Quotes
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
I was on watch in the communications office on December 7. Messages came in about 6:30 a.m. concerning unidentified submarines in the outer area of Pearl Harbor.
I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
I finally returned to the States in the spring of 1944 and finished out my service at the Sub Chaser Training Center in Miami, Fla., in October 1945.
I also served on the staffs of Rear Adm. DeWitt C. Ramsay and Rear Adm. Frederick C. Sherman aboard the carriers Saratoga and Bunker Hill.
However, during those months the airmen and ship crews of the U.S. Navy learned the lessons we needed to win the Battle of Midway.
Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
California was sunk in the mud, with water up to her main deck. Oklahoma had capsized. West Virginia was also sunk, with her deck awash. Arizona was blasted into bits. Her main mast and bridge were bent forward.
Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.
After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.
Secession by the South was a reaction against Lincoln's high-tax policy. In 1861 the slave issue was not critical.
Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
So long as casual labor broods in squalid lairs, in sunless streets, and ugly dwellings are its only habitation, we shall continue to turn out nervous manikins instead of enduring men.
Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.
If you do this, we all of us shall be rewarded by the betterment of our towns, the beautification of our streets, the improvement of our suburbs; we shall have made one step forward to still further elevating, improving, and dignifying the life of our citizens.