The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-01-25

DID YOU KNOW THAT?

The keels of the su b m ar in e s
SQUALUS and THETIS were laid
four days apart and both sank on
their trial runs within ten days of
each other
The first landing of an airplane on
a man-of-war was made by an Iowa
farm boy, Eugene Ely on the U. S.
IS. (armored cruiser) PENNSYL-
VANIA on January Is, 1911. The in
trepid aviator brought his frail,
rickety, grandfather of the present
battleship plane, to a successful down.
wind landing on "a wooden platform
only 81 feet wide and 12O feet long,
that was built on the PENNSYL-
VANIA for this purpose. After this
amazing feat the aviator calmy stated,
"While l didn't use up the entire plat
form, ! do rot think smaller one
advisable !. ~ X
In national disasters it has always
been the Navy which has first offered
assistance to populations of stricken
areas. In the Japanese earthquake,
it was the u. S. Asiatic Fleet which
first arrived at the scene of the dis
aster. In the Messina earthquake,
Russian Revolution, Armenian troub-
les and anti-foreign disturbances in
China, the Navy took a prominent
part in the protection of civilian life
and in the evacuation of refugees.
The ration of the American Navy is
superior to that of any other navy,
service, or institution in the world in
both quality and quantity.
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In 1915 Stephen Decatur conducted
operations against Algeria which end
ed all further payments of tribute by
the United States to the Barbary
States. Lord Nelson had said that it
would take twenty-five ships of the
line to accomplish this feat, but De-
catur accomplished it with only ten.
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All large ships of the Navy and
particularly all Naval Stations on
shore include Chaplain in their COM
plement; throughout the Service he
is atfectionately referred to as the
Padre" Aside from his spiritual ad-
minstratons, he has direct supervis-
ion over the ships library, is actively
interested in educational activities, in
all entertainments and welfare activi-
ties for the crew; but perhaps above
and of more value than all of these
things are his personal contacts with
every man in the ships company,
from the Captain on down-any time,
anywhere, he is ready to rejoice with
us in our jublant moments, ready
with advice or solace in our troubles,
and ready to bring us and keep us in
touch with that side of life that is
too much lost sight of in the busy
rustling days of modern environment.
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80 young men, ages 1881 will be
accepted for enlistment in the U. S.
Navy from the Cleveland District
during January. Call or write your
nearest Recruiting Office. Your local
ooItlidSlci Cdl uiIeCC yOu
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at is melancholy fact that in no
small degree the cause of this un-
precedented increase of ornaments
has arisen because of the growth
abroad of governmental PHILOSOPHERS
that are in most respects antagonis-
tic to ours and alien to our conception
Of the rights of free man :. 1t is the
lesson of history that unless individual
liberties are safeguarded and the
people consulted, Government will in
time become tyrannical and arrogant
AS the world labors amid the well
ter of foreign ideologies and propagan-
da, what are we doing to teach our
youth the privileges and responsible
ties of Americanism ?"-Admiral Will
liam d. Leahy, U. S. Navy.