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THE STAiNDARD MAGAZINE SECTION-OGDEN, UTAH, OCTOBER 1914. '
JULES VERNES FANCY W
OUTDONE IN FACT 'WLj.
The Modern Submarine Accomplishes NtBfiui-
More Than the Mythical Boat Which ' y HrT !
Traveled Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the gft Sea in a Novel .f ;'l wBBBbM
The prophetic spirit of Jules
Verne. who wrote "Twenty Thou
sand Leagues Under tho Seat," sev
eral decades ago. was criticised In
those days as visionary In the ex
treme. The submarine was con
sidered In the light of an Impos
sibility. It was a toy to play with, but
not a machine to fight with. In
fact. It was a sufficient feat In 11
polf for a boat to dive beneath the
waves like a dolphin and return to
the surface. To add fighting qual
ities to such a machine was asking
too much, but all these injurs have
been accomplished. All Jules Verne
imagined has come true, yeg, no. re
than true, for the submarine in th;s
present war Is the terror of the
eea.
Only the other day a report was
brought of the sinking of three
British cruisers, representing mil
lions of dollars in money, by a sin
gle submarine, much less valuable.
Is war on tho water to be revo
lutionized'' Will the fighting fleets
of the future fight their battles In
the submarine depths far from the
eye of man and away from the
range of the movie machine''
War is changing rapidly from the
glorious spectacular hand-to-h.ind
fighting of the olden times with tho
non-combatants on the side lines,
to a terrible machine conflict, with
the men engaged in the battle noth
ing but mere cogs of the machine.
The war lords of old clashed their
fighting men as pawns. but tho
fighting lords of today class them
&e cogs. "War is surely losing much
of its glory, for what shall It profit
& sailor If ho must descend Into tho
deep to tight and die there without
any one soelng his heroism0
At tho time of this writing It
might be well to figure up the more
Important losses of ships so far in
the war. While no great naval
battles are figured in this report,
yet the loss is enormous. repre
senting a terrific wcjte of treasure.
Before this article is published the
loss will be increased enormously.
LIST OF LOSSES
of fighting snips.
Here is the list:
German-Russian engagement ofl
A 'I' TOP A submarine
rising to rescue sailors
left in a small boat to the
mercy of the waves. Right
trawler blown up by
an unseen enemy. Views
of various types of sub
marines. Breslau sold to Turkey to cscapo
capture.
Austrian battleship Zerlnyl and
three other Austrian warships sunk
in Adriatic by French fleet.
Unnamed German d re-d naught
reported ashore and out of action
at Trondhjam, Norway.
German cruiser Magdeburg
ashore In Gulf of Finland, attacked
by Russian warships and blown up
German converted commerce de
stroyer Kaiser Wllhelm der Grosso
sunk by British cruiser High Flier
off west coast of Africa.
Two German cruisers and two de
stroyers sunk in night engagement
off Heligoland. Another German
cruiser set allro and several Ger
man destroyers damaged. British
cruiser Amethyst and destroyer
Laertes damaged.
Japanese destroyer Shlrotaye went
ashore off Tsing Tau and demor
tshed by German gunboot Jaguar
Seven German destroyers arrived
at Kiel badly damaged, believed in
fight off Heligoland. Understood
they afterwards sank in tho Kiel
Canal.
British torpedo gunboat Speenln
sunk by mine North Sea.
British light cruiser Pathfinder
sunk by German submarine in
North Sea, 2 46 lives lost.
British cruiser Warrior reported
stranded In Mediterranean after
fight with German cruiser.
British converted cruiser Oceanic
wrecked off north coast of Scot
land; all of crew saved.
German light cruiser Hela sunk
by British submarine; two casual
ties. German converted cruiser, sup
posedly Kap Trafalxar or Berlin
sunk by British converted cruiser
Carmanla off east coast of South
A merlca.
British training ship Flsgard II
foundered in gale in English Chan
nel. Twenty-one drowned.
Austrian dreadnaught Vlrlbus
T'nltls reported damaged in Adri
atic. Austrian submarine A. E. 1 sunk.
No details.
British light cruiser Pegasus
caught in Zanzibar Harbor over
hauling machinery ant! completely
1 wo uerman cruisers and two de- hauling machinery an.' . otiijdetelj y lti.2d
Aland Islands, two Russian ships
lost.
German mine layer Konlgen Luise
sunk by British torpedo boat Lanco
in North Sea.
German torpedo boat sunk off
Gedser Light by boiler explosion.
British cruiser Amphlon sunk
In North Sea by mine.
German submarine sunk by Brit
ish crulserB in North Sea.
.' . German cruisers Goeben and
disabled by German cruiser Konigs
berg. British lose 2.'. killed. SO
w ounded.
German armed surveying ship
Mowe Bunk by British cruiser
Pegasus.
Throe British cruisers sunk by a
submarine In the North Sea.
GREAT LOSS OF 1.1 I I'
IS SUBMARINE FIGHTING
Tho list does not show accurately
the value of the submarine because
many of the reports are Incomplete
and the work of the submarine as a
protective measure is incalculable.
A warship does not daro enter a
harbor where there Is a possibility
of the presence of submarines. Tho
German navy, though Inferior in
strength, easily held the English
navy from attack for a long period
by the dread of the submarines.
There is another point, which
must be taken Into consideration In
tho discussion of submarines. In
straight hand to hand fighting above
the sea level, the conquering battle
ships rescue the survivors, picking
them from the water. The sub
marine does nothing of the kind.
Tho lAndon Globe, dealing with
the sinking of the three cruisers by
submarines, says
"Our fleet is necessarily exposed
to these dangers It has to wait
upon the pleasure of the enemy. It
dare not wait too far away, because
tin North Be ls small and could bo
quickly traversed by hostile fleets.
Tho risks must be run and wo need
not fear that our men will shrink
before them. Nevertheless., death
dealt by an unseen hand is the most
detectable of all.
This disaster will rouse the
British fleet to action as nothing
else could have done, and the suc
cess of this submarine attack may
yet prove the death knell of tho
German navy."
A German submarine recently
made a re onnoltrlng erulso to the
Scottish coast, according to a letter
written by a German sailor and
published In the German newspa
pers. She was ten days absent from
her base and went all along tho
English coast, at times under
water.
"It was the prettiest picture I
ever saw," the sjiilor wrote. "Up
there like a lot of peaceful lambs
lay tho EngHs-h squadron, without
care, and as If there wore no
German seawolves In armored
clothing. For two hours wo lay
there under the water on the out
posts. We could with certainty
have succeeded in fetching under a
big cruiser But we must not; we
were on patrol and our boat had
further work to do."
The English Government Press
Bureau report of the sinking of the
cruisers showed that f.7 naval offi
cers had been killed and CO rescued.
Twenty-one ofilcer of the Abouklr
were killed and IT saved The
Cressy lost 25 officers, only 11 being
rescued.
Sorles told by the survivors of
the disaster have failed to clear UJp
many of the conflicting points The
announcement In Berlin that the
three ships were sunk by one sub
marine ls contradicted by the story
told by Albert Dougherty, chief gun
ner of the Cressy, who was rescued
and taken to Chatham Dougherty
declares he saw five submarines and
he shattered the conning tower of
one of them.
In a dispatch from Chatham tho
correspondent of the Chronicle
quotes Dougherty thus:
"Suddenly I heard a great crash,
and looking In the direction of it,
BOW the Abouklr keeling over and
going down rapidly
"We came to the conclusion that
she had been struck by a torpedo
and kept a sharp lookout for these
crafts, while steaming to assist the
Abouklr. The Hogue also was clos
ing in toward tho sinking ship with
the object of assisting tho crew, who
were dropping into the water, when
we heard a second crash As the
Hogue began to settle we knew that
she also had been torpedoed.
"We drew near and at that mo
ment some one shouted:
" 'Look out, sir, there Is a sub
marine on your portbeam '
"I saw her She was about 400
yards away She showed only a lit
tle aboe the water. I took careful
aim at her. A 12-pound shot went
over by about two yards That gave
me the range
"I fired again and hit the top.
Then the submarine went down.
The men standing by shouted:
" "She's hit, sir.' and then they let
out a great cheer as the submarine
sank, and While she was going down
two German sailors floated up from
her, both swimming hard.
"Our captain was on the bridge,
and in those critical moments he
spoke some words of advice to the
crew.
" 'Keep cool, my lafls; keep cool,'
he said in a steady voice.
That was the last I saw of Cap
tain Johnson.
"The Germans were discharging
torpedoes at us while the water was
thick with drowning men. Although
I personalty observed five sub
marines, and although the guns
pegged at them, only one was hit as
far as I know.
"Our ship sunk about 7:45. and
when I dropped Into the sea, cling
ing to a bit of wood, there were men
all around me. Their spirit was
splendid. We shouted cheery mes
sages to one another.
"I was afloat in the sea four hours
and then the destrovers hove In
ttrht Numbers of men were near
me."
Fighting by submarines Is much
like an Indian ambuscade. The
submarines are Invisible except for
a small view piece or sometimes a
conning tower. A pipe for a look
out with the rays of light reflected
by mirrors shows the location of the
fleet about to bo attacked.
That enables the crew of the sub
marine to see, though under water.
Sugar In America.
A statement Just Issued by tho
Department of Agriculture, says the
United States has ability to produce
every pound of sugar consumed by
the American people.
The department announces there
are nineteen States which have
heen demonstrated to be well adapt
ed to the growing of sugar beets
Those States are California, Colo
rado, Michigan, Minnesota. Missou
ri. Montana. Nebraska, Nevada.
North Dakota, Ohio, youth Dakota,
Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming. These
States contain more than 2,000.000
farms and more than 278.000,000
acres of improved lands.
If one farmer In four of these
States.'' says the Agricultural De
partment bulletin, were to plant a
three-acre patch and give It the
caro that could readily be bestowed
upon so small a plat, it would be
unnecessary for us to buy foreign fl
"Two-thirds of 1 per cent of the il
improved land in this area ls all 'IH
that would be required to accom- illlal
plish this result. More than that
acreage lien Idle, absolutely unused, '
From thin it can be seen that BE
devoting the proposed ',030,000 iH
acres to sugar-beet production
would have an utterly insignificant fll
effect in reducing the acreage of BH
other crops. If they were grown In LaH
properly considered rotation with HsH
any of these crops, except cotton 1
and rice, the effect of the beets In
increasing the yield of the others Hfl
would much more than counterbal- BRI
ance the acreage taken from the HqI
latter." iHBH
The United States and Great Jjwjffi"
Britain are the chief sugar import- fiSHi
lng countries. Each takes from BMHi
foreign lands about 2.000,000 tons 8MB
of raw sugar a year Groat Britain HSG
has been buying from Europe. MH
chiefly from Germany and Austria, BHrTrr
about 1,500,000 tons of beet sugar. BpSw
the production of which in Europe BraSSI
last year was 7,235,000 tons, as fol- Elffiffi
Germany 2,738,000 Bwiail
Russia . . 1.750,000 Kcml
Austria-Hungary 1,710,000 IHEuI
Franco 800, 00C fraHs
Belgium 230.001 iP!
Bervia 7,000 wN?w
Total 7,235,000 W&fc
Opposing armies have fought for- ESm
ward and back across the principal H&jsS
sugar producing areas of both w,$y&
Franf e and Beleium at the time the
crop would be nearly ready for llfV'-?
gathering
In Germany sugar beets are Ik'"'-'
grown largely In Prussia, in Aus- ff V
trla chiefly In Hungary and Bo- 'fc'v'''
hernia- Sugar beets are cultivated W
in many parts of Russia, but very !HT
generally in Poland.
W hen war came Great Britain gYjSi-v
was quick to cover her food re
qulrements. She saw h,er usual
supply of beet sugar from fighting
Europe cut off. Immediately she P;,.'
jumppd Into the raw sugar market iBtE
and bought cane sugars from Cuba
and Java destined for the Americar l?'
markets. It Is estimated by Wlllett
a ;rak of Nw York that such In- ;
itlal purvhasrs of raw sugar by
Great Britain, taken and contracted
for, total 500,000 tons ud that she
will, within a year, take threo times
that much more raw sugar, buying
it in keen competition with the
United States.
To Build a House.
If you are going to build a new I
house or remoJel an old one any one
who ha been through the mill will I
adi ise you to be sure that you have
twice as much money as you think j.
you will need. This Is good but an- j
noving advice. H
A more hopeful word comes from i
a recent builder who for a year be-
fore her new house "as built kept a
scrap book of suggestions. Two
scrap books. In fact, one of notes
and one of picture. The book of
notes was divided into so many t
p ice? for each room For Instance,
there was the heading "Kitchen,"
and underneath was noted any prae
iiiat ri,. BttmeMi'A Ideas pertaining to
kitchens that the owner had ob- !
served, as:
"All shelves must be at. or below,
the level of the eyes, so that dust
cannot collect unnoticed."
"B lbi'ep mats used before the j
table and sink, are the easiest for
the
Then came "Pantry" with this .
suggestion:
"Back opening to refrigerator so
it may be filled from the porch."
"Window slides into the kitchen.'
Room was given space for notes
on decoration and Ideas. i
In the other scrapbook were kept j
Illustrations and photographs of
windows, doorways, furniture, cur
; Mil arrangements, staircases, gar-
dens anything that "k"1 prove
h. ! i . r 1 1 of the new house.
The result was that when the
honse finally ame to be built th
owner knew ekaotly when a cup
board was to be built, what kind she I
v nted, when the kitchen was d
signed she knew In every detail
what made for convenience. and
throughout the house there was
not a room to which her attention i
had not been given. I
Classical.
A voung couple were sitting in ij
the con' art cafe and listening atten
tlvely to the orchestra. "What's
that they're playing?" he asked
"Aren't you ashamed " she answered,
"not to recognize that' Why, that's '
Handel's Tango:"