The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-12-09


only ships to have floating
newspapers and periodicals
nowadays. Some of Unclc
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 IL they
were published ashore instead of
afioat.
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 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 az s~econd-class petty officers, get
1880 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
else to do but attend to the ships
printing, but IL his ship be a flagship
this may keep him busy. On some of
the fiagships two printers are en-
ployed.
When the grade was first estab-
iished about ten years ago the printers
were employed on f~iagships, 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 1t for ten cents a copy adds
quite a hit to their pay, they have
found.
The printers are generally the pub
fishers and editors as well, and with
tneir departure from the ship the pub
i~ication 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 are published. For in
stance, the Wisconsin paper is the
Badger, the Washington has the
Cherry Tree and Ratchet, the Colo
RADIO mad the Big Stick and the Penn
~sylvania the Liberty Beh.
One of the first OF these magazines
to make its appearance and n which
had the longest life was the Kentucky
yD.l.ok -,hIs,h1A nm tAn hatttachfp
Kentucky. It's first issue vas in De-
cember, 1904, and it wound up it's
career last June, after the fleet en-
tered San Francisco bay. with a sou
vehir number in blue and gold, con-
tanning many half-tone Illustrations
and a complete account of the cruise
around South America.
1t meant a lot of hard work for Louis
Kline, the Kentucky's printer, getting
out the Budget so as lot to ~disappoint
its subscribers and contributors, but
he kept at IL for three years and a
half. and it never missed an issue. u
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
trations. In fact, the Budget set the
pace for deep sea journalism pretty
much, for until the appearance of the
Budget not much had been attempted
in this line.
Besides having a first-class printer,
up to all the tricks of the trade, for its
publisher, the Budget had an editor-in-
chief who was a poet and paragraph
err. He was w. r. Mcleod, the Ken
tucky's electrician. Its title page was
a picture of the Kentucky shooting at
a target and was done in colors. This
was the work of another electrician
on the ship.
at will always be our AIM" said the
Budget in its first issue. ito produce a
clean. wholesome and interesting little
sheet, ever looking to improvement,
and at no time will any article be al
lowed in these columns which would
be prompted by other than that of
good will and spirit"
Editor Kline proceeded to make
good on these lines, but some of the
other publications which sprang up
and sought to emulate the Budget did
not conduct themselves so wisely.
Publishing a paper in the interest OF
the enlisted men on board a ship is
something like publishing a newspaper
An Russia. There Is always the censor
and you've got to look out for him
g~4a-fensrn Is the executive on
and he has to read every bit OF cop,
sbsfsTs 1t goes In 10 type. The Biz
stick. published on the Colorado, hat