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Show Still Under "Old Glory" "Restore the American merchant marine to the front rank in world shipping where it properly belongs by engaging passage for your vacation va-cation abroad on ships sailing under un-der the Stars and Stripes." So reads an appeal of the Post Office Department, issued through Assistant Postmaster General Clover. Clo-ver. Every American contemplating contemplat-ing a trip across the ocean should patronize American vessels. Mr. Glover tells us why: "Ships of the American merchant merch-ant marine stand ready to take you to every part of the world and even around it. Perhaps you do not know that your Government is very largely interested in these American steamships lines. Uncle Un-cle Sam is a partner to the extent of millions of dollars through construction con-struction loans obtained from th.3 United States Shipping Board and mail contracts awarded by the Post Office Department, and one of the main reasons for this partnership partner-ship is to restore the American merchant marine to the front rank in world shipping where it properly pro-perly belongs It has held that place before and your Government is bound to place it there again." If Americans use our own merch ant marine, the ship-owners are not the only ones helped, Mr. Glover Glo-ver points out, for, "from the man who carries your bag to Cabin B-61 to the proud captain on the bridge" he says, "the man who toils in the field to raise the products which go to grace the table in the main dining saloon; the man. away below be-low the surface of the earth who brings forth the black diamonds which go to drive the giant leviathans levia-thans of the sea, or the man who drsws the oil from yonder well in Oklahoma or Texas and which products pro-ducts of toil are brought to the waiting ship by the man who runs the train bringing them to the seaboard; sea-board; the man who packs ar.d handles these American manufactured manufac-tured products the man who manufactures manu-factures the paper carton that carries car-ries the biscuit to the table; the mill that makes the towel which hangs on the American manufactured manufac-tured rack m your stateroom, as well as he who weaves the sheet on the bed of that American manufactured man-ufactured mattress; and the very rope that drops into the water as your craft casts itself loose from adjacent dock to the college boy.i orchestra playing gaily on the dock, "Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here"; they are all American. |