The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
TO EDUCATE JACK TARS
DANIELS. RINGS THE SCHOOL
BELL FOR ENTIRE NAVY.
Secretary Orders That All Enlisted
Men Who Lack Enlightenment
Must Attend Glasses.

Secretary Of the Navy Daniels has
issued an order making it compul-
sorry for all enlisted men Of the navy
who are not well grounded in the
common school branches and have
not yet completed two years service
IN the navy to attend the service
schools which will be held aboard
ship and at training stations and
yards. Junior officers only recently
out Of the Naval Academy will act
as instructors. Instruction in read
ing, writing, arithmetic, spelling,
geography and history will be con-
tinued until each man has attained a
satisfactory standard.
Academic instruction will be lin
tied to three-fourths Of an hour each
day and the remainder Of the study
period will be devoted to technical
and naval subjects. Men who do not
need the academic course will devote
the whole period to other branches.
The routine aboard ship will be
arranged so that the following gen
eral principle, as regards the employ
ment of the men, may be followed as
far as possib7 all hands to, 9:15,
cleaning and shipwork; 9:15 to
11:45, drills and routine duties;
11:45 to lis, dinner and recreation;
lis to 2, instruction and school
daily except Saturdays, Sundays and
holidays; 2:30 to 4:30, drill, work
and recreation.
The instruction will be under the
general direction Of the commanding
officer. The executive officer will
have immediate charge, assisted by
all commissioned officers and by such
warrant and petty officers as may be
necessary in the different apartments
aboard ship.
Division officers are directed to ex-
anime all men under their supervi-
sion, notirg the deficiencies of each
man, the amount of instruction he
may have received at the training
station, the branches IN which fur
ther instruction is most needed, the
fitness Of each man for promotion,
the branch for which he IS best suit
ed, and the personal preferences and
ambitions Of each in order that
classes may be formed to secure
progress and improvement in the
mental and technical training Of men
in every branch of the navy service.
Whenever the weather or the cir
cumstances of service of any partic-
ular ship or ships are such that add1-
tional times during the day ma be
given to instruction, commanding Of
fcers are urged to increase the pc
riods of instruction, and to encour-
age night classes when practicable.
Secretary Daniels points out that
the idea which prevails in some quar-
ters that this instruction will inter-
fere with strictly man-of-war work
appears to be groundless, inasmuch
as more than three-fourths Of the
order is devoted to the consideration
Of strictly technical and naval In.
struction along lines that will tend
directly to the increased efficiency OF
a man-of-war.
Secretary Daniels, by instituting
this educational system, makes II
possible for every young man in the
navy-and of the whole enlisted per-
sonnel more than 80 per cent. are
young-to obtain commissions in the
service, or to bet practical training
which will enable him to enter on
even terms with civilions in profess
sional life outside the navy.
The whole scheme follows the idea
Of Secretary Daniels that the navy
should be a great school as well as a
working institution.