The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-20
SUBMARINE POT ENT
 FACTOR FOR PEACE
Slnnon Lakes Interesting Lecture Al
 First Methodist Church


 the submarine is great force for oeaee Mr. Lake said that the great potency of the underwater fighting sraft in ting the ordinary type warahzp, has rendered dreadnaughts and superdreadnaughts of little value. and has gone long way towards in Huencing the nations of the world to peeh other means of adjustment of heir differences than warfare.
 Rdr. Lake said, in part
 General Sherman said, War is HelL' If that iS true, any instrument garsand make the contest one7sided will tend to stop war
 seThe fear of q Purgatory and a. He'll has acted as a check and hsn kept countless millions of people in Inc so-called straight and narrow poth,s when reason. laws. or brother love wo11d have failed. All wars laaxe been brought about by human seafishneas conceft, pride or greed.
 :fThe day Of the Millennium ap- pears at the present time to be in the slzaa and distant future Those who love peace and believe in the divine ducerd1ls Of .live and let hves or do urfo others as you would have others do unto you have little hope of see- ing Eheir wishes consuznu1a<ed as long aA they are opposed by the doctrine that might is right or so-cailed Vanfanizm which is being falsely irlter pretsd by so1cal1ed cultured pro4 geescrp to mean DO others before they do you and do it to them first.
 believe what Darwin had in mind Sir FaIs survival Of the httest' principle vFas that those who lived the cieanest; heSzez1est sfxup4est and most progres- sf1e lives were those who were the nttest to slarvsve: if this is not so our boesEsd clS1iiza8ion Of tare 10th cen tm7-v falls to the ground
 szE zbelfeve in the advancement or sslx1lzakaon and the ultinlte arrival cf kla6 I61l1ennium. aIthou gh 1t may hn I1BnMds of yeaxs hence
 nit the present time the peoples of fhssearsth have not learned to live ac- c6EaAng to divine coEnmaOl-
 sTInon the command of a. King OF 1z1fnsSArte or at the dfctation Of a. Erosn o9 aparfr1o1g nnanci CTS, or be- eas1ss oT the desir to gain doninion. pxa0a In it's conceltB as to the best ae4hnd Of a<<azn7ng Paradise one na- tauna afknck another. and, in its akness descends to levels beneath tha beRata of the forest when man asaEla his own kind, something no wild er, the first demand of nature.
 Ta ref0re, wars are bound to con- aan1e as long as human passions exist, N1n7zss soience can find some way tc eeop wars by deVsszng mans whereby szaallar, poorer nations may defend thnznmefves asaAnat the stronger ne- ffona1 buI1ias with fleets of Dread- nazagz1ts, great armies. and great hnan- cial resources.
 A means that would be incapable sof being used to invade an other coun- txy. yet at the same time wou1d be capab1e Of besng used tQ prevent an as1on Of it's home country would
 
 lastznlfS paAcaz do not think this pronOHatIon can be denied therefor I cuntend that tho N1hnnarfrle boat will prove the most potent inst nent that has ever been devised. because it has czNabal1ty to enforce peAcs
 ssTqaa s1huhax1ne Don't Is the first
 aapnn that has ever been invented,
 frs< Ih4ch 1t is i1nposs 5ble to pro- vzds a means to meet it on equal or ea-eQnaz terms From the days Of tze dngUut down to Che Dreadnaught, dqk1&aatB at sea hRve been going ons tls crude. raxt -zllEe e vessels gave place ffo the many-oaxed tr1relnes of the Rnxnans which were succeeded by the <sltzlnE shtpss these were in turn su- pemceded by steam driven vessels and ftzae iron clad: and one type of from EolzEd has succeeded another. each izger in size with larger guns and lzeav1er armament
 Each nation constantly strives to dtdo the other in the desire to rule tho ssas' or because of the fear that it vsIll. in it's turn, be inynded and cease to be free and Independent nation.
 I'm the evolution or this rnigIaty struggle for the mastery of the seas we have evolved the great Dread. uaa6hts, the 1atest type of which car rtes a population equal to a good alsed country town and guns that vii +-S E-w Ne The Dreaduaught costs 15 millions oi dollars. Were 1t not for the success or the little 1oW-pdced submarines the rivalry would have continued te the extent Of building even larger DreadnaugIfs. know of Dread. en consideration by naval officers; g aaIper Ddradnaught Int Of 9S0 feet if length beam 94.6 feet, draft 32 xeee ATpp placeanent 47, ,250e tons, with speed Of 7e to 8 3 knots and costirir @1os sboo. 900. Consequently, were i not for the sulbnarine the big war, ship expenses would have continued to creep up ana up at the expense 0: the already oxer-taxed people and ths victory would have come probably te the nation with the greaeeet hi1ancfa x strength
 GEe InultIplylug. such ass the aero plane and dirigfbIe- hIr John P. HoI land. years ago. called attention t, the fact that Submarines cannot hgh submarines because they cannot SC, 2 each other. It is this simple fact tha.
 makes ssf0xnarines so potent that the, will be able to enforce peace betwee1 maritime nations
 T ask any one to tell me, if the. can. how they can ward off an attacl from the unseen Dreadnaug1ts ma. be pitted against Dreadnau ghts. aero planes against dirigIbles, gun agains gun. man against man., because O sight. Take away sight and all be comes chaos; hence, the superiorft, Of the elzbxaaTfne because human wis ion IS Incapable of penetratinl fszrsl.ala ffze 1Eater axnepf for a dis