Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-02-07
Noted Naval Writer and Ex-Scrvicc
Man Gives Version Of Amer
ica's Part.
Glasses Sims as Tool Of English Pol.
. Ifielans and Dupc OF
Royalty.
NO TROUBLE WITH THE IRISH

James NJ. Connolly. the noted
writer OF naval stories, who spent
eight months with the American
naval forces abroad during the war,
comments as follows on Admiral
Sims and British propaganda:
Our navy, according to Admiral
Sims, was something of q Stacker
during the war. Too bad, of course,
and yet, as a Britishborn, shouldn't
Sims be more gratefulg Only for
that Stacker navy OF ours there
would be no British Empire today.
and with no British Empire and Its
dire needs there would be no Sims.
IL was at banquet in London In
1910 that Sims arose and said that
he, Captain In the United States
navy. could assure all present that
IN the event OF that war which
could not be much longer postponed
England's great hacker would be the
United States. They need have no
fear when the time came-Ameri-
cas- last man, last dollar. last pound
Of steel would be at England's call.
This started something. Sims was
reprimanded-not too severely-by
Washington. Other naval officers
wished that somebody would get up
little manual on professional
ethics and good taste for the shout
ers of the Sims type-either that or
choke 'em before they got to the
third class, and the laity wanted to
know who was this new politician In
their navy, and so on. Sims got II
right and left. but he knew what he
was saying and why he said II. The
English propaganda was going good
thon. There was a German propa-
ganda. tDo. but as against the force
of the/ british II, was as little
>2oNet 10 q great river. Students
6storr, speak OF England as old
\,eniIe, and military men rate
Ash .Tommie a. first class
14Aof n dub on the. firing line,
land n lone rrfng.--rStz-sst 10
OF pf6patanda In the worlds his
toG, that put out by England prio
to( hnd Just after our entry into tn
Aims knew what he was doing
MeA who could tell him better thai
anybody in the world just what ef
fech Engiand's propaganda woul'
finally have In this country wer'
right there at that dinner in Lon
dom while Sims was talking, an,
6imb was making no mistake. Al
oven the British world that speecl
wa1 quoted, and the name OF Sim
established as the one American
natal officer who could be depended
upbn to play England's game whei
tho time came. And when the TIM
came and English influence put hin
where he could play It. he played II
And he is playing II right now whei
be Is depreciating the work OF ou
navy in the war, because to say w
did the less is to prove that England
did the more. Six months before w
were drawn into the war they wer'
licked, and we're hanging on b.
their toes till we got going, and ye
when-ouT fellows went over ther'
they heard on all sides:
''Now that we've won the war th'
Yankees ave come"
Was Il any wonder that whereve
any of our fellows were camped II
the British Isles they took to goini
around and beating up "Limies" an'
Tommics? In England, while thu
armistice was pending, Sims gav'
ont figures tinctured with that sam'
spirit with which he Is now depre
eating the work of our navy In thu
war. He gave out figures In Lon
don In October, 1918. to show hov
many millions of troops the British
escorted safely to France. Great
across the narrow British Channel
with 4 solid line both sides to pro
tect Them. We took ours across
three thousand miles stretch Will
U-boats working both sides withou
losing a man. Two hundred anS
odd OF our soldiers were lost on th'
Tuscania, but she was under a Brit
fab, not an American, escort. Sim
gave out figures TO show that WI
were beholden to British ships To-
getting go per cent. of our mer
aalps-.-lincidentally, they put In
bili for $3.50 per man for that serv
ice. The glory OF Britain--that'i
the game. And every belittling o
what we did in the war is magnifi
rent of what Britain did. Ant
Britain having done It all. VIII,
should she not by and by grab al
she cares to grab? Why not
Hasn't she earned It? And. planted
away. in nearly all our big dailie'
and many of our periodicals.. are ad
yocates OF that idea. And they are
the one biggest menace to American
ism roday. with them It is thu
knife-sometimes openly some
times from out of the dark-fol
whonver daves TO advocate other
wise. But. hallelujah for those wht
talk right And so, to hell with th'
American navyl To hell will
American prestigel All up for th'
Empire! Hallelujah for the Simses'
Five months after our first de
stroyer steamed into Queenstown
forty-eight American bluelackets nae
taken out lincenses to MARI,
Queenstown girls. which is prett,
good going for small force In
few weeks. Gobs on liberty coult
be seen waving Sim Fein flags.
didn't know that they were all 50
strong for the Sim Feiners. II ma,
have been they wanted to show ina
they had no use Tor the 'Limie.