Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-12-31
Interesting Phase of "Back-to-
the-Sea" Movement of Ma
tional Proportions.
TO CAN SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
Photograph Records of Sailors Songs
and Chanteys--Movlng Pictures
Showing the Daily Life
of the Sailor.

visunllzed life on the ocean blue. IL
was far more graphic than written
narrative. In consequence Jack was
always a hero when he told the story
OF his voyages.
Today, while the sailors story still
has It's charm. 1t has powerful mod
ern rivals In Its appeal to the minds
and hearts of the landsmen back home.
Nowadays 1t is not necessary for |
sweethearts or wife to walt for Jacks
return to learn how his voyage Is go
Ing The unseen waves of the radio |
bring news OF the distant ship from |
the sea In the twinkling of an eye.
Officials authorized to receive such |
messages In wartime know from day |
TO day just where the ships they are
interested In are steaming, and how
they fare.
Under war conditions the public,
perforce. has lacked such information.
but a more general diffusion of ma
rine news has come with the lifting of
the censor's ban on publication Of ship
movements.
In these times in fact landlubbers
may see counterfeit presentments" OF
sea sights and hear sea sounds, very
near the real thing, without going far
from their own firesides, or IL they
may not do so today, the time is not
far Off when they WILL for concert
ed effort Is being made to bring home
TO the people all that may be canned
of the movement incident to sailors
life.
In this educational efrort-for 1t Is
such. purely, undertaken from vari-
GUS angles by various people. but UNI
der authority OF the United States
shipping board. official sponsor for the
merchant marine-some novel effects
are being worked out, and no detail is
being omitted which would add to the
value of the finished product
For example, In due time it may be
expected that sailors songs and sail
ors' "chanteys"-as sung In forecas-
ties and at tasks on deck when Jack
the merchant mariner was a person
age afioat and ashore. as he is getting
TO be again-will be reproduced In
the records of the family phonogrnph.
-Chsntcys" for the Music Machine.
Chantey singing is being revived In
the merchant marine. Mt least on the
training ships which are preparing
Young America, at tho rate OF 1000
lads a month, for service on our vast
new commerce fleets. and under the
new order OF things H. Will be posi-
BILE for Bangor, Me-. and Mesa, Ariz..
60 hear In the same hour the actual
notes and phrases of such famous
chanteys as Shenandoah" Bound for
the Rio Grande" and "Blow the Man
Down." for the record may have them
hard and fast before spring flowers
bloom again
Even the nautically classic songs OF
Charles Dibdin, the aong-writer par
excellence of the sailor, may not be
counted too old. In spite of their 15(
years. to find a place beside Caruso
and CALI Curci In the family cabinet
OF records.
Quite In keeping with the times, II
fact. will be the rolling chorus OF tina
noble sentiment to The Lass Wh'
Loved Sailorl~
But the standing tonst that pleased vi
most
Was "The wind that blows and th'
ship that goes.
And the lass that loves a sailor"
Furthermore, II this suggestion o
salt is not enough. the landsmaI
whose nearest approach to visualizinj
the rolling of the sea has been con
temptation of Western wheat fiel'
or the rolling prairie billowing undei
summer sun, may look upon actua
movements of Jack, the merchant ma
riner, at work and play by going NJ
nearer the sea than his own favorit'
movie" theater.
Films are now made of these sub
1ects quite as freely as of the wild
riding broncho buster. or the high
salaried bad man of the hills work
ing assiduously ION location" TO Sc
cure his desired effects. The only diff
ference is this-these effects are no
staged, but real
The resulting films are OF various
sorts. One recently completed Shove,
the work of the sailor on sailing ships
such as our grandfathers made thei
coin and reputation In. while building
ND a national merchant marine. Thi
type of ship has had a recrudescence
or. as the camera Tnan might say,
strong comeback, as a result of tn
war.
Some of the more venerable square
riggers have proven a find for tn
movie people. for they have provide
genuine atmosphere" for sure-sellin
picture stories of genuine sea life.
Daily Life of Sailors Shown.
Setting and reefing topsails an
trimming sheets and even the less e'
citing work OF eating the ancho
OF serving rigging with chafing gea