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Show i i- NAV'TICAL :- :- -: NOVELTIES The fallowing "Nautical Novelties" are furrished by the U. S. Navy Re-Icruitinj Re-Icruitinj Station at Salt Lake City: A civil'an, tired of life, jumped overboard from a resort pier. A Blue-I Blue-I jackt-t goes after him, holds him up until help arrives, and then disap-h disap-h ars in the crowd to avoid publicity. ... A ton of coal, paid for, goes into ; a destitute home whose address was ascertained from a shivering young-j young-j ster of about 0 years of age who was .trying to sell a few papers. ... At Christmas time a ragged boy of about 7 years of age was looking with long-I long-I ing eyes at some suits for boys. A i Bluejacket sized up the situation, .took the boy in and outf'tted him. His reward? The kid's remark, with quivering quiv-ering lips: "Gee, Mister, you're , grand." These incidents are true. Such exemplary conduct is always duplicated throughout the navy. These instances are cited to point out that the average man who dons the navy blue is far from many a civilian's idea of "the sailor." He is a man who knows what it is all about; who carries car-ries on his duties in a snappy, shipshape ship-shape manner. He is the man who, in carrying on the navy tradit'ons, shows what the navy is at its best. He is the typical Bluejacket, i Every seventh man in the United States navy is under 21 years of age, while 40.000 out of 77,000 are under 25 years of age. A century ago in England, Friday was considered such an unlucky day that admiralty deeded to refute the superstition with the building of a "Friday" ship. Friday was the day her keel was laid, and the day she was launched. Friday was the name of her captain and the name of the ship. Friday was the day she started on her ma 'den voyage, and she was never heard from again. Recently, questionnaires sent out to former navy men, picked at random, ran-dom, netted more than 350 replies. These replies showed 86 per cent were working at skilled trades which they had learned in the navy. The average salary of the artisans was $165 per month. Some 97 per cent said they felt the'r time in the navy was well ing John Paul Jones -was mith command the famous ship U i Ranger. His orders and the I adoption were net in the aamekl passed in the same hour. Jones i surely" cognizant of this went afterwards he wrote in his ev dent style: "That flag and I , twins? born in the same hour!' the ,same womb of destiny. We m be parted in life or death. So 0,J we can float, we shall float togeS If we 'must sink, we shall go dot one." After honors, glory, bittcru ' and vicissitudes, all that is mortal I John Paul Jones rests at Anniji under 'the flag he so gallantly fended. spent, anil &3 per cent felt they would do likewise if they had the same thing to do over again. Ninety-three per cent thought naval training of g.eat value for civilian life, and 74 per cent said they would recommend the navy as a permanent vocation. There were 11,575 f'rst enlistments in the United States during 1934. More than 142.000 applicants applied at the various stations for enlistment. About one in every twelve was accepted. ac-cepted. When our new heavy cruisers are making 28 knots, they are developing enough power to light 1,700,000 lamps sim'lar to those usd in your home. One of the most curious coincidences coinci-dences in American naval history is the fact that at the same hour that the new flag (thirteen stripes and thirteen stars) was adopted, the dar- |