Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-07

theorists and the admirals and cap
tains closer and more practical
The game board" Is just what It's
name sgnifios-a huge board ON
which the game OF destruction is
played by men trained TO the arts OF
death
The United States navy is repre-
sented by miniature ships Of a certain
color. The ships of an enemy are
designed by another color. They are
moved around Ike chess men, but the
elements Of mathematical calculation,
Of unerring accuracy ot naval
strategy enter into every movement
one tactical mistake may destroy the
miniature United states fleet TO err
on the game board is serious business
for IL means that the man il
charge might do the same Wero he
engaged In a life and death struggle.
Use Actual Practice.
Then make the board play more
realistic, the intricate problems sug-
gosted by the board are transferred
to commanders Of the big dread
noughts. There these ideas are put
into actual practice when mancuycrs
are possible.
Problems suggested by the naval
encounters Of the European war have
been transferred to the game board
so that Americas Htrategists may
benefit from the spectacular feats Of
British and German vessels alike
And the army, too, works out man
euVers along the same line. Both Of
the military colleges develop officers
I'm all the tricks Of the trade For
instance, these colleges have de
Veloped--in theory at least-that i
battle fleet from Europe might ap-
proach Americas shores, halt at a
distance of fully 500 miles from New
York and then send out over the
waves an aircraft loaded with bombs
to drop on Americas metropolis
In these colleges officers Of both
services are given the benefit OF Il
world training In strategy. They are
taught to go TO the other fellow one
better. And the training is inValu-
able, officials contend. Rear Admiral
Fiske is authority for the statement
sponsible for the remarkable escape
Of the German vessels from l&iao
Chau and their subsequent sally into
Chilean waters where they saHh two
vessels larger than themselves.
Result of Strategy.
Such an escape he fully believes,
was developed by the wonderful
strategists war planners Of the
German empire-long before the war
broke out Then, too, he believes
that superior skill was responsible
for the German victory against two
larger Vessels-a feat unparalleled in
naval annals.
And America has taken leaf from
Germanys book. She has laid her
plans carefully and thoroughly and
if war comes no move can be made
by an enemy which is not already an
ticipated in those secret papers that
repose under lock and key in the gray
granite building Of the war and navy
branches.
Apropos of the discussion Of ma
tional security, much comment has
been aroused by the proposal to shut
off expectation Of privately manu-
featured munition of war after 1920.
A bill introduced by Representative
Crosser of Ohio proposes such a
move. If il is enacted into law,
America can have the assurance
that made in America" instruments
Of death will never be turned against
this nation. Crosser likewise pro-
poses that the government eXend its
activities TO manufacture of its own
ammunition. That the government
has been "gOuged" in times past by
manufacturers of certain lines is the
very plain intimation of Secretary
Daniels, who himself stands for such
government ownership.