Popular Science MontJily 



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turing establishments as 

 worth time and money in 

 increased efficiency of 

 workmen. 



The young man who has 

 mastered the fundamentals 

 of some particular trade 

 can enlist in the Navy and 

 be assigned immediately to 

 work at that trade with 

 sure promotion ahead of 

 him. The experience that 

 he gets in the Navy will be 

 far broader and greater in 



The daily drill on the ship's deck is an 

 important and interesting feature of the 

 day's routine. Above, sailors in a battle- 

 ship reading-room 



ninety-two per cent. 



I am asking Congress this year 

 for eleven thousand five hundred 

 more men for our Navy. Thanks 

 to the policy outlined, there is not 

 the slightest doubt that we will be 

 able to get eleven thousand five 

 hundred (or more when they are 

 needed) young men of the highest 

 type, keen, intelligent, desirous of 

 improving, and willing to learn their 

 duties. It has simply been a case of 

 willingness to learn from civil life the 

 most efficient way to achieve a military 

 object, for the education of apprentices 

 has been recognized by great manufac- 



The navy turns out good stenographers and 

 typewriters as well as good mechanics 



all probability than he would get work- 

 ing at his trade outside. Take the young 

 man who has gone in for electricity and 

 who lives in a small town. He has few 

 chances of learning the higher branches 

 of his profession ; wiring for electric 



