| VOL. I | 14 March, 1942 | NO. XXXVIII |
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ACCORDING TO an act approved March 7, 1942, a 20 per cent increase in pay went into effect for all enlisted personnel on sea duty, the increase dating from 7 December, 1941. The increase is 20 per cent of base pay and is in addition to pay and allowances now authorized. Warrant officers are included in this increase. There is an increase of 10 per cent of base pay for Commissioned Officers and Commissioned Warrant Officers.
The increases hold if a man is on leave from a ship or sick in a hospital, if not detached from sea duty. The same increases hold for foreign duty.
The custom of naming United States battleships after states of the Union originated in 1819 with a resolution of Congress which also provided that frigates should be named for rivers and sloops-of-war for principal cities and towns. This is the present system of nomenclature:
| Battleships | ---------- | States |
| Cruisers | ---------- | Cities |
| Aircraft carriers | ---------- | Historic naval vessels or battles |
| Destroyers | ---------- | Officers and enlisted men of the Navy or Marine Corps, former Secretaries of the Navy, members of Congress or inventors. |
| Submarines | ---------- | Fish |
| Mine sweepers | ---------- | Birds |
| Gun boats | ---------- | Smaller Cities |
| Seaplane tenders | ---------- | Sounds or bays |
| Submarine tenders | ---------- | Pioneers in submarine development |
| Oilers | ---------- | Rivers |
| Ocean-going tugs | ---------- | Indian tribes |
| Cargo ships | ---------- | Stars |
Bow about some news items for the ship's paper? If you know of any of your married shipmates who have become daddies, or of others who recently were married, why not send in the names. Perhaps there is an interesting or amusing incident on board which the man himself can laugh at, that may be passed on to all. Items poking fun at the-other fellow, with the writer safe behind a cloak of anonymity, are not desired. Do not attempt to do fancy writing. Merely make a note of the news items on a slip of paper and give or send it to Whitney in the Library.
Be sure and spell the names correctly. Names make news, but if a man spells his name Kelly, or Smythe, it should not appear in print as Kelley or Smith. The ship's paper is your paper. It will look alive only if you keep feeding it plenty of good news.
1. Do I Need It?
Every intelligent person knows he needs protection for himself, and those he loves, against old age, sickness and death.
2. Is It Safe?
As safe as the U.S. Government. It cost the government $900,000,000 to finance insurance in the last war. This insurance likewise is guaranteed by the government.
3. What Kind Of Insurance?
National service Life Insurance is FIVE YEAR LEVEL PREMIUM TERM insurance, as first issued. Policy may be converted AFTER ONE YEAR and WITHIN FIVE YEARS TO ORDINARY LIFE, 20 PAY LIFE or 30 PAY LIFE. If not converted within five years, the policy no longer is in force.
4. In What Amounts Are Policies Issued?
$1,000 minimum to $10,000 maximum, in multiples of $500 between these two sums.
5. What Will Cost Be?
One quarter to one third cheaper than commercial insurance; no overhead expenses; no salaries, rents or agents commissions, or medical fees.
| AGE | MONTHLY PREMIUM | AGE | MONTHLY PREMIUM |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | .64 | 27 | .69 |
| 18 | .64 | 28 | .69 |
| 19 | .65 | 29 | .70 |
| 20 | .65 | 30 | .71 |
| 21 | .65 | 31 | .72 |
| 22 | .66 | 32 | .73 |
| 23 | .66 | 33 | .74 |
| 24 | .67 | 34 | .75 |
| 25 | .67 | 35 | .76 |
| 26 | .68 |
6. Disability--Waiver of Premiums After Six Months.
After six consecutive months of total disability, and while insurance is kept in force, application may be made for waiver of premium payments.
7.Who Can be Beneficiaries?
Wife, Child (including adopted, stepchild, illigitimate) Parent (including person in loco parentis). Brother or Sister (including those of half blood).
8. How Payable
(a) If beneficiary is UNDER 30 YEARS OF AGE at time of maturity, $5.51 per $1,000 in 240 equal monthly installments, that is $5.51 per month for 20 years, or a total of $1322.40 for each $1,000. If you have $10,000 insurance the amount paid to beneficiary under 30 at time of death of the insured in the 20 year period, would be $13,224.00.
(b) If beneficiary is OVER 30 YEARS OF AGE at time of maturity payments are for the entire lifetime of the beneficiary. Amount paid is for 120 months certain and depends upon age of beneficiary at date of death of insured.
| AGE OF BENEF |
AMOUNT MONTHLY |
AGE OF BENEF |
AMOUNT MONTHLY |
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| 30 | $3.97 | 60 | $6.81 |
| 35 | 4.20 | 65 | 7.67 |
| 40 | 4.50 | 75 | 9.18 |
| 45 | 4.89 | 80 | 9.55 |
| 50 | 5.39 | 70 | 8.51 |
| 55 | 6.03 | 85 | 9.61 |
(c) Any INSTALLMENTS CERTAIN REMAINING UNPAID at death of beneficiary if beneficiary dies before 120 monthly payments are made (that is, within ten years), shall continue to be paid to a contingent beneficiary who may be named by insured. If not named, then the following order holds for payments.
9. Have the Policies Loan or Cash Value
The Level Term Insurance has not. The other policies, to which you may convert the Five Year Level Term policy after one year, has loan and cash value after being in effect one year, the loan value being up to 94% of the cash value at 5% interest.
10. Application forms may be obtained in the Executive Officer's Office. Detailed information concerning other phases of National Service Life Insurance, also premiums for Ordinary Life, etc., may be obtained from Chaplain Gorski. Payments including the first month's premium, may be paid by allotment and the insurance may go into effect immediately.
11. Who Can Take It?
Anyone in the ship who already has not $10,000 insurance issued by the United States.
12. When is the Deadline for Obtaining it?
The last date under present laws, except for new enlistments, is April 19, 1942.
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished has task; who has left the world better than he found it--whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has looked for the best in others, and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory is a benediction.
The only person who can drag you down is -- yourself.
Self-pity is the fashion. We blame environment, heredity, temperament fate, and our fellow creatures--everyone except ourselves--for the evils that befall us.
Our greatest enemy is--ourselves. Eliminate the sordid, the imperfect from your lives; cultivate habits conoting strength of mind and gentleness and greatness of heart.
This means the development of moral courage and perseverance, wings on which fly real success.
Three men, asked to share a large hotel room for 3 week, are told by the bellboy that the rate is $30.00, payable in advance. Each gives him a $10.00 bill. When the boy goes to the desk he is told the room is only $25.00, and the cashier gives him five one-dollar bills in change. The bellboy, knowing the guests were willing to pay $30.00, keeps two for himself and refunds $1.00 to each man. Each of the three, therefore, has paid out $9.00, which amounts to $27.00; and the boy has retained $2.00; Total, $29.00.
What has become of the other dollar ?
Would you have friends? Then smile and be pleasant. It costs nothing, encourages and develops good dispositions. Good dispositions pay large dividends--dividends such as all desire, and which cannot be bought with gold.
Just realize what an asset is the pleasant way today with every one with whom you come in contact. No one likes to look at or talk with a grouch, but the pleasant countenance attracts and invites one's enemies to relent. Mix pleasantness with the day's work; you won't feel half so tired at the end of the day. It is infectious and causes the other fellow to admire and adopt your example, and thus it is passed along.
If you would have friends, be a friend to others. Practice the courteous retort, the sympathetic manner, and brotherly regard. Advocate and practice consideration for others. Be slow to condemn or criticize, but quick to respond to the appeal of one in distress or to defend one who is maligned.
If you don't like the way Bill is doing his job, don't tell others and parade his supposed shortcomings. Tell it to BILL. Perhaps he will adopt your method or convince you that his way is best. Adopt the pleasant way. It's just as easy, makes you feel more comfortable and does not injure or wound the other fellow.
It may be a little farther around the corner of a square deal, but the road is better.
Heartfelt condolences are extended to Michael Laurich of F Division on the death of his mother. Though he received the sad news manfully, all hands know that only time can soften the blow, and all share in his sorrow. A Mass of Requiem, attended by Laurich, was said during the week for the repose of his mother's soul.
I like to see a great big grin Pass by a ruddy dimpled chin And traveling from ear to ear Speed on a message of good cheer. I also like a pleasant smile With shiny teeth which all the while Are flashing joy that's felt within For are not smiles, and laughter kin? But, ah a frown, I loath to see How can the wearer happy be When wrinkles on the brow relate A soul perhaps that growls with hate. So grin, and smile, with laughter free And all your days lives merrily Happy your life will be, indeed If these few words, you will but heed. ------J. I. Stanley, PA Div.
A. Shifflet received word that he is the father of a baby girl-Joan Marie. Mother and daughter are doing nicely and the father is the proudest man in the 2nd Division.
Sis is going with a sailor, At first it didn't fate us; But now the family's talk is full Of sailor's salty phrases. We all found it rather hard To follow all his speech, For they talk different on board ship Than we do "on the beach." For when the time to eat comes round, He sings out "chow" for food; And always "stows it down the hatch," Which Grandma says is rude. When talking during dinner, He talks like other boys; Except he calls the lettuce "grass," And celery just plain "noise." His "salty" talk is slangy, And hard to understand; He calls the canned milk "iron cow," And sugar he calls "sand." His many names for coffee Are certainly a joke; He calls it everything from "mud," To "Jo" and plain "jamoke." The spinach he calls "Popeye," And Grandma always squirms For when we have spaghetti; He says, "Throw me the worms." The chicken he calls "sea-gull," The ketchup is "red-lead;" The waffles are "collision-mats," While "punk" is mother's bread. Fried fish is "Pedro pork-chops," "Sea-dust" his name for salt; When he called the pepper "fly specks," Ma nearly called a halt. He sat beside my father, And needed elbow room; He looked at Dad and said: "Say Mate, Rig in your starboard boom." We finally caught on, the, And now are doing fine; We say "six-bells" for three o'clock, When we're telling time. When Ma goes to the city, Or runs down to the store; And someone asks us where she is, We say she's "gone ashore." Sister calls a floor a "deck," To hear her talk is sport; To her, a roof's an "overhead," A window is a "port." Then too, if somebody gets "fouled up," Or some new trouble comes; And Dad starts to complain, Ma says: "Now Pa, don't beat your gums," Dad doesn't tie his tie now, Instead he "bends it on; While Grandma says the kids "shoved Off," in place of "they have gone." Ma says Dad's suit is "shipshape," If it fits him pretty well, But if it's not so neat she says, "That 'lash-up' ain't so hot." When Pappy goes to work just now, We say he's "turning to;" Whilst Mother "swabs" and never scrubs, As once she used to do. The place has gone salty, Which makes me lots of trouble; For when Ma says, "Come here, "chop- chop," I go there -- "on the double." I wish that "tar" would "weigh his anchor," And do what I oft' think; "Point his bow" and "trim his jib," And go jump in the "drink." I'm through "batting the breeze" and "Singing the blues," I'm sure; So for tonight I'll just "cease-firing," "Train-in" and "Secure."
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