and another great navy in training on our own coast. America would fight!

America did not want to fight. No right-minded person likes fighting, but America would rather fight than let Germany spoil the world for right-minded people to live in. Once more a great cause made a mighty army.

Our American fathers and brothers wanted peace, but they wanted peace for all nations. They were not willing to have peace and comfort for themselves while their brothers were forced to an unjust war.

When America entered the War she felt that such horrors must never be let happen again. The world must be fixed so that no nation ever again could be able to say, "I will take what I please and do what I like. My might is right.”

To make the world safe for all little children, to make the world safe for democracy, means to make it safe against any country that might ever try to do what Germany has done. So America entered the War not just to beat Germany, but to make the world really and truly safe for democracy.

As loyal American children we are thankful that America was able to help our suffering sister countries against their oppressor. We are thankful that Amer

ica had a President who could see so clearly and say so powerfully what the nations on earth were fighting for. When we are grown up we will do our part to keep our country true to the high, unselfish purpose with which she entered the Greatest War; to protect the human rights of all peoples, and to help them live in a spirit of brotherhood in a world safe for all.

to fight, to fight under the Stars and Stripes by land and sea. "First to fight" is the watchword of the United States Marines, a part of our American Navy. And first to fight after America entered the War was our splendid Navy.

The American Navy has a proud record of one hundred and fifty years of success, of courage, and of noble character in officers and men.

This record shows that the United States Navy has always been ready; ready to obey orders, ready to go into action. It is as ready to-day as it always was.

As soon as America entered the War, our Government sent a squadron of fighting ships, called destroyers, across the ocean to help the English Navy fight the German submarines. It was cold weather. The voyage was especially rough and hard on ships and men. After such a trip it usually takes much time to put everything in repair and to rest the men.

When the American destroyers arrived in an English harbor, the English commander under whom they were to serve, Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, said to the officer in command of the squadron, "How soon can you be ready to go to sea?"

The American commander answered, "The ships and the men are fit to sail at once, sir, as soon as we can take on fuel."

The English Admiral was pleased, as well he might be. Such readiness meant hard, constant work all the way over, and it meant strength and endurance in both men and ships.

The United States Navy went to work, with the English and French Navies, to keep the deadly gray German submarine from winning the War.

Out on the wide ocean that should be free and safe, those submarines were lying under the waves like sharks waiting to devour the precious lives of men, women, and little children.

They sunk the great ships with torpedoes and sent the women and children down into the icy water. They sunk the little fishing boats, and drowned the hard-working fishermen. But most they hoped to sink the big transport steamers loaded with our American boys on their way to France to fight for the world's freedom.

But some one else was out on the wide ocean. The United States Navy was there, ready and keen and brave. Working with the English and French Navies, our destroyers, our submarines, our small, swift submarine chasers, and our great flying machines were hunting for the German submarines. All day while we were in school, all night while we were asleep, in wind, in storm, in sun and rain, our Navy watched and fought for us.

America sent millions of men across the ocean and millions of tons of food and supplies, and the American Navy with God's help carried them safely over the terrors of the sea. Some of our brave brothers went down to death, but every man of the millions