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Show SYSTEP1 IS WRONG ASSERTSWINSLOVV RADICAL CHANGE NECESSARY TO SECURE EFFICIENT FIGHTING FIGHT-ING FORCE IN U. S. Admiral Criticises Methods of Naval Academy, Urging Many Changes, In Address Before House Naval Committee. Washington. Tho United States navy's whole system of government and operation, from education of officers offi-cers to questions of ship and gun construction, was sharply criticized before tho house naval committee on Friday by Admiral Canreron McR. Winslow. commander-in-chief of the CacJllc fleet. Without radical changes, the admiral ad-miral declared, a fully efficient fighting force comparable to the British navy could not be produced in fifty years. On Thursday Admiral Winslow told the committee the establishment of a g-npral staff composed of active line officers was a vital necessity. On Friday Fri-day he amplified this view, declaring the system of education at Annapolis naval academy was wrong. He urged restoration of the old grade of midshipman mid-shipman in the fleet. Boys should enter the service at from 14 to 16 years old, he said, spend two years in preliminary schooling ashore, then go to sea to acquire the "sea habit" from actual contact with things of the sea before completing their education ashore. The polytechnic education now given giv-en midshipmen at the academy is utterly ut-terly unsuited, the admiral declared, to the training of men to handle ships and combinations' of ships at sea. He could see no value to be gained from making all navy officers experts in higher mathematics and thought constructors, con-structors, engineers and ordnance experts ex-perts should be trained as specialists and never be called upon to command shins. |