Show HARD TASK FOR INVENTORS american public looks confidently to men of science for forD evlee Device to end submarine menace ehfe newspaper inventor has baa been harle gibe time of his life recently owing tu to the very unwise chatter of ft certain worthy gentlemen who ought to know better says nays elec electrical world the submarine menace Is one which Is not lightly to be estimated the cuni palan against england apil has been al though flip far from deric depictive tive unpleasantly successful and it Is with great gladness that we wd learn the active co opera tion of a untied states slates squadron in endeavoring to sup suppress it iti but no good la Is done by premature announcements regarding the krent great bilings which yen tan kee ingenuity Is about to do in the way of suppressing the submarines submarine we have abiding confidence borni born n of f long experience in the resourceful ne ness ss of the american inventor in this i case i however ver he be haa bus set et before him hm for quick solution by far the most serious task that bar ever eter confronted I 1 the engineering profession the public laiks blindly in some mya 1 I j way from electrical devices one kind or another electricity Is still adame with which to conjure ao w that thata the man in the street will willow hook bait baft and sinker almost anything that la Is thrown out to him in the way coflan of an electrical promise now it Is only fair to american engineers to state that a number of devices tending to the suppression of r submarines have been suggested suR Kested jeves pirated and tried some of them are ar regarded as very promising well worth prompt experimentation on a considerable scale others other give little hope of success success and while not fit for utter abandonment cannot cannon be considered naj as likely ilk ely to relieve the situation much Is certain that shall challi a thoroughly effective method of fighting submarine a will be the last insel gift man n in the united states to talk tali about it fr for obvious patriotic reasons |