Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES furnished by the U S navy recruiting station at salt lake city A SHIP IS LIKE A CITY A warship is a homo home and a city unto itself it can weigh 0 anchor and go on long cruises carrying enough dry provisions like flour beans and rice and fresh provisions such as meat and potatoes and canned goods of every type to take care of her large family she cannot allow her fresh provisions to spoil so she must supply her own refrigeration although she is always surrounded by water one of her chief concerns is to have fresh water at all times she needs fresh water for drini ing but she must have fresh pure water for the boilers that give her power so she makes thousands of gallons per day by first evaporating the sea water which process deposits the salt and th the resulting steam is then conde condensed ased into fresh water electricity n naturally lly plays a very large part in the life of a great ship the tremendous and intricate machinery that operates the great gun turrets with the finest precision all is controlled by electricity telephone communications also play a very important part in the operation of a ship since gunnery demands the very closest of cooperation in communicating with the various parts of the ship operators are arc on duty at every hour of the day night just as in a great city then there is the pay office similar to a bank the supply office ships store and barber shop and laundry and cobbler shop and soda fountain there is a dispensary sick bay and operating room corresponding to acety a city hospital there is even a library and a church for divine service is held weekly by the ships chaplain A ships band provides music for official occasions and for hours of recreation there is even a ships paper corresponding to tile the home town daily news all warships have talking pictures on board and when tactics and gunnery exercises do not prohibit it is customary to have a motion picture show on deck with a nightly change of program two projectors with their accompanying sound effect machinery are carried and a force of three expert operators trained in the navy motion picture projection school maintain and operate this apparatus rowing sailing football baseball boxing wrestling and basketball teams are organized in their respective seasons and teams engage in competition with other units of the fleet so as each warship takes its place in the various movements of the united states fleet and visits distant ports in other parts of the world it carries its own individual complex life on board a home and a city unto itself |