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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-10-02
Hudson Maxim's
Interesting
War Prophecies
Allies Will Fight on
Without any Thought
of Compromise, for
Many Years Unless
Germany Can Invade
England and'Capture
London.
By Hudson Maxim,

The Noted Military Inventor and Author
TT we let the wish father the thought all oui
prophecies will be OF Immediate peace. II
we desire to comfort ourselves by our
thinking we shall let our minds dwell on only
what is pleasing.
II is not pleasing-it is very unpleasant. yea
horrible. to contemplate the possibility that
his great war can continue for many months
longer. But IL we guided by reason. un-
biased by sentimental considerations. we can
discern the truth more clearly.
There are three. and only three, eventualities
which may bring peace-frst that the Ger.
aans may be defeated; second. that the Allies
say be defeated; and. third. that the war may
I'D in a draw.
With due respect to all OF the opinions about
he various causes which led to the war. the
vents OF the past forty years teach us very
early that this war was Inevitable. That the
rmans prepared for It far better than the
flies is not to the discredit OF Germany, but
Germany's credit. That the Allies were
iiserably unprepared-that they did not fore
ee-that they did not listen to the wisdom of
ten like Lord Roberts to get ready for q life
nd death struggle. was a crime OF negligence.
The present great war, is a tragedy evolved
ut OF human destiny. The fact that II was
ot foreseen by the Allies twenty-five years
go is not because there have not been most
convincing indications during that period. but
because those indications have not been seen
and needed except by a more discerning few.
Germany had greater discernment, and her
preparations were correspondingiy greater.
The Anglo-Saxon people OF Britain. being the
most progressive and powerful became the
dominating people OF the world. and they con-
quered all of the little peoples and spread their
colonies round the earth.
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4. H. NJ Robinson was an officer In the
United States Navy for twenty-one years.
and for eight years was assistant to the Chief
Constructor Of the Navy and in charge Of the
Design and New Construction Division. He
supervised the design OF every United States
dreadnousht now In commission and Of most
OF those now building. and has probably had
more to do with the development OF the
American dreadnought than any other one
man. He has also designed many other sur
face ships for the United States. and is now
designing and constructing submarines az
the managing director OF a private corpora
ton. Among his noteworthy contributions
to the battleship is the present skeleton
mast. the vertical centre line turret arrange
ment now common to ell dreadnoughts, and
the double protective deck. Lieutenant Rob-
inson has probably had more to do with the
design OF the modern dreadnought of the
United States than any other one man, and
he speaks OF design with authority.
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MIR. Chesterton
Thinks Prussians
Are Like Turks
Comment Upon a Ger
man Prediction that
Cermany's New Chris
tianity "Will be Par
ticularly Attractive to
Heathens."

By q. X. Chesterton,

The Famous English EssayIst and MoraIIst.
A PROMINENT German journalist, In dis
~ cussing the future OF German religion.
especially with reference to German
missions. said that II would be impossible to
associate further with English Protestant mis-
sionaries after the war.
This was not only because the English mis-
sionaries would certainly be filled with malice
and Spite" but because German Christianity
Tin this writer's opinion) will be very differ.
ent from English Christianity" II will be. he
says. "a manly Christianity. and permeated
with the new German spirit" This. he adds.
will make It particularly attractive ito Moham-
medans and heathens."
II might De suggested that though manly
Christianity may be very suitable to Moham-
medans. II may not be SO suitable to Moham-
medans as Mohammedanism. II also might be
suggested that II Christianity needs to be
new" II does not need to be Christian In
Justice to the Turks It should also be said that
II they are rude as the Germans In war, they
are much more polite in peace. But the most
important point in the parallel is one from
which many seem to shrink. Mr.. Charles Bux-
ton. the distinguished writer and traveller who
was recently wounded by Turkish assassins on
account OF his great sympathies and services
for the Balkan peoples, has been interviewed
by the Christian Commonwealth, which gives
Il presume correctly his opinions on Q Dos
sible settlement with Germany.
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Speed and Long-Rangs
Guns Are Essential.

pace OF less than twenty-five knots an hour
win not take a warship away from q speedy
submarine. nor win Il permit escape from an
onrushing torpedo. A torpedo. a. compared
with a rife projectile, II a slow moving dan
ger. and II r. largely luck when II hits a swim
vessel do not limit the speed 20 twenty-five
knots-the speed must not Be less than that
figure. Tho faster the ship the less chance Il
has OF being lift. The average speed OF the
feet should be nearer thirty than twenty-five
knots
The information which We have derived from
the present war and the lessons Of the Russo
japanese war show the futility Of guns Of me
dunn calibre. The pre-dreadnouEhts had a
main battery Of big guns. an Intermediary bat
terry OF lighter guns, a secondary battery OF
yet lighter guns. and sometimes a tertiary bat
tery OF small rifles. The dreadnought and ta
succeasors are fitted with h main battery Of
very big runs and a secondary battery OF
LIGHTER guns: the intermediary and the tertiary
batteries ere omitted.
| am o. the opinion that the secondary bat.
terry 81 small guns should be retained. a. least
Tor the present. FOR torpedo defense but ths
power Of the ship should be concentrated IN
the main battery, which should have the farg-
ct calibre and longest range rifles that IL h
possible 20 produce. All the sea nRhfa have
been won by the ships With the blegest sups
therefore, the Runn 81 the new shipa should
have a calibre OF fifteen or sixteen inches. I
have selected a major battery Of eIaht rafhey
han twelve guns in order 10 reduce weight
since ships 10 not hEht AZ close quarters In
ihs'e daJs ~ sccnndary battery noof ootg
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A Ship That the Submarine
Cannot Sink.

Cannot Sink.
The hull Of the proposed ship viii not differ
IN general appearance from the ordinary hull
but its construction viii be on new lines.
The underwater armor will be inside and so
placed as 10 resist the attack of the explosion
upon the frame of the ship. This armor will
not save the ship harmless. but II will mini.
mise the destructive power of the torpedo
Since To torpedo will undoubtedly do some
damage. the n4stter of watertight compart-
ments Is most important.
The question OF the des.-n, size and CON.
struction OF the internal compartments of the
ship should be one OF major consideration ana
the number. location and character OF sucs
compartments should be most carefully thought
out
Auxiliary to the safety compartments win
be compressed air system. which can in.
stantly check the water in any opened com
partment on the principle OF the caisson. which
is 80 extensively used In bridge and tunnel
work An arrangement is easily made by
which the air may also be let into the com.
partments adjoining the damaged one. for 10
put the greatest pressure only in one com.
partment would be TO rack and strain the ship.
The sudden hlllng OF a compartment with
water may turn a ship on its beam ends ana a
balancing system II needed 20 admit water
INTO another equalizing compartment.
NfNt NufU ~ snip WHICH ~ not Immune
from submarine attacks. but which II is hard
for submarine 10 lift n fatal blow And N
badly hit the vessel should under ordinary
circumstances. be able 20 escape for repairs
Time vii bring many improved methods Of
oefeaung the might Of the submarine. but the
type OF vessel which ] have sketched repre-
sents vast advance over the dreadnought
and r. a type which might well be followed In
the future ships Of the United stateB-at least
until some one comes along with n better
design
Manifestly the surface ship Il ~ a disad.
vantage In resisting a submarine attack--it
cannot hit back and, therefore. the general
principle % risking damage % D shin 10 ftr.
Their the major operation OF the feet must BE-
modified. and proper ship ought 10 have the
speed and mobility 10 escape any sirhtod sub.
marine; the big NUMBERING dreaduourht can
not escape the submarine without ample warn.
Ing, u cannot get up and run on n seconds
notice. The dreadnought a deaiFned ana
equipped for the give and take sort OF warfare
and not 20 run aWey.
Take the super dreadnouFhts: these ships
are today over cir hundred feet IN length ana
the tonnage is around $4,000. They carry a
main battery Of fourteen 70 sixteen inch guns
distributed among four turrets. they afeo
have a great number Of smaller guns Of varf
Gus sizes. To protect The ships vitale from
nloiectilcg n band Of armor o. attached aionr
Wt Ps'' o. ne isuyih This srms- 10
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nave such guns as are required for the de-
structon OF merchantmen or small armed craft.
The modern battleship has a host of COM
Portable but not essential fittings, which make
Tor the comfort OF the officers and the crew.
but which do net add to the fighting power.
while they do add to the weight Of the hull.
would ut the new ships simply as posi-.
Bile. cutting down to the barest necessities, and
put the saved weight into the boilers -ud
engines-put IT into speed.
Since the torpedo is a more deadly enemy
than the projectile. much Of the present armor
may come on and the ship further lghtened.
II might be we'll to wholly abandon armor bat
on that point am not yet decided. Certainly
the armor must be limited to the protection OF
tne Vitals and the stability Of the ship; one
half OF the present weight should be enough
Tor these purposes. In any event, Il Is doubt
ful IL armor protects against a full blow from
a big she'll
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07

An official well acquainted with
state penal affairs informs the Star
that while he doubts that there was
any good reason to pardon Shorty
Davidson out of the penitentiary, he
doesn't think shorty is capable of
doing any more harm. He is about
all in. Kelly, the principal in the
Sellars murder, has repeatedly declar-
ed that Davidson had nothing TO do
with the crime. Kelly, however, could
hardly be considered a competent
witness. Certain it is that Shorty
Davidson was for years a leader in a
gang of bad men who terrorized High
Springs and vicinity. He was impli-
Gated in enough wrong doing TO keep
him in the pen for life and the par
doning board encouraged crime when
il turned him loose.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07
PEOPLE FROM PERRY
On their Way to Lakeland Will Pass
Through Ocala
Perry, Fla, Sept. 4, 1915.

Perry, Fla, Sept. 4, 1915.
Mr.. ]. d. Rooney, Secretary Marion
County Board of Trade, Ocala.
Dear Mr.. Rooney: Several autono-
biles filled with good roads enthus-
lasts will leave Perry about noon
Tuesday, September 7th, for Lake
land, to attend the quarterly meeting
of the Central Florida Highway As
sociation nthe 9th instant.
The party will pass through Ocala
about $50 or 9 o'clock Wednesday
morning, or perhaps drive there from
Gainesville for breakfast.
If any cars are going from Ocala,
and 1 presume there will be, we
would be glad to have them join our
party there. And if you have an op-
portunity to see some of your county
commissioners in the meantime, and
it is convenient for them to do so,
would be glad for them to meet US as
our commissioners will be in the
party and are anxious to learn some
thing of what Marion county is doing
in the way of road-building.
Hoping to see you in Ocala or Lake
land, l am, Yours truly,
E. L. Williams, Secretary,
Taylor County Board of Trade.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07
MEETING OF VETERANS

Marion Camp No. Sc, u. C. ", met
September 7th, with w. E. McGaha-
gin, commanding.
Prayer was delivered by Chaplain
Henry.
The following members answered to
roll call:
Alfred Aver, M. T. w. Christian,
d. HI. Irvine, II. N. Knoblock, NJ. p.
Frink, l.. M. Graham, A. R. Griffin, H.
w. Henry, T. d. Lancaster, w. E.
McGahagin, d. H. Norris, J. w.
Nance, C.. C.. Stephens, c. G. Priest, j.
P. Mathews, ]. l.. Beck, Col. ]. M.
Martin.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved. Comrade
Henry made a motion that the chair
appoint a committee of three to make
all necessary arrangements for the re-
ception and entertainment of the Vet
Grams next October. Comrades F. E.
Harris, j. t. Lancaster and Alfred
Aver were appointed with power to
appoint sub committees.
Col. Martin moved that Comrade
Aver be endorsed by the camp for
general of the Florida Division at the
next reunion and the motion was
carried unanimously.
No other business coming before
the camp it adjourned until it's next
regular meeting date.
Alfred Aver, Adjt.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07
PROF. THACKsToN ON PROPS

Gainesville Sun: DIR. Thackston of
the University of Florida, is on
crutches, and thereby hangs a tale.
He bought a Ford car, and after max
ing a trip in it to High Springs and
other nearby places he decided to take
his family to Leesburg for few days
recreation. Between this city and
Ocala the car skidded with him and
turned turtle. His knee was painfully
hurt and one of the bones in his
mother-in-law's arm was broken. His
many friends are glad that they es-
capped without further injury, and that
both the injured parties will soon be
recovered.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07

AS an argument against America
shipping munitions of war to the al
lies, the Germans have been making
much of the statement that during
the Spanish-American war a shipload
of arms from Germany to Spain was
held up by the German government
at the request of the American am
bassador. The matter has been in
vestigated and it has been found that
the American ambassador never made
any such request and that no ship
was held up.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07

gold or coal. do not know-but. any
way, il is a habit Of miners to follow
up a vein when they strike II, and 10
keep picking away at il until they
reach the end of IT. Having uncover
ed this vein OF waste and extrava-
gance in handling the business of the
counties. Mr.. Wood suffered a recru-
descence of his miners habit, and
will follow the vein and keep pickins
away at il until its possibilities for
producing results are exhausted He
will try to do in a special session of
the legislature what he failed to do
in the regular session, so as to get the
change from fees to salaries made be-
fore January 1st. 1917. which will
save the four years. and, according to
his figures. one million dollars.
Knowing that the power to call the
legislature in special session rests
ing that the gubernatorial mind is
not to be lightly moved by. the desires
of one man, or a dozen. Mr.. Wood has
undertaken to move it by getting an
expression from many people in all
parts of Florida. He will start about
che middle OF this month on a trip.
which he expects to take extending to
every village and hamlet in Florida.
He will carry with him figures show
ing the need OF this change. He will
i
ton requesting the governor to call
the legislature in special session. He
! will announce his errand in all ways
that are known to reach the people
1 He will talk to them. He will distrib-
ute pamphlets, and he will use as
much newspaper space as he can.
know of but one way to affect changes
in governmental affairs, and. having
given this subject much thought and
investigation during the past ten
years, l make bold to say that there
is but one way to affect any impor-
tant change in the way that the peo
pies business is conducted, and this
way is to arouse the people to do IL
themselves. Anyone who knows oi
any other way is invited to CORE
spond with me at my home address
Ortega, Florida, which is a suburb ol
Jacksonville.
The idea of going to the people with
a governmental idea is not new, but
it is so seldom done in this country
that this trip of Mr.. Wood will pre-
sent just enough of novelty to be at
tractive, and will carry with it the
idea of force and effectiveness sc
strongly that it will be impressive
and will risk my reputation as a DO
litical prophet, (for which / qualified
by myself, going to the people severa
!, times myself, in the prediction tha
Mr.. Wood will get so many Thousands
of signatures to the petition asking
the governor to call an extra session
that the governor will Recognize th'
voice of the people and will listen Il
it, and heed it, as all good governor
do.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07

On July q, says the Chicago Her
aid, President Wilson signed the last
note to Germany declaring that a rep
etition of the Lusitania tragedy would
be regarded as a deliberately un-
friendly act" On the same date he
wrote letters to Secretaries Daniels
and Garrison asking them to get the
best expert opinion as to the needs of
our national defense and submit a
definite program at once. The COIN
cidence of dates is no mere accident.
The letters to Secretaries Daniels and
Garrison were logical corollaries of
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07

1t seems that there were no Am
erican lives. lost in the sinking of the
Hesperian, and it is stated that she
carried a 4-inch rifle mounted, which
would justify German submarine in
torpedoing her without warning. We
don't think that anything will ever,
in the opinion of Americans, justify a
war vessel in sinking a passenger
vessel with women and children on
board without giving them a chance
to escape. Americans will always re-
gard such acts as cowardly and cruel.
A number of American merchant ves-
sells in our wars with the British and
French fought warships and some
times beat them off. When they were
taken, their crews were treated as
prisoners of war and their passen-
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07

Now comes the Giornale d'Italia,
the best informed of Italian papers,
and says: Having obtained authori-
tative information we are able to
state the pope sent to President Will
son no autograph letter, no message
concerning peace and not even the
original copy of the pontifcal letter
to the heads of the belligerent peo-
pies" This newspaper says further
that Washington reports that Car
dinal Gibbons presented to President
Wilson a letter from the pope are
open to doubt, especially in view of
the fact that the Osservatore Romano,
the organ of the vatican, suppressed
that portion of Washington dis
patches which related to the message
Cardinal Gibbons is said to have pre-
sented to the president.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07
THE WAR
INTO CARTHAGE
(Claude L'Engle)
Continued from Saturday,

After which the sheriffs, the
tax assessors, the clerks, the tax
collectors, the county judges and so
licitors, and justices of the peace
went home, each man determined TO
come back again if any such vicious"
piece of legislation ever turned up
again. Mr.. Wood listened to all on
this with polite attention-even with
some show of interest-but he went
right ahead and introduced his bill
just the same, because the more he
went into the thing the more deter
mined was he that the change from
fees to salaries was necessary, as an
act of justice to other office-holders,
and the oyer-burdened tax payers, as
well as to promote economy in hand
ling the business of the counties.
And, the county officials lobby
came and talked against that bill, and
the gentleman from Pinellas had it
out with them in committee meeting.
to say that county officials had no
more interest in the bill than any 9TH
er tax payer, because the bill would
not become effective until their terms
of office expired, and he suggested to
them that, as tax payers, they should
help instead of hinder the passage OF
| the measure that would save the tax
payers, of the different counties of the
state, many thousand dollars every
year in excess salaries paid for rea.
sonably good service performed
These thousands of dollars in each
county added together, Mr. Wood esti
mated, would make a total of a quar-
ter million a year over the whole
state. Mr.. Wood, being a banker. is
inclined to be the least bit conserva
tive. From my observation, / take
the liberty of disagreeing with him
as to the saving that may be affect
ed Counting the saving on criminal
prosecutions which would be made
when justices of the peace and coun
ty solicitors are paid salaries instead
lof fees, and the consequent saving il
| CAPChoCo AOA ehe
feeding prisoners, 1 figure that the
saving will be at least one hundred
thousand dollars per year more thar
his figures.
Well, the lobby was not very nu
merous or powerful, but like Murou
ties wound, cit served" to proven
the bill being called up out OF it's reg
ular order, and this amounted to tn,
same thing as killing the bill, becaus,
of the congested condition of tn,
house calendar, where It died aloni
with many other good bills.
When the county officials lobb,
went home, they passed the worr
around among the court house boy
that everything was safe for six years
because before the legislature of 191
met, all those extra highly paid couI
ty officials would have started a neN
term of office. the emoluments O
which could not be affected by an
bill that would be passed during thei
four years term.
But it seems that those county o.
ficials reckoned without the man fror
, Pinellas. Before he became a banke
Mr.. Wood was a miner-whether @
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07

The following from the Fatherland
is a specimen of the sort of stuff
doped out by the pro-German press in
this country: Germany invades Bel
gium. Our press goes into virtuous
spasms. The United States invades
the small and independent republic of
Hayti. We wildly applaud this gross
breach of neutrality. Germany has
not taken formal possession of Bel
gium. President Wilson, however,
has declared his intention to force an
American proteetorate upon Hayti-
that American Belgium"
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07
NEW SETTLER AT ANTHONY

Mr.. w. B. Thorn, recently from near
Pittsburg, Pa, has bought the f. A.
Ellison forty-acre farm at Anthony
and will become a citizen of that
thriving farming section. Mr.. Thorn
will move his family here and ship
his household goods in a few weeks.
He tried the Eustis section and Alach-
ua county, but liked this part of Mar
ion best of all. He will be a neigh
Dor to Mr.. A r. Griffin.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07

The announcement of the German
government that the submarines will
respect the laws of warfare leaves
the pro-German press in this country
in a vacuum, so to speak. Only few
days ago, the said pro-German press
declared Germany couldn't make such
a promise, and it was immoral OF our
government to ask it. Bernstorf
seems to have kicked the props from
under those two highly esteemed
friends of his emperor, Herr Ridder
and Herr Viereck
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07

President Wilson announces that a
program of preparedness for national
defense will be presented to Congress.
It will be the duty of all patriotic
congressman to support it, but it is
bound to have considerable opposition,
and the Star is afraid that good
deal of that opposition will come from
democrats. Which, of course, will
just exactly suit the republicans.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-07

gers were not abused. 1t mas been left
to Germany among nations to inaug-
urate the savagery of sinking a ship
without giving non-combatants a fair
know, not even the much abused
Turks have been guilty of such war
fare.