New Britain herald., 1916-08-26

l perts will belong exclusively to the ] American navy.
 To Manufacture Projectiles. 1 Congress has also appropriated l SlO5,6 toward a projectile factory. l to cost double that sum, insuring an
 adequate supply of superior ammuni- 1 uon, not now Obtainable, at cost price | By obtaining competition $1,077,21O | was saved On a single contract for l proJectiles. A government factory | guarantee competition with private l manufacturers and te best quality of l prOjectiles.
 Every Yard Equipped to Build Ships. 1 The private shipbuilding yards have ! not the facilities to construct the large l program authorized. It was the prac- tlce, before the Wilson administra- l ton, to build no ship in any except
 two navy yards, and their facilities l were limited. The Wilson admini.,-
 traitor has equipped, or provision has | been made by the siXty-fourth con- gress to equip, every navy yard to l construct naval craft, and 1t will be 1 possible in the future to secure more | rapid construction of new ships for l the navy in both private and public | yards. The fact that the gOvernm ent
 can build in it's own yards will, in 1 normal times, insure competition in l building and secure prices more req l sOnahle than would be possible if 1t 1 depended almost entirely upon private Shlpb1uIdlng yards, as the republicans ] did.
 Best Aircraft Guns The ordnance experts of the depart
 ment have designed and completed | and placed on the latest dread
 naughts the best anti-aircraft gun in the world.
 Best Large Caliber Gun in the World They have also produced 8 large caliber gun that will shoot straighter, shoot farther and hit harder than any gun now in use in any foreign navy. Sixteen-inch guns are to be placed on the new dreadnaughtS. A portion of guns of various calibers are
 manufactured by the navy. Based
 upon former and current prices, we
 have saved $6S2, 2,555.21 upon guns we manufactur since Wilson's inaugur- atiOn.
 Mobilizing American Industry.
 The invaluable services, given with out compensation, of the nations foremost engineers and chemists have been obtained for the government in the organization of the naval consult ing board, of which Thomas A. Edison is chairman. Their counsel and CO., operation and initiative, not enlisted in the past, are now made readily available to aid in the solution of the many complicated problems always before the department. A committee of the consulting board has already completed the first census ever made of the country's industrial resources , for war. This information and the contemplated work of this committee in the new laboratory to be erected under recent legislation place the un- surpassed facilities of American in 1 dustry at the service of the country in the event of war. For the first time American industry has been mobilized. Industrial preparedness, never before attempted in this country, is not a promise of the Wilson administration | it is an accomplishme needing 1 only to De extended and more per 1 fectly organized.
 Best Naval Organization.
 The unavoidable organizations of | both the navy department and the | Atlantic fleet Gin which is centered the 1 
 have been supplanted by better ones. Without violating the American ideal of subordinating the military to the civil power, the fleet and the depart ment are now so organized as to eff feet the most successful operation i afoat and ashore. Writing of the | naval organization as it exists today, Admiral Dewey, in a letter to Chair man Padgett, of the house naval af- fairs committee, recently said the United States uavy has think the best general staff in the world
 War College Now Reaches the Fleet
 In no administration of the navy department has the training of ottl- cers or the preparation of the meet for battle been cared for so jealously and efficiently The naval war col lege, where high ranking ofhcers are taught and practice problems in the science of strategy and tactics, had, under republican rule, been permitted