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-O ? Play Mixed With Work at the Great Lakes Training Station Boys Who Never Saw the Ocean 1R Their I) f Mora fits They Play Are Taught the Duties of Bas?ba I, Lax r :d Hold Oiher a Sailor and Make Ath'elic Meetings? Capt. Good Seamen filoffelt Is Com.nandant -o(c MOKE than 10,(MW) young men from the colleges, factories. farm* and office* of the middle west are learning at the United Mates naval training station at Great Lakes, 111., far from tlu* taut; of salt water, to be pallors, and many of them have not even seen t lie sea. Of course there Is Lake Michigan, abutting the training station at Its very diwrway. hut It is surprising what one can learn about navigation and nautical tactics without even set tint; foot 011 shipboard. In the middle of a grassy field are scattered the working pnrts of a battle ship. On a swinging platform there is n steering wheel with Its creaking ro|s> and rigged with a naval compasn. Here the recruit gets all the sensations of the pitching seas while he holds her headed into the teeth of a booming "sou'wester." This contrivance and one afTordiug training in the lowering and raising of boats are shown in the pictures. Upon tills field a large proportion of the men who have 1kh?ii sent Into the navy since the declaration of war against Germany have I teen trained from raw material Into deep sea sailor river, and some of the*n. In fact, had never seen a large tasty of water uutll they peeped over the sea wall at the trdbiiiiR station and saw the water* of Lake Michigan dimpling in the stream ing sunlight below, but when tiny left a few iiioiitba later to go aboard a .?rulser. a battleship. a deatroyer or a submarine tlie.v were sailors tighter* on aetlve service. Many of these men hu.e l>een reared on the farms of Ohio Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan. Wlscon sin, Illinois, Minnesota, North am >'out!i I'akota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kan ?<as and Missouri. Rome aay life at this inland naval training; atatlon resembles nothing ao much as a game of "make believe," even though it in In desperate serious nesM and is fraught with lni|?ort. For example, when a man la given "lllterty' or a permission to leave the atatlon he says he Is going "ashore." When h. scrubs his tent floor he is "scrubbing deck." The station is known as the "Island, " and the atatlon clock Is th "ship's clock," und when It is o'clock It is not 8 o'clo k as we know It in civl life, but "two U'Us." The bluejackets have their owi monthly magazine, the (Jreut l<al>c yeoman. 1'at Smith of 15 y < Ity, M 'j 1 captain elect of r li** I'nlversltjr of M l?-b I ' igan f.x.f ( all team. enlisted a* * m-a ' man, la hi charge of the football squads. Ah nuclea for hi* team he has Raymond Ilildner uii?l Lo< ks. holders of pBivcrslty of Michigan "M's," ami Phil l'roetor of the Univer sity of Nebraska. ItosiiiK la one of the moat [>opular sports at (Jreat I.akes. Hunts are hel'l every Thursday afternoon In a rluK pitched in a natural amphitheater in n ravine on the reservation, and thou sands of i>ersona from the surrounding communities attend them. Competition l?etweeu the men of tin service is keen. Kach fighter seems t< fi-el thnt he i< to lie the honor of Id company. Chief Turret Captain Ja< :, Kenne<Jy, former champion of thi north Atlantic tleet, is la charge ol this part of the athletics. Hen Reuben, a ChlcaKoaii and holder of the middle weight wrestling title of the world, ha> enlisted aM a second class machinist's mate and holds regular Instruction classes on "breaks and holds" for tin sailors. Coach Harry Hazelhurst of the Hamilton club of Chicago has en listed In the United States naval re serve force as a second class yeoman With the help of William Hachrach of the Illinois Athletic club he Is teaching the recruits to swim. One of the recruits has even Installed a putttlng preen and practices Kolf in his leisure hours. I.aseball and boxing however, are the favorite sports of tie men. Almost any of the dayllglr hours von will see sailors engaged I batting and catching halls, while oil at one side others lire sparring. In those days of stress and strif there Is some competition for the titl> of "the busiest man," but Captain Mo: fett's assistants believe that he easily leads the field. It takes three relays u Photos by American Pr?M Association CAPTAIN W. A. MOFFETT. COMMANDANT OF THE GREAT LAKES NAVAL TRAINING STATION, AND MEN BEING TRAINED THERE. men. About 20,000 have gone to son from the station so fur, and nil of them have been traliiwl on dry land. Knotty problems in sailor's knots form a regular part of the recruit's day at the station. Before a bluejacket goes aboard ship he must be a master of "bends, hitches and splices" and the work Is given every bit as much at tention at the station as drill, physical training or boat practice. The recruit must qualify in the rigging loft before be can be rated a second class seaman. Here he is taught tirst to tie the sim plest knot, known as the overhead knot and is that used in tying bundles. Bit by bit he progresses until lie can tie ropes in all manner of Intricate fashion. The names of some of these savor of the deep sea. For example, there are the figure eight, the overhead, the square, the tomfool, the diamond, the French shroud, the lanyard, the mon key'* tirst. the sennlte, the double and single Mathew Walker, the marllnsplke hitch, the back wall hitch, short splices, long splices, eye splices, wire rope splices, the stopper knot and many others. And finally when he is graduated from the rijrgiun loft he can tie a bow line knot to make a ship fast as it docks as easily as he can prepare a l>owline on a bight for the purpose of slinging casks or loading stores. All are experts on the square knot, for It Is this knot that usually catches the eye of Captain W. A. Moffett, commandant, on inspection days. Three kinds of rope are used by blue Jackets In tying the knots? Manila tarred hemp and untarred hemp. Wire hemp Is used when the ordinary roj>e will not serve the purpoae. And final ly, after two or three months this fresh water "lioy" knows almost as much aliout a ship's ropes as does the man who has spent years on the salt water From Farm to the Navy. To the large proportion of them knowhdge of navigation was eonfined to a cat boat or a cunoe on an inland Recruit, edited by themselves. It Is a lively publication dominated by ? strain of liutnor. It contains also re ports of hi tual competition at the stti tlon, navy history and ship life, togeth er with a few stories of the sea. Although decorations are barred 01 a navy workday uniform and all jew elry and lodge or fruternity emblem ?o Into the ditty box when the owne enlists, a number of the men recently have been ?wearing a button ?>u theii blue Jacket allowing that they liavi purchased a liberty bond. The men of tin- station purchased upward o $700,000 worth of the Imnds, and theirs was the largest single amount devoted *0 this purpose by the men of any Btn tiou, yard or slilp in the navy. With about H.ooo men In training at the station who have earned distinc tion in college or high school athletic Interest In sports is widespread at this station. In fact, from the time the young American slips into his blue Jacket until he leaves for sea duty sports form a bin part of his daily lif. and help build up his muscles anil morals. I?r. John 15. Kaufman, pisse.! assistant surgeon, U. S. N., is In char-: of athletics, lie is aided by the scrv ices of a uumber of civilian volunteer who bold high places in the athleti world. Under the tutelage of Jimmy She* k ard. assistant manager of tlie Chicag Cubs, forty-eight baseball teams play big In leagues of the various camps o1 the station participate in the regularly scheduled games. Martin A. 1'elnney physical director of the Chicago Ath letic association. who was so ond li command of the American Olympi team at Sto^k holm, is the track ami field coach. Many Noted Athletes. In each of the several big outdoo. meets this summer more than a thou sand blue jackets |*artldpate?l. Coach E. J. Mather of Lake l'orest college also assists in track athletics, as does Captain J. ilelt>erg of the l^nke Forest track team, enlisted as a second class stenographers. railed yeomen In th< ; navy, to keep lip with him. Ho rise | shortly after daybreak and is usually , at his desk until after midnight. Fro r quently it bus been necessary fur him to have his luncheon aiul dinner serve ! on a tray in his office. He often trans acts business while point to and from j his home, giving interviews and con ferences which he otherwise would have no time for. As an example o' the pressure of his business, more than WO visitors appeared at the station in one day not long ago ?nd awved to see the commandant. Captain Moffctt displays a real per sonal Interest in the station, and much of the routine work is delegated to oth ers under bis supervision, and he makes frequent inspections of details, and any complaint made by an enlist ed man receives his hearing and ntten ttaa Three times a day there are spirited combats with beefsteaks. calld "half soles;" with potatoes, called "spuds;" with bread, called "punk." and Putter that is called "grease," and perhai?s a rlece of pie, known as a "sliver." A scene in a mess hall, of which then are about thirty on the station, reseni bios nothing so much as a college din lng room Feeding this vast horde of 10,00 hungry boys is no small task, anil _ their healthy outdoor life demands that they must lie fed, and fed well throe times a day. Ac urdlng to Chle 1 Commissary Steward Craver, the blue Jacket who is unable to eat his shar at mess has jet to 1h? f<*uud. Mi*. Cra ver has figured out that the f<*>d neces sary for a single mc al on the a v crap day is about as follows: Seven thou sand pounds of roast chicken, pounds of mashed potatoes, 500 quart of gravy, 15,000 radishes, 4,000 touia toes, l.twiO pounds of green peas, 4" gallons of ice cream, 3,000 pounds o cake, 7.000 pounds of milk, 6,000 loave of bread and al>out 5.0(H) quarts of oof fee. A simple order of "ham and" fo all hands calls for 1.440 dozen of egK' and 2,000 iwuuds of ham. LIVE ITEMS. Building and loan associations of Jnited States have increased their isseta a little more than $112,000,000 n the last year. Loans to members or purchase of homes amounted to ;4 13,000,000. o Eastern produce merchants have lotified the Georgia Chamber of 'ommerce that carloads of Georgia igs can he sold each year in eastern States. Georgia orchard men are ilanning to test the possibilities of ultivating this fruit. o Potatoes in Boston are selling at >4 to $4.25 a barrel wholesale, lowest >rice since last winter, when they lold around $10 a barrel. In Chicago, is result of settlement of switchmen's itriks, price droppel from $3.75 and 54.50 a barrel to $3 and $4 in carload ots. 0 Following the going into effect of he Federal law against selling liquor o soldiers and sailors, a large num >er of saloons have gone out of busi less in San Francisco and more are ibout to suspend operation. In fact, San Francisco saloon men have been joing out of business rapidly for the last year, 73 having given up. Six een others will close their doors vithin two weeks. o Spain's wheat crop is forecasted at 11,008,000 bushels by International nstitute at Rome, or 7.4 per cent less han last year's crop, and rye at 27, "78,000 bushels, or 3.5 per cent less han last year. Crop conditions in Spain are good; in Ireland, Italy and ?Switzerland average, and in Den nark, Great Britain and Sweden me liocre, India cotton crop is estimated it 4,273,000 bales, of 400 pounds ?ach, an increase of 14.3 per cent )ver last year. o Mississippi agricultural experts lave given the opinion that the com rop of Mississippi will not be less han 75,000,000 bushels this year and nay exceed 100,000,000. This will be he largest crop harvested in Missis sippi at any time in her history. The ?otton crop will also exceed all others n the history of the State, the num ber of bales being estimated at 1, 250,000 if the weather conditions re nain passably good during the next six weeks. o Farm products valued at more than f 100,000,000 were gathered from the lands of Louisiana during 1916, ac cording to the annual crop report of the State Department of Agriculture, issued by Harry I). Wilson, Commis sioner of Agriculture. The value of the farm crops is placed at $154, 735,819, and that of the live stock and poultry production at $6,639,944, bringing the total valuation to $161, 375,763. o N. McNeal, a Negro, has begun the establishment of a home at New Or leans for the rcliabitation of members of his race, who, having served terms in the penitentiary, wish to lead honest lives. The whites of the ?ity have placed approximately $1000 in the hands of McNeal for this work. The home will be called Hope Hall, and Negroes released from the State's prisons will be given n home there until they are able to obtain work, rhe police and municipal authorities are hewing. MAN AM) FOUR MULES KILLED BY LIGHTNING. During a thunderstorm last Thurs day afternoon, lightning struck the *agon train of Stamey brothers, nerchants of Fallston, on the Shelby Fallston road, instantly killed the Iriver, Charlie Canipe, and the team if four fine mules. The team was ibout five miles out and was moving ilong the road in the heavy rain uid electric storm when the bolt struck. Neither the wpgon nor the 'reight was damaged. When a farmer iving nearby looked out to see if he lightning had struck his barn, he ;aw the mules lying in the road and -usked to the scene where he found he driver and the four mules lying >n their left sides as if the wind had down them over. ? Shelby Corres jondence Charlotte Observer. rRY FOR AVIATION SERVICE. rwenty L^ave Charlotte in Special Car for Fort Thomas. Ky. Leaving in a special car yesterday norning for Fort Thomas, Ky., were .wenty young men who have enlisted vithin the past two days at the local United States army recruiting sta :ion, "for service in the signal corps >f the aviation division of the army. \fter being given preliminary in struction at Fort Thomas, they will >e sent to Fort Sam Houston, Tex., ahere they will enter active service. ?Charlotte Observer. Flies Breed in Filtk ' t w ?t ?-zsaagzsaLm ? ? ihen come into your home piLTH MEAN'S DIEEAFS and flies are born In filth, feed on filth and carry f.'.th wi.h ts.?m wherever they alight. Flies hatching today in an outhouse, rt^.b'cyoTd or in garbage, may bring distress to your family later cn !n the summer. They may bring typhoid fever, summer compLirt, consumption, mc'.aria, or perhaps infantile paralysis. The fly is almost tha erc'.uclvo conveyor of diarrhoea and dysentery among children and babies. Re^-PeVil jyg, Cats Filth r.nd Destroys tho Fly Lggs This wonderful Lye oats up flth and loaves absolutely nothing for flies to feed on or breed in. Just sprinkle it orice or twic<? a week in the pHvy cr outhouse. It does the work. Encourage your neighbor to clean Lis out-h-iusa also, because what's good for yours is good for his. RED DEVIL LYE is also simply wonderful for making soap, con ditioning hogs, and for making compost for fertilizer. F.ED DEVIL LYE i3 sold by all grocers. Demand 10c. cans. One dime can contains more than two nickcl cans. Sor.d PoMt.l For Fr~ Book It. Witt. SCH3ELD IWFG. CO., 615 N. 2nd St., ST. LOUIS, MO. nf Mr. Reader, Do You Buy or Borrow The Herald? MostMHe^ per Gallon When 1 092 cars of the same make average 27.15 miles on one gallon of gasoline each ? when 2040 cars of the same make average 29.04 on one gallon each ?that car must be mechanically right. The figures cited are the certified scores piled up in the historic Maxwell gasoline economy contests of May and June. They were made by privately owned Maxwell cars in actual daily use by the purchasers. Only the highest standard of efficiency in engine, clutch, transmission?every mechanical detail ? permitted the achievement of such results. Touring Car $74S Roadster $745; To it n C ar $ 1 0 9 5 Sedan $1095. ^// prices f. o. b. Detroit B. I. TART Four Oaks, N. C. Grading Tobacco We are receiving lots of Tobacco to be graded. If you want any graded for opening sale bring it to us any time. Yours for business, Boyett Bros. Smith field, N. C. I i 'A 'A 'J A
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