Show tell people of ship shortage and fear of ship subsidy will disappear by C LOUIS ALI ALLEN ALIEN EN of 0 new york we loye to talk in glittering high sounding generalities about export trade we study spanish conjugations pore over atlases at lases and advertise in fact we do everything but build ships the one absolutely essential thing to the establishment of an export trade we make speeches about ship subsidy at merchants association banquets and about as far as it goes we taken the first steps to fran translate slate the term ship subsidy sidy int into 0 an ail understandable business proposition for the american public nor to tell the idea to the farmer the merchant and the laboring man these stift still regard ship subsidy as just another little scheme to make some sort of a present to the clutes pl utes talk to these people in own language use words and ideas that the they y understand and you will have no trouble in securing their support for deserving measures car shortage sends a chill down every farmers back it makes liim him feel the mortgage tightening round his neck so if we will just drop the alie term ship subsidy and talk to the american people in terms of ship shortage it will understand convince the people of the peril to our commerce in ship shortage make them understand just what will happen to american industries if a dearth of ship ping ties our hands at the close of Eu ropes war at a time whan when tho the biggest and sharpest contest in which the world trade has ever g grappled will be on through salesmanship our desperate need of shipping may become vitalized vitali zed and energized into a moving force that will place upon the high seas an adequate american merchant marine |