Show uN UNCLE LE SAM MUST w 1 MAKE MARE OWN O CHARTS WASHINGTON Dec 23 Nearly Nearly half the charts and more than half the sailing sailIng sail sail- aJI Ing directions supplied to our ships are publications of the British admiralty Should these theae In time of ot war be declared contraband it would be extremely difficult difficult dittl cult to obtain the requisite number Secretary of ot the Navy Meyer 1 in these those words urged on the house committee on naval affairs in testimony made public nubile yesterday provisions for the purchase of or complete charts Secretary Meyers Meyer's estimate is that dependence de do- I upon fO foreign I n nations for or these charts and directions should be obviated by hy an appropriation of and of or not more than OOOO each succeeding yf ys r for throe three years the tho charts to be put out by the tho United States graphic ra office In that period |