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?!?• ^'V^y *?■ b e/;'p«r|ec t'etf■bringirxg Afjid? navjr-'% ^p^oT-.tee”MWaM^ inumrslxet^^ila^'rthat'thepreGMent'h'tts'autk'oriieJV i-. •• 'v**' •:: •• . -7-• -v -I its':; increase 7 to - ST.OOO -meii'^aad:: , o£-.j :^I'ncers/'/iiaving'/ been-autIi6rked' V'by|.'7 ■'■■■'• * _ . • • . •. . . • ’ ■’ • * ’ .. i ' •aCkcongress'-.in cage , 'of ..emergency to lt;g direct; such#tbcrease -’.in the enlisted'i :\ personiieh’-,1:• ; 7^.7 ' -yjdi ' ’ New*ships and Chips’ih: reserve are ] ^ . 'being placed in conSmission. and the j :■ heed 'foY.men.; to man\them :i3 itripera-;. tree. Although there has been a t?at*.] increase of ■ over . sis thousand men lt;since - congress recently , ’ authorised • ah Increase, many.more arc needed.]' ■ The United States since Its ineep- ,r tlon as a British:colony has been a .t maritime nation, especially along the Atightiic.. seaboard. The Vfirst. .“cliis per” :bhlips in the wohld were built in America, and .the finest .seamen -who 1 ever laid.' out', bn ' yard and tore; their -fingers raw', on freezing canvass were | Arnerican seamen, many - of whom came from’the. Great -Lakes;section, wherh 'sailing vessels existed : long after steam had- driven them froin the’seven-seas; -The United States' navy has von a i name ever since the; days, of JohnPaul Jphes,. aiirl save fpF..O!ie or .t'yo.minory defeats, :-l£; has never , lowered its flag to An enemy. The .names of Deactut, of Ashe, - of Paryagut, ;o£ Porter, 'of Uewey; o£. Winslow-^-of many Who have worn the uniform of the. United • States navy—are : names of men who never dipped flag save' in! e formal salute to a foreign nation.; '. . t ] . The first of our naval seamen were the hardy New Englanders who were; as familiar with the work of ice-breakmg as they were with reef points, and though they frequently 'sailed to tropical ports, they were more familiar with the fogs of the Grand ' Banks or the icebergs off Labrador. .Later those who bore the palmetto flag came into navy, and the men , who were qualified as pilots on the] i James river aud the Chesapeake'| joined their forces with those who ; wore more familiar with the codfish ; than the pompano.[ During the decades that followed j the peace of Ghent, the Americanj seamen found their way into every ! port of the known world., and thereIhr:kj were many who knew the course 'past Conegidor into Manila Buy asaG| well «« any Spanish pilot who camefrom Haredium.ItVnvnJ'PitaiAThe seven seas snw the starry banner of the American republic Ion? be-for** some, of the modem tnariumeJiaf.jnjta «*ver launched a keel, and before the world ever huw a pilot or « neania.il out of Hamburg the yank eel0 ! Skipper Found Ills way wilh leadline inmt sense of soieSt into the Vangtdc Nlapg or the Doughty.HllKrt From t’bitm. copra froiii the isiafWa of the Southern Sea. Ivorylogwood fnom U?e} Spar.ish Main were affibng'Utb'ijooly j • brought home by the American ; ^ eeiiaro-riagerR, and when occasion} demanded the American merchant f'apfain fought his way through pirate fleets and ,f sal led through i bloody seas,Antons the American merchant**men w£r*3 fmm*3 thn hnvl nmforlnl fvre?wLritshii palate*1*, tor crews zwl tjji for i)03r(i^r?. In tfnya of tiamH.6* ^ j ha ml nghdugy And tofoy the bosti^J j raarftnmett of f he vrorM in lh$ Mg2?fr2(It!j gtm itfaCMco are thv n^Uvn-hocn ; Americana, wlm cztry ibelr marks-iin^n??h5p from lh^ «qwJrrel rif!^ lu1lt;?*fnr.h gHTi,of the aaifn'ovlt;i:rncJ»t.p tvWnhj • have tho hatflephtp ihe|Irtofliroylng aneel of Imv^j► t ji cotae from the Ainerican InvQtitorsJ [The torpeflo, the torpedo rief, the Rnbrh^rinc'. the electrical j.[the range finder, the fighting top, Vh»:*: H*cel armor^^n havo heen invcn^e«l|^ hv Amf?riratis xrho h^ve ina/le the I tjnliofl S13ten navy the higher?, o* ffcioncy force in the Tcorhi. ami fhafUnnavy no^7 grants recruit.^. Will the: Siyonng men of America he foundv;p,nt;ng when 3iich a c^ll ma^ h;public? ! ar
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Laredo Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Sun, Apr 01, 1917
Page 4
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