Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-05-29
MORE WARS ARE
STILL TO COME
This Is The Prediction Of Assist.
ant Secretary Of The Navy
F. ID. Roosevelt.
ADDRESSES RESERVE MEN
Duties Will Include Education
Of American People To The
Need Of Preparedness
Says Speaker.

| SR~nh(A'
The present world cofiict is not 60
ing TO be the last war America will
| have TO fight, and, because of their
touch with civilian thought being
closer than can be gotten by the strict
ly service man, the duty of the Re-
/ serve Ensigns will be TO see that there
is no falling back into the old ways of
unpreparedness. This was the message
of Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Franklin ID. Roosevelt to the class of
young officers who today completed
| their course of intensive training at
the Naval Academy.
With very simple ceremonies, four
hundred and fifty young men who four
months ago were in colleges, business
houses and professional offices. this
I morning after fifteen weeks of appli-
cation to the practical side of the ma
4 val officers duties received their GER
| tificates of satisfactory completion of
their preparation.
| The assistant secretary, with Rear
i Admiral Leigh c. Palmer, of the
i Bureau of Navigation, arrived shortly
| after 10 from Washington in an auto
/ mobile After brief stop at the resi-
dence of Rear Admiral Eberle, the
party proceeded to Mahan Hall, where
the official reception by the Naval
Academy Band and a company of U.
| S. Marines was rendered.
| Entering he auditorium of Mahan
Hall, about the galleries of which were
4 grouped the friends and families of
the Reserves while the young officers
| themselves occupied the main floor,
the ceremonies opened with a brief
prayer by the Rev. Sydney X. Evans,
i chaplain at the Academy In his in,
vocation the Chaplain asked that God
be with, keep and bless all sent forth.
! today in Gods name from the
Academy
| Calling attention to the fact that
they were the third class of young Of
| ficers to complete the Reserve officers
preparatory course at the Academy,
Admiral Eberle said he thought there
was no place so fitting to hold such
| ceremonies as Mahan Hall, where sa-
credly preserved over their heads hung
the old and battle-scarred flags which
stand for the best traditions of the
| American Navy. Complimenting the
men of the class on their quick grasp
| of their duties and the traditions of
the Navy. the Superintendent said re-
ports show that members of the other
! classes of Reservists are making good
in every sense of the word That Re-
serves will maintain the edo or die"
spirit of the Navy and if necessary
make the supreme sacrifice Admiral
Eberle said he felt confident.
/ Mr.. Roosevelt, in voice remarkably
clear and distinct, told first of his par
| ticular interest in the workings of the
Naval Reserve.
"Why, when l started out a few
years ago for bigger navy and for
reserve corps my plans were called
but the wild imaginations of an over
| conflcent young man." said he. He
| then gave, however, a history of the
| 1916 summer cruise of four weeks
/ aboard naval vessels for civilians.
Our of the 1900 men who took that
cruise, which some people referred TO
as a 10y ride fourteen hundred, upon
this country's entry into the war, ell
| tered the navy, three hundred went
| into the army, and from this 100 over
| so per cent are now commissioned Off
GERS in one or the other branch or
the service" he announced, amid great
applause.
The speaker paid a tribute and a
! compliment to the splendid guiding
hand of Rear Admiral Eberle You
cannot have had this training under
such an officer without acquiring real
| ization of what the Navy today stands
| for" he declared.
| The Assistant Secretary then re-
minded the graduates that they have
not a duty but an opportunity to rem
der the nation now and for all the rest
of their lives great service. Il want
to impress this duty to the nation, now
and afer the war is over, upon you.
Through your closer touch with the
civilian life and the life of the coun-
try outside the navy, you will have a
| splendid opportunity to spread the
need of America. being at all times
prepared You have and will have for
this purpose access to civil thought in
| a way the regular officers of the navy
do not have"
/ The danger to America after the
war will, in the opinion of Mr.. Roose-
welt, be the kind of apathy that sue
ceeded the Civil War. After pointing
out that America had been pacifist
nation, the speaker predicted that al
most inevitably there will spring up
after the war a party claiming there
| will be no more wars. and one that
will make the old predictions about "a
million men springing to arms in
night" ''It will be part of your op-
portunity," said the Assistant Secre-
tary, "to bring home to the people
the thought that America must have
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