The shipping hoard is training officers as well as
crews for the new merchant marine. It has 82
technical schools, in navigation and engineering,
where experienced men receive free instruction
fitting them for officers' licenses.
From June, 1017, when these schools were start
ed, to September, 1918, more than 10,000 students
were admitted to them. Every student was an
American citizen, fitted to enter by two jears at
sea. or, in the case of engineers, equivalent tech
nical experience. (
Graduntes of these schools are on the bridges of
American merchant ships today In all of the seven
seas, and the present classes of the school contain
more than 1,200 students.
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Conceded as Deserving ".are, and
Is Worthy of , Respect a
Thing of Value.
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hnt specialist for rehabilitation. It
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at any angle I place it. It gives me a
topheavy appearance.
