The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-16
Great Lakes School Declared to Be Greatest of Kind in
 the World.
AMAZED AT SCOPE OF WORK
Famous Norwegian Explorer Gives an Interesting Description of His h. spection of the Big Train
 Ing Station.

Great Lakes, Ill.-High tribute to the Great Lakes naval training sta tion and the great work being done here is contained in an article writ ten by Capt. Roald Amundsen, famous Norwegian navigator and arctic ex- plorer, who recently visited the sta ton. The article. which follows was published in the continental edition of the American Daily Mall in Paris:
 "I have visited the Great Lakes naval training station at Lake Forest. just north of Chicago. Its scope amazes me. It is the largest, and per haps by this time the most widely known training school in the world. Its location-1,000 miles from the At lantic, 2,000 miles from the Pacific in the heart of this vast continent, makes 1t unique in the naval annals of the world. Some years ago 1t would have been impossible to conceive of such thing. But once again the United States has demonstrated to the world that, under the leadership of one of Its most competent naval offi- cers, Capt. William A. Moffett. it was capable of accomplishing the apparent ly impossible.
 Has Trained Thousands.
 ''Since the United States took up arms 13,000 men have been trained at this school. At present, there are 23,- OOO tackles in training there, and yet, thanks to the phenomenal size of the wooden huts and tents pitched there, 1t can accommodate the enormous in- fiux of recruits. And still more hut ments are going up.
 Standing at an entrance to the camp l watched the arrival of green 'rookies,' who, after being subjected to severe medical test, are put through their course of naval instruc- ton at the hands of the most skillful trainers in the country. Their studies finished, these inland seamen,' fit as hddles, are ready to be assigned to lighting craft in the war zone
 At Lake Forest there are also air craft fitted out with all the latest de- vices. The United States has the ma chimes and the men to pilot them.
 Tn one building I saw men learning how to detect the direction and location of sound. Numerous electrically equipped listening towers reared up toward the sky. It was astonishing to see how accurately the men gauged the sounds and whence they came from. They are being coached In this "art' with view of discovering the whereabouts of hostile U-boats. The teamwork of officers and men in all branches of the camps activities strikes the observer.
 Praises the Band.
 "A commodore told me that vice among the recruits Is virtually non-ex- istent. Out of 26,000 men but 26 were being treated for venereal diseases. I rejoiced to learn that a great many Scandinavians had enlisted, proving their loyalty to the cause of America and her allies.
 [. It was indeed impressive to hear the bands, composed of some TOO men, of the Great Lakes training school led by Lieut.. John Philip Sousa, as they paraded in the huge arsenal, the cen ter of a hollow square of embryo sail ors, all singing the popular Init" America, Here's My Boy"
 q have seen the great United States navy at work. and can assure my