| Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES furnished by the U S navy re chuu ng station salt sall lake city in a recent discussion ot of the sit aaton jn in the navy the se secretary rotary of 0 the navy the honorable Hon oraMe claude E swanson sums up tip the matte in terms that can not tail fail to impress th the american people the bluejacket of today is I 1 increasingly crea singly a specialist aued t ltd only through careful tra t ra ning and exact experiences to meet the require tr ir ILES of oc his job he expressed ep essed tho idea per perfectly realy when he be seated sated the deck may still etall splash barelegged bare baire legged in tho the morning on the decks with swabs and holy stones as d d the men of john paul jones but our sailors and marines afloat and ashore are ara something more than laborers wi with th strong backs and untrained ands m nils tin s he follows up tip with a tribute to the navy the of para per sonn onnel 1 has haa worked a h hard 0 td chip on the service because the work at sea must bo be done whether there are many handa or a few to do it and it has been dons done ath splendid loyalty by the overworked officers and men this phase of the personnel shortage situation while it is now being gira gradually duallY improved upon I 1 ts is not realized by the ordinary landlubber lie he sees only tile the when hei he a battleship everything ery thing is and span everything Is ship shape and takes all of these tangs th tor far granted he doe snot realize that all ot of this has been accomplished with a depleted crew and that many a man has put in long hours of overt iSme to make it so let it be said to their credit the navy me manchas h said sad little or no nothing biting about the shor la 14 crows ile he has haa been intent on keep kee p log ing as aa many ships ELS as possible in and to that ened end he has I 1 all over the naval service taken on the task without a whimper wh roper all of this is ie to hs his everlasting cli bredt cr edt edin and aad he has well earned the tribute which his chiet chief has paid iam h m it is encouragingly encouraging li to know that the naval service is gira gradually dually berng bene cally in creased to the point where the officers and men can call at least get a breathing spell 0 our 14 inch modern naval gun was first used on the battleship U S S texas comm in march afaf ch 1914 the latest 14 inch gun weighs and shoots a 14 1400 0 0 epou lid shell arith a muzzle ot of 2800 fait per second CT JUA under 2000 miles per hour tile powder charge weighs about pounds and a nd a muzzle energy r oil 1 foo root t tons Is developed developed in ferng sir ng at yards the shell will penetrate penie trai 18 inches ot of the harrest har armor Comp compare axe the cost coat of cf a single shot with your shot gun shells cost ot of shell shout about powder total the of a spanish battleship some time ago gave many people the impress on that our battleships tle ships would not be sate safe from ait 21 laick lack by planes it Is a vown known fact that the spanish ship was vety very oid odd and had bad not been modernized as are our ur battleships with the modern antiaircraft anti aircraft guns an a airship might nevet never reach a poi pos titon over a modern mano man o war wair which must be reached in order to score a direct hat if they ald score a hit OUT protective decks would prote piro cit our ships the espana did not have protective decks decka and was a death trap in ev cry c i y respect no our of 0 today are mighty sate lafe and the enking of the espana has not net given our navy a thing to worry about you think too much about aboul yourself bury YOU r 1 f I 1 in n your work Pail emt you would say that and me a concrete mixer he horley honet di ant that tha t ceremony diony make us man aind aad wife she no you worm it made a wi te fe ot of roe ame but it would take MOTO more than that to make maike you a man ml strew 1 I saw the milk man ki as you this in the future I 1 will take tile the milk myself maid it would be no us use mum nos hes promised promis eill never to kiss anybody but me mathea have I 1 been a good boy latey yes bobby you have been a very good boy and do you trust me mother why of course I 1 trust you son then why do do you go on the jam |
