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FALKS WITH
MANY
By Solemn Swain
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Vincent Astor. Is Just Like Anyone
Else, Only More So.
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IVEN a pint of money and a
I pack of clothes, we find, too
oft, the rich man's child," is
the enfeebled warbling, as, I learned it
yBomewhere. Probably it is messed up.
The sense of the thins is there, any
way. The longer I think of It the less
I remember.
And. pretty generally, the more
money the more the mess just the
same with my hunchbacked quotation.
"What?
Out in Indiana, where I was "raised"
fc oh, yes, we still "raise" children, and
some corn the richest fellow I ever
knew or can recollect was Milt Som
mers, who used to grind shears for
mother. He ran one of those wagons
all loaded up with grindstones and
wheels, and his spavined old horse had
a series of little cowbells over Its col
lar. AVhen Milt would take the quarter
mother offered in payment for her
newly ground shears and Milt would
fish down in his jeens and dig up a
handful of change and nonchalantly
Klve mother 15 cents back well, the
Bight of that change and Milt's manner
constituted worldly pelf to me then. It
pictured what Dr. Buchtel used to say
WAR ZEST
THE coming of the military has
added a new value and fresh zest
to country life in Great Britain.
It is not only that their field days and
maneuvers, their flag signalling in the.
hedge rows, their trenches and route
m. rching divert bucolic monotony, but
these light-hearted lads from the
towns, these irrepressible Jesters, these
whistling, singing, good humored com
raaiys. to whom nothing comes amiss,
have brought with them a real opti
mism which is infectious.
The "Tommies" have been giving
concerts in aid of some of the war
funds in every village schoolroom
round about quite a new thing in
concerts, by the way. .-A born pianist
among them sits at the instrument
from start to finish, rattling off chorus
after chorus with his clumsy fingers.
7hile his khaki pals seated around the
platform roll the refrains out from
"Tipperary" to the latest sentimental
with a swing and gayety and many
a prank of comradeship thrown in that
Is Irresistible and holds the crowded
room spellbound while the leader, a
dark-haired lad with merriest eyes,
who was a Pierrot in civil fe. will
from time to time get upon his legs
and throw in a song as his fancy takes
him with an artistic action suited to
the words that is never a . a loss, and
then he will beckon to another pal in
the khaki group at the back of the
room, but all tn vain until he has
swung down ine gangway to fetch him
up. Then a fair, curly headed lad
with a pensive, thoughtful face, cares
sing a silver trumpet under his arm
as if he loved It, leaps to the platform
and gives the bugle call with his face
turned sideways to the audience as if
half shy at facing them, sounding "The
Last Post" with exquisite pathos. That
concert will stick in village memories.
The spirit of comradeship, the esprit
de corps displayed upon that platform
was another object-lesson to country
folk, for they have nothing to answer
to it In their own community, where
petty Jealousies, old standing feuds.
VTNCEltfT ASTOIi,
1912 By MARCCAU.
was stuff that you should "lay not up."
Milt and his handful of silver was my
visional Croesus. Milt's dead now.
They buried him eight years ago with
county honors. No mattei: when he
had it he had me.
As some of my good readers may
have found out ere now, I've got the
healthiest respect for any kind of
money. I don't want to push the state
ment over the edge of repetition, but X
just want it generally known that
money . and myself are on speaking
terms only. And when I see money
represented by humans or otherwise
I naturally have to bow low and step
wide.
I've observed during these-not-too-many
years, however, that if a fellow
don't dig up his own money out of the
garden he's been put at the chances
are that he won't amount to much.
His assay will generally run about 2
per cent pay and 98 per cent hope-so.
There was a fellow out home who lived
across the street from me. His father
was a wholesale plumber. And before
they got to making plumber jokes li
belous that fellow's father was mak
ing a pile that would stagger a burro.
IN BRITISH
and party animosities spoil most of
their Joint local endeavors.
The small boys of the village have
taken up a war movement of their
own and. dinked out in wonderful mar
tial trappings, they lay deep plans of
scouting, sniping, patrolling and sur
prise attacks likely as not round some
unexpected corner a crouching imp will
salute you with the snap of his toy
pistol. Indeed, a promisng seedbed of
future recruits has been sown by bil
leting the military in country districts.
In every village hereabouts local
wiseacres are registered ready to act
as intelligence guides, invaluable pilots
for the disposition of our troops In the
event of foreign invasion, men who
know their district every inch and the
lay of the land, with its natural se
crets and cunning devices, where con
cealment can be schemed and traps laid.
But if their services should be called
for one some dark, foggy night even the
knowing blind can't lead the blind and
the wisest geographsst would be lost
across country.
The hunting season has been In full
swing, but the usually gay spectacle
of a meet of hounds on the village
green has been a dejected affair, for
beyond the acting master and the hunt
servants none are In scarlet, and the
field is composed mostly of women and
perhaps a few children home for the
holidays; there is no attendant con
course of onlookers'; people have not
the heart to go to the meet, and it is
almost a pity for the hunts to adver
tise their place of meeting, as If invit
ing people to come out when a few
postcards would serve the purpose re
quired, for this advertisement gives the
man In the street a wrong impression,
who. accordingly, puts the hunting folk
In the same category as the football
players, against whom there has been
such an outcry in this hour of national
distress; whereas, if the truth were to
be told It might be said to the credit
of the sport of hunting that the superb
valor of our army at the front is In no
small measure due to the bold follow
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Well, father sort of petered out after
a while, lost his business; and son was
up against it. Son had been coming on
for a number of years right welL He
had acquired a north side accent and
two white vests. Besides that, when he
moulted he engaged a wife. She was
a fine girl in her way one of the
"favrile brand." That's a good one
favrile. It's Tiffany idea, see? This
wife was a good sort of 'a girl, but
helpless she couldn't boil water for
tea.
When father, the plumber, caved in,
son was put to it, as the better ones
write, to get by. AVorking and son
were not even first cousins. The
struggle that lad had to live down his
father's bust-up and his attempts to
keep a shelter over the little wife's
head would fill another "Trow direc
tory." You see. son had been "expect
ing." He had expected that father
would die and fix it easy for son and
wife. But he made his bets cross, and
well, I saw the son last year. He
looked like the last verse of the last
chapter of Revelation, and that's some
verse.
It all goes to show that you can't
expect, or that you can't even hope to
RURAL LIFE
ing of the hounds, just as it was said of
old that the battle of Waterloo was
won on the playing fields of Eton. Even
In this exceptional year hunting has to
be carried on, but as a business, not as
a recreation; the less parade made
about it the better.
To sum up, the war Is touching the
dweller in the country directly, as well
as Indirectly, in many ways, and is
bound to be teaching him. as, indeed,
all of us, that valuable lesson which
counts so much in a man's outlook and
Judgments, and which we call a sense
of proportion, and no one needs it
more than the countryman dwelling in
his backwater of life, so far from the
main stream of affairs, a condition of
things which, naturally limits Hodge's
imagination and therefore his sense of
proportion, making his own and hie
neighbor's comings and goings news
ings, tattlings. higglings and haggling
assume mammoth proportions, while all
the rest of the world is a pigmy affair.
For the first few months after the
outbreak of hostilities it was difficult
to understand the attitude that per
vaded both farm and cottage toward the
war. It almost seemed as if the coun
tryman felt that the war was no con
cern of his. It did not touch him per
sonally. Everything went on as usual.
Beyond the excitement of reading what
the papers manufactured for him out of
the scanty "official news, and his be
wilderment over the foreign names of
places which made it all seem very dis
tant and beyond his ken. he disturbed
himself very little about it. "Were
there not much more Important things
on hand for him?
The annual November killing of the
family pig to supply the household with
the staple Winter meat and the fat
stock show at Christmas market! Why.
the rural mind would march these two
historical events In - safe, conduct
through all the alarms of war.
No; war was a rich man's game
some astute move, perhaps, on the part
of great financiers and trusts to make
capital out of the public misfortune, or.
expect If you don't gret out and hustle
yourself.
Do you believe that when rich men
are plugging along about the last two
laps in life they don't look around for
a likely sprout on the family tree on
which to center their attention? Don't
you suppose those men watch and
nurse that sprout sort of care-take
that particular branch and see that "so
the twig is bent so the tree will in
cline"? I do.
Of course, some of these rich men
miss their guess. Just like "Old Doc
Anthony out home used to do about
those race horses down In Brown
county. But he always had a' dandy
alibi.
From the misguesses in and about
New York, some of the old-time rich
men must have been playing blind
man's buff, if later day form has any
thing to do with It. What?
It doesn't take any sweet water phi
losopher to point out that unless a
young fellow goes out in the garden
and does his own tending and harvest
ing he'll reap a heap of vain regrets
and lamentations.
So It can be sort of sized up that
when I meet a fellow who despite han
dicaps that money and forefathers
bring about stands on two legs and
shows me he is somewhat of a man I've
simply got to take off my hat to him.
About three weeks ago I was wan
dering -up around Newport. I always
figured that If I could see Newport "in
season," as they put it at the head of
the menu, I'd die content. I figured
out that Newport was Just about what
my brand of respect for money called
for. If there was an after-dinner drink
needed when I saluted Money, Newport
was that drink.
Newport, when I was there, had the
Horse Show In progress. I noted after
I got back that several other things
were in progress one about a near
count who stole a horseshoe pin but
as I didn't go In those circles I missed
that doings.
looked at pretty horses and they
were pretty, too. I saw lots of quality
In that oval.
I stayed around the horse ring about
as long as I dared the way I was
given the "out and out" was some way
and finally I wandered outside.
I sttrted to talk, to a fellow who
drove a hand-painted automobile and
he was tipping me off to who's who.
I saw every one, if his story holds.
Whether he was right or not I don't
care. Only John D. Rockefeller was
missing, and they say he don't go out
much after 3 o'clock nowadays.
This automobile driver must have ex
hausted the possibilities and sort of
got down to the "unclassified" in the
blue book list, for I noiced his con
versation petering out. He was down
to one syllable names by now and I
got him repeating himself more than
once. Tiresome on a fellow who doesn't
know what he's hearing, anyway.
I was watching a Newport officer,
badge and club and all. The way he
was herding grocery boys and delivery
wagons around was tremendous. He
was all duty. He saw every lad
within five blocks before the lad saw
him. And the way he upheld New
port law was a criterion, let me tell
you. He did not notice anybody who
had one million or over. You could
almost see him consult his Bradstreet
before holding up his brawny traffic
mallet.
After the policeman had put in a
good 15 minutes on his work and 1
had mentally tabbed him as a possibil
ity in the argument of what makes a
man, I got a sideways view of a young
fellow sitting all alone, over to the
side in an automobile.
"Oh. yes," said old faithful, the in
formation gusher, "that's Vincent As
tor." Well, all I can say is he didn't look
it.
Cver since I used to snitch the Morn
ing Telegraph from my sister, whose
beau brought It out to our home every
Monday, in Indiana, where the Tele
as Hodge put it more simply, "there's
a lot o" dicky going on somewhere.'"
No, he didn't believe In the righteous
ness of going to war. And so recruit
ing made but slow-footed progress in
country districts. "Why should I let
my son go and get killed? 1 want him
at home. Let them go as can afford
it."
Such was their talk, and all the
shouting for recruits fell mostly on
deaf earti in fact, the whole enlistment
campaign failed. The valiant poste-s of
duty, reproachful posters, the confiden
tial posters which were plastered on
every wall, the squire's heroics at the
public meeting in the school all were
in vain, for in whatever key the tune
was pitched the music failed to charm
because the deaf adder had stopped her
ear on purpose.
The whole business was looked upon
as mere bluff to get up a scare among
ignorant folk, a trick to exploit poor
folk in the interests of the well-to-do.
Moreover, when the threepenny tax on
tea was announced the struggling and
careful Martha thought it a shame that
'they should pay for the war out of
such as us." Besides, as the village
roadman remarked, "The Germans don't
hinder me from sleep; they'd never get
here, and they dursn't try, nowther."
17e for Obsolete Guns.
Many unmilitary things are made of
obsolete guns, and in England especial
ly are to be found a number of objects
of interest in this line, says the Marine
Journal. The Victoria Cross, for in
stance, has always been manufactured
from the guns captured at Sebastopol.
Many things in the British Isles are
named for Waterloo in consequence of
the great victory that was won there
over Napoleon on June 18. 1815. one In
particular being the Waterloo Bridge,
the gas brackets on which were fash
ioned many years ago from cannon
used at Waterloo. Another instance is
the ornamental capital or the monu
ment to Nelson, the hero of Trafalgar,
which was made from old cannon, and
at Aldershot there is an effigy of Wel
lington and his charger Copenhagen,
also made from wornout guns. In the
crypt of St. Paul's there is the funeral
car which bore the remains of "Welling
ton to his last resting place, made en
tirely of enemy guns. -
graph Is still considered among the de
leted subjects of conversation. I had
read of the Astors doing this or that.
Either one of the family was getting
divorced or the other was getting
married. The Astors always filled a
large Job in my "Moneyed America"
book. The name always made me
think of the old story of "Every Boy
Has a Chance to Be President." Isn't
it an awful chance these days, though?
To be an Astor was absolutely Impos
sible. The Presidency was a mere office-homing
Job at the side of it. And
to see pretty near the last of the line,
sitting Just like a fellow would stt
In a regular automobile and all well.
I had a pretty swift mental readjust
ment of things What?
All I could think of for a minute was.
"Well, you'd never suspect it." It kept
roaming around under my hat like a
homeless ant.
And I made up my mind that I'd like
to talk to Vincent Astor. I wanted
to see what sort of conversation Vin
cent Astor and I could cook up.
So I crossed the road. The automo
bile driver. Old Information, looked
shocked. He was hired to look bored.
I guess. But he wasn't earning his
salary when I told him I was going to
talk to Vincent Astor. No, indeed.
Vincent Astor said "Howdye" pretty
nearly as well as I can myself when
I'm In good Hoosier form. If he didn't
say "Howdye" he nearly said it. He
ought to have said it. He looks like
he knew what "Howdye" meant, any
way. Somewhere I'd read that Vincent
Astor had recently been putting some
of his money which was left to him
in public markets, and wondered if Mr.
Astor conceived the idea of public
markets himself or whether his busi
ness managers had Just found a place
for profitable Investment, minus any
humanitarian motive. Public markets,
if you don't happen to know It, bridge
the gap often between the poor man
and the producer. If there were more
public markets there might be less
"high cost of living." no matter how
much Lew Shank, ertswhile Mayor of
Indianapolis, tried his best to ruin the
chances.
Remembering that Vincent Astor's
money at least was going into public
markets, and knowing what I believe
I know of the human value of public
markets. I thought I'd try a little con
versation along that line.
"Mr. Astor," says I. "these public
markets your estate is building are
they your ideas or are they Just a
place to put some money? You'll over
look this Inquiry, I hope. - You -see. I
know you in the newspapers but you
don't, know me. And. because I know
you in the newspapers, I want to tell
some people who know you probably
less than I do Just what sort of man
you are. See?"
"Well." said Mr. Astor. "I guess. In
answering your first question, the mat
ter of building public markets has my
fullest sanction. I believe that if the
buying public can be brought Into
closer relationship with the producer
of foodstuffs mutual benefit will un
doubtedly accrue. Now, as to your
knowing me. that's all very nice, but
I don't see why you wish to see what
sort of man I am. I'm quite sure there
has been enough said already and too
much. After all. I'm quite human like
the same sort of things that you prob
ably do, I'm very keen on legitimate
sports and try to do my best at what
sports I follow closest. I try to live
as close as possible to the things that
are worth while, and If a man does
that be cannot go very far wrong, can
he?"
"All of that. Mr. Astor." says I. "is
Just about what I guessed before we
started talking."
"So?" says he.
"Yes," says I.
Then we both grinned.
"I like all this." says I, pointing to
the beautiful views in and around,
where they were holding the horse
show.
"So do I," says he. looking around at
CHINESE BANK SITUATION IS SERIOUS
THE situation in Chineses commer
cial circles generally with respect
to banking facilities offered the
native dealers by the native Chinese
banks Is becoming more and more seri
ous In its effects upon trade of all
kinds. It is becoming more evident
that before trade matters in China can
resume their accustomed course some
thing will have to be done to rehabili
tate the native banks and aid them in
again performing their usual functions
in Chinese trade.
There are In Chinese commercial af
fairs four varieties of banking insti
tutions which have their special part
in Chinese business. The first are the
large foreign banking institutions in
the open ports, some of which are
among the most powerful banking in
stitutions in the world. The second
are the national banking institutions
established directly or indirectly by the
Chinese government for its own fiscal
purposes and serving as an adjunct
in some ways to the Chinese treasury
on the one hand and foreign banking
and financial Interests on the other,
the chief of such institutions now be
ing the Bank of China, which was es
tablished by Presidential mandate in
1913.
There are, then, two further classes
of native banks proper, one of which
embraces the larger institutions, which
do a proper banking business, 1. e.,
deal In loans and discounts and handle
exchange as a more or less secondary
matter and the smaller native banks
which do some business in loans but
whose chief business consists In deal
ing in dollars, silver and subsidiary
coins, and in buying and selling ex
change in ' small amounts on interior
points.
The foreign banks, while not doing
their accustomed volume of business,
are still in position to serve what busi
ness Is offered them under normal con
ditions. The large Chinese government
bank continues to serve the Chinese
government and allied Interests. The
two classes of native banks' proper,
however, are badly crippled and are
about the same places I took la with
my arm gesture.
"Great air up here, what?" says I.
"It surely Is." says he.
"Hope you'll overlook my getting
acquainted unintroduced," says I.
"It's no matter," 6ays he.
Then I wandered back to Old In
formation. And Vincent Astor Just sat there.
What do you think he was waiting
for? (
His wife!
And may I say that out of all of
them Mrs. Vincent- Astor is nearest
to what I'd call sterling? And 1 mean
it.
iust a simple young lady, with light
hair and a very sweet manner, the type
of girl that makes a good wife. You'd
be proud to know her. You'd be proud
to be related to her. She's that sort.
Vincent Astor, to my way of think
ing, was born with a handicap. But
he's bravely outgrown it. He's made
good with a vengeance. He's clean
American strain. And while he hasn't
had to get out and dig his own path
to wealth, he's taken what has been,
given to him and turned it to good
purposes. "When he's called upon to
tell what became of his original ten
talents' he'll not have to stutter in re
plying. I like him a whole lot. He's the sort
of young man you'd instinctively like
whether he were Vincent Astor or Mike
O'Shea. Speaking of those public
markets Vincent Astor is building:.
New York housewives are looking for
ward to the opening of the one at
Ninety-fifth street" and Broadway.
Experts have pronounced the plans of
this fruit, vegetable, meat and fish
center the best so far designed for any
city In America, and they are of the
opinion that Europe has no market
superior in any way.
As a member of the Mayor's market
committee for Manhattan and the
Bronx. Mr. Astor has long felt a keen
interest in the conditions under which
food is bought and sold here. He has
carried on extensive investigations of
existing markets and has devoted
much study to the markets of Europe.
Through his architects. Tracy &
Swartwout. of 244 Fifth avenue, he has
had this big market, which will - be
ready October 1. designed after the
markets in Northern Italy.
The interior will be lined with white
tile, with thick glass counters, and
when all commodities have been re
moved a hose can be turned on and
the place thoroughly cleaned. Most
meat market owners provide only the
floor space and the counter supports,
but this market will be completely
equipped, so that all departments will
be equally sanitary and uniform in ap
pearance. The main floor win have 20,000
square feet of space, and below there
will be space for the fish market. The
main floor will be filled with stalls
and booths.
: In the basement are to be large cold
storage rooms with a temperature of
36 degrees, and the freezer with a
temperature of 20 degrees. There will
be two 40-ton refrigerating machines
to cool these rooms and there will also
be ice boxes and glass display cases in
the market proper.
. Huge meat automobile vans will drive
directly into the building and ample
provision has been made for shipping
end receiving goods.
While the interior will be complete
in every detail, the exterior will be as
attractive as art can design it. The
market will be buff color, with an at
tractive frieze done in an Italian
method cf overlaying colored cement
and afterward carving it to produce
pictures in colors. The frieze will
shade from buff to a rich brown. It
was designed by William Mackay and
has foodstuffs for the motive. There
are sheep, cattle pigs, chickens, ducks
and fish arranged in a decorative en
semble, and all held in composition
by garlands of vegetables and fruits.
The other decorative motive will be
a procession of n arket transports be-
not performing their usual functions.
This is partly due to general war con
ditions the world over, one result of
which has been to cause the large for
eign banks to be unable to supply the'
native banks with facilities they usu
ally have had in advance of silver and
credit, and partly due to business con
ditions in China, itself. The trouble,
in fact, has been coming on for some
time, and the native bank system has
not been operating In its usual way
since before the revolution of 1911. Of
the general situation in native banking
circles during the last year the annual
report of the Chinese Maritime Cus
toms for 1914, just published, says:
-- "In the first place, banking facilities,
upon which the whole trade, both do
mestic and foreign, has been built up,
were greatly restricted. The famous
Shansl banks, through which nearly
all government funds formerly passed
and which were the chief agents for all
interprovlnclal remittances, were com
pelled to close their doors when the
Manchu government lost power, -while
all other banks, with a few notable
exceptions, being unable to collect
money due them on account of ad
vances, ceased doing business. The
few that remained showed extreme
caution and engaged only in transac
tions involving no risk whatever. The
foreign banks, upon which the Chinese
banks at the ports are chiefly depend
ent for their supply- of silver, were
compelled to abstain from giving to
the Chinese banks the facilities custo
mary before the revolution. Chinese
dealers, therefore, found many impedi
ments to their business; more especi
ally was it difficult to arrange for re
mittances and for sending money into
the interior to buy produce. But. while
the restriction of banking facilities
greatly hampered trade. It Is generally
felt that the disappearance of so many
mushroom banks, engaged rather in
speculation than in legitimate banking
transactions, has placed business on a
safer and sounder basis."
"With the outbreak of the war In Eu
rope last Summer the situation In
fOOT
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ginning with the earliest market boats
and continuing through an evolution of
vehicles, ending with a giant auto
mobile truck. This decorative design
was suggested to the architects by the
Italian markets. They have made a
careful study of foreign markets and
have adapted the most useful and prac
tical features to the needs of markets
here.
Mr. Astor recently received a medal
from the American Institute of Archi
tects for the most attractive apartment
building of the year. This was award
ed to him for the new apartment build-,
ing in West Forty-fifth street, recent
ly completed, which also was designed
by Tracy & Swartwout.
You can see that Mr. Astor has
something more at stake than a mere
return on dollars invested when ha
puts heart and mind into the con
struction of even a public market.
And then to see Mr. Astor, the
youthful fountain head of such a hu
manitarian propaganda, see him as I
saw him. and talk to him for the mo
ments that I held his attention, you
will be forced to acknowledge with
me that I was taught wrong. "Some
times a jint of money makes a man."
South China became acute and for a
time nearly all the native banks tn
Canton and Honkong closed their doors.
Gradually there has been something of
a readjustment, but the situation Is
far from satisfactory. There are in
Hongkong 23 of the larger class of na
tive banks, as compared with 35 before
the outbreak of the war. This class of
bank usually advances money to the
Chinese traders, but since the war they
have restricted credit so greatly that
advances are now made upon gilt edge
securities only.
Dattlesliips to Stay.
Charlton Bates Strayer In Leslie's.
Notwithstanding the high cost of the
modern battleship and the danger it Is
exposed to from the rapidly developing
submarine. Rear Admiral Caspar F.
Goodrich, U. S. N.. does not agree with
Admiral Scott, of the British navy, that
the day of the battleship Is about to
end. Indeed, in the pages of the North,
American Review he terms the battle
ship "the real monarch of the seas,
and discusses, not its abolition, but the
design of vessels of that type which,
is best adapted both to attack and to
stand punishment. Admiral Goodrich
concedes the value of the submarine
and admits that it "has brought new
problems Into naval tactics which must
gravely influence the handling of the
battleship. But the latter, constructed
on, say, the U. S. S. Michigan's lines,
he regards as an Indispensable and the
principal factor in any fleet. The
Michigan type can carry eight 12-inch
guns on a moderate displacement. In
our latest designs, though the big guns
are larger and more numerous, there
has been a reversion to the Michigan
type, the additional guns being placed
three in one turret and undue length
of vessel avoided. The Admiral would
place chief dependence on size and
range of guns, and secondary reliance
on thickness of armor and speed. There
are those who declare it a useless
waste of money to build battleships and
dreadnoughts, as they claim these gi
gantic warships are at the mercy of
submarines.