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Show 1 JIB BACK ' IN 0L0J0SIT1 Feels That He Can Be of Greater Service to Country. NEW YORK, Dee. 8. Charles M. Schwab, whose resignation as director general of the emergency fleet corporation corpora-tion was accepted by President Wilson yesterday ia'a wireless message, will return immediately to active participation partici-pation in the management of the Bethlehem Beth-lehem Steel company, he announced at his home here tonight. "The emergency for which I entered the government service has passed, ' ' Mr. Schwab said. ' ' The emergency fleet corporation has been placed on a basis for economic construction rather than war-time construction. My own affairs are of such magnitude that I feel that I will be of greater service to the country there dumg the period of reconstruction than I would be as director di-rector of the fleet corporation." , Mr. Schwab said that while he ex- pected ' ' some economic troubles ' ' dur- ing the period of reconstruction, he believed be-lieved that period would be short and that the nation would emerge to greater industrial development thun ever before. be-fore. '" "I am going right ahead in the same optimistic and progressive spirit as in V, the past," he declared. Mr. Schwab expressed deep apprecia- ; tion of the tribute President Wilson j paid him in the message accepting his resignation, and declared that, had he failed in the task assigned him, he would have had only himself to blame. "I want to say," continued Mr. Schwab, "that during my nine months as director of the fleet corporation, I met with the most loyal support from the president down. "The president was exceptionally helpful, carrying out to the letter his promise that be would let me do things in my own way. Mr. Hurley, as president presi-dent of the shipping board, and Mr. Piez, as vice president and general manager man-ager of the fleet corporation, co-operated in an admirable spirit. So did every other man with whom I was associated asso-ciated in the work of building ships for the nation. ' ' |