The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-06-22
mi STEERS
OF MEM
by MORGAN ROBERTSON


BY MORGAN ROBERTSON
The greatest story Of the sea ever
screened!
A thrilling film story OF he-men
whose veins rum hot with red fighting
blood!
A blunt, vigorous yarn Of boys
Eight upward against overwhelming
odds, where fight means hard Est
and prime muscle, high courage and
ready wallop!
Shanghaied! Dragged by crimps
and flung insensible into the hell hole
forward, where sweating, brow-beaten
mem live like beasts scourged to their
tasks with curses and Delaying pin.
The sea! The flavor of salt in the
nostrils; the odor Of pitch in the air,
the swapping of wind-swept canvas
cracking like a machine gun; the
creaking, singing wood straining as
she rides the high waves! All magic
and lure of adventure, the Spanish
Main and sailormen!
Love! A timid boys unspoken
dream of his hearts desire; a girl too
old-fashioned 60 offer love unbidden;
lads sacrifice of youths dearest pos
sessior-honor-to protect her from
the shame Of another's crime; the
confusion Of bitter misunderstanding
that threaten lifelong broken hearts!
Uncle SANS bluejackets! The
fighting men of the greatest nation in
the world, and what they think and
how they live; their loyalty and cheer
and youth, eternal, living, fighting
youth! The careless devii-may-care
"gob," incorrigible, loyal; inpudent
and ioveable!
Romance! The sea spells romance.
Red sunsets turn green waves to
smashing mountains Of blood; noon
sums spread gold upon the bosom of
the sea, gold that beckons and calls
TO youth to gather its riches; never
ending mirages Of golden bowls at
rainhows' ends. And, the sea gives no
riches; only character and manhood,
bitterly squeezed out of its cold, hard
business.
Wholesome, clean, healthy! A
boys life of adventure, free from
tawdry conflicts and sex illusions,
based ON fact gathered by one who
served among men, who loved men,
who admired men and who wished
young America TO SO live that he
might become a man! The trash of
silly, social temptations has NO place
in this screen story of boy who be-
came the master of the man.
Here is a story Of the making of
men; men who acted and argued later.
Shifty-footed men, with right and
left punch and keen eye and high
sense Of honor and quits to go the limit /!
Dick Halpin is the lad you wanted
TO be; and I wanted to be! He's the
fellow we dreamed Of, whose fighting
courage we envied. He's the boy that
assumed another's petty crime and
ran away to sea to live it down, that
the girl he loved might not be shamed
and Inundated by the revelation of
her brothers weakness. He's the fell
low you and I used TO talk about;
that lad Of strength and honor we
built with boyish imaginations up in
the haymow, or while idling with a
homemade fishing rod down by the
creek. He's your kind and my kind
and because we had fathers and
mothers to make our way easier we
never managed to be him; but we
wanted TO and wen live our dreams
again with Dick Halpin in this vivid liv.
ing motion picture, MASTERS of Men,"
"A master of mem wrote this great
sea tale. A man whose life was as
hard as the diamonds he cut and who
never wrote line until he had lived
beyond an average mans age; man
who took beating at the hands Of
brutal second mate with smile, and
who administered a beating with
equal cheerfulness; q man who knew
che sea and sailorman's life; who
criticized Kipling rightfully and who
wrote his FIRST sea tale to prove that
a man who knew the sea could write
a better story of the sea; q man who
earned little by his pen and who
starved while he wrote; the greatest
writer of sea stories in all literature.
Morgan Robertson, a master of
men, wrote the last word in thrilling
sea stories when he wrote MASTERS
of Mem"
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