Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES furnished by the U S navy recruiting station at salt lake city THE PURPOSE OF OUR NAVY since the dawn of recorded history adventurous men have sailed the ocean reaching 0 out ut as time passed and navigation a and nd ships developed men of the seal sea transformed the unknown into the known the annals of e exploration ration colonization commerce and civilization are overwhelmingly a his tory of those who go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in the great waters in the record of achievement the navies of the world have had a large share in our own history the united states navy has had a real part in its development in peace or war it is an acknowledged fact that the navys errands of mercy have saved more lives than its guns gulls have ever destroyed this has been accomplished by rushing of medical attention provisions and supplies to stricken areas of floods famine fires and earthquakes in national disaster it hii has always been the navy which has first offered assistance to the population of stricken areas ane united states navy is held ready at all times to render aid in case of disaster no one can read the accounts of the japanese and california earthquakes without appreciating prec precia bating ting the great work the navy did there and does in every major catastrophe the navy is an ever trained force to render aid to our own people or to our neighbors in time of national calamity the function of the navy is to maintain peace that mission is as fundamental with the navy as it is with the policeman on the beat to fulfill that mission we must have the strength that commands respect the strength that will make the evildoer evil doer pause before he chalfen challenges it the streng strength ih that provides the necessary sanction to law and is capable of enduring the triumph of justice whenever it is challenged in the unhappy event that war should come upon us it d is the navys task to control the seas to the end that no enemy may ever land on our shores so that our people may pursue their peaceful lives at home and in their dealings with other friendly nations in order to control the seas we must have a navy that can destroy the aggressor or drive him from the high seas and thereby render him impotent in case of war between other nations it is our navys task fask to enforce our neutral rights on the sea and thereby guard against our country being drawn forcibly into thy the conflict it is a thousand times alear bear from the records of history and particularly from records of the world war that neutral rights are violated with impunity unless s protected by an armed force A nation with a weak navy will invite attack or humiliation it is forced to cast its lot with one of the belligerents or be harassed by both it is harvest time in europe and so for the moment there are no new major crises men who are needed to bring in the harvest cannot be set to marching and fighting I 1 most experts think hitler will provoke another major crisis in his war of nerves when the harvest is over about the end of this month object will be to win danzig and the corridor what will happen then is any mans guess it is widely said that if no war breaks out before october the chance of war occurring at any time in the comparatively near future will be greatly reduced |