Show BURN IN HIPS pre pres dispatches the other dav carried the iton of the destruction on hendersons Hende rons BM ba near tacoma wa sli of thirteen chips chich cot the people of the united states 42 the these c nere nacre inar artime ar time ships lips intended to carry supplier to tile the american troops lovenea ov enea ew but which neer left their home ports for the reason that the var ended before the could be put into ir ue e the boats had been cd from the government bv a private concern and were burned to falvae e the scrap in them no matter what nhat one mav ma think about our sl shipping upping policy luring during the IN world orld ft 11 nr ar it must be admitted th it if the united states had pos possessed es ed an adequate merchant marine of its oi own n at tile the outbreak of the conf conflict ct the expenditure of billions upon experiments and burned shipbuilding bip building when the crisis ansi cime came would not hive bane been ne necessary cesary the real fault therefore of the shipping fiasco of war times iles in the neglect of the people of the united states through their tie in the government in failing to see that there was a real merchant man manne ne on the high seas flying filing the american flag and we nie are now again confronted with the question of what we are going to do about keeping the stars and stripes on the ocean it is generally admitted that government direction or some sort of federal aid will be ne necessary cesary to maintain an adequate merchant marine the reasons for it are both patriotic and economic we need the marine because bebau e it in will ill protect us fiona f foreign 0 reign shipping monopolies which could just as easily gouge us as the rubber monopoly lv did and then we need the marine manne for national defense defene e without it we will be as helpless if we ne are plunged into another wai itai as xie we were in the list last and the shipping fiasco fialco may be repeated money aloney spent in i on a 1 merchant mci chint minne marine will be economical lv v an and d wi wisely c infested im ini ested these occa occasional ional million dollar bonfires of nar time ships lips ought to impress upon the Amp american rican people the ad advisability of having haing at all times an adequate merchant marine |