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Show BATTLE STATIONS HOW do you pick a man? By his face yes. And figure sometimes. His actions mostly. His thoughts when you are sure they are his. But there is one more method. Great statesmen like Gladstone, and others like T. It. have known and used it. Sure to the mark is: how a man waits. Not just his patience. Watch all of him while he's waiting. The fleet leaves port for maneuvers. Complete war watches are kept on the job all the time. Submarines nre the greatest Immediate peril. In the course of a few days an actual war zone Is reached ; that Is, nn area In which the enemy may be lurking. Or suspicious sinoke appears on the horizon. hori-zon. "Signal general quarters," Is the admiral's quick decision. "Aye aye, sir," from the flag lieutenant. lieu-tenant. Flags flutter for a brief space, are answered down the column, then drop to the signal boards. On every ship alarms clang. Bugles take up the emergency call. On each superdread-naught superdread-naught the whole ship's company flies to battle stations. Primarily this means that each ofll-cor ofll-cor and man shall roost where the ship's station bill provides for him to meet the enemy in time of battle.'Cap-tain battle.'Cap-tain in conning tower, surgeon In sick ' bay, gunner at gun, engineer In engine room, and so on. All very pretty for a drill. But suppose sup-pose the enemy actually is near. Gilt Gi-lt turns out that the hostile fleet Is creeping just behind the horizon, j Then it's all hands stick to their stn- tions. They must not leave If powder ! is out. Nor if the other follow is close ' enouch to take a pot shot pretty soon. Nor If destroyers might dart in under 1 cover of fog or darkness. It's stick to ; stations for all hands. ! Broadsides are not bad. There Is J room enough to sit nnd to stretch one's I legs; and perhaps, if the division off!-' ! cer Is not too near, to get a little 'sbut-I 'sbut-I eye.' In turrets, though, the confinement confine-ment soon grows irksome. |