Show Jr I Applied Resourcefulness I fOU have heard of course that obedience k is one of the primary virtues But ut did 2 it it ever ever occur to you that there are times 1 a a willful reckless disobedience is one t t the e finest qualities a man can exhibit An Italian submarine maneuvering off the rc ast of Spezia recently got ot stuck in iii the at the bottom Officers and men meil tried to tb work it loose failed d and prepared to die in the unpleasant way the crews of sunken submarines must die There was another submarine sub sub- marine in the vicinity and its commander dis disI dis- dis I what had happened Now Italian aval rules provide that no submarine corn com may try to salvage the wreck of anI an an- I other Submarines are too costly and fragile for for- that sort of work an all that a a commander flay do is radio for help from the nearest naval base But this commander knew how to to break a rule or two when the time came Instead of calling help he went to fo the di disabled submarine By careful maneuvering he got the nose of his own ship against the he 1 s s keit hull of the other otier and pushed it loose fter an hour of ticklish work he freed it and both submarines came safely to the sur- sur face If he had obeyed the rules rescue ships ships' would have arrived in twenty four r hours hour or so 50 and the divers wc would ld have gone to work probably theY would have raised the sunken i. i I sub eventually but bu as often happens in thos cases caes her crew might have been een dead So the Italian navy department after starting to punish the disobedient commander thought better oJ of it and restored him to his command heaping him with honors There are many rules in this complicated w world and most of them exist for our own good A prudent man will o obey ey t them em f R But ut there come times come tImes when prudence is 15 a aM M virtue and when rules exist only to be broken f For prudence i is the opposite of daring aring And no how settled and orderly we c m may y become we still have an especially warm in our hearts for the man who can conquer con con- quer Sear fear What if that does sometimes involve in in- volve vol ve the breaking breaking- of a few rules It may take a good man to be obedient but to know when and how v to be disobedient is sometimes mes mesa a great deal r |