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Kiwanis Hears Talk on Navy Day and More Ships. Ath letics McLeod's Topic The U. S. navy considered from the standpoint of its oceanborne commerce was reviewed by Father John A. Slag at the Kiwanis lunch eon, at noon today. It was as near as the club could come to observing Navy day, formally celebrated Mon day by the nation. Father Slag said the ocean com merce of the young nation was, in fact, the basis of the navy's creation as it is known today. President Washington had a measure introduced in congress in 1794, he said, “to create a navy adequate to protect the com merce of the United States from the Algerian corsairs.” The navy of the country has so often been allowed to degenerate that when the Spanish-American war came on the nation had to turn to ships under foreign flags to carry the fighting fleet, said Father Slag. That is why there are bigger navy advo cates. U. S. Handicapped in War The nation also was handicapped in the World war for the supply and auxiliary ships. This came about through depending on ships that charged the least to carry the Amer ican ocean commerce. The result was that it was carried in foreign bottoms and when Europe went to war, freight was left on the docks while the merchant ships of the fighting nations hurried home to participate in the war. America now has a commerce of $14,000,000,000, and this, said Father Slag, should be an element in arriv ing at the naval parity to be con sidered in the naval limitation con ference at London. Commerce is the yardstick with which, possibly, to measure the adequateness of a navy. A larger navy is no sign of war. Policemen walking the streets are no sign that murder is about to be com mitted, nor is quinine an indication of a high fever setting in. Just so, with the building of an adequate navy there is no element of truculence. Father Slag gave us commercial ship building ratios among the na tions, compared with the United States, 2 to 1 in Japan, 2, to 1 in Italy, 3 to 1 in France, 6 to 1 in Ger many and 26 to 1 in England. Talks On Athletics Coach McLeod, of the High school, spoke of athletics as a school factor. He said participation on the teams at the school here had good disciplinary effect and that students had done better scholastic work because of it. A card from New Mexico invited Bismarck Kiwanians to tune in on Roe Fulkerson and Horace W. Mc David, on KOB, at the Southwestern district convention in Las Cvruces, between 8 and 9 o'clock, mountain time, on the evening of November 2. Wavelength 254.1 meters, 1180 kilo cycles, Casper Guttenberg gave the lunch eon several selections on the accord ion. The instrument he uses is of the highest type of make and Gut tenberg is an artist on its manipul ation. Guests were Judge W. J. Knee
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Bismarck Tribune
Bismarck, North Dakota, US
Tue, Oct 29, 1929
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