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Photograph from Burnell Poole 



CLEANING SHIP IN DRY-DOCK 



"Skyhooting through the brine" develops a "foul bottom" after a while, and the ship 

 must be floated into a dry-dock and scraped free of its barnacles. These creatures of the 

 ocean attach themselves to the ships' sides, and even the roar of the big guns in a broadside 

 or the lashing waters of "twenty knots and better" cannot break their hold. 



cemented in the present-day partnership 

 in the war for the triumph of free na- 

 tions, in which they are allies. The spirit 

 Df Perry and Hayashi still pervades both 

 countries, which, in the language of the 

 letter borne by Perry, "live in friendship 

 and commercial intercourse with each 

 other." 



Does not the achievement of Perry class 

 him with the great men "as a natural 

 luminary shining by the gift of heaven, 

 in whose radiance all souls feel it is well 

 with them ?" 



A PEACE BORN OP KINDNESS 



It is to the glory of America that, 

 though Perry had a powerful fleet and 

 could have enforced the treaty by the per- 

 suasion of big guns, there was never even 

 a thought of conquest or of obtaining 

 any advantage over the people of Japan. 

 Our friendship was disinterested, our 

 methods were those of diplomacy, and 



our policy was far removed from the 

 thoughts of those nations which seek to 

 dominate other people and bring them 

 under their sway. 



Do we not see in this diplomatic victory 

 and this friendship a prophecy of like in- 

 tercourse of all nations with each other 

 when the passions of autocracy, now 

 burning at white heat, have given place 

 to calm reason and justice ? Will not the 

 spirit of Perry, who incarnated American 

 ideals, descend upon the great men who 

 come after him, so that none will seek 

 power by the overthrow of any other na- 

 tion ? Let us in this day invoke the spirit 

 of Perry, the fighting sailor, who lives as 

 the master diplomat rather than the man 

 of war. 



The third of this trinity of naval he- 

 roes, whose deeds summon us to insure 

 a world safe for commerce and safe for 

 all that makes for the good of human- 

 ity, is Matthew Fontaine Maury — sailor, 



