Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-12-06
Interesting Phase of @BaCk-tO-
the-Sea" Movement Of Ma
tiOnal Proportions.
70 CAN SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
Photograph Records Of salIors' sonos
and chantsys Moving Pictures
Showing the Daily Life
Of the Sailor.

Through which many shore-going folks
| ivlSuallzed Life on the ocean blue. It
! was far more graphic than a written
| narrative. In consequence Jack was
always a hero when he told the story
of his voyages.
Today, while the sailors story still
| has its charm, 1t has powerful mod
ern rivals In Its appeal to the minds
bnd hearts Of the landsnen back home.
| Nowadays 1t Ia not necessary for
sweethearts or wife to wait for Jacks
return to learn how his voyage Is 60
Ing. The unseen waves Of the radio
bring news Of the distant ship from
the sea In the twinkling Of an eye.
Oficials 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 more general diffusion OF ma.
fine 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
gea sights and hear sea sounds, very
near the real thing, without going far
from their own flresides, or IL they
may not do so today, the time Is not
Ear of when they will, for q 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 effOrt-for it is
such, purely, undertaken from varl-
GUS angles by various people, but I'M
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 1t may be
expected that sailors songs and sail.
org "ehanteys"-as sung in forecas-
ties and at tasks on deck when Jack
the merchant mariner was a person
age afoat and ashore, as he is getting
to be again-will be reproduced in
the records Of the family phonOsraDh.
"Chanteys" for the Music Machine.
Chantey singing is being revived In
the merchant marine, at least on the
training ships which are preparing
Young America, at the rate OF 1900
lads a month, for service on our vast
new commerce fleets, and under the
new order Of things it viii be posi-.
BILE for Bangor, Me-, and Mesa, AriE.,
to hear in the same hour the actual
notes and phrases Of such famous
chanteys as Shenandoah" Bound for
the Rio Grande" and BLOW the Nan
Down." for the record may have them
hard and fast before spring flowers
bloom again.
Even the nautically classic songs Of
Charles Dibdin, the song-writer par
excellence of the sailor, may not be
counted too old, in spite Of their $50
years, to find place beside Caruso,
and Call Curci In the family cabinet
Of records.
Quite In keeping with the times, in
fact, will be the rolling chorus of that
noble sentiment to 1.-THE Lass Who
Loved a Sailorp
But the standing toast that pleased US
most
Was "The wind that blows and the |
ship that goes,
And the lass that loves a sailor"
Furthermore, If this suggestion OF
ealt is not enough, the landsman
whose nearest approach to visualizing
the rolling Of the sea has been con-
temptation of q Western wheat field
CT the rolling prairie billowing under
GUNNER sun, may look upon actual
movements of Jack, the merchant ma
riner, at work and play by going no
nearer the sea than his own favorite
movie" theater.
Films are now made Of these sub
Jacts 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 not
staged, but real.
The resulting films are of various
sorts. One recently completed showed
the work Of the sailor on sailing ships,
such as our grandfathers made their
coin and reputation in, while building
up national merchant marine. This
type Of ship has had recrudescence,
or, as the camera man might say.
strong comeback, as a result Of the
war.
Some Of the more venerable square
Triggers have proven a find for the
movie people, for they have provided
genuine atmosphere" for sure-selfing
picture stories of genuine sea life.
Daily Life Of Sailors Shown.
Setting and reeflng topsails and
trimming sheets and even the less ex-
eitinx work Of eating" the anchor,