| Show TRAINED MEN TO MAN THE NAVY I A Suggestion that the Naval Academy be Enlarged I En-larged to Train Crews as Well as Officers The present naval ismommittee said n naval expert to a correspondent 01 the New York Sun Is doing makeshift work It will patch up a truce between officers who on the one hand do not know a throttlevalve from a monkey wrench and on the other know as little about the difference between a sextant and n rangelIndrthot Is II exaggeration Is I allowable by way of Illustration Il-lustration Hut to get the ships crew on a comfortable basis that was known before the days of steam a radical change Is I needed beginning at the hon orod naval academy In fact mr than one change Is ndd there The first pelhapx l that neeId to make the training there nt the Grndn ties to understand all about the working of the ships they alP to command The Captain must lie a mechanical enGIlleer first of all astonishing as that assertion asser-tion may seem or else he cannot get tits ship to sea Then lie must be I a navigator navi-gator to catTy her across the Mcan Und he must be n glunner and n tilt Polls launcher In order to vortork hi IOnK I range weapons 01 offense That lie can ram i the enemy Is I Implied In his abilIty abil-ity to navigate the ship The academy must turn out men to command floatIng float-Ing forts and not frigates But because 01 the conditions that prevail In these floating forts because they an from the stein i to the sternpost a moss ot Intricate machlnrnomthlnG more than the training of olller Is I now do mand1 01 tile national naval school It cannot be expected that the change will be made quickly hut It mut bos I mad whether or no you will same time Th naval academy Inuat furnish fur-nish enlisted men as well ao officers There nrevery few olllero that will agree with this statement hut every office know the n1 01 Improving the quality of the enlisted men I have 1 nt tried to elaborate a plan for furnishing the ships with of naval crews academy I graduates but lean Indicate tIt wny t-It Is a fact not creditable to thl rpub 1 He that no enlisted man In tho navy I can became an officer Tin existence ot iste In the navy Is I In i Inheritance I from the days when pres ngs filled a ships crew and marino with fixed I baronets were needed to stand between the quarterdeck nnd the forecastle To do away with this condition of affairs It Is I necessary only that the aeademy be made free to all who would enter It and that the graduates go aboard ship not as ofUcers but as welleducated mechanics In short as enlisted men It Is cnsv to sec hov a bill to increase In-crease the npioprlatlou for thei acudcmj1 would be 4111POsed on the Pcore of ceol1omyspeolnll such an Increame an would give nought Grndute In course 01 limo man the entire navy with mechanics Hut there Is I no answer ready that Is conclusive The first hul news of this government Is tho education educa-tion and enlightenment of the People Morovor It tile cadets were alpolntol as boW by the mmler of Cotlgres It each member were allowed to send ten or twenty her he now sends one to the ehoolIt in I not unlikely that tile new meosuro would find unexpected favor And as for tile pposltlon > which the Present officers might make on the round that the Present Impassible line of caste pi omotcs discipline onboard on-board ship It may be said that non one know better no-n they that education rind the radht 01 mind connun thrcon lomot rather than vlroy discipline Who Indeed would be brav o enough to say that a a hill mann1 wholly by naval academy graduates would be lacking In discipline And as for the ultimate popularity of this measure among tile livopl ax for the question as to hthr tho relullto number 01 students could be found 1I I 11 I wr all graduates to begin their sea I life as onllsted I mon It Ill I neeeoory only to look at the hosts of disappointed onen who attend II e exam Inatl 0 ns I I I whleh tire held nt the behest 01 eon 1 I gremen who have only one appoint I I mcnt tn make It Is I my bolll found I cd on long obrvtion and experlenc t I I with apprentices ns welt no country e schoolboys that thin one measure Ill would not only nil our nay with crews I Infinitely superior to anything afloat I hut It I wonld Gho u such n host 01 I W guld trln Olon n would so no to prevent I I wartn Prevent aggression by any tr 14 olgn Iowrnnd It would do moro than I I any other measure to awaken what I I I mil n nautical spirit among the people A and 00 to rhahllltato our 10I1Gnc I Ietd merchant marine Il r L 4 A |
