Show Naval Efficiency Need Stressed by Roosevelt WASHINGTON Oct 27 UP The UP-The The United States navy shorn by treaties of its Its wartime strength toda today ob o observed observed served Navy day with demonstrations of ot its efficiency and peacetime pursuits President R Roosevelt led the observance observance ance with a declaration that along with a lessening of ot naval armament there comes greater reason for maintaining maintaining main main- the hI highest t efficiency fit tit fitness fitness ness and morale In this branch of the national defense Ships everywhere and navy yards scheduled public programs of their air land and water activity The president described the exercises exercises as highly desirable Public c understanding understanding under under- standing of the navys navy's work he said Is ls essential to the formation of correct correct cor cor- reet judgments affecting naval pol pol- icy The Important nt part the navy plays in everyday every life me was was was' cited by br Caplain Captain Cap Cap- i lain tain Frederick Hellwig superintend cat ent of ot the naval observatory tory where time Is me measured by the tars stars because because because be be- cause the stars are always on time A century ago a naval lieutenant lieutenan built the first observatory 16 feet square at his own expense Nine years later congress appropriated money for tor a building and ments In 1893 the present observatory observatory observatory tory was established Here are Arc priceless telescopes and clocks docks and the most complete mathematical mathe mathe- and astronomical library in inthe inthe the world Originally intended only for the guidance of ships at sea sea the observatory's observatory's torys tory's time signals have be become Ome internationally in important not only Insetting in insetting insetting setting timepieces but in discovering and oil deposits determining gravity establishing radio frequencies No mariner would leave port without the observatory's nautical almanac according to Captain Hellwig |