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had given the rank and file of the Navy 

 instructions in hygiene ; and, "whenever the 

 sailors went ashore, a little cheap package 

 of "Safety-aid" was handed to each. It 

 so shocked the Honorable Daniels and 

 President Wilson that they decided to stop 

 all lectures on hygiene and the giving of 

 "Safety-aid," with the result that today a 

 large percentage of the rank and file of 

 our Navy men are diseased and, as they 

 sail from port to port, they are spreading 

 the seeds of suffering and decay. Could 

 anything be more shortsighted? One has 

 to learn to handle each situation as one 

 finds it. 



With narrow-minded landsmen of such 

 caliber in charge of our Government, how 

 can we expect an improvement in our 

 Navy affairs or in its general morale? 

 And is it any wonder that the physical and 

 mental powers of our citizens are now on 

 the wane? 



It is eminently proper our spotless 

 President and his Secretary of the Navy 

 should set the sailors of our nation ex- 

 amples by their own moral private lives; 



