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Show I TRAINING MEN TO DO UNCLE i SAM'S NAVAL FIGHTING and murine corps. Gifts, received at the station, she distributes personally, frequently offering hits of kindly advice ad-vice simultaneously. And -when, finally the men are read' to take their places in the American battle fleet, each seems obsessed with the Idea that he. personally, must mnkn good. swept harbor of Luke Michigan, below the wooded bluffs of the reservation are 'United States navy warships, aboard which the men get some of their training. For the leisure hours the dimpling waters of the lake invites in-vites The more hardy to bathe. Ttien there are organized athletics, under the supervision of a naval ofli- j cor. Regular track meets, boxing bouts and baseball games are held. Also there is a gymnasium and a fully equipped library to occupy the time. Earn Money on Side. Many of the men earn money other than their pay by doing Odd Jobs for their fellows. There is a letter writer who for a small sum will write a descriptive letter to a parent or a burning love letter to a young woman for a mate who finds It less easy to express himself. Over in Camp Paul Jones is a tented barber shop in which several barbers are kept busy scraping the faces of their comrades. Alongside Along-side is a shoe-shining "parlor" and nearby is a cleaning and pressing establishment es-tablishment ; ail of them do good business busi-ness for among the first things a recruit re-cruit is taught are neatness and personal per-sonal cleanliness. Nor do the men want for a woman's interest. Mrs. MolTett, wife of the commandant, herself the mother of three small sons, tries to take a motherly moth-erly interest in every man in the station. sta-tion. As president of the Great Lakes auxiliary of the Navy Relief society, she has direction of the caring for the needy families in the middle West of officers and enlisted men of the navy About 8,200 Men Being Fitted for the Navy at the Great Lakes Station. EVERY MINUTE IS OCCUPIED Keen Determination to Make Good Is the Prevailing Spirit of the Camp Plan to Make Station Largest Larg-est of Kind in World. Great Lakes, 111. About 8,200 men are being fitted for fighting In the nation's na-tion's first line of defense at the United Unit-ed States naval training station here. Not unlike that In a big college football camp Is the routine of their training. Chief petty officers are the coaches who drill the men up and down the fields In the final days of preparation for the big game war. Every minute Is made to mean something. some-thing. On a dozen fields the air is filled with the authoritative commands of the officers and the pounding of thousands of heavily-shod feet on the turf. Commingling Is the blare of the bands, which are directed by Lieut. John Philip Sousa, famous bandmaster, bandmas-ter, who now has 242 musicians in training and expects to develop the finest military band in the world. Rut the spirit of the camp is as serious seri-ous as that In a football camp. And, as evinced by the last days of November Novem-ber in any college, the statement is not meant lightly. Everywhere about the station the sentiment seems to be to stick to the team and make a good showing in the eyes of the coaches that a permanent place may be obtained ob-tained in the greatest game of all. C. G. Smith, captain of this year's football foot-ball eleven at the University of Michigan, Michi-gan, expressed this when he said : "We are going in with everything we have. We are going to win and mnke the commandant, Capt. W. A. Moffett, proud of us when we go to sea or be ground to pieces trying." To Train 20,000 Men. Plans are under way to make the station the largest of its kind in the world. Preparations have been made to train upward of 20,000 men during the summer. The navy department, upon the suggestion of Captain Moffett, Mof-fett, has asked congress to appropriate appropri-ate funds for this purpose. Constructed originally for 100 men, the war and the resultant Influx of recruits re-cruits has necessitated the springing up of a white, tented city on the reservation reser-vation and adjoining leased land. Camp Paul1 Jones, lying immediately to the north of the station proper has been fully equipped and shelters 5,000 men, among them the naval militia from the states of Michigan and Missouri. It is believed that the station will train five-eighths of the men who go to the navy during the war. Recruits from practically every community in the middle West are expected, men from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Mis-souri, Iowa, Kentucky and parts of other states being sent here to learn the business of a man-o'-warsman. Men of Every Station. Virile young Americans, from the colleges, offices, farms and factories of the middle West, the men at the station seem to be trained for almost anything. Here one may see a civil engineer, enlisted as an apprentice seaman, using his transit to make bench marks, while over there on the corner of the reservation are the two slender, 400-foot wireless towers from which a man is sending a wireless message mes-sage to the government station in Arlington, Ar-lington, Va. In the heterogeneous personnel per-sonnel there is a representative of almost al-most every trade, profession and business. busi-ness. Home-sickness is a disease that has little place at the station. There is not time for it. Lying in the sun- |