Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1921-12-12

shipmen officers and petty officers.
on October I. were selected as
heretofore, in accordance with
their proficiency. character. and
offcerlike qualities. and will re-
main operative until December ],
when the assignment OF regiment
al officers will change as follows:
The midshipmen commander and
lieutenant commanders will be
selected from midshipmen officers
OF lower rank or from midship-
men petty officers who have dem
onstrated the greatest fitness for
promotion. All other midshipmen
officers will revert 10 midshipmen.
first class. and the vacancies will
be filled from midshipmen petty
officers who have demonstrated
the greatest fitness for promotion.
All midshipmen, first class. who
have not previously held office
will be appointed midshipmen
petty officers, the necessary va
cancies being created by suffi-
cient number of petty officers re-
verting to midshipmen, first class.
A reassignment will be made in
the same manner on February /.
On April l appointments TO
regimental officers will be made
for the remainder of the academic
year. The appointments will. be
made in accordance with profic-
iency, character. and officerlike
qualities as determined at that
date
The superintendent is of the
opinion that the fundamental
qualification of the success Of a
naval officer is his ability TO
handle men; that is, he shall be a
leader of the men under his com
mand.
In making this method opera
tive the midshipmen regimental
officers are in direct charge of
the movements of the regiment,
under the supervision of commits
stoned officers.
This method of regimental or
ganization will be in full opera
tion for this academic year and
the superintendent feels that
splendid results will be obtained
from this now method
Post Graduate School
The postgraduate course for
line officers of the navy under this
command is now in full operation,
and excellent results are being
obtained under experienced Off
GERS, who are rapidly equipping
this school TO in every way obtain
the most desirable results; and |
feel that its purposes are being
accomplished most efficiently.
General Comments
The Naval Academy is running
smoothly and effectively and the
general bearing of its personnel
who are at all times working for
its best interests-is of a high
character.
1t mas been the desire of the
present superintendent to en-
deavor at all times to keep in
touch, as far as possible, with the
parents of midshipmen. as much
success or failure may come to a
midshipman in receiving or not
receiving cooperation from home.
The superintendent addresses
letter to the parents OF midship-
men upon their admission. which
clearly shows the superintend
ents endeavor to inform the par
ents of the real conditions at the
Naval Academy and what is eX-
pected of the midshipmen, and his
desire for cooperation from home
at all times.
The general health OF the per-
sonnel of this command is excel
lent and no contagion or un-
healthful conditions at present
exist, with the exception of spor-
adic cases of chickenpox among
certain of the officers families.
This indicates a wholesome and
healthy surrounding.
The conduct of the midshipmen
body is in general unusually good,
considering that it consists of
nearly $500 American youths ga
thered from the various walks of
life and from every section of the
domain of the United States. The
number of Offenses is so compare
lively small that attention is i'm
mediately attracted to the un-
usually good spirit and obedience
that prevails. There are, of
course, occasional fragrant often
ses. but they are infrequent con-
sidering the large number of mid
shipmen.
Yacht "America-
On October /, 1921. Mr. w U.
Swami. representing the America
restoration fund. transferred the