The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18
Ford Has a Little Terror
Which Would Make Junk
of DreadnOughts
SO DEADLY THAT IT
WOULD FORCE PEACE
viii Show His Device to Secretary
Daniels Next Week in Connection
with Meeting of the Naval Ad-
visory Board.

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 1S.-IIenry
Ford says he has a staggering blow for
the armament crowd stored up for de
livery when he hold conference with Sec
rotary of the Navy Daniels in Washing
ton next week in connection with business
of the naval advisory board.
1T would be no trick at all to build a
submarine one-fourth OF the size of those
now in use that could carry pill at the
end of a pole with sufficient explosive pow
er to hoist the mightiest dreadnought ever
built out of the sea, and | am going to tell
Secretary Daniels so when | see him."
said Mr. Ford.
These new submarines would cost only
a fraction Of what the present ones cost,
and only fraction Of ] per cent of what
our latest dreadnoughts viii cost" he add
ed. That viii be a heartbreaker for the
armament people, for they are constantly
urging US to build battleships that cost
more and more Dreadnoughts used to
cost few million dollars. In few years
they advanced TO 100000.
Submarines equipped with gasoline en-
gines for their entire motive power can be
made to weigh a quarter of what the pres
| ent ones do They can be made to be pro
PEELED and guided, not only from side to
side but up and down in the water, entire
| ~ by their own power. They can be made
TO swim around with as much freedom of
motion as a fish.
IF the public is sufficiently interested
IN such proposition, we might arrange
| to give demonstration of such a machine
at some time in the near future
''These submarines will Immediately
make our $4,000 battleships obso-
lete. There viii be no use in putting mil
lions in ships that can't stand up against
a terror of the deep that costs only a few
Thousand dollars With the explosives
that can be obtained the loss of life will
be 50 appalling the very terror of it will
be am influence for peace
behind the war cry for a bigger navy
all the time is the greed of the men who
sit back in their easy chairs and smile up
their sleeves as they see huge profits com
ing to them from wasted expenditures for
battleships and big guns These men TO
ment the war spirit, get the people to be
lievc huge sums of money must be spent
for national defense and We follow then
blindly, wasting our hard-earned money
Then some other country, seeing oul
armament grow, spends a lot Of money
trying TO keep up with us The Who'll,
thing is an extravagant farce and a sur,
cause of war, all for the benefit of tn,
t men who make the equipment"
Mr.. Ford took occasion to reprove tn,
Defense League, which has claimed he ha,
t sold thousands of cars for war purposes.
/ II have never sold car for war pur
poses and | never will, except for the de
+ Tense of the United States in case of inva
sion,' he said emphatically. "Some Ford
: have gone forward for use as ambulance
and there may be few of the cars use
/ in fighting, but they were not sold 70
q that purpose. Two weeks ago a warrin
r government tried to buy 100000 car
f from me- l refused even to answer thei
n message"