Show I PRESIDENT ASKS MARINE SUBSIDY Would Cut Out Ocean Mail Contracts v WASHINGTON ASHINGTON March 4 UP p- p Maintenance of or an adequate merchant merchant merchant mer mer- chant marine under a direct government government gov gov- subsidy was propos proposed d to Text of or Message on la Page e 7 congress today by President Roose Roose- veil velt In a special message he recommended mended termination of present ocean mail mall contracts In f favor vor of oC the the subsidy system Transfers of the qua quasi judicial and quasi legislative duties of oC the shipping shipping ship hip hippIng ping board to to the interstate commerce commerce com corn merce commission also was pro posed An American merchant marine said the president is one of our most firmly established traditions It was during the first half of ot our national existence a great and growing asset Since then It has declined in value and importance The time has come to square this traditional ideal with effective performance Free competition among the nations nations na na- na in the b building of oC modern shipping facilities is a manifestation of oC wholly desirable and wholesome national ambition In such free competition the American people want us to be pr properly perly represented The American Am o je JC want to use American ships their government owes wes It to them to make certain that such ships are in keeping with our national pride and national ne need d. d |