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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
HIST PAPERS
FORGE NAVAL
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Secretary Daniels to Win Recruits
by Making Warships Train
ing Schools.
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By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
W ashington, M»y 29.—The
Hear.-! paper*. In advance of
other American newspapers,
exposed the fact that the American
navy nas not much more than half-
manned.
The Hearst papers made the state
ment. later eo emphatically confirmed,
that not a battleship in the great
Hudson River display of last October
could have gone out to sea to fight
without a shortage of from three to
five officers and a shortage of from
18ft to 300 men
There newspapers developed the
fact that few men were enlisting In
the navy and gave the cause for this
in the fact that our navy offered so
few Inducements and attractions for
American youths to enlist In that
branch of our country's service.
The Hearst papers are now able to
give the first exclusive Information
that these unfavorable conditions arc
to be changed.
Information comes from the Navv
Department that Secretary Daniels
has caught the progressive movement
urged so long In these newspapers and
Is going to make the American navy
s more attractive and a more profit
able place for the American youth
who Is willing to serve his counlry
and does not desire altogether to
forget himself.
Ships as Naval Schools.
The Secretary of the Navy plans
that hereafter every battleship and
war vessel shall be a naval school—
an industrial school—a school of the
sciences and Incidentally of the arts.
When the Secretary's plans are com
pleted there will go out from Annapo
lis with every naval vessel a corps
of trained Instructors to teach the
Mllors 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 ills
service, If he has will and intelli
gence, with an educational equipment
for a profession by which he can sus-
lain himself in the world
The three-year enlisted man of the
navy who will avail himself of these
new and admirable advantages can
come out a skilled engineer, a navi
gator. a machinist or any one of a
half-dozen skilled professions that
point the way to success in life.
Lewis Nixon has said that Annap
olis Is the best engineering school
1n the country and its graduates ns
teachers ought in do great things for
the American sailors In three diligent
y«»rs.
More Frequent Cruises.
The Secretary plans more frequent
cruises lo foreign ports, so that the
education of travel and observation
may be added tp a sailor’s opportu
nities on shipboard.
And last, but not least, the new
Heeretary of the Navy expresses the
Intention with all lito influence and
authority to Insist upon the recog- |
nltion of the Individuality and man
hood of individual seamen. An Amer
ican sailor Is promised that here
after he shall be regarded, not only
as a fighting machine, bul ns a man
and treated as one.
This last Is In line with the re
cent movement so ably pressed In
the navy by men like I'nptatn Ben
son and Commander White and othef
vigorous and progressive officers ol
the service.
The result of this new and ad
mirable policy will be to fill half-
empty llets of the navy and to make
It. not a place for young men to
hury themselves for three years ami
come out unfit to make a living, bul
10 be educated in mind, body amt
spirit by the finest of teachers, and
come out In three years as all-round
men. equipped In health and courage
and manliness and with a practical
profession In life.
School for Desortors.
Secretary Daniels further Intends to
reform the system of punishment for
desertions by sending young desert
ers, first to prison and afterward to
the place of reform, but to send each
of them first to that notable school
at Port Royal. S. C. where they will
be built up In character and patriot
ism and an understanding of a citi
zen's and a soldier's duty, and If they
are docile and receptive to reinstate
them in the navy without a prison
term.
These are wholesome reforms, and
Secretary Daniels is to be congratu
lated upon the good sense he has
manifested In adopting them.
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ite City Park Now Open
First Day’s Record in Big Player-
T 1 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 how
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.
MY CLUB PLAN SAVES
$334.50
$650.00
Player-
Piano
78.oo asr
QA ftrt 2-year Conserv-
OU.UU atory Course
4 |-ft Selected
.DU Bench
12 Rolls ot
Selected Music
10.50
$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
derstand. They have everything that one
has which costs a thousand dollars. 1
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 exchange 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.
Piano Club
Here Are My Club Features:
\ Saving of
A 25c rebate on all weekly payments
J. $161.50
VP made before due
•J One year’s trial
*7 No
md (exchange privilege)
A interest
-c A ten year guarantee
«A two-year conservatory course
v with each piano
17 (regular price $80)
/m A Free Life
ft A free music
M Insurance Feature
t/ exchange library
^ Terms of payment $2.50 per week
*■ ft A selected bench to match
U (monthly payments may be arranged)
lV 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
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jyf 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 $10.50. I have installed
a great library of 5,000 rolls, and members
may exchange their music as often as desir
able. Many have told me that the cost of
Player Music has prevented them from buy
ing Player-Pianos in the past. My free li
brary removes that objection. Sheet music is
being replaced to-day just as the Player-Piano
is superseding the ordinary piano. That the
Player-Piano may make those who do not un
derstand music as proficient as those who do,
all my vocal Player Music has the words
printed on the roll. Anybody can play. And
anybody with a voice may sing. A vocal in
structor is constantly before the one operating
the Player-Piano. Every direction is given.
The result is that the novice can render a song
as well as the professional. I have devoted
weeks of study to this great co-operative
plan. I wanted to offer something which had'
never before been offered to lovers of music
in the South. I know that I have done so.
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Notice to All Owners
of Player-Pianos
During our Player Club Mem
bership Campaign, we will ex-
J,en$—without charge—our ex
change privilege to any one
purchasing 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 yon
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 you 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 oan not play can produce
music on the Player equal to yours,
For Out-of-Town Customers
Fill Out Coupon and Mail
WEATHERHOLT PIANO CO.,
Atlanta, Ga. j
Gentlemen: Enclosed please find
$10.00 membership 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
Address
WEATHERHOLT PIANO COMPANY
U
72 North Broad Street
THE SOUTH’S FOREMOST PIANO HOUSE”
Weatherholt Building
Atlanta, Georgia