Scrubbed decks again this morning at 5. We have had collision drill, man overboard drill -- which nearly became more than a drill when Herndon got a cramp -- and inspection for mumps besides the regular drills.
The meals have been fine today. It was bean day - but Navy beans are good. We also had fritters and apple sauce - which did much to put my sweet tooth in a good humor again.
Secretary Bryan resigned today. It seems to me that it is the best thing that he has done since he began is public life over twenty years ago - only he waited too long to do it. In my mind he is not only working on this question of international peace in a manner opposed by Wilson, but in a way too that is not yet - and I hope never will be - popular with the country at large. Peace is of course the natural and most desirable condition for a nation's prosperity to increase in - but it is one thing to live in a state of peace, created by a policy of fair dealing with other nations, and a demand that they deal fairly with us - a demand which should be met out of respect for us, ungrudgingly and even eagerly - and an entire different thing to exist under a peace that is indiscriminately threatened, and ignominiously prolonged by quiet acquiescence in an unpatriotic concurrence with those threats. Such a peace should not be tolerated - and it is almost certain that it will never be tolerated by the country at large. Our best course now is to follow the President faithfully - and if he sees fit to use war as a means to enforce our rights as a nation we must follow still and prove to him that our faith is still in him.
We aired our bedding this afternoon - but more because it was routine than that it was necessary. We had used our hammocks only three days - but we must have something to do!
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