Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES furnished by the V U S navy recruiting station salt lake city A flying boat with witha a wing spread greater than that of 0 the largest commercial airplane ever constructed was recently completed at the korsky Sf aircraft corporation strat ford connecticut lor for the united states navy this huge ot of the air believed to be the largest navy patrol boat in the world Is po powered by lour four horsepower pratt aal whitney engines and Is estimated estima teil to weigh pounds 0 0 0 0 the united states navy has the th largest single ingle radio organization in existence its stations ashore and afloat rival all broadcasting networks in size and scope there are 60 50 radio compass stations affording 24 hour service to mariners marinero ma the stations are scattered all over the united stat states and along the coats coasts of alaska 11 hawaii awall west in Phillipi samoa guam and panama 0 0 0 0 when we tell people who are unfamiliar with the navy that so many hours each day are allotted to drills of various kinds they ask why the only answer is that only by constant drill may each man be trained so that he will automatically do the right thing under stress of battle or other unusual emergency it Is not unusually difficult to train a a gun crew to make high scores at target practice but its a much different matter when guns are being fired in ili battle here they have not only the excitement of tiring firing but of being tired fired upon that it the time when the value of training at once becomes apparent a when theu S S cassin was torpedoed oft off the south coast of ireland on october 15 1917 every man in the compartment was stunned and temporarily blinded one mans legs were shattered to splinters yet every man escaped but what Is more remarkable they left all doors and hatches closed irid ird properly dogged not a man recalled having done a single thing A perfectly executed who did it aua an how no one will ever know but why it was done Is very obvious the men were well trained and drilled and when the test came they responded automatically that is the value of 0 training and it is through this rigid form ot of training that our navy has been transformed from a few wooden sailing ships to an armada of the worlds greatt cst modern vessels 0 from the idea of davis bush nells turtle the present day submarine is a tact fact robert fulton american inventor experimented with underwater craft but received no official encouragement one ot of Ful tons boats the torpedo was a creditable craft the first submarine craft in actual warfare to sink a ship was when the david a Coli confederate federate craft with a long torpedo spar in front sunk the steam sloop housatonic on february 17 oft off charlston south carolina nothing was seen of the david or her crew of five enlisted men and two officers until after tile the civil war when divers found the little submarine wedged in ili the hole made by the torpedo crude as aa the submarine was it held the record for sinking a ship until 1914 the outbreak ot of the world war the david was propelled by hand and its crew had no way to escape certain death a as it bored into the hole made by the torpedo on the spar attached to the bow during the last years there has been but years actual peace throughout tho the world this was tile the gloomy picture recently P painted by colonel J copp ill hi an address before the american legion at los angeles california nations that have neglected their own defenses have been easy prey to rai rapacious neighbors colonel copp opp said the inevitable conflict by interests late political commercial and religious continually breeds war unless a country Is strong enough to defend itself and its possessions talk peace but prepare for defense disarmament is a fine idea but it must tart in the human heart |