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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

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