The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-27
PLACES IN NAVY ARE
 IN HIGH DEMAND
For First Time Since the Civil War Full Quota of Men as Naval Fight
 ing Force Is Complete

] It takes Jimmy these days to break into the United States navy as a plain, 1 ordinary seaman; a stick of dynamite is necessary to get in as an apprentice or poeman. says Washington special to the New York World. The navy department and it's recruiting stations have waiting lists" containing hundreds of names of young, husky youths .hankering' to go to sea.
 The full, active membership of the navy is limited by law to 5l,50o men, and there are that many enlisted men now on the payrolls. For the first tine since the civil war the full quota of men allowed by law have been enlisted.
 The bars as to fitness have not been let cown, and men with physical or men, tai defects ve been enlisted. but there has been good advertising. The tales of the cruises and the details of the chances for obtaining an education, sent out in pamphlet form, have swelled the ranks so that the bars had tc he put up. The greatest number of monthly enlist ments except in war time, were made in the last six months. since Secretary Dan iels began his revolutionary reforms in the navy.
 Pleasure Boats of the Navy Perhaps the chief cause for the great influx of fine, hardy young men into the naval service in the last few months was the recent Mediterranean cruise of the great Atlantic fleet. The feet left the states in winter the hardest season of the year on the sailorman, for the halmy shores on the Mediterra nean. The cruise was advertised as an educl tional and pleasure trip. It was. Except for the days on which the ships coaled, the men when in port went ashore made pilgrim ages to historical places danced with for eign damsels listened to comedies and operas in foreign languages and had a good time.
 After that cruise recruits presented themselves so fast the surgeons worked overtime examining them. After Secre- fary Daniels announced that he was going to make it possible for every man to eat better. to get good education, and that there would be "a chance for every boy to get commission" there was no stopping the boys. The erlistments came SO fast that one day the chief clerk told the secretary that the law had been vio- lated that the navy had enlisted almost half a hundred more mon than the law allowed. The lists were gore over, and it was found that there had been mistake in computation. that the navy still was short about 100 men. In less than a day this 100 was enlisted and then.
 "We will put you on the waiting list if you come up to requirements"
 That was the word given applicants.
 Fine Jaunts Scheduled
 Secretary Daniels has some good trips in store for the sailors this and next year. There will be another foreign cruise this year. and then, when the Panama canal is opened, every ship in the navy able to float will be at the exercises off Limon bay. After that there will be cruises up and down the Atlantic coast and the Pa cifc coast of the Western Hemisphere with occasional trips through the Panama canal. All the time the school will be going on aboard ship lludcr the direction of officers. The courses of study are pre- pared at the Naval academy