Show SEA CAPTAINS CAPTAINS' UT Of WORK Laying Up of Ships Causes Stress NEW YORK Nov r 5 Four Four captains on one ship each of them qualified by experience and license to navigate unlimited unlimited un un- un limited tonnage in any three thre e of them serving as mates mate mateIs is not an uncommon un un- uncommon I common occurrence now due to the low tide of world ocean commerce On one ship which recently sailed from New York for a round trip voyage to the West Indies the master thereof had when conditions were reversed His third mate during the war commanded an American ship which ma made e numerous numerous numer numer- ous trips through the war zone carrying carrying car car- ring supplies for the American army in France It is to the lasting credit of these American masters ship owners say that they accept reduced rank cheerfully and andIn andIn andIn I In their service they render a very high degree of ot allegiance and obedience to the officers temporarily above them This applies not only to their periods of actual duty but to the traditional sea discipline when off watch The laying up of one ship after alter an another another an- an other until practically one-half one of Americas America's postwar fleet of commerce I carriers has been relegated to a quiet anchorage awaiting return of normalcy in world commerce has put thousands of ot good American seamen on the I beach as s they term it Officers suffer with the firemen and the sailors in the enforced Idleness Clubrooms of associations associations associations asso asso- of officers are always well filled now by licensed men awaiting a possible opening on some ship When a call for an officer comes In in It Is tendered to the theman man understood to be most In need of the work and ly by him it is cheerfully accepted regardless of the rank It ft carries The records show that but comparatively comparatively few tew are in actual financial distress distress dis dis- tress SS through enforced Idleness A man 1 I who has reached the brio bridge dge ge through i I long years of hard work has generally learned to be thrifty thrill and in the good goodyears goodyears goodyears I years to lay aside something for the I Ilean I lean ones Hundreds of American captains are arenow arenow arenow I I now scattered all over the New England and Eastern rn states doing a period of ol short duty on farms which they purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased as l a safe harbor in which to I weather the stormy seas of old age Generous to the last degree these men keep track and aid their less fortunate i associates Sailors deck hands fire room forces J Jand I I and stewards to the number of ot thousands thousands thou- thou I I sands are sharing with the officers the I effect of ol the shipping depression Many I of them have been forced to depend on their unions and institutions Institutions Institutions I for keep |