| Show TUB THE NAVY A FACTOR IN CHARACTER BUILDING The Tho Navy la Sa thought of generally In terms of ships and guns It Is true that the material Navy has developed by leaps and bounds but It Is 14 agreed on by those In authority authority author author- ity It that the personnel of the NaY Navy is Sa more significant and Important than Us Its material side The Nay Navy a II far tar greater than its material Historically it Is Sa true that good goodmen goodmen men and poor ships hips are better than poor men and good ships It has been said that if u every everi bit of or the material composing the Navy were destroyed and the personnel remained re remained re- re we would almost immedi immediately have Another Navy similar in ideas and similar In achievement On the other hand a Navy divorced of personnel becomes a mass of rusty hulks Inert helplessly rusting rusting rust rust- ing to oblivion Therefore In order to have an efficient Navy it Is Imperative that Its ita personnel have skill stability and all aU the requisites that go tomake to tomake tomake make up a well rounded symmetrical symmetrical symmetrical character The character if Its personnel determines the strength and quality of any Navy Back Dank of our tradition we find character The Navy takes raw recruits and like a mighty sensitive machine grinds slowly but fine and all the misfits and and failures are left on the outside and those who have stood the tie test have imprinted on their hearts the stamp of and character Our Navy trains trams a man to keep his hia feet on the ground securely it teaches him the necessity and importance of order and discipline and Imbues In him respect for tor law lawand lawand lawand and a strong adherence to the constitution constitution constitution con con- of or the United States It teaches him the use and proper value alue of things and that success Is within and can be obtained by everyman every everyman everyman man is willing to pay th Lb the price In sacrifice effort and right living Going down to the sea Ilea in ships as man o man 0 is emptied of all cant and hypocrisy and at the end of the cruise stands forth as a worthy product of or the greatest school in the world the United States Nay Navy II I |
