The thing has never been done before. You know
how simple the trick was, and that it was blundered upon by accident.
But the people of the country at large don't know. Show the trick is
done. When they hear about it, broadcast, won't they think that the
'Pollard' is the only real thing in submarines? Use the 'Pollard' type
of boat, and no more men need be killed when a boat won't rise. That's
the way the people will talk. So, Mr. Farnum, why not write to the
editor of each of the biggest daily papers, inviting him to send a
representative here on a near date, to see the thing done? Don't let
the editors know just what feat is to be displayed. Simply let them
know, in a mysterious, general way, that the thing we will demonstrate
revolutionizes the whole art of submarine warfare--as it really does."
"That will make people talk, surely," acknowledged the young boatbuilder.
"And there'll be pressure put upon Congress to buy your boat, and more
like it," urged Captain Jack. "All the newspaper talk will be free
advertising, and I imagine that the kind of advertising that newspapers
are forced to _give_ is all the best paying."
"I haven't had much experience in that line, but I imagine it is the best
kind," nodded Mr. Farnum.
All hands set to, to devise a list of newspapers to which invitations
should be sent. The stenographer was soon intensely busy with this
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