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Show SHIPS, BUT ..NO POLICY The American merchant murluo.ly now a fact so far as ships are eon cerned. The government has constructed con-structed and put Into sorrU-o a latgp number of cariiers Unit ate being I used lit tho world's tiude with more or less success. Whether the success Is in fact oT tho moio.or Uss nrlet Is yot to bo determined from u maiv tot confllctliiK opluionti, eliaih'es and counter charges. It Is a smty, t).pcj)Hln and dls- 'gustlng talo to tho eats. of tho ovor-buidi-ni'd- taWyer. In no other country In tlui-wldu woild e.tteptlhB the United Statos, would such lucom? petency be toloarted. No wonder t"n National Merchant Murine association associa-tion come to tho conclusion a polio-Is polio-Is necessary to sae American shipping. ship-ping. If k policy will help, in the name of common senso let us have one forthwith. Somewhere in tho United HtatOH'thore must ho men big enoiifih and holiCRt miough to run Iho affairs of tho merchant mailno sue-ccsBrully sue-ccsBrully until the business can b taken by private capital. Suchmo.i should bo sought "out and placed'in. chargo at theearllest jioment Tha national disgrace blg'enongh'asHt Is without adding to It, '',,;' A New Version, feU'll ear-old Joseph had been going go-ing to SuitdHy xihool for nltnosl three niniiilil unit during that time hnd heard seernf Hihle stories. His mother was lioimllng of his ahillty to relate them, nlillp Uls gramlfnther waited rather Impnlietilly. lit wns ready to xtnrt oh a trip cI(hmiiimi sm Joxeph was cuing with lilni. 'I hen nil at imee .loHfjih, loo, rew Impatlfiit. lie ivn In grumlfslher'x cbi and 'iild not discover the rrmmi for KrnudfstlierV lln;erliig. So out he klnuilcit. "Hum tip, rniMlut, ur ne'll hit lou late to o. Tnn'ro nx (.low as Jlo-e was whrii lie hullt the r.M j |