Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1918 — TRAINING AMERICA’S NEW MARINERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRAINING AMERICA’S NEW MARINERS

More than 40 schools have been started by the shipping board, as well as eight free marine engineering schools, to train deck officers and engineers for merchant ships, and 5,000 Americans have been licensed as officers in the merchant marine. The photograph shows students of the free navigation •chool at Tampa, Fla., after a cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, taking tests in ••shooting the sun” with the sextant In the right foreground is D. L. Brown, tlm instructor. To the left, looking Into the sextant’s telescope, Is Prof. Alfred E. Burton, dean of the Massachusetts School of Technology, who Is director of the shipping board navigation nehools. _ r.“