Show i I ri f ft t l n and tic t N ONAL 1 J I w Carter Field Washington President Washington Pr President Roosevelt Roosevel t doe does oat not Intend that the construction construe i lion tion of the two new battleships battleship s- s to cost ech each shall h U b be e started started until he ha hu has exhausted ever every y i possibility for obtaining an Intern agreement to cease such ucb conI con Ih That is I the real teal reason that there ther e I J af appears ara to be so 0 much ground wor work k ek I to be Us gotten out of the wa way before betor c construction can actually tart start Th The e truth truth Is I. I that the Nav Navy department et t 0 be able to call caU for bids bid within with 11 twenty four hours hour after fter the President Prell dent gave Its It officials the green reeD c light t I The Ibe Navy department always Iway has h. s a t. t pUns plans for new battleships It keep keeps s I changing them them as this or that factor sector taco sec tor u as develops a each new err ery it made It has hu been a ton long ti tUne tone me so 0 far as u can ran be discovered since Inco soy aDY really important chang change e In to the general tines lines of construction construe j lion tion was Will made The last lut two bl blones big g ones onu were the changes change designed t to tomake tomake o i 1 make the big ships Ie less vulnerable to II submarine and airplane attack Strangely enough the defense from Irom airplane attack was not a as a. s i important a as 81 might be thought The i chief Idea I t. t a very heavily armored deck at some ome little distance below belo w 1 the raise false deck that the visitor o oa on ona n a battleship sees seen I t nut But this armored deck was wu forced force d not to so much b by airplane bomb bombs as II asby a aI s I by plunging Ore Are The real target targe I of a fourteen or sheli shell hell shellIs 1 i Is I. not the side aide of the ship but Its It s deck This is II because when tin the s then shell strikes It will be falling In a g slow Ilow are arc very vert close clOie to the I In fact tact It hits almost almot t precisely as II would an Aa n airplane e bomb t This gradually developed with th the e Increasing range ranle of bl big guns JUn N No 0 matter what the velocity of a she shell l lIs U Is Is It falls falls II as soon oon a aa a It stops stop Si s i rising with rising with the same lama speed peed a aI as AI s I though It were released from a bombing plane Renee Hence to 0 obtain obtain ob ob- tain tabs great feat range ranle It is I. necessary to t elevate the guns un to an extraordinary r angle anele Thus when the shell she ll strikes strike a target et say at to 30 i DOO yards that shell heU must mut have been bee beena a terrific teni distance up In the airi air all at atthe atthe i t the top of the trajectory j Change in Fighting I f It H Is' Is this change from the of old d i days day of sea Iea fighting filMing which results result s In a battle batU line fans of ships now now a attempting at tempting to maintain a broadside e position to the Instead of enemy belag beIng being be be- ing lag beaded headed directly toward the hostile hos hOI tile rile ships It Is II much easier euler for tor ton Ion long I Irano range ranee gunners to hit a ship facin facing them or steaming directly awa away y from them than It Is I. a ship which whit h i teems seems to present a much Jigger bigger Ie er target tar get b by being broad broadside Ide on la In short hort as u the shell is I. fallin falling g when It hits It Is la much easier euler to hl hit th Iii tin length of a ship which ship which runs run up to 1000 feet than felt than her width which Is around feet at th the tho e widest part nut hut the whole point now Is II tha that t or tor several everal years there have been bee n Vel very few tew Important changes In fun fur dt mental construction of battle bath r ships A As A. a matter of fact tact fe few w have been built anywhere since Ince lb the e Washington arms conference which whit h concluded In the winter of 1922 1022 Aviation enthusiasts thought the there ye would never be any more The s ad I. I minds still want a lot of ot the bi big bla g fellows fellow President Roosevelt In eUnes to the tide side of the admirals admira In this controversy but is ii still hopeful hope hop ful that some ome common sense enle agreement agree acre a ment meat can be reached which would Id save live the American taxpayers ers l pp In this particular Instant Instance e and the taxpayers of Britain Japan Jap an and end Cum Germany an not to mention so soother some lome me other countries which reaU really cane cannot et afford new battleships battleship equal sums sum s. s Moreover the President is definitely definite r I ly of the opinion that an armament nt race does doea not make malte fur peace i W War AI Boycott Proposal to boycott any count countr country ry at war war that that Is II to refuse to buy f It It is exports exports Is is the development nl among amona what might be called ti the a Peace Teace I Is 11 Worth Any Price to t to avoid the less flattering Peace A M AI Any Ally Price Price element element In congress Trade experts expert are aro Inclined to regard re re- e Bard gard ard this thil addition to the plan of refusing re re- e- e fusing to sell leU war supplies as a. rather rathe et academic especially cs tI there is I Ino by byno byno no means mean any certainty that a ma of congress would vote to ban all aU war supplies The present language rea reads read de arms arm ammunition and imp Implements he- he menu ments of war This does doel not Include In elude dude steel cop copper r and manganese se though every everl one on admits admit these are see essential war supplies It does doe not 1 include cotton which should pr probably bably b- b ably come in the next category a and ad doe does not oot induce include foodstuffs Nor Is II there any certainty that the they will be Included For cram example pie Senator Dennett Bennett C. C Clark of Mis MI Missouri one of the leading advocates advocate tea of a drastic neutrality law wo would u id put foodstuffs and cotton on a c cand nth cash and carry oasis Thai Ibal is I. Is any bel bel- could buy by them provid providing Ut g th the they e y were paid for at the port of at t Nw York or any other American Amerl port that the ship carrying th them em to G the scene 10 of war did not y I the American merican Sag al that It carried carded n no nc A American merican citizens citizen and was not Inured In treed by bl an American er Cr lie Ue admits admit that copper steel teel an and manganese are In a s definitely more warlike category than food foodstuffs but ut II Is not certain as II to whether he h e would ban them So that the advocates advocate of an embar ember go o against Imports Import of any sort ort Ito from say any ny belligerent nation would see seeto seem m to o be a long lona ways out In n front of the recession procession for the moment at least As A. A s Economists Economist See It Economists in the Department o of Commerce however point out thes thaia the that t s a nation engaged In a really im- im portent x war would not be able to produce reduce any considerable amount o ot of goods for export anyhow It would wort be e too loo bu busy bury producing supplies to for forIta Its Ita ts own A tortes forces A huge Dug percentage of Its It ordinary In men would be sailed called to the colora col coi ora on onU rs its U working women womer both fro from factor factory and end farm to plants plant producing ing ng supplies needed for the army and nd navy Then there are other developments develop develop- meals ments aside Ide from these obvious a ones nes For example Ita Italy Maly I did not have ave to strain very verI much In a mill mill- milly tery tary ary wa way in her war Dut But Duttie she he tie was wu obligee to stop top the export of t one of 01 her excellent money crops lemons That Is II the reason the he price of lemons In n the United States totes States was airs so 10 much higher than last ast year One of the few exceptions exception is II wine It H t may be recalled that the French had ad plied up an enormous amount of f wine b by the close clone of the World war They Thel thought they thel could sell seU huge uge quantities of It it at high prices price Ir r the United States Statu In the excitement excitement excite excite- ment menu of war they had overlooked the he tact feet that the tho United States was to try the prohibition experiment everl very one hero here thought perma- perma ne beginning beginning in January 1920 1020 and nd that wartime war prohibition would b bj J effective until that date This almost almot forgotten so forgotten so tar far as 81 the he United States Grates Is concerned concerned tac fac- fac tor tot was war one of the causes causel of bitterness bitter bitter- nets ness on the part of the French about the war debt How now could they pay us w it 11 we wouldn't take their products So 50 altogether the idea of banning Imports from a nation at war wet I is I. likely to be more of a thumbing of ot the nose rather than a s real economIc eco eco- threat L W Worry olTy Over Strikes Strike Win lose or draw the C. C C Co I. I O. O war with General Motors Is II giving considerable distress to those optimists mists among amona President Roosevelt's advisers who had counted on magnificent mag maa Increases In federal tax tn revenues as u a result of ot Improved b Business conditions It is I. working as u a two edged word sword lopping off corporation earn earn- Inis Inge not only of the motor com corn companies panics but of tt f every company that sells things thing to everybody affected and also abo boosting the unemployment relief relict expenditures that the government govern govern- ment will make Estimates of men out ot of work made mad by the representatives representative of the motor companies here are regarded as a. verT very conservative conservative It Its l s not only any the men actually work work- ing ng in the motor plants nor even those employed in factories making parts arts plate glass class etc The attempt by y C. C I. I O. O to cut off oft the supplies of the automobile manufacturers Is II hitting a number of other industries For or Instance it Is II hitting build build- In ng construction by cutting down the supply of ot plate glass glau the chief object of ot which was to hamstring the rho motor makers Henry Ford Is la reported repotted to bo be about to use laminated ed window glass Ilau so 0 real is II tho the shortage hortage of ot the glees glass normally used wed This particular hamstring of course courie hits not only General Motors Mo Mo- tors tou at which it was aimed but all the other auto manufacturers as aswell well wea Hits Nita Revenue So that actually on a part of the loss lOll to all aU these bl big corporations the government is actually taking more moro than halt hail of ot the loss loan of profits considerably more than halt half it U one ono reflects that before the divI- divI Bends are paid out the government takes lakes 15 per cent of the net earnings of the corporations This 13 15 per percent cent rent loss lOll of revenue will wID apply to all corporation losses of earnings earning due to strikes ups tie or whatnot Dut It 1 is II on the tiro individual In Incomes in comes that the loss lOll will be highest Due to the new tax on undistributed radiate earnings corporations as evidenced evi evl dented last lilt month mantis are making every ev cry ery effort to pay payout out all aU net earn earn- tags ings to stockholders So that after after aft aft- er taking IS U per cent of the net loss Ion due to the strikes the government govern govern- ment meat will then lose 1010 a bl big slice Ure of ot tax revenue from the individual stockholders Some of the percentages percent ages aces of course coune will wUI be fairly lately low but nearly all security holders with few tew exceptions pay Income taxes and every dollar lost through the strike will come out of ot the highest high est eat brackets that particular taxpayer er reaches It will wID come off the top When Then well paid men men for for formost most of them affected by this strike were earning wa way above the average average aver aver- age ae wale wage paid labor throughout the country country atop stop buIn buying anything but necessities the earnings earning of a great many corporations not affected directly dl di by the rho tie tie up up will until b be cut Washington observers do not at tempt to belittle the skimming ot of the cream idea for tor it works to the detriment of ot the Treasury In every possible change of earnings And the Treasury was counting heavily on improved business condition conditions to boot boost taxpayer Into Ioto higher bracket classes o sell ay en |