Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
VARIED WAYS IN WHICH MACHINERY FIGURES IN WAR.

JARED WAYS IN WHICH MACHINERY FIGURES IN WAR
Chairman James Hardness of the Vermont committee Of
safety uttered fareachng truth in the Of his adj
dress the university banquet Monday evening when
he said this is war Of machinery The same truth in differ
columns yesterday in connection with his taking
Of control of American exports He said: "A victorious
cuson of the war can come only by direction OF
Our Civil War had left the impression on this nation
that armed conflict is principally by fighting This
idea created despite the fact that Shermans march to
cut off the northern section from great and Gen.
ter Of supplies in Georgia and thus deprive the
early set out to starve England
ssa Te as tsg nI being by the d
conflict Some US were recently surprised to discover that
had been feeding and otherwise furnishing the Kaiser
land and other neutral countries stuff which later shipped
into The control Of American exports by Congress
ment put stop to the of country guaranty by
When turn to methods of actual fighting find that
the OF Mr. Hardness not only gurativey true put
organization of auto truck trans
ierea great army ana won the battle Of the Marine max
ali France and Of the anti: Kaiser World '' ''.' ''
We now know that the Kaisers forces under the Crown
reliance little dinky gauge railroad its only
of connection with the great world of anspora
ton that was speedily dsmanted by German fire when
Petan organized auto Communicating all avail
able auto vehicles Paris and the adjoining territory and
hurled into verun mass of and ammunition that saved
1d verdun and put hope and and faith into all
france was thus demonstrated that France could hold
Germany ITSELF and that though might be necessary
bleed white to do it. victory could in the end be won.
the aas a az and s
kinds OF munitions of France and Britain have demon
steam railroad just as Pershngs column in Mexico in small
er put no less conclusive taught this lesson Jore
Marine and Ven but the real winner those
tne humble automobile piece of machinery. The humble
carried CONSERVATION the Kasers and helped the
Germans.
The assertion of Mr.. Hartness that this machine
true also when turn to the field of aerial warfare We
realize how absolutely essential this machine to be
naval well as in all military operations on land
possible before the advent of the aeropane
and the lighter-than-ar dirigbe balloon.
The aeroplane has become indispensable artillery dues
for the of directing gun distances targets
that be by the The moment the enemy
changes position and forces aeropane you
become as blind man firing into darkness with know
edge whatever of the results of your discharges.
Retired Admiral Fske has shown that this made
war OF OH ad still greater degree BY utilizing A%er
This eminent strategst emphasizes fact that Berlin and
Vienna unlike London and other allied capital Cities are far
flights bases of operation The Kasers great fleet
OF bateshps and other craft from the nature of the
in the vicinity of the Ke canal and are therefore readily
cessibe to great fleet of aircraft He thinks that America
can 40 no more effective work than construct rapidly
fleet Of aeropanes to help destroy the Kasers bat
marked form of machinery.
We do not see this assertion exempied its highest de-
however, until turn to the field of naval warfare
The submarine is wonderful piece machinery and it is
owing entirely the ruthless of this intricate mechanism
the fact has @ ae
proud mistress of the
But for the machinery of the submarine the United
States in all human probability would be war;
anly not at this time Without the submarine Britain and
the other allies would have sohered the Bugarans the
Turks long this and Germany and Austria wholly
cut off from the The British feet of bateships would
have taken vigorous the along the Belgian coast
In fact the entire complexion of the situation would
been changed indeed certainty of defeat had led the
Kaiser to sue for peace long this time.
Even in most effective form have been reduced
to automatic machines firing with rapidity that the
imagination well the credulity of the uninated
coming the terror of those who have passed the initial degrees
OF land warfare Mr. Hardness this idea of
chine warfare carried to the extreme in the
der his supervision of machinery that makes the machines
hind the and that turns out shells and other
ton in prodgay the hand of could never hope
to match
If turn to the production of food upon which the win
ming this declared depend the analysis then
again are brought to full realization that food warfare
the world it would be utterly imposshe