Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-07-31

G. Slayton. The itinerary OF the cruise 1nciuues
Brest, Weymouth Rotterdam, Antwerp, Gibraltar
and Ponta belgrade.
It was in 1912 that the experiment Of putting
the mddieS of the two upper classes on Dattesilps
of the Atlantic fleet was first tried. The expert
ment proved great success These practce
cruises are much alike The first night is usually
spent at anchor while the middieS are gettlns
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 sumbers and the
old-time cries are heard:
"Rise and shine Up, you lubbersl Lash and
carry! Hit the deck sailor! Hey! Show leg
therew
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 are nOw-as ever-a hard-boiled lot
and soon get down to business. They are usually
allotted the starboard side of the ship, with the
regular enlisted force on 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 Malaan-his
name is household word in the navy-began
his DAYS at sea common drill for the mlqdleS,
with the aid of gunners mate, was up topgal-
liant masts and yards and loose sail to bovine"
To do it in three and half minutes from the time
the topmen and the masts started together from
tho deck was first-class seamanship Nowadays
6rst-class man tending water in the ireroom takes
inst as much pride in holding the glass steady and
doing good job of coaling the fires. Pretty soon,
with ships using oil for fuel the middies will no
longer nave cause to dread the freroom; indeed,
oil has already almost superseded coal
The gentlemen sailors" will soon be fixed so
nicely that they will not be forced to listen
ia the remark sarcastic If the new secretary of
the navy. Curtis D. Wilbur has his way. Secre-
tarv Wilbur is an 1888 Annapolis man himself
there's a tablet in the gymnasium recording his
record high kck-and someone must have talked
real mean to him in his day. Anyway he said at
the graduating exercises this year.
peal leadership is based upon respect for the
leader and such leadership only be achieved by
tbe nossession of powers worthy of respect Pro-
fssional ability and accomplishments are the best
foundation for permanent leadership, but there Is
80 aItopether different basis of leadership which
ads ito source in heart rather than the head.
c,,cb leadership may command the ardent affection
and even devotion of the follower.
Unless your rule the $4,000 enlisted of
40 navy be tempered by frmness justice, SYM
e md courtesy their services in many cases
nav be lost the navy. Remember especially
that sarcasm biting witticism at the expense of
eiia ,rdinate especially If he is an enlisted man
"a Tins incapable of retaliation, is unmanly and
fatal to ones standing as an officer. While the
sycophantic bystander may be amused, tho object
of it has received . Mouio - iiiS soui "hicn may
heal.
vou to put yourself, by imagination, in his place.
what / crave for you is that you may have and
ba worthy of exercising moral leadership.
Middies of the present day are not starved on
the batteshps of the Atlantic fleet and when they
are at the academy they get pure milk and good
eats galore from the academy farm. Funny to
rhnk of sailors running farm, isn't it? But
that's Just what the bureau of supplies and ac-
counts does This particular bureau by the way
is said to be one of the most efficient business or
qanizations in existence. Rear Admiral David
potter is at its head and it is bank gents furnish
ngs 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:
II sounds incredible. Sailors persons in bell
rnnzzled brooches who go ahoying about the land.
Rut the sailors of the United States navy per-
t.,ns the best farmers in the United States Listen:
Near Annapolis Nd, the United States navy
owns a farm of more than 900 acres 1t was forced