The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-12-14
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SLOGAN Of THE navy
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niority be abandoned, from admiral
to ensign. - He reeommends that the
seiective system now be extended TO
the staff as well as the line. He also
expresses the conviction that every can
fidate for admission TO the Naval
Academy should be compelled 10 serve
n year before the mast as an enlisted
man before entering the school.
Relations with Our Allies
The report declares that the inter
changes between the naval services of
the Allied powers and the Navy have
been particularly frank and free,o
adding that this partnership of demo
cratic nations will yet insure a lasting
peace 1t says that when the call
came, the Navy supplied gunners and
guns for merchant craft without an
hours delay. ~ ".a EE
/ The report touches on the various
naval conferences attended by Ameri.
can officers but adds nothing to what
is known of the questions taken up or
decisions reached. Throughout the
lengthy document the secretary is care
full to avoid any statement that might
be of service to an enemy. N
The secretary pays tribute to the
Marine Corps which has lived up to its
best traditions, be saya- o. will be
shown when the war is over. The ma
rine regiment In France, he says, will
soon be considerably augmented in its
service with General Pershing's army.
Development of naval aircraft has
been remarkable, the secretary say, due
largely to the success Of the Liberty
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at may be stated with confidence
he says, "that at the present moment
we have an American flying boat ac'
tuaIly flying with an American engine
which is unexcelled by any foreign
craft of the type.'
The secretary discloses the fact that
American coast patrol stations have
been authorized abroad and will be In
operation next year, but gives no de.
tails. IT,. - .... .,.@
In conclusion, Mr.. Daniels pictures
the possibility of an international navy
to keep the world peace. x Such an
agreement cannot be cherished now, he
says. that all the world is at, war.
..HBut If this condition could not be
reached in time of peace" he adds,
"may we rot believe that it will be
one of the compensations for the ter
rible tragedy Of war;"
Sea Police Force, - ,'--.
Each naval power should assign units
TO the international force in proportion
to Its wealth and population, the sec
rotary suggests, adding: VS.
"To such a police of the sea this
country will be ready TO, make full con
tribution, and to that end the 'expan-
sion that now crowds all the old and
new bodybuilding resources will soon
I place this country in position toafur'
nish as many and as powerful ships as
will come from any other country. 1t
would be a lasting calamity if, when
this war ends, there should Gnger as a
burden upon a people, already heavily
taxed by war; competitive program
of costly naval construction. This
country will, no doubt take its proper
place in bringing about such, provisions
in the peace treaties as will never again
cOnstrain any nation to adapt its naval
program to the program of some other
nation from which there is the com,
polling menace Of possible and unpro.
voked attack. Such eompulsion is the
very negative of natural and orderly
naval development. II means the ty'
ranny of a program dictated by appre,
hension rather than the free choice of
a standard suggested by national needs
and supported by national ideals. An
international navy, on the contrary,
will make possible such naval develop
ment as each nation deems fitting for
its own people. II will also serve ''the