Show sT BUILD MORE MOREl BEATt BEATH BEAT H t SUBMARINE SUBMARINES S l' l No Efficient Mech Mechanism to toI I Battle Battle Boat U-Boat as Yet 1 Dis Discovered By R. R F. F Paine WASHINGTON D. D C. C Jan 19 1 Again a no numb number r of British and Ameri Amer- American I Amerl-I can naval al officers and electric and oth other r experts have got together at Washington Wahington and It St t Is announced that thata thata thata a 4 new W type of submarine killer kilter will be beat beat beat at work York in effective numbers within sl six months TIle ITie announcement Is Ii evidence nce that all alt he Rush gush ush put out from Washington about t discovery of submarine submarino killers In he past recent months was vas pure so hope-so and th the people will wUl surely take tak latest discovery of a with J mu much h salt if Sf they're not up tip against a salt famine T Te e truth is that no efficient mechanism mechanism me me- for eradicating tho the submarine has been discovered and it Is highly ly probable that every new device promising much greater efficacy nas beeh beth met by Germany with a counter device which practically maintained the th strength of the submarIno submarine as a means mea means of destruction of ships T There ere n never Ver was a time since Augu Au- Au gu gust t 1914 when ships were more nearly the vital problem of nations ar- ar rny d against Germany This not only because of the greater necessity to reed feed and anal exhausted peoples but tout als alsol because of the continued efficiency ncY of the e submarine T Tte e new year finds Italy In sore need of coal and wheat France Trance hard pre pressed sed for tor bread and Great Grent Britain reS resorting to compulsory rationing of all foodstuffs The rate of losses of al allied al- al lied shipping Is tons per year jear ear and expert shipbuilders rs declare that the best that the United States Engla En- En gla and France can do in the matter matter matter mat mat- ter jf f replacement is tons I T 0 war problem Is simply one of mar ma marjy y more ships or many less rines rIn And the best that our experts offer Is a killer that will be bo doing effective business six months hence I Forso Forsooth th It promises to he be a a. right I gloomy gloom l Fourth of July Obviously if Ir you cannot kill submarines submarines' I rines rines' build ships ships' We Ve ought to be beable beable i able to do much better at this than we i have hav been doing We Ve started shipbuilding shipbuilding ship ship- building with a family fight over o au authority authority authority au- au I and are still going along with boards corporations and more or less lessof lessof lessof of divided and miscellaneous function function- Ing We can get to high speed through exactly the policy suggested by Henry Tord the Ford the knocking in the head heat of ot promiscuous functioning the creation of a no boss fully empowered and stan stan- Its It's German Gennan but it gets there However any such plan or or policy must re reach ch farther than the mere nere putting putting put put- ting Ung together of ship parts It must reach leach and commandeer If it necessary everything entering Into the production production tio tion of ships It must seize and control control control con con- all the details detail run the whole business business busi busi- ness Just as McAdoo is doing In re respect respect respect re- re of the railroad industry Moreover experience proves that if IC we dont don't resort to such radicalism as a good business proposition hard necessity necessity necessity I sity finally drives us to it Already Uncle Sam with iron fist runs the banks and runs the railroad Without ships in time his banks and his railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads will become sorry orry assets |