The Washington times., 1928-06-21
oNE 81 OUR BIG Is INCH COAST DEFENsE GUNS USELESS
"A Foolish Waste Of Money

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ONE Or ouR BIG SINGH COAST Defense cuNs-UsELEss
r7-HE first automobiles had dashboard the hnd that
4 was 81 every buggy and family carriage drawn ~
horse The horse kicked up mud The dashboard
kept the mud from hitting the driver.
HABITS STICK 10 Us, ~ when We built automobiles
With no horse III front 10 kick mud We put dashbcards q
tie automobiles anyhow Later men enough to PIT mud
guards automobile wheels The wheels peing tne muo
throwers instead 81 The horse y feet.
what Va dd With our dashboard On automobiles, this
Government u doing with like the one you zee here
such cannon were nut along coast 10 protect % n days
when attack would the SURFACE from battle
ships III those days. this country had been attacked which
Ii practically unhmkabe ships would nave come over ne
ocean with heavy guns and soldiers.
They would have bombarded forts and cities along hs
coast The soldiers would have landed and would have a
tempted to conquer us
But 81 Napoleon greatest military genius since Caesar
able Is cross Tire narrow English Channel less than
thirty miles vide and land soldiers British soil You GER
IMAGINE what sort 81 time Europe would have had sending
soldiers across Tie Atlantic Ocean, 5000 miles o conquer ~
from the edge of the coast and then KEEP "a
when that was the plan these coast defense
were reasonable the right thing.
But everybody knows that hereafter there never Will Be "a
attack On the United States floating SHIPS Nc European
81 Asatc nation would enough to send men over enc
try 10 land them march against cities Nc
nation win waste time sending ships to lombard cities
with ordinary cannon balls.
This cannon carries she'll that weighs 1000 pounds and
might xnk ship.
The flying enemy attacking cities would carry bombs
filled with INT and deadly gases Of which half dozen coa
Kill hundreds thousands cf people and put city out ct
commission.
Those whom we ca Statesmen should get their minds
off the old dashboard" period and bring themselves UR
TO DATE.
They should stop spending public money ridiculous
guns scattered along the shore toys that viii never again be
used il national defense.
II we are attacked will be BY arhip sailing across the
ocean when flying aircraft little developed
THAT ATTACK COULD COME TODAY by huge freight
steamers bringing aircraft knocked down mounted on arr
plane carriers Those enemy ships bringing attacking apane
would not within reach Of the in this picture Our
hOrest coast defense guns reach out to only few
mies-twenty thirty miles at most.
Arpane carriers from abroad would anchor off coast
ont of sight Of land hundred miles There In
safety protected against attack by naval convoy the aane
would Be launched hour later they would be attacking
nur cities png out Of population destroying gigantic
sums in property And they found unprepared few
hours would find the cities sendering at the mercy Of the
invader
No courage no determination could hold against poison
gas kills everything it touches horrible explosives that
could shatter city.
Aplanes in sufficient numbers COULD protect unotng
else could nation should have the greatest and swfte
air fleet in world and the greatest submarine fleet to
destroy airplane carriers.
This dashboard gun, which this country spends
its money great proof Of human stupidity and lack Of
noo0i nnki0 n.