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Show of them leave the Navy without having acquired some proficiency in a trade that will increase their value in business or ndustria! pursuits. pur-suits. The Navy recruiting service is of the opinion that no single industry in-dustry requires so large a variety of skilled service as the Navy does, for the highly developed warships war-ships of the Navy cannot be operated oper-ated by men trained for general duty or for many kinds of duty. Such work as operating and caring for the great turbines, the dynamos, dyna-mos, or the powerful radio stations on a modern warship does not call for unskilled men or for the Jack-of-all-Trades. It calls for men who are thoroughly trained to perform the work of a specific naval trade enginemen, electricians, radiomen. NAVAL STRENGTH IS TO BE GREATLY INCREASED Authority has recently been granted the Navy department to increase the strength of the Navy's forces to 170,000 men, according ac-cording to word received from Lieutenant Commander T. D. Wilson, Wil-son, officer in charge of the Salt Lake Recruiting district. This is an increase of 25,000 and is to be effected as speedily as possible. All recruiting districts will be provided pro-vided with additional recruiting personnel, and it Is expected that the quotas assigned to recruiting stations will be higher than they have been for some time. This will undoubtedly result in more favorable opportunities for enlistment enlist-ment than have obtained for a number of years. The enlisted personnel of the Navy is not a permanent force, by any means, Commander Wilson states. Every year approximately 20,000 men must be recruited to take the places of those who leave the service. Most of those who enter en-ter the service are young and few of them have learned a trade. The thousands who leave the service to find a place for themselves in civil life are older men, and few |