Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., of Alaska, believes in practical patriotism. He is a member of the Juneau home with the other ninety privates of the organization. Uniforn s soon will be purchased from proceeds of several entertainments.
Guard and marches and drills along the shore.
CHEER FOR THE BOYS ON LOHG TRIP ACROSS
Ten Days on Ocean Heavy Drag on Morale.
DIVERSION ON BOARD SHIP
Amusement, Entertainment and Instruction Fill Up the Weary Hours of Long Voyage—Hear Illustrated Lectures on the Ally Countries and Get Lessons in French—Singing One of the Chief Joys of the Trip.
By WILLIAM O. SHEPHERD.
"When do we leave the sea and get onto the ocean?" asked a worried-looking negro soldier on a transport in mid-Atlantic.
"Why, man, we're on the ocean now, just as much as we'll ever be," answered his partner.
"Go on. This is too smooth for the ocean. This is the sea, I tell you."
The next day the season of glassy seas had gone and a lively wind whipped the Atlantic.
"Didn't I tell you? Didn't I tell you?" said the negro soldier. "I knew sure we'd come to the ocean if we kept on traveling."
But it isn't only among the dark boys in our army that ignorance of the ocean prevails. Not one in a thousand of the million and more American boys in France today ever crossed the ocean; literally hundreds of thousands of them never saw either the Atlantic or the Atlantic.  Or the Pacific until they came to the seacoast to take ship for the war. Riding, crowded. In a ship, on a strange ocean is no fun. 