Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-10
ADMIRAL KIMBALL
IN STRONG PLEA
FOR LARGER NAVY
Famous Submarine Expert
Gives Interesting Talk Be
fore Rock Island Club.
TIME FOR ACTION NOW
Principle Of Monroe Doctrine Cannot
&c Upheld Unless the Naval
Strength Is Increased.

Rear Admiral William Writ Kimball,
retired. OF the United States navy. de
Iiyered q very interesting address last
evening at the Rock Island club be
fore large number Of the members
with their friends and families.
The subject OF the admiral's address
vas The Necessity Of Larger Navy"
Admiral KimDall stated that he BE-
Hsvss q larger navy IS needed in this
country. a. all other countries are in
creas.ng the size Of their navies every
year. He handled his topic IN a very
masterful and interesting manner. and
IS one Of the best Informed men in the
United States Oh naval affairs
Admiral Kimbau began his navy
career more than 80 years ago and
vas z memb Der Of the United States
navy for & period % IS years. He re-
tired four years ago from active ser
vice With the rank OF rear admiral
lie is the guest Of his brother. J. X.
KimbslI. and his sister. Mrs z. II.
Guyer. Of This city.
Functions Of the Navy.
Among other things Admiral Kim
bail said
We all know that q navy has other
functions besides dollar saving. such
as character making; training our
young men in trade and Ia Different
atiug between patriotism ana national
self-couceit. life saving. peace keeping.
war preventing. national honor and
dignity preserving, national policies up
holding and enforcing. but all these
may be considered as incidentaIs while
We stick 10 the question. VIII larger
navy pay? ana. n 30. how much IS II
good business 10 put into the invest
ment?
In order 20 arrive al some basis for
q consideration OF these questions IL
may be well 20 90 over some ~ the
errors We have made and the losses
We have sustained from not having a
larger navy than We had.
II n the Revolution We had possess
cd such "a navy as we could readily
have had. larger navy than We DID
have. only a little larger. results OF
the work OF that navy tn raising insur-
Hnco rates--with one old frsgate and
"A poor sloop OF war Paul Jones did
raise them wonterfully-and In inter
ferinE With British commerce would
EhaAf"AE eaANA 10 e-a4--Ag AAe@ H y AtEAAAFu III
the ending OF the war two or three
years before the date OF the surrender
AZ Yorktown. aud In thus saving a
large par Ct the expense OF that war.
expenses greater per capita than We
paid Sor The war or the rebellion.
II we had had little larger navy
n 1912. there would have been no
war al all. The peace propaganda
people al that time were strong
enough 70 make practical applics-
tom OF their principles. 20 abolish the
navy as such. and lay up the few frig-
ates we had. and therefore there came
Whist President Wilson has termed
"a war cf arms brought on by a pro
gram OF peace" war IN which
our coasts were rayaged. our capitol
burned our ships driven from the sea.
our financial losses direct and indi-
rect made SO great that no one has dar-
ed 20 try TO compute them. and al the
end Of which We could not even men
ton in the trea.y OF peace the princi- !
pie We declared war TO sustain. Then
our children were taught as 7 WAS
taught, that I'VE whipped England in |
re late war u Is an excellent /
scheme for The people Ok the country |
70 pretend not 10 know when they are |