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Show SAILORS SWEAR LESS As Term in Navy Extends Profanity Pro-fanity Decreases. Boyj New in the Service Are Moat Profane, Noted Chaplain Declares. Santa Barbara, Oal. The profanity ui the average sailor If be is profane j ;it' all decreases as his service in the ; Atuericau navy lengthens, according to; Vapt. K. V. Scott, chaplain of the new 1 1 1 : . -i t i c Heel. "The boys who have just entered the service are usually the most profane," according to Captain Scott, who has been In the naval service years, anil who is. besides Cap'. Jf. C. C.leeson of . the Atlantic fleet, the only Hoot chaplain chap-lain in the American navy. "The boVii try to make the older men i already In te navy believe t hoy. too. j think the use of profanity the surest way to accomplish the result." The work of (be chaplains in the navy. Captain Scott said, is along a "big brother" Hue. They deliver talks tit the Sunday services aboard ship that might not be recognized by regular regu-lar church attendants ashore. They speak to the men in the service in what they know are the terms of the men in the service. They try to solve their problems and to direct them to clean thinking, clean speakiir; and clean living. They urge them to industry and to take advantage of the advantages offered of-fered for promotion. I'ntil three or four years ago. according ac-cording to Captain Scott, there were only '24 chaplains in the navy. He was one of them, having some years before left the Yale divinity school f,,r a naval post. In 1014, a ruling prov ided for a chaplain to every 1 .200 men. so war. It is expected the new Pacific fleer when complete will have 20 or 2o chaplains of various religious denominations. denom-inations. Captain Scott formerly was stationed at San Francisco. |