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Show sical fitness, without thinking about mental fitness. ly, those of us at home, who know nothing about the difficulties of the present war, could do less senseless talking about "taking the offensive" and refrain from crybaby cry-baby shrieks about "defending our coastal areas." Admiral King, we presume, knows his business. If this is true, we can rely upon his judgment in the disposition and use of our limited lim-ited forces. If he is incompetent or Incapable, which we do not suspect,, sus-pect,, safety does not lie in .trying to run the navy through street-corner street-corner gossip, on the air waves or in the columns of newspapers. There are millions of Americans who give serious thought to phy- LET KING RUN 1 THE U. S. NAVY War operations of the American navy are now under control of Admiral Ad-miral Ernest J. King, who is chief of naval operations and commander-in-chief, United States fleet. The admiral qualified years ago as a naval aviator and is one of few high ranking officers with extensive ex-tensive experience in aeronautics. The people of the United States may be interested in his policy, enunciated some time ago, when he said that the navy will develop 'an offensive against the enemy as early as that can be brought about with adequate forces and, in the meantime, harass and damage the foe at every opportunity. The new commander of our naval forces cannot wave a wand and miraculously produce ships. Consequently, his strategy is hampered ham-pered and the scope of his operations opera-tions limited by the means at his disposal. He assumes the burden of a two-ocean war, with a one-ocean one-ocean navy. We think it would be a good thing for loyal and patriotic Americans Am-ericans to permit Admiral King to direct operations against the enemies ene-mies along sound lines. Particular- |