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Show PREDICTS SEMI SUBMARINE WILL RULE SEAS BATTLESHIPS OF' TODAY WILL PASS; ADMIRAL SAYS Retired Naval Officer Bases Prediction on 50 Years Of Service CAREER INTERESTING Book Exlains Puzzling Order Or-der Issued By Navy Department It's II RR'N B Bfl N I WASHINGTON, May 4 --' Like the armored knight of old. the armored battleship of today will pass SThe navy of 50 years hence will be as nn- like that of today as today's Is dlf- I ferent from that Off 50 years ago J "Just how it will differ Is as 1m- , possible to tell as it would have beon 50 years ago. In the days of wooden gunboats and smooth-bore cannon, to' forecast the electrically-driven super- drearinnucht with hr 16-inch rifles. : The evolution Is Inevitable. The change, however, will not be sudden, and should not be. To immediately im-mediately slop building or scrap all our armored battleships while other , nations still retain theirs would be $s : foolish as to pin our faith wholly to them and refuse to keep pace with the development of naval defense along other lines" 50 i IRS IS sinn ICE. Schroeder. In 60 years of active naval service, saw Uncle Sam's navy develop from .-fw wooden gunboats armed with only smooth-bore cannon. , to It present strength in great ships 1 and big guns. The limitation of navies, under th I recent Washington agreement, this I old sea-dog declares the greatest step j toward stabilizing world peace. Yet ! to be most effective for peace pur-I pur-I poses, he maintains the ratio must t.e filled, not merely recognized as a limit beyond which the respective I countries may not go. WOULD LOSE FORCE, i "T'nleN th. United States keeps l her navy up to the ratio provided " t Schroeder says, "which gives us a navy second to none, the whole force . and' ' ffect of t be ratio l lost. I "The good1 will which the United States has won by nor Initiative in limiting navies. Is In Itself no small factor toward a maintained peace. There is a saying in a certain section Of this country that the politest community com-munity is that In vvhl. h every man trrles B gun That may bo so. But it makes for a rather nervous sort ..i peace How much better is that peace which rests upon good will" I i n R POSSIBII I i ll S. As to some of the possibilities in the navy Of the future. Schroeder says: It is possible, of course, thnt the submarine may be l iveloped to where It may virtually assume battleship proportions and fighting ability. I believe, however, that a much more likely type i that of a vessel which. While not a submarine could submerge sub-merge lo 1 1 point that would make h"r practically awash." , Pew naval officers have had a more Varied Or interesting career than this old officer of 73 who has put In more than half a century In the service. This period, in which the American navy reached Its maximum develop.-rhent, develop.-rhent, Is interestingly covered In a vol- ume of reminiscences the admiral has Just written, entitled: "A Half Century Cen-tury of Naval Service," NOT FOR LANDL1 BB1 l Is-In Is-In ths volume. Schroeder clears up i lo '. tsoni foi the issuance of the orders "Right" and "Left" instead i (Continued from Page Two.) oo BATTLESHIPS OF FUTURE VILL BE DIFFERENT, CLAIM (Continued rrom Page One) of "Starboard" and "Port." which caused much comment in the i-.ui days of the Daniels admlnistrai ion of the navy. The order was commonly understood under-stood to have been Inspired by a landlubber's land-lubber's dc.ir.- to meddle with old navy regulations The real reason, however, Schrooder aays4 was the changes brought by modern steering mechanism "To effect a change of course to I port (left) the command had always been 'starboard!' (right," he explains. "This command referred to the helm. In use on old vessels. In the past half century, however, the helm has been entirely eliminated and a .steam, hydraulic or electric engine substituted. substi-tuted. Simplification demanded that the ,rier should bo in keeping with the signal and, being applied to tho actual rudder instead Of i mythical holm, be In keeping with the rudder, the wheel and the movement ot tho ship." |