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New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
Future Naval Warfare
4 Discussion of the Problems Recently Raised
BY Quarterback. The Tribune's Naval Expert

struck by torpedo, continued in ac
ton at speed Of seventeen knots
and the German battleship Ostfries
land, although struck by torpedo
which produced some flooding, was
otherwise unaffected and continued
with the German feet.
Quarterback argues for submarines
mines and torpedoes, saying: "These
defensive elements give US immunity
from successful attack by a foreign
power"
Every naval strategist from Nelson
to Mahan lays down as n fundamental
of successful naval warfare the ne
cessity Of seeking out and destroying
the enemy's feet or compelling it to re-
main harmless in port because of fear
Of giving battle. The Russo Japanese
War, our war with Spain and the World
War all demonstrate the soundness of
this principle. What would have been
the result of the World War had the
navies of England, France and Italy
consisted of submarines, torpedo craft
and other defensive elements?
A navy must be strong enough to
gain and keep control of sea routes
of commerce, and this cannot be done
by defensive elements" The United
States in the last war was wholly de-
pendent upon importations of nitrate
from Chile for the manufacture of high
explosives. Without these importa-
tions, made possible by the control of
the sea, we could not have manufactured
from our own resources enough high
explosives to have supplied our army
for an engagement Of four hours du-
ration.
Quarterback says: "a revolution in
ship design-nothing else-can make
sea power again supreme"
Such statement is ridiculous. Since
when has sea power lost its supremacy
No one with knowledge Of the late war
could make such a statement. The
battleship still is supreme. What the
future may develop is another matter,
but at present sea power is determined
by battleships and nothing else. Sub
marines, destroyers and airplane car
ricrs are auxiliaries and necessary, it
is true, but the backbone of the fleet
is the battleship.
A statement that we need no more
battleships and that if we have a sufi-
cient air and submarine force we are
safe from invasion is so perniciously
untrue that its purpose is open to ques-
ton. EARLE FARWELL.
Late Lieutenant Commander L. S.
n R.
New York, Nov. s, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
An American Victory

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In their alibis the Democrats
are emphasizing the disatfcction of the
foreign vote" notably the Irish. They
profess regret at such solidifed group
voting. Yet the Democrats have al
ways played for the Irish vote and
made it one Of their chief assets.
AS a matter of fact, there aren't
enough Irish, German and Italian
votes in the country to account for
Che tremendous Republican majority.
To pile up a total like Hardng's it
takes vote so nearly universal as to
warrant the idea that it's American.
And the American vote is something
the Democrats overlooked.
think that Republican papers
should take the. lead in warning the
vctors not to get too "cocky." There
is danger in such overwhelming vic
tories they look to some like sane
ton to DO anything.
Fortunately, however, the Republi-
can party is made up of leaders with
wide variety Of ideas. Thus the new
Administration and new Congress will
present opportunity for the ideal
method OF hearing all sides of every
question before action is taken, and
that, most of us believe, will be a re-
lief after eight years Of blind obedi-
cnce to superman. r
Hartford, Conn, Nov. 4, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
GlO8,0OO

Say 100000 year The aeroplane-
carrying ships and the aeroplanes
would cost nothing; they would be
earning money. The officers and men
to form the crews of the ships would
belong to the merchant navy. Aero
plane pilots would be as numerous as
taxi drivers and get about the same
pay. The battleship waddles along
at twenty miles an hour and cannot
waddle very far, and in comparison
with an aeroplane has a very low rate
of speed
The object in war is to Introduce
high explosive materials into your en-
cmy's ships or country; transmitting
this high explosive by guns is expen-
sive' as the container of the high ex-
ploslve has to be very strong and con-
quently very heavy TO withstand the
shock of discharge. 1t takes battle
ship weighing 10000 tons to carry
100000 pounds of this explosive. Ten
aeroplanes weighing about three tons
each would carry the same amount
Sc the relative weights of the carriers
are 80 tons to 10000 tons.
When the battleshp nears the end
Of hcr coal or ammunition She
must waddle home at about the same
speed as South Eastern Railway train
q am told that this is the slowest
line on earth), and it takes her several
hours TO fill up, even if she uses oil
fuel The aecoplane does not waddle
lone, but comes back at 100 miles an
hour, and it takes three minutes to
fill her up with fuel and ammunition.
The future is with the aeroplane.
which is going to develop readily in the
next few years. Probably we shall also
have submersible battleships of 10000
tons. What chance will the surface
oattleship, presenting a huge target
have against such vessel?
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
DESTROYING Ireland

Ireland drifts more and more to-
ward anarchy. The campaign Of
murder, deliberately launched by
the Sim Fem, ID bearing its nat
ural fruit. Reprisals have come
for the hunted, as is to be expected,
do not enjoy being hunted as if
rabbits.
In the warfare Irish prosperity,
recently flowing at flood tide, be-
gins to ebb and the interests of the
masses of Ireland, whether Of the
one party or the other, are being
destroyed. Obviously, if the wild
mon are not curbed soon will come
.tories CT Irish misery and dis
ttcss.
The political relations of Ireland
and Great Britain constitute a do
nest matter in which this coun-
Try may not iNtrude. But while
our government is properly neutral
in act, this does not imply our people
should be neutral in thought con-
corning tie threatened destruction
of Irish civilization. We may recog-
nizc and deplorc a course whose
consequences are inevitable. In
Ireland no more than elsewhere can
there be general happiness when as
saSsinatlon IS national Industry.
The Sinn Fem began the treacher-
Gus war. 1t does rot appear that the
Obstetrics or tie Black and Tans got
INTO 1t until provoked to retaiiat. .on.
Those WHO started in to ravace ana
20 murder may be asked to be the
first to dcsist 1t ought TO be plain
20 the Irish people by this time that
Sim Fem tactics arc 1T the expense
Of all Ireland-mean the piling OF
horror on horror.
John Redmond was a great and
noble lrishman. In speech in
1915, contrasting the then conditions
of Ireland with those when had pre-
vailed thirty years before, he spoke
of the things the Irish people had
gained
He declared that a new Ireland
mad risen. whose people owned the
soil. lived in decent habitations. en-
jcyed absolute freedom in local
self -government, and had but to
stxeteh out their hand to get Home
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
Learning How 10 Loaf

One does not have TO be as pessi-
mlstlc as our young novelists to feel
that Americans have conquered in
that little affair with a continent at
the expense of learning how to Live.
Any project that requires the doing
OF anythlng-or anybody-fnds no
more ready or cheerful undertaken
than here. Not the land of the
dollar but the land of doing is the
fair description Of our ration.
We never could feel much sym
pathy with those critics who expect
cd pioneer nation-with a from
tier ever receding but ever potent
to loaf naturally and gracefully.
Such loafers as we have had have
been weak limitations of European
models and wholly negligible from
every point Of view. Alertness and
hustling have been second nature
save only in a few back-cddies that
were neither American nor any
thing else
But is not the hour ripe for the
beginning of a change? Not a
change wrought consciously. scien-
titically, efficiently, wherein all the
snappy, alert, efficient young and
young old Americans Of the cloth
ing advertisements resolve to loaf
as matter Of principle and in such
fashion as to yield the maximum
number of loafing calories per min
ute wasted Only a relaxation of
spiritual muscles can accomplish any
result worth having, and that must
come as natural consequence of a
changed point of view.
That changed point Of view must
permeate our whole life 1t must
yield a perspective which Will con-
stantly reveal just how much there
is in life besides doing things that
pay. The American laborer is no.
torlously wasting the leisure result
'i4e, AAOiii iiiS SliOl ltiitN HOuIS. | ne
American business man, who has
never known what shortened hours
We're, hustles around his golf course.
often with prospective customers or
clients, and does not show much
more capacity for intelligent loating.
Probably New York will be the
last spot to reflect a more sensible
way Of living. The chances are
that precisely in those Middle West
ern towns just now feeling the
teeth of the muck-rake in the hands
of the young novelists will the first
notable Improvement begin There
is abundant earnestness and charac-
ter and VIII to improve in American
life. What is needed is not
Qulckening of conscience but
broadening of the stream Of life TO
include all sorts Of casual work and
play, everything from prizehghts to
little theaters. Despite the pessi-
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
From Sir Percy SCOTS Fifty
Years in The ROYAL Narv
New York, Nov. s, 1920.

| regarded the surface battleship as
dead before the war, and think her
more dead now, if that is possible
The battleship of to-day costs roughly
$4,000 600; she carries about 1000
shells containing about 100000 pounds
Of high explosives; her effective range
is, saw Is miles; she is vulnerable
to aircraft with bombs and aerial tor
pedoes and to submarines, the latter
possibly carrying 15-inch or 18-inch
gun; and the ordinary automobile tor
pedo is still in process of development
and may, in the future, carry ton
OF high explosives. which would prob
ably sink any battleship.
For 100000 we could build manv
aeroplane-carrying ships, equipped with
acroplanes carrying over 100 900 pounds
Of high explosives. If these aeroplanes
carried fuel sufficient for five hours
their range would be about 15O miles
out and $50 miles home.
In the battleship we put all our eggs
into one basket. In peace time the
aeroplane- carrying ships could be used
as passenger ships, and the aeroplanes
for carrying passengers. instead of
bombs
As to relative cost Of upkcep, the
single battleship would require in
peace time about:
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
Those Russian Servants

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: am q householder and most
enthusiastically indorse r. S. How
lands idea advanced in a letter in The
Tribune regarding Russian servants.
| hope in time We viii have house
workers by the day throughout our
great country. men and women who
will not think it amiss to spend a
working day in some phase of house
work (Which in some of its phases
almost every woman really hkes) But
until that day comes may we not try
to get the Russian women who are so
well spoken of and in this way help
poor, stricken Russia and the families
IN our own country who are finding it
almost impossible to bring up their
families in homes on account of the
shortage of domestic workers?
Point the way and many men and
women viii help to see that the Rus
SLAMS are invited and Welcomed
AN ANCIENT READER.
New York, Nov. 7, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
Not Until 1921
Editor If Tho Tribune

10 The Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The city under the Hylan ad-
ministration is going from bad to
worse. Property valuations are out
raseous and exorbitant. Appropria-
tions for tax-eaters are running Wild
Taxation is the highest ever known.
Robberies, burglaries and murders are
the order OF the day. Everything is
going from bad to worse Is there no
way we can get rid of the maign in
Huences in control of Father Knickcr-
booker? Give your readers and the
taxpayers helping hand.
JNO. r. WALTERS.
New York. Nov. s, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
The Coming Z'ower
"INTEGER VITE"

A guy that plays life straight and true
Don't need to fear no loaded gat;
He's always free of fear, and you
May lay to that.
These stickup birds don't never plug
A gent that has an honest face;
Why, when they sec happy mug,
Away they race.
recollect some time when I
Go out without my little Krupp,
meet hungry wolf-say, guy,
1t was SOME pup!
And don't run as from Old Scratch,
But just give him the double-O;
And sing to him a little snatch
From "Bo-la-bo."
He blows the works, the coward cub,
And doesn't show bit Of fight;
Just like the coppcrs run from troub-
LIE (ain't that trite? y.
So, Fuscus, always sport a grin;
Don't be crab and pack a frowr
And then if it's scrape you're in
You won't lay down.
J. II. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09

On November 5 The Tribune pub.
lished an article on the subject Of
future naval warfare. Briefly stated,
this article handled this important mat
ter under the following subheads:
L. Probable changes in warship de-
sign that will be forced by aviation,
mines, torpedoplanes and submarines.
2. Future sea power.
g. The domination OF air power.
q. Air power prevents war over
seas, in that armies cannot be trans
ported in helpless transports.
s. The problem Of home defense
made easier by modern weapons. The
defensive strengthened by air naviga-
ton and improved submarine devices.
6. Advocating free speech in the
navy and free discussion Of this
vitality important subject.
The article in question avoided Tex
treme statements and rabid recommen-
dations." 1t merely advocated a calm
and logical consideration of the sub
jcct with a view to economy and ulti-
mate naval efficiency.
1t is desirable that arguments pro
and con shall be invited in order that
cur future naval policy may be wisely
outlined. To begin this discussion, the
following letter from Mr.. Earle Far
well, late lieutenant commander, U. S.
N. R., is published, and the opposite
side of the argument is given in Il
clipping from Sir Percy Scots book,
Fifty Years in the Royal Navy. There
will be more contributions on this
vitality important subject by officers
and individuals we'll qualified to dis
cuss the matter Quarterback.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09

Retrenchment First

Treasury officials have prepared
a revenue program to accompany
the inflated estimates of govern
ment expenditure which the Secre-
tary will soon send to Congress.
These estimates may be expected to
run we'll over $4,000 0000, 900. The
President vetoed the Federal budget
bill passed at the last session, and
no restraining hand has been laid on
the department spenders. To save
its face the Treasury feels con-
strained to suggest an average
minimum tax bill of $4,000, 900, 900
for the next three years.
Secretary Houston is expected to
recommend the abolition of excess
profits taxes and a corresponding in
crease in income taxes. Congress,
however, will make the tax laws.
The Republicans also wish to get rid
of excess profits taxes. But such
profits are shrinking, and it is hard
to calculate a year in advance what
their yield will be. Moreover, the Re
publican idea is to reduce taxation,
rather than shift it. Mr.. Fcss,
chairman of the Republican Con-
grcssional Committee, hopes to make
cut in the estimate similar to that
made this year and thus escape sub
stltutiAg other taxes for the excess
profits tax. There is, moreover, a
source Of revenue in import duties
which might be drawn on, without
economic arrangement, to make up
a part of the excess profits tax
deficit.
Ordinary government expendi-
lures can easily be reduced. The
government is still running on
seni-war basis, with a vast surplus
in personnel. Army and Navy ap-
preparations can be cut, especially
naval appropriations for monster
S'iFA' when may soon be out OF
date. The Shipping Board enter
prise Will be gradually liquidated.
With floating debt embarrassing
the Treasury and TIC Victory loan
maturing in 1923 the next two
years will be critical ones, but
reduction of expenditure and taxa
ton is promise which the next
Administration cannot afford to
foozle on. 1t would be egregious
political folly to sit back with
sigh and accept the Treasury's
tax program of $4,000, 900
year for the next three years as
inescapablc.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
The Diary of Our Own Samue, penvs

November 6-Played some lawn ten
mis- in the morning with G.. Parsons.
and so with my wife to the football
game and saw Dartmouth trounce Cor
nell, and so home and W. Enright and
Mistress Neysa come to tea. and
taught her to play the piccolo-hute,
which amused her greatly. Met r.
Hayes and with him and Mistress Edna
Fcrber to dinner, and F. Case there
and Mistress Bertha, too, and much
talk of this and that, and broke my
knife blade trying to extract cork
from bottle.
7-Early up, and my wife with r
hayes to Montrose. to f. Kcppel's. and
Edna and to En- glewood and had a
hne luncheon, and a lady from Atlanta
told me jolly anecdoto, Of an urchin.
VINO, being lmportuned for the core Of
the apple he was dcvouring. replied
There am goin' to be no core. Where
at laughed beyond measure. and was
very merry. To the city in the rain
and K. Werrcnrath come for me- and
we to see some plays and heard Father
Duhy speak and Mr.. P. F. Murphy. the
pest speakers ever | heard Home lat
and read IN Floyd Del's Moon Calf
very Interesting thus far.
o-tilen tells US she is leaving rs
70 go where there Is a quieter family,
Dut inc only noise in our house is the
mus!ck make on my various instru-
ments and that very sweet and melo-
dlck, so | cannot understand it. But
tne u news Of it depressed me greatly.
10 NJ. Glass's for dinner and plaved
cards in the evening.
Mr.. Raymond Hitchcock informs us
that the wheezes in "Hitchy Kooy
originated, rs this department said NV
George Ade, Kin Hubbard. and Han
Ward all were given to Mr. Hitchcock
by the authors themselves. So per
haps Mr.. Hubbard wishes to withdraw
MS recent note to US in which he
commended US for "attacking these
pirates"
Taft May Go to Supreme Bench
Harding Expected to Have Four Va
cancies to Fill in His Term-Evanino
Sun headline.
That's the first wheeze ., .ho
Iaftian girth we've seen in seven
years.
Well, we saw the new Secretary Of
State Sunday night, Mr.. Lyons, and it
is our pleasant job to tell the motor
world that the 1921 license plates are
70 De dark blue and white.
Princeton or Yale? Princeton or yalee
Well, on the Nassaus we're placing our
kale. F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09

Rule, Then came the Sim Fein to
wreck the lifework of Redmond and
Parnell
The Sim Fein conspiracy is NOM
inally directed against Great Britain.
Actually its victim is Ireland itself.
How much more blood must be shed
before the Irish people, without re-
gard to political views, perceive the
fact and join to rid themselves Of
their enemy?
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
Eugene Field in Marble

1t is twenty-five years since
Eugene Field died-the date was
November 4, lS95-and plans for a
memorial to be erected in Chicago
are being concluded. There is no
doubt Of the fitness of some monu-
mental perpetuation Of Fields name.
Enough time has rolled away to
leave his fame clear and unQues
toned thing. his work part Of that
slender but very precious body Of
books which children for all time
will read.
But Eugene Field in marble The
proposal stirs doubts at once. And
reading of the proposed statues
does not allay the doubts. One model
submitted shows Eugene Field seat
ed with one arm, pencil in hand.
hanging languidly over the back Of a
large chair ana a pad in the other
hand, while below him is Little Boy
Blue playing with his tin soldier, toy
dog and woolly lamb" The other
model shows a figure of Field with
children on either side and a drink
ing fountain below the statue"
Sculpture in America has moved on.
of course, but memories of that walk
of horrors, the Mall in cur own Cen
tral Park. come to mind. Statues of
literary folk are not conspicuous
successes as a rule, probably because
there is little Of the picturesque and
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
Veterans in Need
Proper Care of Wounded and n.
charged Far Better Than Ro,..

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Within the last week va,
that the so-called bonus was f.vo~ss,a
considered by great majority D.! p
do the people understand the ids. -, -"
and is this not an opportune uo.'
to discuss the subject in the on.n
that we may all understand
thoroughly the full scope Of this W..
ure? There would seem 70 he r~s
this proposed system, an inprona. y.
tribution, for certainly it would 49,.
only right that distinction shop,d -
made between those who are in 90.
need Of it or have been deprived H.
their period Of service Of their .on-
of income and between those who ,rs;'
independent circumstances and do
actually need it, and, what ia mor. y
not want it, but would rather 90.
system in effect which would o;..
greater assistance to those less 81.
tunate than themselves.
Yesterday was eating nv lpncs..
in a restaurant down town VIE, w.
soldiers in uniform came in and
down near me. Ny attention was cali
to them by overhearing one say. 4Ru,
ter that bread for me" I looked -
to see that one arm was missing ..
the shoulder of one, while the o,s..
bore unmistakable signs Of terr;hl,
wounds. could not help bit oye-bn..
their conversation, from which oa;nsd
that their finances were very low ,o
that l opened conversation with o,o
Of them. l learned that thev had IN,
been discharged and that they had No,
received their pay checks since lss.
January. One Of them had oashed b;s
discharge check ard was taken to taxl
by the other for having done an IN.
wise thing. He answered the other.
What would you have me do, stsrye,p
Is this fair treatment to those who
have won the best from our country.
And this is not the first instance tba.
has come to me Of improper treatmen.
being accorded our wounded men.
These men did not want charity.
they would not permit me even n
pay for their luncheon-. They wers
proud, and rightly so They hav. woY
and deserve that America shall no,
permit their great sacrifice and cor.
sequent disability to be an ever presenr
menace to their very existence. What
ever the bonus system may bring 70
cur military in general. surely these
hero lads should not be subjected IN
such failure of our governments obi.
CATION.
1t would seem an excellent require
ment of our wounded that they should
wear an insignia, whether in uniform
or in muftf showing that they hsd
received a scar of battle, not to call
attention to their wounds. but that We
all might show consideration and honor
to those to whom honor is due. 1t
would be an opportunity for US who
did not share their sacrifice to show
our appreciation and likewise would
prove a stimulus to truer patriotism
/ call this matter to your attention.
believing that the press should become
acquainted with all matters pertain
ing to this very important question
while it is under consideration so that
America, in bestowing her Laurel
wreath of victory upon her warriors.
may not leave resting upon the brow
Of her wounded a crown OF thorns.
A. F. K. ANDERSON.
New York, Nov 6, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-09
+ or Armistice Nieht

Tc the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The incident at the Capitol
Thcatcr Sunday, when Irish svmpa
thizers removed an English flag from
among those of the other nations dis
played to commemorate the armistice.
would seem to be as inexcusable as it
was regrettablc.
During the war Ireland, by her at
titude of active resistance to English
success, chose to ally herself with
forces quite opposed to those by whose
side Americans fought It would seem
then, that on Che occasion Of the COM
memoration Of deeds of those who
made as great a sacrifice actively, as
one Terence MacSwiney made passivcly,
the Irish should have sense enough to
realize that any obtrusion Of their
personal troubles is unwelcome and un-
called for. If Ireland cannot rightly
participate as a nation, although many
OF her men may individually, in the
armlstico ceremonies, she should at
least allow those who can to carry out
their own part proudly and uninter-
rupted. c. B. L.
(Two years service overscas.)
Brooklyn, Nov s. 1920