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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph from Ernest T. Fanroat 



U. S. S. "GEORGIA" .IN A TYPHOON : PACIFIC OCEAN, NEAR JAPAN 



All naval vessels operating in the war zone are equipped with boat or life-raft capacity 

 sufficient for every person on board. A stock of life-preservers of an improved type has 

 been manufactured sufficient to supply one to each officer and man on board all vessels. 



He might wisely have omitted the words 

 "in a distant part of the world." 



TFIE NAVY'S WORK IN SCIENCE AND 

 EXPLORATION 



The Navy in Peace — Its Work in Sci- 

 ence and Exploration — let .that be our 

 thought at this session of the National 

 Geographic Society, while the whole 

 world reels in the throes of carnage on 

 this day holy for all Christians. For 

 though, through the smoke and gas and 

 darkening of the heavens by death-deal- 

 ing bombs, we may not see even its dawn- 

 ing, our faith looks beyond the roar of 

 battle to the quiet days of peace that will 

 once again smile upon a world made bet- 

 ter — let us trust and believe — by the sac- 

 rifice which men who love liberty have 

 been forced to make lest "might should 

 rule alone." 



I doubt notthat we shall live to see the 

 day when peace will once more beckon 



us and we can take up again and upon a 

 larger scale the mighty works of discov- 

 ery and exploration which in other peace- 

 ful days have been so large a part of the 

 daily task of our American Navy. 



But peace will not find us as we were 

 before the war-lords plunged the world 

 into blood. We shall never again be an 

 isolated nation, living unto ourselves, 

 concerned only with our own affairs, 

 leaving to the comparatively few men of 

 science and love of adventure and to the 

 statesmen the keen interest in all things 

 that concern the human race. $ Nor will 

 we come back to ancient t formulas, to 

 old shibboleths, to the adoration of the 

 Golden Calf we had set up, or even to 

 the gods of Pleasure and Tradition and 

 Gain we worshipped. We have learned 

 in these testing days that these gods of 

 ours had feet of clay. 



With wide-open eyes, with larger vis- 

 ion and better appreciation of our re- 



