Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1923, Page 65

STAR, WAS-HINGTON'z -D. €, DECEMBER 9, 1923 PART- 2. = == . THE SUNDAY w INQUIRE ABOUT OUR Foreign Nations Use Guile | : , To End U. S. Merchant Marine e : Make This a Furniture Christmas W B Moses & Sons Furniture Carpets DEFERR™ D PAYMENT PLAN 4 to private shipping In the form of iubMidics, In fact, he says so. What then could Le expected to happen to American merchantmen turned over to private ownership and operation, Unes which are operated dirctly by the government, are. beimg. handled by some thirty-ninc companies under What Is known as the M. O. 4 con- trut‘nmnaxl‘r-opermor agreement. The proposed subsidiary corporation | plan would result in the consolidas tion of routes, service. without government support? Faced with competition of foreign vessels whose operiting costs are below urs, due to the laws for the Donefit vi seamen enacted by Con- gress, and whose governments do not hesitate to grant gOVern: ald to privately owned ships under their own flage, the American ships in a forced into Lincv;l Established 1861 F Street and Eleventh many of the established but without dimunition of atglee seems inconceivable that OWN flagk ie government, as owner of the mer | bankruptey. ‘ chant flcet, should be willing to have, —Thiy British priter eli Xnows separate lines of the government. that the Americhn WEOICH. %ot the owned fleet operated in cometition | United States government back of with each other to the identical for- them, ean compete with any in the eign ports.” But that is what s hape world, but swith this support re- pening in some instane Many i moved, would go to the wall, Yet consolidations already have been ef-| he talks of “sympathy' and “effective fected ih 'the past, but for greater|help”™ for the American merchan economy, many more are necded. fleet. (It may beexpertod that the op:| " Bridah Atitude Towsrd shipe. erators doing business with the Bov-| ¢ is u common claim of the" British Srament under the M. O. i centract|ipat their government does not sub- will oppose vigorously the plan for|gjdize their merchant vessels. and tions. In fact, | hasn't for years. In an appendix, by octation of | Sjr Norman Hill, to the document al- defensive alll-{roady quoted, we find: ust Le borne in| or two generations and upwards r the M. O. 4!Great Britain has granted to ite mer- (Continued from First Page.) kopnonefl to granting government aid would be Brief Bits of Furniture History _Cebrgian g This type of Furniture takes us to Ce thing. the time between 1714 and 1820, and . however. Un thotract the government meets all|chant shipping no substdles; on the the s and the operators are pald o ne unwilling to private Yet what is the competition, nder the M 1 8 sub- ners, but to he ' government f the nd who are ntrary, its polley has been to in- t on the mainfenance of a high tandard of efficlency on the vessels and to leave them in_ allj | British ports. of vessels under other { flags. whether or not such vessels | comply with similar standards. . |- This statement would lead to the be- {lief that Sir Norman Hill was unaware lof an agreement entered into between the tosses|the Britlsh government and the Cunard en difference in cost of operating under the American flag g under a forelgn flag. ocks Would be Sold. ck to the Farley plan. The orations are to be In- nanent and continu- n private American are williy buy ve guarantee that the > be maintained ur Until the entire however, the gov- ratlon. It {s a mi . to connect with the -pla f Albert D, ker, former board. In xisting law, d at the corporation {dea’ had Farley's ng of the Attor ars, makes to authorize t of the corporations, is 0f the president of the Emer- entire control of the fleet to maintain this control ¥ of each board of diracto; <ubs corporation will £ th Hng cor- es, too, that the eney et Corporation The Fleet Cornoration, ' in the presont title llenge to any idea of of the American over- lent Coolidge annroved the dtary corporation plan for the | tion of the I8 to_be expected t tinue tofavor it rchant fleet.” It ag chant fleet problem are being ad. however. .| world now. to transact the busfness hut for- ¥ new proposii—rhat the with its personnel members e naval ressrve. U i the mercha ervice in al emergency; it. would provide n commerce with safeguards t discrimination by foreign ship- it would make possible the train & great number of seamen, abso. sary In case of Farley plan. th would centralize the con- t under one man, and would provide for the saie of fcan inter- the event of more favorable conditions for private operation. Value in Time of A mérchant flaat {s of tremendous:im- yortance in time of war. No clearer illustration of this fact could be found the assfst Hritish merchantm When we red the war in 1817 fleet. Even today Great Brit- for Great sesses approximately 195 steel merchant steamers of seagoing characteristics, capable of making fif- teen knots or more, while tha United | ‘When : sent around the world a number of CATS ago this country "had to ‘get forelgn flag merchant vessels to carry supplle: In 1914, when the war bagan. American producers were at the mercy of forelgn shipping interests. Yet those are the conditions to which we would have to return should the overseas fleet be abandoned No Place on Seas for Us ble document, presented by Alan Anderson, K. B. E., chalrman the sea transport committee of the ternational chamber of commeérce. to s committee recently, entitied “F1 Discrimination,” for “committee ap- proval, clearly argues that there Is no place on the seas for an Amerd morchant marine. This document w prepared by P. Maurice Hill, assis manager of the chamber of shipping of the United Kingdom. The assertion is y legislation granting Amerfcan ships not granted to those of other flags !s unfair—redustion of duties on goods importod _in American hottoms, rem- ulations Péquiring 50 per cent of the immigrants to be carried In Amers and the like. document, havinz in mind the Far plan for subsidiary cor- porations to 'run the government- pwned fleet, save . “Tnstead of the subsidy bill .the Ar -lean government iN now pre- par.nz to. form trading corporations to run the state ships. This does not remove the violous principle of state ownership, which is virtually a form:: of d!sefimination, since under it na- tional vessels enjoy the protection and support of the government and the national revenue. difference whether the discrimination is in the form of higher dues on for- [ eign ships or of staté subsidies to make good the loss on nationalships.” Britixh Point of Vier = The British point of view, judging from this statement, s th the United States government has: no business to own and operate.mers chant vessels of its. own under-any terms. i % Then follows thls suggestion: “Other natlons can afford to srme pathize with America in the problem with which' She s faced in dealin with her war,tonnage, but the mosf effective help they can render i point to the disadvantages- cre b'}:l the continuance of state .o or- o writer of-this document must ‘besn- aware«thatsCongmassis 11 1o Tone in the | joans’ for building ships ahd exemn- It makes no{ | Steamship Company dating from 1903, | Whereby that government loaned to the company £2.600,000 for the con- struction of the Mauretania and { Lusitania, the period of the loan running until 1927, and that under this agreement tie British admiralty paid annually to the Cunard Com- pany £150,000 a_year, with the under- atanding that these vessels were to be maintained in a certain degree of efficiency and should be subfect to government call in case of emer- gonsv. The sum so paid has been reduced to £90.000 since the sink- ing of the Lusita In addition, { the - Cunary gets a- mail subsidy from the government of £85.390 & | vear. The White Star gets a malil subsidy of £72.000 a the Penin- sular & Orlen Mail Steamship Company gets £171,000 s & similar subsidy. Also, during the present year, under the trade facility aet of 1921, the British gov- {ernment has loaned to the Royal 11 Steam Packet £2,300,000 to com- ips: to the Union-Castle £1,000,000, lesser te three s Mall Steamship Company |and to other companies | amounts. What Other Nations Do. | The British, it seems, subsidize their merchant vessels. but do not y much about jt. France Italy, Germany, the Scandinavian countries anA Holland. too. are Eranting pov- yernment aid to their shipping. The h Eovarnment hod ~wanted a direct subsidy of 100.000.000 francs ito private shipping companies. in ad- dition mall subsidies. In Ttaly, di subsidies. mail subsidies, tions from Iin~ome anA other taxes | nre granted shipping. Germany, since Uthe war has again adopted tha policy of subsidizing private shipping com- panies It i« to such competitors that the "nited States {s asked to turn over | the ~ Amerfcan vessels after with- | drawing the 'support of the govern- | ment—competitors who not only have the advantage of a differentlal in costs of construction and opera- tion, -but also of government ald to private shipping. The Shipping Board. in its annual jreport just made public, asserts that {an American-bullt ship represents an iinvestment 25 per cent greater than a_stmilar vessel constructed on the | Clyde. due to higher labor costs. It lalso asserts that by the wages scales on an ordinary cargo vessel the wages pald under the American flag are approxi- | mately $10,000 a year more than those paid on a similar ship under a | torelgn flag. Question of World Tonnage. There {s too much tonnage in, the | which offers today. Admitted; but Is that any reason why the United States should be expected by Its com- petitors to withdraw its fleet from he seas? Considering the part | America plays in the commerce of {the world. that Is scarcely a fair proposition. What America demands {1s a fair share of the carrving trade. America Is not seeking to drive the vessels of ‘other maritime nations from the seas. But it does not intend {to have its own vessels driven from | the seas. 5 . An international conference two {toward establishing a llve-and-let- live policy in merchant shipping through an international conference called here by President Coolldge. Some agreement..might well be Indnpled whereby the countri divide on an -equable basis t rect carrying trade between any two of them. | Attitude of Business. | American business should be keenly interested in the maintenance of an American merchant marine. It iis said sometimes that Amerlcan | merchants-can safely rely upon the British and other foreign vessels to | handle their trade. But we may well Itxk« a leaf from Australia’'s book. During the war Australla found, as we found, ‘that it needed ships to #ndle its commeérce, and it built them { or bought them. Nor has 1t given up | these vessels, extept those that were not ftted for the trade. The Common- weaith Lines of Austraiia are still own- ed and operated by the government. seems that Australlans were not con- tent to leave all their carrying trade to the British ships. And & high offieial of the Australian lines said re- cently in London, when his attentien was called to 'the often-repeated statement that the government can- not operate merchant vessels effi- clently: % which “bunk!” sound s rather | American. Propaganda Against United States. There has been a subtle propa- ganda against the United States, both in Burope and in this countfy, which ts-hard to-pin down. - Storles have been circulated by word of mouth that the Leviathan, . which -carried 10,000 Amerifcan sol- dlers at a time during the war, was | unsafe—topheavy—that her crew _is made up of Germans, and that the service on board is not good.. There is not a scintilla of truth.in sny of these reports, but one hears them, nevertheless, D Some Americang, too, are given to critieizing . the erican liners they are not as - ionable” as the itish boats. But, then, Americans seem to take a pleasure in criticizing things that are thelr own: thelr Congre for ex- ample, and American custom But criticlsm of things American -by forelgners.does not fall o easil> l'on American ears. dadN o e CHRISTMAS | CARDS - BALLAKD dozen. g 1s contemporaneous with the French periods of Louis XV, Louis XVI, Di-. rectoire, Empire and the American Colonial ; the Georgian takes in Chip- pendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton. There were other designers who con- tributed such as Ince, Mayvhew, Locke, Manwaring, Hope, Johnson, and two famous painters, Kaufmann aid Cyriani, both of these painters we'e members of the original “36” of the Royal Academy and accepted com- missions to decorate Furmniture of this period. Holiday Handkerchiefs Main Floor ‘Women’s pure Linen, corner em- broidered Handkerchiefs; white or colored embroidered corners. 25e, 30¢c, 50c, 59¢, 75¢, $1.00 each. Women’s Pure Linen Hand-em- broidered Handkerchiefs (three in a mx). Priced at $1.00, $1.75 and $2.00 Women’s Madeira Hand - made Handkerchiefs, corner embroidered. 50c and 75c each. Men’s Pure Linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs; - priced- at -25¢,- 39¢, B60c, 59¢ each. Women’s pure Linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, priced at 15¢, 25c. 39¢, 50c,,75¢ each. The Linen Shop A practical and lasting gift is a nice piece of linen. Pure Linen Table Cloths and Nap- kins reduced in price to meet the de- mands of everyone. Pure Linen Table Cloths, size 70x70 inches, $4.00 each. Pure Linen Table Cloths, size 72x72 inches, $5.00 each. Pure Linen Table Cloths, size 72x72 inches, $6.00 each. -Pure Linen Table Napkins, 20x20 inches, $3.75 dozen. Pure Linen Table Napkins, 22x22 inches, $5.00 dozen. Pure Linen Table Napkins, size size size '22x22 inches, $6.00 dozen. H. S. Pure Linen Luncheon Sets (cloth and one-half dozen Napkins to match): Luncheon Sets, size 54x54 inches. Special, $6.00 set. 2 .- Luncheon Sets, size 66x66 inches.. Special, $10.00 set. Luncheon Sets, size 69x69 inches. Special; $14.75 set. H. S. Pure Linen Luncheon Nap- kius, size 156x15 inches. Special, $5.00 Pure Linen Face Towels. “Towels, size 16x30 ins., 45¢ éach. Towels, size 18x32 ins., 50c each. Towels, size 20x35 ins., 69¢ each. - Towels, size 20x37 ins., $1.00 each. LIwels, size 20x36 ins., $1.25 each. T wels, size 20x36 ins., extra fine, $1.75 each, 1 Towels, size 20x36 ins., extra fine, $2.00 each. Towels, size 22x40 ins., extra fine, $225 each. Martex Bath Towels in colors; a wonderful assortment of designs. Priced-at 50c, 75¢, 85¢c, $1.00, $125," ° $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00. Purchases forwarded prepaid to any dupm point in the U. S. 4 (A Section of Our Department of Interior Decoration) - Living Room Furniture Three (3) piece Cane - Living Room Suite—consisting of dav- enport, armchair and arm rocker to match. Price, $175.00 Three (3) piece Cane Living Room Suite—upholstered in com- bination of blue velour and dam- ask—spring seat and spring cushion construction. Price, $237.50 Oriental Rug Salon " An Ideal Gift -The Assemblage Shown Represents the Finest and Largest Stock in the City Sarouks and Kirmans Sizes averaging 414x7Y- $150.00 to $250.00 Mossouls, Kurdestans, Lilihans, Sizes averaging 4v2x7Y, $75.00 to $150.00 Mossouls, Irans, Sultanabaas, Sizes ayeraging 31,x6'% - ~$57.50 to $65.00 Antique Persian Hall Runners, Sizes run from 3v2x9 to 3,x15 $75.00 to $175.00 Chinese Rugs, Sizes averaging 6x9 $195.00 to $250.00 Sizes averaging 41,x7Y% $100.00 to $195.00 Sizes averaging 3i,x6Y: $65.00 to $75.00 Sumac and Cashmere Mats, : Sizes Average 2x2, $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00 Domestic Rugs 9x12, $77.50 8 3”x10’ 6”, $75.00 4 6”x7 6”,$29.00 27x54, $9.00 6x9, $50.00 Drapery Department Suggestions for Christmas flncovered Sofa Pillows Pure Kapok Filled Pillows, unusu- ally well-filled, in muslin: 16-inch....... 85¢ 22-inch..... $1.75 18-inch..... $1.00 24-inch..... $2.00 20-inch..... $1.35 26-inch..... $2.50 ~Down-filled Pillows, exceptionally " fine quality pure down in muslin: _16-inch..... $225 22-inch: 18-inch..... $2.75 24-inch. $6.50 20-inch..... $4.25 26-inch..... $85 Pillow Squares Squares of Tapestry, Velvet, Velour, Dmgask and other fabrias, 24x24 ins.; large assortment of colors and-patterns for sofa pillows or odd chair seats. $1.00; $1.50 and $2.00 each. Paris Rugs Qval-shaped Rugs for chamber use, 52 inches long; odd colorings, in bird or _'mer ‘designs; French made. $7.75 EEERRED Couch Covers Armure Couch Covers, 60 ins. wide and 234 yds. long; reversible; Oriental colors and designs. $5.00 each. Tapestry Couch Covers, full size, wide range of beautiful designs and colorings; heavy quality material. $9.50 each. Velour Couch Covers, large size; many designs for selection, and each is a copy in color and design of the best types of Persian or Turkish rugs. $25 Table Runners, Etc. Tapestry and Brocade Mats and Run- ners for tables and pianos; all sizes and colorings: .questry Mat, 17x17, $1.25 each. Brocade Mat,\16x16, $2.00 each. Tapestry Runner, 12x54, $2.50 each.. Brocade Runner, 12x36, $2.25 each.. - Tapestry Runner, 17x50, $4.50 each. Brocade Runner, 16x60, $5.50 each. Write or phone for our catalogue PLAN. -i PAYMENT ‘This comfortable bedroom or living room Armchair; Sronn S $28.50 Tea Wagon, drop leaves, made of combination ma- hogany; the handle is of the disappearing variety which does not interfere when used e, 0 $25.00 (Cowan) Martha Washing- ton Sewing Table, eolid ma- hogany; large roomy draw- ars; deep pocket in each end Feons.. 8$19.75 Bridge Lamp; antique finish; equipped with silk S $21.50 Telephone Stand and Stool, teany oo $8.50 This Mahogany Arm Rocker or Armchair to match velour upholster- Pl 540,00 S 83850 b