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Show by men in civil life, but he did state that 55 different and distinct dis-tinct trades are engaged in by men in the navy. Here are some he mentioned: Machinist, electrician, electri-cian, painter, printer, shipfitter, baker, cook, radioman, carpenter, molder, patternmaker, stenographer, stenogra-pher, pharmacist, photographer, boilermaker, musician, aerogra-pher, aerogra-pher, metalsmith, aviation machinist, machin-ist, and aviation metalsmith. NAVY GIVES GOOD TRADE TRAINING TO ENLISTED MEN "lnd H. Smith, C. B. M U. S. Navy, officer in charge of the U S Navy recruiting station at Provo, observed that a fact which was perhaps not generally known by most people was that the system sys-tem of training men by correspondence corres-pondence courses was discovered by the U. S. Navy long before it was widely used in civil life. He attributes to the development of this method of training the fact that the Navy has long been known as a place where a man can get more valuable trade experience ex-perience in a given time than he can in most civil occupations. It appears, from what Mr. Smith says, that a great many young men do still continue to join the navy to "see the world" in the face of not infrequent good-natured advice from their friends that the view from the porthole of a ship is apt to be a somewhat restricted re-stricted one, but the greatest majority ma-jority of applicants do, nonetheless, nonethe-less, profess a serious-minded desire de-sire to learn a trade. Training In the navy, Mr. Smith states, commences on the day a man enters the service and ends on the day he leaves it, whether it be at the end of one enlistment or on his retirement after 20 years. Mr. Smith did not venture an opinion as to the total number of trades and professions practiced |
