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Show Navy Building Program Is Outlined WASHINGTON. --The nary building program for the coming year comprises eight crullers, four river gunboats and three cruiser submarines. Thla announcement, calling for only eight cruisers, created surprise In the ranks of naval observers, because of the known opinion of Secretary Denby that the fleet is markedly deficient In the cruiser class. Considering cruisers less than ten years old, the United States would be represented In any International ratio by "zero," while. Great Britain has 214,000 tons and Japan 51,000, it was pointed out. Computing Com-puting vessels now building, however, the United States has 75,000 tons, Great Britain 240,000 and Japan 157,-000 157,-000 tons. The program will be submitted to the budget bureau and to congress at the coming session. The four gunboats will be for the Chinese river patrol. Recent inspection of the old vessels now engaged In that patrol, Secretary Denby said, indicated that they must be replaced as quickly as possible. Report on this year's war games stressed the lack of fast scouts for the navy. This need was placed second only to the deficiencies of the Panama canal defenses. Technical advisers of the Navy department were understood to have agreed that seventeen 10,000-ton 10,000-ton cruisers would be necessary to maintain a 5-5 ratio with Japan, and nineteen would be needed If a 6-3 t ratio was to be sought, as planned. I In submarines of less than. 1,000 tons the United States Is ahead of botb Great Britain and Japan, but a majority major-ity of the American craft, notably the "S" bouts, have never reached the operating efficiency which would permit per-mit their being considered for other than coast defense. As to submarines of more than one thousand tons, the United States has three built and three building ; Great Britain, nine in service and two building, build-ing, and Jupan, none in service and twenty-flve building. After the World war all of the first power admiralties agreed that naval submerslbles should be of more than one thousand tons, in order to operate out of touch with their nearest bnse. It has been predicted that Mr. Denby Den-by would make some recommendation as to aircraft carrier tonnage, of which the treaty permits the United States and Great Britain to maintain 135,000 tons and Japan 81,000 tons. The Langley of 12,700 tons is the sole representative rep-resentative of the type In the United States navy, and the addition of the Lexington and Saratoga, being converted con-verted from battle cruisers, will raise such tonnage to 72,000 tons. The British Brit-ish navy has 44,000 tons in service, and 88,500 tons on the ways. Japan has one ship of about ten thousand tons in service, two under construction and is converting the battle cruisers Amagl and Akagi. Tablet Is Placed on Historic Mansion A MID a gathering of distinguished distin-guished persons at the Arts club, 2017 I street, Northwest, once the home of President Monroe, Mrs. Rose Oouverneur Hoes and Miss Maud Campbell Oouverneur, great-granddaughters of the enuncla-tor enuncla-tor of the Monroe doctrine, unveiled a tablet which will mark the building as one of the foremost historic spots of the District The bronze tablet, upon which ere Inscribed the names of the famous persons who have lived there, was presented by the District Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Revo-lution. In speaking his approval of the marking of the historic house. District Commissioner Rudolph snld, In pnrt: "Everything associated with the name of James Monroe ought to excite the Interest of every patriotic Amorienn. "The event In his ofllcliil cureer that brought him closest to our Interest Is his connection with the selection of the location of the site of the sent of government of the United Stntes. "lie was a member of the committee appointed by congress In October 30. 1783, 'to repair to the lower fulls of the rotomne, to view the situation of tht country In the vicinity of the same,' and to report a proper district for the residence of congress. "In a letter to Thomas Jefferson on the 2,rith of the following May, he says, 'My letter by the last post will Inform you of the occasion which pointed that as the favorable moment for a trip to Georgetown and of our availing ourselves our-selves of It. Yesterday evening we returned. Our report will be In favor of the Maryland side and of a position posi-tion near the town.' The site so favored fa-vored was that now occupied by the lty of Washington, which shows how harmoniously he worked with Wash Ington and Jefferson In furthering his founding of the national capital." Mrs. Catherine Nagle, chnlrman of the state historical committee and state historian of the District chapter of the D. A. R., In Introducing Mrs. Edward J. Ryan, chairman of the organisation's or-ganisation's historic spots committee, spoke of the work of the local D. A. R. In preserving all matters of historical his-torical value. ' The house was built In 1S02 nnd for six months It served as the nation's White House after the burning of the original one by the British In lSlt. Many distinguished persons, - In addition addi-tion to President Monroe, have resided there. Wins Pilot's Wings at the Age of Sixty SECRETARY OF WAR WKl.KS formally announced that MaJ. Oen. Mason M. 1'utrlt'k, chief of the army air service, has duly qualified as a pilot at the age of sixty yea.i. "We used to hear that a man more than thirty years of r.ge should not attempt flying, but Oeneral Patrick has won his wings nt twice that age." said Mr. Weeks, who was obviously proud of the achievement of the chief of the air service. Secretary Weeks ndded that Oen-eral Oen-eral Patrick had done a great deal of flying as a passenger and observer, and now had passed all the tests required re-quired of an officer to become a full-fledged full-fledged pilot. These Include taking off, landing, cross-country flying, and a knowledge of the construction and operation of airplane motors. General Patrick was transferred to the air service from the engineers corps In 1921. He begun taking flying lessons a few months ago. The entire personnel of the air serv ice Is happy over Oeneral Patrick's acquisition of flying wings, pilots generally gen-erally contending that no matter how excellent an officer's other qualifications, qualifica-tions, unless he knows actual flying he cannot have the renl sympathy of men who make a business of It. Secretary Weeks also announced that he has authorized (leneral Patrick to detail two air service officers to make n preliminary survey of the route for the proposed n round-the-world flight. These officers will make a reconnaissance of the const of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and touch Japan. The general plan is to pirk up on the Asiatic continent the route followed by P.rltlsh pilots on their flight from London to Australia. The around-thc-world flight has not yc-t been formally authorized, nnd congress con-gress probably will he asked for n specific appropriation to cover the expense, ex-pense, which will be considerable, especially espe-cially If a small squadron makes the flight Instead of a single plane. President Taft's Trip Still Holds Record PRKSIPENT HARPING, on his visit to the Pacific connt and Alaska, started a trip that In mllenKe will be equal to nearly two-thirds of the way around the world, but yet will leave standing the record presidential tour In point of mileage. Mr. Hardin and hla party on the basli of the Itinerary as now arranged will cover 13.0M miles. This mileage Includes approximately fi,(HK) miles by train and the remainder mostly by boat the naval transport Henderson, which will take the executive to Alaska Al-aska and return; the shipping board steamer President Harrison, which will take him from Snn Dleiso, Cal., by way of the Panama cnnnl to Pun Juan, Porto KIco, and another shipping ship-ping board vessel, the American Legion, Le-gion, which will convey him from San .Tunn to New York. The l.p,0'7 miles I shorter by Jii"t 20 miles than the famous "swlwr iround-the-clrcle" made by President Taft In m. On his trip of 15,077 I nitles President Taft, however, did not leave the United States proper, but made an extended tour through the Middle West and West and then through the South, He wns absent from the capital Just about the same length of time that President Harding will be gone two months, or from September lfi to November 12. Just a yeur previous Mr. Tnft had made a trip of 12.7.V) miles, and In 1012 he traveled about .1.000 miles In going to the Panama Canal zone. Mr. Taft not only holds the record for the longest single trip, but no President has ever traveled as much In one term of olllce as the present chief Justice did when he was in the White Hmise. In his four years as chief executive, Mr. Taft, It Is estimated, esti-mated, traveled lU,r,'0 miles. Mr. Roosevelt made one fid-day trip of about 11,000 miles, and, while flcurcs nre lacking, Mr. Wilson Is eonMdered to have covered nn equal mileage In his two trips to Paris, together with his visit to !.gland, Italy and Belgium |