Show NAVY DRillS DILS DID TO DEVELOP GUN BOA I Fighter and Local Recruiting Recruiting Recruit Recruit- in ing Officer Served Together Together Together To To- gether on Same Ship I knew Gunboat Smith tour four years ago when he was on the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania- said W. W Thompson chief chief yeoman at the United Unite I States navy recruiting station In Salt SaltI I Lake City lIe He was th then n coming Into prominence In the fighting game among the boys on board tho tIm fleet neet lie IIo served one term of ot enlistment His father Is still In the navy a a. chief petty officer Gunboat Gunboat Gun Gunboat boat alwa always s 's remembers his enlisted men friends regardless of or what shIp they are are arc with and they are always ahva's welcome at the training quarters of ot the tho navys navy's heavy heavyweight heavyweight weight at New York City Gunboat was alwa always 8 a good tood Cell fellow ow He Is popular among the navy y men no now This reminded Thompson of the new physical culture system now In vogue In Inthe Inthe Inthe the naV navy the tho S Swedish movements as they are called I When hon Gunboat and I were on sea s service ser ser- erI or- or I vIce the navy had the old fashioned system 56 I tern tem of ot physical culture It was termed tho setting up exercises exercises' or navy drill I But the Swedish system of or calisthenics Is Istar istar tar far su superior tending tending- more to alertness than weight or mere muscle building Gunboat attributes In no little degree his prowess a as a fighter to tho the training which he received In tho the nav navy He has that al alertness which enables him to outpoint other fighters who surpass him In weight That Is the point of ot the new system of oe training In the tho navy navy which even en surpasses surpasses sur- sur passes that under which Gunboat was trained When hen the recruits come to our Salt Snit Lake City office they aro are examined bYthe by bv bythe the sur surgeon eon and are then enlisted If tt they Ithe pass as satisfactorily Then they are sent Kent to the naval training school at San Fran Fran- cisco That Is 18 If they are enlisting for or duty as seamon seamen But If It they are mechanics mechanics me me- and wish to servo serve In that capacity capa elt city they are sent to Bremerton Wash to lo KO zo o on board ship a at t once Once on board ship the sailors go AO through these thelle Swedish exercises for tor half halt an nn hour or an nn hour depending on the tilt work for tor the rest of the day It Is good training taken steadily day by day and many a business man would profit by taking taking tak take ing In- exercises like those like those Bad postures led to ta the installation of or orthis this new nw system which tends to make the men more alert Instead of ot merely muscular As Is pointed out In The Tiie Fleet Review b by Surgeon Joseph A. A Murphy Murphy Mur Mur- phy of ot the nav navy who studied the Swedish system thoroughly the tho new exercises exercise eR build up the tho men rapidlY correcting slouch of ot postures S which affect vital or organs organs or- or gans such euch as the heart liver and the blood supply They are p performed b by byword byword word of ot command and accentuated attention attention atten atten- I tion and thus develop nervous control between be be- tween thought and action The Individual al at soon develops mental quickness with lii his muscular power and In C case Re of ot need would get et the Jump on his more ponderous ponder ponder- ous but hut less active opponent They also tend to ea ease tH 8 and nd grace of ot action and II by control over the expenditure of or effort this conserves conserve endurance so o that the Individual will outlast another who Is constantly overreaching himself In the amount of ot effort expended 1 In any i planned muscular action rhe They OKO on- on ablo able th the l Individual to withstand disease ann and to Improve c his health and Increase his ability to do work Swimming drills are also given In conn connection with these thes exercises which In hi a n feature of ot special benefit to the sailors |