The captain, sitting at his desk, can dictate letters to his yeoman seated opposite. He can discuss any questions with his heads of departments without their leaving their desks, and can obtain their views IMMEDIATELY instead of as now, with our oldfashioned push-the-button-and-wait system. How much time do you suppose is wasted daily in the entire fleet, waiting for some one who has been sent for? All records and correspondence are immediately available, with the certainty that they are all there and not scattered through two or three other offices, as is possible at present with the separate office system. The general office spells co-ordination, team-work, and speed, without which complete success can never be attained. This system is the antithesis of the "one-man-shop." ROUTINE INSPECTIONS The following synopsis explains the details of the system of inspections: "Inspections required by the Naval Regulations, Fleet Regulations, and Ship's Regulations, will be carefully made and logged in the proper records." "In order to eliminate the possibility of overlooking any inspections, all have been arranged in groups.❞ The requirements regarding each inspection are recorded on separate cards (standard 3-inch by 5-inch size), and each card numbered consecutively in its own group. Thus, while the weekly inspections are allotted numbers 10 to 40, up to the present time the cards are only up to and including number 29. The groups given below are recorded on a standard 3-inch by 5-inch card in tabular form. Alongside of each group is entered in pencil the number of the highest card in that group. This synopsis of inspection cards will be found of assistance in several ways. service against the insurrectionists after the treaty of peace Spain, many thousands of them willingly so served beyond erms of their enlistment. he faithful services of these men were recognized and rewarded n act of Congress, approved by the President on June 29, , which provided that a bronze medal with suitable devices resented to those officers and men "who, having volunteered enlisted under calls of the President for the war with Spain, ed beyond the term of their enlistment to help to suppress the ppine insurrection." e obverse of this medal bears a design of a group consisting ree marching soldiers, the central one carrying the national s and the other two carrying rifles at the shoulder, encircled e legend "Philippine Insurrection, 1899." On the reverse is the inscription, "For Patriotism, Fortitude and Loyalty," cled by a wreath composed of a branch of pine and a branch lm. e distinctive ribbon has a wide band of blue through the r with four narrow stripes on either side, colored white, red, , blue, from the center outward. CERTIFICATE of Merit Badge, U. S. ARMY e U. S. Army Regulations, published by order of the Presiprescribe that, "when any enlisted man in the army shall distinguished himself in the service, the President may grant ificate of merit to him, on the recommendation of the coming officer of the regiment or chief of the corps to which man belongs." 1905 a general order of the War Department announced badge with ribbon would be issued to each officer and ed man to whom a certificate of merit has been or may herebe awarded. s badge is of bronze and of the same size as the campaign. s, one and one-quarter inches in diameter. On the obverse Roman war eagle surrounded by the inscription," Virtutis aciae monumentum et praemium," and on the reverse side ords, "For merit," in a wreath of oak leaves with the words ed States Army" in a semicircle above and 13 stars simiarranged below. The distinctive ribbon of the badge has a narrow white stripe through the center with three bands of equal width on either side of it, the colors being red, white and blue, from the center outward. GENERAL SERVICE MEDALS Up to 1905 no medals for general service in wars or campaigns were issued by the United States Government to its soldiers and sailors, but in that year it was decided to issue such medals to be officially known as "campaign badges," and a general order of the War Department stated that, "by authority of the President, campaign badges with ribbons will be issued as articles of uniform to officers and enlisted men in the service to commemorate services which have been or shall hereafter be rendered in campaign." General service medals for navy and marine corps were authorized by the act of Congress of March 3, 1909, and subsequent acts, providing for "badges and ribbons, to be distributed by the Secretary of the Navy to officers and men, now or formerly, of the volunteer or regular navy and marine corps, who have participated in engagements and campaigns deemed worthy of such commemoration." The campaign badges issued to officers and men of the army are different in design from those issued to the officers and men of the navy and marine corps for participation in the same campaigns. The distinctive ribbons for the badges were also different for the two services prior to March 1, 1913, upon which date the President approved of a recommendation of the joint board of the army and navy to make the ribbons identical for all services. Campaign badges have accordingly been issued to the officers and men of the army, navy and marine corps who have seen honorable service in the Civil War and in all subsequent battles and campaigns up to the beginning of the present war, as follows: CIVIL WAR CAMPAIGN BADGE The badge was issued to all who saw service in the regular or volunteer army, navy or marine corps during the Civil War between April 15, 1861, and April 9, 1865. The distinctive ribbon is very appropriately composed of two bands, blue and gray, of |