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many years our friends on the other side of the water said that our naval ships were built 

 so lightly that they would not hold together. I remember that was said in the case of the 

 old Iowa, I think. We are building a new Iowa now, of about 43,000 tons, and the fram- 

 ing is not much heavier than the old Iowa. In naval design we have not only designed as 

 good ships as are built in any country, but in some particulars probably a little better, and 

 in that connection I cannot talk about ship designing or shipbuilding without telling — a lot 

 of you know — without telling the new members of this Society and the visitors that prob- 

 ably the man most responsible for that (and I am sure on the other side they would agree 

 with this), probably the most distinguished ship designer in the wodd, is sitting at the speak- 

 ers' table now — he will probably go after me for saying this — but you will find that his 

 works, what he has written, what he has planned and what he has done are honored and 

 followed in ship design, even throughout Europe. I refer to Admiral D. W. Taylor. (Loud 

 applause. ) 



Not only has he done great design work in naval vessels, but his advice and assistance 

 in the designing an,d building of merchant ships have been of great value. 



Sometimes men say tliey think there is too much navy in this shipbuilding game (cries 

 of "Hear, hear"), and the reason is perfectly apparent. Before the war, the Navy was all 

 the shipbuilding we had upon which to concentrate our talents. The Naval Academy turned 

 out men who were sent abroad to learn shipbuilding and learn designing, who were almost 

 the only men given a thorough education in ship design and engine design, and were, there- 

 fore, the most easily prepared of any to take up this work. Novir that we have the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology and other splendid places, more and more men are being 

 educated in this country along these lines, so that not only in ship design and shipbuilding, 

 but in the arts of the sea, we are coming back into our own. (Applause.) 



I was at a school at Hampton Roads the other day where about 400 young men are be- 

 ing brought in from the farms to learn to be seamen, and they are going to make good sea- 

 men, as we found out during the war. I talked to some of the boys as to why they came 

 and where they were going, and they said they had concluded to adopt a career on the sea 

 because they had the instinct of the sea. Our forefathers came to this country because they 

 believed in reaching out into a new country and going out into trade and commerce and 

 seeing the world, and whenever that instinct of romance and desire to move about is de- 

 stroyed in our people, we had better stop. When boys no longer want to go to sea and go 

 out over the earth and see new lands, then the spirit of adventure will be dead. We have 

 filled up the United States pretty well now, and our boys are eager to go out on the ocean 

 again. It will take a generation of effort in order to put us on the sea as we really belong, 

 but we are getting there, and our boys will go to sea in good American ships and will be- 

 come American officers, and we will have our American seamen, and as our friends on the 

 other side continue their development, we will go with them hand in hand to the ends of the 

 world and carry the message of our civilization. (Applause.) 



