Evening star., 1918-02-20
SHIPS BIG GUNS
!. NEED Of AMERICA
Representative Taylor Urges
Provision for Supplies Be-
fore Sending Men Abroad.
TALKS OF VISIT TO FRONT

If the United States government
sends a million men to France before
its shipping facilities are adequate TO
follow them up with supplies and arms
the greatest calamity in the history OF
the world will ensue, according to
Representa- tive Edward T. Taylor OF
Colorado, who spoke last night at the
annual meeting of the Society of May
flower Descendants at the Washington
Club.
The Colorado representative was one
OF the party of ten members of Congress
who went abroad to study war condi-
tions last November. He spoke for an
hour and a half before the members OF
the society and declared America
needs are ships and big guns.
"If we allow million of our troops
TO go over without shipping facilities
SUFFICIENT to follow them up with sup
plies We will burden the French nation
beyond description" said Mr.. Taylor.
Prices Already Soaring.
The speaker declared that the pres
ence of so many Americans in France
has already caused prices to soar be-
coaI is selling for $50 ton. and wood
$50 cord. Mr.. Taylor paid 40 cents
for an apple in Paris. He declared the
costs of other products are similarly in
creased
England, the speaker declared. has
barely sixty days provisions ahead
The United States must build more ships
or all the efforts of training men in
this country will go TO waste, he as
serted.
Concrete fortifcations have been built
BACK of the German lines which only
the most powerful guns in the world
can smash. said Mr.. Taylor. The Ger
man pill boxes communicate with the
front line trenches and enemy machine
gunners do their work protected by a
wall of concrete and steel six feet
thick, according to the speaker.
Ships, and More Ships, Required.
..Ne must build ships and more
ships" declared Representative Taylor.
Frances army is worn out by the
long struggle We must send men over
to replace those allies who have fallen.
But we must not send them until this
government has ships enough to carry
food and guns across. If We do the
greatest calamity the world has ever
seen will result. American troops will
be useiessly slaughtered
Representative Taylor was given a
rising vote of thanks by the society.
A Howard Clark governor OF the So
ciety. and Senator Page of Vermont
made short talks.
Committees Of the Society.
Committees of the society for 1918
are announced as follows:
Membership-Capt. William Wallace
Case, Capt Frederick William Mitchell,
Howard Wilson Blanchard, Harry E.
Clan1in and Miss Garlic Z. Marsh.
Publication-Mrs. Bertha Murdock
Robbins, DIR. Edwin Allston Hill and
Miss Flora L. P. Johnson.
Auditing-Carter Brewster keene
Wales Candee Brewster and Capt. Solo
mon Elmer Faunce.
Room and property-Frank Bond. Mrs.
Nettie Holmes Crocker. E. W. Brad
ford, DIR. Loren B. T Johnson and Mrs.
John B. Larner.
Meeting and program-Frank H.
Briggs, Thomas Smell Hopkins. DR.. Err
nest Lester Jones, Stephen Tying Ma
ther and Miss Ethel ]. R. c. Noyes.
Entertainment-Dr.W William s. Wash
burn, Miss Isabel s. Chamberiin, Mrs.
A. Howard Clark. Mrs. C. f. Nesbit and
Clarence A. Aspinwall.
Press-Mrs. F. F. Greenwalt, Philip
Walker and Charles L. Sturtevant.