The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-09

" HE ocean liners are not the
only ships to have floating
newspapers and periodicals
nowadays. Some of Uncle
Sans battleships which just
completed their globe cir
cling voyage have their own maya
zines, and not a few Of the magazines
are SO well got up as to look as if they
were published ashore instead of
afloat.
OF course they r 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-
it brightens up life on a battle
ship, gives a lot of amusement to all
hands and makes the printer a popu-
lar fellow. There is a regular grade
now for printers In the navy. They
rank as second-class petty officers, get
$3.50 a month, and some of them
have a lot of time to themselves as
compared with the regular enlisted
men.
The printer does not have anything
printing, but If his ship be a flagship
this may keep him busy. On some Of
the flagships two printers are en-
ployed.
When the grade was first estab-
lished about ten years ago the printers
were employed on 1agships, but now
other ships have them as well, and on
these the printers have a lot of time
on their hands. Publishing a paper
and selling it for ten cents a copy adds
quite a bit to their pay, they have
found.
The printers are generally the pub.
fishers and editors as well, and with
their departure from the ship the pub
lication dies. Consequently there are
frequent changes in man-o-war jour
nalism. 1t is only in the last six or
seven years that these ships maya
zines have come into vogue, but there
is quite a list of them, and their names
are generally suggestive of the ships
on which they r published. For in
stance, the Wisconsin paper is the
Badger, the Washington has the
Cherry Tree and Hatchet, the Colo
RADIO had the Big Stick and the Penn
~sylvania the Liberty Bell.
One of the first of these magazines
to make its appearance and one which
had the longest life was the Kentucky
Budget, published on the battleship
Kentucky. It's first issue was in De.
cember, 1904, and it wound up its
career last June, after the fleet en-.
tered San Francisco bay, with a SOU.
venir number in blue and gold, con.
tanning many half-tone illustrations
and a complete account of the cruise
around South America.
It meant a lot of hard work for Louis
Kline, the Kentucky's printer, getting
out the Budget SO as not to disappoint
its subscribers and contributors, but
he kept at it for three years and 8
half, and It never missed an issue. =,
began, to be sure, as. a semi-monthly
and wound up as a monthly, but the
change was more than compensated
for by the adding of several pages and
new features, one Of these. being illus
t%rations. In fact, the Budget set the
pace for deep sea journalism pretty
much, for until the appearance of thu
Budget not much had been attempted
in this line. -o,. > 40 i a, t.a
Besides having a first-class printer
up to all the tricks of the trade, for 1t,
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. It's title page wa
a picture of the Kentucky shooting a
a target and was done in colors. Thi
was the work of another electrician
on the ship.
1T will always be our aim," said tn,
Budget in its first issue, Ito produce
clean. wholesome and interesting littl
sheet, ver looking to improvement
and at no time will any article be a.
lowed in these columns which woul
be- prompted by other than that Q
good will and spirit"
Editor Kline proceeded to max
good on these lines, but some of tn
other publications which sprang u
and sought to emulate the Budget di
not conduct themselves so wisel.
Publishing a paper in the interest {
the enlisted men on board a ship
something like publishing a newspape
in, Russia. There is always the censo
and you've got to look out for him.
The censor is the executive office
and he has to read every bit Of cop
before 1t goes in to type. The 81
Stick. published on the Colorado. ha