Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES furnished by the V k S navy recruiting station Stat loh salt lake city the wier sailor in uncle sams navy used to be a gnarled and shaggy person who could lay on an ice chatel yard in a howling gale spit dead to windward and lick any three waterfront tavern keepers single handed this old timer has gone oft off to oblivion along with wit the square rig ged sailing ship that was ills his home and the modern generation ot of sailors Is as unlike him birti as the aircraft carrier saratoga is unlike old ironsides and in this difference there is a great deal more than a loss in an order went out the other day I 1 from the U S navys bureau of 0 navigation in washington announcing noun cing that due to 10 a shortage of officer a great many battle stations on the fighting ships shim traditionally tio nally tilled filled by commissioned officers heretofore would be taken by enlisted men the intelligence and competence of the enlisted personnel of the navy remarked the order la Is higher today than it ever has been before in the history of our navy and it is confidently tell felt that utilization of chief petty officers and other petty officers will permit the navy to carry on without reduction in efficiency all this would seem to leave tho the modern sailor about three laps ahead of the fabulous old timer now the old tinier timer was waa just as good a man as the colorful traditions ot of the sea say he was he could reef and furl knot and splice pull his weight in a small boat and take hla his 60 50 lashes with the cat with out uttering littering a whimper but he could no more have filled one of the battle stations traditionally reserved for commissioned officers than he could have jumped over the moon for with all his seamanship and ills his sturdy self reliance the old timer sailor was usually pretty much of a clod the waterfront waler and the forecastle were his school and the teachers in those institutions believed firmly that to spare the rod was to spoil the child lie he was a marvelous fighter it if properly left led but lie he lad had to bo be led now look at the modern sailor lie ile has haa an education than that of the average officers of dec arturs day he is at home among intricate technical devices that would have had the old timer tugging his forelock in helpless bewilderment at sea lie he is a skilled craftsman craft sm I 1 n ashore lie he is a gentleman we often indulge in a great deal of silly talk about the glory and the lomance lom aiice of the sea in those olds old departed days the days of iron men and wooden ships as the old saying goes its about timo time we realize that the ha modern sailor is actually a betted tl d man mail than his predecessor the navy department knows it and la Is trusting our national defense to a n reliance on this fact miss helen poindexter daughter of the honorable joseph B coln pot n dexter governor of hawaii has been designated ted as sponsor tor for the heavy cruiser U S S honolulu to be launched at the navy yard new york on oil august 26 1937 the honolulu first vessel of the united states navy to bear that name has ha s been designed for tons replacement with six inch guns on june of this year she was percent complete and the navy yard reports her date of completion as may alay 1 1338 1938 two more ton super dreadnoughts and two more light cruisers are on oil the navys building program for 1 admiral william D leally acting secretary of the navy stated that the nav needs the new fighting ships to deplae vessels now over treaty fixed age of effectiveness and tor for those thith will bo be obsolete before the new raft craft are completed J pierpont pont morgan amorgan recently recent ay acted the part ot of the good samaritan to a U S navy sailor named williams who missed the departure of his battleship and became stranded in weymouth england with only a few shillings in his pocket williams reached southampton england where morgans palatial yacht the corsair was ready to sail saal homeward in a few cw days daya morgan heard ot of the sailors sailor plight and since lie ho was in heed 01 0 another seaman for the return trip to the U S hired williams who will rejoin his bis ship on this side fride of the atlantic |