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20 DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR _ ASSO- CIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Published every Thursday by The Penton Publishing Co. = CLEVELAND. PRUE AIO: 45 voce es oc sso es 932 Ellicott Sq. GHICAGO 3. ow... e see 1362 Monadnock Bik. CINCINNATI ...... . 124 Government Place. NEW YORK .........1005 West Street Bldg. PITTSBURG 225 ik oe ces ss 521 Park Bldg. TOT le os eS esccans s 411 Providence Bldg. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shipping Subjects Solicited. Subscription, $3.00 per annum... To Foreign Countries, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on Thursday preceding date of publication. The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the Marine -Review through the ~ regular channels of the American News Co. - European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C, England. Enttred at te Post Office at Cleveland,. Ohio, as Second Class Matter. May 23, 1907. TO BENEFIT WHEELSMEN AND WATCHMEN. As an encouragement and with the view of bettering the condition of the wheelsmen and watchmen on_ lake boats, the Marine REVIEW opens this week a course of self-instruction in the ship and navigation for their express benefit. Every wheelsman rudiments of practical seaman- and watchman having the interest of his work at~ heart, has an ambition to become a second officer, and then a first of- ficer. If he has not he should have, for a man without ambition man at all. : Many men filling the berths of wheelsmen and watchmen are intelli- is no gent and industrious, and are looking forward to the time when they can better themselves, but they are kept back simply because they do not TARE Marine REVIEW know how to proceed in laying the right kind of a foundation to build the required knowledge on. It will be the object of this department to discuss only those subjects that. are essential to a full understanding of the questions given by the various government examining boards on the The method to be adopted will be simply this: A list of 10 questions will be printed weekly, and lakes. when all the questions relating to the. same subject have been exhausted the answers to same will be published 'either in full or in installments. 'The student to get the most benefit from the work should study the questions and dig out the answers to the best of his ability. He should write his answers in full and in advance of the When the answers are printed he should time of printing the answers. compare his answers with the correct ones. In this manner-he can correct his own work, as well-as.that of a teacher. If the student will follow closely this advice: and the instruc- tions that are to accompany each les- son, he will be surprised at the prog- ress he will be able to make, and it» will be real progress, too. A question and answer column will also be conducted in conjunction with this department. This will enable the interested ones to ask as many ques- tions as they like on the work. There will, of course, be times when addi- tional information on certain ques- tions will. be required in addition to Its dis- cussion may take place in this col- fiat contained i the text. umn, itis" the desire to help and it trusts that a MARINE REVIEW'S earnest majority of the wheelsmen and watch-: men on the lakes will enter into the work with the right spirit. The Ma- _ RINE REvIEW has been assured time and time again by vessel owners and their managers that there is a growing de- mand for competent men aboard their ships. They want men who are navi- first-class pilots gators, as well as and seamen. There are many excel- lent opportunities for the right kind of men on the lakes. The chances of promotion on board ship today are better than ever before. But one's promotion depends on his own efforts, and to be successful he must be a navigator--a navigator of extraordi- nary ability in relation to the com- pass--and this can be brought about only by careful study of the theories and fundamental principles of navi- gation. Navigation is purely a book study and the man that is willing to learn can do so by following the Ma- RINE REVIEW'S course of instruction, COLONIAL SUBSIDIES. The Dominion government is en- . deavoring to interest Great Britain in an all British route from England to Australia and New Zealand by way of Canada under heavy governmental subsidy. The Dominion desires the Imperial government to devote money to assist the lines running to Canada and the other colonies. It has been suggested to Great Britain that in- stead of subsidizing the: lines now run- ning to New York, the money be di-. verted to a Canadian service.~ [t is understood that Canada is willing to grant an annual subsidy of $1,000,000 for a_20-knot Atlantic service in con- junction with fast trains across the continent. New Zealand is willing to pay a subsidy of $500,000 per annum and Australia probably an equal if not greater amount. These are liberal sums and prove colonial determination to keep their trade within themselves. It is very curious indeed that the United States can watch other nations build up their foreign trade through the judicious expenditures of money to steamship lines and yet be fearful of following a like example. If the United States had subsidized its steamers as generously as Great Bri- tain did when steam navigation be- came commercially possible, it would not today be in the pitiful condition that it is. The merchant marine of the United-States in the foreign trade is growing less each year. It has practically disappeared from the Pa- cific oecan. By force of circumstances it. will shortly disappear from the western ocean also unless congress re- moves the handicap under which it now operates. The American ship cannot live on the high seas without governmental assistance. Flatly, it is in need of a subsidy to overcome the artificial handicaps which have been placed upon it.