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- , - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDA., MAY . % : at all hazards, preserve British supe- [enemy submarine, that would have -!-RANSFER UI‘- BEBT Abe Martin SayS' D ANIELS 'I'EL riority in ships on the Sea? been supreme and effective strategy. ; 3 - On Shore Too Long. 1t barrages, such as we afterwar > laid across the North sea, had been e 1 2 YED A I LIED VICTORY T remember some years ago that & |arected there and across the Straits 2 ; = certain naval officer, who stood high of Otranto, the U-boats would have . : in the service, went in_command|bcen so hemmed in that Germany By Hot-Water, Steam or Vapor- Ea b S o would have realized early in the Praaturs Dystamo UEAI- ] 3 |of » baltleship after three years of | irugela that she coutd not hope to i T wepEaes Ca - w | Win the war by their use. i : - Tlme LOSt Laylng Mlne Barra (3 and How is Capt. Y—— getting on?" [ 301 TRE WAL 0% 1 ould have been If you need a new System, a T asked Admiral Fletcher, then coM- | saved, and it would have changed the new Heater, or other Repairs, mander-in-chief of the flect. yed, o 9 9 vith Pri . . 5 e tre t sea. take it up with us now. ices ¥ Ho has been on shoro 16857 | FYhole:trénd iof ithe war & = U. S. Considers Proposal by Buxldmg Destroyers BIamed—Jut— pepiled “Admiral Fiotchor, “Thore s b ONE vENI ] || Ecore: Good workmen are avail- LS but one way to be a successful, ready 2 4 ¢! —navy ‘ELEVEN 2 Germany to Take It Over land Battle Di d. RS ek capialn of & S a0 tha | o TR Tt s ot thect Cigarettes s to practice all the duties afloa an army—on e - erl Y an a € 1scusse Afterward that officer, highly es- |lantic—crrors mady; hlyw::;flo-n?cnd pa-y To tell i s Hea 2 ) tecmed, was plucked. riotic men, as there aiways 3 o te gg g Unacceptable. When the time came for the United | Some will ask: Why should err you J BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS, {f‘llfiirfitlnxl'ook un(lvr!.‘\luntw‘-"h"l“’ Navy to enter active war scussed 1“0“'"“1“ “’"' a2 ofthecarem W. H. Gottlish, X, E. Huats BY DAVID LAWREN(C S0 Navy. at his method of fighting the battle v even before the declaratior and all the allied and associated b . H. 3 . E. Huntsberry, R T Fermer, ::;:zfi"'ls"“ myy. yas right, when all ‘the conditions “gave the positions Of Ereat- i vell? Admiral I b!endmg to- | Pres. Vice Fres. he s gove e - 5 . are considered. The admiral IS _a|.g | men of the ol ciders the allicd debt of ten billion After every war ane can look back | Drave ‘and leirned officer, hut “he Tilnco 'at| *We make many mistukes. and it is baccos for 917 H St. N.W. i 3t ‘obligation o alli & """ | made the mistake of his life when he | ; e il o business today to see that the, £ g , dollars & just oblization of the allics, | and see that somewhere there Was | wrote his story of the wrand flect: B | P ons have been taken to heart, and ONE-ELEVEN PHONE MAIN 4888 nd deems unacceptable .“h. sug- lack of foresight, somewhere there “Confession and Avoidance.” in command of our dreadniughts in |that we shall not again be found )m Cigarettes by Germany that she was wanting vision translated Into| T read it on my way to Europe in|iie North sea; Wilson first in cliarge | such a state that we have to face the . part payment of r]‘;v-‘l- action; somewhere there was a fail- | March, 1919, and began it with a e e L e R oL o working trom hand | would behi; t Sein ain Fialy mew : = 1toe had been | ¢ off the French coast, pro- p ing {1 | 1er 3 o | En Sreat bplimn, J oy ure to grasp a new and daring plan | n& fhat Adpmiral dellicos had beon | SR dnsports: Gleaves in | to m y be said that the re-| lyxmerestmg and which might have turned defeat ifito tics. But, when I had read the ! command of the cruiser and tra Lsult good enough with such | B . b ' victory or have hastened the day of [ last chapter, my feeling was e | port force, safeguarding and { methods, but was it? We have surel | -But-just uy peace. same as that of a distinguishe: : our moldiers overseas: S | no right to continue to rely on im- acka "and When one reflects upon the zeal | jsher whom I met a few wecks later | command of dreadna iprovisations. We in the navy know {ap ¢ to the & courage and success of the British|and Sho said to m for ‘German raiders off the British |well our defects and it is our :)l\: i- €ind out to the e e TR s navy in freeing the seven seas from | “Lg, bogrcia i Jellicoe | and French coast i .others ace them, to leave no s | al . ion, but i Th’ many friends o’ Ainsworth man traffic. one iv filled with ad- | o Fer IS OFR repmation Ho o | long seagoing experience. Urned 1o avold repetition of the akes from which we have suf- — ¢ the moment unl ation for its spirit and achie Hawk o’ Pedro, Indianny, 'll be m At best it is a plea of confession and reatest | £ Allies. = = chanees are that America will ; g ments, But it made m 7 At beat 1t ror o n Fifal comment on the German | glad t' learn that his wife has [E5, e other navies. aid. avoldance. for this ooinion lies 1itna | ., Vhat was. the cost naval « R (13 0 it aifects our foreten [ (kipped out. Ainsworth is an|_Over on this side of the ocean what ¢ Q84U St . of the war committed by the s?| Soprright. 19 s ‘re allus | W2s our chief naval error? I think the answer is plain i by N e ‘ ton government | ole-town boy an’ we're allus | V¥ 0af fhat we Jacked the foresight | U : e avictory understood now by both | Al rights rese ; g cigarette 1 the outcome of | o1 t* hear o his good luck an’|in 1915-16. largely because we did 2 t el yman: Tt W the {:nhxlrt" into fore e ‘.',l,‘,”-: S ause | 57 : e not have the information which was |G 3 beginning of sub- agian. Ui [advancement. kept from neutrals, to concentrate i ’ rine, . back in 1914-15. ef- orl N fectual 'ross the . " inglish channel, in the | (Another article by Former Sec worlc = destroyers to the e Another drawback t’ prohibi- | upon buil official view-| ’ e R s clusion of larger ships. To be sure. | o Sea 4 g E Hies will be | tjon—th’ “settin’ 'em up” is atlus | we were utilizing, before the United | $eled @ e gnean and_ al_the enfrance eefy Misich v IiherpeintedRIniNe Gueranteed by able ultim 2 debts | o e-sided. States entered the war, every avail-J P Qirectod 19 mated It efforte pad [Star temor Enitd “Siaes” reapeetive of | t00 one-sided. able facility for building destroyers.d QO UANIET NS . wona have. ‘bacn paration forthcoming | _ coprright More Destroyers Needed. Jellicoe, but all who are inter 4 Testemed and cnded long be- | Tt matters little what it is that you to the allie It is| == satisfactory settle- i ment of the reparation controversy |holding a reply to the recent Ger- tion or a servant ar will reach the posed by me in 1915 and voted by |fead both Jelticbe and Bellairs cqual to the job of making U- i Dangler lies and st hen | man proposal until the allies indi- | bemeress in 1916 embraced fifty de- |5 1OPe W he able ad some £o s F 1" power "o pay the, cate what Kind of a reply they want e i b conntmucted. in thraal| %Y "‘”'l‘:"l” bt “:.""(d'r fomehal The dsods . Do ol S = . but there is no disposi- | made. stroyers to % e eapital oint to Controversy r nava orify the o A " i fhe riaration situation | " American government gectines | S, AONE BN SRED P The crun of the battls t Should{war Tt i on heday s was de- ST : b 11 Ranges MY payment of the alli to be in the position of adjudicating Shtne o 2 program | o ave turned the whole fleet s the nava ens A = r he T < the controversy and merely wishes to | ocking back u At Laway & a flotilla of eh- British Capital & Surplus, $200 000-Resources, Over $1,800,000 Z! 2 the|reflect the allied viewpoint in any |\‘nat we learned durin 3 3 supported by nel from Dover to A s ———~———"— | _most ECONOMICAL counters communication sent to Ger- |it \would have been wise X ved on a b s Calais impossibl A Business Energizer —most DURABLE dent_upo: fources of | Bovernment ihers would make. no|lijed contrasting for a i R van Yo averd this at H = pendent up s s of | gov re would make o, ol Dallt Buadrady of da s “Tt was to avoid this at- = = % el . develop”for | move until @ reply came from Presi- ors the eraft most effective against | tack of cleven destroyers th = % st oot S| —most SANITARY L the payment of any of their debts, ex-|dent Harding or Secretary Hughes | sunmarines. Our. ship - constraetion 4 hips . turned awa H etting the most out of your = ENT ternal or int 1 may hasten Some. response from lhi!,pro::ram during the war included ap- | “Tt is impossible.” RPH:\ir‘ r-nnt;nu:‘ = b ;e you g t'g > D £ lyfr 2= st CONVENI G : government, but it will be made only | Lroximately a thousand vessels. This|“to imagine a more definite bre s nking connections? Do you feel free = 3 Tiviant Thinks Debis Jmnt \ally, | ATter full consultation with the allies. |was in. addition to. the from the whole epirit of naval tradi- = 0 2 g i b4 > E| =will do the same amount of It became known today, incidentally, el Zas in_sndition torthe’ 154 T Ol A o H to take your financial problems right Z| ork and consume much less oil that former Premicr Viviani on his| oo 4 o Enere oy o delay Tin' pressing | modern inntions, of the zolden ruls | (Tablets or Granules) S Paid on A i s S| than is required by other stoves. rocent trip to the United States 0ok | accept ‘the work of the repamions | WOk on destrovers. Immediately (hat once an enemy is sichicd hol = to the men “on top” at your bank? . Sy o tosio; P - < thorized the three- |must he cut off, closely engaged and = ) g ! O et Piane eaalders r’?f';.&l fizures, o the Supeatse toumcilie oi after Congress At orzed e e L annintated. COur ernisers and e | fEe.LINDIGESTION]| (2 Daily {/If a “Mount Vernon” patron, you can Dangler Stoves ent that ance consi TS he: e i g 8 e council's ex- i Ve C - = ; ; the “twenty authorized the frst|strovers, who could have press = and that she had|perts is regarded here as a step|Iof the tWenty authorized the RFSt 3 oo Town attacks on the o Take dry on tongue or Savings say “Yes” to both questions, for this and Ranges wing it at the| forward, a move in conformity With |Iibiarines, four. battleship line, were by this time in the van. with hot or cold water. ) y h, A Pri $5 to $200 € al law. o 1 1 - : L . g battl s and other vessels. Finally, after a orate discussion, not preaches, bein iced from . N Lot has sl The Versaies {reaty provided that R, TS WS Srtered. tne | et 1t sufices neve o v’ | f QUICK RELIEF! e e e rly expressed itself in informal dis-|the repa s commission should fix 3 S as funds a mark that no turn ought to have pre and our officers are accessible slon, Thers have indeed bren no| the size of tho ‘indemnity. but”the P e ey four more were ordered: | sented ftself to a British admiral but Price, 25-50-75¢ $1 or More tc P““ s are sold by stions, official or unofficial, ex-jallies have been disposed to fix up|additional orders were given as rap-|the turn toward the enemy.” 1 A o all. 9. that from German their own program without Tegard (jdly as the contracts could be Dlac Admiral Jellicoe went in command MADE BY SCOTT & BOWNE Will Open Grogan’s £ administration came intoto that commission’s findings. Now |and by the middle of October we werc | of the Bri nd flect after long MAKERS OF | An Account € Let’s get better acquainted. 817-23 Tth St. looking toward the cancellation | that the reparations commission has |building or had contracted for 270. and honorable s ce in the admi- SCOTT'S EMULSION 13 of any of the foreien|spoken, the allies revert to the treaty All Records Broken. s 4 why _he N as a basis for their demands, and o o e E ng? i = they put Germany in the position of | Millions had to be spent for new [doctrine of “a fleet in being i for the funding of th. refusing to live up to the treaty she | facilities to build them—enlargementiago been upheld by the admira ) and principal in such a way as will | signed if indeed she declines to ae.|0f 0ld ~shipyards, building of Agmiral Jellicoe felt that the 4 If It's a itai stribute her| cept the findings of the reparations|DNeW plants. It was a great job, of the world depended upon the abril- The Hecht Co. Seventh at F Safe Deposit Boxes, $2.50 up, Per Year Ofien 51¢08:30 Every SUturday Even;ng N Also by AR = e L payments to the satisfaction ! commission. we broke all records in rapid con- iy 'nf the British navy (6 prevent the || vou want—mew or used. current = o Uni . e ; v v ck our gait ¢ the Ge fece o thall? 2 ) = of the United States. ! “They thus demonstrated. too, how |Siruction when we struck jescape of the German o out of print—it can be had at = Although the Dritish cannot pay|absurd would be the transference of | mi, guss, Naval committee, afterinizh seus. If e failed in dashing or ou P 5 = . erly s dons, inc. much either on the interest or Drin- | the reparations controverss to oneihor s s s!after the enemy flect under cond ; = internatiqnal commission when Ger. |T¢Rort made March 4, 191 {tions he deemed adv v | PEARLMAN S m " Cor. 9th St. and Mass. Ave. " o 718 7th St. N.W. is just s well picased, bes|many is unwilling to accept the And- | 41 Nostronere oancerily thpoe. ditions duejte his llong share e ne huge shipment of ‘£0ld lings' of a commission provided for | i acooroyers. especially those of the | his intens L= would tend to unbalance international | under u treaty bearing her SiEnature. | Foen i anilities ‘of "the soun e B exchange and weaken the power of |Of course, America was supposed 10 |iry were fully absorbed with th Europeans to buy Ame n products. | be represented on the reparations|{gcls then under construction. As exchange g traightened out | commission and Germany hoped the|\cou1d be necessary to create new ! more payments will come into the!experts from the United States would |oilities, . The nlans adopted Treasury from abroad, but the public | pare down the bill. more than doubling the | can bardly expect the advances from | Technically a full commission has|avhilable last summer for building | to be of sufficient size dur- [not acted, but the absence of the|destroyers, and that capacity inz the next few years to alter the!United States does not invalidate the |materially greater than before the Owners and Brokers’ 13 GoSt. Open Evenings ‘Washington Distributors of “The Dangler” If It Can Be Insured—We Can Insure It Are You Protectefl? Do you realize if your property should burn down, that your insurance—if placed some time ago—would not be sufficient to restore it? That’s a point worth taking thoughtfully under consideration. Phone Main 4340 and let our Mr. Ruoff, Manager of 6ur Insurance Department, go over this important matter with you—advis- ing what should be done to give you adequate protection. Boss & Phelps [ 1406 H Street Phone Main 4340 Business . 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Looking back, I wished every day A number of our clients are waiting now to buy in this section. promises and that the American in- P v da il t > £ £ the war that when we began vestors will thus relieve the Treasury [D. C. Court of Appeals Reverses | {iTIIE 118 MRr (000 Shen o b i of its burden ! b we | 5 Railway Damage Verdic had asked Congress for money to ) _For the moment the American gov- ; ¥ 5 £ build 300 destroyers at that time. E l | ernment is almost a disinterested ob- | Holding that the lower court erred'| concentration in 1915-16, we would |1 ! server in the reparations negotia- |in taking from the jury a damage suit| have had most of them ready in the | i | , i , tions. The meeting in London of the | brought' by Thomas H. Bremerman, | first months of the war. 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