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New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
Dust Denman from Ship Board,
Is Advice Of Bernard N. Baker

mpracticability Of the wooden ship
programme. II is slower than the pro-
gramme for steel ships. 1t has been so
long since wooden ships were in gem
eral use that it is impossible TO get
men who know how 70 build them.
Men will not learn, because when the
war is over there will be no occupation
for them. Steel is being used now
even in the construction of coastwise
ships and barges. Seasoned lumber Is
necessary for the building of wooden
ships, and it is impossible TO get in the
quantities needed for the programme
mapped out by the United States.
"Steel ships can be built very much
more rapidly. but ships made partly Of
steel and partly of wood can be built
still faster. Steel can be put where
the strain is greatest. The important
thing is that five months have passed
since the Shipping Board was appoint
ed, and il has not yet adopted a policy.
IL is true that it has let contracts for
some ships. but 10 should have very
much larger number under construction
than il has. IL should be working now
az its highest efficiency TO support the
aims Of the United Staes in the war.
1t is not doing that"
Couldn't Work with Denman
"Did you expect 70 be appointed
chairman of the Shipping Board when
it was organized" Mr.. Baker was
asked.
NO he answered; 81 expected Cap
tain John A. Donald now a member
of the board. to be named. | resigned
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
Three New Chinese
Ministers Appointed

Washington, July is.-Reconstruc-
ton of the republican government Of
China following the futile attempt to
restore the Manchu monarchy was re-
ported in dispatches to the Chinese
Legation here from Peking to-day as
progressing rapidly.
Wang Ia Shih, formerly secretary Of
the legation here and Minister TO Great
Britain and Japan, has assumed the
Office OF Foreign Secretary, and Ad-
miral Liu Kwang Hsung, for three
years Minister Of the Navy under Yuan
Shih-kai, has accepted a similar post
with the new government. Tuan Chi
Jul. the Premier, has also assumed the
portfolio Of Minister Of War.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
Troops May Back
Catalonia Protest
Members of Parliament to
Hold Barcelona Meeting and
Demand Autonomy

Madrid. July 16.-Barcelona. news
papers publish note saying that tne
assembly of members Of the 0orte'
from Catalonia will be held on hursi
that the organizers of the movement
count on the support Of large part
OF the army. l..
Various defence committees, on inc
other hand. have held meetings 70 pro
test against any such manifestation
Il is asserted the army will remain
aloof from politics and obey the gov
eminent
Sixty Casalonian Senators and Depu-
ties asked the Spanish government re-
Gently for administrative autonomy
for all provinces. and decided 70 can
meeting of members of the Cortes IN
Barcelona unless the government sum
moned that body, The government de-
clind to convene it,
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
u. S. Navy Should
Find the Cure

There are some naval officers here
who would deal with this as a matter
in which Washington waits upon White
hall. | submit this is altogether ,hc
wrong argument By all means frd
out what Whitehall knows, get all the
symptoms. examine the reports of all
the treatments that have been tried;
but the American navy should make its
own diagnosis and PROFOUND its own
cure regardless of British experiences.
It's the urgency Of this tremendously
difficult task that makes the headslhp
Of the American navy-whether 1t Is
held bv one nan or By many-by all
odds the most important military office
in the world to-day. For it is on tte
rightness of the American naval policy
on the swiftness and courage with
which decisions are made, on the scale
and inventiveness with which expert
ments are pushed forward. that the at
tainment Of victory and escape from
defeat depend. If the greatest mill
tary genius of the past were alive ana
ready to take service with the Allies
to-day. il is this job and no other tna'
would be assigned to him. 1t is, then
to the chief Of the American navy that
the American people should give their
completest confidence and a blank
check on the nations resources IN
wealth. industrial capacity and in brain
mower.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
Sak5
Broadway at 34th Street

because | couldn't work with Mr.. Den
man"
Would you accept the chairmsnship
now ,"
81 have offered my services in build
ing this fleet in any capacity, withou.
any remuneration" said Mr. Baker
Mr.. Baker thinks that other mem
bers of the board are hardly better in
formed on shipbuilding than Mr.. Den
man. The other members are J. b.
White, of Kansas City. long engaged In
the lumber business; Theodore Brent,
who was in charge of the traffic bureau
Of the Cotton Exchange in New Orleans
when appointed, and ex-Congressman
William d. Stevens. OF New Hamp-
shire.
"Mr. Stevens once told me that he
knew all about ships because he had
been seeing a ship on the coat Of arms
Of New Hampshire all his life," said
Mr. Baker.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
japan Posts Enemy
Trading Blacklist
Toxic Expects to Lose Little
Business by Enforcing
New Act

Washington. July 16.-Japan has
razetted her trading with the enemy sniiI
sct and blacklists under 1t, which VIII
bo augmented. according TO statement
sutborized by the Japanese Depart
r,ent Of Commerce and Agriculture: un- i
nj it covers practically all parts OF the
In the opinion Of the Toxic govern govern.
,,cnt the loss Of trade for Japan
through enforcement OF the act CIV; VIII be be
,nsigni6cant. The importation OIL
Gods nroduced By enemy countries or
ESood1eg EooGi bv their subjects already had had
hoen rcduced> 10 the smallest possioie
Voume The export Of ,t,d"gS Jap"ISs'9 1tStTa sGGai
countries also had been reduced TO 3"
minimum. 49,. ;,,,or, of only
worth .,S of GeT@an aoan.fes FSGa' tRs Rs
SrP1%i S1rPncipM goods thus imported beng
PPyestafs, Pr,rGf machinery and woollen lab
rlcg
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
Case for High
Naval Command

And ships, weapons and methods will
be useless unless the crews are skilled
and disciplined, and crews like these
cannot be possessed unless there are
officers Of high professional accom-
plishment and with a genius for leader
ship, who will turn enlisted men into
perfected units in a fighting force and
get the right work out Of them when
lighting comes. And, finally, you can
never possess in war the best sort Of
ships, weapons. methods, crews, Off
GERS and battle leaders unless they
have been created in peace time and
are directed in war time by higher
command that knows its business. And
by higher command | mean the con-
trolling organization. 1t is the Board
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
sn.thing Must
sDone Soon

view Of these two exceedingly un-
,a,sn, truths something has TO be
90 We cannot sit still and wait
!. he inevitable catastrophe. What
,e-lar predicaments in private life
~. course that sensible people take ?
Ts,a case Of illness is obstinate and
ns.a certain group OF doctors and
ur,ors we do not fall in with the
~ that nothing can he done. but
i c,hers into consultation. We 20
v-e one who may be able 70 sug-
.ransw treatment and. if necessary,
u,-hsrk frankly on experiment, sim
,7,s,ause We know that unless we are
.,.,rsane. even 20 the length OF be-
err revolutionary. the situation
r-n desperate. Now. in the case Of
Z, us-arine, we have seen, in our
ns,i article, that all the things which
1--we has tried we can extend with
l,sacan help. We can get more
-,a and perhaps better mines, more
T.. perhaps better guns; we may get
-,aTst methods OF underwater hear
z and other scientific ideas which
" chsnee the efficiency Of measures
tess sort tha, We already used.
Tsaa add, that is 20 say, but not very
ra.T nor as quickly as we should
lex Z cur patrolling forces, our con-
7'T,g forces. our above-water and IN
;'.VI,r weapons and 20 the means
q i;sts:ive detection But there is
,';;ag IN the present situation 20
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
Fighting Men Must
Solve Problem

In the last resort all war problems
are fighting problems. They can be
dealt with only by fighting men and
in a fighting spirit. The pundits and
the professors can help, indeed give
invaluable help, but it is not until
their discoveries are handed over in
working shape TO the seamen that the
real work begins. II is the seamen
that have to find the way Of doing 1t,
and up 10 now 1t Is virtually the Brit
ish seamen only who have tried their
hand at the game. The Admiralty a.
Whitehall and the officers Of the Royal
Navy ahost have done an enormous
amount. Unquestionably, they have
done their best, but, as We have seen,
they have not done enough. They are not
TO be blamed or criticised that this is
so. But the less they are open TO criti-
cism the more necessary il is that new
advisers should be called in. What we
want, then. much more than inventions,
or more ships, or more material, is new
men and unprejudicad brains.
Sea power consists Of ships, weapons,
methods of using the ships and wea-
pons. trained crews, officers to COM
mand and lead them in war, and a
supreme higher command, a supreme
authority that directs the operation of
the whole. have put these in the
inverse order Of their importance. for
clearly ships are of less Importance than
the weapons they carry, and the wea-
pons no less important than the methods
which alone can make them effective.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
By ARTHUR II. POLLEN

show that mere conveys or mere i'm
provements can solve the problem.
There are, in truth, too many problems
for any simple remedy to suffice. The
submarine can be employed in a vast
variety of ways; it calls, therefore, for
an almost equal variety Of antidotes.
No single new invention, then. how
ever startling and complete it may
seem to be, will meet the case, and all
this is only another way OF saying that
We are faced, not by a scientific, not
by an engineering, not by an industrial
problem, but by a series of new and
incompletely studied phases Of naval
war.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17

OF Admiralty at London, or the Navy
Department at Washington. It is a
surprise to most people to learn that
the most vital factor in naval war is
not the navy at sea, but the naval
command on shore. Yet it is obvious
and elementary truth.
1t looks, then. as If our examination
Of this subject has brought US to the
following conclusion: II we are to be
sure Of inficting military defeat on
Germany we must first conquer the
submarine Conquering the submarine
is an operation the right form Of which
has not yet been ascertained. 1t may
be unattainable. If so, we must hope
to beat Germany on land before our sea
supplies give out. But if it is attain
able, it can be found only by compe-
tent naval chief command. II is a case
in which one wishes TO call in new ad-
vice. and it is to the American navy
only that we can look for such new sd-
vice. Can the American navy tackle
this problem and make it its own?
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
Year Is Required

And with regard to the big pro-
gramme Of 2.5o0,000 tons Of fabricated
steel ships. ways still have 10 be built
Their building alone, the general says,
will take six months. Probably 100
such ways will be built. A year from
now they will be delivering 100 ships
every four or five months.
4 year from now we shall begin 70
get ships on a considerable scale. In
the meantime General Gocthals will be
expeditlng tire commaldeered ships on
the existing ways. There are 100000
tons of such ships building or under
contract. Probably half Of these would
have been finished in a year in any
event If General Gcethals by expedIt-
ing the work adds 100000 tons 10 his
he will have done well, and added
10000 70 shipping that will be ready
in the next twelve months
The general has accomplished a big
work in organizing all this construc-
ton ana in providing for clearing ex-
isting WAYS by speeding up processes.
He has brought ord.r out Of chaos, for
the Shipping Board, till he came. had
neither plans nor executive ability 20
cary them out. But the question Is
Wnetner N DululNE loI Lut ldL EHt
future he has not lost sight Cf the
existing emergency. He has been eX-
ceedingly critical Of ship designs, in
sisting on lasting seaworthiness. while
the real need is not ships that will take
care of Americas commercial future,
but ships that will be ready in a few
months to carry our men to France and
feed them there.
Are such quick ships myth as
General GoethIls says? Or. are they
possibility upon which work ought 10
have been begun two or three months
ago. as the wooden ship advocates as
sert? 70 one really knows. On each
side YOU have the opinion of men who
do not know what they are talking
about.
What Shipping Board Could Do
II the Shipping Board wanted ships
instead of a weapon TO club Goethals
over the head they would call together
the best shipping experts in the coun-
try and get their opinion on the pres
ent Hough design, the quick-ship de-
sign.
This design is the basis Of the con-
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17

-. 1917. b. The Trsg-, Associiuo1l
-gr two preceding articles have es-
finished the following two propo-
=. First. If the German submarine
- il, maintained 1t its present
s,-5 the shipping Of the world,
=. every ton that can be built, will
.,sseed BY February, 1919, 10 less
,b-es-four.hs and only just over
.,irss OF its present amount. As
ouestion whether after such a
.,,io5 the Allies can continue the
whether America can intervene
-. is certain that the tonnage
-. 20 far below this point and
England. France. Russia and
With sufficient supplies for carry
the campaign, It is clear that
=. and America may be compelled
-. -...-,-omise. for the simple, but suf-
=, reason that the communications
4, forces in France will virtually
.,, been severed.
...,,slv. We saw that such measures
arm merchant ships, 70 improve
-, aotation, to patrol the danger
md 70 convoy ships over it, added
n the present means Of blocking
!. submarines progress by nets and
..y. Of hunting it down by aircraft
= s,s,royers, while mitigating the
-,,res hold out no promise Of solv-
I, The problem that faces US. We
-. besn compelled to say that the
~s..ubnarins campaign, though it has
..i.5 Of disaster, has failed in its
=, impose. It has not brought and
-, 70. seem likely 10 bring the tale
l1,sss 20 negligible proportions.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
Miners Strike in Silesia
and Rhine Coal Fields

Copenhagen. July l6.-EH'ens'Ve
IL. are reported 10 be in progress
~ siIcsian and Rhine coal aeld5
Of Germany. ,A, too5
..it,ictions and objections TO tie la
bor service Law.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
Wooden Ship Issue

The only criticism that can be made
Of the general is that he has not
availed himself Of the possibility Of
quick wooden ships. The general says
that quick wooden ships are "a myth"
Shipping Board agents say that quick
wooden ships can be had in large
numbers. The general says it takes
eight months 10 build a wooden ship
His critics say that wooden ships can
be built in sixty days.
II is a sharp issue. And it is Of
vital Importance TO this country 10
know whether it is losing an oppor-
tunity TO turn out a big fleet begin
ming six months from now of vessels
that will occupy the ways only sixty
days.
In six months General Goethals will
be adding practically no new ships %
this country's supply except those that
are already on the ways and are 10 be
commandeered The special govern
ment construction programme, ir all
dition to ships already under contract
10 private builders and foreign powers.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
Both Sides Patted on the Back

BON Sl0es fdtteu on lnc bdCh
Nor did IN. order itself do what it
purported 70 do. Along with it went
a private letter TO General Goethals
assuring him that. though the power
to spend the three-quarters Of bill
ion for ships was placed in the hands
Of a corporation controlled by Mr..
Denman. General Goethals was not to
be "hampered" in his work. And there
was another private letter to Mr.. Dem
mani
The effect OF these two letters ia de-
scribed By one who is familiar with
the situation as making each one Of
these protagonists feel that he had
the world by the tail feathers"
The fight is going on. No proper
organization will exist until one or
both of the fighters have been elimi-
mated. The President is said TO have
avoided the issue for political reasons.
After the food bill has passed the
President is expected 10 settle tho con-
troversy If in the meantime Mr. Den
man and General Goethals have not
fought It out 70 a conclusion. The
President does not want this question
precipitated into Congress while the
highly delicate subject Of food control
is pending.
The line OF attack upon General
Goethals by the Shipping Board will
probably be that he is not providing
ships as rapidly as he should. In pur-
suance Of this idea Mr.. Denman has
asked his general manager Of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation for de-
tails as to when the ships provided
for in his public programme will be
in the water. This information soon
will be forthcoming.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
Only a Test Of Plans Will
Settle ShipbuiIding Fight
By c. w. GILBERT

now 70 be commandeercd, viii yield
little in the way OF additional tonnage
inside Of year. The burden Of the
quick-ship advocates complaint is tha,
1t should be producing ships in six
months and one new ship for each
set Of WAYS every sixty days thereafter,
instead of few ships for a year and
only one new ship for each ways every
I've months thereafter, as the steel pro-
gramme provides.
II is only necessary 10 examine the
situation TO see that very little OF the
new shipping in addition 70 that already
on the ways and 70 be commandeered
VIII be ready in a year. General Goe-
| thals said IN his statement that he had
let contracts for 34S wooden ships. with
tonnage capacity of l.2lS,0 900 tons
These are not quick wooden ships Of
simple design.
Simple Design Rejected
General Goethals rejects the simple
design. He told ne that the best time
of construction he could get for a
wooden ship was eight months. But
very few ways exist for building wood
en- ships of the size demanded for
ocean service. Ways will have 20 be
| constructed for these wooden ships.
| The least estimate Of time for the con-
struction of ways is four months. So
| that the lowest estimate OF time for
building ways, four months. and the
best bid General Goethals could get,
| eight months, for construction, make
year.
Some OF these contracts have been
| let for a month or two. But 1t is also
| going 10 take more than four months
70 build ways in some cases, and the
contract time in most cases. apparent
~. is more than eight months. We
shall only be beginning to get this
1,2l6,000 tons OF wooden shipping a
| year from now.
Let US take steel. Contracts have
| been let for seventy-seven steel ships,
with a tonnage Of 642 500. Some of
these contracts have been let TO con-
| tractors who haven't even a shipyard.
In general, ways will have 20 be built for
most Of these ships, the existing ways
| being full and having contracts wait
| ing. II takes, the general told me, six
months 10 build ways for steel ships.
Il takes five or six months 20 build
ships after the ways are done.
The generals best contract calls for
FIVE months for construction. SO that
in about a year these steel ships will
| begin 20 come in, not all at once, but
where a concern has contracted for
, several ships one will be ready for de-
/ livery from each ways IL about a year,
and the ways will be cleared for work
on the rest Of the contract. with de-
lsliveries at intervals of about five
months.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17

Washington, July l6-The ship
building situation deserves analysis.
Mr.. Pollen. in last Sundays Tribune,
said that we should be impotent with
out means OF Transporting our armies
TO France and maintaining them there,
and proved that the rapidly diminish
ing available worlds supply Of shipping
would not afford such means. Already
the General Staff of the army is wor-
rying over this identical problem.
Are we building ships to make our
force felt in Europe and building them
in time? Are we building all the ships
we can and as quickly as we can? Have
we the proper organization to build
ships?
Let US begin with organization. It
IS the element that, no matter which
way we turn, is everywhere lacking.
The country has done some big things
and shown a fine spirit, but it has not
found out how 70 organize for war.
Often II looks as if a step forward
toward a proper mechanism was just
about 10 be made, but somehow it never
does get made. And Of all the faulty
organizations here the shipbuilding or
ganization is the worst
The recent Presidential order settled
nothing; in fact, it settled so little
that there have been appeals to the
President and decisions by the Presi-
dent since that order which was TO
start the shipbuilding programme was
promulgated
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17
American Navy Must Find
U-Boat Cure, Says Pollen
New Advice Needed to Solve Problem, and This
sboud Come from Head of H. S. Sea Forces
Task Is One for the Greatest Military Genius

This te Of series Of three articles on the Uboat
y, DISTINGUISHED narG critic.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-17

q 1t is everyonc's patriotic duty to eliminate
waste Help us save and the saving will be
yours.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-07-17
PRICES. s.. o 60

hare feet and one suspender
ON the last day of school the pu-
nils nut on their best bib and tuck
err" and said their speeches before
the school board and the following
visitors: Miss Daisy Williams. as
Mrs. Bassett; Miss Emma Hane as
Mrs IIornwell, Miss Kellogg, as
Mrs. Perkins; Mrs. F. II. Callahan
as Mrs. Dipsey; Miss Margaret How
ard as Floriana Dipsey; Miss cara
Mcintosh as Mrs. Jones and MISS
Frances higgins as Mrs. simpson
turing the graduation exercises, SIN
nipsey (Rev. Callahan) forgo. mis-
piece" and his mother, imperson-
ated by Mrs. Callahan. told the
teacher that she had a little girl TOO
small to 60 to school. but she would
sing in his place. and thus raise the
family standard OF skill and en-
cheney. whereupon Miss Margare'
Howard. as Gloriana Dipsey, sang
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-07-17

piff for business INh
al, a boo-hoo. which was done IN
!, very professional way.
susan Crofoot was on deck "heh-
o,or she was called and sometimes
: hen she wasn't, especially wheh sue
- out a comanche yell when Rev
callahan dressed up in patcheu
breeches and bare feet, pulled nef
tai, Mrs F. Price Bennett was
cu.an and in her short brown oress'
a-oen stockings and her red man
braided down her back in two I'M
mense "plaits" she was around
ho-o.. In her original essay on no
- and Juliet. she brought in som'
laoo, hits which fit most admirably
and which brought down the nous
:, various and regular intervals.
sally scroggins wasn't very ofisn'
~. in such intelligent company sh'
so.,n caught on fine and II she ma
,,har year or two her teacher wa
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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-07-17

commanded to be and appear to said
bill on or before Monday the first dau
OF october. A. d. 1917, otherwise The
allegations of said bill will be taken
as confessed by them;
1t is also ordered that tho un1.r
aeiendants, "all persons claiming an
interest in or to the propertv inSo,yaa
IN this suit. to-wit: Lots 10 and 90 of
B!ock a, lots 2 3 10 II and 70
OF Block B. ana Lots OF Rioc,-
u or Lakeland Heights or Johnson's
addition to Lakeland. Polk Cnnut,s
Florida, all in the town Of I.akeIanSS'
POLK County. and State of Florida ha
ana the same are hereby commandeS
T.! appear to the bill Of complaint filed
~ sald cause on or before MondaW
the first day Of October, A. d. 1917
o.nerwlse the allegations of said bill
VIII be taken as confessed NV so;a
defendants. Wy SAID
t is further ordered that this order
pc published once week for eigbt
consecutive weeks as to the defardants
" nose names are given above and for
we've consecutive weeks as to the
heirs legatees. devisees, grantees nr
,ther claimants under THE above named
recessed persons and for twelve cor
secutlVe weeks as to the defendants
famed as "all persons claiming an in'
crest. IN or to the property involved
n this suit, said notice to be published
n the Lakeland Evening Telegram
newspaper published in said COUNT
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