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Show Nautical Novelties The United States Navy has entered enter-ed upon an educational campaign for its personnel which is so extensive exten-sive and thorough that it has rightfully right-fully earned the distinction of being i fprmpr! tVo "Writinn'c Rnhnnl" A Bluejacket is a member of one of the best Naval organizations the world has ever seen, an organization organiza-tion of which both he and his friends and relatives may well be proud. Sailors of the United States Navy are inspected daily at morning quarters quar-ters where they are all assembled in clean uniform of the day. After the inspection they are given physical physi-cal "setting-up exercises" before starting on the day's drills and ships! work. The ships are cleaned dally and a thorough cleaning, known as field day, is performed each Friday in preparation for Captain's Inspection Inspec-tion held each Saturday. At Captain's Cap-tain's Inspection, the crew is assembled assem-bled in dress uniform and each man is inspected by the Commanding Officer Of-ficer prior to his Inspection of the entire ship. Fuch man has his certain cer-tain duty to perform and space to clean. Every citizen of the United States should, if opportunity permits, per-mits, visit a Naval ship and marvel at the cleanliness and smartness of the crew and ship. Admiral Joseph M. Reeves of the United States Navy Is credited with Inventing the headgear worn today wherever football is played. Admiral Admir-al Reeves was of the Class of 1894, U. S. Naval Academy, and played football for four years while at Annapolis. An-napolis. Having received an injury, his playing days were regarded as over. He did not see it that way and devised this head protection and In the face of great opposition went into the Army-Navy game where his splendid playing was directly responsible re-sponsible for the Navy's victory. In the Navy Academy's list of heroes of the past, Midshipman Joseph M. Reeves occupies a foremost and permanent per-manent place. Whistling is prohibited aboard all United States Naval vessels. This order is not Intended to prevent happy men from thus showing their contentment, but is enforced so that no somewhat similar noise will In- terfere with the orders given on the "boatswains pipe". The boatswains pipe is a whistle having a small pea in a bowl; when properly blown, it is capable of emitting various pitched pitch-ed notes, or rails which have different differ-ent meanings in work about the ship. The inspiring name OLD GLORY was pivpii to the National Ensign of the United States by Captain William Wil-liam Driver of Salem, Massachusetts in 1P31. The words were a salute to a beautiful new flag presented to his ship when starting on a voyage voy-age around the world. |