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S Yc 0 S S 0 'We + toM * opposiI . SAVINGS MiAN-O '-WARBJOURNALISM. Bright Paper6 ?uhhsned on Thi, Bat tie Ships-L.ong Catae' of Ken The ocean~ liners are not the onliy *ships 'to hiave floating newspapers and periodicas 'nowadays. Some of Unele Sam'.s battle ships which just completed their globe eneircling voy age have their own magazines, and not a few of the magazines are so vrell got up as to look as if they were published ashore instead of afloat. Of course 'they are not regalarly recognized as official journals by 'the navy department and a.re published under a strict ensorship exercised by the executive officers of the ships, 'but this extra work on the part of .the printers i's generally encouraged because it brightens up life on a bat tle ship, gives a lot of amusement 'to all hands aind makes the printer a popular fellow. There is a regular grade now for printers in the navy. They rank as second class puty offi eers, get $38.50 a month, and some of them have a lot of time to themselves as compared with the regular enlisted men. -The printer does not have anything ds~e to do but attend to the ship's priinting, but if 'his ship be a flag shdp this may keep him busy. On some F of the flag -ships two printers are em ployed. When the grade was first establish ed about ten years ago t'he printars were employed only on flag ships, but now other ships have them as well, and on these tihe printers have a lot of time on their hands. Publishing a paper and 'selling it for 10 cents a copy adds quite a bit t-o their pay, thev have found. The printers are g'enerally the pub r li hers and editors as well, and 'with tVher departure from a ship the publi cation dies. Consequently there are frequent ehages in man-o '-war jour nalism. It is only in the last six or seven years that these ships' maga bzines hav'e come into vogue, but there is quite a list of them, and 'their nam es are generally suggestive of the ships on 'whieh 'they are published. For instance, the Wiseonsin's paper is t'he Badger. the Washington has the Chrerry Tree and Hatchet, tihe Colorado had the Bi Stiek, and the Pennsylvania the Libertyv Bell. O';e of the lirst of these magazines which had the longest life was th Kentucky Budget, published on the >uare RE Cooper' SGoo' Want to Get i ake it to Youl BANK battleship Kentueky. Its first issu~e was in December 1904, and it wound up its career last June after the fleet entered San Francisco Bay with a souvenir number in blue and gold Icontaining many h.alf-tone illustra stions and a complete account of the cruise around South America. It meant a lot of hard work for Louis Kline and Kentucky 's printer, getting out the Budget so as not to disappoint its subscribers and con tribuitors but he kept a' it for three years and a half and it never missed Ian issue. It began, to be sure, as a semi-monthly and wound up as a monthly, but the change was more than compensated for by the adding of several pages and new features, on of these being illustrations. In fact it:hre Budget set the pace for deep sea jou-rnalism pretty much, 'for until the appeatrance of the Budget not much hrad been attempted in this line. Besides having a first rate printer up to all 4the tricks of the trade for its publisher the Budget had an edi tor in chief who was a poet and a pa.ragrapher. He was W. R. McLeod, Ithe Kentucky 's electrician. Its title page was a picture of the Kentucky shooting ait a target and was done in colors. This was the work of anoth-er electrician on the ship. ''It will always be our aim,'' said the Budget in its first issue, ''to pro duce a clean, wholesome and int-erest ing little sheet, ever looking to im provement, and at no time will any article be allowed in these columns, which would be pro:npted by other than that of good will and spirit. Editor Kline proceeded to make good on these lines, but some of the other publications which sprang up and sought to e:nalate the Budget, did not conduet themselves so wisely. Pub1li5hi:!Z a paper inl the interests of the enlisted mn on board a ship is something like publishing a newspa per in Russia. There is always the eensor, and you 'ye got to look out for him. The censor is t2he executive officer, and he has to read every bit of copy before it goes in to type. The Big Stick, published on the Colorado, had to suspend publication because, it is said it incurred -the displeasure of the censor by attempting to print matters p)rejudicial to the navy 's discipline. and( there are other instances in which the deep-sea editors got into hot water by allowing thirI pub~lli(a tions.~ tI be'enmel a vehic fohr growls5. for the e;t of the journals, suspend II! ~spectfuIl s, 1211,Il TPR ds,N \cquainted \ r Interest to I -)oI ed publication .when Printer Kline 's term oif enlistment expired and not because (of the censor. Its publisher decided to knock a-ll 'records sky high in that final number. It had forty pages and was filled with pictuires of the cruise ta.ken in the various places touch'ed at, along the coast of Sout.h America. It made such a hit that Publisher Kline had to turn out 900- copies, and many a jack t:r in the fleet sent along a copy to his friends a.t home. In fact its cir culation extended far beyond the ships on which it was published, .and it had become an advertising medium as well. But its publisher had decid ed t'hat he had had enough of the navy, and so he bade farewell to his sesribers in an editorial. "A paijnful duty, that of bidding you farewell, confronts us.' said the Budget, in -this final number, pub liilhed at San Francisco. ''After four yea:s of ceaseless toil, coupled with no end of pleau~re, the p)resent pub lisher severs his connection with t.he Budget, as he is shortly to return to civil life. "The opening number of the Bud get is before us, and it brings back many pleasanit reminiscenees of by gone days. During the time we :have been associated with this paper, we have seen many changes on the ship. We hMye seen old shipmates go and new ones take t:heir places. We have seen apprentice boys grow into stur dy men. and we have sen this paper grow fro~n an eight page publication to :the umber now before vou. "It has been saidl that a ship's hap) pies cn be judgedj by tile p)aper sie supp. ::. and as the Kentucky he :las ben a happy shlip, we can but 'oneurF in t he ab)ove 5tatemnlL But our nh has not been' strewn ihuses all this time. We have met withI adversity. but we have by dent of mnuch work overcome all dillicul ties, and we can sin.eerely, and truth fully say that we have lived tip to our ideal." The only attempt at eritieism ap peared :n this }'a&t number of the Budget, and the censor, probably in view of the fact that it was the last issue of such a noteworthy publica tion, appa.rently let it pass. Tt was entitled "'An Enlisted Man's View. '' and was inspired by the statement of the president, that no effort sina3~ld be spared to make the seVIce~ at t ractive to the enlisted man. Sme of the views. presented by thme cnt ribnur are interes-ting. Pu ry Invitec /I.ain StrE ICES Vith You. V )eal With Us. 'ER enlistment presents himself at a re cruiting office,'' says this article, "he is told all about the bright side of navy life. This is not right. He should also be informed of the condi tions on board ships. "He should be informed of what is expected of him: That he will have to scrub his own clothes, and will have to perform manual labor. Re ~eruiting parties should bear in mind that the daily routine on board ships, whieh is a matter of common knowl edge to them, is all unknown to ti1e recruit. "I makes a very unfavorable im pression on a man joining a ship to be confronted with conditions which he did not expect to find, conditions which should have been explained to him before being sworn in. The navy is no place for a laggard, but a man should not be allowed to come into the service with his mind made up for a four years' continuous picni.'' Another compla.int mentioned is tha.t not enough attention is paid to the preparation and serving of Jack's meals, and that often he gets them cold. Says the Budget's contributor: "One thing in this - connection ought to be reversed--the inspection of a meal. As it is at present the cook on watch pieks out the best of everything and carries it out to the offier of the deck fo'r inspeetion, and of course this proves satisfactory.'' That t'here are plenty of breezy contibutions in these deep sea jour nals, the work of some of the ama teur paragraphers, is shown hy the followinz lines, inspired apparently by some tar's attemnpts at love-mak ing while on the b)attle ship: Ripened peaches soon grow rotten: Lovers' kisses soon eirow cold: Young girls' vows are soon forgotten. Take care. F-x. don 't get sold. It is necessary to get the permis sion of 'the commanding officer before you can publish a paper aboard one of Uncle Sam's shipsy but -there isn 't much difficulty in getting his consent, and these little papers circulate as freely on the quarterdeck as in the fo 'e'sle. Publishrar Kline, of the Bud get, who is now a printer, has all of the issues of his paper, and they form his proudest possession. WALL paper for 15e at Broaddus & Rluff. 'PHONE 261 FOR FISH AND |Onaters f&t-lm. BLI I to Call4i ~et, and IN 5, Shi /e Will Endes Give Us a "1 |211 NEWE TO KICK OE NOT TO KICK. A Hefty Problem Which Each Man Must Settle for Himself. "Do we,'' said Mr. MacQuilitinbee, "get more by kicking for what we want or in the long run do we get more by being patient and waitng for things to come to us? " This is a question that each one of as must settle for himself and it is I suppose largely a matter of inL idiviiality, of temp'eramenit. Some men are natural, hardy, able kickers, who kick for what they want and get it, 'and some of us are timid and non aggressive, no kickers at all; and so it migh't seem that really this is a question no-t worth discussing at ali, but one that will settle itself automa tically in each case according to the man. "Still there are ma.ny men not na tural fighters, but who have in them a spark or fight, to whom, this ques tion of whether to fight or not must often recnr. Shall I kick against this injustice or th'os'e cold plates at the boarding lIonse or this poor pay ? Shall I kick a'gainst any one of the many things that may afflict us or shall I be patient and wait for this thing to right itself? This to many a man who may be' gentle, but who takes life hard may often be a very grave question and one very hard to settle. "People do respect us more if we don't lie down and let people waJk on us, and we know that if we are content to be sat on we shall con tinue to be sat on: but what are n.e going to do about it? Are we going to kick or be patient? ''There is much in knowing when and hiow to kick, for there are meni who kick blunderingly and futilly, and then there are men who kick gently -and kindly and yet with an evidence of reserve power and resolu tion behind the kick that brings re suts: "I am speaking now, you under stand, not of the natural hardy kick es who, with abundant ability to baok them, stride in and kick with vigor- and power, getting what they want because they can make good, but of the multitude of men to whom, as I have said, whether to kick or not may be a grave question. 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