The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-04-05
Secretly Planning Devices to
Help Army and Navy in
Event of War.
THEIR SERVICES GIVEN FREE
Government Is Asked to Suggest What
Is Needed in the Different Branch
es of the Service-Give Time
and Money.

new 1ork.-Slnce January 34O |
members of the Association of Practi- /
cal Inventors of America have been !
working secretly on inventions to aid |
the army and navy in the event of |
war with Germany, according to Tim |
othy d. Gleason, president of the new
organization. When perfected the in I
ventions will be offered free to the /
government.
Mr.. Gleason, who resides at No. SIP |
West Fifty-third street, where meet |
ings are held every Thursday evening, !
said he had written to the secretary |
of the navy and secretary of war ask
ing them what is most needed if war /
should come.
I'VE are all mechanics" said Mr.. |
Gleason. land feel able TO assist our |
army and navy in a substantial way if |
the nation goes to war with the Prus- |
SLAMS. OF course we could so ahead |
and perfect several inventions. but /
they might conflict with those already |
in contemplation by the government. |
For that reason we have deemed it |
advisable to consult Mr.. Daniels and |
Mr.. Baker before we proceed in a gen. /
eral way. We have few under way
that we are confident are not being I
worked on by government forces and /
we are ready to submit these when /
called upon to do so.
Could Have Saved the IA.
Take the submarine, for instance. /
The F-4 went down in Honolulu and /
everyone on board lost his life. We
are confident this was all unnecessary
Prussian submarine met with an ac- I
cident last year and sank to depth (
of two hundred and forty feet, yet
only a single life was lost in the thir- |
ty-Six hours it was submerged. Thirty |
four men comprised that crew. Sup
pose, for instance, an inflated tank |
with telephone wires and pipes at /
tached could be released by a subma- |
rine in case of accident and foated |
to the surface, a whistle sounding an |
alarm, do you think lives would be
lost? A simple invention of that ma |
ture will give you an idea what we
are contemplating.
when practical inventors heard |
about the accomplishments of the
Deutschland they wondered and a bat |
tie of inventive ideas followed. The
American inventor has no superior, /
and the people of this nation may
rest well assured that their interests
will be guarded in proper fashion il
time of international conflict. We
take our hats off to no foreign inven-
frx- i.
we are not boasting. Inventors have
been called soldiers of peace, but their
position will be well defined if war
comes. We already have established
a fund.
But the time to act is now. Pre-
paredneSs must be more than q mere
Pigment of the mind. We ask the army
and navy to lay out our work for US
and we will donate our time and
money. We are all loyal Americans,
and to join our association man
must be a loyal American and a prac-
teal inventor.
Training Station Urged.
Several days ago | sent letter to
Mayor Mitchell and Governor Whitman
dNlf 1S1llS tuClU Ol ii IGSOlulIon auCDIeQ
by our association at d recent meet
ing. We asked them to set aside the
filled in land from the railroad tracks
to the Hudson river between Eighty
first and One Hundred and Twenty
seventh streets for use as a military
and naval training station for the
young men of this city. [ received
replies from them, saying the resolu-
ton would be given consideration.
Statistics will show that II per
cent Of the Colonial troops, 63 per cent
of the enlisted men of the Civil war,
81 per cent of the Spanish-American
war troops and 81 per cent of the en-
listed men during the border disturb
ance were under twenty-one years old. f
This shows the ACCESSIBILITY, if not alb
solute necessity, of training our young
men - even boys that the grand
reputation of our state militia might
be sustained