Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-28

Ithls we Will make the Acdlterraneah
as safe as Lake Michigan
Turn every pound of freight west
ward to the Pacific coast. Send all
allied ships through the canal to the
ports of San Diego, Los Angeles, San
Francisco. Oakland, Portland, Tacoma,
Seattle and Vancouver.
Put the railroads in shape to han
die the traffic
stop the building of useless wood
en- ships. Put some of that appropria-
ton into freight cars and locomotives.
The former, we know, we can build by
the mile from green timber Then we
can go ahead with the sensible projec,
of steel ships.
Make provision for coaling at Maya
saki, Singapore, Colombo and Alden
Yes, the distance is longer, but the u
boat has proven to us that the longest
way around is the shortest way home
The consumer pays the freight. Eng
land will object, but not if she reasons
this method will save her from possible
hunger and defeat.
Japan will naturally furnish her
great merchant marine, and with no
future losses our steel plants can turn
their attention to munitions and guns
Freight can be landed in France and
trans-shipped across the country to
Calais, thence to Dover.
rs it not wiser to be absolutely sure
that you are going to deliver food to
England in 80 days than to have it
sunk?
Don't let the influence of eastern
owners of docking and lighterage in,
terests stand in the way of this plan
Discount the wild reports of Ger
man submarines capable of operating
in the Indian ocean.
Sixty miles of net, which can be
placed in 80 days will win the war;
On paper, the suggestion of Mr.. Van
derlip sounds we'll, and to one not
versed in navigation, it appears entire.
l.. practical. If, as he says, the points
named could be blocked, the Med
Iiterranean would then be made safe,
and safety at this time is one of the
things most to be desired That it
would require more time to send what
ever is to be sent to Europe by the
route suggested than across the At
lantic is not denied, but as Vanderlip
suggests, 'the uboat has proven to us
that the longest way round is the
shortest way home" and just at this
time the Allies heaviest losses are in
ships and cargoes sent to the bottom
by u-boats. If Germany can continue
to infict such staggering losses at sea,
whatever successes the Allies may win
OIL land cannot make their eventual
victory as complete as it should be in
order to insure the crushing of Prus
sianism forever. On the other hand,
Germany admits the u-boat is the last
card of the Central Powers; render
this menace impotent to infict appre
cable losses and Germany will then
b. compelled to accept such terms Of
peace as the Allies may be inclined to
propose.
Until the Allies are in either Vienna
or Berlin, or both these cities, as the
situation now appears, they will be
unable to impose such peace terms on
Germany as will be acceptable to the
democratic world, unless the u-boat
menace is wiped out, and it is going to
take great military pressure to carry
Allied troops into either of these capt.
tai cities. And every day the war con-
Itinues the cost mounts higher, having
already attained a staggering total that
will require years Of heavy taxation to
liquidate
Vanderlip's idea may be a dream. If
We remember rightly, Orville and Will