The Ordway new era., 1909-12-10

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nowadays. Some OF Uncle
Il Sans battleshlns which just
completed their globe cir
sling voyage have their own maya
Zines. and not few OF the magazines
are so well got up as to look as II they
were published ashore instead OF
afoat
OF course they are not regularly rec
ognized as official journals by the
navy department and are published
under a strict censorship exercised by
the executive officers OF the ship. but
this extra work on the part OF the
printers is generally encouraged be-
cause II brightens cp life C a battle
ship. gives lot OF amusement t ali
hands and makes the printer popu.
lar fellow. There is n regular grade
now for printers in the navy. They
rank as scCond-class petty officers. get
$3.50 a month. and some OF them
have lot OF time TO themselves rs
compared with the regular enlisted
men.
The printer does not have anything
else TO do but attend to the ships
pl lHAllbs buL u AAS snip w Il All SUI y
this may keep him busy On some OF
the tlagshipS two printers are eu.
ployed.
When the grade was first estab
lished about ten years ago the printers
were employed on tlagships. + now
other ships have them as we'll. and on
these the printers have lot OF :ime
on their hands. Publishing a paper
and selling It for ten cents a copy adds
quite n bit to their pay. they have
found.
The printers are generally the pub
fishers and editors as well. and with
t-.eir departure from the ship the pub
lication dies. Consequen .ly there re
frequent changes in man-o war gu
nalism. II is only in the last six or
seven years that these ships masl-
zines have come into vogue. but there
is quite list OF them. and their name
are -erally suggestive of the ships
on which they are published. For n.
stance. the Wisconsin pa9o is the
BaIgC., the Washington has the
Cherry 'ree and ratchet. the Colo,
RADIO ad the Big Stick and the Penn
Syiyanla the Liberty Bel.
One of the first of these magazines
to mike it, appearance and one which
had the longest life was the Kentucky
Budget. published on the battleship
Kentucky. Its first issue was in lie
cenber, 1904, and it wound up its
career last June, alter the fleet en-
tered San Francisco bay. with a scl
n hl,ta
tainins many half-tone illustration
and a complete account of the cruise
arcunI South America.
1t meant lot of hard ork for Louis
Kline the Kentucky's printer, getting
out the Budget so as not to E-arpoin
it3 subscribers and contributors. bu
he Kept at it for three years and 6
half, and 1t never missed an Issue. e.,
began, to be sure, as semi-monthly
3 4 wolnc up as a monthly. but ths
GE .nge was more than compensate,
Niby the adding of several pages ant
nsw features. one of thes" being Illus
trations. In fact, the Budget set tn,
pace for deep sea journalism prett,
much. for until the appearance OF tn,
Budget not much had been attempted
in this line.
Besides having a first-class printer
up to all the tricks of the trade. for it.
publisher, the Budget had an editor.in
chief who was a poet and paragraph
er. He was W. r. Mcleod. the Ken
tucky's electrician. Its title page wa
picture of the Kentucky shooting a
target and was done in colors. Thi
was the work of another electrician
on the ship.
1T will always be our aim." slid tn,
Budget in its first issue, ito produce
clean, wholesome and interesting lttl
sheet. ever looking to Improvement
and at no time will any article be al
lowed in these columns which woul,
be prompted by other than that O
good will and spirit"
Editor Kline proceeded to max
good on these lines. but some of tn
other publications which sprang vi
and sought to emulate the Budget di,
not conduct themselves so wisely
Publishing a paper In the interest o
the enlisted men on board a ship 1
something like publishing a newspape
In Russia. There is always the censor
and you've got to look out for him.
The censor is the executive Officer
and he has to read every bit OF cop
before It goes In to tyre. The Bi
Stick, published on the Colorado. ha