The Washington times., 1918-08-22
The Great Navy of a Great
Country
Honor and Gratitude the Nation Owes to Every
the Service.

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the Service.
Thain is a chief petty officer in the United States
navy and assistant editor Of the Grea Lakes Recruit
newspaper published by the boys in the navy in training to
fight for their Uncle and for freedom
It was inspiration to this young man, fine type
of the American sailor when he came In to say The boys
would like to write an editorial about the navy Tor our
paper"
chest bright red showing through the bronze Of his cheeks
indicate that among the ancestors Of young Thain many
Here the editorial for the Great Lakes Recruit"
All the work Of our men that 60 down to sea in ships
First there is the magnificent democratic character Of
our navy.
at Princeton to read think and PREPARE themselves for
the work Of Now he is sending them out in millions to
DO the work of men, and make worth while for real men
to live on this earth
President Wilson wanted man to take charge Of the
American navy He wanted demoCrat-in that words
true sense apart from politics.
he wanted man to whom all Americans would look
exactly alike until Of them, by achievement should
prove superiority
he took from small city in North Carolina where he
edited local newspaper man named Josephus Daniels
Fools laughed at him, at first. And he was abused
shameuy by representatives of corporations whom Daniels
would not permit to steal the public money
Now the whole nation reOices that we have such
President Wilson knew that he had made no mistake
The editor he selected had deed everything in defense Of
@ to send Daniels to Jail because he persisted in
telling the truth without asking any judges permission to
tell it.
The President controls the navy. The that 60 to
sea on our ships have the right President.
Mr.. Daniels controls the detail the officers the cond
tions under which the young live Those young
have the right Secretary of the Navy and know it. Fathers
and mothers of the sailor boys are and well may be- CRATE
You read that the death rate in the navy less than
half the regular death rate among young men in civil life
That means something to mothers.
The control of navy represents the glory Of demo
cratic government.
The ship that goes stands for the glory Of SOL
ENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT.
boat Of iron floats with thousands of tons of STEEL
and iron machinery and shells for its load.
Science steers the ship.
And science directs the aim Of the gunner enabling him
to strike that which he does not see.
Science ready board to for the wounded
Science cooks the food on electric stoves.
American science, used and guided by democracy and
quer and overthrow Pussan science land and sea-
prostituted to the purposes Of autocracy.
It is an honor and glory to be an American sailor
Every boy every ship knows that every hour he offers
e S s8 @ S to be
in their lifetime. The others will be honored in death
most glorious.
Many boy as he sits up high in the mast looking
for the submarine knowing that his chance down and
escape must be slight has repeated to himself the lines that
little boys learn by heart and that Macaulsy puts in the
mouth of Horatius
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late;
And how die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods?"
There is in all the world uniform more honorable
than that Of the young the sailor with loose collar loose
trouser ends and will to do his share tight steel
American sailors have taken million and half fighters
safely to Europe.
American sailors safely taking the food that feeds
the armies Of justice
American sailors laughing face every hour Of every
trim the unseen enemy that kills without warning.