The Washington times., 1921-02-10
Today
INTERESTS PUBLISHERS.
lnterests You.
A Smile for Farmers.
What Kind Of Navy7 :.
Aer0planes and Submarines.
ARTHUR BRISBAHE-
(Cspyrtght. iotl.l

This interests newspaper pub
fishers all over the United States.
For the Chicago American, an
evening newspaper that sells for
three cents, has about ten times
the circulation of one of its COM
petitors, and about four times the
circulation of another competitor.
1t still needs four or five thousand
circuistion in order to pass Mr..
Victor Lawson's excellent daily
News, which sells at two cents
against the Chicago Americans
three-cent price.
Presently the Chicago American
Will accumulate the necessary four
or five thousand to pass the News,
at two cents, then fifty or hun
dred thousand more. 1t will dem
onstrate that in the Chicago even
ing field, it can do what the New
York Sunday American has done on
Sunday, selling more than 1,10O,-
900 at 10 cents q copy, while all
its Sunday competitors in New
York sell at cents a copy--half
the price, and not one managing
to get more than about half the
circulation.
Such facts are intensely inter-
esting to publishers
Other readers, less interested
than publishers in the huge cost
of white paper, are interested in
these figures:
Roast loin of pork sells for l8
cents retail in Chicago.
Milk sells for IL cents in Min
neapolis.
Texas crude oil has dropped off
Is cents . barrel.
Eggs continue their downward
journey. -
The United States Government
paid $236.74 a set for double har-
ness in the war. That price will
amuse the farmers. The Govern
inent is selling new double har-
ness, NOW at $14.00 a set, and
damaged harness as low as $1.4O.
There is saying, Anybody can
cut shoe strings out Of another
mans leather" The "business
men. of this Government man
aged to cut shoe strings out Of the
public pocket. ..Y
Farmers who read these figures
and remember that the Govern
ment fixed the price Of wheat at
$2.25 will not wonder, remember
ing that there was graft in har-
ness; not in wheat.
The Senate Naval Committee
recommends for this country q
navy equal to that of any other
power. 1t is q moderate demand,
considering that the combined
navies of England and Japan are
made into one by a strong treaty.
1t is true that the Japanese
English treaty says that if Japan
fights the United States, England
need not join in unless she wants
to. But that is rather cold COM
fort, like saying to your bulldog,
~you need not bite that gentleman
unless you want to-"
Whatever else the United States
navy does or is, it should be strong
est of ALL navies in flying ma
chimes, including hydro-aeroplanes,
and in submarines. The flying ma
chimes would spy out approaching
fleets, or invading armies landed
to the North or South, and drop
dynamite on them. Flying machines
besides dropping dynamite on an
enemy fleet, would direct the sub
marines by wireless, and the SUBJ
marines would finish the job.
II is suggested that the value
of flying machines against bat
tleships be tested by having flying
machines with dynamite attack
and destroy an old armor-plated
Why waste the metal? Engi-
neers can make the test without
sinking ship. And you can make
a pretty good test in your own
mind.
A first class battieship costs
$4,000, 900. For $40,O00,0O0, IL you
kept away from our admirable
"air craft board" you could buy
10000 dynamite-carrying flying
machines.
4 The battleship. moving slowly
( IN the water, would be In full
sight, and an excellent target.
The flying machines, far up, going
more than q hundred miles an
hour, hard to hit, small and hard
60 see, and representing no great
loss II they are hit, would keep
up a dynamite rain.
What chance do you think the
battleship would have? Would
7, YOU rather be a man on that one
! battleship with twenty thousand
living machines attacking you
, or even one thousand flying ma
! chines--or one Of the men up in
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