Show BUILDERS OF SHIPS i iI I ASKED TO KEEP SEAS OPEN Each Must Do His All for Civilization Chairman Hurley Says Say I By United Press Preas I i WASHINGTON April 6 ShIp S Ship Shipbuilders builders Americas America's in victory i tor shipyards shipyards shipyards' ship ship- I yards yards' on nil coasts oa ts h heard toJa today n a stirring stir stir- ring appeal appat to hold open the seas jas to civilization I Hon I More fore than workers In ill i yards participated In hi na national lIonal Flap Flag Ila day exercises and received a personal I I appeal for or added efforts from Crom Chairman Chairman Chair Chair- man man o of the shipping shipping- board I I The American CIa lag and tho new nw United I i States Slates shipping board hoard na lag flap were c unI un- un I j j I furled at each yard rant amid Impre Impressive demonstrations I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE Singing of the national hymns with Hh patriotic addresses was vas followed b bythe by bythe the repetition en masso masse h by all workers of ot the pled pledge e I pledge allegiance to my flag Clag and to th the republic for which it stands one on nation I Indivisible with liberty and ju justice for Cor all Hurley's Hurles me message addressed to er c every man of or you OU follows At t this hour of national peril perU when tho the forces of oC despotism long IonS gathered are arc hurling themselves a against us I call upon you ou the shipbuilders of or America to put forward all your our might to your common purpose It was an anevil anevil anevil evil thing that the phrase was coined that wo we do our bit The Thc nation of which r noh ench m mt merely reh 1005 his bit is lost t s-t Doing i o our r 1 bit i t is 8 nt too small a bucket to ball back hack the sea The tide o of despotism Is too great reat for such small and unavailing measures We c must do our allAnd allAnd all allAnd And therefore on this da day marking markIng mark- mark Ing the anniversary of or our Sour entrance Into this war which threatens civilization ci tion It is fitting that I appeal to you ou I for tor the large and full cun measure of your our help And nd I a ask k you OU as far Cal as ns Is possible pos pos- sible that you consider that m my appeal appeal ap appeal ap- ap peal is personal to yourself each man manof manof of you OU In tho the shipyards of ot America And I ask you to scrutinize yourself and to put to yourself the tho question each man n of you OU whether you yet et work to your our highest limit For your brothers and your sons and the men who ho were comrades at your elbow In other days are fighting In the trenches of ot France Franc and their safety depends upon the measure and the ito quality of your work Their munitions of or war var their reinforcements and anti their food are arc dc dependent en ent upon the tho rivets that you rou drive and the ships that you ou launch The great battlefield next battlefield next to the smoking battlefield of or France France Is Is the blacksmiths blacksmith's shop tho the machine shop I and the shipping ways was and anti the roar of ot your furnaces and anti the noise of or your our II riveting arIse from your strife and mighty contest which must hold open tho seas for tor civilization ci I HIGH RESPONSIBILITY It Il Is a high and honorable responsibility that rests upon you the shipbuilders ship ShiP- builders I e. e s o of h America and andou you TOU must Il lUll I And some day when th the war Is I done lone and German despotism has hag been r destroyed It will be he not only our arm army and navy Y which will pass In glorious glo gb- rious review rc before cur nation but also It will ill bo ho tho the shipbuilders of ot America to whom our gratitude Is the thc the shipbuilders who worked with full tull and untiring endeavor through h days and months In many order or 0 or- or der tier that thal the ocean might be bridged tI and civilization cI he be preserved |