| 1 | You should change your outmoded convention. Since the world is changing, you can not remain the same. | |
| 2 | But some of our comrades, who are still bound by conventional notions of how things should be done, don't like this idea. | |
| 3 | Because of the special characteristics of our armed forces, officers should still be promoted grade by grade. Nevertheless, some old conventions need to be broken. |