THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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Photograph by Burnell Poole 



U. S. S. ARIZONA AT SEA 



The business end of this great American battleship, coming head on, is a formidable 

 sight; broad of beam, bristling with guns, and manned by a thousand of the bravest of the 

 brave, and every mother's son of them trained for his work. 



These naval pioneers of the past — 

 whether charting the waters of China 

 and securing the treaty with Japan, like 

 Perry; discovering the Antarctic Conti- 

 nent and contributing more to the world's 

 knowledge of geography than any other 

 man, like Wilkes ; or making navigation a 

 science, forecasting the weather, master- 

 ing the mysteries of the winds and cur- 

 rents, uncovering the knowledge of ocean 

 meteorology; and making the phenomena 



of the Gulf Stream known to us, like 

 Maury — these are the types of men who 

 will be reincarnated in the adventurous 

 youth of the golden days of discovery 

 that challenge the intrepid and ambitious, 

 and who, when this war is over, will be 

 satisfied with no rest until all the secret 

 places are flooded with the light, and all 

 cheerless homes blessed with the com- 

 forts of our newer and better civiliza- 

 tion. 



