p.1852 Similarly at sea, movement on the ocean is more or less free to the stronger side, but is
completely or partially denied to the weaker... Supplies from the outside world can be imported by the stronger side,
but are completely or partially cut off from the weaker... by production and supply sustains the fighting man and
thus plays an important part in carrying on the war... As a large proportion of these supplies is usually seaborne,
the stoppage of sea trade cannot be looked upon as otherwise than an essential operation of war, since it prepares
success in the decisive battle on land and sea, and thus tends to shorten the war... Furthermore, since the greater
contains the less, stoppage of sea trade is also a legitimate means of coercion as a substitute for war in time of peace.
Now, sea trade is stopped by capture and by threat of capture
But wait, there is this article (not kidding)
p.2013 The Allegation of Snobbishness - Our Responsibility - and Suggestions Tending Toward Its Eradication
By Commander B. B. Wygant, U.S. Navy
There exists in this country a distinct prejudice on the part of some people against naval officers, particularly
graduates of the Naval Academy, on account of a snobbishness that is alleged to obtain among them...
Let us get rid of the hang-dog look that so often accompanies the salute, and do away with the careless
and sloppy return of the salute by those who do not understand its significance...
And this article:
p.1369 The Opposition To Sane Sport In American Colleges By Frank Angell
In a late number of the Naval Institute Proceedings Medical Inspector Taylor, U.S.N., has drawn up a vigorous
indictment of the system of sport carried on, or suffered, in most American universities... the system of athletics
in vogue in our colleges to-day wastes itself in turning out merely a few highly specialized athletes, that the major sports
of football, baseball, track, and rowing are carried on by an insignificant minority of the students whilst the participation
in athletic games of the great majority consists in howling from the bleachers in intercollegiate matches. From this
follows an over, and often injurious, physical development of the few, and a serious lack of bodily exercise for the
many... alumni interference is not the only, nor indeed the chief, influencing factor in making for a misshapen
development of college sports. A more potent and more demoralizing factor is commercialization,
and, be it said straightway, commercialization is not widely remote from professionalism... In fact, all over the
country, in a large majority of the colleges, the expenses of football, and to a less degree, of the other sports,
are excessive, inordinate and demoralizing. The parasitic growths - coaches, rubbers, trainers, training-tables, lavish equipment
- demand "big gate money." and consequently big games... [JLJ - keep in mind, this was written in
1919...]
