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Show 1 ARE LOSING I I vLll lU TIL 1 1 i I I I I Army and Navy Offi- I cers Just Out of I School Resigning I Washington, Sept, 11. The navy I department has been particularly un-ln un-ln fortunate In the resignations of young mrt officers who have Just finished' tholr Ir( education at West Point or Annapolis IIj at goernment expense. In the last II& few weeks eight or ten midshipmen 11 and ensigns have, presented their res-lit res-lit Jgnations with reasons sufficient to It& cause the department to accept them Ilf Both war and navy departments 113 are periodically confronted with this Is question. I Ix The withdrawal of young officers la from the sen-ice before they have Ivt B'ven tne Government some .return lk for their education Is discouraged by lljj. both departments. A resignation Is II: accepted only when it is believed IE - thcro exists an impediment to the II profitable retention of the young man. III The navy suffers more than the armv HI as to the number of reasons which P disqualify an officer, one especial dls-l dls-l qualification being susceptibility to H seasickness which necessitates res-ul res-ul ignatlon of many voung men l During the last year, It is said at I S the war department, very few cadets j. or second lieutenants have presented i their resignations. Major General J Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the army, has refused to permit a lieuten- I ant of the cavalry to get out of the i army to engage in civil pursuits be- l cause he was about to be married. He, however, granted the young man I a three-months' leave of absence for his honeymoon. i oo |