Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-09

 Windham county and the beauties of our own, New London county.
 In closing he said. What we need is more boomers. more boosters in order make our city and our state the best city and the best state in the best country in the world and to make the Star Spangled Banner the most hon. pred flag on earth.
 Our Preparedness.
 The special address of the evening i was delivered by Captain Charles l.. 1 ted States.
 In his opening words Captain Poor | said that as he entered Norwich he 1 saw a sign Norwich for Progress and | said that progress means prepared ness. A modern battleship is perhaps 1 the most complete work Of man. For l many years we lived in state of is- | olation and we were able to maintain ourselves and prepare ourselves. How 1 ever the war of 1872 showed us what l unpreparedness means.
 The whole military history OF the war of 1912 was 8 series of tragedies. 1 The history of the United States teams with such facts that we can't afford to ignore. The Civil war is a glorf- ous page in our history but it is not without its blots. If we had had fifty thousand trained soldiers there prob ably wouldn't have been any civil war.
 When we come down to the history of the Spanish war there are a good many things we want to forget. Men were sacrificed because of lack of training.
 Men Must Be Prepared.
 The modern battleship is machine shop and you must have your men pre- pared. If there is anything that this war is teaching us 1t is the import ance of preparedness. Battleships are cheaper than war. The necessity of preparedness is seen when it is real ized that it takes three years to build battleship, and battleships are the backbone of the fleet.
 Three Factors in Naval Warfare.
 Speaking of the ipemciency of our navy, Captain Poor said that one l dreadnought could defeat fifty Ore gons. There are three factors that decide victory in naval warfare and they are the range of the guns, the weight of the metal thrown and the speed of the ships.
 Referring to the battle cruisers Gap tain Poor said it is a very large cruis- CT, practically dreadnought. It can l defeat anything but a dreadnought, and it runs away from that, said the l speaker. Of battle cruisers we have none in sur navy. he continued. Captain Rcor then quoted figures which showed the superiority of other nayies over tfe navy of the United | States.
 Along with the battleships we need, are the men. to man them, saGG Cap i tain Poor. There is no finer seaman 1 afoat than the American seaman and it is shame not to give them the l tools to work with. The navy, as au- 1 thorized by law has 5A,o00 men and it has them; but we need 60.0o0 men to man our ships, and this Is merely l peace strength. Our ships today, l gentlemen are undermanned. One of
 the things we have got to fight for in
 this country Is the technical control | of our naval forces.
 I have told you what the need is.
 Why this need? The first line of de-
 fense Is a diplomatic board. The
 second line of defense is a navy, and
 an adequate navy. Here Captain Poor
 not only be invaded but also how we could be invaded. Great Britain, he
 said. could land 170.o00 men and 90. .ood
 animals on our shores in fourteen days
 and could follow this with q second army of equal size in twenty-fouI
 16o,eo0 men and 32.ooo animals in hf-
 teen days and could follow this with 6
 second army of 24o.o6o pen and s5,oot
 animals.
 Norwich in Enemy's Path.
 It ia generally known that the most
 probable point of landing ia some whore between Point Judith and Watch
 Hill and Norwich would be among the i first to feel the blow. Furthermort the war making power of this country : Is in the iiHe of the enemy's attack
 The presence of an adequate navy would be an assurance of peace. The American blue jacket will meyer betrey the country he Is serving bu , In your turn be sure you never betray | the American biuejacltet and senG hin out to slaughter. What can we do We can see that our country is ade' } dlateiy guarded, said Captain Peep jI The cIssIns Address. { As the final speaker of the evening , TcastmasteF KiRg introduced Heraci Jackson of Bridgeport,
 Your Board ef Trade is to be eeHpli
 ffiented in gettihg SC many out to th' banquet and your hotel is to be con
 graduated ea serving 8 banquet a good in every particular as have eye | had the honor of attending,
 MT, Jacksea spoke aleng the iins Q individual responsibility. Do you knoy that the awful war acpess the WaLe ! has been made RessFbie by the inYe.lt 3 i've genius ef the United States7 asRei MT, Jaehsep, These scout cruisers ", f need. Hew are they made possible | : e9 go or 40 knots an heHFf Beeaus ? an American citizen built the prepeile : that sheets them through the water 2 7 Who was 1t that Invented the rapid fir } guR9 Hiram Maxim, lie teek il t , Washington and they teid him the Ciyi
 war was eyer and they had ae Tnor
 need ef guns. He teak it to Bngiand v sold 1t, and was knighted by tty crown, The wireless telegraph, WhsF : was that made pesgibie9 he asked, l . was made possible ja New ToriT, Mi s JE.eksea continued, This is pringini
 things right hack heme, he continued !. We are the most self satisfied natlol on Gods earth,
 Bridgeport's reputation is Iargei . what 1t is because of the efferta-oE CD a man who stood at the head of tn Board of Trade for years,
 In bringing his address, to a clos ', Mp. Jackson created something af u etfp when he presented q, resolution { . tke effect that congress pass an ae q ordering that in every home there sila - be first, a Bible; Eeeend, the Lord q p1aYeri third, tine constitution of til !, United States, which he said was tn ' greatest document eyer written; thir, if a life insurance peiieyi fourth, a fir I- insurance pelieYI. fifth, aa aceident ia 1T suraHee p6liGyI sixth, LineeIn's Gettys Ll burg address. seventh a Fd6fHbeFshi