Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 21, 1919, Page 3

~7-MARITIME POWER Shipbuildbnq Facilities Now Put U. S. in Lead: MERCHANT MARINE TO STAY Hurley Is Convinced America Can Outstrip All Other Nations in Re- placing Lost Tonnage — United States Will Require Fleet of 7,500, 000 Tons to Carry Commerce Esti- mated for 1920, Shipbuilding facilities acquired dur- ing the war have made the Unite® States the greatest potential maritime power of the world, asserts Chalrman E. N. Hurley of the shipping board, and will enable it to outdistance all other nations in the race toward re- placing a shortage of 16,225,000 gross tons of shipping lost as the result of unrestricted German subimarine War- fare and of the failure of normal in- crease by new production. Mr, Hur lg made this assertion in a hé.-’-‘ iport of his trip to Europe, where . for three months he was iIn close touch with the shipping interests of foreign pations. The report will be uséd in working out a policy of ownership and operation of the American mer- chant marine. Mr. Hurley estimated that in July, 1914, the seagoing steam bottoms of the world totaled 41,225,000 gross tons, which was reduced by war to 87,000,000 gross tons, a net loss of 4,225,000 gross tons. In addition, he stated, there was a loss of 12,000,000 gross tons which would have been con- i structed if war had not stopped the normal iacrease in production, mak- fng a total loss of 16,225,000 gross tons. The allies and neutrals suffered a total loss by enemy action, marine . risk, and capture of 15218,000 gross % tons, Mr. Hurley said, and gained by new construction and seizure of en- -py ships 14,249,000 gross tons, leav- *#g a net loss of 969,000 gross tons. The net loss to the central powers was even greater, since they lost 3,016,000 gross tons and gained only 740,000, a difference of 3,276,000 gross tons. United States Takes Lead. Only two countried, the United States and Japan, have a larger amount of tonnage now than when the war began. Japan showed a net galn of 25 per cent, Mr. Hurley re- ported, while the United States Jumped ~ far in the lead with a net gain of 125 per ceut. “The United States forged ahead as rapidly as Germany fell behind,” sald the report. “In August, 1914, the United States seagoing merchant marine, 500 gross tons and over, in- cluded 624 stenmers of 1,758,465 gross tons, and 870 sailing - vessels and @chooner barges of 947,852 gross tons, meking a grand total of 1,494 seagoing merchant vessels of 2,706,317? gross tons. On November 11, 1918, at the end of the war, the steamgoing mer ¢hant marine had increased to 12368 vessels of 4,685,263 gross tons and the ng vessels and schooner barges P 15d decreased to 747 vessels of 829,- § 917 gross tons, making a grand total [ of 2,113 seagoing merchant vessels of 5,615,180 gross tons. This does not in- ‘5 clude the seized enemy vessels, which at the end of the war aggregated 88 vessels of 562,005 gross tons, of which number 81 of 546,210 gross tons were steamers and seven of 135,795 gross tons were salling vessels. “The totaltonstruction in the United States added to tlfe merchant marine : during the war amounted to 875 ves- Tj sels of 2,041,845 gross tons. The pur- ! chase from aliens of 233 vessels of | 833,834 gross tons, the movement from { the great lakes to the ocean of 68 { steamers of 139,469 gross tons, and miscellaneous acquisitions amounting to 31 vessels of 39,219 gross tons are other sources of acquisition. of 114 vessels of 322,214 gross tons by enemy action, of 278 vessels of 405, 400 gross tons by marine risk, of 130 vessels of 268,149 gross tons by sale 40 aliens, and of 64 vessels of 119,271 g‘fl)sn tons through the sale to the United States government, abandon- ment and other causes, accounts for the decreases. lLosses of fifteen Ger man and requisitioned ships amount- ing to 112,248 gross tons are not in- cluded. “Today we are potentially the great- est maritime power of the earth, for the reason that we possess the great- “Q est shipbuilding tnstrumentalities.” All Try to Come Back. i Mr. Hurley stated that Great Brit- ain suffered a net loss in the war of 3,443,000 gross tons, amounting to 18 per cent of her entire tonnage. Other nations which suffered heavy losses fnclude Norway. which lost 1,178,335 . gross tons; France, 807,168 gross toons; Ttaly, 852,124 gross tons; Greece, 337, 545 gross tons; Denmark, 239,922 gross tons, and Sweden. 201,733. Every ef- fort is being made by each of these “pations, Mr. Hurley asserted, to regain } its former maritime standing. } “The study of the shipping board experts revealed a, teeming ambition among other pow Pr\ to achieve a high- er maritime standing,” said the re port. “In almost every country the g-lre exlsts not ooly to replace war F" ‘iosses but to add new fotals to be used in the work of reconstruction and i in developing new foreign trade. Even 8witzerland has not escaped this de- sire to acquire a merchant marioe, m._ will be acguired as Soon 2% C=- MAY BE GREATEST! The loss |' pal Improvements are made on tha Rhine.” The chlef inferest now centers on the question of whether the Uulted States can henceforth maintain her vew place upon the seas, or whether she must now disband the energies that brought her merchant: fieet into being. . “There is every reason,” Mr. Hurley continued, “for belleving that Amer- fca has come back upon the ocean— to stay. My observations compel op- timism. The war has brought us into a high place as a maritime power. I find the peoples of the world aroused to an intense interest and concern as to the use we are to make of this power. In America, you have heard much of British competition. In Great Britain T heard a great deal more about American’ competition. The truth is that our friends across the water are for the first time entering apon a perlod of actual competition.” Mr. Hurley said prior to August, 1914, both the foreign trade and the thipping of the United States were dominated to a great extent by Brit- ish, because American traders and ship operators who wished to do busi- ness could do so most gonvenlently through British agencies. In 1915, he recalled,‘only one-seventh of the for- eign trade of the United States was carried in American bottoms. “The total exports and imports of the United States for the year 1915 were approximately 50,000,000 long tons,” sald the report. - “With aver- age shipping efficiency the movement of these goods would have required about 9,000,000 gross tons of ships. . Assuming an annual increase in the foreign trade of the United States equal to the average increase for the five years preceding August, 1914, our foreign trade in 1920 would require a greatly increased merchant tonnage if it -all were to be carried in American bottoms.” Should Carry 50 Per Cent of Trade. Mr. Hurley declared it was an ac- cepted principle that a strong marl- time power should carry in its own ships at least 50 per cent of the ag- gregate of its exports and imports, and in addition some of the trade be- tween countries not yet in the ship- ping business. “Agsuming a total export and im- port business fn 1920 of 70,000,000 long tons,” he added, “it would require a fleet of about 7,500,000 gross tons to transport 60 per cent in our own ships.” . One of the types of ships most de- sirable for the new merchant marine, according to Mr. Hurley, is a\speedy, effective combination cargo and pas- senger liner of from 15,000 to 25,000 deadweight tons, which could be op- erated efficiently In the transportation of high-class merchandise, passenger, and mail, Mr, Hurley said three factors mili- tated most strongly against the nat- ural and desirable expansion of the forelgn trade of the United States. Pirst, the necessily. for developing men, thoroughly American in every way, to handle foreign trade; second, the recruiting of an American per- sonnel for the operation of the ships and the handling of the work at the ports, and third, the extension of banking facilities. The idea that too high wages are belng paid American seamen for this country to compete with other countries successfully was ridiculed by Mr. Hurley. “It is time for the public mind to be disabused of this conception,” he stated. “The facts will dismay those who are agitating for a lower wage scale of American ships. We are paying our seamen $35 a month. Fng- land, during the war, paid her sea- men $72 a month. The French and Dutch are paying high wages. In Sweden the seamen’s scale I8 even higher than in the United States. The retention of high wages was important, he added, because men who had labored under great strain yield- ed their attention more readily to the agitator. The success of any nation in shipbuilding and ship operating, he said, will be determined by the manner in which the labor situation s handled. COUGH RELEASES BONE it Had Been In a Man's Throat for a Year. A, K. 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