New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1929, Page 17

by CAPTAIN GEORGE FRIED Men of the tea are no differ- ent fundamentally than those ashore any promotion for failure as a seaman depends solely on the man himself. Fried com- pares a ship's organization with that of a big corporation, both dependent upon the same es- sentials for success. BY CAPT. GEORGE FRIED (Copyright, 1929, Associated Press) Chapter XI T have been asked what part T know it but I was keeping my eye | The men we meect at sea are no different from those we find ashore, NEW DRITAIN DALY HERALD. FRIDAY, MARCH &, 192. { bave the same oppcrtunities to a | vance. However, at the end of -l.| | most every voyage of a transatlantic | ! liner several men are discharged for | incompetency. Some leave for other | rasons, so there is a constant wec--l-l ing out and replacement process 10! keep a crew up to the maximum of | efficiency. These changes are in the | | hands of the department heads and 1are seldom brought to the attention | of the captain. | | Every ship has three departments | are 6,000 employes at present with . because it retar this company in Brazil and only b4 of this number are citizens of the | United States, i Outside of the rubber development in Brazil years ago in the Amazon ' valley the remainder of this rich land has been held back by natura! obstacles during the time prior to the electric age. With electricity Brazll Jlarger and with a greater ' population than any other country in South America, promises to step They have the same characteristics | —the deck, engineering and steward | forward rapidly in the next decade but are developed lines. Success or failure in life, has become so complicated that the | along different | departments. Modern day machinery and thereafter. During the more than three cen- whatever the vocation, depends sole- | chief engineer now has as many re. | turies since Europeans first came to ly on the man himself. About a year ago, a young man from an or- phanage who had a desire to go to sea after a brief experience on u i farm, came to me. He was 17 years | old, good looking and smart. I sign- | ed him on as a seaman. He did not sponsibilities as the master. In the | deck department rests the respon- | | sibilities for the safe navigation of | | the vessel, for its safety equipment, ‘und the radio room, where opera- | tors are constantly on watch while | ‘nt sea. They are responsible aiso for | the radlo compass and are called on | have played in making rescues at sca | on him. He was ambitious. He wag rt0 work this instrument in conjunc- as captain of a vessel. My anster is that T do comparatively little when the whole job is considered. A ship is very much like huilding that houses a large bu organization of several hundred men. Unless that organization functions smoothly and has men of ability in the ranks, it is doomed as a com- wercial failure, A vessel is no different, The cap- tain is indeed like the president o a hig corporation. He eannot su vise the work of everyone in the or- wanization so he deals directly with the heads of the departments. One of my rulcs is to keep every one busy while on watch and to create impression that a certain amount of work must be done in a civen time, This work must be done in ship shape order and in seaman- like manncr. Every man must be \n example for the next on watch <o that the master is cxecutives capable doing things properly. So when I say 1 did com- paratively little as my share of a rescne job I mean that every man on the ship has a duty to perform and we all assist one another. It is not often that I come in di- t contact with many of the men loyed on my ship, with the pos- > exception of those engaged in ties on the bridge. The safe navi- wation of the vesscl depends upon fhe men in this department, yet, strange to say, one of the laziest 1 helieve 1 have ever encoun- tered was a quartermaster on one of my ships. At the particular time 1 Lappened to see lim at work he did not have cnough energy to turn the wheel and keep the ship on the p seribed course. He had no excuse to offer me for his laxity except that he was too tired. And T knew of no reason 1o be tired when the wateh was four hours on and eight off. This man, now at the busincss of being a quartermaster, was of course disrated, for we have no place on ship hoard f the [ They’ll taste bake them g and ashore. urrounded by | . He didn't know it, but I was keeping my eye on him . . ." jobs as ays .n the | big husky lad znd took they came. He wa | company of sailors He apparently enjoyed their companionship, and listened and kept his eyes open. Soon he was ready for promotion and by | the end of the year he was a quar- | termaster. Now he s | navigation. I have seen men—coal passers, firemen, oilers, deck hands—go up the ladder just as I have done and |like hundreds of other officers have ! done. Therefore, it is not as diffi- cult to get a crew into shape today |as in former years when men who worked on sailing ships did not N\ ‘SkinHopeless? Have you tried one thing after another without success? Then try this simple treatment used by thousands with amazing re- . _Anoint the irritated spots | with Resinol Ointment, letting it remain as long as you can. Then wash off with Resinol Soap and warm water, This treatment not only clears away pimples and rashes, but the daily use of Res- inol Soap tends to prevent them. fg =l Resinol better if you this way— The next time you bake use Pillsbury’s Best Flour, and notice how tastes. much better everything The flour you use has a lot to do with the flavor of the foods you bake. The food editors of leading magazines—women who have spent their lives studying baking—say that this is true. There’s a good scientific reason for it, Certain kinds of wheat are richer in flavor than others, and Pillsbury’s Best is made only from these carefully selected types of wheat. Try it yourself—you’ll find a delicate, unmistakably better flavor in everything you bake! hile off watch | | tion with the calculations of officers | |on the bridge. The largest group, | i from the standpoint of personnel, is! | the steward’s department, which is| responsible for the feeding and gen- eral comfort and welfare of the voy- | agers. The purser's department is | headed by the purser and his assist- ant, who act as paymasters and do 131] the clerical work, | (Tomorrow: A Captain's Troubles). | BRAZIL SETS PACE IN MODERNIZATION Develops Hydro- Electric Power, Bee! Industry, Rubber | Rio de Janeiro, March 8 (®— Brazil today, territorially greater than the United States, is believed by competent observers to stand on the threshold of mighty develop- | ment. | The 3,276.358 square miles of this| country, technical experts say, con- | tain more potential hydro-electric | expansion possibilities than any/ other country in the world. A group | of engineers and economists from | { the United States have been studying Brazil for several months, { | One North American company alone has invested mére than $50,- 000,000 in 15 Brazilian cities during| the past 13 months and plans the | investment of $100,000,600 more in; electrical development work. There! learning | the east coast of South America, ' Brazil has been backward in de- velopment because of a natural barrier—the Sierra do Mar—that range of mountains which starts | where Brazil bulges out farthest into the Atlantic at Pernambuco and ex- tends 24 degrees of latitude to Rio Grande du Sul. This barrier aver- ages 2000 to 4,000 feet in height. It foliows the coast, sometimes falls abruptly into the sea and sometimes is fifteen or twenty miles inland, and | has been called both the curse and the priceless asset of Brazil. In earlier times of the develop- ' ment of this continent, it was easier to reach the interior, even of Brazil, | by going to the River Plate and find the interior by the rivers which | reach the ocean via Buenos Aires. This was the route of the Jesuits.! The barrier has been called a curse | ! which may be harncssed natural resources here along with agricultural development in Ar- gentina whose pastoral plains have been feeding Europe prime Leet and | ('P)—The “island mutton along with wheat and corn i cast of Nebraska City, are forced to |is 36 inchies from the surface of the | drive over the This carp if It can so be called. rjver to reach the city. for many years. is termed the Llassing and assets Blt Brazil in that it has kept the coun-| try for the development of the elec- tric age. The great inclined plain which commences at the top of the Sferra do Mar and descends almost to sea level in the interior affords one of the world's greatest water power and conseqquent possibly hydro-electric developments. | In some cases the rivers of this great plain parallel the top of the range and break through the barrier directly into the ocean, as in the power developments of Rio de Ja- neiro and Sao Paulo. The poten- tial powers or these Brazilian rivers for the | Lenefit of man seems astounding. In the state of Parana alone exist the falls of the Parana known as| the Sicte Quedas (Seven Falls) on| which the lowest estimate is a pos- sible 20,000,000 horsepower, while the highest ranges from 50,000,000 to 79,000,000, The Jguassy river| offers for man’s harnessing the falls of Santa Maria da Iguassu which is 10 feet higher than Niagara Falls and discharges more er. 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