Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-03
SECRETARY DANIELS
ADDRESS TO M|DD|ES
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tConlnue0 from rage Ohe-l
Mahan's vision while stumbling and
cropping in the debris of Mahan's
processes.
Young gentlemen, great leaders
are not those who are baffied by
mysteries, but those who delve into
the secrets of nature and make them
the servants of man. Never be
carried away by fantastic theories.
But never despise the suggestion OF
so-called crsnks. The crank OF to-
day with a great idea Is the inventor
OF tomorrow and the genius Of all
the tomorrows. My admonition 10
you is never to call any proposal OF
earnest and able men impracticable
or unfeasible. for as matter OF
history every step from sails TO
wings was first discarded by prac-
teal leaders who lacked eyes 10 see
and ears 10 hear.
Wilson'S Notable Speech
1.-The most notable naval speech
OF this generation by the President
OF the United States, your Com
mander-in-Chief and mine, was TO
the officers of the Atlantic Fleet in
the summer of 1917, when all the
allied navies were in the throes OF
war. We were casting about for a
way in which TO use our superiority
and strength but there was doubt
and delay among naval statesmen
about accepting the solution pro-
posed by the Bureau of Ordnance
and other new plans that revOlu-
toned naval warfare The Presi-
dent. who lead in vision and prac-
teal strategy, used words fitting TO
be addressed to Ensigns today and
all days, when he said:
81 do not care where il (the method
of crushing the submarine warfare)
comes from. do not care whether il
comes from the youngest officer or the
oldest, but ! want the officers of this
Navy to have the distinction of say ing
how this war is going TO be wOn.'
"And so far as the outstanding
naval offensive for ending the sub
marine menace is concerned, that
homer was won by the American
Nays original and great cOncep-
ton.
His Yorktown Address
THE President added in his adj
dress at Yorktown; i want the
youngest and most modest young
ster in the service to tell US what to
do if he knows what it is That is
the call to you today and tomorrow.
Evidently our Commander-in-Chief
feared that the conception of tradi-
ton | have been warning you
against might initiate against the
world-need of radical methods, for
he gave this admonition: We have
got to throw traditions to the winds.
/ should like to see something un-
usual happen. something that was
never done before adding emphati-
cally: There is no other yay 10
win, the whole principle of this war
is the kind of thing that ough: TO
hearten the stimulate America
Loyalty is close akin TO tradition
indeed inseparable. All our best
naval traditions are based upon
loyalty to constituted authority.
Like the word Love it battles defini-
ton.
Discipline is a part of loyalty,
but shipmates in the American Navy
are comrades from American homes
and officer and seaman lsust have a
mutual understanding and apprecia-
ton to insure a happy ship, for John
Paul Jones tells us that the only
good ship is a happy ship and
happy ships owe their happiness to
good fellowship of all the ship
mates from the highest to the low
est rank.
LAS you are welcomed today into
the comradeship of a noble profess
sion, as you weigh anchor from this
protected harbor, and sail into the
larger sea of life, l commend to
each of you the prayer of the Breton
mariner on the stormy waste of the
northwest coast of France: My
God. protect me. My ship is so
little Thy ocean is so great