The Penn's Grove record., 1920-05-14
Fine Trophies of
Foreign Travels
BOdine Brothers Brought Many
MementOs From Italy
Greece and Turkey

Councilman Albert j. Bodine is
showing with pride the many souve-
Mrs his sons |Charlesl and<Maxwell
brought home on May End on their 49,
hours leave from the battleship North
Dakota, which was in the Atlantic
Fleet which stopped in New York har-
Dor after an absence of four months.
Charles is a first-class gunner and Max
is not far behind as a part of Uncle
Sans fighting machine that has never
been whipped.
Their travels and experiences show
the advantage of boys being in the
navy. Their travels and sight seeing
could not be had by a millionaire.
They learned more than if they had
been in college.
The North Dakota on which are the
Bodine brothers left Hampton Roads,
Va, November 18th, 1919, with the
body of the Italian Ambassador in
Washington, D. C. They arrived in
Naples, Italy December 4th. While
the ship lay a week in Naples, the boys
took a run down to Rome. While they
did not get a view of the Pope they
saw the gorgeous houses of the Vati-
can where he lived. They visited the
ruins of Pompeii. The city was cov-
cred with lava in the year 81. Dig
ging out the ruins has been going on
for fifty years. Among the memen-
tos from Pompeii is a small copper urn
and small mosaics from a pillar.
Vallelta, Malta, was the next har-
Dor. This is the place where st. Paul
was shipwrecked in the year Sc on his
way to Rome. He founded the first
Christian congregation here. The city
is surrounded by an immensely strong
fortification built by the British who
make it a station for ships on the way
thru the Suez Canal to India.
Piraeus, in Greece, was their next
landing place. Two days there gave
time to visit Athens near which was
the seat of the pantheon where tenn
piles were erected to all the gods, the
ancient pagan minds could imagine
and one to the unknown.
st. Paul told the Athenians he
brought a knowledge of him who was
Jesus of Nazareth, who was the Christ.
Mars Hill is neal where ST. Paul
preached. The boys brought photo
graphs of these historic places as well
as others.
The North Dakota went thru the
Dardanells to Co~nstantinople and was
the first U. S. battleship to enter the
Black Sea. They saw the Sultan and
Sultana and many unique Turkish
maidens who impressed Max greatly.
He did not bring any home with him
only a picture of one as a model to
show his sisters how to dress their
hair.
After spending Christmas there,
they steamed from Constantinople De-
cember 10Th and reached Villefranche,
France, in the Mediterranean Sea, on
January 4th. January 18th they
reached Valencia Spain. During the
fine days there they saw the bull fight,
the brutal method of amusing people
who have progressed little in moral
sentiment in a thousand years because
their religion will not allow the peo-
pie to think, read and speak in higher
moral sentiments. At Gibralter, the
entrance of the Mediterranean Sea,
more Spanish ways and doings were
seer for six days.
January 28th they began a two
weeks run across the Atlantic ocean
to Barbados, British West Indies.
Colon, Panama, was reached February
23d. The trip thru the Panama Canal
was great to see. They reached Guam
tanamo bay, Cuba in March. The en-
tire month of March was spent in
Cuban waters where the Atlantic
Fleet spends the winter at target prac-
tice. Charles Bodine is not only an
expert gunner but catches on the ball
team which won the series of games
between the fleets men.
On the way up the Atlantic coast
the fleet ran near the Virginia capes
and Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Daniels went aboard the flagship,
pennsylvania, Admiral Henry B. Will
son, of Camden, N. j., commander-in-
chief. The most remarkable feature
Of the fleet S arrival in New York har-
Dor May list, was a speech delivered
bv Secretary Daniels by wireless tele-
phone while the big ships were pass
up the bay. The first attempt of
it's kind ever accomplished, the expert
ment was successful az far as nearby
vessels were concerned but not so sue
with the shore station. The
Pennsylvania is an oil-burning battle
ship and led the oil burners at 10
knots an hour. The North Dakota, a
coal burner, outdistanced the oil burn
ers at 1914 knots an hour.
All the friends of the Bodine boys
are glad to hear they are well and
happy and doing such good work in
Uncle Sans navy.
Our navy boys are heroes,
They are true and brave.
Thew sank the German U-boats'
Beneath Atlantic's wave.