangerous danger danger- I ous OilS ons over or yards and aud not very cry dangerous at nt close j i range but the they fought just the same ame and at close I r range killed more men than arc killed in fights now The world h has s vast astI vastly improved in iu mechanics The I stoc stock of men inca has not much advanced I |