US Marine Corps - The Black Vault

26 Amphibians Came To Conqzer
The 1908 Lzzcky Bag indicated that Midshipman Turner had organiza-
tional and editorial skill, as well as a way with words. It made its bow to
culture by having 21 cartoons each amusingly based on an extract from
Shakespeare, and by including in the write-up on each graduate a bit of
poetry or a descriptive phrase from a standard c!assical author. The one on
the page devoted to “Spuds” Turner reads:
Something there is more needful than expense.
And something previous even to taste—tis sense,
Good sense which only is the gift of heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Pope
AS editor of the Lucky Bag, it would seem a safe surmise that there would
be nothing in the individual write-up on Midshipman Turner which Editor
Turner did not sanction. It was, in fact, almost a publisher’s blurb:
from California, with the Westerner’s frankness and good nature love of
adventure and fondness for the good old American game of ‘draw’ [poker]
. . . Has served the class well in different capacities and is deservedly popular
. . . A busy man, with hardly time to catch a smoke . . . A good athlete,
but doesn’t like to train . . An all-around man and a good fellow.
The “good nature” and “good f~llow” were probably the furthest devia-
tion from the truth as some of his classmates saw