The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-06-10
COCKTAILS THE HEApsTRoNG.

ity or desirability of any wooden shi
program has been increasingly evi
dent as the situation has developed
The army engineer was appointed t,
head an organization to supply tn,
Entente shipping service with vas
merchant marine in as short a lin,
as unlimited money and resource.
would permit The Eustis- Hunting
ton wooden ship program was the
one decided on. 1t has not found ia
vor with Goethals and consequently
it is not being carried out. He pins
his. faith to steel, being of the east
In the meantime our cause in the
war is being jeopardized by merchant
ships sinking at a diminished though
still alarming rate, while we are
marking time and the strictly emer.
gency program is held up on the OBJ
stinacy of popularity regarded
though perhaps overly exploited,
army officer who has been pumped
down in a big job the essentials of
which cannot be entirely familiar to
him. says the Macon Telegraph.
The disclosures of Eustis and Hunt
ington come in good part. This is a
time to get things done and we as a
people will neither stand on cere-
mony ourselves or allow anybody else
to do it when it comes to getting our
emergency work done. or administer
ing turpentine to those who may be
going about their work in too leisure
ly or negligible a fashion. To the
average American citizen it began to
appear pretty strongly some weeks
ago that GoethaIs was wrong about
steel ships being the sort that should
be built in greater number than the
wooden ships, and that the latter be
regarded as welcome, but more or
less impracticable and inconsequen-
tai auxiliary contributions to the
quick and nimble fleet we must get
into the water at the earliest possible
moment else our Allies and ourselves
pay tribute to the Prussians.
The practical shipping men, the
knock down and drag out merchant
marine builders. operators and own
ers on the Pacific coast. the men who
have made fortunes out of the cheap
building, the quick delivery and the
profitable sailing of wooden ships are
a unit that they can be laid down in
increasingly great numbers month
after month, that the resources of
the country can be modified to their
turnout and that the Atlantic can
really be "bridged" with American
oil-burning wooden bottoms Eustis
and Huntington, the two engineers
who know the business and who are
working for Uncle Sam for a dollar
a year salary, laid the details before
the government. The shipping board
experts, men who know maritime
problems. Immediately endorsed it
and arranged for a program. Denman,
the biggest braiu and the man of the
widest experience in American ship
ming. who has seen wooden ships
built in a hurry to urgent order, who
knows what the shipyards of the en-
tire country can do, through his en-
tire professional endorsement, is
solidly behind the proposition.
The eastern element, where since
the days of the Yankee clipper ships
there hasn't been enterprise, ability
or grasp of rewards and problems OF
the sea to keep more than a mono
polistic coastwise marine in opera
ton without the guarantee from the
government of great subsidies STANDS
for an all-steel program-for obvious
reasons. 1t is a steel country. zoe
thals, the army engineer. the sarvel
of canals and driver of dredgers
Glands with the steel mill territory u
thumbs down the program OIL Wooael
ships. They tell the men VINO haF'
bui1t them and who can deliver theh
who already have guarantees OF nun
dreds of them in less than yeai