Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-12

>
OF method when you cannot win by
@ think that there are willing ears
10 hear this in the American navy
and the American army. because Ina,
Is The Kind of folks we are.
mere viii have TO come n now.
Tradition into service which does
NOT DO new and audacious and sue
cessful things"
Wanted Campaign Pressed.
The President also expressed his
o.ssatist acUon with progress then
ue!nE hade toward crushing the sub
marine campaign.
We are hunting horEe;s all over
Inc inIih ana letting the mes, alone"
ne sag: unwilling. for my part.
cause know the stun YOU are made
OF. L am willing to sacrifice half the
navy Great Britain and we together
m n'e, 10 crush mat nest, because IL
we crush IT,. the war is won"
The British Admiralty had me,
Amerlcan suggestions with what
amounted TO statements that 1T never
adding. and felt like saying. Wei
nothing was ever done so systematt,
chi!y as nothing is being done now F"
In opening his address TO the Oil
GERS. Mr.. Wiisonysnid 'Admirai Mavo
ana Gentlemen: | have not come here
with malice prepensc TO make a
speech but ] have come here TO have
that' perhaps, may be intimately said
Apd. even though the company IS
large, said In confidence.
An Unprecedented War.
This is an unprecedented war. and.
--lor amateurs Nobody over before
wa- like this. and. there
toFe, nobody can pretend 10 be a
pro'tssloha! IN a war Hike this. Here
are TWO great nav!cs-noi To speak
OF the Others associated with MS
our own and the British, outnumbcr-
,ns ny very great margin the navy
casting about for a way In which
strength.
Nov. somebody has 20, "a think
this war out Somebody has got To-
think out the way. not only 10 night
ne submarine. bat TO do something
''f' nave 'F SonG N5n sr We g. are doing
DO not care 'Hhere- IT comes from. I
do not care whether II comes from
the youngest officer or the Oldest. but
want ne othcers o. this navy to
nave the distinction OF saying how
lhis war is going 20 be won.
Ready for Any Sacrifice.
am willing to make any sacrifice
TOT mat ! mean any sacrifice OF tim
or anything else am ready TO put
nESeH AZ inc disposal o! any officer
IA the navy who thinks he knows how
10 run TINS wa. j viii not undertake
10 tell YOU whether he docs or NOT.
hrTause know that do not but |
munica'ion with those who can And
no; VI
We have got to throw tradition to
AS haze said. gentlemen. ,,ka
81 FOR giant"d thar nothing that
say mere viii be repeated and. thor,
Tore. am going to say this Every
,,'ne We nave suggested anything to
nc British Admiralty the reply mas
come PACK that virtually amounted 10
inns. that IL mad never been done ina,
way and felt like saying. wen.
no'h1hg mas Teen don" so syste-
inat'Ga'Iy as nothing is being done
nov" Therefore. ! should like to
see something unusual h.npcD some
ihlhs tAht was never done before. and
,naSt''uSh as me things rhat are being
noh. 10 You We're never done before,
cont YOU thlui. II is worth viii. "a
Try something that was never Jnnn
beiorc against those who are doing
them TO you?
Forget Word ''rrudent."
,a,y ie .;i,%c icay. out Of your vocabu-
DO not stop 10 think about VIVA, 10
prudent for moment ~. mo ,bf,,,
lhat ~ audacioiS to the u.mos, pojnf
OF OH, risH ana ,dn2r.ng, because that Is ex.
act!y me ihinE mat tho Other sifn
does not understand and you w.!r MI,
by the audac.iy OF rne;hGd when wI 80,
cannot van by c!rcuinspection ana
am not DISCOURAGED for = mo.
meni' particularly because we NV.
hoi even begun and without saving
ah!th!ns IN dis2ara cement II those
win wh"in - age associated In Ina
war, DO expect things to begin wlmr
we begin II they do not American
history Will have changed rs coi,r..'
ihe american navy and army wNi
nave changed their character Thrra
VIII nave to come new tradition i,,tn
service which does no, DO new ana