The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-28
FLOTILLAA ATTRACTS
RECRUITS TO NAVY
Enlistments Pick Up When
Boys Learn Advantages
Offered Sailors.

A decided increase in the number Of
applicants to enlist In the navy and 4
consequent larger number Of those ac-
cepted for four years service have been
the results so far Of the visit Of the
antisubmarine flotilla. Despite the dis
advantages of not being able to make
the Memphis wharf, compelling the Wis
itors to go below the bridges to visit
the ships and despite the accident to
the Isabel, largest vessel of the squad
ron, the crowds in Court square to seeS
the movies of the navy have increased
nightly and the recruiting station In
the Goodbar building nearby has been
a busy place.
The latest list of enlfstments con-
tains the names Of 16 lads who have
enrolled to become guardians of Uncle'
Sam on the seas. -Four of these men
are ald-timers who havfng served In
the navy before now seek re-enlist-
ment.
A decided increase In the number of
lads between the ages of II and q is
noticed in the recruiting according to
Lieut.. @. N. Welehelt, recruiting Off
GER with the ~flotilla,
"As the lads of America begin to
realize the advantages offered by the
navy to learn not only the art of fight
ing and the science Of s~eanlanship, en-
listments will increase" said the officer
Saturday.
1.-THE government maintains some 50
odd schools throughout the country
where a recruit may train himself in
various arts and crafts, knowledge of
which will not only help him in a
career in the navy should he choose
that life for a vocation, but to the boy
just out of school and without the
funds to go to college, opportunity is
offered to gain technical training, me-
chanical and electrical engineering,
wireless telegraphy and t~elephoning and
dozens Of other branches of instruc-
ton, which would otherwise be i'm
possible
A four-year enlistment in the. navy
to a boy between the ages Of II and
70 therefore, in short, opens up an op-
peFtunity that the instruction in the
best technical school in the land could
rot surpass, according to Lieut..
Weichelt.
AS this fact becomes more and more
definitely understood, the lieutenant
states, the e~nlistments will constantly
increase.
Subehaser Leaves Sunday.
The s~ubchaser No. 8, Ensign H. R.
Alker commanding, which has acted
as tender for the submarine K-b, will
leave Sunday morning for the advance
| Imp dbNh LIE IlNtE. l1lGul. ~S~OHltHhtuGF
Wells Hawks, director Of the tour will
be aboard. He will map cut the trip
from Memphis to New Orleans, Stops
will be made at Helena, .Greenville,
Vicksburg and other cities as the cruise
continues down the river. Finally the
boats will be taken to the naval sta
ton at Key West where they will again
be put In the coast guard service un-
less the navy department sees fit to
send them out on another mission of
recruiting.
The destroyer Isabel, released from
the bar above Cairo where she went
aground last Friday, will reach Mem
phis late Sunday thus completing the
f%letilla. Until the Isabel arrives the
rest of the flotilla will remain at their
moorings at the foot of Illinois avenue
and will be open for inspection from 10
to Il a M, from ! to 5 p. m. and 8
to 5 in the evening.
After the arrival of the Isabel the
entire flotilla may anchor off Mud is
land where they may be more readily
accessible to a larger ntmber OF pee-
pie who may visit her by boats, This
visit of the ~flotilla may be cut short II
the river falls; Unless there is rise
on the Memphis gauge by Monday
morning plans will be outlined to weigh
anchor on Tuesday of the coming week.
Enllstments in the navy since the ar
rival of the vessels of the fletille are
reported as followsi
Re-enlistments-John e, Malone, aftA
err serving four years during world war,
discharged one month ago, re enlisted
as chief machinist; Walter Ward, b17
Poplar avenue.H Memphis, Tenn; Cecil
Emerson, 1914 Monroe avenue, Memphis,
Efenn,, serving during world war, later
discharged, re-ehlisted.
First enlistments-Hal III. Swain, De-
lay, Miss, Fred H, Roth, 1917 JeffeF-
son avenue, Memphis, Tenn, William &.
Stanley, S27 Linden avenue, Memphis;
Sylvester Parker, COS Douglas street,
Memphis; Frank l.. Turner, Dyer,
Tenn; James W. Stevens, C~ovington,
street, Memphis; Elyts i. Washington,
Marked Tree, Ark. Robert Woods, Lit
tie Rock, Ark. Tony Powers, Clarks.
dale, Miss; NJ. Lower, Tupelo. Miss.