p. 11 | Navy Warships Become School Ships

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 8, 1914

Navy Warships Become School Ships

EVERY American warship became a school ship with the advent of the new year. Secretary of the Navy Daniels promulgated an order putting into effect his new educational system in the navy January 1, and thereafter for an hour and a quarter each afternoon every enlisted man on the warships will be engaged in self-improvement under the watchful eyes of his commanding officer. Commissioned, warrant, and petty officers will be designated to act as pedagogues. Enlisted men now taking correspondence courses with outside institutions will receive assistance and encouragement, and those chief petty officers who are seeking promotion to warrant rank and the warrant officers who are trying for commissions will be formed into classes for special instruction to encourage those who are ambitious. Every detail of this plan has been worked out, and the order expresses the hope that the men will fully appreciate the zealous interest of their officers, so that there will be increased efficiency in the fleet in all practical directions.