The Urgent Need of Wireless on all Ships: How Little It Costs to Install: Miniature Sets Recently an author with a'highly imaginative mind produced a magazine story in praise of a type of a man that he insisted now does not exist. It was his contention that practically all the old sailing ship men simply did not know how to give up hope of life and that, whatever their position or condition, they would fight to the very last breath. The story that followed in illustration of what the old type would do was an amazing thing, but it does not greatly matter whether the author is correct or not. Whether men fight less strenuously or not for their lives is not so much the concern of the present-day world as seeing to it that every man- shall have his chances made easier when facing risks and that the risks also shall be_reduced to the minimum. This particularly refers to those whose work is on the seas.
A few weeks ago the world was stirred by the story of the wreck of the str.. Trevessa and the subsequent privations of the men in her boats. They, at least, were men who refused: to die whilst there was the very smallest
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