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Show "Nautical Novelties" The Navy introduced camels into in-to the Arffy. In 1847, Lieutenant W. F. Lynch, USN, received orders or-ders to command an expedition ! for the purpose of charting the Dead Sea and to discover the ! source of the River Jordan. When he arrived at Acre, he found the horses to be of such poor quality that he harnessed camels to his wagons to transport him and his equipment to the Sea of Galilee. The camels proved so successful that the government decided! to use them in the army for transport trans-port work in Texas and on the Nevada desert. Tides are caused by the gravitational gravita-tional attraction, or pull, of the sun and moon on the water and the earth itself. The close relation rela-tion that the times of high water bear to the times of the moon's meridian passage shows that the moon's influence on tides is much greater than that of the sun; it has been estimated that it is two and one-half times as great. The re.'.ult of this attraction of the moon is to draw or heap up the , water in the parts of the earlh , nearest it. Vne njrface of th-; th-; water rises and alls twice in a lunar day cf about 24 hour? a;.i 52 ninutes. The tides net. alvtys rise to the sam? height, but very fortnight, after the new and full moon, they become higher than they were in the ait.'rnata weeks. Thrs? high tides are call ed spring tides and the now onss neap tides. The United States Navy engaged en-gaged in Indian fighting at the Battle of Seattle, Washington on October 27, 1855, when the crew of the U. S. S. Decatur was landed land-ed to assist the white settlers in repeling an attack by the Indians. Honoring the 31st anniversary of the flight of the Wright Brothers, the United States Army and Navy, Na-vy, joining with civilian aviation, had planes in the air for half an hour on December 17th. Such a nation-wide flight was a demonstration demon-stration of air power worthy of popular attention. It is a far cry and a long read from the blocd-soaked cockpit, of our old wo:den frigates (where men suffered amputation by the grisly medium of a hacksaw and a hot iron with senses undulled by any anaesthetic) to the cool gray and white of the "sick-bay" which is found on our modem battleships. The modern "sickbay" "sick-bay" is supplied with every comfort com-fort and merciful agency that the cumulative years of miedjcal research re-search and investigation can furnish. fur-nish. There is nothing that can mere aptly typify the contributions contribu-tions which the United States Navy Na-vy has made to medical science in the hundred odd years of its existence exis-tence than this. Officers cf the United States Navy are paid a straight salary, depending on rank and length of service. They receive no allowance al-lowance for clcthing and they pay for their own food. At one time, surgeons and paymasters pay-masters of the United States Navy Na-vy were civilians and had no military mili-tary status. At the present time they are commissioned officers. The above "Nautical Novelties' were furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station, Salt Lake City, Utah. |