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Show "Nautical Novelties" Tha United States Navy has 21 Naval Hospitals in this United Sta-es and beyond the. sms which are maintained for the welfare of the personnel of thei Navy. They are equipped with) the very beat and lati.ie-Jt applianoes known to the medical med-ical profs sion and are operated with Naval penoinnel mcluding worn wo-rn 11 nurses. The luckiest V-ssel of the United States Navy, niext to the- CONSTITUTION, CONSTI-TUTION, was the schooner ENTERPRISE. ENTER-PRISE. In eight months, during tha West Indian War against French Fren-ch piracy, this ve.sel captured 6 privateers and recaptured 11 American Amer-ican vessels. George O'Brien, motion picture actor, was tha lighgtweight champion champ-ion of tha United StatesNavy m 1919. It is said that at least once in each picture he makes, Mi". O' Brien wears the tame undershirt he was wearing when he won the champ'onship, thinking it brings him good luch. Recruits at the Naval Training Station, San Diego1, California, display dis-play their talents to the public each Thursday afternoen. Dreseed in spotless drill uniforms, they parade before an audience made up of the public and Naval Officers. The parades par-ades ai'e very im.pre sive and are looked forward to by the Recruit as well a-i the public. Applicants for the service schools of the United States Navy are given giv-en a series of scientific fits prepared prepar-ed by nationally recognized psychol-cgisT.. psychol-cgisT.. These 6:sts are given under the. directi'oni of, and selection of m'ln for tha school is made by a Naval Officer who has completed special courex in the "Psychology of Sel'cting Men." The object is to pluoe the right man in the right plaee. If the amount of insurance carried car-ried on the lives of soldiers and sailers sail-ers cf the United Stall's was convert con-vert d into silver dollars and placed on edge in line, thry would go two and one half tmei: around the earth, a distance of 61,365 miles. In order that the Navy of today cm ba operated efficiently and ef-p-,Hvpiv im time of war, United States Navy has inaugurated a high standard of selective recruiting Brain as well as brawn are essential to making of a real salcr of the modern Navy and to the building of an organization able to efficently man the complicated machinery of cur modem ship;. Former President Presi-dent Theodore Roosevelt said. Th? Navv must be built and all its tram-given tram-given in time cf peace; when war has broken out, it is too late to do aAlByrd took ice-boxes with him to the South Pole regions to keep his provisos frcml freezing fabove ."Nautical Novelties" J furnished by tlv U S. Navy R. cutting Station, Salt Lake City. |