Show I 1 Shook the Mighty Deep N r Mt 3 r d mr p Yr C 1 c A w 4 u h C lt n x h tm W d. d M NI Vy- Vy wL MM e k r R V A M fi l Rw rN re wJ i Wb y 41 poR j t- t R e Cf I a CIt I W ns s Ay p N H V O. V a 4 pY Ab Jn 10 S OLD IRONSIDES S a J By Oliver W Holmes 45 54 Aye AC tear her tattered ensign down t r I Long g has lias it waved c on high And many an eye has lanced danced to sec That banner in the sk sky Beneath it rung n the battle bailie shout And hurst bunt the cannons cannon's roar The meteor of the ocean air r Shall the clouds no more a i w Ir 1 i r 0 better that her tier shattered hulk y I S Should sink beneath the waves jj Her thunder shook hook the mighty deep i rind And there be her grave 4 w v t d g 4 f. f d p f. f r- r i t Pictures es show the Great Petition pet of Protest signed by citizens o of oft t Massachusetts to stop stoll the dismantling of the U. U S. S S. S Constitution in 1828 It is taller than the two 1940 19 huskies who are arc holding it up Inserted r is a stanza of the famous poem Old Ironsides written by Oliver Wendell Wen Wen- i dell Holmes for the occasion Below are typical destroyers such as General Genera Pershing proposed we sell to Britain Navy day 1940 finds the United R States in another of the exciting periods periods pe pe- dods with which the history of the American navy is filled 1 Today we are deeply engrossed in inthe inthe inthe the question of the two ocean navy Orations on Navy day October 27 which is also the anniversary of L Theodore Roosevelt big navy advocate advocate if cate will stress the fact that we cannot safely depend on the Panama t. t canal for quick mobilization of the theto to fleet by sending it from one o ocean can canto t to the other Americans have always taken great pride in the navy and many have been the exciting excising events connected connected connected con con- with its history But perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps as fascinating an episode asS as lS S S any in time peace navy history was 5 the great furor created by the announcement announcement an an- 5 that the U. U S. S S. S Con Con- would be dismantled and sold The discussion en caused used by General General Gen Gen- eral Pershing's proposal last summer summer summer sum sum- mer to sell over-aged over U. U S. S destroyers destroy destroy- ers to Great Britain was mild by comparison The frigate Constitution was built in 1797 It served as ns flagship of the United States fleet in the war against Tripoli and the treaty of peace was signed aboard her decks She received her name Old Ironsides Iron Iron- sides during the War of 1812 when shells sheils from Crom British naval guns bounced harmlessly off her sides When a proposal was made to dismantle dismantle dis dis- mantle the boat in 1828 Oliver Wende Wendell Wendell Wen Wen- de dell Holmes aroused popular opposition opposition with his poem Old Iron Iron- sides A century later in 1930 school children throughout the country country country coun coun- try contributed pennies to have the boat reconditioned Released d by Western Newspaper Union |