US Naval Reserve Midshipmens School - Side Boy Yearbook (New York, NY)

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0 dnance bepartmen t LT. CDR. F. V. ALEH. JR.. L'.S.N.R. 1x1f'IllllQ?1' of Annapolis Class of 1919 . . . hut gradu- ated in 1918 and saw service in World Wwar 1 . . . he- tween wars worked for a utilities company . . . returned to active duty in 1942 as instructor in ordnance . . . H now heads Ordnance Department. 422225 HOUSANDS of pounds of steel are swayed by its inflexible authority. Thousands of pounds of high explosive hurtle down their destructive paths only with its permission and guided by its unerring mathematical wizardry. Gentlemen. 1 give you the pivot about which modern warfare rotates e- the cam! 9 It was the can-can that upset our grandfathers, and their grandsons fell victim to the cam-cam. That proves civilization progresses from generation to generation 3 or from degeneration to degenera- tion. The victor used to be the man who fired the straightest and oftenest - now he is the man who can whittle the best groove. Small wonder. when a notch and lug set a 16-inch breech whirling. that they do likewise by the head of the poor rniflshipinan. He takes a gun down. First he takes off the barrel. Thats a pipe. Then he takes oft the other end. and learns there is a bayonet joint even if the manufac- turer is too cheap to supply the bayonet. He learns something else about guns. You take off the shoul- ders to get at the breeches. Thank goodness people aren't like that. Then he hnds the cams. Cams by the dozen. push- ing each other this way and that. firing the gun and stopping its Bring. cocking it and feeding it. Maybe the cams know what they're doing. The midship- man doesnt And then there is friction - friction this and frictionless that tlapanese Spies please copy t. Mole- cules, their love-lives warped by the war. are pushed hither and thither. taking their affinity where they find it and always where it will be most useful to the state. Fascist. that's what the friction this and frietionless that are. -et

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