The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-25
REAR ADMIRAL DUKE POINTS OFT NAVY
MAINTAINS PROTECTION OF "RAMPARTS"
BPW Delegates
Told Investment
Includes Defense
And Education

And Education
ReartAdniiral Irving I.
Duke, commander oil the
u. S. Naval Base at Key
West, speaking at the BPW
banquet ON Saturday night,
took the sword edge off
the speech made earlier i'm
the day by Congressman
Bill Lantaff before Oh.
State Board convention
delegates of the Business
and Professional Women's
Club who met in a three
day conclave here. Admiral
Duke accomplished his
feat tactfully, with a sense
of humOr.
POINTING out that the Navy main.
tains an important defense ram.
part, he touched on the theme az
the BPW convention which was
! The Ramparts We Build" He ont.
lined anti-submarine warfare train.
ing and reminded listeners thai
the extensive. important operations
here are national protection main.
tanned for The Ramparts We
Most significant was his state.
ment, In addition to destroyers.
destroyer escorts and aircraft
working with their magnetic detec-
tors and complicated equipment 10
detect submarines. there Is the
training Of men. Your investment
per dollar goes into all these and
In the education OF young Ameri-
cans on how to use the devices. ]"
He concluded by stating he was
proud to be In the navy and proud
i 70 be in Key West. =
The less pointed portions Of his
speech were seeded with The dry
Ice humor and brought 4 deluge
OF laughter which put the huge
crowd in q mood Of relaxation.
The Admiral's address was heard
by 200 representatives Of the BPW
from IS cities In Florida. local
members. state Federation officers
OF the club and scores Of local city
and county officials at the
banquet which began at 3 and last
ed until II pm. at La Concha
Hotel.
Al one O'Clock the same day.
during luncheon for the BpW
guests, Congressman william Lam
taft sliced at the heavy military
and administration expenditures
which he claimed kept the national
budget In state Of unbalsnce. His
speech was aimed 70 please the
BPW members who adopted q re.
solution presented TO him urging
spending.
Despite his attack on the Presi-
dents plan to raise the taxes IN
order to raise funds for military
use. Lantaff. paradoxica ally.
In the beginning Of his speech
emphasized that we must maintain
the ramparts In the Pacific ard
that our "Korean action stopped
Communism In the Far East and
stopped aggression In Korea"
He pointed out that the problem
was not as complex as Il seemed.
that the main reason for the
Korean attack Was simply % ga
rice from the extensive rice beds
In South Korea. He added that A
the Communists had Korea they
would have q base 10 move "a on
Japan. In this eonnection he said
that 81 per cent Of the steel used
In Korea came from Japan. He
said that the Communists know
that the japanese conquest was
for more land and that close watch
must be kept on their activity there
since they use the land idea a
propaganda. We must keep the
ramparts built In the Psciie.s
Lantah maintained thst "seiee-
tive security and mutual assistance
has TO Be used In MODELLING the
free peoples II the world" He
stated, To-day we know that T.
morrow We could have World War
iii break out IN Beriin.s
Then he awifchad IN - ,,~<Aas--