IHTIKMATIOKAL FALLS PRESS T" ~lr S & United States flan«o'*War,s Remarkable Success Crowns Men Now Taught Trades New Educational System They Like For Their Own Inaugurated by Secretary Betterments-Efficiency o! of the Navy Daniels~Ev* Navy Is Thus Greatly Increased. ery Battleship an Inter* esting School. 1 sr- head. Here they are taught all that OPPORTUNITY! pertains to torpedoes and mines. They Preparation! learn to assemble torpedoes and are Success: taught diving and electricity as applied What really wonderful words to ordnance mechanism. they are: Tbey dominate to Mines are made, set and exploded by day the lives of every patriotic young the class. The student must learn to American with good red blood In his make the most deadly explosives from arteries. raw chemicals. Torpedoes and guncotton They mean achievement. They mean are equally interesting studies. more self respect. They mean honorable The student learns the intricate, watchlike recognition. They mean, above mechanism of the torpedo so that all, coutent and happiness. he can almost assemble the thousands Stop a moment, young man. if your of its pieces in the dark. Despite the eyes happen to fall on this. It may be danger Uncle Sam has never had a of vital importance to you. It may re serious accident at this school. The suit in opportunity for you. in preparation men are taught the danger of explosives for you, in success for you, and and how to handle them safely. then achievement, more self respect, At the Charleston (S. C.) machinists' honorable recognition aud content and school men Interested in mechanics happiness. study boilers and engines from both a it is a very simple thing, yet a very theoretical and practical viewpoint remarkable and interesting thing, that Here the young men of the navy become has taken place in the great United mechanical engineers and draftsmen. States navy—a thing which spells opportunity, preparation, success. Carpenters, plumbers, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, electric wiring experts, A Plan With a Purpose. painters and cooks are turned out by 'lo begin in the iieginuing. an achievesne-nt the scores at Norfolk. is usually the result of a preconceived In the hospital corps training school plan, tlit' fruit of an idea, the hospital apprentice learns the advanced with persevering effort. Sec properties and effect of all kinds of retary Danieis idea of the navy is for medicinal drugs. He must also take a •onp large enough and powerful enough thorough course in anatomy and hygiene. •to make war with the United States too unpleasant in its consequences to be Each year the naval training station •Spiiously considered by any foreign at Chicago turns out about 1.800 able power and at the same time a navy seamen. Nine out of ten of these men th.ir will receive young boys with untrained enter the naval service fresh from the habits and little technical skill jent and ignorant, and in order to get of all men wno nave noc yet cwmpwieu middle west farms. After taking the ana transform ttieui into young men the best 1 am not ni\ going to give two years' service in the navy. The six months' course they are prepared KEY TO THE PICTURES trained to discipline, physically fit and them an opportunity to succeed, but subjects embraced in this department to go aboard ships, ready for the duties possessed of a practical knowledge help the :i materially while they are are reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling, 01 of a man-o'-war's man. te'ftnical mechanics that would enable making use of the opportunity." geography and history." them to bear more than their share of Upper cut (left)—School hour at Naval Training station. Great Lakes. Naval Academy. Every BatiiwShip a School. Bluejackets' Manual Simplified. Before a midshipman graduates from the work of making our nation the Secretary planned to further III., just north of Chicago. Right—Learning the mechanism of a torpedo Daniels To make the naval or professional greatest ill the world. He believes the Naval academy he receives a special educate and train Uncle Sam's bluejackets. at Seaman Gunners' school, Newport, R. I instruction easy as well as systematic course in teaching in preparation "the man is greater than the machine." He planned to take the unskilled throughout the service subjects are Lower cut (left)—Dynamo instruction, Navy Electrical school. Brooklyn. for the instruction of enlisted men It is self evident that nothing, recruit and make him skilled, prescribed which every man, irrespective Right—Learning to bake in the Commissary school. Naval Training when he goes into active service. The not even the most perfectly developed so that he would be more efficient to of his rating, should know, as secretary of the navy, through a bill apparatus, can operate without station, Newport, R. I. Bottom—Class of typists in the Yeoman school. the country and to himself. well as subjects which his special rating passed by the last session of congress, the aid of the human element. And the plan has succeeded wonderfully, Naval Training station, Newport, R. I. requires him to be familiar with. is now empowered to appoint annually •Men must be on hand to start and stop splendidly. The navy is today So during the last year the Blue jack fifteen enlisted men as midshipmen the machinery at the proper time, to so fully recruited there is a waiting ets' Manual has been revised, making advantages and opportunities it may and young men of education and clerical to the Naval academy. The better educational divert it this way or that, to keep its list of applicants. Only one of eight it simpler for every man to qualify ability will find the yeoman's offer that will protect them in case of facilities at training stations bearings well oiled and to get from it first applicants is accepted. They must himself on all matters which his rate branch presenting opportunities for detachment from the service by giving and aboard ships will, with every passing its maximum efficiency. It follows be men of character, good physique necessitates. In addition special manuals success. Thus under Secretary Daniels' them the qualifications to take up a year, enable ambitious and capable reasonably that the more skilled the and mental ability. Such men are, however, have been prepared for the pay. new system the man-of-war's man definite line of work. youths to qualify for this instruction men the more the machine can be in demand to replace others as medical and engineer departments to is prepared. He can find his opportunity and prepare for commissions in the made to do and that if the skill and enlistments expire, and their applications Officers as Teachers. assist in school work. and success earlier in or out of the navy. "On each ship the school of instruction ambition of the enlisted personnel are are welcomed by the navy department. Technical training schools are in operation navy. enhanced the efficiency of the service is under the general direction of Re-enlistments Increase. and are very successful. Some Doesn't this all appeal very vividly An office is maintained in the postoffice will be increased to that extent. the commanding officer, the executive Every young man who enters the of these schools are the torpedo and to the imagination? Think what it building, Indianapolis, Ind., for officer having immediate charge, he, Recruiting had been desultory during navy with an earnest desire to improve seaman gunners' school at Newport, means! A young American, perhaps the distribution of literature to prospective in turn, being assisted by all commissioned himself is given that coveted opportunity. the vvinter and spring of 1912-13, the machinists* school at Charleston, with only a cramped education, without recruits and others interested officers and by such warrant The present attractiveness and at a time when the enlisted force S. C. the electricians' schools at New a trade, enlists. The navy immediately in service in the navy, and information and petty officers as may be necessary. of the navy was expected to be and of the naval service is confirmed by York and Mare Island, the artificers' starts to help him, to improve is sent promptly to all who request it. at that time of the year usually was the increasing number of men who, school at Norfolk, the musicians' him mentally, morally and physically. When he enters the recruit finds the "It has become the duty of division having served one or more terms, reenlist at its greatest strength it was found schools at Norfolk and San Francisco, For six months he goes to school again navy the "biggest university in America." officers carefully to examine all men for another. When a man has to be nearly 5,000 short. Was the call the school for cooks and bakers at at a training station, a school more He is well grounded in educational under their supervision, noting the deficiencies served his time he leaves the service of the navy losing its charm? Could Newport, the yeomen's schools at practical, more direct, more personal, necessities. He has a chance to of each man, the amount of much better prepared for the battle It be that the navy did not attract Newport and San Francisco, the school more satisfying than the one he possibly learn a trade. There is always room instruction he may have received at of life than when he entered. He is American youths in numbers sufficient for hospital corps at Newport and the neglected or had no opportunity for trained men, and the most promising the training station, the branches in almost sure of a place in the world's school for newly appointed pay officers to man its ships? If so, that attraction of unskilled recruits are chosen to to attend a few years back. At once man which further instruction is most mart of trade. The navy trained at Washington. must be provided. It was at this he becomes improved, more of a man specialize on the work for which they is in demand. If the sailor re-enlists, needed, the fitness of each man for These schools give practical instruction time that Secretary Daniels perfected are best fitted. As in all other fields, Then he goes aboard a battleship. He as many do. he gets more pay and promotion, the branch for which he is 1 and training in trades that are ibis plans for making the navy even the best man has the right of way. but keeps on learning, improving. quicker advancement best suited and the personal preferences useful in the service and civic life. more attractive to young men by each recruit, irrespective of his relative and ambitions of each individual xt is at the seaman goners' aasa So, you see, young and patriotic Secretary Daniels' Plan. opening doors to promotion and for ability, is given every facility to But let Secretary Daniels tell about American, if you have read thfa all in order that classes may be formed at tjie torpedo station, Newport, that co-ordinating and expanding the existing Improve and may achieve later in his through, that the United States navy his system in his own words. He fays: to secure progress and improvement the distinctive naval trades are taught educational facilities of the enlistment the rating he was at first today stands for opportunity, preparation, "By the double opportunity on shipboard in the mental and technical training Young men on second enlistment are service on the axiomatic principle that denied because his deficiencies. of mastering a useful trade and sent to this school by Uncle Sam for success, it offers this to the of men In every branch of the navy knowledge Is power. Young men sufficiently skilled in any sailors in return for the superior service at the same time enlarging whatever an eight months' course. The men are service. I We know that a bargain, to be fair, number of trades, such as electricity, required and stands ready to cooperate academic educational advantages they "The instruction In the academic de-! selected for this training who have must be mutually beneficial. Both machinery, carpentry, radiography, with men of ambition and ability have had the navy attracts the very partment is compulsory for all enlisted served four years at sea and have by parties must beprofited it The plumbing, printing, blacksmithing, that they may be better able to men who are not well grounded in the best of our youth to it And that is clearly shown by their ability and theii ,navy speaks and says: "1 need men. boilermaking. hospital and commissary serve it and themselves with efficiency »&at-lt wants—young men who enlist common school branches, as determined willingness to face danger and meet are 1 know HXhe best men only desired. stewarding, may qualify and from the and success. at the training stations or upon fo«* the very love of the career, comfeivea any exigency with a cool and steadj Intelligent and ambitions men will •tart receive instruction designed to first enlistment or by an examination wit.h whatever other practical gtra me better service than the lndo. imorove their professional efficiency.