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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
HEM PAPERS
FORCE NAVAL
Secretary Daniels to Win Recruits
by Making Warships Train-
<, ing Schools.
8/ JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
W ASHINGTON. M»> 29. The
HearM raper*. In advance »f
other American newspapers,
exposed the fact that the American
navy was not much more than half-
manned.
The Hearst papers made the state
ment, later so emphatically confirmed,
that not s battleship in the xreit
Hudson Rivet display of last October
rooM have gone out to sea to fight
without a shortage of from three to
five officers and a shortage front
150 to JO* nven
Tbene ne\vapa|iers developed ( lhe
fact that few men were enlisting in
the navy and gave the vause for this
tn the fact that our navy offered so
few inducements and tit tractions "for
American youths to enlist ih.tbct
branch of our country’s service.
The Hearst papers are now able to
giv# the first exclusive 'information
that thes* unfavorable conditions are
io be changed.
Information comer Jroir '-he .Vuvv
Department that Secretary Daniels
has caught the progressive movement
urged so long in these newspapers and
is going to make the American navy
a more attractive and a more profit
able place for the Americun youth
*vho is willing to serve hit country
snd does not desire altogether to
forget himself.
Ships as Naval Schools.
The Secretary of the Na\\ plans
that hereafter every battleship and
war vessel shall he a naval school—
an industrial school—a school of the
sciences and incidentally of the art?.
When the Secretary’s plans are com
pleted there will go out* from Annapov
lid with every naval vessel a corps
of trained instructors to teach the
sailors and enlisted men This corps
of instructors will be reinforced by
the educated officers of each ship.
A battleship will hereafter be no
idle place even in peace, and the en
listed man who binds himself to three
years in the service of his country's
navy can emerge at the end of bis
service, if he has will and intelli
gence. with an educational equipment
for a profession by which he can sus
tain himself in the world.
The three-year enlisted tnnn of the
nsvv who will avail himself of these
nsv and admirable advantages can
come out a skilled engineer, a navi
gator. a machinist or any one of a
half-dozen skilled profession* that
point the way to success tn life
Lewie Nixon has sab! that Annap
olis is the best engineering school
In the country and its’ graduates as
teMchers ought to do great things for
the American sailors In three diligent
ysars.
More Frequent Cruises.
The Secritiry plana more frequent
cruises to foreign port ft. no that the
education of travel and observation
may be added to a sailor's opportu
nities on shipboard
And last, but not least, the new
Secretary of the Navy expresses the
intention with all bis Influence and
authority to insist upon the recog
nition of the Individuality and man
hood of individual seamen. An Amer
ican railor is promised that here,
after he shall be regarded, not only
as % fighting machine, but as a mail
and treated as one.
This last is in line with the re
cent movement so ably pressed in
the navy by men like Captain Ben
son and Communder \\ hlte and other
vigorous and progressive officers of
the service.
The result of this new and ad
mirable policy will be to nil half-
empty lifts of the navy and toriuHke
it. not a place for young men to
bury themselves for three years and
come out unfit to make a living , but
to be educated in mind.' body and
spirit bv the finest of teachers, and
come out In three years as all-royt#!
men. equipped in health and courage
and manliness and with a practical
profession in life.
School for Desorters.
8. reiary Daniel* fuiThlif ’irilenR*io
reform the system of punifhjuent for
desertions by sending young desert
ers. first to prison and afterward to
the plate of reform, but to send each
<>f them first to that notable school
at Port Royal. 8 QV* here thev will
he bulll up In character and patriot-
’«m and an understanding of a ( It),
and a soldier's duty . and If fhev
are docile and reoeptlv.- to reinstate
them In the navy without a nri«
term. ,
These are wholesome reforms and
Secretary Daniel* is to be eonaratu
iated upon the good sens, he has
manifested in adopting- them.
Save money NOW on
Furniture at High’s.
Everybody “Kodaks.”
You're missing a bunch of fun
If you don't make snapshots. The
price is no obstacle. Brownie-
*1 to $12. Kodaks, $5 to Jt;.\.«8t nd
for catalog and new finishing pri, .
list. A. K. Hawkes Co., Kodak
Dept.. 14 Whitehall.
Hear Dr. George R.
| Stuart on “Lop Sided
Folks,” Baptist Tabema
cle, Friday, May 30. Ad^
l mission 25c.
White City .Park Now Open
First Day’s Record in Big Player-
'T' HAT the interest in the gigantic Weather-.,
holt Player Piano Club is widespread,
was demonstrated yesterday when the mem
bership books were opened. When the store
closed for the night, 46 members had been en
rolled. At this rate the 400 memberships will
be taken before the time limit expires. I am
not surprised at this record, for I knew the
music-loving public would realize just hpw
remarkable my club offer was. People are re
alizing that the day of the ordinary piano is
rapidly drawing to a close, and that the day
of the Player Piano is at hand. And when I
made it possible to secure a $650 Player Piano
for $488.50 on terms of $10.00 down and $2.50
per week, there was a rush to enroll in my
great co-operative club.
The club membership is limited to 400
members. I will save each member $334.50.
Because of the great purchasing power of the
400 club members, I can offer a magnificent
$650 Player-Piano along with $173 worth of
club features for $488.50, on terms of $10.00
down and $2.50 per week. In addition to this
there is my Free Life Insurance Feature and
the Music Exchange Privilege.
Piano Club
Here Are My Club Features:
*1 Saving of
X $161.50
ft*. A 25c rebate on all weekly payments
\Jf made before due
*9 One year’s trial
md (exchange privilege)
7 No
m interest
■C A ten year guarantee
with each piano
Ik A two-year conservatory course
17 (regular price $80)
Aj A Free Life
Tt Insurance Feature
(1A free music
t/ exchange library
^ Terms of payment $2.50 per week
(monthly payments may be arranged)
■ il ^ se ^ ectec ^ bench to match
JLV player and 12 rolls of music
All accompany in writing the sale of every Club Player Piano
Regular Price $650.00; Club Price $488.50
Club Terms: $10 Down, $2.50 Per Week
Y Free Music Exchange Library alone
makes the Weatherholt Player-Piano
Club attractive. This means that every club
member may secure $10.50 worth of Player
Music every day if desired. Each member se
cures free with the player twelve rolls of se
lected music worth $10.50. I have installed
a great library of 5,000 rolls, and members
may exchange their music as often as desir
able. Many have told me that the cost of
Player Music has prevented them from buy
ing Player-Pianos in the past. My free li
brary removes that objection. Sheet music is
being replaced to-day just as the Player-Piano
is superseding the ordinary piano. That the
Player Piano may make those who do not un
derstand music as proficient as those who do,
all my vocal Player Music has the words
printed on the roll. Anybody can play. And
anybody with a voice may sing. A vocal in
structor is constantly before the one operating
the Player-Piano. Every direction is given.
The result is that the novice can render a song
as well as the professional. I have devoted
weeks of study to this great co-operative
plan. I wanted to offer something which had
never before been offered to lovers of music
in the South. I know that I have done so.
MY CLUB PLAN SAVES
$650.00 Plano’
78.00
Interest
Saved
M rt A 2-year Conserv-
■ UU atory Course
Selected
■ Oil Bench
4 n cn 12 Ro11 * °*
I UaVV Selected IVlusic
$823.00
488.50 CLUB PRICE
$334.50 SAVING
T HIS picture shows one of my demon
strators adjusting a roll of music in
a Club Player-Piano. There is nothing
about these instruments difficult to un
f derjptand- They foyd everything that one
,has?jwhich costs iiUbouwfnd dollars. I
think so much of these Club Player-Pianos
that I GUARANTEE THEM FOR TEN
YEARS. Every one of these players is
equipped with a double accoustic sound
ing. board which produces the quality of
tone found in a grand piano.
Our Club Piano
Regular Price . . $375.00
Club Price $267.50
Terms; $5 Cash, $1.25 Per Week
CONDITIONS No interest, one year s
trial and exohange privilege 15c rebate
on payments made before due, free life
insurance feature, ten-year guarantee.
All of which accompany in writing
the sale of every Club Piano.
Notice to All Owners
of Player-Pianos
During our Player Club Mem
bership Campaign, we will ex
tend—without charge—our ex
change privilege to any one
pftuchasing 12 rolls of Player
Music from us. This gives the
purchaser free access to our
5,000-roll library.
I WANT everybody interested in good
music to visit our store. I want you
to hear some good music—anything you
like, from the classics to the latest rag
time. Examine these Club Player-Pianos
closely and see how easily you can play
anything y 0 u like, and play as well as an
expert pianist. If you CAN play on the
piano, you have two instruments in one—
a Piano and a Player-Piano. You may
use the piano and those members of your
family who can not play can produce
music on the Player equal to yours.
For Out-af-Town Customers
Fill Out Coupon and Mail
WEATHERHOLT PIANO CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Gentlemen: Enclosed please find
$10.00 membex-ship fee (first cash pay
ment), for which ship to my address
your Club Player-Piano at once, includ-
ing bench, scarf, 12 rolls of music and
free delivery, with the understanding I
can pay balance in $10.00 monthly pay-
ments.
.
Name ;
t ri •' ‘ > . * y i
Address i
WEATHERHOLT PIANO COMPANY
72 North Broad Street
“THE SOUTH’S FOREMOST PIANO HOUSE”
Weatherholt Building
Atlanta, Georgia