The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-05
HOG ISLANDS
FIRST BIG SHIP
Another Milestone in Amer
ica's Progress in the War
Against Germany"
PRESIDENT AND
WIFE AT LAUNCHING
Beginning of an Epoch in
Nations History" Says
Chairman Hurley

| Philadelphia, Aug. with President
and Mrs Wilson, officials of the shipping
board and emergency feet corporation
and thousands of shipyard workers and
their families looking on, the Quistconck
cargo-carrying vessel of $500 tons
went down the ways of the Hog Island
shipyards to-day, marking, in the words
OF Chairman Hurley, of the shipping
board, another milestone in America
progress in the war against the German
government"
The Quistconck, of which Mrs. Wilson
was sponsor, is the first of the large
cargo-carrying vessels to be launched at
the Hog Island yards, the largest ship.
yard In the world. 1t will be followed
by another within few weeks, and it is
expected that more than so ships will
be launched by the end of the present
year.
III was no mere incident in a nations
shipbuilding program that brought the
president and Mrs. Wilson to the scene Of
this achievement" said Chairman Hur-
ley, who was the principal speaker at
the launching. at was the beginning of
an epoch in the nations history.
This launching marks another mile
stone in Americas progress in the war
against the German government 1t
marks the beginning of quantity produc-
ton Of ships in all the yards of the
United States.
1t is doubtful whether any nation
ever would have undertaken shipbuild.
ing program on such large scale II Ger
many had not plunged the world into
war" Mr.. Hurley continued. Owe are in
II now, and we are going through with
It. We are producing more tonnage to-
day than the submarines are sinking.
and from this time forward our great
task will be TO replace the tonnage that
was lost in the days when we were far
behind in the nerye-rseking race with
the sharks of the sea.
we have made tremendous strides in
the shipbnilding program, and | doubt
whether | will ever have better oppor
tunity to state that the vast scope of
this program was due to the vision of
the president. Throughout the world.
even in Germany, it is admitted TODAY
that America has made herself effective
in the war. Not only America, but all 1
the civilized nations of the world have
become convinced that this country had
no selfish purpose in the war; that this
country would have kept out of it if its
own honor had not been assailed and the
welfare OF all humanity had not been at |
stake.
I'VE are going through with the shin.
building program to the finish, and we |
are going through with the war TO a |
finish. The American government is
planning for long war because endur
ing peace will not be in sight until the
militaristic system of Germany Is brok
en-. Nothing else will convince Germany
Of the supremacy of right over might.
else will convince her that weak
nations are not the natural prey Of the
strong
Even then, the shipbuilding program
Of America must 60 on. 1t will take 1--WE
years to complete the program and place
at the service of mankind a merchant
fleet that will make enduring peace by
bringing nations closer as the eastern
and western and northern and southern