Over the Seas for Uncle Sam

Only the hits count!

By ELAINE STERNE Author of The Road of Ambition, Sunny Jim Stories, Etc. We're ready now! —Navy slogan. New York BRITTON PUBLISHING COMPANY

Copyright, 1918 Britton Publishing Company, Inc. Made in U. S. A. All rights reserved.

To the Honorable Josephus Daniels Secretary of the Navy, whose devotion to the interests of the men in the American Navy has been an inspiration to them no less than to the nation as a whole.


We have learned some things in war times that we did not know in days of peace. We have made the amazing discovery that our own fathers and brothers and husbands and lovers are potential heroes. We knew they were brave and strong and eager to defend us if need be. We knew that they went to work in the morning and returned at night just so that we might live in comfort; but we never dreamed that the day would come when we would see them marching off to war—a war that would take them far from their own shores. We never dreamed that, like the knights of old, they would ride away on a quest as holy as that of the Crusaders.