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Show j NAIT1CAL :- :- I ! I .: -: NOVELTIES I 1- I The following "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Re-'cruitinj Re-'cruitinj Station at Salt Lake City: i To wear spurs with the naval uniform uni-form and to bring a horse aboard a battleship is the privilege of one class of officer in the British navy, and one only. The officer is a major of marlines mar-lines aboard a flagship. Another oddity odd-ity of the British navy is the fact that only aboard a warship is it per-missable per-missable to drink the king's health 'sitting. The practice goes back to Nelson's time. In those days the ceilings ceil-ings of the messrooms were so low that to stand to drink the king's health involved bumping one's head; hence the lat:tude that prevails today. ' Old-time prison ships have not yet jleft the seas. A Japanese ship recent-' recent-' ly put in at Hongkon carrying a hundred hun-dred young prisoners. The vessel is 'a fighting junk and carries a number of expert fishermen, whose duty it is to teach the prisoners their art. A score or more of guards keep order aboard and pervent escape, i Under ordinary peace-time conditions, condi-tions, approximately 16,000,000 barrels bar-rels of fuel oil are required for the 'operations of the United States navy for one year. Charles Francis Coe, listed among the six highest paid authors in the world, is an ex-navy man. Mr. Coe enlisted for a minority cruise in 1908. In a recent interview wh'le aboard the battleship U. S. S. Arkansas, March 31, 1917. Except for a short .period of time while a patient in the hospital, he has served continuously on the same vessel. It takes about nineteen seconds for a bomb to reach the earth when dropped drop-ped from an airplane a mile high. A man falling from an altitude with a parachute pack ' attached never attains at-tains a speed greater than 118 miles an hour and he dees not lose eon-, eon-, sciousness. among other things, the author had this to say: "Unless I desired to enter en-ter a specialized profession I would never consider a college education as against an enlistment in the navy. I never have regretted spending my college years aboard ship. In fact, I would not trade my navy cruise for a half a dozen B. A.'s . . . The navy teaches discipline. It takes a kid when he is living in his formative years and lays a foundation upon which he can build as high as he likes without fear of collapse." Thomas Charles Small, chief boatswain's boat-swain's mate, U. S. navy, has served cont'nuously on the battleship U. S. S. Arkansas for 18 years and 5 months. This is believed to be a record rec-ord in the modern navy. Small's service ser-vice record shows that he first enlisted en-listed in the navy at Boston on October Oc-tober 24, 1916, and after undergoing recruit training at Newport, R. I., I was transferred to the Arkansas on |