The Colorado statesman., 1924-08-02
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C. Sayton. The itinerary of the cruise includes
Brest, Weymouth Rotterdam. Antwerp Gibraltar
and Ponta Degrada.
1t was in 1912 that the experiment of putting
the mddles of the two upper classes on batleshlps
of the Atlantic fleet first tried. The expert
ment proved n great success These pracuce
cruises are much alike The first night is usually
spent at anchor, while the middes are getting
settled In their quarters and being assigned to the
various technical divisions. It's picturesque
night landlubbers struggling with hammocks
would make a fetching circus stunt At dawn the
bugle rouses them from uneasy slumbers and the
old-time cries heard
rise and shine Up, you lubbersl Lash ana
carryl Hit the deck, saorl Hey Show leg
there"
Thereupon the lubbers certainly rise. They may
or may not shine in strange world OF deck
scrubbing and boiler-stoking and what not How
ever, middies now-as ever-a hard-boned lot
and get down to business. They are usually
allotted the starboard side of the Ship with the
regular enlisted force the port side, and they
are sent In rotation to every part of the ship.
How the times have changed, now that steam
has supplanted sail When Admiral Mahan-his
name is a "household word" in the navy-began
his days at common drill for the middies
with the aid of a gunners mate, was up topgai-
liant masts and yards and loose sail to a bowlineP
To do 1t in three and half minutes from the time
the topmen and the masts started together from
the deck was first-class seamanship. Nowadays
6rst-class man tending water in the fireroom takes
iust ns much pride in holding the glass steady and
doing a good job of coaling the fires. Pretty soon,
with ships using oil for fuel the middles will
longer nave cause to dread the freroom indeed,
oil hns already almost superseded coal.
The gentlemen sailors" will soon be fixed
nicely that they will not even be forced to listen
to the remark sarcastic, If the new secretary OF
the navy Curtis d. Wilbur, has his way Secre-
fairy Wilbur Is an 1888 Annapolis man himself
there's 81 tablet in the gymnasium recording his
record high kick-and someone must have talked
real mean to him in his day. Anyway. he said at
the graduating exercises this year:
PAL leadership IS based upon respect for the
Leader and such leadership only be achieved by
the possession of powers worthy of respect Pro-
t,'mJntion for permanent leadership. but there is
an altogether different basis Of leadership which
Snds its source in the heart rather than the head
such leadership may command tho ardent affection
and even devotion of the follower
W Unless your rule the $4,000 enlisted men of
che navy be tempered by hrmness. justice. sym
patny ia s''I lost to the navy. Remember especially
maj sarcasm or biting wittcism at the expense of
as thus Incapable of retaliation, is unmanly
to ones standns as Sn m Hssd Sn o,n the
Of it has received wound in his soul which may
"o 9t ia a safe rule. in dealing with under
YOU to put yourself. by masination, in his place
what crave for you is that you may have and
ba worthy OF exercising moral leadership.
Mddies of the present day are not starved on
the battleshps of the Atlantic fleet and when they
are nj the academy they get pure milk and good
eots galore from the academy farm. Funny to
thin5 of sailors running farm, isn't 1t? But
thnts lust what the bureau of supplies and ac-
counts does. This particular bureau. by the way
ia suid TO be of the most efficient business
,onizotions In existence. Rear Admiral David
Potter is al its head and 1t is bank gents furnish
inps store grocery store and nearly everything
else all In one. And here's part of what Herbert
Corey SAYS about the farm in the Chicago Daily
News:
7. sounds incredible. Sailors persons in bell
r,nzzIed breeches who go nhoying about the land
D., tha ailors of the United States navy per-
In he
Near Annapolis. Md. tho United States navy
GUNS n farm of moro than 900 acres. 1t was forced