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Each night the Navy Department
sends out from Washington a wireless
news service, “The Navy Press,” to
all ships and coast radio stations.
| The message ranges from 800 to 1,600
j words in length and contains items
of general and particular interest to
I officers and seamen in every branch
| of the naval serivce. Each day the
I budget of news is carefully sorted out
and the mere important events are
put into concise English. During the
night the words are flashed out by the
government’s radio operators, and the
next morning there appears upon the
ship’s bulletin boards a resume of all
the previous day’s happenings, both
abroad and at home.
A very clever machine has been
| devised to make easier this distribu
tion of the cream of current news.
It Is somewhat like a typewriter and
somewhat like a stock ticker. Instead
of printing words it punches holes in
a long ribbon of white paper. The rib
bon Is inserted in the wireless send
ing machine and the message clicked
off automatically. Once released, it
is caught by ail of the radio stations
along the coast and they relay it far
■ ther to other stations and to the ships.
! Vessels plying along the coast and
many at sea catch the initial message
j sent from Arlington. For those far
out in the Atlantic the relaying ser
vice is necessary.
No cipher is used and the process
is known as “broadcasting.” It goes
out to any and every vessel, battle
ship or merchantman, whose radio
instrument is tuned to receive it.
On small ships one bulletin board is
usually enough to contain the news
for those aboard. On a large man-of
war there may be ten or even more.
One is ordinarily placed in the ward
room, one in the junior officers’ mess
room, one in the chief petty officers’
mess room. Several bulletin boards
: for the crewr are located in conven
ient places about the ship. Besides
the bulletin boards, a copy of the news
letter is given to the ship's commander
and, if there chances to be an admiral|
on board, a special copy is prepared
for him also.
The new's needs of men aboard a
battleship are as various as their
tastes and dispositions. All are inter
ested in war developments, but each;
seaman also has his particular hobby.
One is eager to know what is hap
pening in the theatrical world, another
is chiefly concerned with the fluctua-i
tions of the stock market.
The United States Navy Press rec
ognizes this divergence of interests
and caters to the different want3.
Closely related to the interest in
market reports is the desire of thes
sailors to know about the financial
standing of government bonds. A good
many of them own Liberty Bonds. Al
though they feel sure of the security
of their investment, they like occa
sional’y to be reassured. Among the
paragraphs w-hich were sent out on
April 6 the following appears:
“NEW YORK, April ,6.—The mar
ket closed strong today. During late
dealings many issues making new high
records for the day. The Atlantic
Gulf and W. I. sold up to 112%, an
advance of 3 points, and steel common
to 91%. Corn products moved up to
37 and Marine preferred advanced
over two points to 94. Government
bonds steady. Railroad and other
bonds strong.
Baseball, the national sport, is con
stantly in the minds of the boys at
sea. Although they are unable to play
it themselves (for the deck of a ship
is a poor place to knock flies and
swat out three-baggers), they flock
eagerly to the notices on the bulletin
boards to read about the games that
are played by the landlubbers. When
the big-league season opens, reports
of all the important games become a
regular feature of the service. When
a world’s series is on, or a decisive
game is to be played near the end
of the season by closely matched
teams, special wireless messages are
sent out for the information of the
jack-tars.
It is not only the regular navy which
benefits by the radio service. Steam
ships of the merchant auxilliary and
every sort of craft connected with
the navy can pick up the news which
goes by wireless. Not long ago the
Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation
Company’s boats were requisitioned by
the United States navy. On board one
of them is a girl radio operator. Her
name Is Miss Elizabeth Duval, and she
is probably the only woman wireless
operator on any steamer in the world.
Not long ago, when Miss Duval was
in the office of the navy department
at Washington, she took occasion to
tell how much the government’s news
service means to the crew of the ship
on which she is located.
“It keeps us from feeling that we
are ‘out of it’,” Miss Duval said.
“When we can have the dally reports
of what Washington officials are do
ing and what is happening on the
French frontier it seems as though
we were closer to things that are
happening in the world."
The world is undoubtedly smaller
than it once was. No more graphic
proof of the truth of this could be
found than the way in which our ships
and naval stations are united by wire
less. As the newspaper is one of the
great coordinating agencies of modern
society, so the United States Navy
Press draws together the huge and
scattered family of the navy. But the
flashes sent out from Arlington are
still more indispensable for the sailor
than the daily paper for the lands
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heart of things by sending him infor
mation from which he would other
wise be cut off. For this reason they
must be counted upon as among the
vital factors in winning the war.
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