The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-11
WILL Be THE LARGEST
IN HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Director SehWab Expects the Output
Of the Ship Yards This Year to
Exceed 3,ooo.ooo Dead Weight Tons.
Enough Ships to PLY All the Seas
Of the World.

South Bend, Ind, June l0.-Amer-
lea in 1920 will have merchant ma--
rine of 25,000000 dead weight tons,
Chairman Hurley of the shipping
board declared here tonight in an ad-
dress giving the most complete state
ment of the nations ship building
program which has yet been made
public. He was speaking to the grad
yates of Notre Dame University.
This fleet, Mr.. Hurley said, the
largest ever assembled In the history
of the world and involving the ex-
penditure of more than five billions OF
dollars, will link the United States To
South and Central America by week
ly steamer service which viii enable
the Latin-American countries to util-
ize their unlimited natural resources
in the freest competition with other
nations. 1t also will bridge the Pa
cific for the transportation of prod
ucts of Japan, Russia, China, Aus
tralia and the Orient and viii CON.
tinue to promote Americas trade with
Europe.
With it all. he added, American
ships will serve humanity Loyalty and
unselfishly upon the same principles
of liberty and justice which brought
about the establishment OF this re-
public.H
"'The vast merchant fleet we are
building" said Mr. Hurley. must be-
bn
ternational probity, honesty and
square dealing at the close of the war.
II must become the vast and vital
machine whereby 1t will prevent o.
preston of the weak by the strong;
the crushing of right by might"
Mr. Hurley said he and Director
Schwab of the emergency fleet cor
poration, expect the Shipping output
this year to exceed 3,O00b00 dead
weight tons, while next year the ma
tions tremendous ship building IN
dustry will be capable of turnkg out
l3,51S,0OO dead weight tons, more
than Great Britain. heretofore 6B
greatest builder OF ships, has com
pleted in any five years OF her his
tory.
at was before the formation OF tne
present shipping board" Mr.. Hurley
continued, that Secretary McAdoo In
sisted that our pioneering upon che
seas must in the future be done by an
interest having boundless resources.
an interest that has single object,
the general interest of the United
States, as a whole. Obviously there
is but one such interest and that Is
the government of the United States"
On the first OF June we had In
creased the American built tonnage
to over 3,5Oe000 dead weight tons Of
shipping. This gives us total OF
more than 1,400 ships. with an APP
proximate dead weight tonnage of
1000, 900 tons now under the control
Of the United States shipping board.
'In round numbers from all sources
we have added to the American flag
since our war AGAINST Germany be-
gan, nearly 100000 tons OF shippins
We are adding to this tonnage rapidly
and do not believe | am over-opti--
mistic In saving that our tonnage out
put will continue to increase until
when this year closes we viii be turn
ing out a half million tons each
month"
"Our program calls for the buildins
az 1856 passenger, cargo. refrigerator
ships and tankers. ranging from 5000
20 12000 tons each. with on aggregate
dead Meight tonnage OF 1a,00U.00n,