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Show for what it represents and the guns beneath it seem to say, "We mean to keep you where you are." The Seward Daily Gateway of Seward, Sew-ard, Alaska, published an editorial following a five-day visit of the U. S. S. Gannet in that port under the title "Uncle Sam's Unofficial Ambassadors." Am-bassadors." Lieutenant George C. Calnan, U. S. N., was selected by the American Olympic committee to take the Olympic Olym-pic oath for the entire assemblage at the opening of the Tenth Olympiad. Lieutenant Calnan is captain of the American fencing team and is a member of ,his fourth Olympic team, The anchor watch, which is muster-; ed early in the evening and required to be ready during the night for a! sudden call, gets its name from cus-l torn, both in the merchant ships and naval vessels of days gone by, when particular attention had to be paid to j the ground tackle and riding light. The anchor cables were then made of hemp and the riding lights in which only oil was burned, required careful attention. It was the custom then, af- j ter all hands had turned in, for the anchor watch to watch well the cables lest the ship drag her anchor or the cables part. The anchor watch of today to-day has other duties to perform, but the name is still retained and the word is passed each night for the "anchor watch to muster." Forty-eight destroyers of the U. S. navy attained the maximum attainable attain-able score in battle torpedo practice "C" during the last competitive year, and thus tied for first place in that practice. The custom of standing when the national anthem is being played was borrowed from ancient military practice. prac-tice. During the middle ages it became be-came customary for all persons to stand during any kind of patriotic demonstration. THE GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS. Although the American public listened lis-tened rather attentively to Governor Roosevelt's address on his party platform plat-form as it came in over the radio and then studied it in the newspapers, judging from newspaper comment, it can fairly be said that the speech has not created any great sensation up to this time. This may be due in part, at least, to the fact that the speech was rather general than specific. The Governor declared himself in favor of the return re-turn of prosperity and of constructive measures to cure unemployment, help the farmers, and do generally ' the things which are calculated to aid the return of prosperity. But there is a great deal of difference between favoring fav-oring the clearing up of a situation and having specific remedies which may be used to clear up said situation. And after a careful study of Governor Gover-nor Roosevelt's speech it must be said that the specific remedies are yet forthcoming. The presidential candidate's candi-date's suggestions for helping the situation are very general in character, charac-ter, and until he presents a specific program for curing the economic disease with which the country is afflicted af-flicted dt is doubtful whether his future fu-ture speeches will cause any greater sensation than the one mentioned above', It may be argued in reply that the Democratic itself is very general in character, aside from its pronouncements pro-nouncements on the liquor 1 question, and offer's no' concrete remedies for the depression. This is undoubtedly true, but the public has been led to expect the party's candidate to supply the concrete remedies which the platform plat-form fails to give us. An example of the generalities employed em-ployed by Governor Roosevelt may be : found in his handling of the tariff. After blaming many of the ills with which the country is now beset onto the Smoot-Hawley tariff, although the depression came long before this bill became a law, the good Governor neutralizes' neu-tralizes' the platform pronouncement for a "revenue tariff" by declaring that "peasants that live at lower levels lev-els than our farmers, workers who are sweated to reduce costs, ought not to determine prices for our American-ma.de American-ma.de goods." This is good protective tariff doctrine. doc-trine. Equalizing the difference in cost of production at home and abroad certainly cannot be done through a "revenue tariff" as advocated advocat-ed in the Democratic platform. Neither Nei-ther can it be done, as tho Governor seems to advocate in his address, by holding an international conference o determine our tariff rates as Well ns those of other countries. The public is still eager to learn just how Go'vernor Roosevelt would go about ending the depression and curing the conditions he denounces, to know how his remedies would differ from those now being employed by the present administration. |