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SAYRE, 0 K L A, HEADLIGHT
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Once Center of Tremendous
Whaling Industry.
T JNCLB 8AM la a schoolmaster
j : of the old typo. He neither
^ ,J spares the rod nor spoils the
child. He has many pupils,
those who enter his service
In the government departments and
the army and the navy. His course
of training In the navy Ib rather se-
vere, for he requires every man who
'enlists for service under the Stars
«nd Stripes on sea to become a skilled
■artisan. Probably the most Interest-
ing of all of Uncle Sam's trade schools
ils the school for seaman gunners, at
the navy yard In Washington. It Is
'here that the men who aim and fire
ithe great guns learn their principle
and mechanism so thoroughly that the
efficiency of the United States navy
Is unequaled by uny navy In the
gvorld.
There are moro than 125 men In the
toeaman gunners' class at the present
time, enrolled for six mouths of the
'hardest kind of study In the shops
and In the classroom. Every one of
Iheso men Is picked, and In the serv-
'Ice It Is considered a great honor to
'he chosen to join the class. Only
men who have been In the service
four years are eligible, and then only
when their conduct and service record
«re exceptionally good Graduates of
the school are the backbone of the
navy. Here the men aro taught the
only really distinctive naval trade, and
1t Is here that the men who load, train
and Are the Immense guns are made.
Requires Much Study.
They learn the making of the large
and.small guns. They learn by prac-
tical experience how to take them
<lown and assemble them again. The
■breech mechanism, everything to do
with the practical part of ordnance
•the manufacture of shells, fuses and
■powder and torpedoes all require
thorough and extensive study The
■work Is equally divided between the
naval gun factory shops and the class-
Toom, where they have Instruction at
'the hands of skilled ordnance experts
and special Instructors. In addition
to the ordnance course they are re-
quired to become proficient In the scl-
■ence of metallography and skilled In
the manufacture and principle of the
storage battery.
Work on the big guns start from the
raw casting This huge, 75-ton cylin-
der of steel Is bored out, trimmed and
grooved. The casing, another huge
cylinder of steel, Is bored out, healed
white hot and shrunk onto the groov
«d lining. The manufacture of this
part of the monster 14 Inch rifles takes
about four weeks.
Then the gunnery force enters the
forge and hammer shops, where they
remain for two weeks. After this the
class Is divided Into small squads
some of them going Into the black-'
emltb shop, others to the machinists'
tb® car',enter «hop. the tin-
emlth the coppersmith and the
number for Instruction. Each man
must hnminer and turn out from raw
meta every piece of steel which goes
into the complicated breech block me
chanlsm and the firing devices. Pro-
Jeetlles and smokeless powder also
get n great deal of attention this last
phase of the work taking the school
weeks work^ead' """ *
When these men graduate and leave
Washington for the various ships of
he Atlantic fleet to them falls the
duty of keeping In repair every por
lion of the ship's armament, if dur-
ing battle practice a spring or bit of
mechanism breaks, those seaman gun-
uers must enter the ships machine
shop and forge or turn out a new
piece.
The gunner Is In absolute command
of his gun. He has under him an as
Blatant In the big dreadnaugbts of
today, there are six turrets, with two
guns to each turret. Each turret Is
supplied with ammunition for two
magazines. Also there Is a gunner
In charge of the magazines. Resides
these, there areamaller flvo-lnch rifles
six and one-pounders located on vari-
ous portions of the ship. To these
smaller guns (he recently graduated
class Is always sent In time they
are promoted nnd placed In charge
of a big gun or even a whole turret
Severe With Students.
Uncle Sam Is exceedingly severe
with his students. They must turn
out promptly at 8 o'clock In the morn-
lug. roll up their hammocks, sweep
out their quarters and be washed
shaved and cleanly clothed for break
fast at 7 o'clock. At 8 o'clock they
«nter the shops of the naval gun fac-
tory for their various duties. At 11:30
o'clock the students "knock off’ for
lunch, but promptly at 1 o'clock they
are again in the shops or In the lec-
ture room hard at work. j llfe aavers Bince the first hardy plo-
At 4:30 an hour's drill under arms necrs settled on the Island two and a
Is held. This takeB place on the drill ba^ centuries ago.
ground of the navy yard and keeps Isle de Nantochyte you will find the
Now Figures Chiefly as Summer Re-
sort—People Have Rescued Many
From Shipwreck—Seek $100,000
for Erection of Hospital.
New York.—Nantucket, the little Is-
land that offers the last glimpse of
land to those on ships sailing from
the principal American ports and that
Is the first signal welcome to Incom-
ing European vessels, Is making an
effort to obtain $100,000 with which
to endow a hospital suitable to its i
needs. Au appeal has been sent out I
to the generous people of America, I
particularly to those who have some
sort of sentimental attachment to this !
picturesque dot In the wave-tossed wa-
ters of the Atlantic.
Once the center of a tremendous Iiw
dustry based on the catching of whales
Nantucket now figures chiefly as a
community engaged for a brief season
each year In catching summer board-
ers, but It knows no closed season
for the rescue of persons on ships
wrecked In the troubled waters out-
side Its haven. There have been ter-
rible wrecks recorded as happening
In the vicinity and daring work by
life savers since the first hardy plo-
cooklng, eating and sleepingj'n^h^streoteemP*°ye8 °f lp*wlch’ MaM" haV0 been evlct*<i from their homes and
IN POLITICAL SNARL
---- ;aiu auu aucpu
the men for three-quarters of an hour.
At 5 o'clock comes the event of the
day, dinner.
Dinner to the seaman gunner's class
Is always something to look forward
to. The menu Is large and the food,
although simple. Is the best that
money can buy. The class has a ca-
terer who makes It his business to
see that the same dishes are not
served too often and that the food
Is of the best quality.
From dinner until 10:30 o'clock the
men are at leisure to come and go
as they please. They may "go ashore"
or visit friends In Washington, or they
may remain In quarters and study
their lessons for the next day. The
men are allowed to use clvillar
clothes. For the most part, the stu-
dents restrict their liberties to not
more than two nights a week and all
day Sunday.
It Is so great an honor to be sent
to the school and the advancement,
after graduating, Is so rapid that none
of the lucky oues care to risk their
chances of being dismissed and re-
turned to the service under their old
rank. Then, as many written prob-
lems are required, and several oral
recitations occur each week, they bum
a great deal of midnight oil A vis-
itor to the navy ward any night ex-
cept Saturday will find forty or fifty
clean-cut young men working out
ordnance problems, studying from a
dozen text books, and quizzing each
other on the que8tions that the officer-
instructor Is sure to ask them the
next day.
Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy, Is particularly fond of the sea-
man gunners' clasB. To Ills mind,
the rushing dreadnought and the crash
of mighty guns are not all that go
lo make up a perfect naval service.
He believes that a 'our-year course
In the navy should be equal to a
four year course In the best vocational
spelling on an outline map of early |
days. The Island Is almost crescent- \
shaped, about 15 mlleB long and about
two and a half miles wide, and has
a coast line of 80 miles. It belongs _________
to Massachusetts, but Is separated ~ I "" -
from Cape Cod penlncula by 28 miles Ipn porfipe FnrmoH fthmrt M.n dls,lnc,l0DS wl,*>out differences. For
of water. The village of Nantucket P „ ” h0rmed At50U* Metl Instance, on such an Important Issue
Is on the north shore of the island, j Rather Than Principles. “8 !he *DcreaB® of the land tax the
almost midway east and west, but same party has been working, now la
it was not always there. The orig- ’ support, now In opposition. All par-
Inal site was on the west end of the Conditions Are Well Nigh Inexplicable ' 'les and fac,i0DS having too often
Island at a point now known as Mad- t0 Many—Result is Considerable ,n f°und of opportunism,
dequet harbor. In 1072 the Bettlers Confusion—Different Periods of
moved to the present site, which then Country's Political Progress,
was called Vtescoe. The next year,
by order of Governor Francis I/>ve-
lace, It was named Sherburne, and it
"as not until 1893 that the present
name was adopted by the village.
Although Nantucket island is
ted with handsome summer villas its
surface presented few attractions to
Leap* Distance of 75 Feet to Brick
Pavement and Appears to Be
Unhurt
Meridian, Miss.—The fire depart-
ment was called to the Central Meth-
odist church to take from the high
steeple of the church a cat that had
been disturbing worship and making
iuuuo guuty or opportunism. msiurning worship and making
Another peculiar feature of parties j some verX mournful sounds for about
In Japan Is the almost complete lack i a weelc- All efforts to entice the cat
of grouping on economic class lines t0 come dowo failed, so the Are depart-
Tokyu, Japan.—Japanese politics is Z" geograPblcal H^P* ment ran UP tb« B«r‘al ladder and
well nigh inexplicable to man ner ■ „ s '® been partly econom‘c.aad Went after lbe mous<*
sons, especially occidentals The sud- th^'bii^t'6 ^ aUempta t0 line UP Seeing the Aremen approaching the
41; ■ — - - v.,.a8e. den and frequent changes of iLem Z ^ t0egtber Bul- as Jumped *eTenty-fl™ to the
Although Nantucket Island is dot- In part or in whole, are difficult to un- 21'1. d ab°Te' eVen the land tax l6‘ brlck pavlng below and was stunned
d with handsome summer villas its dersiand. And while wc can make n “ DOt 6bcceeded ‘a forming any for a while, but one of its proverbial
rface presented few attractions m no Hmm ................... Immanent alignment, and the tariff H"es came back and it soon „ii
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Typical Fisherman's Cottage.
derstand. And, while wc can make
no claim to a perfect understanding of
the mysteries, we may be able to
throw a little light on the subject.
In the first place, it should be kept
In mind that political parties in Japan
tre more personal than political. Fac-
tions and parties have formed around
men rather than measures, around
persons more than principles. Th» his-
tory of political parties in New Japan
may be divided Into live periods, as
follows:
1887-1882—Embryonic period.
1882-1890—Organizing period.
1890-1898—Developing period.
1898-1911—Influential period
1911—Predominant period.
The chief political parties which
have been organized In Japan during
party In the field was the Jiyuto, or
liberal party, which was organized by
Count (then Mr.) ltagakl, and which
consisted largely of bis personal fol-
lowing. The next party was the
and there were not many trees.
From 1700 to the War of the Rev-
olution Nantucket was ramous as a
whaling port. For a time it held first
rank and in 1726 shore whaling lowing
reached its highest mark of 86 whales shimpoto, or progressive nartv
-7 ,UU1*" 111 "m opsi vocational having been taken that year. Some which was , ,,Py‘
school In (he country. As far as the Years later whaling fleets were sent Oku™ Z l Count)
seaman gunners’ class Is concerned, nut to distant points off Newfound- ‘------- -■ " f 6D 3 « chief dlf-
they get an excellent vocational train- ! land, the West Indies, Cape Verde is-
mg In Just six months. I lands, and' even to Brazil, and the
A graduate of this wonderful school business was one of large gain de-
can take raw metal and turn out the | sPlto the danger from French and
most complicated steel mechanism; j Spanish privateers. In 1775 the Nan-
turn sheet copper Into symmetrical tucket fleet numbered 150, and tba
pipe and ducts; make and charge a population then was nearly 6,000, and
storage battery; wire a turret for alI save a meager ten per cent of
electrldty; make a set of plans for them were Quakers. By 17S5 the fleet considerations have“'larseW
“ ssrSr*®!
i this feature is a not unnatural surviv-
al of the feudal system. And it was
permanent alignment, and the tariff Hv«*8 came back and It was soon all
question has not yet affected the po-1 right The cat had been without food
tical situation. ; and was very emaciated.
The burning topic of socialism has
not made any perceptible Impression
on the political world of Japan Sev-
eral years ago a socialistic party was
firtranlvorl ku» —____ ...
Held Under “White Slave” Law.
Louisville, Ky.—Because he smiled
organized but waa'VoT^iiV'f^hM^ at her' 8llteen'year-old Minnie Bell
and suppressed bv f b dden i Wallace says she left her home In
Moreover the anarchist con??8”1 ! Evansvllle and came t0 Louisville with
Wt» A ,m " ! 7% • a** for .
Increase the severity of the nm i ! traDSf6r comPany- The girl's father
toward socialists of all kinHa^' ‘raCed them here and caU8«d Loch-
bad or indifferent. Therefore there°fs balbeE8 arrestJor Tiolat>aS the “white
no socialist party. * ,la"' Hochhalber has a wife
and infant child in Evansville.
CASH FOR FARMER
Col. Green Hits Sending Surplus
to Wall Street.
ference in these two parties, so lar is
principles were concerned, was that
the liberals were more radical than
the progressives; but the greater dif-
ference w as the personal one. In more
recent days it has been Ito and his
pruteges who have dominated the
seiyukai. Small factions have rallied
around smaller men; while personal
considerations have largely caused
Millionaire Declares That Local Bank
Balances Created by Producers
Should Be Loaned Agricultur-
ists at Very Moderate Rates.
•mSS: lond he#dZ»ess one;
Shape More Important, This Writer
Says, Than Size—Some Noted
Examples.
London. A writer in an Indian pa-
per states that heads have changed !
thnt It grows even under a consider-
able covering of snow. If the snow
Is not too deep the plant sends Its
cten. up through the snow, which Is
melted by the heat If the snow Is
-eeper the heat melts a little hollow i . ,---—•**“ e-
chamber out about the plant thusgiv- i LLrl 'm !?at, heads have chan8,,d
log It room to expand and blossom. It a “entun Mi?, m ^‘i qUartCr
has been found that some of the a ceatur>; °"in8 to the advancement
plants of the arum family, which are 1 ? ,CjducaIio'1' wblch is materially a'-
common In tho Mediterranean regi'or 1 ctlag buaiaess men a«d women by
develop a temperature of as high as ' dfcVeloplns the mental powers. The
100 degrees when fhelr buds are open- Per8°n ? W il1 bold tbe reins ol
Ing. To a less degree probable all fommiaDdi in tbe future will be the
plants furnish their own heat under * °'1S. headod individual, who Is fast
certain conditions, but ordinarily v,»c. I 6U‘‘PasslnS bis "ide headed brother,
etatlon, being by nature adapted to Us he Bbap0 of tbe bead is of greater
surroundings, gets the heat It needs , Porta,lce tlmn Its size, and the best
from the snii nip o,„i ..... | llterar)’ type of head varies from 22 to
- I 231^ Inches, but up to 21% inches
may be found men of powerful in-
tellects. Heads that succeed in busi-
ness and in manufacture and mech-
anism are usually large, wide about
the ears and forward, with a broad,
though not always a high forehead.
Heads that succeed in educational,
literary, scientific, analytical and ar-
tistic pursuits are generally long, pro-
portionately narrow and high, with a
good development forward of the
ears. Sir Thomas Lipton, H. Gordon
Seifridge and Sir Joseph Lyons aro
among the meu who possess heads
which may lie accounted somewhat
ideal types of tho class of business
surroundings, gets
from the soil, air and sun. Animals
nre of a higher order than plants
partly because they are more inde-
pendent of their surroundings.—The
Pathfinder.
Ducks an Important Food Supply,
Concerning certain features of Es-
kimo life along the north coast of
Alaska, the account written by Vllb-
Jalmar Slefansson says: "In the spring
and summer ducks and geese, espe-
cially the former, are an Important
Item of diet. They are pursued In
kayaks when molting and killed with
clubs, and large numbers of them are
'r«>»• -*•>«b,„
the coast Is so definitely known th.f I *h° lead ,B the fulum
a man can stand all day and rely 0n u/nT^ IT ~
It that three out of every four ducks L*v® Policewomen,
will IIy within throwing distance. So
thickly do the birds come that nowa-
days a competent man with a shot-
gun has been known to secure as
many as 600 ducks In a day.”
Emperor of Japan.
New York—Col. Edward H. R.
Green of Texas and New York city,
sor. of Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest
woman in the world, and her active as-
sociate In a vast money lending busi-
.less that extends across the country,
has decided views of financing the
American farmer. He has practical
get-up-and-do-it Ideas that have a big,
substantial bearing on the subject
Although in business within a
s.one s throw of the New York stock
exchange, Colonel Green never enters
Its portals. He is opposed to stock gam-
bling. Twenty years in Texas, run-
ning a railroad that got its tonnage
from carrying products of the soil,
gave him a viewpoint quite at vari-
ance with the ideas of tbe exchange
floor.
"The farmer still rocks tbe cradle of
our country, but 1 often wonder how
he does it so well with no financial
scheme whatever in existence for his
particular benefit," he said. "Every-
body Is telling how to finance the far-
mer these days. It Is almost as popu-
lar a topic as ‘better tenements' for
the city and 'good roads' for motor
club members to use and farmers to
pay for. In all I have read and heard
uo one seems yet to nave got down to
brass tacks with a real financial uplift
plan for the farmer.
Two phases of the farmer's predica-
ment have enlisted my personal Inter-
est because they run directly counter
to the way my mother has always
handled her wealth in relation to the
public good.
Hrst is the rate of Interest the
farmer has to pay for money he bor-
Government statistics show
their balances to Wall street, forming
a huge fund used for speculative pur-
poses. These balances represent the
net business profit of each particular
locality—the very cream off the pan
of milk in the cool springhouse-yet
the creators of this surplus wealth, the
farmers, are starved financially when
they apply for loans, because the funds
of the community are in Wall street
being used in stock and bond promo-
tions reaching even to China and the
Philippines.
“For years my mother has held to
the belief and has absolutely lived up
to it, as far as her Influence and power
have gone, that every community l-
entitled to the full benefit of Its pros-'
perity. She always made it an invio-
lable rule that profits acquired in a
given locality belonged to that locality
and should always be reinvested la
that locality. Our books are divided
Into different cities; we keep an ac-
count of San Francisco money separ
Oshkosh, WIs.—Following the lead
of several other cities this city soon
will have police women. Tho new of-
ficers will attsnd public dance halls,
bathing beaches and Juvenile court
from the seiyukai on the Rround that
said parly was co standing firmly , larni
The feature mentioned^'has 1 n m ^ ^ aVmge interest
Vot
principles, have been too ’loose Or sT °“ ''ahlCd at WWO,000.000
the reverse may he partly « I iZZTll'Zl "" ^ aS
and these have been so vague and , he bas never “bed
lndefiniv>. Party ties have befn ver! 1 Z of6 ^ ^ “ year 'or the
loose. The party platforms hive too h.. IT*7' ^ bullt of ber
often consisted of glittering general i h i r"" beeU &t meS eonsiderably
Hies and lacking i Zlt -lv dU i! I T Cent' In ami Ger-
p—A t:i ssTrt*"-1”11*
£ i F
Col. E. H. R. Green.
rate from Chicago money; Toledo
money separate from New York
money, while Texas not only has its
own net profits left there for reinvest-
ment in Texas enterprises, but now
and then gets additional help from sur-
plus funds."
Colonel Green explained that the ap-
plication of his mother's principles of
home cash for home people and her
rule of 6 per cent or less would work
wonders In giving the farmer a freer
hand If generally adopted.
Blows Self to Piece*.
OrantJ Rapids, Mich.-Placlng s
stick of dynamite on top of his head
and lighting the fuse, John Aho *
farmer, committed suicide here.
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