Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-12-09
ip0ER AECX OF hEWZNCNY

only ships to have floating
newspapers and periodicals
nowadays. Some OF Uncle
II Sans battleships which just
completed their globe cir
cling voyage have their own maya,
zines, and not few of the magazines
are SO well got up as to look as If 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 strict censorship exercised by
the executive officers of the ship. but
this extra work on the part of the
printers is generally encouraged he
cause 1t brightens up life c oattle-
ship, gives lot of amusement all
hands and makes the printer a popu
lar fellow. There is regular grade
now for printer in the navy. They
rank as secorl -class petty officers, gel
$3.50 a month, and some OF them
have a. lot of time to themselves as
compared with the regular enlisted
men,
K The printer does not have anything
else to do but attend to the ships
printing. but If 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-
lished about ten years ago the printers
were employed on fiagships, r now
other ships have them as well, and on
these the printers have a lot OF time
on their hands. Publishing paper
and selling 1t for ten cents copy adds
quite bit to their pay, they have
found.
The printers are generally the pub
fishers and editors as well, and with
iAeir departure from the ship the pub
LEGATION dies. Consequent. ly there re
frequent changes in man-o war ..ou
nalism. It is only In the last six or
seven years that these ships maya
zlles have come into vogue. but there
is quite list of them, and their names
are -erally suggestive OF the ships
on which they are published. For n
stance, the Wisconsin pape is the
EaIgC-, the Washington has the
Cherry rec and ratchet, the Colo
RADIO ad the Big Stick and the Penn
sylvania the Liberty Bel.
One OF the first of these magazines
| to ms.ke iti appearance and one which
had the longest life was the Kentucky
Budget, published on the battleship
| Kentucky. Its first issue was in De
Gerber, 1904, and it wound up its
| career last June, after the fleet en-.
tered San Francisco bay, with sod
venir number in blue and gold. con
| taininS many half-tone illustration
and a complete account OF the cruise
arcunl South America
1t meant lot OF hard ork for Louis
Kline tle hentucky's printer getting
out the Budget so as not to i.sarpoin
its subscribers and contributors, but
| he kept at 1t for three years and q
half. and 1t never missed an issue =
began, to be sure. as a semimonthly
wo, nc up as a monthly. but the
! cL nge was more than compensate.
for blythe adding OF several pages ant
new features. one OF these being illus
trations. In fact, the Budget set tbs
4 pace for deep sea journalism prett,
much for until the appearance OF tn,
Budget not much had been attempted
in this line.
Besides having first-class printer
up to all the tricks OF the trade, for 1T
publisher, the Budget had an editor.in
chief who was poet and paragraph
\ err. 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 win always be our aim" said tn
Budget in its first issue. ito produce
clean, wholesome aud interesting it'll
sheet, ever looking TO improvement
and at no time will any article be a
lowed in these columns which woul