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Show The Eagle And The Swordfish TpHE submarine and the aeroplane were invented - about the same time. One is an assassin, the other a scout. We suggest to Mr. Edison and his associate experts, as one of the first things to consider is whether it cannot be pos sible for the scout to be made available to sue- I cessfully do up the assassin. I The sea eagle watches from his aerie on tho cliffs for prey. A When a rolliking school of fish appear below 1 he waits until the right time then with a swoop j and scream he darts down, picks up a fish for I breakfast and bears it triumphantly away. The aeroplane makes fifty miles per hour easily but j cannot carry much weight. An object like an I aeroplane is a difficult one to hit by a cannon ,i from shipboard. Only machine guns are available and the aeroplane under the aeronaut can be armored against this form of attack. The torpedo has been perfected so that it can ' be kept head-on when an attack is intended. Very well, why cannot the small torpedo of the aeroplane be lowered by a steel wire when the design is to destroy the submarine. The scout sees the submarine or the periscope peri-scope of a submarine, eagle like it make its swoop at the same1 time unreeling its torpedo. The submarine seeing it dives, the wire from the aeroplane draws the torpedo against it with a momentum of fifty miles an hour; there is an explosion under the water; some bubbles come to the surface, but "V-17" does not rise any more. I There is no devil of man no devilish that some other man cannot equal it. An aeroplane costs only a fraction of what a submarine costs. It is easier to fill the air with aeroplanes than the sea with submarines. The only way to fight the devil is with fire. |