Show wn sol 4 t k the pageantry of war 11 0 r it must hav been a chri thriving i sight 1 1 when over a hundred hundred war vessels many of ejem the ailini truc ted paraded into san pedro ewer con great g reat war off the coast th tho ships will ente 1 san francisea Franci seg harbor game ard then will proceed to hawaii to go g o through the war game ogain 5 to aoe W if a portion of them could defend that harbor from froin the ether pott iun it must ateo also here wre been a great eight sight when the fleet of cleopatra encountered that of thony tholly with their banners flying it must also hi arve ve inq a great eight sight when 1 I 1 vanni bills anny army de bout lied aiom the alps upon fie fi e plains of I 1 itala t 1 with flags and pendants waving in the wind but great sights are not war espied lally they fire are not war the p pigo antry of war has vanished shed no longer do serried columns clash in battle and gallant fight light around their standards war is secret and dead deadly long inge gunt maebane 1 guns bibbs and gas have liae robbed it of all UP puo and glory fey while it is a gallant bight right to sec see a i mighty fleet costinew cost costin inez more than a billion dollars steam I 1 nito nto t harbor we me can not restrain the thought what of it iff I 1 what emild it do ut n real wart th officer and men nien learn learned pil much it il maneuvering and nd handling the big gune guns in the recent war games and will learn more off honolulu but what dew does it signify for one fleet of battleships scouts scott ts destroyers and submarines to practice tite defense against another fleet of like when that is not the sort of atta attacking elLing fleet they will till encounter when the next war comes conies admiral simma simm teti fitti and also ga gau gao o interviews t the file press to the effect that a fleet of 10 airplane carr rs could serve as a baso base in the ocean for A swann of fighting und sad bombing planes capable both of re refunding fending the base a adist battleship destroyer and sub subi manne nanne attack and destroying our powerful billion dol lar fleet sp spur los as the germans said in the late war if that bo be so what shall we learn from these very costly maneli maneuvers ors this we are compelled to play at war as it used to be for the simple reason that we ne are arfa not equipped to play tho the biar game as it now is we have many millions illions nt of dollars nt at the bottora bot tn of ot the ocean in pursuance of the washington agreement it would be fine if we ne had ar equal sum aunt up in tit the air |