Admiral Bob Evans has been inte>
viewed and says we must have a big
ger navy or quit. The Admiral is
clearly of opinion that we must have
the biggest navy in the world or cease
to be a world power. Great thing to
be a world power, isn’t it? Never
mind the cost. We must be IT. What
is the good of our fruitful plains,
and golden hills, our mighty rivers
and splendid harbors, if we are not
going to outshine everybody else!
These things were not given to us to
enable us to build a great, prosperous,
peaceful, just, contented nation at
tending wisely to its own affairs and
giving other people a chance to at
tend to theirs. Oh, no! They were
given to us so that we might get to
be the biggest fish in the stream, the
leader of world powers, the maker
of civilization to order for lesser na
tions, a cleaner up of the premises of
other people even if our own backyard
is full of tin cans, old newspapers
and chicken bones.
If we insist on being a mighty
“w’orld power” with all the trim
mings, by all means let us have the
big “navee.”
The President Talks.
The President on his trip down the
Mississippi made several speeches not
however making any new points until
at Memphis he brought out the fact
that he has decided to call a Nation
al Convention for the purpose of dis
cussing how best to preserve our Na
tional Resources and stop the prodi
gal waste now going on. The plain
people of the country could probably
give some pretty straight tips on this
question.
The Cost of Rail Roads.
