The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-08
Our Citerary Cable.
DEcA0ENce OF AMERICAN NAVY

'Decadence of the American Navy begins the lit
erary serial of the July Donohoe's. The authors
knowledge evidently with fact, albeit, the
word "decadence" is the opposite of what we were
led to believe concerning the American navy Read
ing along "decadence is found to apply not to armor
any part of war vessels supposed be formidable
but to the nadequacy of marine training This evil is
supplemented by the assertions of sailors at the
first opportunity. The for such decentralization
is given by writer in the Army and Navy Journal
who says:
You want reasons for numerous assertions. Here
are from a member of the crews of the
defunct European squadron We left Europe Nov. 30
1904 spend the Christmas holidays in the West In
dies and then to rendezvous JAN Is. at Cuebra Bar
BADGES and St Kits, fine places to turn adrift 100
men in. Prices doubled in st. kits after three
days beer fruit and precious little to eat. Was
there any why could not have stayed at
Lisbon, Villeranche. Gibraltar, and left there Jan
for the other place? Here it is all night coaling by
all the ships Do circumstances require this? No lib
erty poor food and plenty of dr-out of all reason
and on.
The navy has been more and more, for the past
fifteen years at least feeling the evil and enervating
effects of the decline of merchant marine accord
ing James Connolly. writing for DonOhoe's. The
training, discipline. seamanship of the greater
part of the shipping in the navy have grown
portionately with that decline. The merchant
ship being the training ship in which most of such
sailors schooled, this of course inevitable
Nor it is all the mems fault that they not better
sailors than many of them proving to be- You
make sailor the type required by the
service board of one of our modern fighting
chimes than you make expert acrobat at hod
carrying
IF not quite the born in the days OF
supremacy the sea. you still make sailors
they made then. Summer cruises around the
West Indies or up the Mediterranean, South Sea
Islands in fine steam training ships with brass band.
a a
fine weather sailors But you demand the weathered
seasoned and sailed brand with the iron will the dog
ged resolution the instructive of obedience and
respect for his officers the necessity of such
very different sort of training to that recently in
vogue.
Besides the article the navy, the June number
of Donohoes contains the following
Summer Time (poem), Lie Twigg: Not judy
ment, (story. contnued) Grace Keen: A Harvest Day
in Ireland Gllustrated) Seunas MacManus; OIL in
Exile (poem), Seumas MacManus: Rural Route No.
(story), Eleanor R Parker; Aunt Chloe Says tpoem).
Rev. John H. Dooley; Not the Programme story,
Leila Hardin Bugg: The Indian Legend of the Mecca
sin Flower Rev Edmund Basel: Great Ones of Our
Faith CCure dArs), Illustrated Joan of Arc (poem il
iustraed), S. L. Emery; Boston's Patron Saint Qus
trated), Lawrence F. kostka The Red Man (story).
Angus Idal: Longing (poem) Lyndall Charlotte Bur
den; The Mana gers Misadventure (story) e. NJ.
Lynch The Stolen Statues (story). lyman o Ma
hony Songs of the Sea (ilustrated) Mabel Clifford;
Bygone Summer DAYS Gllustrated), Denis A. McCar-
thy; An Island Feud. Nicholas p Murphy; People in
Print Custrated) The Philosophy of the Circus Ill
lustraed), John Talbot Smith Book Reviews; Question
Box.