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Show The Medifliwon I ' " ' , - X" l! Ml ' V & ; m H h1 ft V .- tife4. Umm 5 t wX NgWff J tScc Of" 1 r" - 1 fKjiMj; - VrWlr- vr v. vV v"N"r.-tv w" 'iM1- jjattzje 'BsrwgjFiT ass coirJTTr&rioir Aim tt2rj&r J7.S.& cors27rem-ofr Arm ' . ; 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ff 3TOBER 27 of each year is widely celebrated in tills country as Navy day. On that date the navy holds open house and invites the public to visit its ships and stations. Navy day was first celebrated in 1922 under the sponsorship of the Navy League of the United States. Since v- that time other patriotic organiza tions have joined in the celebrations, celebra-tions, and with the co-operation of the United States Navy department, the part that the sea ; service has played in our history and its present peace-time work are recalled each year. . There fj a dual reason for celebrating Navy day on October 27. It is the anniversary of an important event in the early history of the navy and it is the birthday of a man, much of whose life was devoted to advancing a sound naval pol-: pol-: Icy for the United States-Theodore Roosevelt. The part which Roosevelt played in building-up our sea power is but little known to many Americans Ameri-cans compared to other more spectacular parts of-his career. But it was his work as assistant secretary of the navy under President McKfnley which so raised the efficiency of our navy as to enable it to win astounding victories In the Spanish-American war, and to raise the United States to a position among the great powers of the world almost overnight. His contribution to. building up our naval strength, begun then, continued dur-m dur-m IT h was President, and to the day of his death he was an earnest and influential advo- SureneecbalntaInlnS'a commensurate with tnVlmTC 0t Ct0ber 27 In our Dval history his-tory is this: On October 13, 1775, the Continental congress, meeting in Philadelphia, appointed a marine committee, and on October 27 this committee commit-tee reported a resolution outlining a program of ships to be purchased and converted into men-S men-S 0n, 0ct0Der 29 congress authorized the purchase of two ships and In the course of the m appropriated tor a number of additional addi-tional ships, so any one of those three dates may nntrChvthe "bIrthday" f the Ited Itates ratrt: 8tep towards the navv?nt1faS1D0ieSt,beginnlllg tli UnIted States navy Jj, 155 years has grown to be one of the U&SS, f UnUed states, wHh a total strength of more than 14,000 officers and ore than 133,000 enlisted menand the leading Mtl power of the world in number otSum Tan! 7elslnLt U' once'the. "mistress of the ll LnTan VY f the Daval treatr. de in London in January of this year. f J tVy 01 0ur Mvr ln a of our wars from the Revolution down ? th World war has cos's Z:L&r UaVaryICg Records- g la that LISt0ry are these ten Innumerable activities which return to the Ameri-can Ameri-can people the money that Is annually expended on the navy. . Our navy yards are great Industrial plants and in each a testing laboratory is necessary for Investigations In-vestigations and research on the multitudinous materials entering into the construction of the naval establishment and the fleet. Under such materials of engineering may be mentioned "ce-ment "ce-ment stone, brick, tile, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, bituminous materials, paints and oils, rub-her, rub-her, mechanical and electrical specialties, etc. the, purchase ' Iae quantities of materials mate-rials ind supplies, It is of vital Importance from' he standpoints of service and economy t6 obtain the bes possible, and the navy has been a prime mover in the preparation and promulgation of stancd specifications for such requirements. c She defeated the Guerrlere, a crack British Brit-ish frigate, in seventeen minutes after firing the first broadside, wrecking the Guerrlere, which lost 179 men.' d. She shot every spar out of the frigate Java In a running fight without taking in her royals; that Is to say, she licked her enemy without taking off her coat. e. She captured the Cyane and Levant at the same time without being raked once, wlnle every broadside' she fired was a raking broadside. In addition, she ran the blockade of British ships saven times. She never lost her commanding officer, she never went aground and the largest number of men she ever lost in a fight was eight. She was in commission more than eighty years. 9. The chest measurement of recruits in the United States navy is the largest of any navy In the. world. 10. The mortality tables show that the United States navy sailor Is the healthiest man of any navy in the world and the hardest hard-est man to kill of any navy In the world -mere exist hundreds of such specifications tion in? r,tUdirS art'C,0S- Tlli? Standard ta! Hon has been of Inestimable value to private industries in-dustries as the navy's, standard requirements which are known to be high, are being by many such enterprises. y The hydrographlc office of the navy makes many valuable contributions to charting thHeal in many quarters of the world. It aids the coas? guard service in reporting Icebergs and destroy Thr!1CtS,and t,ICr mentt to avlgat on orrtfrne" In the Pacific, reaching a high pofe !a the discovery dis-covery of the North pole by Robert E PetTrv n ations, this naval officer has 5tJi P The first purpose of the navy is, 0f course, in time of war to safeguard our country from aggression aggres-sion by sea, to protect our commerce, and of . course, to defeat the enemy and bring about a successful cessation of the war. The task assigned to the navy Is a great one. In addition addi-tion to our own tremendous coast line, studded with large cities and Important- harbors, there are our outlying territories and possessions, from the Virgin islands, a thousand miles to the southeast south-east of continental United States, to the Philip. Pj'les. y "g seven thousand miles across the Pacific, Pa-cific, including Alaska, Hawaii and Samoa and perhaps, most Important of all, the Canal Zone In Panama, to all of which we have extended the protection of. the American flag. The mere task of protecting the merchant ship- - on TilTT ? U' United States 13 a coloss?! one 1 trade lanes of merchant ships brln-in-goods to America and taking American products abroad form a network that covers the whole flft ADd n tlmeS f r'eaCP' as ln time of war the navy protects this great commerce. The navy has been culled "our first line of defense" because it operates under the sea on -r four Un!fed StateS Dayy bas hd only four fleet actions and In each one has captured cap-tured or destroyed every enemy ship! hi'n 5?Uld States UavaI shiP las ever been In he hands of mutineers, while him 68 Thle 6lurons and fleets have been in the hands of mutineers. 3 The United States navy Is the only navy 2ntnTLd "iat WnS a royal andarS by SsaSS. Yrk' CaDada' C0mra t ot'T UIted States navy holds the record tot the capture of seventeen British ensk 1? U thC b3tUe 0f Lake ChamptTn This beats the capture of sixteen by the French at the battle of La Hogue 6 W,ar f 181245' the u"'ted States navy captured or destroyed every ship put in the Great Lakes by Great Britain. sort Tn tfLhaS D,eVer been a mutIny any KmpVSo hence -otto! 18l2TimC0nftItUtl0n t00k durinS the War of did ot JJ VT' 1116 UnIted ates navy aid not lose during the entire war linn m C7??r? mar,ne '10 om- frig'ateb CostU JtSSaSSTT that ever sailed the sea sS 2 ",an-f- edented things: 6 dId flve unPrec Trlpou!1" kDCked dWD the 'orts of ron oSfh7mftApdmIral Poke's squad- without losing n fl LaUr darS' Chase Sun. a boat or an anchor. The navy Is among the foremost In aviation T is progressive In the development o? bo h ml Plane and Ughter-than-alr craft. For four year n' navy plane and a navy pilot held the world??lr P ane speed record,. .00 miles an hour ade J-itut. A. J. Williams. On May 8 inoo t7 Z Apollo Soucek of the navy made a woS U6t' for altitude flight in any clusa fit reCrd he rose to a height mt 'Igh mark had been held bv In f Prevlous also-LIeut. C O. Champion withTmarkf feet made in July, 1927. On July 4 1 fl 5 ! Soucek broke the altitude rinr 7 Lleutenant by ascending to 38. tt 'thus IreST record of 37,005 feet made by Lu tenant pi 6 Pion on July 4 itr7 Th 7u,te"ant Cham-world's Cham-world's records' tt P anes; It has developed P and ZTeaZlT Plane catapult; and in mnn 1 e alr" helped the Uni ed Sta es S,n?n f Wa,a the air as well as on tL water SUpreraa ( by Western Newspapw Union.) j |