clews over the mattress and coil the lashing in the center. Five minutes after the command Lay out hammocks for inspection, the order Attention will be given. Men stand at attention at the end of their hammocks until the inspection is over. The inspecting officer inspects all blankets, mattress covers, mattresses, and pillows to see that they are properly marked according to regulations and are clean. See Figure 2 for hammock laid out for inspection.

CLEANLINESS

Our Navy is as clean as any navy in the world. Our ships, our stations, and all the men in our Navy set a standard of cleanliness that is not surpassed anywhere. It is up to you to uphold that standard. Learn now to do so. There will now be given a few rules which will help you to attain our Navy's standard of cleanliness.

First, be clean in person. Without this you can not be 1 respected by anyone, nor can you expect to be chosen for higher positions. Take baths frequently. Use your toothbrush twice a day. Clean your finger nails. Clean up well after all your drills or work. Change your underwear every time you bathe. Keep in clean uniforms. Scrub your work clothes often and always wear clean clothes after working hours. Always keep a good uniform for quarters and inspections. Never store dirty clothes or dirty shoes in your bag. Keep your hammock clean. Keep your shoes shined. Wear a clean hat and wear it square on your head with brim up. Be a snappy man-o'-war's man all the time.

Second, keep your station clean and always act so as to help everyone else to keep his station clean. Do not throw ashes or other dirt on the deck. Never spit on

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the deck. Wipe your shoes clean before entering your quarters. See that the windows, decks, walls, canvas, and sidewalks are clean and kept clean.

FIELD DAY

Field day is the term used in our Navy for a general house cleaning. Field days are held once every week, usually Friday. On these days all hands get busy and every nook and corner is cleaned thoroughly.

INSPECTION

Inspection by your company commander is held every day. He inspects your quarters for neatness and cleanliness. He later inspects you in formation for neatness and cleanliness. At regular intervals high ranking officers of your station make further inspections of your quarters and your company. Once every week the commanding officer himself inspects your quarters and formations. In addition to these inspections the medical officers inspect the galley and the preparation and serving of your food daily, and at regular intervals look over each recruit for signs of any diseases or sickness.

These inspections are held to guard your health so that your person and station will be kept up to the Navy standard of neatness and cleanliness and so that you will learn to be a real man-o'-war's man.

MEDICAL SERVICE

There is a dispensary at your station with medical officers on duty at all times. Sick call is held twice daily, and if you are not feeling well you can see the doctors at these times. Your company commander will

tell you how to get to the dispensary. In case of sudden illness, accident, or any other emergency you can go to the dispensary at any time, day or night. Serious cases of illness are sent to the hospital, while all others are treated in the dispensary.

The medical officers will give you a series of lectures on personal hygiene. Listen to these lectures carefully and try to do what the doctors tell you to do. You are young and inexperienced and know little of how to take care of yourself. The doctors have found this out from long experience, and they give you these lectures to help you keep your health. In civil life you would have to pay big money for the advice these doctors give you. To live a clean, wholesome life, you must think clearly and wholesomely. When you find your minds wandering on unwholesome subjects, snap out of it and turn your minds on to clean thoughts. Get interested in clean, manly subjects, as good books, athletics, shows, etc. See the really worth-while sights in the towns you happen to visit. Do not hang around the dirty places that are always handy and in which there are always people waiting to prey on you. Your position in life as a man-o'-war's man is above such things.

SHIP'S SERVICE

Besides the station "small stores" in charge of the supply officer, where you can get all your clothing at very cheap prices, your station will have the following shops, which come under the term ship's service, where you can get real service at much cheaper prices than ashore.

Barber shop.-You get regulation hair cuts and other barber service. Your style of hair cut must be uniform. Your hair on the top should not be more than 12

inches long, and it should be clipped short down the sides, but not so short as to give the impression that your head has been shaved. You seldom get the regulation hair cut ashore, and you usually pay three times or more for it than you do at the station.

Tailor shop.-You get alterations to your uniforms made here very cheaply. You also get the branch marks on your sleeves and rating stripes on the wristbands put on for you.

Cobbler shop.-All work is done on shoes here for you at very cheap prices.

Pool and billiard rooms, photograph shop, and movies are available, either free or at very cheap rates.

All men should use the ship's service at all times.—A certain percentage of all money paid to these services goes to provide "movies" and other forms of recreation at the station. Similar shops ashore can not possibly do work as cheap, and what you spend there is gone forever. They usually get you in difficulties also, because they do not always do work according to regulation pattern.

IMPORTANT POINTS

Tips. Never take tips. An apprentice seaman is already above that station in life.

Smoking lamp. In the old days, before matches were invented, a lamp was lighted at certain times aboard ship when smoking was permitted. All smokers got their pipes lighted from this lamp. It was easy to regulate smoking in those days, for all they had to do to stop smoking was to put out the lamp. We still have the "smoking lamp" in spirit. Your station has a schedule which tells when the smoking lamp is "lighted" and when it is "out." Smoke when it is lighted" but do not smoke when it is "out."

Lucky bag.-All clothes not called for when the clothesline is piped down, and all stray clothes found lying around are collected and put in a safe place called the "lucky bag." These clothes still belong to the person who failed to take care of them. At regular intervals the "lucky bag" will be opened and the clothes issued to the owners. If the owner was at fault by being careless with his clothes, he will be put on the report and given punishment dependent upon how careless he was.

Pay. An officer of the Supply Corps, called the disbursing officer, keeps your pay accounts. He assigns you a pay number and pays you on the 5th and 20th of every month. When you draw small stores, he subtracts the amount of clothes you have drawn. You can always check your own account by remembering what your pay is and subtracting small stores you have drawn and 20 cents hospital fee. All of you must learn to make out your pay slips properly. The disbursing officer will refuse to pay you if the pay slips are not made out correctly, and you may have to wait until next pay day to draw your money. Sign your pay slip with your full name, both given name and surname. All words must be spelled correctly and there must be no erasures, blots, or writing over.

Tattooing. Do not get tattooed. Ask any man you see who has been tatooed and he will tell you that he would give anything to have the tattooing removed. It is dangerous, costly, and an awful lot of trouble the rest of your life.

Allotments. You can make an allotment to a bank for purposes of saving money, or to your relatives for their support. When you make an allotment, a check for this amount is mailed on the 1st of every