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Show i NAITICAL :- :- j j i -: -: NOVELTIES 1 h The following "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Re-rruitinj Re-rruitinj Station at Salt Lake City: The United States has 21 naval hospitals in the United States and beyond the seas which are maintained maintain-ed f ir the welfare of the personnel of the navy. They are equipped with the very best and latest appliances known to the medical profession, ami are operated with naval personnel, including women nurses. i The luckiest vessel of the United States navy, next to the Constitution, Constitu-tion, wjas the schooner Enterprise?. In eight months, during the West Indian war against French piracy, this vessel captured 6 privateers and recaptured 11 American vessels. George O'Brien, motion picture actor, was the light-heavyweight champ-'on of the United States navy in 1919. It is said that at least once in each picture he makes, Mr. O'Brien wears the same undershirt he was wearing when he won the championship, champion-ship, thinking it brings him good luck. j Recruits at the naval training station, sta-tion, San Diego, Calif., display their talents to the public each Thursday afternoon. Dressed in spotless drill uniforms, they parade before an audience au-dience made up of the public and naval officers. The parades are very impressive and are looked forward to by the recruit as well as the public. Applicants for the service schools organization able to efficiently man the complicated machinery of our modern ships. Former President Theodore Roosevelt said: "The navy must be built and all its training given giv-en in time of peace; when war has broken out, it is too late to do anything.", any-thing.", Admiral Byrd took ice-boxes with him to the South Pole regions to keep his provisions from freezing too solid. One of the greatest marine disasters disas-ters was on the Mississippi river, when on April 27, 1865, the steamboat steam-boat Sultana blew up 7 miles above Memphis and sank with a loss of the lives of 1,450 Union soldiers. of the United States navy are given a series of scientific tests prepared j by nationally recognized p.ycholo-: gists. These tests are given under the direction of, and selection of men for the schools is made by a naval I officer who has completed a special , course in the "Psychology of Select-' ing Men." The object is to place the : right man in the right place. I If the amount of insurance carried on the lives of soldiers and sailors of the United States was converted into j silver dollars and placed on edge" in line, they would go two and a halfi : times around the earth, a distance of 1 61,365 miles. j , In order that the navy of today jean be operated efficiently and effectively ef-fectively in time of war, the United States has inaugurated a high standard stan-dard of selective redruitiing. Brain as well as brawn are essential to the making of a real sailor of the modern mo-dern navy and to the building of an |