Show ' : - i ' " a pfS ' t A ' v " s s ' c — MAGAZINE SECTION r -- - THE HERALD-EEPUBLICA- N 9 - ? 'r ' V it'-''- V r j ' ' r ' b - f l i v Vh ' “'N VI :y : v s iV ' ' ' v V i - ys V - SALT LAKE QERTUTAH SUNDAY MAT'IS 1917 ' V' ‘ r ' ’ J - - v ' - -- I - ' T f i' - i'- - J I ? V r r y u - ' f" v ' k " : iv "f v vV 1 'v MAGAZINE SECTION ' v ' V ' 1 'v i f ‘j jj 7 f r Work'of the U S War and Napy Departments in Fitting the Great t 4 men and new methods is out from NEW call that atgoes the outset of the war into which America has en-tered and every ingenuity the government can employ is bplng directed to that purpose and to the fulfilling of that call The true American with the buoyant optimism which is his inheritance and with pride in the achievement of those who have fought to a victorious conclusion all previous wars is confident that neither the men nor the methods they devise will be found lacking in the one great essential — the ability to “put it over” But who will the men be? What will be the methods employed? Like the snows of yesterday the heroes of yesteryear are gone The old Instruments of warfare have gone into the discard for the most modpart Modern menaces demand meet to which ern methods with them Heroes of the Past It is barely 20 years since the war —since last Spanish-America- n American courage and American ingenuity were put to the actaul test— tJnce Uncle Sam was forced to meet fire with more fire cunning with greater cunning bravery with greater bravery Just 20 years but those in the war of today must learn their lessons from the written and printed word — the heroes who could tell and whose word would be given attention are nearly all gone This is particularly true In the naval branch of the government’s fighting force and it is on the sea CC ainst How Implements and Men Are Being How Bayonet Duels Are Studied in Drill Booms ©UNPECWOO(L&unOEgMOOft A New American Periscope Rifle Designed to Permit Sighting : Without Exposing the Head of the Marksman that America most likely will be called upon to contribute her greatest share The three most conspicuous heroes of the Spanish-America- n war on the sea were Admirals Dewey Schley and Sampson alone will that great triumvirate be of assistance in the present' conflict The heroes of Manila bay and Santiago bay will furnish inspiration to those who have taken up their commands— but what a strange unfortr unate freak of fate it Was that took from America just before she entered this war the two conspicuous figures on whom she would have relied so strongly in this one — the old seaand ble® warrior who cut the “waded In” and the great land-figh- ter the rugged little general through whose strategy and courage the Phil-Ippine Insurrection was ended and captured AiaJdo an Inaplraaon and hetp fter mat would have been—Dewey to the sailor boys in- blue and Funston to the khaki-cla- d infantry —in the struggle hosts! Teutonic with the while It Is worth noting also that is no longer Merrimac the hero of the actively in the navy hut a member of Congress It would be Just as impossible to forecast who the heroes of this war will be as it would have been to have singled out in advance Richmond Pearson Hobson and Ensign Worth Bagley as heroes of the Spanlsh-Amerlca- n The bravest pf conflict the brave may not have the opportunity that is presented to another and the mildest gentlest of all 'soldiers may when the great occasion comes prove the s most heroic Unde Sam’s Place One takes no desperate chance in prophesying that in methods as well as men America will take a leading ' place among the belligerents Uncle Sam iooks to his Inventors to contribute more to the solution of the problems pressing on the allies than to any other single group of men America which gave the world the submarine the great new fighting factor pf the seas and the flying machine which has done more than all else to revolutionize the land warfare may well be expected to furnish the best means of meeting the menace of the former and also the most perfect adaptation of the airplane to war purposes If American inventiveness can perfect a submarine catcher or can devise any way of protecting ships from the deadly torpedo or If the flying machine can be made an effective ally in detecting the presence of submarines if not In destroying them the result as far as hastening the end of the war is concerned would be greater than could be accomplished In any pitched battle on land or sea Uncle Sam has a habit in common with European countries of not divulging the inner workings of his war department to any great extent but lt ls that for many month plans have been going on to perfect methods of conducting Warfare with a vIew of overcomIng menaces that have confronted the two groups of European power A is not an imposan in and in "a country age sibility that has the brain of Edisofl turned in the direction of improved fighting machinery Bushnell—able to construct the first A is far from an submarine boat actually used In warimprobability in a country which fare' Robert Fulton the Inventor ot produced a mere college boy — David the steamboat also an American By-examp- College Students Studying Miniature Trenches in a v Sand Box super-Ericsso- n - : super-submari- ne The Plying Boat the Air Ally of the Submarine Catcher f 4 - Cornell Cadet Corps Encamped on the University-Quadrangle- : FOUP GPEMADET M BANDOLEER ' CONTAINER GQENADB Rifle Grenade Newly Adopted for Use by the U S Army was the next person to contribute to the development of the submarine and to John P Holland still another nephew of Uncle Sam is given the credit for bringing the submarine to a state of practical value A may well be exfrom the nation that gave to pected the world the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss The Path for Invention ' America has contributed most to the development of the submarine and the airplane and in times of such stress as these it may reasonably be expected that she will fur nlsh the material for the most important chapters on the history of both as employed in the world-wOne invention— —by two young Californians — that ls extremely Ingun It albp called lows the marksman to fire over the edge of the trench taking careful aim and yet remain fully covered Those who doubt that the call from Washington —the call for new men and new methods— will be filled promptly fully and gladly need to study a little history They do not know the ways of Uncle Sam and his super-airplan- e ar : ’minute men” Newspaper X"mtiiN Serrlcew 1917 ’ '' 4 I j if' f ' r - -r' |