The Washington times., 1920-01-30
Worlds Most Potent
Propaganda Backing
Sims, Says Connolly
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been named 20 stand by her, and
they did. that. Chasing a few boat
loads OF panicky crew men, who
were all over the ocean in the dark.
was the job OF one OF them; the other
was hooked up alongside the sinking
huh and making herself busy there.
David Jones Was One.
Those two destroyers OF ours took
on 500 people. mostly soldiers return
inG from South Africa on leave. aud
they showed more than mere effi'
cheney In doing II. They showed
great will to be of service. and good
nerve. because while they were at
that work there was nothing 10 pre-
vent any mean feeling U-boat men
who might be hanging around from
getting them both while they lay still
on the water. Toward the end OF that
work the big ship was going down so
rapidly that one OF our destroyers. by
this time lsshed TO her side. had -
back out with emergency steam TO
save herself from being dragged
down with the big fellow.
The Jacob Jones was one OF the de-
stroyers engaged I'm that work OF res
cue and her commander was David
y
herself was torpedoed. Bagley still in
command, and sixty of her crew of
100 officers and Nmen went down with
her. She went down with rush.
and II was a November night In about
90 north, and well onshore from the
Irish coast. A fine place to be. If
you did not drown you stood good
chance OF freezing to death. How
ever, after a tough time of IT,. the
survivors were picked up,
Work Constant Strain. ''
Now / sketched briefly In the be-
ginning OF this article the work OF
one destroyer for one day in the war
zone, with the added second exper-
fence OF the Jones for a purpose to be
seen later. But forget for the moment
the special jobs our destroyers did.
Consider only the weight OF the con-
slant strain of that life; the wearing
watches night and day; the battlings
! with the sea In the jumpiest little
/ ships afloat off one of the toughest
coasts In the world: the taking your
meals standing and not always get
ting them; the being bounced out of
your bunk even when you were strap
ped in; and the no knowing what
minute of the night or day your ship
would get hers; IL not from a U-boat,
| then by collision with one Of bunch
OF other ships cavorting around
yours in the dark.
II anybody ought to get q medal, .
Dis tin guished Service Medal, then the
| officers and men who never did any
thing else but 20 through that stun
for months on end, and behaved cred
itably during II throughout, should
certainly have one.
Sins Doesn't Think So.
But Admiral Sims does not think so.
He does not think that Captain Bag
ley standing by the sinking ship, or
later leading his men through hours
of black encouragement after his
ship was blown up, that in addition
to the regular every day and night
stuff-no, no, Sims says, he should
not get any ID. S. n. Why? Well.
/ a ship being torpedoed is an accident,
and men shouldn't be rewarded for
meeting with accidents!
How the officers and men of that
destroyer behaved after that accident
does not seem to matter; how they
behaved while taking people off that
torpedoed liner doesn't matter; how
they behaved generally during those
strainful months at sea doesn't mat
ter either.
Dangers of London Fog.
What does mntters Nothing that
I can End cut unless you were doing
n good Job for Sims under Sims owa
eye. which means In Londony for We
must remember that Sims, himself.
never took n cruise To sen during
the whole war. Accidentsf OanEers
Were you ever almost bumped by
taxi while trying to skip across Pic
cadilIy Circus In n London foGf For
get those men out to sen. There was
real danger for you!
Now clerks in Offices did good work
during the war. There were officers
and men on Sims staff in London
doing good work. burt 90 per cent of
it could have been done by clerks
who had never seen ship. But why
should any clerk in an office be
awarded the same grade of medal as
the fighting COB or doughboy?
/ Sims Built Personal Machine.
As for Captain Baglcy, of the tor
pedoed destroyer Jones, he happens
to be a brother law. of Secretary
Daniels. Sims does not like Daniels,
which, of course, has nothing to do
with Sims not wanting Bagiey to