The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-12

enemies and Germany as Russia's
| friend. =
| Now things are in much better
| position. We are going In one the ap-
| nsaI of the Czecho-Slavs for assistance
| and, I believe, viii not be opposed"
| With Mr.. Dollar were r. B. Mauchin,
| representative of the Chinese govern
ment shipbuilding yards at Shanghai.
/ and Ross Smith 9ennected with the
Dollar .zpAry. Mauchin and Smith
| last week completed the arrangements
| whereby the Chinese government ship
yard at Shanghai is to build IL ships
| for the U. S. Shipping Board.
Shipbuilders of other countries do
not take seriously the reports OF ships
| launched in the United States In from
81 to At days. Mr.. Mauchin said.
when Mr.. Mauchin came to San
Francisco a couple of weeks ago he
asked me in all seriousness how long
it war taking to build ships here" said
Mr.. Dollar in discussing Mr. Mauch-
| ms doubts. 'I asked him II he hadn't
seen the accounts in the newspapers of
launchings in q to 40 days. He re-
piled, Yes, but that's all bunk. Tell
me really how long 1t takes I took
him to Eddy and SINNERS yard In
Seattle, where the best building rec
ords have been made and he looked
over their records and was convinced
| Of our speed without a doubt.
Its a strange thing, too. that Skin
ner and Eddy, who have made such re-
markable records in shipbuilding never
l built a ship before the war broke out.
knew them both back in Michigan
years ago when we were in the lumber
camps together
/ It Is told in Washington by men who
are familiar with the Skinner and Eddy
development, that this concern was in
| the lumber business in the west when
war broke out and knew nothing of
shipbuilding. The lumber business
took slump and they saw great fu-
ture in shipbuilding. They went all
up and down the coast taking men
here and there from other concerns who
had made good records as organizers,
executives and men who do things I'M
| til they had an organization that in six
months was able to build ships quicker.
cheaper and better than any other
yard in the world.
One of the Congressman on the train
approached and offered Mr.. Dollar
cigar.
mo. believe I'm too young to start
that now said the seventy-five year
old shipping man. 'I have never taken
drink of liquor or smoked tobacco in
liquor was doing to others and made
promise never to drink or smoke. And
I've kept it," he said with firmness.
Mr. Dollar has absolute faith in the
| success of the Hog Island shipyard and
| believes that before long all the stories
of graft at this yard which is sched-
| uled to build $50 ships in the next
| twelve months, will be forgotten. and
| the public will glory in the record OF
Il IL. II
| Is a director in the American Interna-
| tional Corporation which undertook the
| Hog Island construction program.
There was never any real reason for
| this Senate investigation or the inves-
tigation made by the Department of
Justice" asserted Mr.. Dollar with some
warmth of feeling. TT was all part OF
a plan of Senator Hiram Johnson of
California, who has presidential as
pirations, to further his political end"
At the height Of the Senate investi-
cation Senator Johnson declared in the
Senate that grating was going on by
a bunch of hogs of the American
International Corporation at Hog ISL
and. and, reading over the list OF di-
rectors of the corporation, named Mr..
Dollar as one OF the hogs"
II remember George Muhfeld. now
vice president of the American Inter
national Corporation and vice president
OF stone and Webster, from twenty
years ago when he was a youngster on
the coast" said Mr. Dollar remines-
Gently. MY son. Robert Stanley Dol
lar, asked me one day to give a Mr..
Muhfeld, whom he said was chum
of his, a letter OF Introduction TO Stone
and Webster.
II did and young Muhfeld went up
to Seattle and asked for a job with
Stone and Webster who were then
building some interburban lines. When
they told him they couldn't use him.
Muhfeid said he would stay around
and work for a week for nothing. At
the end OF the week he came to the
Office and told them he was ready to
work another week for nothing IL they
hadn't found a place for him They
told him he was then on the payroll
and had been from the day he first
started at s12o a month.
About twelve years later I went to
Boston and walked into Stone and
websters headquarters Offices there
Seeing the name C. A Muhfeld. vice
President on the door, walked in and
was surprised to find 1t was the young
man whom / had recommended many
years before. He had made good"
Mr.. Dollar predicted there will be a
great scramble among the industrial
nations for the trade Of the Far East
after the war. and said it Will take the
best brains and industry of the United
States to secure the lions share of 1T
Germany is going to make a great
effort to grab good share of the Far
Eastern trade after peace is declared"
Mr.. Dollar predicted. Since the war
began we have found that Germany in
the British province of Hong Hong had
so per cent. of the trade and controlled
the mapority of stock in the big banks
there. We never suspected it before
war broke out and 1t goes to show
what we must look out for in years to