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Show big taskjf nvr MEANS OF THWARTING THB GERMAN SUBMARINES MUST BE DEVISED. PUNS CANNOT BE DISCLOSED As President Wilson 8ald, the Navy Must Be Fully Equipped to Deal With U-DoaU and Protect Ship-menu Ship-menu of Supplies to Allies. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington. This policy "will Involve In-volve the Immediate full equipment of the navy In nil respects, but particularly particu-larly In supplying It With tho best means of dealing with tho .enemy's submarines." This statement In the president's address ad-dress to congress, Washington thinks, was slgnlllcnnt of great things thnt must be done, of real master strategy, of great operations of which perhaps tho nonmilltary mind probably has uo complete sense. In another placo In his address to congress tho president said that tho practical "duty of tho United Stntes would be: "To supply tho nntlons nlrcndy at wnr with Germany with the materials which they can obtain only from us or by our assistance. They are In the Held and we should help them In every wny to bo effective there." The navy department has concerned concern-ed Itself with means to make effective theso two plans to which Woodrow Wilson gave public consideration In his address and appenl to tho lawmakers law-makers of tho United States. Naval oillcers realize tho Irftlmnto connection between the two extracts from the president's address hero given. Our navy today Is charged In part with tho duty of clearing tho enemy's en-emy's submarines from tho depths nnd the surfneo of the waters. It Is a huge Job. Navy Tackles a. Big Task. It follows as a wake follows n torpedo tor-pedo that If the navy of tho United Stntes, added to the navies of Great Hrltnln and France, cannot clenr the waters of enemy submarines, the In-bor In-bor of carrying out the second suggestion sugges-tion made In quotation from the president's presi-dent's nddress will be so dllllcult of accomplishment that the nnvy mind, If It were not a militant mind, might stagger nt It. Every department of the government govern-ment todny Is working to fulfill the i terms of the president's word to congress con-gress to the effect thnt they ould submit measures for the accomplishment accomplish-ment of the various wnr objects which he had mentioned. One of the main thing to be done, of course. Is to prepare this country, nnd todny there are materlul evidences thnt tho work of Industrial and of nrmy nnd navy preparedness, so fnr as It affects supplies sup-plies nnd means to obtain them, Is well In hand. This matter concerns Itself, according to tho president, not only with our own preparation, but with that for continuing to supply the allied al-lied nation of F.urope with "the material ma-terial which they can obtalu only from us or by our assistance." These materials for use nbroad must be sent nbroad. The naval experts aro confronted with n problem which never, before tho breaking out of the present wnr, faced any nation on earth. In fnct, tho problem as It confronts con-fronts tho nnvy men Is one of perplexing per-plexing perils. The submarine Is a factor in the problem which must be eliminated. It Is not pormlsslbjo to disclose any plans which the navy department mny havo made. It Is hardly permissible to discuss probabilities In the ense, but It is permissible to present the nature na-ture of tho dltncultles which must be overcome. Some of the Difficulties. In order to contlnuo to send supplies sup-plies to F.urope and to Insure their reaching their ports of destination, either the right of way must be protected pro-tected from uctlve assailants, or means must be taken to see to It that tho assailants as-sailants have no opportunity to picket the sen line of mnrch. It Is a long way from the American ports to the British nnd French ports. Ships must be kept moving constantly or else Great Itrltnln and France may come to the hunger point to which Germany Is trying to forco them. It Is virtually Impossible to convoy every ship. That tinned ships enn be sunk at night without much danger to the nttackiug submnrlno has been proved by the case of tho Aztec. It will be dllllcult to patrol effectively the borders bor-ders of the lane of communication. Great Itrltnln herself showed that the convoying of Individual ships virtually vir-tually wns beyond her power. She needed nil her destroyers and most of the other nmnll war cmft for the protection pro-tection of her battleships in case they should enter Into u grand engagement. engage-ment. It Is tho smnller craft which must bo used for sea-lnno patrol purposes. pur-poses. Our smaller craft, like those of Great Itrltnln, It was assumed, must be used for the protection of our battleships. battle-ships. If they take to the high seas, from the assaults of submarines and torpedo boats. Thire is promise In Washington thsf If It Is within the power of the experts of our nnvy to devise a nienni by which the Mihuinrlne can be kept In check, or extlipnted. It will be found. Another thing which can be known Is that It la the Intention of the nnvy of the United States to deal hammrrllkc with tfc submarine nnd In addition to fls4 means to keep opeu tut comtutrea routes to Luropo. ,' Potatoes Dcct Cooked In Skint. Approximately 20 per cent of eoch potato purod by ordinary household methods Is lost In tho process. Tho loss Includes much uiul sometimes all of the portion of tho tuber containing Important soluble snlts. 1'otntoes that aro boiled and baked In their skins lose practically none of their food value. |