The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-11-26
SHIPPERS SCHOOL READY
AT HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
New Glass in Navigation Opened To-
day-U. 5. After Bay Oystermen.

The statements made by Rear-Ad-
miral Francis T. Bowles, at the Mer-
| chants and Manufacturers Assocla-
ton luncheon at the Emerson Hotel,
Baltimore, on Thursday, that carry
ing out the United States Shipping
Boards program for great mer-
chant marine was absolutely neces-
sary to the winning of the war, in
creases the Importance OF an event
which took place in the Mechanical
Engineering Building of the Johns
Hopkins University at Homewood to-
day A new class in navigation was
opened there in the Free School OF
Navigation and Marine Engineering.
new class in engineerig was opened
there last Monday.
For several months this school at
the Johns Hopkins University and
other schools like it throughout the
country have been teaching men who
have in the past held minor positions
On steamships and sailing vessels the
principles of navigation and marine
engineering, fitting them to become
officers on the vessels which the Unit
ed States Shipping Board is building.
The first of these vessels was laun-
ched in Seattle Saturday. Within the
next year a tonnage of 100000 will
be launched. Supplying the officers
for the ships is just as important as
supplying the ships themselves. For
that reason the officermill at the
Johns Hopkins is being made to work
as fast as is consistent with efficiency.
Admiral Bowels said eff we are
going to lick the Germans we must
build this tonnage" and, at the same
time, he announced that the United
States Government would furnish the
funds to build houses for 1,500 ship
yard workers, so that the capacity OF
a shipbuilding plant in Baltimore
| might be increased 100 per cent. The
Government attaches as much impor-
| lance to the education of men to
| serve as officers.
No class in this country is more
| interesting than that at Gloucester,
Mass, the students in which are all
| men of the Gloucester fisherman
| class, made famous by many writer's
the men of the cod and mackerei
industry. No men anywhere have
displayed more patriotic feeling in
entering the campaign to defeat the
plan of the German submarine to
| sweep the seas clear of the ships OF
| the Allies.
Seamen themselves, the greater
| number of them men of English des-
cent and tradition, they have felt
| that the German Governments arro1
gance On the seas was a challenges to
their own rights. They have grown
! hot under the collar over the Kai-
| ser's Understanding manifestoes as
| 70 hot no would LOT oh
do and what he would not let them
| do. Many of these men take their
ships from Gloucester up to the New
foundland banks and have been do
| ing it for years without any know
| ledge of navigation. One of the class
| has the record of having buoyed a
| yawl before a blow off the New Eng
| land banks and of having returned
! and found it still there three months
! later. Capt. Dan Mcdonald probably
| sprung from the same Scotch source
which produced John Paul Jones.
| The need for men to take ships
| across the Atlantic has convinced
them of the necessity of studying
| navigation and engineering. Sixteen
of them who have been hard at it for
| weeks are just about to graduate,
| and there will be more Gloucester
! men to follow them.
The Shipping Board feels that re-
| cruits should be found among the
| oystermen of the Chesapeake Bay
| and that such an important port as
Baltimore should produce lot Of
| men who wish to improve their posi-
lions and rise from fremen or deck
hands to officers. Glasses in engi-
| neering are conducted at night so
that men employed during the day,
perhaps as stationary firemen or en-
| gineers, may study without giving
up the positions they now have.
Glasses in navigation are conducted
both day and night.
Unusually large salaries are paid
| these men. Those who enter the
school now, while the Government is
footing the bill, so that it does not
cost the student one cent, will get in
On the ground floor in a highly paid
| profession which will prove perma-
nent. For the United States, once
having put this fleet On the seas, will
see that it stays there.