Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES furnished by the OU S navy recruiting station salt lake city R recently bently a writer in one of the national I 1 weeklies referred to the U S navy as the floating frontier ot of our country it might be better expressed that all the western oceans are her frontiers ron tiers and that the U S navy li Is our count rys floating legion beyond these western oceans there Is a very much disturbed and strife torn old world and it Is upon the navy the only powerful force that sails these seas that the peace not only of the united states but also a lao ot 0 f the t 11 e western hemisphere depends the keel ot of a new ton cruiser was recently laid at the new york navy yard this new cruiser C addition to the united states navy will be launched in the spring 0 of 1938 and is to be named the U S S HELENA in honor bonor of the city of 0 helena elenar Il Alon montana tana 0 0 0 calvin coolidge our most thrifty president stated that all th the money that has ever been spent on the navy has returned to the community several times over in direct stimulus to industrial development the navy has directly stimulated the steel industry by demands for large quantities of high grade iron and steel shipbuilding industry chemistry and all forms 0 of engineering ne eiring by a constant demand tor for maximum power and reliability combined with minimum weight toi rot all boinis of machinery the navy is usually thought ol of as our first line of defense alo alno it develops american citizens about men enter the navy each yeal and the same number ird are rs returned L by the navy to civilian life these ese men returning to challan ciN illan lite life have been physically developed through correct exercises and have been taught useful trades self con arol obedience loyalty and pati patriotism lot ism they have been thrown in intimate contact with men front from all sections of the country and with foreigners until they no longer think of themselves as residents ot of this or that city but as citizens of 0 america in 1907 during the voyage ot of the united states fleet around the world music was broadcast lor for the first time radio operators on board the battleships placed phonographs in front of their microphones and were able to broadcast to other vessels in their squadrons squadron 4 to commercial ships at sea and to shore sta itliong the battleships U S S west virginia displacing tons is forced through the water by four solid bronze propellers 13 feet in diameter each being driven by an horsepower electric motor tor for a total ot of horsepower which is sufficient to operate a fleet of a thousand average automobiles it is 18 a tar far cry arid and a long road front from the blood soaked cockpit ot of our old wooden frigates where men suffered amputation by the grisly medium ot of a hacksaw and a hot iron with senses by any an aesthetic to the cool gray and white ot of the sick bay that Is found on our modern battleships the modern sick bay is 13 supplied lieu with every comfort and merciful agency that the cumulative years yeara ot of medical research and investigation can furnish there is nothing that can more aptly typify the contributions which the united states navy has made to medical science in the hundred odd years of its existence |