Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1917 — HOLDS CHARM FOR RED-BLOODED MEN [ARTICLE]

HOLDS CHARM FOR RED-BLOODED MEN

Navy, With Its High Ideals and Splendid Record, Justifies Nation’s Pride. > —r— •- MEN NEEDED FOR SERVICE * - Uncle Sam Pays All Expenses and Monthly Wage Is All Velvet—- “ There Is Always Room at the Top,” True of Nav&_ By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington. —Sailors of the American navy, many of them young men who only a year ago were on the farm, at the bench, at the counter, or in school, today are In Uncle Sam’s destroyers sailing the waters of the northern seas, where they are engaged tn the heroic duty of, upholding the World principle of freedom for all peoples. The American people always have shown a kindly disposition toward the man-of-war and the man-o’-warsman. There has been an appeal about the sea which has drawn and held the interest of landsmen who never smelt salt water. Americans always have taken a pride in their navy. Today Uncle Sam needs men for his navy and he wishes to get them from the ranks of those who are charged with the volunteer spirit of service. Our great fleet is mobilized “somewhere on the coast” for possible deadly service with, the great fleet of the enemy. Today, for the navy has allowed the fact to become known, many of our smaller craft, the bulldog destroyers of the navy, are hunting the submarine sharks in the waters off Daunt’s Rock, close to the coast of Ireland and farther north, where even In summer the elements at times are almost as fierce as “man, the enemy.” Pay Is Doubled.

Recently the congress of the United States increased the pay of the sailor men so materially that the recruits’s pay is double what it was. In the navy the young men of the country, both In times of peace and in times of war, secure liberal educations. Their opportunities for travel and for sight-seeing are greater than those of men employed in almost any other calling in life. Moreover, the boys just entering manhood who enlist In the navy are given opportunities for instruction which, if they have the ambition and the mental qualifications, will enable them to enter the naval academy at Annapolis on the same terms as midshipmen who are nominated by members of congress, and at that institution to secure an education which fits them for the commissioned rank which the government of the United States will confer upon them. There are traditions In the American navy which keep high the spirit of endeavor in every man who walks the deck under the colors, from the admiral to the apprentice seaman. The boy learns all about John Paul Jones, and his deeds on the sea for his country ; all about Decatur, Bainbridge, Hull, Porter, Farragut and Dewey. As the secretary of the navy has said, In what is really an appeal to the youth of the country to enlist under the navy's colors, the standard is high.

Service of High Ideals.

"The navy has been throughout its entire 'existence a service of high ideals; and its unbroken record of great and worthy achievement, of duty well done, has been duo to the high standard set for officers and men in the beginning and which has been maintained ever since. This standard was never higher than it is today; and any voung American who thinks of going into the navy may feel sure that, on enlisting, he will enter a service In which he may, and should, always feel a justifiable pride and of which the uniform is a badge of honor." Young men between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five, who are not skilled In any naval trade, are enlisted as apprentice seamen. —lmmediately upon being sworn in at the recruiting stations they are sent at government expense to a naval training station. The apprentice seaman, because he is a green man and simply undergoing training has been paid in the past $17.60 a month. From this time on, however, under the recent act of congress his pay throughout the war and until six months after its ending is to be $32.60 a month. Now it must be remembered that the sailor, whether he be a recruit or a seasoned man-o’-warsman, is under no expense at all for his livelihood after he~bnce joins the navy. He is given clothing, food, shelter and medical attendance. Out of his pay all that he n 1 spend is such money as he desired to pay out for such luxuries and entertainments as he seems inclined to indulge in.

Increase Soon Comes. It must not be. supposed that an apprentice seaman continues long to draw simply the amount of his first pay. His first raise comes in the seaman branch, and if he is in the fireroom he gets an additional sum. The navy needs men who are trained or partly trained in the various trades. Men who are proficient along certain lines and who come within certain limits of are enlisted for speclfic purposes In the navy. They are given pay in accordance with standards set for the different lines of®'endeavor which they must follow. Full information concerning enlistments of this kind can be had at any recruiting office. The navy today is a world in

Itself. It needs men proficient In nearfy all lines of human working endeavor. Rate of Pay In Navy. The law Increasing the pay of the men In the navy has Jost been enacted and the pay tables under the neW dispensation have not yet been made out, but It Is a simple thing to determine the rate of pay of each seaman of whatever class by adding to the pay given In the accompanying table the amount of Increase in each case. The increased pay allotment has just gone, Into effect. Below is given the navy wage table, with the pay as It stdod prior to the recent act of congress. In drder to know what each man's pay now is, It Is only necessary to know that every man now drawing less than s2l a month will receive an Increase of sls a month; that every man drawing at present from $22 to $24 a month, inclusive, will receive sl2 a month additional ; that every man drawing more than $24 and less than $45, will receive $8 a month additional, and that every man drawing at present $45 or more a month will receive $6 a month additional pay. It should be borne in mind that the apprentice seaman, the ordinary boy recruit, who ordinarily gets $17.60 a month, will be receiving at the time that this is read sls additional, making his pay $32.60. Here is the pay table as it stands today regardless of the increases which congress has ordained: Chief Petty Officers. Monthly Pay. Chief masters at arms 171.50 Chief boatswains' mates... 65.00 Chief gunners’ mates ...55.00 Chief turret captains 66.00Chief quartermasters 55.00 Chief machinists’ mates ... TIM Chief electricians 66.00 Chief carpenters’ mates ; 55.00 Chief water tenders 56-00 Chief printers 66.00 Chief storekeepers 55.00 Chief veomen •••••• 66.00 Chief pharmacists’ mates 66.00 Bandmasters 57.20 All chief petty officers with a permanent appointment , receive $77 a month and allowances. Petty Officers, First Class. Masters at arms, first class 144.00 Boatswains’ mates, first class.;-.. 44.00 Gunners’ mates, first class 44.00 Turret captains, first class 55.00 QuartermastersT first class 44.00 Baller makers ............ 71.50 Machinists’ mates, first class 60.50 Coppersmiths ; • •••• 60.50 Shipfitters, first class 60.50 Electricians, first class 55.00 Blacksmiths , ...... 55.00 Plumbers and Fitters 49.50 Sailmakers' mates ...44.00 Carpenters’ mates, first class 44.00 Water tenders 44.00 Painters, first class 44.00 Printers, first class 44.00 Storekeepers, first class 44.00 Yeomen, first class 44.00 First musicians 39.60 Pharmacists' mates, first class 44.00

Masters at arms, second eiass.... MB* Boatswains' mates, second class w« Gunners’ mates. clms... wS Quartermasters, second c1a55......... Machinists’ mates, second class M W Electricians, second class m w Shipfitters, second class Oilers ••............. w Carpenters' mates, second class « w Painters, second class 35 ■' Storekeepers, second class Yeomen, second class ............ » w Pharmacists’ mates, second class.... 33W Petty Officer*, Third Class. Rasters at arms, thild class Coxswains “’i"", Gunners’ mates, third class 33. Quartermasters, third c1a55...,.,. 33.00 Electricians, 3d class. Carpenters’ mates, (third class 33 00 Painters, third class. « w Storekeepers, third c1a55...... “ W Yeomen, third c1a55.......... Pharmacists' mates, third class 33.00 Rating With Seamen, teamen gunners Be*men Firemen, first class Musicians, first class Hospital apprentices, first class 26.40 Rating With Seamen, Second Class. Seamen, second class. »0.90 Firemen, second class "W Shipwrights ••••••••• Musicians, second class « w Buglers I ", "22 ” " X Hospital apprentices, second class -v-w Rating With Seamen, Third Class. Apprentice seamen Firemen, third class " Landsmen *'- w

Commissary Branch. Chief commissary stewards >77.00 Commissary stewartls 66.00 Ship’s cooks, first class 60.50 Ship’s cooks, second class 44.00 Ship’s cooks, third class •• 33W Ship’s cooks, fourth class 27.50 Bakers, first class 49.50 Bakers, second class »w Landsmen ....'. "r; - ; -Inn Stewards to commander In chief 66 W Cooks to commanders In chief 55.00 Stewards to commandants.... 66.00 Cooks to commandants .. w.w Cabin stewards Cabin cooks .. - 7... --«• V Wardroom stewards Wardroom cooks *’ Steerage stewards " w Steerage cooks ■ • " ™ Warrant officers’ stewards « w Warrant officers’ cooks « w Mess attendants, first class*.. 33-w Mess attendants, second class*. Mess attendants, third class* 22 W •If Americans citizens. All stewards and cooks of the messman branch, who are American citizens, and hold certificates of qualification, receive $5.50 a month in addition to the above rates of pay. Navy Needs Men. The United States today is at war. The government officials are looking to the young men of the country to come to the help of that democracy which means liberty. There are rear admirals and captains in the United States navy today who rose to their high rank of command from tho position of naval apprentice. Rear Admiral William H. H. Southerland once was a naval apprentice. Capt. John Emil Roller was a naval apprentice. “There Is always room at the top" is a saying that Is credited originally to the sea service. Uncle Sam needs recruits to help sustain the honor of his flag. The sea and its service have a holding charm for men of red blood.