Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1919-03-28 | Page 6 | Forecasts Shipping Expansion

FORECASTS SHIPPING EXPANSION Chairman Hurley Presents Report in Optimistic Mood. Wasnington. Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the United States shipping ship-ping board, has rendered a report to his colleagues of the board on tbe result re-sult of his mission abroad to get information in-formation on the shipping sitttation of the world as a result of the war, Mr. Hurley says : "My observation during the three months spent abroad and in the midst of the great events following the signing of the armistice, have afforded convincing proof that the matter of merchant shipping is now oue of universal interest. Every nation is alert to the vital bef ring of ships upon their future prosperity. But the chief Interest centers on whether America can henceforth maintain her new place upon the seas or whether she must now disband the energies that brought, her merchant fleet into being. There is every reason for believing be-lieving that America has come back upon the ocean to stay. My observations observa-tions compel optimism."