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Not a Hatred Peace
Details of the plea that Cardinal Hart?
mann, the prelate of Bavaria, has ad?
dressed to the Pope are not given. A re?
cent dispatch says the Cardinal holds
that the peace conditions imply "the ut?
ter ruin of Germany," but no specifica?
tions support the conclusion. The com?
plaint is surcharged with emotion, but is
vague, like all other German protests.
Germany is unduly pessimistic and ex?
aggerates the hardness of her fate.
The terms do not "crush" her. Her
pride is bruised, her power to do evil
destroyed, subject peoples are freed, and
she is asked to repair some of the dam?
age she inflicted; but she is reduced to
no such slavery as she imposed on the
Belgians, the Poles, the Serbs, the Ru?
manians and the civilians of Northern
France.
Peaceable Germans who would pay
their just debts are not to be disturbed ]
either in person or property. No Ger- ;
man house or German factory is to have \
a brick removed. In the disannexed ;
territories Germans who elect to remain !
will of course lind political conditions
Hot to their liking, but such may com- ;
fort themselves by rereading the words
of consolation they formerly offered to
the Poles, the Alsatians and the Danes.
The preliminary agreement entered into
when the armistice was signed definitely
indicated that Germany was to make
reparation and that the disposal of the
so-called German colonies, the freeing of
subject populations and the guarantees
for future peace were matters left to
the conference.
The reparation bill is not swollen; as
to the colonies, the settlement considers
the welfare of their native populations
and the peace of the neighborhood rather
than flag raising and trade hunting.
The territorial arrangements show a sin?
cere effort to segregate those who would
be together. No one will contend that
every inch of frontier has been correctly
traced, but no candid person will deny
that ethnical justice will much more
prevail than in 1914.
Self-determination? Germany strug?
gles agaipst it, is not for it. She would
hold the Poles, the Alsatians and Danes
without regard to their wishes. The So?
cialists now in office in Germany have
no sympathy with the self-determination
principle. Their verbal solicitude is a
sham. They would keep what they have
seized. They uphold conquest titles and
defy the maxims they would have others
respect.
The essential justice of the peace is a
question which concerns the Allies as
much as Germany. Those who won the
war have no desire to "crush" any one.
They seek peace and prosperity for
themselves and have sense enough to see
that Germany will be a menace until she I
also ha3 peace and prosperity. So, sub?
ject merely to the restrictions that she
?hall not have weapons, that she must
clean up her own dirt, and may not keep i
aliens in subjection, she is offered a free :
right to make her living and to develop
her own life.
Taking the treaty aa a whole, it is
written with magnanimity and is free
of signs of hatred. Germany has not
hitherto served herself well by trying
to get falsehood accepted as truth, and
does not serve herself now by continuing
to travel the highway of prevarication
Hid misrepresentation.
Cultural and Ethical
The German people, Herr Ebert as?
sures us, "still has a cultural mission
to perform and ethical treasures to be?
stow." He undoubtedly says this in all
seriousness, not aa any one not a Ger
mati would say it, with his tongue in
his cheek. The loathing of the world
for culture of the German kind has i
taught him nothing. Ita disdain for ;
ethical treasures such as were lavished
on Belgium he perhaps hardly under?
stands. He pleads for an easy peace,
just as if Germany had not forfeited her '
right to a high placo in drilization. She
has "given the world so much in science,
learning and industry" that she "must [
not go down to oblivion."
All this would have sounded very well
before the war. Indeed, we had a rath?
er exaggerate idea of the value ?erf Ger?
man science, learning and industry.
Germans had been as efficient in adver?
tising their virtue* an in other thing:'..
They claimed the full credit for the
progress that had been begun by othen ,
?ad none ?aid them nay. Every Ger?
man military man was a von Moltke,
?maty German professor a Virchow.
And "W-Msn the war came we realized how
well they bad utilized a very mediocre
ability. The fruit of their science was
poison gas, of their learning lying prop?
aganda, of their industry Big Berthas.
The ethical treasures Plerr Ebert
would generously share with those poor
creatures who are not Germans are
equally remote from the customary
moral standards. It will take a long
while to convince the rest of us that
theft, pillage, arson, rape and murder
form a code worth adopting. But we
know of no other ethical treasures
peculiar to Germany that the last four
years and move have revealed.
Big Business
Last week the War Department issued
a formal report to disprove?quoting
The Associated Press dispatch?"the
charges made last year that the aerial
production programme had failed be?
cause of inefficiency and irregularities."
Well enough, but very tardy.
It is impossible not to recall that the
ceremony of lynching the civilian air
crafters began with the publication in
The World of a confidential report ob?
tained by that newspaper from the War
Department on the personal order, it is
said, of Mr. Tumulty. It was apparent?
ly the government that first suspected
the engineers and manufacturers who
were creating Liberty motors and Lib?
erty 'planes out of their sheer imagina?
tion. Likewise it was the government
that lynched the Hog Island shipyard
builders, who long afterward got a clean
bill of health. In general the govern?
ment's suspicion of big business greatly
retarded the industrial part of the war
programme. The first suggestion that
Charles M. Schwab be asked to build
ships was treated with horror. The fuel
saving programme went almost on the
rocks because it was thought that the
coal men could not be trusted.
One could go on and make a long list.
But the point does not require it. Tho
facts are notorious. When the indus?
trial side of the war was taken out of
the hands of bureau heads who couldn't
manage it and turned over to the men
who had made big business in America
momentum went into it.
Big business responded, as every one
might have known it would. Tens of
billions were spent by men responsible
only to their country?spent without let
or hindrance, very often in great quan?
tities without any form of legal au?
thority, and there was no scandal. It
was a great, clean job. Never had
money been spent in such haste, in such
prodigious amounts, with so little red
tape, and never was a war ledger so free,
we think, of'corruption and graft. That
is what The Tribune believed would bo
the outcome when it argued steadily for
making the industrial leaders of the
country responsible for the material
means to victory, on tho ground that if
they couldn't do it nobody could and
that if they couldn't be trusted to do it
we might as well shut up the shop and
all perish together in a sea of common
distrust.
Necessity brought about this amazing
adventure in unlimited cooperation be?
tween government and business. The
consequence was victory. Shall that ex?
perience be demobilized?
Italy Shows Magnanimity
Anti-Italian propaganda has influenced
many Americans to think that Italy's
aims are ''imperialistic" beyond those of
any other power represented in the
peace conference. This impression docs
Italy great injustice. Her territorial
aspirations have been limited, in the
main, to attaining completer military
security and broader nationalism.
Paris dispatches report that Italy has
just given a striking evidence of her
breadth and fairness of spirit by sur?
rendering her claim to the Dodecanesus.
These islands, lying off the coast of
Asia Minor, had long been under Turk?
ish sovereignty. When Italy went to
war with Turkey in 1911 her navy
seized them. By tho terms of the
Treaty of Lausanne ehe was to retain
possession of them until Turkey had
fulfilled certain other engagements con?
tained in the treaty. Tho Balkan wars
and tho World War intervened and
Turkey failed to secure restoration.
The Treaty of London, entered into by
Italy and the Entente powers on April
26, 1915, promised the former "full
possession of all tho islands of the Dode
canesus at present occupied by lier."
The population of the islands is, how?
ever, almost exclusively Greek by blood
and language?about 143,000 Greeks to
41,500 Turks and 2,500 Jews. The na?
tives are eager for annexation to the
Kingdom of Greece. They have passed
resolutions and presented petitions urg?
ing union with the Greek state. They
have also complained of the efforts of
tho government of occupation to Ital?
ianize them.
Italy could have stood on the letter
of the Treaty of London and demanded
tho cession of the Dodecanesus, thus
defeating the operation of tho princi?
ple of self-determination. But she has
wisely reco-gnized that such a solution
of tho problem would bo inequitable
and oppressive. She is willing to let tho
islands go to Greece.
This waiver ought to mako it easier
for Italy to obtain the satisfaction of
other claims which tho peace conference
ha? been haggling over. Fiumo is Ital?
ian and has expressed a desire to bo
united to Italy. Tho community is not
Croatian in blood or sentimont and was
not, before th? war, politically a part
of Croatia, being an independent crown
city. The D'xiecancsua precedent there?
fore applies to Flume.
Italy hua another grlovance against
the peace conference. The Treaty of
London pr<rvided that should either
France or Great Britain extend her
colonial possension? in Africa at Ger?
many's expenso, both power? would
recognize Italy's right to demand "com?
pensations in the form of an extension
of her possessions in Eritrea, Somali
land, Libya and the colonial districts
bordering on French and British colo?
nies." When Germany's African colo?
nies were disposed of a few days ago
Italy was ignored.
The Sidetracked Torpedo 'Plane
Just before the armistice was signed
the British navy had developed a "mys?
tery airplane" which was to be used in
attacking the German High Sea Fleet in
its home bases. This 'plane was to carry
and launch a torpedo. Admiral Rodman,
commander of the American squadron at
? tached to the British Grand Fleet at
; Scapa Flow, was in the secret of this
! new instrument of offence, which, ac?
cording to some British commentators,
was expected to develop "even greater
potential value than the submarine."
The admiral recently said in a state?
ment to the House Naval Affairs Com?
mittee:
"The British have developed a 'plane
to carry a torpedo. If we had in our
fleet ships equipped to carry fifteen
'planea fitted with torpedoes there is no
question that if wo could get in close
proximity to the enemy's fleet, we could
operate very successfully, especially
tipainst battleships."
The admiral might have added that
our Navy Department alone was to
blame for the fact that Great Britain
built torpedo 'planes before the United
States did. We print elsewhere on this
page extracts from an article written by ;
Mr. Henry Woodhouse for the magazine
of the United States Naval Institute
which shows that an American naval of?
ficer was the first in the field with this
promising invention. In the winter of
1911-,12 Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske
suggested the construction of a torpedo
carrying airplane for coast defence pur?
poses. In July, 1012, he took out a pat?
ent on a torpedo attachment and a de?
vice to discharge the torpedo. It was
not until March, 1914, that Captain ,,
Su?ter and Lieutenant Hyde Thomson,
of the British navy, applied for a patent :
on their torpedo seaplane,
A Turkish troopship was sunk in the
Sea of Marmora in 1915 by a torpedo
discharged from a British airplane. The
Germans also experimented with the
idea. On May 2, 1917, one of their sea?
planes sank the British steamer Gena
oiT the mouth of the Thames. But,
though Admiral Fiske's plans were
available, our Navy Department failed
to make any use of them, either before
or after our entry into tho war. We
might have had dozens of torpedo
'planes ready for use in 1917, instead of
now talking about authorizing their con?
struction in 1920.
The ending of hostilities prevented a
test on a large scale of the value of this
new instrument of naval warfare. But
every first class navy will soon he build?
ing torpedo 'planes. The United States
navy threw away the chance to be a
pioneer in such construction. It can
n-nv profit by the superior foresight of
the British and Germans.
German Notes
By William C. Dreher
It is much too early to try to answer
the question, how women voted in the re?
cent German elections, but some statistics
for tho city of Spandau have, just heen
printed. These show tho interesting fact
that women there took to Socialism less
readily than men; and Spandau is a verit?
able hotbed of Socialism. Tho strong pre?
dominance of tho Socialists is indicated by
the votes in the three elections, national,
stato and municipal, held thcro thin year, in
which that voto was 65.6, f!3.6 and 64.6 por
cent, respectively, of tho total vote cast.
Now it is a noteworthy fact that while
tho Socialists received 69.6, 63.7, and 70.S
per cent, respectively, of tha men's voto3,
they got only 63.4, 61.5 and 61.5 per cent
of the women's votes.
Tho relation of the women's votes to tho
men's in the different parties is also re?
markable. For every 100 men tho Majority
Socialists received only 84 women's votes,
tho Gotman Democrats mid Liberals) 97,
the German People's Party (the rump of
the old National Liberal party) 125, the
Christian People's party (Catholics) 160,
mid the Gorman National People's Party
(Conservatives) 171.
Thus in this one town the tendency is
clearly marked, with women, to be less
radical than their husbands and brothers.
Is that becaus'e of the aforesaid hotbed
character of tho town?
[lour, BO Cents a Pound
American flour has at last reached Ger?
many, to the joy of those who are able
to buy it. But not everybody is in a po?
sition to do so, even though tho govern?
ment is selling it at n big sacrifice, fiero
is how a financial writer ligures: A hun?
dredweight (110 pounds) of American
wheat, including all charges of shipment
into Germany, coste 110 marks in tho
present depreciated currency, whereas tho
maximum prico of homo grown wheat is
only 15 marks. Tho government, there?
fore, in losing 136 marks on every hundred?
weight, and if it nhould import (",000,000
tons a year, tho quantity now needed, it
would have to make- up a deficit of
1?!/jOC,000,000 marks on the operation. Tho
prlco at which tho American flour is of?
fered is nearly HO conta a pound, taking
the normal rate of exchange, or about 18
j cents actually. Tho quantity that each
! poraon is entitled to buy is one-half pound
weekly.
Kot much relief for hunger in thons
fitfurcsl
Who's "Glittering" Now?
(From The Chartetiton AVu-?-Oour{<w)
Wo ?re g;lud to soo tliat Secretary Baker
is flffurins inoro gxtenjjivoly than ever In
the news films. Tho sifht of hi? handsome
countenance always wducaa th? Republi?
can* to ft otat? pt ehittor\ng fury.
The Bishop of Coventry has written to
the local committee stating that no peace j
celebration procession in Coventry would j
be complete without a reprtBtntation of
Lady Godiva, who, if legend was correct, j
made a great sacrifice to her subjects, and j
was a woman far in advance of her time?, j
In the Bishop's opinion, Lady Godiva j
should be represented as an historical :
character in an historical pageant, in such ;
a way that she herself would have been
proud to appear.
The local sub-committee has passed a
resolution to the effect that the lady who
represents Lady Godiva in \ the pageant
should be fully clothed, in the most mag?
nificent apparel in which a Saxon Countess
would have been arrayed.?London Times.
The Bishop's opinion and ours clash.
Ours ?i that she was proud to appear as
she did.
For that matter, Eve herself might have
been proud to appear in one of the
hodiernal one-cylinder skirts.
The Freudian Linotyper
[From the Deep Hiver (Conn.) New Era]
In this column last week the type made it read
that J. Feinctcin has just received a new line of
narrow skirts. It should have read Arrow ?shirts.
This correction is gladly made.
It is a long time since any of the Pandean
flutings have decorated this Corinthian of
Cachinnution. What we are driving into
is the announcement that Pan's versea,
some of which appeared herein, aro this
day published in a neat and Houghton
Mifflin book of seventy-three pages?"Types
of Pan."
Gotham Gleanings
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-News arc scarce at this writing.
?House hunting is the order o?
the day.
---Joe Wise was a continuous
caller last week.
I. F. liylan of B'klyn motored
to Gotham one day last wk.
?Art Roche has moved out to his
Conn, home not far from Stamford.
??Steve Whitman has come here
from Washington to live. The Capi?
tol's loss is our gain say we.
?Monty Flagg and Mrs. Rupert
Hughes and Mrs. J. M. Flagg have
gone to White Sulphur Springs for
a brief sojourn.
?Mrs. P. If. Collins, nee Eleanor
Perin, is in town with her husband,
Lt. P. H. Collins, he having arr.
from France last week.
?Miss Rosina Henley was a
pleasant caller Friday. She sails for
France to-day, she going to help en?
tertain the soldiers with song, story',
etc,
?Jay House of Topelca, Kans.,
has accepted a position with Cy
Curtis of Philada. and will begin
working on the Pub. Ledger in a
day or two. Welcome to the East
Jay say we.
?Pat Enright is back from France
where he was aviating. Pat looks
20 yrs. younger than when he joined
the Army and looks even younger
than when he used to teach me?
chanical drawing at Armour Insti?
tute 23 yrs. agro.
Unless otherwise specified, wo shall turn
over all the checks wo receive for the
originals of Tower manuscripts to the
Salvation Army.
Should Anld Acquaintance?
With sprinkling con and 11,0
I wandered where my ponies grow.
And spread a vernal tint.
Deep hidden In the tangled plot.
Uplifting- n "forget-me-not,"
I found a sprig of mint.
Chick O'Cot.bs.
A bookkeeping acquaintance of ours says
that tho Penco Conferonco is trying to
strike a trial balance of power.
"Flaec Meminisae .Invoblt"
Sir: What of it? I, too. recall "The Wabash."
and can remember to this day my introduction
to "Just Break the New:? to Mother" as I was
awakened an hour or two after midnight to find
myself in an unaccustomed bed on the sofa in
tho parlor. I hod been but half aroused' by the
v -ary and monotonous footfalls of a jaded horse
dragging home tho possessors of four well-blended
voices singing in soft harmony (lie subsequently
famous pong.
And tho songs in which "Weary" had the solo
part ! Even in those days we had no idea whether
his given name was Rennald. Rheinold, or
Reynard, and if by chance a stranger called him
Reginald he vas too much of a good 'spoi-t or
too bored to correct tho mistake. Do you re
mrmber, Weary, the hectographed copies of Dad
Kdwords's song??, always on the very, very yellow
paper which he used both for that purpose and
to'writ? the otiir. ?n'estions in Latin? Can you
not ?joe now the blurred words in purple ink:
"Wo cannot nint. tho old songs now,
They uro so chos-ntit-tee."
and tho one we both liked, though not so popular
n? nome of the others :
"Please, Mister Conductor,
(Jive me a transfer, do.
Can't ron seo it is raining
And I have a holo in my shoo?"
Do you recall our wonderment at the moter
wrltton by one who was so insistent on tho
proper number of feet in our Latin compositions?
Tho usual Bong Is compos?*! for, or in tho
hopes of, profit. Those of Dad's we like to feel
were written for the Joy of it, ond for love of
the tall, overgrown youngsters with ties of broail
??trlped red and black who mado up tho personnel
of the Glee Club. _...
C AS-OM, I.E.IA.
But We Norer Find It Out Unies? Somebody
TelU. Va
?Sir i For the benefit of posterity and ? few
curlon* folk, will you not tell n? Just what if is
you say wlwn, after having whittled out a last
Hue you awake next morning to find that a stereo?
typer lia* whittled it off?
1?O-TON ?'II.RI.IC.
Tho Henry Ford-Chicago Tribune Jury
hut? adopted a motto.
"Out of Mount Olemeng by Chrlstm??!"
V. P. A,
IN THE SPRING OF 151!)
From, an, Article by Henry Woodhouse, Vice-President of the
Aerial League of America, in the Magazine of the United
States Naval Institute.
t? ? %, MONG many new devices which
/-\ the armistice prevented the Royal
Air Force from putting into use
against tho enemy was the torpedo-aero?
plane. It is considered to bo of even
greater potential value than the submarine,
and would doubtless have proved astonish?
ingly efficient. Tho enemy has good reason
to bo thankful for having escaped tins new
offensive weapon, which was ready for
active service only a littlo while before tho
cessation of hostilities. The torpedo-aero?
plane is a development of the torpedo-car?
riers, which wero first successfully em?
ployed in action by tho Royal Naval Air
Service at tho Dardanelles in 1915, and wero
Bubsequently used against us by tho Ger?
mans in 1917, when they were thus enabled
to sink three of our merchant ships off tho
southeast coast. Tho torpedo carried by
torpodo-acroph'i' is of small size as
modern torn : * >. and weighs half a
ton." \
Tho above qi nation from "The Illus?
trated London News" was accompanied by
two photographs of torpedoes being dropped
from single motorod Sopwith biplanos of
the typo which are launched from British
aer?dromo ships.
When Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, U. S.
N., returned to the United States after
nearly two years of service with the British
Grand Fleet he made two main recommen?
dations, as follows:
(1) That the United Slates should con?
tinue to use submarines for defence:
(2) That the United States should build
now types of vessels equipped with aero?
planes ablo to attack fleets at closo range
with torpodoplanos.
When Admiral Rodman appeared before
tho House Committee on Naval Affairs, on
January .1, 1919. lie ppoke fui-ther of the
torpedoplan?-, as follows:
"It is unqualifiedly true that ve will
also have to have entirely new typo3 of
vessols, different from any wo ever had, to
carry aeroplanes, both for scouting and
defensive work. It is extremely difficult to
hit an aeroplane with any gun we now have.
"Tho British have developed a 'plane to
carry a torpedo. If wo had in our fleet
ships equipped to carry fifteen 'pianos fitted
with torpedoes, there is no question that ii
wo could got in close proximity to the
enemy's Moot we could operate very suc?
cessfully, especially against battleships."
British Torpedoplane?
The first account of Great Britain's tor
pedoplnnes was given in the following artl
ele which appeared in the London "Dailj
Mail" for December 27, 1918:
"The mystery aeroplanes 6-f tho Brtt?s?
navy, which during tho lighting wero om
of its most jealously guarded secrets, liavi
been specially doscribed by an expert wh(
has had full opportunities for Bt'udyin?;
tho craft.
"Tho mystery aeroplane was designed t<
do from the air moro effectively and mon
swiftly tho work formerly allotted to oui
torpedo boats. Tho onomy had deviso?
such successful protection of harbors am
ships againat our torpedo boats and sub
marines that it was only with the ffrnves
risk that wo conld approach within thirty
mlloa of Kiel and othor Gormaa fortifiai
ports. But for the newest peril the enemy
had no reply.
"The news of our discovery of a means
of attack that was immune from mine dan?
gers and too swift in its operation to be
held off by gunfire reached the ears of the
enemy, and is believed, in some quarters at
least, to have helped the Huns to the de?
cision of surrender.
"Had not hostilities ceased so suddenly
these machines would have operated effec?
tively ngainst Kiel harbor and tho German
warships in their lair. The efficacy of the
weapons will be realized when the operation
is explained. One of these mystery aero?
planes, espying its enemy, makes a sudden
dive from tho clouds at 150 miles an hour,
levels out at 50 feet above the surface, dis?
charges a torpedo directly at the enemy
ship at the right moment, after which tho
pilot pulls back his joy-stick and disappears
into tho clouds as suddenly as he appeared.
Tho operation is so swift that tho enemy
has little chance of training a gun on tho
assailant. In one of these attacks a British
airman torpedoed and sank a Turkish troop?
ship containing 3,000 troops.
"A good deal of practice and patience
was needed to make torpedo attacks from
aeroplanes a success, and it is a tribute to
tho indomitable perseverance of our navtil
pilots that they have at length developed
some formidable squadrons with rpecial effi?
ciency in this new work. These wonderful
aeroplanes can go up from land or from
the deck of a ship, and can descend on the
sea and float until help is brought by wire
lef.s, When the German fleet surrendered
an aeroplano 'mother ship' with twenty of
these machines in its bosom mot tho Huna
fifty miles out at sea. and had any tricks
boon tried it would have been simple work
for a score of mystery aeroplanes to have
leaped into tho air and torpedoed the best
part of the ships. This mystery or 'cuckoo'
aeroplane?so called becaused of its weak?
ness for laying egga in other people's nest?
? -B one further testimony to British en?
gineering ability Bnd the resourcefulness oi
our navy."
Rear Admiral Fishers Invention
Rear Admiral Bradley A. Flake, U. S. N.
concoivod tho idea of a torpedo-carryinf
aeroplano in the winter of 1910-'ll as t
means of defending tho Philippine Islands
und discussed tho idea with tho Genera
Board of tho navy. He was in chargo o
tho "war plan section" of tho Genera
Board, United States navy, and in that ca
pocity suggested that tho Philippines coul?
be dofondod against invasion by means of ;
large numbor of aeroplanes which woul
drop bombs on enomy boats going ashor
from tho transporta and on men who migh
bo landed, and that by using aeroplanes o
a larger b?zo it would bo possible to dro
torpedoes from them which would sink th
men-of-war and the vessels of tho invadin
fleet.
In April, 1012, Rear Admiral Flak? ap
plied for h patent on tho torpedoplan?
whk-h wob granted in July, 1912, by th
United State? Patent Office,
Tho main factors that govern the su<
oesa of torpedoplane operations ??/ei
(1) Tha use of fast, caraouflofjed sere
planes, equipped with mufflers, so that the
approach cannot, be seen or heard by the
enemy until the torpedoplane has arrived
within striking distance.
(2) Having an experienced crew, well
trained and experienced in the work.
(3) Having torpedoes powerful enough to
?? be effective against the ships to be at
' tacked.
(4) Dropping the torpedo from a ?suitable
j height to prevent its being put out of order
i by a too erro-at impact or of its rebounding
j ar?d striking the tail of the torpedoplane.
(5) Holding the torpedo in position ami
1 dropping it while tin? torpedop'ar.e is fly
I ing toward the ship so that the gyroscope,
I being started while the torpedop'ane is
heading for the ship, will d'rect the torv
pedo in the direction of the ship. The
'plane may. of course, change' its direction
immediately after dropping the torpedo and
make its escape.
future Torpedoplanes
The naval seaplane NC-1 could cnsily
: carry two full-size torpedoes, This flying
boat lias a wing spread of 126 feet and is
j equipped with three low-corapression Lib?
erty motors of 3.">0 horsepower each. It has
a cruising speed of eighty miles an hour,
weighs 13,000 pounds unloaded and 22.000
pounds fully loaded.
The British flying boat constructed by
Colonel Porte of the Royal Air Forc^ if
larger. It is a triplane, equipped with five
Rolls Royce motors.
Larger seaplanes are under construction,
and it is expected that aeroplanes capable
of lifting twenty-five* tons will be produced
this year and over double that size next
y?:ar. Larger still will follow.
Some of the transatlantic fliers being
planned are to be capable of covering three
thousand miles without stopping.
These machines can be converted into
torpedoplanes by merely attaching the tor?
pedoes under their 'planes or at some other
convenient place.
Aiul tn.en they become flying torpedo
boats, capable of cruising at a speed of
about one hundred miles an hour ar.d of
closing the Atlantic within thirty hours!
A crew of half a dozen men will be suffi?
cient to operate such a torpedop'ane.
What a marvellous combination of speed,
potentiality and mobility!
What better weapon can we find for the
defence of our coasts and island posses?
sions?
An enemy fleet bent on attack or carry?
ing an invading force would have to con?
tend with large torpedoplanes before it
could come within 1,000 miles of our shores,
and with smaller torpedoplanes launched
from aerodrome ships, such as are recom?
mended by Admiral Rodman.
Our island possessions will be most pow?
erful as torpedoplano bases, almost invul?
nerable.
Is this not truly revolutionary in its
prospective developed stage?
"Ad Infinitum"
(From The Columbia, S. C , Krcord)
Some day, says "The Xew York Post,*
President. Wilson will startle the world by
not breaking a precedent. Rut every time
he breaks one he makes one.
Inevitable
(From The Detroit Frer Prat?)
Turkish women, says a dispatch. h*ve
abandoned their veils, and the harem ii. tot?
tering. How many years will it be, do you
imagine, before the women will be picketing
the Sultan's office?