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PniLADLLTIItA, MONDAY. JULY 19. 1915.
Future dcltghta seem farther awav than
past Joys.
Tho Gadfly at Work
IN ALL this uncertain war thero seems to
bo nothing bo fortuitous as tho relations
of America and Germany. Between tho dim
cultles of communication, tho varying and
alien tempers of tho two countries and the
speeches of Mr. Bryan to hyphenated audi
ences and to Mr. Dumba, tho natural antag
onism of Interests aot up by tho favorablo
situation on tho Allies on tho high seas has
been fanned hither and thither, now hot, now
cold, in a way that makes for no sort of
mutual understanding. Sunday brought tho
newest complication of tho sort.
Secretary Lansing's account of a communi
cation to Great Britain, demanding tho ap
plication of tho rules of International law
to American cargoes now In prlzo court, would
undoubtedly havo done much toward a better
understanding between Germany and Amer
ica, especially as It camo on top of promises
from tho German Admiralty of moro respect
for llfo at sea and on top of well-meant at
tempts by Ambassador Bcrnstorff to read a
moro pacific and conciliatory meaning Into
tho last German Note.
But these moves toward a mutual under
standing wcro very successfully overshad
owed by tho news of tho attack on the Or
duna. The attempt to torpedo without warn
ing and tho actual shelling of' a passenger
Bhlp, an America-bound ship, a ship carry
ing neither ammunition nor contraband In
any form, naturally aroused now Indigna
tion. The moat unfortunate part of tho
wholo affair, howover, was that paper after
paper .treated thla attack as a direct refu
tation of Germany's conciliatory attitude
during tho lost week, as a new defiance, as
something that threw all chanco of harmony
to tho winds. That Is tho Impression Ameri
can readers undoubtedly carried away.
Back Up tho Chamber of Commerce
IP PHILADELPHIA'S Councllmen ore as
progressive and as anxious to advonco
the prosperity and good namo of this city as
tho Chamber of Commerce, on adequate con
vention hall, centrally located, will soon be
gin to tako shapo for tho prospective Repub
lican National Convention next year. Chair
man Illlles has told Secretary Kelly that
many of tho national Republican leaders
favor tho selection of this city. Tho Cham
ber of Commerce has tho thanks of every
loyal Philadelphia for the initiative It has
shown in going after tho convention, for tho
way it has put tho Issuo up to Councils and
for tho publicity campaign It Is preparing to
undertako to mako Councils show Its colors
Every business man and every voter, too,
should back up tho appeal tho Chamber of
Commerce Is preparing to send out to mem
bers of Councils, demanding that this body
take action at Its first meeting In September.
Philadelphia Is now an active candidate for
the convention. With an adequate conven
tion hall wo would have a handicap oft every
other city In the country. Today Philadelphia
Is forging to the front rank among nationally
advertised cities. But wo don't want the
sort of advertising that would follow our
rejection by tho National Committee because
Councils won't provide tho convention hall.
$1,000,000 Worth of Honest Work
SOMETHING else besides the Vare brand of
harmony must havo taken the heart out
of tho contractor-politicians who read Sun
day's papers. It waB the announcement of
dates for bids on sewer, street and bridge
building for tho city. What a sharp and
cruel reminder that the Blankenburg Admin
istration has nearly 11,000,000 of publlo work
still to give out, work that can never drain
fat contractors' profits into sagging pockets!
Human; All Too Human
BEFORE things began to hum, women and
war were supposed by a good many antl
militarists to partake of an Inherent, divine
and salubrious antithesis. They were the
corrective to man's pugnacious predilections.
If women had the say!
And now 30.000 women have braved a rainy
day to parade London begging for employ
ment in the munitions factories.
There aro quite a few things, of qourse,
which tend to dull the point of this contrast.
Thirty thousand woman are not. after all, a
majority, the women who mourn, mourn at
home. Further, the 90,000 were led by women
like Mrs. Pankhurst, who constantly seek
wider aetlon for the female of tho species,
and who In the present case are supporting
war because they hope thereby to end it.
At bottom the whole thing Is no more than
another argument against generalization.
W omen are Just about as human, just about
na heroic and Just about as pathetically ro
mantio as men. Once war is loose they ean
be counted oa for patriotism. But before,
perhaps for a little more sanity where, hu
man life is concerned,
I HI I I1 mini HBWIIH'IBBg
Another Blankenburg Record
GOOD works gatMr momentum. In the
last months of the Blanksnburg Admin
istration a hundred fine results of honesty
and esscieni j are piling up Now more than
ever before the voter can get a Just meas
ure of what good govertuneat can do for
Philadelphia
!.( week was a terribl weak. The poor,
. lukiy. tbe youag have rarely sjana
i jousb ati.& a seven day ot trial by heat
EVENINtt
and humidify. Tct what Is tho city's mor
tality record for tho period? Four hundred
nnd ono deaths, ns compared with 461 In tho
samo week a year ngo. With tho exception
of tuberculosis which Is traceablo to bad
housing and ill nutrition rather than to
atmospheric conditions tho new eases of
communicable dlscaso developed last week
wcro fewer than a year ago.
Such a record is a feather, Indeed, for the
cap of the city's Bureau of Health and the
caro It has had slnco Mayor Blankenburg
began his term. It means a steady growth
In efficiency year after year. And the
momentum of such an accomplishment Is
likely to last clear into whatever sort of
administration tho voters glvo Philadelphia
In November.
Helping tho Harmony
HE MIGHT havo picked out a kinder tlmo
to break tho news. "Tho Hon. William
S. Vare, Congressman from tho 1st District
of Pennsylvania, whoso bauiwicK is vinuuuy
South Philadelphia," shouldn't havo lot tho
rat out of Mr. Lcnnon's bag until Jim Mc
Nlchol had enjoyed a llttlo of his prospective
vacation nt tho Clovcland trotting races. Tho
Senator might havo had to stay over nnd
rchcarso his Harmony Quartet again.
It Is hard to say what elements of Phila
delphia read Mr. Lcnnon's editorial with tho
most Interest. Thoso of a literary, oven ora
torical, turn of mind searched It with won
dering eyes. Early business opponents of
Congressman Vnro must havo found a par
ticular fascination In tho sentence: "Bo
foro his cntrnnco Into politics ho had exhib
ited a capacity for tho details of business,
which is to this day a treasured recollection
of thoso with whom ho dealt."
But of nil that scholarly plea for section
alism In city politics, no portion con have
attracted tho Interest of tho best and tho
worst elements of Philadelphia so sharply as
the following:
j. Looked at from whatever angle chosen, ho
Is the so-called "logical" candidate, tho type
of man needed to handle tho tremendous
municipal problems which await solution.
Estimating tho thoughts of BUCh a ono ns
Jim McNlchol Is no slmplo or salubrious
matter; but It is safo to say that tho contractor-Senator
thinks thoso "tremendous
municipal problems" might bo moro profit
ably handled by somebody nearer homo than
Washington and South Philadelphia. Nor
does that "faculty of quickly seizing details,"
which Mr. Lcnnon parades, commend Itself
to a rival of brother-contractor "Ed "
As for Phlladclphla'o reaction to this mat
ter of n solver for "tremendous municipal
problems," It Is something very liko tho smile
which Illumines tho faco of tho commuter
who reads that Plgn along tho Reading:
"Edwin II. Vnro, Largest Street Cleaning
Contractor In tho World. Underground Con
duit Department."
Thero Is, however, ono time when tho pub
lic values that "Judgment amounting almost
to prescience," which Mr. Lennon attributes
to tho South Philadelphia Congressman. That
is tho tlmo when tho gang Is after "har
mony." Philadelphia can stand a lot moro
of It. It can stand enough to bring about
another tragl-comedy such as Congressman
Vare enacted in 1011.
A Scholar and an Athlete
TO THOSE grouchy persons who think that
scholarship and athletics cannot thrlvo in
tho samo body wo commend Norman Taber.
Hero la a youth who was a Phi Beta Kappa
man at Brown University, 13 now a Rhodes
scholar at Oxford, and last week crowned
theso achievements by running tho fastest
milo on record by professional or amateur.
Not only did ho lower tho provlous world's
amateur record of 4 minutes 14 2-5 seconds,
made by John Paul Jones, of Cornell, also a
scholar and an nthleto, but ho lowered by
three-twentieths of a second tho world's pro
fessional record of 4 minutes 12 seconds
mado 2D years ago In London by W. G.
George.
Overindulgence In athletics at tho cxpenso
of scholarship is becoming more and moro a
myth In tho collego world. It Is on abuso
which may bo controlled by tho proper sort
of faculty supervision. Indeed, It Is a ques
tion If our faculties are not a llttlo unfair
to tho athletes, because In most universities
tho nthleto must carry fower conditions than
tho nonathlotlc student.
Young men like Taber are a credit to this
nation, whether as scholars or as athletes.
Our Part in the War
rET NOT Americans worry over tho place
1 tho United States will hold In history for
tho part It has played In this world war.
Whllo we are trying to maintain strict neu
trality and to keep out of "entangling alli
ances" our sympathy for suffering and our
efforts to relieve It havo been world wide. On
top of the achievement of feeding starving
Belgium our country haB rendered tho most
conspicuous service In checking tho ravages
of typhus fever In Serbia. Distinguished
Europeans have paid tribute to tho tlmoly
and effective steps America took when war
ridden Serbia was dying with 300,000 typhus
cases, aid which Sir Thomas Llpton said
"has made America beloved by all Serbians,
from tho King to the lowest peasant." Feed
ing tho starving and healing the sick is cer
tainly a nobler thing than helping to spread
tho ravages of war.
Labor wants a few of the munition melons.
Now England BayB, "Me, too!" on the am
munition question,
What is the proper cargo for Inventor
Lake's freight submarines? Watermelons,
of course. t
With the typewriter factories making
war munitions for Europe, thero ought to be
a big boom In the peri1ndustry,
Why remark that It is the Liberty Bell
which brings out all this enthusiasm In the
West? No ono would think that the presence
of our Councllmen accounted for it.
If the Frenoh and Germans in the Argonne
continue pushing each back in this annoy
ing and unseemly manner, the umpire will
have to penalize them both for off-side play.
Possibly some of the shipyards are right
about the inferiority of the submarine, bijt
the awkward thought simply will intrude
that there s m?re meney Jn building dread,
noughts.
i- 1 awy J 11 li
Woman suffragists in Ungland have Won
at least one point: Wh&rt they begin work
in the munitions factories Lloyd-George
promise that they will rasclye equal pay
with
The paajses that tba Italiaaa occupied Sat
ur4ay my have been iMM feat high, but
waraa't ball so long as the LiDerty Well pass
that the Juakeur-guardswes of Couaoita
occupied oa their way West.
T.inainn-imTT,AD1i.LPHIl. MONDAY. JULY 19, 1915
THE WEAKNESS
OF ANNAPOLIS
Professor Fiske, of Columbia, Says
tho Naval Academy Is Handi
capped by Its Inability to Employ
Enough Up-to-date Professors.
"pvOPE SHEETS," with answers to tho
U approaching examination questions,
gh en out In advance, nnd easy access to tho
department offices at Annapolis, as revealed
In tho Naval Academy Inquiry now under
way, havo directed criticism not only toward
tho cadets, but toward tho faculty for com
plicity on their part In tho system.
Somo 18 or 20 graduates of Annapolis aro
sent to Columbia ovcry year for advanced
work In tho higher mathematics, electrical
engineering, wireless telegraphy, ballistics,
etc., nnd as many moro aro sent to Massa
chusetts Instlluto of Technology In Boston
for work In a cotirso In naval construction.
Discussing tho question of why It should bo
necessary to send tho navy men away from
Annapolis for their most advanced work,
Professor Thomas Scott Flskc, administra
tive head of tho department of mathematics
at Columbia, said to a representative of tho
Evenino Lcoann:
"Tho United States Naval Academy at An
napolis and tho Military Academy at West
Point can never hopo to securo the services
of teachers of great distinction In tho scien
tific world until they can offer thoso tench
crs dignified conditions of service. It would
bo Impossible for a teacher of tho highest
scientific ability and reputation to accept a
teaching position In olther Institution under
tho conditions existing today.
"Ono of tho crying needs of the country Is
that tho Government should undertake tho
education of military and naval engineers of
a higher typo than they aro now prepared to
turn out.
Teachers Wink at Fraud
"Ono of tho unfortunate results of tho pres
ent situation Is that tho teaching staff havo
como to wink at practices among tho Btu
dents In preparing for their examination that
would bo disapproved and immediately pro
hibited In tho best colleges. If what wo read
In tho papers is relloblo tho teachers them
selves put into tho 'dopo sheets' circulated
nmong tho students tho answers to tho very
questions they Intend to ask In tho approach
ing examination. Tho motive, of course,
would bo to bring tho number of men in their
classes ablo to pass up to a higher average.
"England and Frnnco and other nations
havo solved satisfactorily tho problems here
in Involved, nnd somo of tho greatest scien
tific men In tho world hold professorships in
tho great military and naval colleges of thoso
countries Tho head of tho Royal Artillery
Collego nt Woolwich, England, Is Sir Alfred
George Grccnhlll Ho was nothing but an
ordinary professor of mathemathlcs In tho
Ordnance Collego to start with, but tho Brit
ish Government knighted him In recognition
of his services to tho country: tho young
British artillery officers feel that it is an
honor to be permitted to study under such a
man. By this policy of recognizing and con
ferring prestige upon her great scientific
men, England Is ablo to securo their services
for her army and navy Tho United State3
Government could never hopo to get a man
of that sort, ono with a world-wldo reputa
tion, to accept a position In her military and
naval academies. But England can.
Handicap of Civilian Professors
"One of the most distinguished mathemati
cians connected with any of tho educational
Institutions of tho Government Is Professor
William Woolsoy Johnson, who has been a
civilian professor at tho Naval Academy
slnco 1691. Ho has novcr received any rec
ognition from the Government, has never
been accorded any official prestige, and now,
when ho Is an old man over 70, ho Is forced
to go on teaching past tho ago when he
ought to retire, becauso tho Government re
fuses to pension him. Unless a bill has been
passed In his favor very recently thero Is
absolutely no provision made for his old
age. When some of us tried to got a bill
through for him not long ago wo were re
fused on tho ground that It would create an
unfortunate precedent, nnd would commit
tho Government to a policy of pensioning Its
civil employes. On tho other hand, the Car
negie Foundation to whom wo appealed re
fused to includo tho civil employes of tho
Military and Naval Academies on their list
on the ground that It would bo encouraging
tho Government to neglect Its duties.
"Our Government has set a precedent, how
over, In Its recognition of tho lato Simon
Newcomb, who was director at tho Naval Ob
servatory at Washington, and who, In recog
nition of his great services, as ono of tho
greatest Bclentlsls of his time, was given a
rank equal to that of a captain in the navy.
Slnco his death other civilians at tho Naval
Observatory In Washington havo been given
rank In the navy. But mark this the thing
that helped Professor Newcomb to his recog
nition was the fact that ho also held a pro
fessorship at Johns Hopkins University and 0
separate salary. This gave him a certain
strategic Independence In his dealings with
the Government,
"The trouble, of course. Is primarily duo to
the Jealousy of the army and navy offlcerswho
hold the high positions In theso academies,
nnd aro Jealous of any recognition of out
siders, and regard them all as interlopers.
Theso army and navy officers were them
selves graduated from their studies some 20
or 25 years ago, and havo not kept up with
the newest thought and discoveries and re
search In the scientific world."
HOW MEXICO MUST FEEL
From the Portland Argua
The small boy who eats green apples knows
how poor Mexico must feel with the disagree
ing factions rioting within her borders, . ,
WISHING -
I've only but to bend my head
To see the Western skies grow red
Beyond the home I used to know, v
'And hear the gentle cattle low
As they come to the pasture bars,
And see the vanguard of the stars
Come dimly Into the pale sky,
And hear the whippoorwlU's sad cry,
And fsel the all-pervading- love
Of the old home I wearied of.
And I have but to close my eyes
To hear my mother's lullabyes,
And fel myself grow young agalnj
And be a boy as I was then,
With cotton line an4 alder pale
Beside the old-time ttshiur hole.
Neglecting line and hook and bait,
And sitting till the hour grows late,
A little figure all alone.
Wishing sad wtuhtog I were grown,
That poor, pathetic little tadl
With aU on earth to make him glad
Waiting with longing for the years '
Of disappointment and of tears!
Th year are good, the tasks ta do.
Tb chance to tao4 straight, stsaag aod true.
Had MP, for aU thawtfht warth wfctt.
To meet nilforte wtth a aailU.
But I UuaK t9m w " tiw
Att wish that th WH yeans al
- J JMwt h- ta Uuumub Fsit.
BUN0OFONEEYE ANDCAN'T SEE OUT OF THE OTHER
THE LIPS OF THE ORACLE ARE DUMB
Reminiscences of St. Clair McKelway, Who Abandoned the Bar for
the Tripod and Made Brooklyn Journalism Famous His
Philadelphia Brother Gave Him Loyal Legion Button.
By GEORGE
"mHERE nrc two kinds of journalism,
X namely, Journalism and Brooklyn jour
nalism, and tho latter Is an acquired tasto."
This epigram, delivered at a dinner In Now
York by St. Clair McKelway, editor of tho
Brooklyn Eagle, was greeted with apprecia
tive laughter by the
guests. Tho distinc
tion of Mr. McKel
way, who has Just
died, Is that ho ac
quired tho tasto and
then mado Brooklyn
Journalism d 1 s t i n
gulshed. Ho belonged
to a later genera
tion than Greeley and
Dana nnd Raymond,
but ho had tho doml
n a 1 1 n g personality
that characterized
these men, and he
still believed In the
power nnd Import
ST CLAIR. McKELWAY.
ance of tho editorial
pago in making tho character of a newspa
per. Ho devoted his time and his energy to
that page, and was in tho habit of writing
from one to two columns a day. I havo said
"writing."
Ho did not write, but dictated his articles
to on expert typewriter, who reproduced them
directly on tho machine without tho Inter
vention of shorthand notes. I havo seen
him walking up nnd down his room declaim
ing as If before an nudlence, gesticulating
and ending a rhetorical period with a shout
of triumph. Tho emotion which ho put into
this sort of composition was so strong that
It saturated his words and reproduced In tho
reader tho feeling that inspired them. I havo
seen him so moved that tyio tears filled his
eyes as he poured forth a procession of
Bentonccs filled with an appeal to the noblest
sentiments of tho electorate.
Ho was born In Missouri, but ho was edu
cated In New Jersey, chiefly by private tutors
In Trenton, where ho lived with his grand
father, while his father was engaged as a
surgeon In tho Civil War. He did some writ
ing for the Trenton newspapers, and, aa ho
grew older, he took an Interest In politics.
He studied law and was admitted to tho bar,
but ho never practiced.
Delivering Frelinghuysen's Speech
Ono of his favorite stories Is how he cam
paigned New Jersey with Senator Frederick
T, Frcllnghuysen. .Ho was reporting the
political meetings for a Now York paper
going from town to town with the speakers.
Frellnghuysen was lato In arriving at one
meeting, and McKelway, who was known
to the committee, was asked to fill in the
time. He consented, and thought that he
could not do better than to tell the crowd
what the announced speaker would have
told them. Ho had heard Frelinghuysen's
speech every night for a week or two, and
ho knew It as though It were his own.
So he launched forth. When ho was about
half way through Frellnghuysen camo in.
He was in the middle of an argument, and he
kept on until he had made the point. But
before he Btopped ho noticed that Frellng
huysen suddenly sat up In his chair with a
look of astonishment and then leaned back
with an amused smile. McKelway offered to
withdraw, but tho crowd shouted, "Go on!
Go on!" and Frellnghuysen insisted that he
should continue. Ho finished the speech.
Then Frellnghuysen arose,
"Tho gentleman who has Just spoken," he
said, with a quizzical look at McKelway,
"has said what I should havo wished to say
so much better and so much more eloquently
than I could have said It that I will not de
tain you, save to say a few words Jn in
dorsement of his remarks "
When ho sat down he seized MoKelway's
hand and shook it heartily.
"How In the world did you do It?" he asked.
applanations and apologies followed, and
there were no hard feelings.
Named the "Carpet-baggers"
He coined many phrases that have beoome
the common language of political dlsoussJim.
It was while be was employed on the New
York World that he called the reoonstruo.
luMtun. fiepumtf-an Amoenoiaers in the
WloehQlders In the 8ajtJ,
' Carpet-baggers;
tng on the telegraph
k.T VT 'T . . T '"sui-iue amis,
which he at one time shared with B. H.,
Clement, who was editor of the Boaton Trail-
script for years when a meaesge came la an
nouncing ttutt the Administration was aead-
lag a tot or Northerners into the South He
VMU baadaa f a ia wuieU h, cau tbe
W. DOUGLAS.
Invaders "carpet-baggers," and sent it to tho
composing room. Manton Marble, then editor
of tho World, saw tho heading In tho proof,
and asked McKelway to wrlto an editorial
article about tho now phrase. Tho next morn
ing "Carpet-bag government" wns denounced
on tho editorial page and Its Inauguration
announced In tho news columns. Tho phrase
fitted tho situation so exactly that it still
survives.
Ho was an editorial writer on tho Brooklyn
Eaglo for soveral years, and then went to
Albany to edit tho Albany Argus, owned by
Daniel Manning, who was to become Secre
tary of the Treasury In Cleveland's Cabinet.
"My salary was $3000 a year when tho Re
publicans were In power and $3500 when tho
Democrats controlled tho Stato government."
ho said to mo once. "But I managed to sco
to It that conditions wero such that I got
$3500 most of tho tlmo that I was with tho
Argus."
A Tradition in Albany
After a short interval under another editor
ho succeeded Thomas KlnselUj. as editor of
tho Eagle. Kinsclla is tho man who is
credited with nominating Hancock for tho
Presidency. Long before tho convention ho
had sent William C. Hudson, ono of his ablest
political writers, through the South and tho
West to talk with tho leaders about Han
cock's availability. Ho sowed tho seed
which bore fruit In tho convention. Kin
sclla was a great editor, and for soveral years
after McKelway took chargo of tho Eaglo
men In tho office would say in times of
crisis, "Oh, If KInsella were only hero to
handle that subject!" And It galled him to
know that thero was a feeling that ho was
not so big as his predecessor. But ono day
ho went back to Albany and visited tho
Argus office. His friends all said that they
wished they had him back thero again.
"And whenever something big happens,"
they told him, "wo nil say among ourselves,
'Oh, If McKelway wero only hero now, wo
should have something worth while.' "
Ho Btopped worrying about tho traditional
greatness of Kinsclla when ho discovered
that he also was a tradition.
Whllo he was in Albany he delighted In
unuaual words. Ono of the office boys said
that ho kept In his desk a small dictionary
of obsoleto and obsolescent words tho ofilco
boy did not call It that and studied It every
day. And thoy Bay that tho Albanians
waited eagerly for tho Argus every morning
to discover what now word tho editor had
used. In his later years, however, ho cul
tivated a simple and direct style. I once
used "caoutchouc" in an article. He camo; to
mo and said;
"I wouldn't use that word. The girls in
the composing room do not know what It
means. Put 'India rubber" in Its place."
But he would persist in writing long sen
tences. At a dinner In honor of his birthday
the boys of tho staff printed on the menu
tho most recent example of his ability to
marshal words that moved with orderly pre
cision to a full stop, and it filled as much as
three inches of a newspaper column.
Best Speech of the Bunch
Thero was a tlmo when ho was ono of tho
most popular afterdlnner speakers In New
York. But ho had to give up going to pub
Ho dinners becauso it was impossible for a
man to work all day and then talk nil night.
The popular, if profano. estimate of him as
a speaker was expressed by an Irishman
after attending a mass-meeting in the
Brooklyn Academy of Music, held to de
nounce soma political chicanery.
"That blankoty, blank, blankety blank Mc
Kelway mado the best speech of the bunch "
And T. P. O'Connor, who heard him In a
debato on immigration, wroto: "I never
heard a wittier, a more sensible or mora pul
verizing speech than that of St. Clair Me.
Kalway. The one man who oould have
8.rdwm,h VP9 Jn W experience Is
Sir William Hareourt; and I am not sure
that even he oquld have made Jt"
Wke so many other men. he shortened the
name glvn him at birth. Ho was chrls.
tened St. Clair Kirtley MeKelwav w. L
remarked to me once. , mmf)a w "
; many for one mn to earr. so dropped one
ry quotations from the phlloiaier KirtuJ
jm tbe editorial page you wmew i
be is." w wlM
Although he was not the etdaat aoa ha
wore tbe Loyal Legion button Htl J
be died. a m V -wl
(THE ' "J - A
DtWjtntnrsmt I
claim to momborshlp in tho Legion in favorl
of tho younger man, to whom It had somy
value becauso of his relations with publlol
men and events.
GERMANY BUILDING BATTLESHIPS
From the Liverpool Journal of Commerce,
Tho fighting strength of tho German navy at ,
tho orcsent tlmo con only uo a matter of con
jecture, whllo Its power of expansion has beeiH
tho subject of consiaeraoio speculation.
To her battle squadrons tho enemy will un
doubtedly have added tho Kronprlnz, which wai
laid down at Kiel In tho mlddlo of 1312, while?
the battle cruisers Lultzow, launched at Dantzlc.
near tho end of 1SH3, and the Ersatz Hertha,
lnld clown in tho same year, will certainly have i
Joined tho waiting battle cruiser squadron by!
this time.
The best known of tho now ships under con-j
structlon are tho Ersatz Worth and the "T,"ij
both commenced early In 1911 Theso vessels are!
approximately of 23,000 tons displacement and"!
mount eight 15-Inch guns. Compared with th
Queen Elizabeth class they carry the same ar
mament much moro einclcntiy protectea, duisi.
an Inferior speed.
Tho Germnn fleet Is most likely to tight wheal
the land campaigns have gono so badly for tiers
that a master stroke Is necessary In order tl
retrieve the situation. When that state ot atj
fairs will nrrlvo Is. nt tho moment, beyond mors
tat knowledge Many critics still antlclpiUJ
that another winter campaign will not be nKtS'V
sary, but this view appears to err on the op- ffl
tlmlstlc side, and It wo neglect it ano nssum j
that 18 months of war la a practical nosslhllltjj"
then tho German navy Is likely to prove V
much more powerful argument than. It Is at
present.
T!nrlv In Hia tvnr thft RUnftrlnr value. of the
1 battle cruiser was emphatically demonstrated.
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and it tho Dig snip facilities ot mo utrman ,
yards were concentrated on rusnlng out ima.
class of snip the squadron would be immediate
Iv stremrhtened Firms such ns the Oermaiiai
nt Kiel, Btohm and Voss and the Vulcan Com-S
nanv nt Hamburg, and the HclUchau yard ai
Dahtztc. could probably between them complete
Esven or elgnt oatuo cruisers Dy ino ena ot -next
sprlnir. when the Germans would have
available something like 20 dreadnoughts and 15
battle cruisers.
The nbove figures can only, of course, be
quite general, but they serve to Indicate that
If the final sen battle be postponed till next 1 ear
tho tussle is likely to assume proportions hither- :
to undreamed of, and far beyond the general
Imagination.
MODERN DIPLOMACY
From the Washington Star.
"I understand that you have a new motor
car?
"Yes "
"Do jou drive It yourself?"
"Nobody drhes it. Wo coax it."
A BAD COMBINATION
From the Ohio State Journal.
A Massachusetts man had a monkey wrencly
tern from his hand by a thunderbolt. Anyi
man. Massachusetts or otherwise. Who attempts
to turn that kind of bolt with that hind ofa
wrench is very certain to come to grief.
THE MANXMAN
From the Boston Evening Transcript.
"The only material source of Manx Income,'
complains Hall Calne, "Is the visiting In
dustry," He forgets literature.
THR NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW
Secretary McAdocs admirable plan for llmlt-'
(nt thn xnaf rt foHoml hiillillnirn will haVS tnS,
unanimous support of everybody In all tn-jW
towns it uoea not uneci. ew ium ".
There never should be another Thaw casjn
(II nio oiam ui .lew lum. ... ,1 it
life nnd squandered monev have Riven US that 3
assurance, they have not been spent In vain.
New York World.
Mr, Daniels Isn't getting to the root of the
trouble in his department, lie is sitirrmi"-
around the edges, and it Is doubtful whetntg
he can accomplish much with his new awujj
uotroit .free 1'ress.
nfiA Thnn. la a n.lfln nt M TtanlfilS tl
would delight to be confounded If there o
steam behind his Idea and If It can be national
Ized we shall have started toward efficient
Chicago Tribune. ,
It Is not a bad sign that Secretary Lansln
shows, like President Wilson, a disposition W d
think things out alone before talking about
them, Successful government by the Pf'jM
depends quite as much on thinking aa on -lug.
Springfield Republican
It Is the eminently practical nature of the
Edison genius which constitutes its value, im
mediate and prospective. He brings about r'
suits., ,JfU more Inspiring selection could be
made" aS alflvUer and director of the under
taking, laboring our navy up to the standard.
requJrtd by the new conditions of defense and
a( warfare Boston Post
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