- MOUJH AMY, MO MTU CdtOLIJTA, W • ' 5 V i ••• -1 , rwrmsjur. jtoItmmmmm j, mrr. *9. 16 "THE HITS THAT COUNT" TW1^iIi!» MtU.l Mmnlm+ip During ma Ea|a|fnitat the U. S. I. Nevada that I drat Mt Drayton. Ho moat have been mai taan ar they would Mt have nlMad Mm, but in Ma sailor clothes ha laokad Ilka a bay an tha pond and had gat wp arata from Ma nuraa In a crowd. I waa boatswain's mat* at tha fourth diviaion of tha Nevada. and tha diviaion officer, Liaut. Luwney, had told ma to take tha draft of atari wa'd1 received and All op tha turm atationa. Whan I got to Drayton, T had to atop and eonaidar. Ha waan't big enough for a saan-aixe jab, aa I made him handling-room meaaenger. I could aae that he waa disappointed. "Mea aenger" didn't aound like a romantic job. At quarter: the next morning I muatered the division on the gun deck and reported to Mr. Lowney: "Sixty three man in tha diviaion, air. All present or amounted for." It didnt taka a nautical eye to pick out tha iw» men. Thay were soft looking ami restleaa and kept staring round; but I don't suppose you can blame them for that, for you taka a bunch of men right off tha farm and atap them down in tha middle of a mesa of guns, armor and boats, and they've got a right to be curiaos. After quarters I inspected .double bottoms with Liaut. Lowney, prepara tory to ratting under way. Being in the navy yard, we weren't having any drills; there was nothing far the "gobs" to do till wa got out. The re sult was that whan I earns up out of tha bottoms, tha gun deck waa cover ed with bluejackets snatching a nap, with newspapers spread eut between ~ .... i broadside guns and the gun port Dray ton waa stretched out, sleeping peace fully. I don't allow any ordinary sea man in my diviaion to get familiar with my hangouts, and I reached for him with my foot to kick him out of there; but I didnt. I would hava lift ed him a good one if it had been a man, but I didnt have the heart to bother a child. I just wondered what the navy was coming to. We shoved off at noon on a high tide. It waa an old story to me, but I guess 111 never Ioae the thrill that comes when^we drop down the East River and pats under Brooklyn Bridge. It's always the same. Hie big ship slips smoothly down toward the bridge taking up the whole river. Traffic stops all round and crowds line the bridge rail to watch us pasa. A shad ow falls across our decks as the ship goes under, and we look at the mate of tiee and girders, while the people on the bridge look down our stacks. An other minute and we're by, with our masts barely scraping clear, and we head for the Narrows and the open aea. Outside Ambrose Channel we ict tled down to work. After the deck* were swept down, we broke oat the hose and the holystones and had a field day cleaning up the mess the yard workmen had made of our ship. Streams at water piayed on every thing. Sailors, holystones, scrubbers, sand md water ware all gong after the dirt, and it wasn't a comfortable place to walk unless you were rigged for bathing. The "gebs" rolled their trousers up over their knees and slosh ed round in their bare feet. That new youngster seemed to be having as much fun shoving his scrubber round *s a kid wading in the creek. It must have tickled him a lot to feel the water and the sand between his toes; the Job was play to him. By the time we got the decV JHH down we were out M Ma and headiag east. After supper I settled myself on the shelf plate of our turret. I was drinking in the calmncw of the sea and the'kky, nnd watching the ship cut her way through the water. I'd just about forgot matter-of-fact thing* when Drayton spots me, hauls Kim self up the barbette and aits down alongxide. I took a good look at the hoy. He had smooth velvety cheeks that he'd never have to shave that cruise. He was handsome, too, and intelligent-looking. 1 felt surry that I'd had to detail him for a messenger, bat he didnt have the size for a mem ber of the loading erww and he didnt have the skill for s Job ta 'he turret. "Well, l>raytoti, what 4 »yoa want T" "I'd 10m to And oat something abort tor gat prutttt, and I thiggh» I'd aak you. You don't mind telling ma, do yooT "Sure not, son. Pm glad to mo you inters*tod. To begin with, tho Srm da'» built to *hoot—aho ain't carrying round ten fnurtaon-lneh gun* for orna ment*. And In ordar to kit what we're ■hooting at we've got to have practice, and we have it about alx timos a yaar. "Now the target i* only a canva* ■creen ten faat nquaro, with a two-foot bull'* ayo in tha middle of it to aim at A tugboat tows a string of targota on a raft, and each turret of tha ship has one target aaaigned to it. For thin practice the firing ia by turret* indi vidually. The turret officer ha* hi* ■tation in a little booth in the turret, where he'* in communication by tele phone with the gunnery officer*, who give* him the order* when to open Are. Tha tsrret officer give* tha ordar* to hi* gun crews to load, and toll* tha gun pointer* what the targat ia and when to begin firing. "The pointer* down under the gun* are the on a* that have the big joba. One of them keep* the turret with it* two guns trained on the target all the time—he's the trainer. Tha other one keeps the gun* level till the creif get* them loaded, and then ha elevatea them till hi* sight* come on the bull'* eye; he'* called the firing pointer. Both of them try to get the guaa steadied when the chip comes to the end of a roll; then the pointer squeases a button and that Ares both gun* by electricity. "Then the pointer levels the guns, tha turret crew load* aa fast'aa it cap. and tha pointer bring* than up and Mad up Ave ton* of *heI1* and two ton of powder up from the magazines in two minutes, and the men aiming tha guns have to Are as soon as the guns are loaded, or else their timell be up before they get off all their shots The reason for the r»ri the turret to the • WWI jolt. "Blachton,"he said, "I't» given you a day Im la Dot going to ship over when Ilia cruise ta up. and l*v* daridsil not to let him Are thia coming pnrtka. How : wo hsvan't any mora qualified potnton In thia division, an wall have to train a now auto. Tha junior dt via ion oAcer recommended Drayton aa tha moat in tellig*nt man hf had down below. I told Drayton to coma up hora to-day, and I'm going to maha a pointer out of him. I'm counting on you to hoip." "Ay, ay, air. Ill do tha boat I ran for him." "Vary leell, Blarltton; yeull* And him undar tha laft gun. Ill bo with yoa whan thia loading drill ia over." I alippad off tha rammtr and drop pad to tha loading platform under tha brooch of tha gun. Tha layout of tha pointari' atation was aimpla. I antorad by dropping un der tha gun breach and crawling for ward on my atomach to a small cabby halo under tha trunnions, not high onoogh to'stand op in it. Underneath waa the turrat floor, covered with gear train a and motora to drive them; over head waa the aleeve in which tha left turret gun rested, a monster doop of steal, witii a row of recoil cylinders clustered on its under aide; in front waa the barbette, eighteen inches of armor to protect the operating ma chinery and the pointers from damage. Two telescopes, attached to the gun sleeve avow, look out through small ports cut through the faceplate of the tuiTet. A bicycle saddle mounted bo low each telescope furnished a seat for the pointer. In front of each seat waa a vertical wheel, the controller for that station. Drayton >u there, leaning against the point«r'> aaat. He was strictly fer 1 leaving things alone, bat I wasnl alto gether tickled over the outlook. Bes wl and I had been flring together for three years, and we ware pretty good on the teamwork that the pointer and trainer need in order to get their shots bff in any tin* at all. Now it looked1 to me that after the next practise we'd be painting oat that "E" on the turret "Take your station," I ordered, and Drayton climbed up on the pointer * seat. I got on the trainer's seat along side him, reached over to the balk head between the right and the gun.", an4|thrcw in the switch that started up all the motors. "Squeeze your right eye against that telescope," I said. What d'ye sea?" "Two wires in the telescope field, crossing each ether, and the sam oo the boriioo. They look pretty close, too." "All right. One of the wire* is yours and onf of litem's mine. Now watch." and* I turned wry controller wheel aad started the tarret training round. "What do you Me now?" "The vertical wire's moving left." He looked through the telescope port with his left eye at the deck outaide, "The ran* and everything are mov ing left." "Just keep that in mind, son. I move this turret and the guns in it right or left till 1 bring that vertical wire on whatever I'm aiming at. Now watch again," and 1 leaned over to his controller and worked it slowly. "Til* horizontal wires coming down," Drayton sax I reversed the controller. "Vow it'a coning up.' "If you look up, youll »« that the irons are turning in the trunnions." I said. "That's your job. You eierate these guns till that horizontal wire corers the target, and then yoa keep elevating or depresaing them with the roll of (he ship to kMp the target cov ered. When you're ready to *»», you prei.s that button on your control wheel. Now look through my tele scope." He did. "You see exactly the sane thing through mine a* fot do through yours. They're both held parallel to each other and to the borea of the two guns in this turret. The wires in these telescopes are carefully adjusted with the guns, and they're clamped in poaition with nuta. The intersections of the wires in cacfc tele scope cover the came spot. If one of them's on, the other is on, too. Ra member that. Now let's aee if there's anything fan sight." I trained forward on the starboard ' side, then aft again, and went round to I port. On our quarter I picked up a (Continued to page four) to waaka on the high to perfect the H. ia (ft ■ulta of his studies and asp Jirnl fiaw* that lha elertriral expert carried Ilia search to tha mm wu made in a brlaf atotomant by William Maxwall. vice-prnrident of Thomaa A. Ediaon, hie., and general manager at the muairal phonograph department. It waa in connection with a stirring appeal to tha American people writ ton by Mr. Eidaon that they buy Liberty bonda. "One hundred and forty-one years ago oar forefather* fought for laaa than we are fighting for today. We have made heroes of the man who fought to make thia country free, and have branded aa rnwarda and traitor* the men who refuaad to light. Pos terity will grant simitar judgement on the men and women who do not do their duty now, and are creating a heritage of shame for their children and their children's children. "Germany's place in the son means nothing short of world domination. Every Liberty bond you buy thia week is amessage from you to the Kaiser that his ambition to conquor the world cannot be realized. "EIDSON" Prior to rending the Eidaon mes sage, Mr. Maxwell said: "If there is any man in this country today who typifies the spirit of 177® that man ie Thomas A. Eidaon. He has been giv ing every moment of bia time to the Government. He has been on the high seas working day and night for Amer« ica, wherever his doty has token him, under all conditiona. Sometimes kia aaaiatanta in the labor story or an the fr." U' •Yew can i if I can. Mr. Edison has busy on special government werk that until now he has not had time to urga purchase of Liberty bonds, al though he has purchased every dol lar's worth he can afford." Mr. Maxwell would not further die cuss Mr. Edison's absence "on the high seas" or whether the inventor has perfected an antisubmarine de vice. It wij believed from the fact that Mr. Eidson's sea voyage was an nounced aa ended and from strictest reticence at the Eidson plant today a* to his whereabouts that the i» v en tor had probably found the anti submarine weapon for which he haa been searching. It was understood that Mr. Edison's experiments in cluded duplication aa far aa poasible of Germany's submarine warfare methods. Aircraft Cons For Philadelphia Philadelphia is to b« protected from the possibility of attack from the air | by two or more of die larrest and moat powerful anti-aircraft runs that hare yet been constructed. The Philadel phia nary yard and the Prankford arsenal are the vulnerable point* that are to receive most of the protection but the city itself will also be consid ered in the |snl«tUn plans. The {run is of the mobile type and ran be demounted quickly and rushed to a new position by a hijj motor truck that is part of 'it* equipment. It U said at the 'navy yard that the run is very much like the rreat anti-aircraft rifles that fruard the approaches to Paris and London. The war department is not contem plating an attack by Zeppelines or air planes flying across the Atlantic, but they are prc?id!ng against an assault by seaplanes making the trip across seas on the decks of the German high seas fleet. The warnings that have l>e«n received from Admiral Sims and JeTiicoe to the effect that the German fleet may sally forth at any time and, passing the strongly defended coast of England, attack the Atlantic coast of theUnited State*, is responsible for the precautions that are being taken. In such a raid beaplar.es and subma rines undoubtedly would be used, the submarines to threaten the American fleet and keep It behind protective nets the planes to bomb munition plants, naval ynrds, arsenali and the large cities of the coast. That the prospect is not a chimeie is proved by the activity of the war and' navy departments in taking the! "stitches in time." There is no objec tion being made to the publication of I the few facts her* stated. Slew York, N. Y.— It may not he very >Mf Mar* the United States reeorts to a proeaas of sontiaeoaa |n earrying on Um nr Thar* are thuaa who BMintaia that fruit periodical pmdigioua «ums in Ike specs of a few weeks, neceesitottng aa it 4aaa tra ■andoiM «(Tort on part of Treasury officials and bankers, la latnmantal to buainaaa and financial conditions. It ia proposed that a systematiaed form of borrowing all Um tims, would af ford a batter opportunity for various loan com m itteaa to work out their plana of soliciting subscriptions from public. Allotting aajr, a period of four waaks in order to rataa a loan of several bil liona involve* an exacting strain upon tfcoee actively engaged in the under taking. Aa in tke case of tile present loan, fruita of w''ing effort are not apparent until • nag days at the campaign by ntMO of the fact that tkouaands of subscribers, especially the wealthy c las sea, refrain from sand ing in their subscriptions until the last minute. Ia the meantime, how ever, there ia an inevitable period at suspense and uncertainty aa to ulti mata aoccaaa of the issue. This occurs with evary succeeding offering, and sack time it ia asrsssary to whip up public en thus ic am. Tot it requires at least four woekr. to float a loan of sev eral billions. This disturbance would be obviated if solicitation of contribu tions was mods a continuous affair. We may take an example from Eng land and Fiuce. These countries had a full opportunity before our entrance into the war of trying out various plans of war financing. As time went baeiaeaa sense of American and Brit ish people, and England's experience in thin matter is consequently of sig nificance to as. Opportunities for Education At Washington. Washington, D. C., Oct. 30.—To th« young nan or woman who aaelu to ob tain a collage degree and a livelihood at the same time, no city in the coun try offers an opportunity more at tractive than that to be found in the national capital. The several uni versities at Washington provide even ing classes with hours arranged con veniently for Government employees, who ordinarily complete their day's work at half past four and all libra ries, including the Library of Congress are open at night. For years thousands of young peo ple have entered the civil service at Washington with the main idea of da votoing three or four years to equip ping themselves for a professional or scientific career while supporting them selves. Many of the young men live at fraternity houses, cooperately con ducted. thereby lessening the living expenses and also securing a place where they can entertain their friends In addition to the university courses, the Young Men's Christian Associa tion and private schools conduct even ing classes in technics, languages, ac countancy, stenography and type writing, and the usual high school studies. Notwithstanding the drafts for mili tary service, practically all schools in Washington show an increased en rollment this year. This is doe to the grant influx incident to the war. Ten or twelve thousand new clerks and oth er employee., have been appointed in the departments and this great civil ian army is being added to daily. Stenographers and typewriters an4 mechanical draftsmen for the service generally, and what are known as schedule clerks, index and catalogue clerks, clerk; qualified In statistics or accounting, and clerks qualified in i business administration for the office of the Ordnance Department of the Army are in demand. The reprsentatives of the Federal civil service commission at the poet offices in all rttie* are receiving num erous inquiries from persons who wish to bo at the seat of government at this time of big events and U> have a part in the actual administration of the Government's rreat business. Women are flmling in this office work an opportunity to "do their bit" in a very practical way. ana wh«atle«« maal • day. Dm com, nt, rye. barley, or mixed rmd rolla, mufllna. and braada in placa at wfctta bread, certainly for one maal and If poaetble, for two. Eat lea* cake and paltry. A* to the white bread, if yoa boy from a baker, order It a day la ad vance; then he will not bake beyond hie need*. Cot the loaf en the table. and only aa required. Uae stale bread for toaat and cooking. Meat—Uae more poultry, rabbit*, and ea per tally flah and aea food, in place of beef, mutton, and pork. Da not uae either beef, mutton, or pork more than once daily, and then aarva smaller portion*. Dae all left-over meat cold or in made diahae. Uaa aoupa more freely. Uae bean a; they have nearly the aome food value aa meat. Milk—I'm all of th« milk; wuM no port of it. The children Biiit have whole milk; therfore. us* less cream. There in a great waste of food by not using all skim and sour milk. Sour milk can be used in cooking and to make cottage cheese. Use buttermilk and cheese freely. Fata (batter, lard, etc.)—Dairy but ter has food values vital to children. Therefore, use it en the table as usual, especially for children. U*> aa lit tle as possible in cooking. Reduce tit* nee of fried foods, to reduce the coik. sumption «f lard and other fats. Uao vegetable oils, as olive aa ■ contains fat and sary for explosives. You scrubbing soap at home, and, in mm* localities, yon cgr sell your saved fats to the soap maker, who will thus se cure our needed glycerine. Sugar—Uce leas candy and sweet drinks. Use leas sugar in tea and cof fee. Use honey, maple syrup, and dark syrup* for hot cakes and waffles with out butter or sugar. Do not frost or ice cakes. Do not Mint the use of sugar in putting up fruits and jama; they may be used in place of butter. Vegetables aad Fruits—We have a superabundance of vegetables. They take the place of part of the wheat and meat, and, at the same time, are healthful. Use potatoes abundantly. Store potatoes and roots properly, and they will keep. Use fruits generously. Fad—Cool comes from a distance, and oar railway facilities are needed for war purposes. Bum fewer fires. If you can get wood, use it. General Sogge Buy less; cook no more than nee as sary; serve smaller portions. Use local and seasonable supplies. Patronise your local producers, and lessen the need of transportation. Preach and practice the "gospel at the dean plate." We do not ask the American people to starve themselves. Eat plenty, but wisely, and without waste. Do not limit the plain food of grow ing children. Do not «ot between meats. Watch out tor the waste b the com munity. You can yourself devise other meth ods of saving to the ends we wish to accomplish. Under various cirrum stanees and with varying conditions you can vary die methods of eronoasis ing. • ' German People «r* Said to Want Peace Washington, D. C.—Aa Italian workman, interned in Gefimtiy since the beginning of the war, ha* eataped through the Alp* to M« own country with a report that the German people want peace :nd expect it to com* ta November. Official dispatch** ret ei red ben state that, according to the maa*a •tor)-, the Germane have abandoned hope of victory at arms. laborers ^ are threatening to luare the factor*# if the war ontinoes another winter, and the chrtt population gewerallr i» -4 living under terrible conditfaM. The man said 800 Midler*, attending a | eirvua at Rsaen, were it—liujred Ok 1 one time by beato at allied a via tar*.