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Show How the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, the City of Young Men, Teaches American Boys a New Democratic System of Municipal Government, Making Them Better Inland Citizens While It Prepares Them for the Sea V' jjjjj f ',r jackie poes forih to soed jS and fertilize the illPt parade grounds, the i 13111111 drin fieids' the IP lawns, the flower p? mmi SaPR beds, and learns JjgJ i B8&fly&r' new things about 'ft beautifying Eli his home town. IB; - ip . x - ... ; -..;, . ... ; .. r i tlMM Five hundred sai- ''l.' ''' f lor suits are a niiwr-'" mended each llir day in the sta- ntffiF' ' of the ' This is Packey Schwartz, I jfjifc- I "" sea cook extraordinary, who aims at the IS m .. " stomachs of the ;,: .- ' ' 3?" tboi.isands of home? irk ( ; newcomers and hits f iP ss5 their hearts. v-'P Five hundred sailor sai-lor suits are mended each day in the sta tion's four humming and bustling tailoring shops, where expert service is given at a minimum cost. rom the colleges, the haberdashery stores of the prairie towns they come to learn with spade and trowel how the health of j cities may be bettered. By LLOYD D. LEWIS SOME forty miles north of Chicago on the curving shore of Lake Michigan is the City of Young Men. It is of, for and by the youth of America. It is the busiest city in America, full of a the zest and swing of young blood. It holds the hope of democracy, the "zip" and "pep" of the typical lad of 19. None of the graft iii and corruption of older municipal governments dis turbs it. It, is bold, free, elastic. No history rises to embarrass it. The world lies ahead a world where service may be performed. )J 'I'he City of Young Men is the Great Lakes'Xavai ,J Training Station, a city of 700 acres and 25.000 souls. It has risen on the prairies, beside the fresh isi water lakes of the middle country, to feed the sea ith dashing, cocky, fearless boys. But more than a navy Institution it is a nations! institution, a dream of middle western democracy, n j where the youths of the farms and small towns 0 learn how a municipality can be managed efficiently, honestly, morally, with discipline and yet with free dom. with intense work and yet with joy. That these thousauds and thousands of young men. come back from the seas in the days of peace, will fail to Kit into force newer, more democratic, more force ffcl concepts of 'government in their home towus and townships is not to be believed. Community buy-,j buy-,j '08 'f supplies, community entertainments, com- irll munity rule and the ousting of privilege, cutthroat U d competition, factional bickerings all these will be ' i2 the propaganda of the sailing men from out the i Oil C'ity of Young Men when the wars are done. Better roads, neater streets, cleaner, greener lands, modern sanitation these, too, will be messages carried into Lc' Hie self-satisfied, provincial towns lying all through tlie great Valley of the Mississippi and the vast ,i Xorthwesl by the alumni of the station. (-jC How can it be otherwise? For months the boys , from the corn lands lrt-e under the workings of these ,ptl things, their every glance falling upon some com- U'J munal and democratic economy or improvement, ipi'' They find, first of all. that the best food the market lit'1 affords is theirs al a low cost because it is bought efl In (unntitles and in awards to the lowest bid, per I" specification. In the open market. They find that a nonpartisan commission obtains for them clothing of the best, shoes of the stoutest, heat and light at a ill cost far less than they in civilian life dreamed pos- re:! siblc-. Tljey see parks laid out, flower beds planted. dirt and refuse obliterated, roads and walks of the itf hardest created, all by a commission that has no finger in the pie. no reward other" than pride. They learn the benefits of organized recreation. Thev note the tremendous efficiency of work done for i '-' common cause. They learni a new concept of com- '' ' munity life. . ggrthtLt more natural than that (hey should want Jr. -Vhat concept realized again in their home towns later on? ent, but which in this case happen to gibe perfectly per-fectly with the impression. impres-sion. Great, Lakes Station is a city with the rule vested in a manager who is responsible to a higher power for everything every-thing iD its limits. Captain Cap-tain William A. Moffett is the commander, responsible re-sponsible to the Secretary Secre-tary of the Navy as a mayor is responsible to the state. He heads the executive department. Undpr him the provost pro-vost maintains order, the public works office creates and repairs buildings, roads, power plants, water mains, drill grounds, athiet.ic This is Packey Schwartz, sea cook extraordinary, who aims at the " stomachs of the thousands of homesick newcomers and hits their hearts. Linotype machines click all day long in a big printing shop where station newspapers, play bills, score cards and official orders are struck off, thousands on thousands. those steaks, marmalades, eta, would find their bills averaging from 6.1 to 80 cents per person daily. One of the institutions at the station is Packey Schwartz, the famous cook, whose task It Is to make each recruit's reception into the navy a gleeful one. A strange mixture of boy and boy psychologist is Packey. His methods of handling the homesick, frightened farm boys as they enter the twenty-one days' detention period are unique. While they are being held in temporary quarantine to prevent the spread of any possible disease that they may havo brought with them, Packey regales them with jocular joc-ular advice rich in homely wisdom, elevates their spirits with horse play, and, what is more, stuffs them with better food than nine-tenth of them have known. The city iR self-sufficient, once Its food and coal are brought in. Its divisions and camps are llko wards. The main camp is composed of the administration admin-istration buildings. Detention camp houses the thousands of newcomers during their period of health probation. Cami Farragut, Boone and Decatur De-catur are also given over to detention work now that the farm boys are rushing In even larger numbers num-bers to the navy. Camp Perry Is made up of the radio school, naval aviators and various electrical classes. Camp Paul Jones Is occupied by the regiments regi-ments who do the main work on the station, such as receiving supplies, operating the power plants, etc. Camp Ross Is outgoing detention, where the men who are tc go to sea are kept a few days before be-fore entraining. Copyright, 1918, by J. KetlcyJ lu the early morning the City of Young Men is a military camp, with regiments of uniformed men drilling, marching, shooting, preparing themselves for the grim business ahead. Toward noon it is a workingman's city, full of toilers in overalls, building build-ing roads, sodding lawns, shoveling eoal, laying drains, erecting buildings. Steam from power and heating plants drifts out over the lake. Machinery whirrs, hammers pound, locomotives roll iu with strings of heavy freight cars, auto trucks whizz along macadam roads. Delivery wagons pound by bearing tons of mail and great bundles of newspa lers printed in the city itself. In the late afternoon it is a college (own. Boys in twos and threes saunter across the campus, which was a moment ago a parade ground. Baseball teams shout and run on scattered diamonds ; guitars and ukeleles are heard through the open windows of dormitories (barracks an hour ago). Quartets draped across stone steps sing and persist against the raillery from heads ieeriug through windows above. Doctors go whirling by iu motor cars, off to the hospital or the dormitories for a sick call. Some forty boys garbed in chorus girl attire are rehearsing new home talent musical comedy iu one of the recreation buildings, their falsetto voices breaking into frequent masculine snorts. At night the city is a country town. Respite the 25.000 who inhabit it. a silent town with no crooked lamp posts nor roaming anacondas, only a few night watchmen pacing the streets. The city sleeps like young mep sleep, soundly, weary from work, dream-lessly. dream-lessly. from good food. So much for the truth concerning the station. Now loz tt.e,tatistics. which -am-af ten aulte. differ.' fields : the supply office purchases food, coal and all military equipment; the detail office gives each citizen his duties and wages, and the drill office trains the citizens In seaman's technique. Forty car loads of supplies are brought into the station daily. Two locomotives ply up and down on switches all day long; 100 motor trucks are hauling haul-ing supplies constantly. Here are some illuminative items of expense for a typical month : Eight hundred thousand pounds of Irish potatoes. 60,000 pounds of sweet potatoes, 2!iXt cntutaLop.XafiW) Bounds of cabbage -o.OOO pounds of frankfurters, 480,000 pounds of beef. 30,000 pounds of pork loins, 20,000 pounds of bologna sausage. 35,000 pounds of pork chops, 3,000 pounds of fish, 40,000 pounds of grape fruit, 60.000 pounds of butter. 25.000 dozen eggs, 10,000 pounds of cheese, 88,000 pounds of bread. The supply department spends $22,000 for food, coal, gasoline, etc., for the great lakes fleet that guards the lakes from active agents of Germany. Considering the superlative quality of the food given the men. the average cost of 43 cents a day per man is very low. The civilian family that ate |