Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1933, Page 6

- ADEQUATE FLEET SSNANSON G0AL Proposed Building Program Described as a Start by Forum Speaker. An American Navy “sufficient to pro- tect. our rights and commerce, wherever they exist,” was the goal set by Secre- ¥ of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, in an’ address delivered in the National i Radio Forum, sponsored by The Star. | over Station WRC and a Nation-wide network of the National Broadcasting | Co. last night. The speech wes given | from 9:30 to 10 o'clock and Mr. Swan- | /T—Ih\J'ENING son was the eighth cabinet officer of the new Democratic administration to sp-ak in the forum series. “There is no use having a 1 STAR, gressional committee that in time of ‘war the second best navy was no better than the second best hand in a poker game. There is no use having a second- class navy, or a third-class navy. Unless the Navy is sufficient to take care of our rights and to defend them, it is a useless expense. . It is with these general principles in mind that the naval construction pro- gram of today has been suggested. ‘While the proposed 20 destroyers, 4 sub- marines, 4 cruisers, 2 aircraft carriers and 2 gun boats will not bring the Navy to treaty strength, nevertheless it is a start. Will Stimulate Industry. Authorization of these vessels will stimulate industry and labor. Many thousands of men would be employed directly, and many more thousands in- directly, in the construction of these vessels. The steel industry, the rail- roads and allied lines throughout the length and breadth of the land will of necessity benefit. I know of no more effective and pralseworthy way of giv- ing our industrial life that country-wide stimulus which it so sorely needs than by devoting & portion of the money and energy which is to be used for public constructidn for the vital arm of our national defense. WASHINGTON, D. C. we were unable to meet with justice and honor to ourselves. I have no fear or misgivings aboul our present international relations. I do not speak from the standpoint of an alarmist. I am, in fact, firmly, con- vinced that our relations with the world will respond to the leadership of President Roosevelt to the same de- gree that domestic conditions have progressed and improved since he as- sumed the highest office in the land. | Roosevelt’s Insight Praised. | A statesman was once defined as | one who has the vision to find the righ pathway and the valor to follow it when | it has been found. That is essentially the measure of Franklin D. Roosevelt. I have become convinced that there is| not a promise in the Democratic plat form nor a statement made in his speeches during the campaign that he | does not intend to fulfill. In his meet ings with the cabinet he has alread: shown an amazing capacity to discuss with insight and thoroughness the prob lems which confront us. He has in finite ability to say and do the right thing. Under such direction, there is no thought in the mind of any of his | associates but that this Nation will go forward nationally and internationally. My actions are, I trust, in keeping with that leadership which has been so amply demonstrated. The Navy dces WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1933. Tesources _were at that time. Preparation then was many times more costly time and money than if we had ed in advance. The only thing that the Navy asks now is that it be permitted in an orderly and econom- ical way to maintain an agency which is beyond price in time of need, but which | cannot be materialized over night. Always Ready to Serve. finite ability to say and do the right | who will quarrel with this desire, unless ; an appreciation of the actualities of xistence is entirely lacking. We can- not dispense with the Navy and that being the case, we cannot have one that is obsolescent and inadequate. We cannot convince others any more than | ourselves that vessels which have out- lived their day can protect the lives and property of our citizens. The Navy must keep pace with the advances in onstruction and science, which are onstantly taking place. It must plan head so that the day may never come when a call to duty cannot be answered. There has never been an occasion in the past when the American Navy has not been ready to serve.* That record cannot be tarnished no The devoted and sincere men who comprise the naval establishment are ready, as they have always been. They must, However, be given the means with which to carry Prices are creeping upward, a reaction already being felt in retailing. Our stock of stoves purchased months ago are now wonderful values. That’s why this Stove Week is one of ‘our greatest, and why you should come The construction contemplated is not excessive, The cost is moderate, but it is sufficient to start the hum of class navy, or a third-class na sorted the Naval Secretary. “Unless | the Navy is sufficient to take care of | not ask for anything that is calculated to threaten the peace of this or any It is concerned only out their task. That is little enough to ask of a country to which they ha in tomorrow if you're going to need a stove this year. Just a few are advertised. The one you want is here our rights and to defend them, it is a | useless expense. “It is with these general principles in mind that the naval construction pro- gram of today has been While the proposed 20 destroyers, 4 submarines, 4 cruisers, 2 aircraft car- riers and 2 gunboats will not bring the Navy to treaty strength, neverthe- less it is a start” States His Attitude. Secretary Swanson’s address follows: My friends, I have been asked to talk with you tonight about the Navy. I respond to this request with the utmost enthusiasm. appreciating every minute of the radio time which has so courteously been made available to me by the National Radio Forum and the National Broadcasting Co., because it is as much my pleas- ure as it is my duty to keep the Ameri- can public advised 2s to our right arm of defense. It is rather unfortunate that our natural tendency is to divide every issue into definite classifications, such as wet and dry, high tariff and low tariff, internationalist and isolationist, etc. So you hear of big Navy men and little Navy men. I believe I have gen- erally been classified as a big Navy man, which some people interpret as meaning that I am for a marine estab- lishment the limits of which would be only the full extent of our capacity tc build, or to put it a little more pre- cisely, the utmost amounts the Navy Department could induce Congress to appropriate. This is not my attitude. nor is it the attitude of the Navy. I would not increase the Navy to the extent of a single rowboat beyond what a sane appreciation of our necessities involves. I know a lot of very sincerg people yegard warships as not only superflous Juxury, but actually consider them as an incentive to war. An ideal world could possibly get along without a navy, but in the present state of what we call civilization this is quite impossible. ‘We do know that wars have come with surprising unexpectedness. No house- holder is looking to have his residence or place of business burned down. Nev- ertheless, he feels it incumbent on him to carry adequate insurance. That, to a large extent, is what a navy is—in- surance against invasion of our national rights and the liberties and well-being of our people—insurance for our great ‘business on the sea which is so closely interwoven with security and economic welfare ashore. ' Need Urgent Now. History plainly tells us the necessity for a well balanced Navy, and the many difficulties and_disasters averted by naval strength. The need for an adequate Navy is more urgent now than in the past, owing to unsettled and chaotic conditions in the world. ‘We are no longer an isolated Nation— having become a world power, we must accept and perform its work and re- sponsibility. We have large world-wide commercial interests which require care and protection. Our natlonal safety, commercial prosperity 2nd industrial development are also. interwoven with Tetaining control over our home waters, including the great trade route through the Panama Canal. Our position in all these vital respects is no stronger than our Navy. ‘The support of the national policies, the protection of our sea lanes of essen- tial commerce, the defense of the coun- try against foreign invasion or aggres- sion and the performance of our own part in the world's work are all ob- Jects of first magnitude for which we Tequire a substantial and efficient Navy. The American Navy as a protector of ocean trade and commerce no less than in its other roles, affects directly every section of the United States. The wheat growers throughout the Jand have as vital an interest in an adequate Navy as those who have made its maintenance their profession. The cultivator of tobacco needs its protec- tion fully as much as the manufacturer of machinery. The miner is benefited to the same degree as the man whose livelihood is dependent on shipping. The adequacy of the Navy means as much to the man on the street as any other single factor of government. With- out an adequate Navy our commerce would be at the mercy of those nations which controlled the seas, our trade would be limited by the sufferance of our international neighbors. That cer- tainly is not the desire of the American people. They do not, I am confident, wish to allow our sea strength to drift further into the state of obsolescence into which inaction is rapidly bringing it. We cannot live on our glorious naval traditions any more than we can maintain parily with overseas vessels. Pledges Being Fulfilled. The matter of public concern, there- fore, is whether or not the administra- tion int »ds to carry out the pledg made in its platform, namely, to provide a Navy adequate for national defense. The short and decisive document adopted at the Chicago Convention of the Democratic party already has been marked by a greater measure of fulfill- ment than any similar document in my recollection and, 1 believe that I am ying, in the history of the tes. record of fulfillment is thus far so highly impressive as to be a mat- ter of universal recognition and ac- . claim. The celerity with which the banking problem was met, in accord- ance with the Democratic platform, was suggested. { ! SECRETARY OF NAVY CLAUDE A. SWANSON, | Who spoke last night in the National Radio Forum, sponsored by The Star, as ! the eighth cabinet officer ‘of the present administration to appear on that pro- gram. He revealed that 32 warships are to be built under a contemplated naval | construction program, as a stimulus to business and aid to national defense. —Star Staff Photo. as inspiring as the renewal of confi- | special priority to the production of dence which resulted. Similarly, Y.heidtstmyers. For the sake of this we platform promises with respect to pro- | delayed the rest of our program which hibition and economies in governmen: | would have given us a better balanced have been carried out with a dispatch | Navy. The destroyers were built hastily. and thoroughness which challenges the | Quickness of production was more im- highest admiration. Immediate and portant than excellence of construction active steps have been taken to fulfill | because of the imminent submarine | the Democratic pledges relating to| menace to the great movement of agriculture and unemployment relief. | American troops so necessary to meet It is a truly amazing and unequaled | the military crisis in France. record, written not in words, but in| With all our haste, however, ol actions, which points to the fulfillment | principal anti-submarine burden had also of the national defense plank of | to be borne by those destroyers which the platform, especially when we con- | were completed when war began. Thus sider that the authorization of an‘ade- | ance more ®e learned from experience quate Navy is no small contributicn | that a naval war must be fought mainly toward the solution of the unemploy- | with the Navy existing at its outset ment problem. No form of construc- | That is the great reason for peace-time tion, private or {overnmemal. is more | naval preparation. directly beneficial to labor than naval |+ A former President has said that construction. More than 85 per cent while preparation might not keep us of the funds so spent is paid to the | out of war, lack of such preparation workers employed. would not only insure war, but utter The necessity for new ships is obvi- | disaster. Let me also refer to th ous. There has been relatively little | words of the gallant admiral recently construction on our part since the|lost in the Akron tragedy. In arguing adoption of the treaty by which the | for naval preparation on an adequate principal powers of the World agreed |scale, Ammiral Moffett told a con- to limit their sea strength. The United States is far below the ratio permitted it under the covenant. In some cate- | gories the lack of a building program has resulted in almost complete ex- tinction of under-age ships. 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