The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19

who, calling his attention to the fact
that he no longer existed, was dis
missed by the signal, you be con-
demned!" Il am modifying the adiec-
uVaI verb so as not to shock unduly
any descendants of the Pilgrim
Fathers who may read th.s.)
Jacky himself used these very words
to flag captain who wanted to know
the meaning of certain orders. ex-
planning gratuitously that when a man
was his inferior he always said that
but when he had to reply to his
pachydermatous (another of his
lnexcusably classical camouflages)
superiors be always covered up-a
brutal attack upon defenceless bone
heads who cannot cause him to be
hanged because he is in an un-
hangable position.
Not shot, hut Promoted.
And this nautical enfant terrible
goes on rubbing it in. He says: What
l think is one of the fearful things of
the lan war is that we had no Ad-
mirals or Generals shot-we only pro-
NOTED them" That is a nice thing for
my lords of the Admiralty to read.
gentlemen who have only followed
time-honored tradition in kicking in
competence upstairs"
There Is something else that Admiral
Jacky does which 1 hope will not get
him in bad" He is so forgetful of all
that is due to his caste that he actually
says Mr.. Schwab Of the Bethlehem
Steel Works Should have been made
duke" and goes on: IF any man
ever deserved the gratitude of Eng
land Mr.. Schwab is the man." 1t
seems that Admiral Fisher with his
ridiculous new tangled notions of sub
marines not being "playthings" (they
have been, I believe, referred to as
those ungentlemanly instruments of
naval warfare"), finding that when he
left the Admiralty in 1910 there were
seventy-four efficient submarines
either in existence or building, and
that when he returned in October, 1914,
there were only fifty-one, called in
Charlie" (no, not Charlie Beresford.
the Admiral, who to Jacky at times
has been damnation unadulterated, but
Charley Schwab). Mr. Schwab, also an
indecent breaker of tradition, built a
batch of "ungentlemanly instruments"
in five months instead of the fourteen
hitherto believed essential, which. go
ing to the Dardanelles, "acted there
prodigiously."
1t seems that Admiral Jacky did
not take the loss of the unconvoyed
cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue
through submarines with the gentle
manly stoicism BETTING his position.
The "congenital idiots"-a phrase
which by this time has become a sort
of nasty habit in him-who thought
the submarine a white elephant, I
fancy regarded its use as mot
cricket"-that is, unsportsmanlike.
Jacky, being no sportsman. was one of
the first in England to discover that
war wasn't a sport. Clever Jacky!
How He Carried His Point.
But horror on horrors head ac-
cumulates. This dirty little mud
singer is horribly efficient. He not
only discovered Scapa Flow, intro
duced the dreadnought. gave the sub
marine its chance and called in youth
instead Of age as consultant, but was
the sponsor of the turbine engine and
the water tube boiler. When Jacky
Fisher ran into the Admiralty with
his water tube the experienced old
gentlemen who sat there, gentlemen
o fthe same artcr!o-sclerosis type who.
in the army. according to recent
revelations, cancelled the order for
tanks. said, their heads nodding: But,
just imagine, you have got to have
forty-eight boilers instead of SIX" and
drew Jacky's attention to the door
mat.
. That should have finished any de-
cent street gamin, but he stuck the
clever ugliness of that impertinent.
close cropped head OF his round the
corner. put his tongue out and came
back with: You poor boobs-can't
you realize If one boiler goes wrong
only forty-eighth Of your power is
lost-you can carry on with the other
forty-seven; II one Of your six blow
up you send the ship to the bottom;
If one Of the forty-eight go, you send
a man up the ladder with It for re-
pair" Now. what can you do with a
young chap like that. who has no
respect for his elders and who meets
fatheadedness with fact2
Now he is telling England that the
airship has made the surface ship
impossible. The navy has to go under
water. To go under water it needs
the internal combustion engine and
oil fuel. He then bursts out into bio
logical prophecy in the form OF
question: What is the use of my tell
ing the British public that a few years
hence we shall require a species of
both for sea war and sea
commerce?"
Now the Mandarins don't like
They like. as BELTS vener-
able old gentlemen, retrospection and
thumb twiddling. But Jacky by this
time not only irreverent but irrele-
want, his young seventy-eight year
blood up. his eyes In prophetic frenzy
rolling, gives out: 1.-THE Pacific holds
the future. Every fourth baby born
into the world Is a Chinese" Still ir-
relevant, and apropos OF nothing, he
asks in passing as he scans the hori-
zon: But whom are we going to
fght?" saying instantly that he can
no earthly reason for It to
be either a Chinese or a Japanese
navy. But with John Bright he sees
America with England forming 'the
States-'the British American
Un!on.'"
All Traditions Upset.
He finishes up with something that
Of course. as anybody can see who
has raa6 tho aboVe atannna him % q