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Show this, but they are cast in the same mold. Energy, aptitude and ! efficiency provide as readily today the keys to advancement as they did when Yankee ships from Salem and other New England ports carried the American flag on all the trade routes of the world. The steel successor of the clipper ship can likewise fire the imagination ! of youth, and enlist his loyalty." EDUCATING BOYS FOR U. S. SEAMEN Calling the youth to the sea is now one of the duties of the ! United States Shipping Board, according to Oliver McKee, well known Washington newspaperman, who writes entertaingly in the current issue of the National Republic of the sea service of the Shipping Ship-ping Board which is seeking to educate young Americans in seamanship seaman-ship as a career. Mr. McKee also tells something about the glorious days when Yankee seamen went all over the world in American clippers. In part he says: , j ... "The sea again calls the youth of America. The call may not be as irresistoble as it was in the days when Yankee clipper ships end merchantmen swept the seven seas a hundred years or so ago, but many an American youth is answering the summons. ' We came out of the world War with a merchant marine, an ocean-going fleet1; in) tonnage measured by the millions. Ships without men are as useless as railroads without engineers, brakemen, tracklayers, and freight agent3. To man our merchant marine with crews predominantly foreign is neither good business nor a sound policy. The crews of our ships, whether commerce carriers in peace, or naval auxiliaries in war, must be loyal and dependable. Our merchant marine must be an American-manned, if it is to meet the competition of other nations and win for the United States our fair share of international trade. Uncle Sam has recently bestirred himself through the sea service section of the Shipping Board to interest young Americans ! in seamanship as a life work, not on government thips alone, but 1 on all American flag vessels. So successful have these initial effort3 been, that in the past three years, 2,500 Amcricar ' citizens between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three were placed ; as deck boys on cargo vessels, to serve their apprenticeship in a ! career which to many may mean a master's license before their sea '. days are over. 'A hand before the ma.st at fifteen, a mate at sixteen, and ', master of a vessel at twenty-five, was a record of which many a ', New Ent;lander in the old' days of Yankee supremacy at sea could ', boast. N;jthariel Silsbce commanded a fine (iliip, the Bcnamin, ', wild Charles Derby as hm mate, both lads of ninefe.en, bound out of India around the Cape ofGo od Hope. Robert B. Forbes of Boston, -;i famous mariner in hi day, wa.i mate of a hip at sixteen, held a ! r ommand at twenty, and at thirty-six was the head of the largent Amr rirari mercantile house in China. Thei deck boy from Kansas, I' Vermont, or I exas. who ifn up in 192 7 on an American flatf coro j v. h;k , propelled by strain instead of the nails that sent the Flyinf? ( loud ',pcedm;r through ll,r nea on her rerord m.iliiin: vi":i'e to ; the P.v.ifif Coa-it, may not rcaeh the captain's bridge, ns quickly ea |