King's Way

Landlubbers may think that a U.S. naval officer spends most of his time on shipboard either leading the fight or practicing for it. This notion would be shaken if landlubbers could see an officer's tall, steel desk, a formidable affair with apparently enough drawers, slats and pigeonholes for a post office. For the streams of red tape on land flow right out to sea. An officer spends many an hour shuffling papers in the pigeonholes, dictating to a yeoman or even hunting and pecking on his portable, creating more red tape for other officers to shuffle.

This kind of thing, decided COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King last week, has got to stop. By his order, the number of typewriters, mimeograph and multigraph machines throughout the Navy's operating forces will be cut 50%. By this simple expedient, the Admiral believes, men afloat will have more time to fight, or get ready for fighting.

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