Show MERCHANT MARINE SHAPING UP UPWELL WELL Broad Plans Being Carried Out to Man Ships as Soon as Built i NEW YORK TOnic April 20 has created merchant shipping within tho the Past three years year to the tho extent which ordinarily would not havo hare been developed devel dovel- throughout a quarter of ot n a L c century had not Germanys Germany's submarine warfare destroyed tonnage In quantities q so IO vast as ai to creato a crisis in the worlds world's marItime mar mar- situation will wm This restore building the tho or of American f cars cargo ships which flair flag to tn the t seven en seas Heas Is tOday only In Its and the infancy take takA their ot of young men to places as sailors and officers on these vessels and on thoc whIch art are to come Is the thc problem which the United States shipping board has a agreed reed to solve through InS a sea aea train training bureau established by bV Its Its Its' recruiting recrUiting I w was The Tho h w work rk of ot thIs sea training tr bureau actually put under unde way on January Into 1 and the on n April 1 f It ll began legan graduating graduating naK nations nation's n 8 merchant t marino marine about riff fifty boys bOs dally daily Seventy-five Seventy bov boys hOR Wore were ro l from farm H hands i store clerks and others of or civilIan civil civil- ian character Into sailor during a a. perlo pe- pe nod 1 of oC training whiCh terminated Fob Fob- tho 26 first group s-roup of which the shipping board plans Plana to in place n ont active service This ThiR national syStem tem tern of turning landlubbers Into seamen Is In operation n for the first time In Americas America's m i history N I G FOR FOIl FUTURE The Tho United shippIng board Is not basing basinI Its a system stem of at training on war conditions Nylons Millions of tons of nosy Y shipping will pro go Into commission the tho American flag flag- lr d during ng iho tho thon th next 1 tw two years ears and the Man the cr cry n new nesi ships s 1 must be answered by bv I thousands of ot American boys who lived far from the seacoasts according to Eugene E. E ODonnell O'Donnell the shipping I boards board's supervisor of sea training I I Life on n hoard chit one of ot thes training ships snips Is i alon along scheduled lines hues At Atti Ii C n. n m in the GOO boys bors at present on ti the th r Calvin Calvn Austin arise and tidy their rooms Breakfast and general work takes up their time lime until 9 9 30 30 when discipline and instruction he begin in Then rhen comes Inspection boat drill cleanup clean cloan up and dinner at noon Fire drill seamanship boat drill knot making and general work occupy the after aUer- noon hours houra until supper In the evening even even- in mar ing the boys bos have o recreation recreation recreation-canIs cards dominoes moving pictures shower baths bl singing sometimes shore leave At rj 9 o'clock lock the recruits turn in In The TIme boys bos receive better food tood It ma may be stated than the they ma may expect to receive on man many of tho the merchantmen on which they will serve In later years It Is ample and nutritious The Hoover program is observed b by the chefs chets ONLY WAR Il Jon JOIl OF OP JU KIM U. U At Boston Stanton II II King lies has the only war job of if t its kind I King is official of or- chantie man of the thc new merchant marine At the weekly entertainment which the tho recruits enjoy ashore at nt Bo Hoston ton they are instructed b by King icing In the ballads of tho the sea son Although a majority majority ma ma- of ot the tho recruits will servo serve on steamers some will shIp shin on sailing sossels sos sels chantie singing Is considered to be valuable for fOI both classes classe of men as it Insures teamwork when a crew hC J pulling on ropes While the recruits recruit's Job Is a volun volun- teer teel one he signs articles for tor tho duration of the war agreeing to serve under the tho United States shipping board If It he lie Is of ot draft ago ho Is 1 l. l ly exempt from front military service Six weeks of ot training qualifies him for on a n merchantman with hit ht legal status assured After Arter two o years of ot service subsequent subsequent quent to his graduation the tho recruit ma may enter one ono of ot tho tIle shipping boards board's free freo schools in navigation o of at f which thirty are arc In operation along the co coasts st and at the Great Lakes and hero hemn he mn may fit himself for or officers' officers licenses license rising In a few years cars to the command commana of a vessel sessel while whilo still In his early twenties Only Americans are are arc accepted n as HI recruits |