Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-29
|PLAN TOLEAD
WORLD SHIPPING
A Administration and Co-opera-
ton to Be Taught at Coast
and Lake Colleges

Washington. - When the war is
over. the United States Government
VIII be one of the largest owners of
steamships in the world They will be
the trade argosies of the seven seas.
Ihere must be not only men to san
the ships, but there must be men to
manage the lines to which these ships
VIII be assigned. The United States
Shipping Board began the training of
men to make up the complement of
officers and crews for, these ships
long ago. Now it is formulating plans
to train executive stats to manage
the lines in whose service these ships
Will sail when the days of peace shall
come again and all the seas are free.
10 perfect these plans and execute
them. Chairman Edward N. Hurley,
OF the Shipping Board, has had sew
efal conferences with William NJ. Brit
tam, secretary of the American Steam
snip s1 Association. who. besides being
an expert in the steamship business,
Is Master of Arts. a Bachelor of
Laws. Doctor of Jurisprudence, and
a Bachelor of Commercial Science. As
d result of these conferences, Mr.
Britt ain has laid out course. which
the Shipping Board has approved
which will be introduced. at the re-
quest OF the board, in the colleges and
universities along the Atlantic an6
| Pacific coasts and on the shores of the
/
! VIII conduct courses in ship operation
| and ship administration in the .Schoo
OF commerce of New York University
ana duplicate the course at the Col
lege of the City of New York
Mr.. Britain also is working out 6
| correspondence or library course o1
study. Under the plan on which he IL
working, libraries containing STANDARD
| works on ship operation and admins
| tfatlon VIII be established at all home
| ports and overseas bases so that those
| taking the correspondence course ma,
nave the necessary books for col
! lateral reading. Any man in the Nav,
| or in the transport of cargo Service!
| may take out book at one port anC
return it an another. When he hal
| nnished the course he will be required
10 take written examination and i
MS papers receiYe a mark of 80 pei
| promotion to a place in the admins.
| trative end of the United State.
| war.
The first correspondence or library
course MAS been started at Newpo-t
News, where a so-called stevedort
| regiment is stationed The library
has been provided by H. B. Walker
| president of the Old Dominion Steam.
| ship Company. and now stationed al
! Hampton Roads as Director of Ship.
Committee. Mr. Walker has writer
to Mr.. Britain that the men at New.
port News ARE hungry for the in
| struction." 1t is thet expectation OF
Mr.. Britain that. when the war i.
over. many of the Newport News stn.
dents will become dock superinten.
dents. wharf superintendents, CHIEF
steVedores. wharf foremen. and the
like. The university courses. supple.
| n snted by practical experience, will
| train men for higher executive Jobs.
| My purpose" Mr.. Britain says, 81.
! to attract to these courses young meI
of this port who already have hac
some transportation experience. fo1
| instance. in our coastwise shipping OF
! in railroad offices. 1t will be our en-
deaYor to supplement their qualifica
tions with a knowledge of the re
quirements necessary for successfu
! overseas operation and administra
! ton: 1t is absolutely necessary tina
ally equlpping a body of men capat
of successfully conducting the cor