Show YOUTHS MERE welt TAUGHT destined to govern they knew ned of self government A number of years ago commodore perry speaking to the student students 0 of antioch coll ge ohio told the following anecdote illustrating the perfect dis maintained among the naval nar cadets of his time some twenty five years ago I 1 was carelessly on levee loves of a city of the adriatic A abort short distance cle tance from the shore lay a manof man dfwar of war anchor I 1 called an oarsman oa raman t nd to him to return for me in an hour 1 I wandered over the beautiful ship admiring its guns its keeping ita its ad mirable appointments and its excellent excelle ut management shown by its condition at the end of my hour I 1 began to look for my oarsman just then I 1 dincov ered a door on my right I 1 opened it and in that room sat thirty two boya boys I 1 had been there an hour and had bad not beard heard a stir enough to chow show that 39 much as a bird waa was alive on an that boat tho the youngest cadet came to the door and welcomed me with bis his cordial military salute doy boy where Is your teacher gone ashore air do you keep absolute order while be he is to bonet gone certainly sir then passing to the front I 1 said to one of tho the older boys young mau mati why do you act so differently from other bos are you afraid of being punished the cadet rose to his feet sir said he be you see before you thirty two cadets cabets we all expect to govern others in our future work the first element of a good governor Is self government sir we are practicing that ahe I 1 he commodore added that was five years ago in tho the provi dence of god none of these young men have been callea to eternity I 1 will now read vou their names and the audience recognized in each man mal a name famous in the navy of great britain germany franco france or america from washington its sights and insignia 11 |