Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-12-25
Manhood Beats Machinery
Boosted Hun Creations Unable 10 Conquer Freemcn
Zeppens, Submarines Gas and Flame Fail
In Match With Humanity.

iIun. They wer. borrowed dovicas
made bigger and more powerful un-
dor tho delusion that they would In
spir. such terror that resistance
suuld cease.
The FIRST to appear WIRE tho mon
st.r cannon that smashed down IN.
forts ~ lLege, OF Samur and of
MAub ubeus. tn. only novelty aoou'
thom was that well-known tranSpor'
devices had been employed to move
them more rapidly than had been
attempted With cannon " ruci size.
fney were the familiar com binaton
% tho gun and ths moor car Ot rall-
way ear. only vastly bigger 4, was
ellstactcrstlc of the hun mlai that
II always relied oL hhncHs.
The savage childlhhnoHs ~ tho
tIun confidence In more bsnces re-
c.lyed Its browning Illustration In
tho 10 mil. cannon with Widen
tho Huns blindly fired upon larir
Tor weeks In N. hope ~ causing
panic that would bring suhmission.
from ev-ry viewpoint ~ military rf-
feet tho wealth appended on tho TO
mile cannon might just ~ well have
been sunk In Ia. s-A They delayed
tho defeat OF the Hun not day.
Tho HncaL ing Submarine"
Next came the bosstsd boats
AsA N there was no novelty. Under
water fighting had been known
since prirnrval man first thus sur
prissd his foe. The submarine WAS
not only invented but made practical
OH tsids OF iunland The time merely
made II bisxrr. and used II with
savage dlAregard Tor all tho rulo~ of
tho game OF s1A warfare to which
a Ia SannnslHlv llXtllfRI
nation. had soicmnly sworn obscrv-
ance.
AZ q factor IN tho supply and
transport problem tho 4 boat was "A
very real menace for many anxious
monthA Wonderful things were done
toward beating n down, In ship
building. In ship repairing In adapt
lng tho methods of tho fisherman To
its destruction. In barring II out of
certain waters by miles of steel nets
and In barring II In by ob-iructing
i,s way out, and by kepins vast flo
iillas " light and swift craft always
on the watch for II.
Hut one new mechanical invention
was made for fighting th" ruhma-
rine. the depth bomb" coptr huted
hy AN American. A British aviator
made the discovery that submarines
u0utF toHll l'NhA'u W ~
ing over tho water some hundrod OF
feet up In the air
The Zeppelin and the AirI'tanr.
Most wonderful feAts had been
predicted for aircraft by the
phopheta OF tho end of war through
mechanical invention making war
too terrible Tor human nature tn en-
dure. Mig pictures used 10 he
printed ~ alrahips hoyrring over
81 ics and armies and compelling
,holr surrender with exemplary
bomb drupplnEr
Asa contributor 10 tho military
decision tho Zeppelin waH n costly
failure. Its raids over London, the
favorite target. won for the prusrian
the name of baby killed" which
he will not he permitted TO forget for
thousand years. and Hpeeded up
eniistmcnts IN tho british army.
That wns all They destroyed much
property, but mono indispensable In
military sense, or that delayed for
even day the supply ~ munitions
60 tho fighting front. The Hun had
relied on them 10 cause mass panic
and force submission. They utterly
failed. they merely enragod.
Doth sides were rather slow TO
SEQ what waa the most important
us. ~ the alrplnnc--the service Of
scouting and Information rather
than Of destructive attack. The first
Hun rush across Belgium and into
France relied on cavalry rather
than on Airpianes TO locate the al
lied forcea with the settling down
Co trench warfare airplanes found
their real use, They also contributed