Show Government Something Something- of or more morp material than was vas at Jt first nn aPpear nn- nn pear par parIn In the thc s of or c tl- tl unites mates for the con construction of the two t American Dr hl prepared b by bythe bythe the navy department with the bids that hat the private shipyards put In Tho estimates were n made 13 1 0 primarily to serve ervo as a check upon tho the actual hid bid bidIng ding Ing but the latter wits io so low that he the government seemed scorner ab- ab surd suid While these thee estimates have not yet been made public it is said saki that they h far ar exceeded d the thc highest of or tho the competitive bid bids Considering all the conditions of labor and hours of or work at al a a. government o shipyard ar together with the circumstance that congress congre i provided for Cor a co cost t of or it is i inot not surprising ln that the government o estimates should be at al the top lop op notch But so o great greal a disparity as the opening of the bids is said to have shown shove n is j r surprising The accepted bids are both boll far below the thc million five mark anc and the tho hi highest hest bid was well within the six-million six limit I Tine The practical pha phase e of the comparison compari compari- son thus thug raised rL now develops If H re reliance reliance reliance re- re liance I is to lO be placed upon the governments government's govern govern- overn- overn ments ment's fi figures un I it i is clear that for Cor the Immediate future no ship construction of any consequence will will be placed with will the navy yards ards The competition between private and government gO wor worin work in the case cne of oC sister battleships Louisiana Louisi- Louisi ana and Connecticut has not been bee satisfactorily decided so 0 complex ar arthe are are- the items Hem of co cost t that j uch ruch work in in- in vol cs It will probably always b be a moot point whether one ono or or- orthe the other othe ship co cost t the more mori |