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Show Endowment Drive Starts Next Week The Navy Department has aadvis-ed aadvis-ed the Navy Recruiting office at Salt ! Lake City that first enlistments in I the Naval service may be aaccepted locally until further orders. The Salt Lake Navy office ' has fceen closed since last June except to ex-Navy men who desired to re-enlist. , The office is assigned to enlist men from the states of Utah and Montana that portion of Idaho south of and including Idaho county and that portion of Wyoming lying to north and west of Fremont county. The naval officer in charge states that, with its many trade schools for developing men in industrial trades its educational courses, excellent athletics ath-letics and its broad policy of recreational recrea-tional periods, the Navy has had no difficulty in maintaining its authoriz ed strength. With 80 per cent of the honorably discharged men reenlist-ing1 reenlist-ing1 in the last year it was necessary to close down all stations for the past several months. Recruiting activities opened by the order are for supplying anticipated vacancies. For several years quality recruiting recruit-ing has been the policy of the Navy Department. As the advantages offered of-fered by the Navy have become better bet-ter known, the large number of applicants ap-plicants has made necessary the adaption ad-aption of high moral and physical Standards. This policy has resulted in filling the trade schools and returning re-turning to the nation a class of the ihrif ty and skillful men whom employers em-ployers in civil trades have found to be worthy of employment. By inaugurating, interesting jfor-eign jfor-eign cruises and by establishing through Congress liberal retirement aws, the Navy has been able to retain re-tain the high percentage of the men trained in the first enlistment. That the Navy is open again, the Recruiting Officer states is of importance im-portance -to those on the waiting list who have learned that the 10 year retirement laws will remain in effect t, until July 1925. The 20 year retirement retire-ment laws particulaly liberal in allowances al-lowances will continue to be the in-'centive in-'centive to many men in considering Naval caaree'rs permantly. In substance, sub-stance, the laws provide an income equal to the interest obtainable from a $20,000 or $30,000 liberty bond. The Recruiting officer is getting in touch with high school students who do not know that in addition to assignment of many to trade schools the Navy selects each year 100 young men for appointments to the U. S. Naval Academy. With the reduced number of appointments now allowed allow-ed Congressmen, a Navy enlistment open to high school students seeking seek-ing a college education, an honorable Career as 'Commissioned pffecers. The examination of applicants papers requiring a few! I days, the Officer in charge has announced that parents and applicants not living in the immediate vicinity of Salt Lake should obtain enlistment applications from the office by mail and have them executed and filed before proceeding pro-ceeding to Salt Lake City. Recruits accepted for enlistment at Salt Lake City are sent from Salt Lake City to the training station, San Diego, California. After eight weeks of instruction in military duties du-ties during which time selections for the Naval Academy, and various trade schools may be made, the men are sent to ship in the fleet for further fur-ther training and detail to trades and 6ther activities. Men skilled as blacksmiths, boiler makers are enlisted enlist-ed in petty officer grades and after H short time of instruction are sent to the Fleet for duty. |