Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-12 | Page 14 | Naval Strength

Jt q IE Naval Strength C CAPTAIN CAPTAIN HOODS HOOD'S statement that the time United States is unfit for and that the thc navy y war wor es- es poli policy of maintaining it is all wrong is depressing Most Americans when they thought about it at all nU supposed that this branch of governmental got gov defense was keeping pace with tho the times and that when called upon would give i e as good account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of itself as during tho the Spanish-American Spanish war var But Captain Hood a naval officer of such standing standing standing stand stand- ing as to be entitled to respect declares that the navy as at present constituted is just big enough to be a n burden and not great enough to bo be of appreciable appreciable ap ap- ap uso use against any of the f first powers There have ha been a number of sporadic instances during the past decade of that sort of talk from officials in time the naV navy l department It is time that their heir charges be i impartially probed b by some Borne au au- If they are true it is the tho duty dut of the administration administration ad- ad ministration to frame a policy of naval construction that hat will repair the time errors of which complaint is made If ii they aro are not true the tho officials responsible ible for should be suppressed II am Ita