Show IRI I 1 MERCHANT ERCHANT SHIPS TO CARRY CADETS training system of shipping board to be extended to large vessels STUDY FOR aing HIGHER LH young men will learn the road to the quarter deck and counting room high class of seamen wanted wash washington I 1 agton A apprentices floes and cadet officers will ha placed on nil large vessels of the american merchant marine to be trained for higher places much the same as sailor boys were trained to become officers and shipping merchants in the early days of american seagoing according to a plan to be put into execution at once by tile the united shipping board the bests basis of this plan is a system of individual training on shipboard for american youth ia capable pable of rising through instruction to a shipping career the ultimate goal of which Is tho the position of shipmaster steamship agent or manager or trade representative at home or abroad in the great program of commercial expansion by sea by which the country is to keep busy it vast merchant fleet the plan has been devised as an extension of the wartime system of training conducted by the he hoard board through which large numbers of american lads were given brief intensive schooling on training ships before being sent to sea for commercial service this finished product is expected to mature in the form of able seamen of a high type petty officers deck and benj engine ne room officers all americans as well ns as a needed of young men experienced in seagoing sea going and car go handling bandling who can be further trained in steamship offices and exporting and importing business houses with a view to later commercial sery service ce connected with shipping it was tills this system of training that enabled early merchants of salem and boston to outstrip all rivals in foreign trade and make themselves and their communities rich in thus extending its present training service which continues as heretofore under the direction of henry howard of boston the shipping board has the benefit of experience in training cadets cabets at sea gained by its new director of operations john ff ros jeter of san francisco sir mr has decided ideas on the training of young americans for gen seafaring faring and for steamship operation lie ile has tried out many of these ideas dens it in a practical way through his management of the pacific mail steam hip phlp company one of the largest shipping interests operating from the american west coast to the orient south sens seas and south america at the conclusion of a recent conference at washington of shipping oard board officials interested in developing the training plans of the board un nil dor peace conditions mr expressed his views on the subject at length later he embodied them in lii following interview high class of seaman wanted shipping men are agreed that if attainment tain ment of our new and enlarging interest in foreign commerce is to be secured we must certainly have a very high class of american merchant sea wen aien the same kind we have so ad developed for our navy we all know of the higher social standard that naturally prevails in tills country find and personally I 1 would say that I 1 would not only accept tho the present standards but I 1 am disposed to go a step further because that Is the tendency and if we tire are to get good men and train them to be good seamen and then good officers we roust must gee that they are placed under environment ns as will naturally ivole into a condition of their being good foreign representatives in corn com iner menina vial and industrial lines and agents on the staffs of the steamship lines at ath boyrie and in foreign ports 1 I regard the recruiting ling service of the shipping board as something that Is to produce for the mercantile marine of the united states a substantial type of men of the class that will be officers later on men who can go olid and learn the business and carry the american interests with them 1 I want to make seagoing just as attractive as I 1 possibly can I 1 want to attract to it the boys who come from colleges and who know how to swim and play baseball I 1 want to make conditions aboard ship such that they will feel it is the best destiny they can find the men we want to attract to the sen sea I 1 feel are the men such as we remember ourselves in our school days nice clean boys who had good homes and who were leaving home amid the old family discussion as to whether they would be bankers insurance men retail merchants or what not I 1 want to add to that list tile the very important and very alluring occupation cu of the pursuit of the sea when we ask american boys to come aboard ship we certainly must all recognize that we have got to assure them of quite a different condition than has existed in foreign commerce during the past thirty years I 1 might say unhappily existed |