Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-10-19 | Page 8 | War Order Bloodsuckers

i Wd War Order Bloodsuckers Bloodsuckers' f For torpedoes If purchased at the only private manufacturing ring mg plant in the country each If manufactured at th the go government govern e. e m mont ment t plant at Newport Port R. R I. I each That's the way the problem of furnishing the necessary l l j t ns of war which Uncle Sam must haVe if he is to be prep prepared r d f 8 Sinis sums up lP If private privat manufacturers do the work it it costs f from o 20 to tc 60 0 per percent cent more than if Uncle Sam himself does it 1 We hear from Washington that in the two years the government govern- govern i ment torpedo works at Newport have been in full operation the cost of manufacture of each torpedo has been redu reduced ed from l l t to while the department has been paying the he Bliss Torpedo works the only private plant in the country making torpedoes its price of Not long ago Secretary of the Navy Daniels awarded a coni contract contract con con- i tract for building torpedo holders including heads He indu induced ed edI I a new firm to slip in with a bid and found he was able to purchase for 58 materials which under normal conditions would have haw i cost The bidS of the Bethlehem Steel company and the j Midvale Steel company were found to be 44 per cent too high when c confronted with competitive bi bidding And yet the firm which got the contract made a profit an and a good profit on these torpedo i fl flasks Ha Had Uncle Sam himself been able to to manufacture them a still sUll further saving would have been effected L L. had hac had another experience with private profit greed Realizing that Uncle Sam was paying more than he ought turbine drums Secretary Daniels l last st year induced an English an-English firm to submit a bid The Bethlehem and Midvale war var order blood bloodsuckers bloodsuckers bloodsuckers bloodsuckers' suckers suckers' bid and respectively while this English firm offered to furnish the drums for a saving of government over the lowest bid of our own patriotic war traffickers 7 kers Yet the English firm certainly made a profit out of t r the transaction otherwise it it could not have afforded to do the work f T It It is clear that that- congress is is' face to face with th the question question- g SHALL SHALL WE WE PERMIT PERl PRIVATE FIRMS IS HAVING TING A MO MO- OF THE BUSINESS TO OVERCHARGE THE GOV- GOV g FOR WAR SUPPLIES WHEN UNCLE SAM HIM- HIM CAN EQUIP PLANTS RUN THEM UNDER EXCELLENT t. t r BOR CONDITIONS AND STILL MANUFACTURE ALL THE I WAR SUPPLIES HE NEEDS AT A SAVING OF FROM FROU 20 TO 10 i O PER CENT CENTT f Some members of congress are already beginning t tb to look seriE seri- seri r E into nto the question and it itis is Almost certain that a fight is going J to occur over the question of wh whether th ther r the program program of preparedness I Y which nearly everybody y favors is to be turned into a program of private profit and and- private gr graft ft