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Show SCHWAB REM FOR mm JOB WASHINGTON, April 18. Charlef M. Schwab today began his work as director general of the Emergency Fleet corporation with, as he expressed express-ed It, "optimism, enthusiasm and in perfect accord" with the shipping board, and determined to give no at tention to his private enterprises whU? in the goernment service. At the outset Mr. Schwab made known Wlior.i Vir fMnl-o I V, - n.n I bintv of building .ships rests "The great burden of this program I falls on the people in the yards," he I declared. "If the ships are built in time to bring victor. oer Germany, no I credit will belong to anybody in Wash -' Ington. but to the men on the ground "Our task here is to supervise, to I encourage and to devise methods." The iron master and practical ship builder showed his eagerness to get to work on the first big public Job to which he was called in discussing his new assignment later with newspaper men. "Approval and encouragement ar needed now more than anything else,'' Mr Schwab said. ' It Is up to every man in this country to do the work to which he is assigned to win this war I never saw a man able to work at his best except under the stimulus of 1 praise and enthusiasm, fired with con- H ndenee that he has the approval of the f people for whom he Is working. k "We must appeal to the pride and I the patriotism that is in all good Americans Am-ericans to speed up production in the yards." |