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Show FRANCE IS FACING j DIFFICULT PROBLEM Naval Career No Longer Appeals to -Young Men; Higher Pay Planned. Special Cable to The-Tribune. PARIS. Oct- 12. Stirred up by her diplomatic successes and awakonlng to her responsibilities as one of the world's groat colonial powers, Franco Is now determined de-termined to have a great navy and the energetic M. Delcasae flndu no trouble In raising the many millions needed for the building of super-dreadnoughts, but ho Is faced by a much more difficult problem that of getting officers for the new navy. , . That the navy an a career does not 1 appeal to the young men of Franco Is beyond all doubt and fully proved by official of-ficial flguros. The reasons are not d tfri-cult tfri-cult to Itnd, for the French naval oil leer le poorly paid, his uniforms arc expensive expen-sive his proHpects of advancement are s lKht and llfo at sea is no longer aa romantic as It used to be. Modern bat-Ueshlpfl bat-Ueshlpfl do not mako long voyages and as a rule do not move very far from tholr base, and life on board Is dreadfully dread-fully monotonouB. Gone, forever are the days which Inspired Pierre Lotl to his beautiful talcs of Oriental glamouni and "dolce far nloiites" In southern Pacific Islands with romantic Iovq altalrs with bwiutlful maidens. But olVlcers arc nr.cesffar- for tho growing grow-ing navv and a commission 1b now at work mcndln? the nets In which young men n?e M be caught- Tho principal 2nd probably the only bait which this oWlc body will recommend Is hlgner nay with better prospucts for advanco-ment advanco-ment but the time Is past whan tbe S voung blood of France will com-K com-K for service on hoard the 6lr on-stcre on-stcre with which niodnm naval battles are fought. ' |