The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-04
Navy, With Its High Ideals and
Splendid Record, Justifies
Nations Pride.
MEN NEEDED FOR SERVICE
Uncle Sam Pays All Expenses and
Monthly Wage Is All Velvet
"There Is Always Room at the
Top" True of Navy.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.


stroyers sailing the waters of the
northern seas, where they are engaged
in the heroic duty of upholding the
world principle of freedom for all peo-
pies.
The American people always have
shown kindly disposition toward the
man-of-war and the man-o -warsman. |
There has been an appeal about the |
sea which has drawn and held the in
terest of landsmen who never smelt |
salt water. Americans always have |
taken a pride in their navy.
Today Uncle Sam needs men for his
navy and he wishes to get tlfem from
| the ranks of those who are charged
| with the volunteer spirit of service.
| Our great fleet is modified 'sOme-
| where on the coast for possible deadly
service with the great fleet of the
/ enemy. Today, for the navy has al
flowed the fact to become known, many
| Of our smaller craft, the bulldog te
stroyers of the navy, are hunting the
| submarine sharks in the waters off
Daunt's Rock, close to the coast of Ire
land and farther north, where even in
summer the elements at times are al
most as fierce as man, the enemy"
Pay Is Doubled.
| Recently the congress of the United
States increased the pay of the sailor
men so materially that the recruits's
pay is double what it was.
In the navy the young men of the
country, both in times of peace and in
times of war, secure liberal educations.
Their opportunities for travel and for
sightseeing are greater than those of
men employed in almost any other call
ing in life. Moreover, the boys just
ntering manhood who enlist in the
navy are given opportunities for in
truction which, if they have the ambi-
| ion and the mental qualifications, will
| enable them to enter the naval acad-
my at Annapolis on the same terms as
| midShipmcn who are nominated by
| members of congress, and at that in.
titution TO secure an education which
| its them for the commissioned rank
{ | which the government of the United
States will confer upon them.
There are traditions in the American
navy which keep high the spirit Of en-
deavor in every man who walks tho
deck under the colorG from the adj
miral to the apprentice seaman. The
4 boy learns all about John Paul Jones
| and his deeds on the sea for his coun
! try; all about Decatur, cambridge
Hull, Porter, Farragut and Dewey. A
:, the secretary of the navy has said il
! what is really an appeal TO the you'll
of the country to enlist under tn,
, navy's colors. the standard is high.
Service of High Ideals.
1.-THE navy has been throughout it
entire existence a service of higl
ideals: and its unbroken record o
great and worthy achievement, of dut.
well done, has been due to the mig
standard set for officers and men in tn
II beginning and which has been mair
tanned ever since. This standard wa
u never higher than it is today; and an
: young American who thinks of goin
d into the navy may feel sure that, 0
Is enlisting, he will enter a service i
|
a justifable pride and of which tn
ty uniform is a badge of honor"
le Young men between the ages of SCI
It enteen and twenty-five, who are M
~ skilled in any naval trade are enlistc
IL as apprentice seamen. Immediate
upon being sworn in at the recruitir
RS stations they are sent at governmel
| ;n;, OF Ia
m The apprentice seaman, because he
en- green man and simply undergoir
en- training has been paid in the pa
MS S17.60 a month. From this time o
~ however under the recent act Of co
~ gress his pay throughout the war al
until six months after its ending is
mt be $500 q month.
an Now it must be remembered that Z
airy sailor, whether he be a recruit or
the seasoned man-o'- warsman, is under
70 expense at all for his livelihood aft
,di he once joins the navy. He is Civ
~ clothing, food, shelter and medical
~ tendance. Out of his pay all that
viii n / spend is such money as he desil
f a to pay out for such luxuries and ent
,sor tainments as he seems inclined to
the dulge in.
pu- Increase Soon Comes.
heir II must NOT he sunnosed that an :
pro- prentice seaman continues long to DIR
~ simply the amount of his first pay. !
,,,ao first raise comes in the seaman bran
7ree and If he is in the fireroom he gets
him additional sum.
-erv The navy needs men who are trair
laps or partly trained in the various trad
IS to Men who are proficient along cert
ould lines and who come within cert
and ,in,i+s Of ocos GRO onliS+od for cnoc
purposes in the navy. They are Gi'
pay in accordance with standards
for the different lines of endea