The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
u. S. Navy Enlisting Party
Coming
lContinued from last week |

lAAOoS A1lCLNokOSt, dllCHLlOIl Is
directed to the fact that all who
may enlist are strongly advised to
take no clothing, and but few, if
any personal effects with them
other than what may be essential
for use until reaching the Naval
Training Station, which will be no
longer than four or five days.
Trunks and suit cases should be
left at home. The Navy furnishes
complete outfit of toilet articles
and accessories, It may here be
added that all men at Training Sta
tons and on board ships are re-
quired to wear at all times the pre-
scribed Navy uniform, but the civ
ilian dress may be worn when
ashore OH liberty in home ports.
Seventeen trade schools are main
tanned in the service for the instruc-
ton of yeoman Clerical branch)
cooks, bakers, commissary stew
ards, electricians, painters, carpen-
ters, shiphtters, machinist's mates,
blacksmlths, coppersmiths, seamen
gunners, divers, gasoline engine
operators, musicians, hospital ap-
prentices, aeronautics, etc. De-
serving men showing an aptitude
for a special line of work are en-
couraged in getting assignedeto the
school that gives instruction along
the line of his tendency A man S
pay continues while he is under
going instruction, and there is no
tuition to pay. Entrance to these
schools is usually authorized after
the recruit has been in the service
long enough to demonstrate his
aptitude for the work in question,
his reliability and general fitness
for the service.
All apprentice seamen are trans
ferred to the Training Station at
San Francisco, California. Here
they are instructed in the various
duties of man-o-war sman, where
they remain for a period of a few
months getting the ground work
necessary to make them useful
aboard ship and fit them for future
instruction along trade or voca-
tional lines. i,
Every encouragement is given to
athletics, and the recruit is deve1-
oped to the highest degree of efhc-
iency in connection with physical
attainment. Amusements of va
ried nature may be found at Naval
training stations and aboard ships.
The food everywhere in the SER
vice is wholesome and of the best
obtainable,' being government in
spected.
AS proof that Navy life is highly
desirable to those who are acquaint-
ed with it's conditions, an astonish-
ingly heavy percentage of the per-
sonnel are re-enlisted men. Four
years of Navy life will find the av-
erage man better prepared to meet
the world and handle the affairs of
life than can be had through near
ly any other pursuit for the same
duration.
Occasionally it is found that men
are totally inapt for the service and
for this reason they sometimes be-
come dissatisfied. For such men
certain provisions have been made.
If a mans parents become depend
ent upon him for support, and he
finds that he can make higher
wages in civil life with which to
come to their support, upon pre-
senting' this fact to the Navy De-
partment, he is permitted to pur-
chase his discharge, the cost being
nominal.
Only men of good habits, willing
to work and desirous of advance
ment are sought. Dissolute, un-
reliable and non-progressive men
are not wanted, and the Navy will
not tolerate them in it's service, but
weeds them out when opportunity