The Winslow mail., 1925-04-03
MAIL WILL HAVE
CORRESPONDENT
AT MANEUVERS

Readers Of The Winslow Mail will
be favored in few weeks with a
series of interesting letters of life
and events on a United States bat
tleship or cruiser, while in line of
! service during the joint army and
navy maneuvers this month in Pa
cific waters, which will include the
dual problem OF attack and defense
of the Hawaiian Islands.
These letters will be written by
a special correspondent of The Mail
who goes as one Of a small group
of newspaper men invited by Sec
retary of the Navy Wilbur to wit
ness these fleet maneuvers at first
hand, in order that the American
people may know more about what
the navy is doing. 1t is in this way
that the United States navy wishes
/ to give a report to it's owners-the
men and women of the country,
Maneuyers like those now in
progress are intended to increase
operating efficiency, improve NOR
ale and foster sea habits in the
navy. They uncover defects and
! teach valuable lessons, besides fur
nishing an opportunity for the
fleet to prepare, solve and carry
| out problems under simulated war
conditions.
/ The larger events which will be
! chronicled by The Nails corre-
spondent will begin on April Is,
when the fleet of 12O naval sea
fighters will leave San Francisco
on mission of invasion of the
Hawaiian Islands.
On April 25 will begin an attack
on Hawaii with the full force OF
the United States engaged, and the
army forces of Hawaii, together
with naval forces stationed there,
national guard and army reserves
defending the islands.
The Nails special correspondent
will be given an opportunity to in
spect cruisers, destroyers, battle
ships, destroyers, aircraft, auxiliary
vessels and the aircraft carrier
Langley" He expects to sub
merge in a submarine and will go
up in a seaplane.
All of these things and many
/ others will be described in these
weekly letters published in the
columns of The Mail, and every
thing will be told in manner that
will be intensely interesting. There
will be no yelled propaganda to
boost the navy, but frank and inter
esting stories of the days happen
ings and a word picture of life on
a big battleship or cruisers during
the twenty days the correspondent
is with the fleet.
There also will be one or more
letters about what he sees and finds
in Hawaii, not the usual dry sta
tistical stuff copied from an ency-
clopedia, but the everyday stories
which he will pick up from contact
with ths people.
These stories will be written by
"land lubber" who has done con-
siderable travelling within the Unit
ed States. He is a country editor
who has daily contact with the
readers of his own newspaper.
! They know him and he knows
them-they are both just folks
and they like to read his letters
home. By a special arrangement
the readers of The Winslow Mail
also are going to have an oppor-
tunity to enjoy them. They will not
! be written in the style of the big
city dialies, touching just the high
spots, but in the personal way of
the ordinary traveller writing home
to his own folks.
1t is an interesting fact that
! Uncle Sam does not spend any ap
preparation in entertaining The
Nails correspondent and the other
! editors on this trip. They pay their
own expenses to San Francisco,
where they join the fleet, and back
from Honolulu, where they leave it.
While Uncle Sans guest they pay
for their meals in the regular of
! ficer's mess, as we'll as their laun-
dry and other incidentals, and in
Honolulu their own hotel bills.
This is as it should be. Uncle Sam
should not and does not spend the
peoples money to gain favors from
the newspapers, but he has opened
up the possibilities for better un
derstanding by inviting small
number of editors, including the
special correspondent of The Mail,
to get first-hand inside view of
the peace time work of the navy.
Meanwhile the correspondents ex-
pect to have an enjoyable expert
ence, at the same time giving their
readers an interesting account of
things seen and heard.
Watch for these letters. 1t will
not be possible to say at this time
just when the first one will appear,
as that depends on how long it will
take to get a letter back home aft
er leaving San Francisco.