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Add to the long honor roll of
American naval heroes the name of
Lldyd B. Maness of (Greensboro,
N. C, electrician's mate on the U. S. 1
Submarine "Squalus.'
There were 59 officers and men j
on the Squalus when she submerged I
on her trial trip off the Isle of Shoals, i
Something went wrong with the
mechanism intended to close the air- 1
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the vessel dived. The sea flowed in, j
and certain death by drowning faced j
the entire crew. ' , . i
Floyd Maness acted, instantly. ]
There was a door in the watertight J
bulkhead bewteen the forward part 1
of the sub and the after end into I
which the water was pouring. It J
took the strength of a giant, almost,
to pull that door shut, with the ves- 1
sei tilted upward at an angle of :
nearly 45 degrees, but Maness had J
the strengtti and the presence 01 i
mind to use it Five of his ship- I
mates slipped through in the last i
second as the door was closing. J
Twenty-six were left behind to f
drown in the flooded engine room. I
But thirty-three who would also
have drowned if Maness had not s
had the wit and the strength to close i
that door and keep the water out of r
the forward end of the boat were 1
' rescued alive. That is why I call ^
the boy from North Carolina a hero. '
SUBMARINES . . Bushnell I
The idea of navigating a ship un- <
der water to, like flying, almost as '
old as the hUtaan race. ' Nobody
knows how many inventors of 1
primitive times lost their lives in <
# home-made submarines. Before elec- j
trie batteries and motors were in- 1
vented, submarines had only human :
power for propulsion. j
The first submarine boat to
operate successfully was built by
David Bushnell of Philadelphia in
1775, for the purpose of blowing up i
wood and was operated by two men '
British warships. It was mhde of i
with oars projecting through leather-protected
openings.
Bushnell tried to blow up the ;
British ship "Eagle," and got his <
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cfafi He failed to attach the bomb
securely, however, so that when i!
exploded an hour later the "Eagle*'
had moved away and no damage wa.'
done.
IRI8H . . ? . . Hollam
It was an Irishman with a grievance
against the English whp inlundred
years after fiushnell^ experiment.
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John P. Holland, / a naturalized
American, had a project for building
a fleet of submarines to blow up
die whole J3ritish Navy. He built
an experimental boat with gas engine
for surface navigation and electric
motors for underwater propulsion.
Holland showed his submarine to
friends, who Jalked him, out of the
Idea of raising funds from Irish
patriots to, 'carry out his original
purpose, and brought him in touch
with the. United States Navy De- j
partment The result was that inj
1-883 our Navy contracted with Hoi-'
and for the very first submarine^
:orpedo-boat ever built by any j
government.
From then on the United States
las been in the first rank among
;ea-going nations in fighting power
tfo other country has overtaken us
ii submarine design and construction.
With the new undersea craft
low building our Navy will have
IOC- o? these deadly weapons of defense.
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The modern . submarine was deicribed
long before one was ever
juilt, in a widely-read romantic
level by a French author, Jules
/erne. The "Nautilus," the underwater
pirate craft described in
'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea," had everything modern
submarines have and some things
which have not yet been developed.
One American inventor, Simon
Lake, has built submarines with
doors through which men in diving
suits can emerge on the ocean floor,
to salvage treasure from sunken
ships, but the thief use of such craft
is still to sink enemy ships at sea.
John Holland's first sub, the
"Plunger," was only 55 feet long.
The- one just sunk, the "Squalus,"
is 299 feet long, 27 feet wide and
twenty-two feet deep. Many oceangoing
surface craft are smaller than
the "Squalus" of 1450 tons.
.Men of-the Navy, if they are
young and adventurous, welcome
detail to submarine craft Their job
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jails for high intelligence and grer
ourage even in peace time; but
carries extra pay. The proposal h
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ilors who lose their lives in" sui
.iarine service.
I ATROCITY . . . w? .
I The ruthless use of submarine
jby Germany had more to do tha j
Fany other one thing with bringin? 1
[America into the World War.
It was quite in accordance with
the rules of civilized warfare for
"unterseaboots," or "U-boats' a s
others called them, to sink fighting
j ships.
I It fras only when the Germans,
wkh a large feet of submarines, be?.
offor?t nnd sink peaceful
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merchants ships, beginning with the
"Lusitania,/ that American public
opinion became aroused to, the fact
that a great nation, had thrdwn ihto
the discard all rules to which others
! still adhered.
When American ships were torpedoed
by U-boats and Germany
warned America that the Stars anc
Stripes could fly on the high seas
only by German permission, we
went to war to preserve our liberty
and our national self-respect
I find naval and military men
agreeing with me that the submarine
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detect and more difficult to ward off |
its attack.
PAJAMAS nightshirts'!
I don't know what proportion of j |
American men stick to the old
fashioned nightshirt; probably more ,
than one would imagine if he tried
to buy one in a store. Pajamas are
a very modern innovation for sleeping
wear in this country. I never
saw or even heard of them until I
j* . was
in my thirties.
Pajamas, which are pronounced
"pyamas" in the Hindu tongue
whence we get the name, originated
in the hot lands of India, where two
simple cotton garments, tied in the
middle with a string, are about all
that anyone can stand, even for
dress-up.
The English administrators of the
Indian government adopted pajamas
as semi-formal lotnge clothes for
strictly "stag" affairs in the hot Indian
nights. They came to America
from England. \ i
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