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Show "Nautical Novelties" Summer Cruise Units of the United States Fleet v. ill make their customary ; ummer lecreational cruise to Puget Sound, Washington, and Alaska this summer, sum-mer, leaving the San Pedr.-San Diego, Calif. n.'ia, area on June 2 and returning in rr.i.d -August. Crewlcss Lightships Pians ior a ci.ani or ivoot light-biiiis light-biiiis strung out all along thj At-iuuoiu At-iuuoiu ana Paiiic coasts, are reported re-ported under development by the U. S. LiSihth-use Service. Operated by radio control from the shore, tne vessels carry no crews. Heivce ihcy could be moored in the mst dangerous and exposed locaticus. xjUucLiny cy wind and waves would not trouole their actual -peracc. , cou'oitaoiy huused in land stations sta-tions nines au'ay, and loss of life w-uic, De ave. tea if a liner should collide with u.e of the vessel,- in a 'l'he first lighthouse Was erected erect-ed over 2,000 years ago at Alexandria Alexan-dria on the coast cf Egypt. The tallest lighthou. e in the wcrld . is -oi.ai.ed at Cape Mend-cino, California, Cali-fornia, and can be seen at a distance dis-tance cf thirty miles at sea. It is 422 feet high. The most powe.ful lighthouse in the United States i located at Navesink, New Jersey. It has 9,000,000 candlepower. The ldest lighthouse ia the United States is Bo tn Light, built in 1716. Training of Navy Men Training m the Navy begins on the day that a man enters the seA'ice and ends or.1 the day that r.e leaves it. Thousands of men who leave the service each year and return to civil life include men of every degree -'i experience and and others must be trained 10 take their places. Even men sVii'O have reached a high degree of proficiei.'cy must be further tiain-ed tiain-ed to fill the place of still better men. Training curses i sued free by the Navy Department are an important part of the Navy's training train-ing system. Study is carried cn under the direction of officers on board ship and at all itations and necessary assistance is furnished mun who wish to continue their education r improve therrn elves. Aiung with various training curses the man is given practicaly work- experience, so he not only gets the theory but also the practical waking experience w'hich makes it an almost ideal c;.imbination. -To determine the value of an en- 11 tment in the Navy, one of our nation's most popular magazines, seit out a questionnaire to several hundred former bluejackets whose names wer picked fromi a random li.t supplied by the Navy Department. Depart-ment. In reply, more than 350 answers an-swers were received to questions asking, among other things, the present pesition, salary, and e:ti-mate e:ti-mate of the value of time spent in the Navy. The unbiased replies showed that 86 per cent were working work-ing at skilled trader which they had learned in the service, with an average salary of $165 per month. S-me few were high paid executives, many were bosses of shop , foundries, or were foremen in big plants. 97 per cent said they felt if they had it to do all over again that they wtuld enlist in th? Navy. 93 per cent thought Navy training cf great value for civilian life, and 74 per cent said they would reccmimiend the Navy as a peimanent vocation. These figures should prove mcrt intersting to parents and young men investigating the opportunities and training offered by the U. S. Navy. What makes the facts dl -cLsed by this investigation especially espec-ially c nvincing is that only men wh' had left the Navy were ques-tioned, ques-tioned, and those who did the in-ve in-ve tigating and who figured the averages were civilians, and were, in no way connected' with the Navy Each year the Navy-trained mar. caving the Service is better trained train-ed and th?rfore better equipped to make a success in life. The United Uni-ted States Navy is truly 'The School of the Natkn'- and there is no other like it. The above "Nautical Noveltie"" were furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station, Salt Lake City, Utah. |