Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-12-31
NAVY LEAGUE CAMPAIGN
DIR. FELL APPOINTED
Others Who Represent Annapolis
in Campaign Work Here.
TO COOPERATE WITH COMMITTEE
The Oldest and Best Organized of
National Defense Societies

A strong section of the Membership
Committee has been appointed TO take
charge of the campaign of the Navy
League in this city.
Those who have been appointed TO
the committee are Ralph n Dayton.
DIR. Thomas Fell. Arturo Fernandez.
Lietu H. II. Fergus. Hon Phillips
Lee Goldsborough, George f. Hussey,
Jr. William l. Marcy William J. See
ley. Com. Raymond Stone. Gerard II.
Wood, and Alexander s. Wotherspoon.
of Annapolis; Richard Morton. of Ar
mold, and L. s. Zimmerman, of Robin
son. Md
They Will help TO represent that or
ganization in this district in the active
aggressive campaign which it is car
rying on in all parts of the country in
behalf of adequate preparedness
against invasion and disaster They
will cooperate with the members Of
the Navy Leagues state committee for
Maryland and viii lend their ener-
getic and enthusiastic support to the
work undertaken to consolidate and
organize the sentiment of thinking
| people of the State in behalf of meas
ures of adequate preparedness.
A special letter has been forwarded
to the gentlemen appointed by the
Navy League, notifying them of their
appointment.
Great interest is felt all over the
country in the Navy Leagues cam
paign in behalf of adequate national
defense, which has done so much to-
ward the awakening of the American
people to the danger of their unde-
Tended condition The Navy League is
not, in any sense, a militarist organ
| ization. Since its foundation, more
than fourteen years ago it has been
| foremost in the work for national
| peace. It's president, Gen. Horace
| Porter, was twice q delegate to the
Worlds Peace Conference at The
| Hague, and in all its actions and ut
| terances the League has worked for
and advocated peace, but until such a
| time as the possibility of war is reduc
| ed TO much below its present ratio, il
| believes that it would be just as un-
wise for the United States to allow its
| navy to deteriorate as it would be for a
| householder to allow his fire insurance
| policy to lapse because he disapprov-
ed of fires and hoped there would be
no more of them.
The Navy League holds that this
| country's best defense lies in the three
| thousand or more miles of water which
| separate it from the nearest of its pow
| erful neighbors. Should war ever be
| forced upon this country, the Navy
| League holds, it's battles ought not to
| be fought by armies on American soil
| but by trained fighting men in ships
| far out on the ocean where destruc-
ton of life and property will be kept
| to q minimum, and the average bus
mess of killing will be kept as far as
| possible from Americas homes and
| shores. To this end it has always ad-
| vocated navy second to none, which
| will be able to guarantee absolutely
that no hostile army will be able ever
to effect a landing upon the shores OF
our country, and in this demand it be
lieves it is backed by unanimous pub
| lie opinion all over the country.
l ne BiOSl euSGllNS tOSllIuOuy 10 tue
| popularity of the cause of the Navy
League with representative citizens all
over the country is the manner in
| which its membership has increased
| by leaps and bounds within the past
| few months until at present it num-
bers upon its rolls more than 10000
| members. The Navy League is the
1 80 a.,
| tional Defense Societies. 1t was
founded and chartered in 1902 and
| among ITS officers and members are
| Admiral Dewey. Theodore Roosevelt
Cardinal Gibbons, Rt Reverend Philip
| Rhinelandcr and DR.. Lyman Abbott
| while many of Americas most prom
inent women are among the members
| of its Woman's Section. It's accounts
are, and always have been, open to in
1 emotion