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Show ! : NAITICAL - -: -: NOVELTIES j : The fallowing -Nautical Novelties" J are furrUhed by the U. S. Navy Re- : rniitins Station at Salt Lake City: ' From every direction we hear it ' said that the upkeep of the navy is to exrens.ive. Civilians cry out in anguish at the millions spent on the navy. Yet. while the term "millions" ?ounds enormous to the individual, it ! is not so to a large nation like ours. American business men are great advocators ad-vocators of insurance. They take out insurance for fires, damage, theft, life, disablement, flood and earthquake. earth-quake. Y'et the greatest insurance of 'all, and the most likely to pay dividends divi-dends is insurance against war. The rate of this insurance, when considered consider-ed as the cost of maintaining a first line of national defense as compared to the volume of business of the na-tion, na-tion, is a lower rate than any of these others. It has been stated that the tax of women's cosmetics alone would j maintain the world's largest navy,, while the tax on c'garettes would pay , for an army and navy greater than any known. During the world war period, the United States built 2500 ships of 10,-500,000 10,-500,000 gross tons at a cost of three and one-half billion dollars, but due to the hasty construction and obsolete obso-lete standards these vessels had to be disposed of after the war period. This fact bears out the following statement made by our former presi- had surprising success and captured 35 prizes. As a result of selective recruiting, improved methods and facilities at recru't training schools, etc., the United States navy of today has the highest quality of enlisted personnel , in its history. Due to the fact that "Navy Day," October 27th, falls on Sunday this' year, it will be observed Monday, October Oc-tober 28th, instead. "Navy Day" is the navy's day at home to the citizens citi-zens of the United States. Proclamations Proclama-tions will be issued by the president, governors and mayors. dent, Theodore Roosevelt: "The navy must be built and aid its training given giv-en in time of peace; when war has broken out, it is too late to do anything." any-thing." What do our people expect of the navy? First, and preeminently, they j expect it to prevent war. It is much j easier to prevent sickness than to , cure it, and war is a terrible sick-1 ness. A nation with an efficient and : j adequate navy will not be attacked . ' toy an aggressor until after very . ' careful consideration. Strange as it may seem, the American Am-erican navy had its orig:'n in the army and George Washington was its admiral. ad-miral. In dire need of supplies in the fall of 1775, Washington fitted out several vessels, manned by soldiers under command of army officers, for : the purpose of capturing the needed articles from English supply ships bound for Boston. This soldier navy |