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Show WHERE ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE FLOURISH STILL Travel by Land and Sea to the Picturesque Places of the World Aiforded by the United Stafes Marine Corps. "Sailing: Orders" If you're wcury of tho office And your step has lost Ito snap. If you're looking for a life that fits A big tuo-fistrd chap If you want to go a-rovlng All this Jolly old world round, Com'o a-runnln', runnln", buddy, When the buglo starts to aound. For we've got our Railing orders. And there's Joy in all our hearts O. we'ro dropping down .the river, And It'.n hoy for foreign partnl It's hey for Guam and Halt! And tho beach at Wakaikl ! Tho MarlneB have got their ordors, And they're putting out to sea. If you're I Ired" of tho factory Or you're woary of tho plow, And you don't flrtd any romanco In tho Job you're doing now. Here's a chance to go a-rovlng To the place Adventure's found. So como a-runnln'. buddy. When you hear the bugles eound. They're cheering from thfcrrles. And thoy're waving" from tho shore; Tho dull old life's behind us And tho new life lies before. We're off to mako talk "howdy" With the Moro and Chinee. The Marines have Rot tholr orders. And they'ro putting: out to sea. Tho younpr man who has not folt tho call of tho gc.i, who has novor known the "wanderlust" that rcatlc3s hunger for the slpht of strangro forelpn lands and stranprer people ho does not exist. But how many men pcplect their opportunities op-portunities and grow old without ever having: wandered very far from their own homo towns. What have such men Rotten out of life? What have thoy to look back on but a monotonous round of uninteresting toll? How they must envy their moro fortunate or perhaps moro daring fellows, who havo traveled and seen and done who have llyod life to the full! How tho "stay-ai-homo" must regret his lack of enterprise, ?.s ho Bits, ono of an Interested group, whilo fomo crt-Marlnc 3pins yarn after yarn (and tmc yarns thoy aro, too) of his adventures on tossing toss-ing seas and under tropic skies. The Marine and the Wide World At tho moment you arc reading this there is hardly a country on earth whoro there are not United States Marines, doincr men's work yen, and playing-, too, as real men play storing: up health and memories that' will last them to the end of the chapter. There aro Marines down in Cuba, pictureaquo old Cuba, almost as Spanish today as when the red And yollow J5a? of Spain floated over Morro Castlo. In Haiti the queer littlo republic, where tho colored folks speak Fronch. Marines Ma-rines are helping: to slap 'bad littlo bandits on the wrist when they misbehave. That's life life with just enough danger In It to make it worth tho living. There aro Marines walking" tho etreets of London and Parec. They arc hearing' real ukelelcs on a real . beach at waKaiKi. 'rncy are in tho Philippines and "somewhere cast of Sucr." where Mr. Kipling tells us "there ain't no ten commandments com-mandments and a man can raise a thirst" Maybe ItMsn't as bad- as that, "but tho Orient Is mighty Interesting. In-teresting. Days of Real Sport Any man who feels at home with a gun and a fishing rod was born I to be a Marine. Tou seo, a Marine Ma-rine lives on and near the water so much that he's web footed, and whero there's salt water ih;ro aro Ash. And In tropical waters thoro aro fish such as fish stories aro made of fish and turtles that would mako n. New York chef weep for joy. And game! How would It bo If thl3 mornlnrc wo had started on a hunting' lcavo way up Into China. In search of doer or bear? Or suppose sup-pose wo woro guarding Undo Sam's big ditch at Panama and KOt leave to go out and pot a Jaguar to make somebody a leopard leop-ard skin coat? Home Life of ihe Marines No Marine over scorns to stay In one place long- enough to get rusty. "When he Is not Just ojf for foreign for-eign ports or Just coming homo from service abroad, he Is on one of tho blfr battleships which are always on the move from one port to another. Today he may be In Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and tho next bound for Franco or Constantinople, Con-stantinople, or goodness knows where. And when he's on duty In thn States he may bo at any ono of a number of Interesting places Ouantlco. the station Just out of "Washington; the League Island Navy Yard, at Philadelphia; tho Brooklyn Nnvy Yard, at New York; or he may bo at San Diego, in sunny California, or Mare Island, In San Francisco Bay. Work Time for the Alarine The Marino's llfo Is not all play. There's work to be done But It's a man's work and interesting-. There aro short, snappy drills that teach a man to be on his toes. Thore are setting-up exorcises that pivo a man a chest like a barrel. bar-rel. There aro hikes, short ones at first and gradually increasing, that teach a man to walk on his own two foet, and like it. And more s ruie prncucc. cui uiai isn't work that's sport. There is wireless telegraphy and signal work to bo learned. There is training- In scouting and woodcraft. wood-craft. Maybe you didn't know that evory Marine is a regular Robinson Crusoe when It comes to making- himself comfortable in a wild country. There is artlllorv practice and .-omethiR of Billlnjr, rowing- and seamanship. For a Marino Is a sailor as well as a soldier. But It's good work all of It. In addition to giving- a man physical fitness and mental alertness, alert-ness, the Marino Corps gives plenty of opportunity for learning-a learning-a trade that will mean big money for him after his .discharge. Thousands Thou-sands of ex-Marines have immediately imme-diately "been taken Into well-paying jobs In civil life as aviators, airplane mechanics, gas engino mechanics, me-chanics, chauffeurs, wireless operators, oper-ators, printers, barbers, ball players, chefs, bakers, electricians, foremen, fore-men, otc, etc. An honorable discharge after two, three or four years' servlco In tho. Marines Is the best letter of recommendation any man can have. The Marine Corpn Trant onlT CIOOTJ men. lint fhrv flon't hnvr to He ciantn, Jant ordinarily health?" Don't nay, "I can't pass the test," , txntll yon hare tried. The doctors ore klndlT nnd oonrteonn. GItc them n chance to look Ton over. Send for booklet. If tou nre Interested call at , U. S. Marine Corps Rccruitinf Office 2486 Washington Avenue Ogden, Utah |