Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-18

came tens of thousands of enlisted
men who soon became among the most
expert sailors. The Navy is not merely
on the ocean. riding the waves. The
Navy is safely anchored in the conf
dence and affectioe Of the American
people.
The American Navy is the pride of
the people II must be increased and
strengthened / am asking congress
not to make any new departures but
TO authorize another three-year pro-
gramme. look TO see the Peace Con-
gress put an end 10 competitive big
Navy building, but in Navy strong
enough to enforce the DEGREES of an
international tribunal. the United
States should contribute as many
units as any other nation. Ii lost less
by the war than any other great ma
ton Ii is the richest nation and has
the longest shore line. 1t should
therefore contribute to the Internal
ional police. a large and powerful
force And for this the three-year
programme is necessary.
Sees Big Merchant Marine
The day has forever ended when an
American merchant marine is MEM
DRY. We are creating a great mer
chant marine-one sufficient to carry
American products into every land
under the sun. We will continue to
build ships and never again depend
upon foreign bottoms. Will they be
operated by private companies or by
the government? / do not know and
that concerns me very little. My con-
Germ is that we shall see that they are
operated for the benefit of our people
and of those countries with which we
barter products.
Among the pressing problems is the
child labor problem. There is but one
way to solve it and that is to take an
eternal oath that the seed corn shall
not be ground in the mill. The states
should protect their children, but it
is more important to keep the chill
dren out of the mills than to discuss
how 1t shall be done. do not dissent
from the learning of the decision of
the supreme court that declared the
child labor law unconstitutional.
have too much respect for that great
court to criticize it's decision and con-
gress evidently failed in the Child La
Dor Law to observe constitutional re-
quirements. But there is legal way
for congress to make the employment
of child labor Improbable. and it
should make way or find one.
Asks Fight On yenereal Disease
At its last session congress appro-
priated six million dollars to fight the
plague of venereal disease, two mil
lion of which are to be used in coop
Grafton with the states. Congress was
prompted Immediately to this forward
movement by the necessity of protect
ing men of military age. War has
taught us that this immoral disease is
worse than cancers or tuberculosis,
or yellow fever. 1t units men for mil
itary and civilian duty and transmits
idiotic and feeblemindednes to the
offspring. To carry on this fight
against this worst menace to youth
congress and state legislatures have al
last taken action If they will join
hands, the newly-created Board of So
cial Hygiene, of which / have the
honor to be chairman, our future will
find this country saving its man power
and woman power too, with the care
and the success that will preserve the
most precious assets of the republic
l appeal to the governor of every
commonwealth in his message to the
next General Assembly to urge such
action as will give the same cooper.
alton in suppressing this plague as
has been given agriculture, agricul-
tural college expansion and road
building Neither the State nor the
National government alone can sue
coed in segregating the victims of this
disease and preserving the health OF
its youth, but with earnest co-opera-
ton, aided by the good work already
being done by individuals and socie-
ties, we will see the day when vene-
real disease and the sin which causes
it will no longer be the greatest men
ace to national fitness to fight and nat
ional fitness to labor.