Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-03

Post Graduate School. and $4,000
600 have been spent for new con-
struction in these ePochmaking
years. with the result Of securing
added dignity and impressiyeness Of
its buildings as well as increased
facilities
~ have a vision of this Institution
which l expect 10 live 10 see translated
into accomplishment. The grounds
are inadequate for an institution of its
character and importance. All the high
: lands ON Ihe opposite side of the Sew
ern. overlooking the Academy grounds.
should be purchased and made part
of the Institutions campus. lawns,
ranges drill grounds, athletic and
aviation fields. This proposed addi-
tion to the grounds should he con-
nected by a beautiful memorial bridge
commemorative of the valour Of the
600 900 men who served in the Navy i'm
10is-19IS. TIE chapel. built after the
Spanish-American War, can accOmmo-
date only portion OF the larger
student body in the religious services
stately held there. Moreover. ii Is ILL
suited for the purpose. 1t should be
made a noble memorial, not only as
the sepulchre of our greatest sailor
John Paul JOnes-but for other Illus
triOus naval heroes whose fame gives
inspiration to youths ambitious TO fol-
low their example,"
Navy's Permanent Policy
1--WE are not only training Off
GERS here, but there has not been
any recession in the authorization
of naval personnel or in provision
for an adequate naval reserve, and
increased opportunities for the edu-
cation and promotion 10 commits
sions is a cardinal and permanent
policy of the Navy.
"They, and the Naval Academy
graduates, are entitled to the Am
erican assurance that demonstrated
ability will enable them to mount TO
the highest rungs of the ladder OF
promotion where the four stars Of
an admiral are awarded only to
those who win them by the display
of the highest qualities of ability to
command. The enlargement and ex--
pansion of the Post Graduate School
here and the War College at New
port evidence growth, instead of
reduction, as was feared might be
ordered with the return of peace.
More than that: We are conducting
experiments in new naval methods
and instruments, and in the perfec-
ton of old ones, and building a
model and modern laboratory for
research and development and con-
struction The late war taught US
with new emphasis, that new imple-
ments of war, new strategy, new
tactics, and the quick adaptation OF
what experience has demonstrated
is the key to naval efficiency in the
days that lie before you.
Counsel OF 1915 Applies Now
"The counsel given TO high rank
ing officers in 1915 applies with
equal force to the youngest ensign
today:
at is with a very solemn feeling that
stand here. Upon my shoulders falls,
the duty of seeing that the great ma
chinery of the Navy moves smoothly
and moves ever forward. IL is no light
responsibility when you remember that
in the supreme moment of our hour OF
trlal, ShOuld dark days ever come.
upon you must largely rest the sue
failure of the use of that ma
chiDery in time of war; and today that
responsibility il far heavier than IL
has been before in history. As
YOU look abroad, YOU see the f0unda-
tiOn of old theories crumbling every
day. Old tactics. old strategies. old
theories of naval warfare. which have
stood uBchallenged almost axiO-
matte. since the triremes of Carthage
and Rome grappled together in the
Mediterranean. are disappearing over
night. New and terrible instruments
of destruction for the first time have
appeared under and over the seas.
Slipping Unseen through the dark
waters underneath, silent submarines
clude great fleets. slip by impregnabie
Notifications, thread safely narrow
straits sOwn thiekly with mines. and
in moment transform great battle
ships into useless sunken iron and
steel. In the air overhead dirigibies
and aeropianes threaten new danger.
add new problems and upset old theO-
ries OF warfare. If war upon the land
has reverted to the bayOnet and the
hand grenade. war upon tine sea has
leaped forward NJ single stride and
broken almost every shaclle of ancient
convention.
I'VE have seen the main fleet of the
greatest sea nation in the world with
drawn from the seas to some secluded
harbor without having fired shot
during the first year of mighty con-
fict. We have seen battles begun at
ranges believed to be impossible and
ships disabled by shots from guns
vet invisible. We have been told that
modern sea fights would be determined
in the first ten minutes. Vet have
seen that IL took six hours to decide
one of the greatest ocean battles of
the present war.
Every day some new thing in naval
warfare arises. The old things are
passing away: new things must be de.
vised. With what weapons, by what
strategy. shall we meet the terror OF
the submarine; the still unreveaIed
possibilities of the airships 1t is to
You. gentlemen. that this question
must be put. IL is to Won your seere-
tary of the Navy looks for answer.
My earnest word. my solemn plea. to-
day j. 10 urge you fearlessiy to dis
card worship of all things that old
and to adopt courageousiy anything
that is new"
American Genius Sees Task
1T was because the genius of
America has the particular quality
of imagination. which sees large