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FRIDAY. MARCH 7ll»., 1919
ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE FOOD ADMINISTRATION
The Food Administration will last by law until legal peace is declared
by the President. It will then automatically dissolve except as to obligations
entered upon, and these must and will be discharged cither by the Food
Administration or by assigning them to other departments of government, ac
cording to a recent bulletin issued by Federal Food Administrator Bradley of
Juneau. In the meantime, the Food Administration does not intend to relax
its efforts in any direction.
The Food Administration, itself, considers that the law as at present
framed, is purely a war measure, and that its major provisions have no place
in the country except to serve war ends. Wlhatcver Congress may decide as
to tlie continuation after peace of any of the measures now in force must be
a matter of special legislation, and the particular department that is to con
tinue them will, no doubt, be determined at that time. The Food Administrat
ion in its function of feeding people abroad has a larger burden after the
armistice than before, and this burden will continue until the next harvest.
There will be plenty of time between the armistice and peace to determine
upon any detailed method of liquidation of the war agencies of the Govern
ment and what measures must be continued throughout the reconstruction
period.
SHIPBUILDING WILL BE A PERMANENT AMERICAN INDUSTRY
(By Edward N. Hurley) j
A good many people assume that when peace comes again and the warj
needs for ships have been met. the 160 new shipyards which have been;
created under the I’nited States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation;
will have nothing to do. That is a mistaken assumption. We are not any-,
where near the end of this shipbuilding job—we are only beginning. Think,
of the 25,000,000 tons of merchant ships which are being built under the pres-1
ent program. That represents something like 3.000 vessels, most of them mod
el n steel steamers.
They say the Kaiser boasted that every time the Vaterland returned to;
Germany with a passenger list of American tourists it brought $150,000 to
the German people. We are no longer going to pay shipping fares and tolls
to Germany. We will pay them to ourselves through the American merchant
marine fleet. We are remodelling our ports and preparing to run our ocean
fleet as we run our railroads—with the lowest freight and passenger rates in
the world and the best service and a reasonable profit for people who put
their money into them. Several hundred thousand young Americans are
going to sea as officers and sailors in this merchant marine. Millions of dol
lars of American capital are going to he invested in foreign countries to de
velop their resources and create export and import trade.
The other day Mr. Newman, formerly president of the New York Cen
tal Railroad, died in New York. He started his career as a station agent.
Many an American boy who goes to sea the next few years in our merchant
marine will rise to be captain of his own ship, general manager of a big'
American merchant fleet, president of a great American shipping or export
corporation.
The thought of America is now turning to merchant ships and foreign
lands as never before. We are not merely going to revive our Yankee clipper
ships—we arc going to beat them.
This can mean only one thing—that for years after peace comes our
ships will be busy and our shipyards, too. We shall build more and more
tonnage for ourselves and other nations, and we shall be busy repairing and
remodelling ships. If I were to review the past year in American shipbuilding
I should merely repeat the story of an industry of 45,000 workers increased to
350,000 in the shipyards and 250,000 more back in the factories, making ship
boilers and engines and equipment. It is far more inspiring to look ahead
and see what this Industry is to become in five years. Today our railroads
employ one million men. I venture to predict that within five years more
than one million men will be employed in connection with the American
merchant marine—the workers in shipyards, the officers and seamen who
mam our ships, the men and women in factories making ship equipment and
the army of people engaged In export trade.
G'E R M A N TOYS? NEVER!
5^ (Seattle Times.)
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Tho average American family will readily sympathize with tho lndi
y ; c suggestion of a New York woman that our citizens should refuse to buy
the ‘‘innde-ln-Germany" toys, whieh recently arrived in New York. .
These goods were purchased prior to 1914, hut have been held up ever
tinee at Rotterdam, tlye British blockade, forbidding their passage across the
Atlantic. .V short time ago. through some odd decision of the naval authori
ties, the toys were permitted to move overseas to this country.
Several of the concerns which purchased and paid for the commodities
prior to the outbreak of hostilities, have refused to take them from t\ie custom
authorities. On«$distributor, after pointing out that American manufacturer.?
have taken the place of Germans in the toy and china market, declared h *
would not assist "German propaganda designed to reintroduce its products
into America.”
* One hardly can conceive of the American child as being made hnpp .
with a present of toys from the Germany which has waged this war with
dreadful brutality, and one cannot conceive of (he American mother as feeling
proud of placing such presents in the hand of her little ones.
In the light of what has happened during the past four years, oven the
children would recoil from anything seeming to connect the name of Ger
many with the thought of "peace on earth, good will to men”.
KENNETH MARR TO BE PROMINENT IN WESTERN LOAN CAMPAIGN
Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO. March (i—Eleven aeroplanes, including two captured
German Fokker's are shortly to visit seventeen of the principal western towns
to assist in making the forthcoming Victory Bonn a success, according to an
nouncements made by tho military authorities here today.
Carl Spatz. famous American "Ace" will be in command of the itiner
ary, which includes Seattle. San Francisco, Tacoma. Kansas City and other
interl.ving centers.
Major Kenneth Marr will be the advance.man of the flying aggrega
tion. Major Marr is now chief of the training department of the government
aviation trainig station at Rockwell Field on the outskirts of this city -
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