Show AMERICAN NAVY IN THIRD PLACE Let us hope hOlle the of ot the United States will insist on the navy being as aa strong as s any navy in the world Senator Johnson of ot California when the naval appropriation bill was Iras re te reported ported on Monday noting that It 11 Itell fell short of o the said There was WU scarcely a a nation that does not regard the United matu with hostility and nd ill 11 will 1 and find in many cases cuel ca cs downright hatred 1 We have made the experiment or of setting an sn example of o retrain refrain retraining In log ing from cOmpetition competition in naval armaments he lie Ibid told Ibe senate ute That experiment ha has hu failed There I 1 but one thing left to o do unless we wish 1 to fall all hopelessly behind in 10 sea sel power po We must begin bein at St once a B light cruiser pro pro grant gr grant nl will at least leut bring bringus bringus bringus us within tight sight of th the other pow powers ers era In the al alms aims conference hel held jn In Washington the United Slates States was outgeneraled and ana since e then hu has hub b 11 tricked until today t the Amer Amer- AmerIcan Amerlean American ican lean navy Is below that of ot GreAt Britain Sn an ana is Interior inferior to the naval forces of DC Ja Japan JaDan an Raving Having been tricked once will the Amer Allier American ican people yield 1 ld to disarmament a second time ZO uy men have han been telling congress during the past put three years that even evell the guns runs on the British baUl battleships have a longer range than the American guns and they have llave labored to get get- congress to provide for tor the he elent elevating ing log of ol our guns but hut have failed ailed If H tomorroW tomorrow the navy wu was to meet the British or Jap Jap- Japanese Japanese anese it would be hopelessly out out- outclassed classed Both Bolh of Cof the Ibe foreign forces torce have II TB a gun which range would al aI at- at atlow allow 10 low them to sink link our OUt ships be before fore forc our guns guna could com come into loto c action Why make a pretense at bay hav having I leg ing g a II navy If It is II to b be info luCe- inferior Ilor Why not scrap ap cr ill all the Ule hips thipa except tho t eel eL cl aside ulde In lh the I work ot of the rum runners f The le American people are ate a proud peo people plo 10 and are arc Quick to resent a national Insult Some day dar feel feel- feeling ing log their strength and smarting under a foreign taunt th they y may act and then find when It Is too toolate toolate late lale that on sea lel where the first great clash has hll occurred they are woefully and humiliatingly weak nn |