September 28, 1940

l * * At 'Em BROADSIDE XVI Saturday, September 28, 1940 HIT 3 • KALIPONIA, HIWIKUM! NA VY RELIEF SOCIETY - SHIP'S DANCE PLANNED We have had a lot of rumors this AMERICAN RED CROSS past summer, but here is one that DRIVE BIG SUCCESS It has been proposed t hat we hold seems to be official. Certain ships of two ship's dances while in LongB each, the fleet are going on a cruise to probably during the second week The Arizona met the request for· Kaliponia, which lies 2,000 miles east there. Tentative plans are to hold the contributions to the Navy Relief and of our Islands on the West Coast of dances on successive nights, in order Red Cross in generous fashion. As the that both watches may have the op Noi Amehika. According to reports ship's paper went to press, our con left by occasional visitors at Waikiki, portunity to attend. tributions amounted to $740.40, with this Kaliponia is a wild and wooly the Marines to be heard from on their The following have been designated spot. Its climate is said to be pay-day, September 30. Contributions as division representatives, and all strangely exotic and its natives ex by divisions were as follows: will be required to do their share to otically strange. make the dances a success. Any sug The first thing to be careful about Div. Amount Div. Amount gestions you may wish to put forth is the food. The natives of Kaliponia 1 31.75 E 22.90 should be made to your division rep eat a peculiar mixture that goes by 2 25.75 F 31.50 resentative, who will place the sug the name of Hampahkah- as near 3 30.50 H 9.75 gestion before the Dance Committee. 4 15.45 M 30.75 as we could understand it. It sounds Division Name Rate like plenty pilikia. Another dish is 5 37.80 N 7.00 called a Prankpehke, which is a kind 6 34.75 R 50.55 1st. Callaghan, J . M., GM3c. of meat placed in a large roll of bread A 38.50 s 54.45 2nd. Linbo, GM3c. fruit. It looks like our boys, who are B 43.25 V 14.75 3rd. Beddow, GM3c. used to the simple diet of a luau, are C 33.75 Flag 23.25 4th. Grace, Cox. 5th. Morse, due for some big pains in the opu. The balance, $204.00, was contribut Cox. 6th. Sliman, Cox. Then there are the Wahines, as ed by the various officers, warrant 7th. Cleary, wild a lot as you will fi nd on any officers, and C.P.O's. not listed with Corp. foreign coast. Instead of going bare "F" Bell, FC3c. their divisions. C4 A t, foot or in sandals, they buy expensive Kamm, F2c. shoes and then cut them full of holes " B" Osborne, WTlc. so that their toes and heels stick out. BOAT CREWS WIN 51 POINTS ''E" Smith, EMlc. In order to make people notice their "M'' Post, MMlc. extravagance, they paint the protrud In our first inter-divisional pulling "C" Sig. Christy, SMlc. ing toe nails with a very dark shade races of the current competitive year, "C" Rad. Becker, CRM. of ship's red lead. They wear leis our crews last Saturday won fifty-one "R" Tolman, E. 0 ., Slc. ''S" Housel, J. J., made of fur and like to clothe them points for t he ship, taking two second ccau SK2c. selves in a holoku of tapa that clings places, one third, and one four th, with Dickerson, PhM2c. to their bony frames in a most im nine ships competing. "N" Sink, R., CQM. modest fashion. Unlike our Island In the first race of the day, our 1st Malpus, K. C., CMsmth. git-ls with their gentle Aloha, t he Division crew found themselves pull "V" Greanes, W. B., AM3c. Kaliponia wahines have a greeting ing against a WEST VIRGlNIA crew that sounds like "Kum up an himi." which was reported to contain six of The business men of Kaliponia are their crew that won the Battenberg ANY PICTURES? among the most generous in the Cup race. The Wee Vee's took the world. They come right down to the lead and lengthened it as the race pro Life magazine will get out a Navy waterfront to take your picture or gressed. As the boats passed our Day issue October 26. The magazine quarter-deck, the ARIZONA and to invite you into their stores, where desires pictures that have been taken they will sell you a gold watch for NEVADA crews were neck and neck, and this position was maintained un ashore by Navy personnel in foreign $.50 or a new car for $50.00. Those ports, especially interesting personal who have been there before, however, til near the finish line, when the "At pictur es. None taken in Hawaii are tell of receiving letters later on in 'Em ARIZONA,,. spirit and "ten good desil'ed. Any pictures s u b m i t t e d which these generous traders apolo ones" gave us a lead of a quarter gized for having made a mistake. boat length, to come in second. should be mailed to "Life, Inc.," 9 They had forgotten to explain that The second race was for 2nd Div Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, in the $.50 had to be paid every week ision crews. As the starter's gun sent time to anive before October 7. and the $50.00 every month for at the nine whale boats off at 0925, the least two years. Wee Vee crew again took the lead, · (Continued on page four ) (Continued on page four) SEND TH E AT 'EM HOME PAGE TWO AT 'EM ARIZONA c~-_..,_.,_ CI _ I _ I._..__•• • J\t '~ tn ~ruona WHILE THEY LAST A ahlp'a aeml-month)y paper publlahed bJ A limited supply of our Crossing the officers and men on board the U. S. S. the Line Booklets has been placed on Ari'-Ona in the inter.,.L of 011r ahip and the sale in the Ship's Service Store. The United Statee Navy. booklet sells for $.25 and will be CAPTAJN H. C. TRAlN, U.S. NAVY, greatly appreciated as a souvenier Curs. You needn't ship your clothes in a "We're having Skipper's inspection quarter and we have to clean the grip, tomorrow at ten,'' sighed one of the dishes and shine the silverwear. And start on a long, long hike. lads. "Daddy holds inspection about You'll only find what you left behind, "Yeah,'' another interposed. "I've every other Saturday, and he calls For there's nothing really new; been washing paintwork all day and Mom the First Luff. Mom rated to It's a knock at yourself, when you shining all the brightwork.'' night and she and the Skipper went knock your ship, "Glad I got to meet you," the eld over to Aunt Isabella's. It isn't the ship, it's you. est girl said. "I've got a stand-by and "I'll sure be glad when inspection Real ships are not made by men am going out tonight with my boy is over tomorrow, because today was afraid friend." She rushed off, leaving the payday and I rate over the week-end. Lest somebody gets ahead; eldest boy to explain the mystifying Dad gives us 50 cents apiece on the When everyone works, and nobody circumstances to us. 5th and 20th, and if we don't have to shirks, "You see," he said, "it's like this. buy clothes with it, we can spend it You can raise a ship from the dead. Dad put us on three-section liberty; like we please. I've got a girl friend And if, while you make your personal with Mother standing duty with who says I'd make a snappy sailor. I rate, Diana. Diana is my sister that just don't think I'd like the Navy though, Your shipmates can make one too; left. We have a field day every Friday if they have inspection every Satur Your ship will be what you want it to and after school during the week we day. Twice a month is enough for be, have to come home and sweep down. me." For your Country, your Navy, and Me and Mable have mess cooking this -Keystone You. - Oriental Patrol AT 'EM ARIZONA' PAGE THREE NEW BOOKS TEN REASONS WHY I CONGRATULATIONS, SWEAR GYRENES! The following books have bee.n re ceived from the Bureau of Navigation 1. It pleases my mother so much. Anybody notice the big smiles on and are now in the Ship's library for 2. It is a mark of manliness. the faces of our Marines the last your use. ; 3. It proves I have self-control. four days? In ca.se you didn't find Aydelotte ____ Run of the Stars. 4. It indicates how clearly my mind out the reason, here it is,-more pay. Blair Weather Elements. operates. Effective October 1, Privates and Blake . Death Down East. 5. It makes my conversation so Field Musics get $30.00 per month, Bower ------·- Sweet Grass. pleasing to everybody. after the first four months in the ser Burnett ____ High Sierra. 6. It leaves no doubt in any one's vice, except where the Secretary of the Carr ______Mother of the Smiths. mind as to my good breeding. Navy directs payment at $21.00 be Case ______. Golden Portage. 7. It impresses people that I have cause of ine.fficiency or other unfit Christie _ And Then There Were None. iaore than ordinary education. ness. Pfc's will get $36.00 per month; Cope ___ Death Stalks the Fleet. 8. It is an unmistakable sign of Corporals and other 5th pay grade Cunningham ---··-·· Red Range. culture and refinement. ratings will get $54.00; and Ser Davis --··- Return of the Rio Kid. 9. It makes me a very desirable geants and other 4th pay grade rat Edmonds ----·-· Chadd Hanna. personality among women and ings, $60.00. Ermine ---- ··-··- Singing Lariat. children and in respectable so The pay for the first three pay Fisher ____ Mastering the Rifle. ciety. grades remains the same, except Ford _____ Road to Folly. 10. It is my way of honoring God that all pay grades will receive as a Foster ____ Uncle Snowball. who said "Thou shalt not take permanent addition to their pay, 10% Gallico Adventure of Hiram Holiday. the name of the Lord thy God of their base pay and specialist pay, Gardner ··- Case of the Baited Book. in vain." upon completion of their first four Gardner ·-·-·- D. A. Draws A Circle. years of service, and 5% for each Gill __ . Gentleman of the Jungle. LITTLE THINGS additional four years, up to a total Gilligan ... ___ White Sails Crowding. of 25%. Glaspell ____ Morning is Near Us. Grabbe _. We Call It Human Nature. It's the little things that cause big A DMIRAL A. T. MAHAN wars. Harry G. Nye, a very clever Gregory ..- I Must Ride Alone. An Alnav received this week re Gregory • Mad O'Hara of Wild River. business writer, puts it this way: "It's the ·things that don't amount to minded us that yesterday was the Gruber ____ The Frenc.h Key. centenary of the birth of Rear Haycox ______Saddle and Ride. a continental that amount to a lot. My wife was working a cross-word puzzle Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. To Hayes -·-··-·-·- _ ·-·· Dildo Cay. quote: Homes ----···-· Finder's Keepers. the other night when I came in, and she said, "What's a female sheep?" and I "On this day we pause momentarily Hough --··---·-······· If Not Victory. in order to pay OUl' respects to his Jaques ·--·--··· The Geese Fly High. said, "Ewe"--and that's how a new war started. You may tell a man that memory. For twenty-five years after Jones ·--···· Swift Flows the River. his graduation from the Naval Acade Keith --·- Land Below The Wind. he overcharged you $311.17 on a bill of goods, and he'll only laugh; but my Mahan followed the sea. For the Knight -·· The Affair on the Painted next thirty years he turned largely to Desert. tell him he had six strokes instead of five on the 13th hole, and be wilJ be analytical writing on Naval strategy Kozik ---·- The Great Debureau. and tactics. As a lecturer and as Pre Layta ··-- North Again for Gold. sore at you for life. People are just that queer, including you and me. I sident of the newly founded Naval Lewis . _ .. ··-·- __ Bethel Merriday. War College he gave our Navy its Llewellyn ___ How Green Was My know a man who has the best store first realistic system of st u d y i n g Valley. in town, but I never go near him, be strategy and tactics. It was while Lomax ____ The Leather Burners. cause his wife once said that she did not understand how my wife put up there that h.is first of many books and Long -·· ... __ Lava Flow Murders. essays concerning the influence of sea Mac· Donald ___ Renegade Roundup. with me. I don't myself, but I don't power was published. Until death McGuire __ ··- Enter Three Witches. like to have people talk about it. It's the little things you say or do, or that overtook him at the age of seventy McMeekin .. -·- _ Show Me A Land. four Mahan never ceased in his Marsh . _ --· Death At the Bar. othe.r people say or do, that count in painstaking and persistent endeavors Masefield _ . Live and Kicking Ned. the long run." to focus attention on the strategic Maurois --·-- The Art of Living. power held by a nation at war if it Nathan -·····-- Portrait of Jennie. Stengner -·· On A Darkling Plain. could control those sea lanes which Nordhoff and Hall .... No More Gas. Taylor ---· The Criminal C.O.D. normally were available for the use Oppenheim __ _ Stranger's Gate. Thayer -·-·-·-··- X Marks the Spot. Peck ___ Through China's Wall. of the enemy. His broad creative Tuttle ----·--·-- Ghost Trails. teachings brought him honors and Persnell ··--· No Mourners Present. Van Doren ____ Windless Cabins. Richter _____ -··· _ . The Trees. high praise abroad and at home dur Welch _ ...... --·-· Final Hoisting. ing his life time. Those teachings a1·e Safford -··--·-···--·-·- Tristam Bent. Wentworth _____ Rolling Stone. Sanderson ___ Caribbean Treasure. as fundamental today as they were Williams -··-·--·-·- Come Spring. then." Shute ····---- An Old Captivity. Yates ____ Gale Warning. Smith _ The World Under the Sea. The Arizona library contains most Stokes __ Chip Off My Shoulder. of his writings. Ask to draw them SEND THE AT 'EM HOME. out. PAGE FOUR AT 'EM ARIZONA

BOAT CREWS WIN 51 POINTS PASTORAL CALLS (Continued from page one) r~-~ Chaplain Kirkpatrick will be pleased to call on the families of all the Ariz followed closely by the ARIZONA. With this issue, a new editor ona's married men who desire it. All Soon the CALIFORNIA pulled into takes over the steering wheel. such men should see the Chaplain per second place, with our crew fighting As he sees it, the purpose of a sonally before arrival at Long Beach. the TENNESSEE for third. At the ship's paper is to inform, enter ..... quarter the NEVADA made a bid for tain, and inspire. Restrictions KALIPONIA, HIWIKUM ! third place, but the ARIZONA began Ithese days make the first rather (Continued from page one) pulling ahead and was only a half difficult, but not impossible when length behind the CALIFORNIA at The privillege of visiting this we remember the adage, "Names strange land is one of the blessings the half,-the WEST VIRGINIA lead make news." As for the second ing by three boat lengths. At the incidental to our service in the Navy. aim, "Laughter is the best med Travel is so broadening, you know. three-quarters, the ARIZONA picked icine,"-so an old joke in a new up on he1· stroke, to win second place And if you tire of the strange sights uniform is always welcome on the pike (slang for pilikia) the by more than a length over the CALI (they say there have been no FORNIA. Results:-WEST VIRGINIA Chaplain may be able to arrange a new jokes since Plato's day). sight seeing trip to the famous gold 1st, ARIZONA 2nd, CALIFORNIA The thh·d purpose may seem 3rd, NEVADA 4th. fields and Indian reservations. Indians highbrow,-but all of us want are the descendants of those ab Race three was between crews for salt in our food to bring out the origenes the present natives of Kaii Radio and Signal forces,- all our flavor. That's what inspriation ponia forced to jump off the pali up crew were radiomen. The W E S T does for life. Now if a ship's I on Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in VIRGINIA took the lead, with the paper is to be any good, it must Noi Amehika. CALIFORNIA an d TENNESSEE belong to all hands,-which trailing. The ARIZONA was making means that you'll enjoy reading EASY MARK a bid for third place, and won it by the the paper and sending it home I half. At the three-quarter mark the I if you'll remember to leave at I A prominent line officer was once CALIFORNIA, TENNESSEE and J the Chaplain's Office your con- 1 asked what was the best advice he ARIZONA were fighting for second tribution along any of these could give a young man just entering place, with the CALIFORNIA leading lines. So send in that bit of the Navy. He replied without hesi us by half a length. Although putting _ news, that poem, that joke. tation. "Don't be easy for the gil'ls." on extra speed a hundred yards from We heartily endorse this advice. •!•I ~ ,~~.-.<~•.•1 the finish, our crew missed second We don't expect Navy men to be place by the narrow margin of one W. B. Huckenpoehler ; H. F. Brad angels, and we also believe that the eighth boat length. Results:-West shaw; A. H. Bruene; C. E. Smart; love of a good woman is the great VIRGINIA 1st, CALIFORNIA 2nd, G. H. Riggins; D. J . Cleveland; E. W. ~st thing that can come into a man's ARIZONA 3rd, TENNESSEE 4th. Lane, A. W . Richter, and S. C. John life. Yet how many gi1·ls on whom The fourth and final race of the day son, Alternates; Ensign E. R. Young, you spend your money would you care was between "M" Division crews. Coach. to take home to meet your mother? This time the TENNESSEE took the SECOND DIVISION CREW Why do you suppose the "Battleship lead and held it to win first place. C. L. Nichols, Coxswain; H. H. Kates" or the "Scouting Force Neils" At the quarter the TENNESSEE, Becker, Stroke (P); E. 0. Hicks, follow the fleet? They know the CALIFORNIA, WEST VIRGINIA, Stroke (S); E. J. Marks; H. P. average blue jacket is "easy pickins." and ARIZONA lead the field in the Thompson; H. T. Taylor; R. L. Hunt; Where do you suppose she got that ,,..-,/ ,; ot'der named. At the half, the IDAHO L. N. Smith; J.M. Eme1·y; L. R. Turn wristwatch you noticed when you • had forged into second place, but wall; M. T. Hurst; V. M. Steadman, slipped on the ring you bought from soon began to fall behind. At the Alternate; Ensign J. M. Emery, the credit jeweler? Who paid the rent th1·ee-quarters, the WEST VIRIGINA Coach. before you started to help out? Why was moving up to second place. With Radio and Signal Crew does the Navy hesitate to ship over two hundred yards to go, the ARI J. H. Carnes, Coxswain; C. N. a married man below the 4th pay ZONA was closing rapidly on the CAL Baker, Stroke (P); H. J. Trueblood, grade? It's easy to get a date im IFORNIA, but couldn't quite make Stroke (S) ;W. S. Roberts; F. P. Ell mediately after payday, but mighty it. R es u 1 ts :-TENNESSEE 1st ing; A. E. Price; H. M. Mc Dowell; hai·d before payday. If a girl is WEST VIRIGINA 2nd, CALIFORNIA W. D. Williamson; H. H. Smestad; t·eally interested in you, she will urge 3rd, ARIZONA 4th. C. N. Baxter; E. F. Cross; J. J. Cart you to save money, rather than 'help A great deal of credit is due to the er, and M. M. Davis, Alternates; En- you spend it. crews in these boats and to the junior sign J._.:P:_:... ..! H!:o::.:w=...,,__.....,.,.,_"-IJ..__ _ Think these things over before you office.rs who coached them, and also M" DIVISION CREW are called to the mast to explain your to C.B.M. Rusky who helped condit~o G. Berezny, Coxswain; F. N. Miller, e~,or before you become known all crews. as a habit.ual borrower, or before Stroke (P); S. A. Suermann, Stroke you wa e up some fine day and learn FIRST DIVISION CREW '--.._{§); R. F. Cowle,Jr.; F. J. Estes; R. _!h...at-t e Navy will not permit you to J. A. Martin,Coxswain; W. E. Grif- W. Kiehn; E. Mlly, C. R. Reeves; W. re-enlist. God gave you brains to think. fiths, Stroke (P); T. M. Croft, Stroke B. Rice; B. C. Smalley; T. R. Stevens; Don't plunge headlong into activ1ties (S); R. E. Mommer; T. E. Sulick! Ensign 0. S. Smith, Coach. that may cause you regrets late1·.