Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-03
u. S. SHIPPING COMMITTEE
HAS COMPLEX ACTIVITIES
Evidences Distinctive Kind OF Stra:
egy Collaborating With Mill
tary and Naval Experts.
OPERATIONS ENcIRCLE GLOBE
AT It's Command Vast Number OF Yes
sells Speed Hitllcr and Thithcr Over
Z All Ocean ENpanscs Conveying
Cargocs Needed for War.

All Ocean ENpanscs Conveying
Cargocs Needed for War.
WASHING TON. September I'm pre-
vious wars military and naval strat"-
Eists were thought the only necessary
kinds. But this great world war has
brought forth a new. distinctive kind
Of strategy 10 collaboratc with the
other two; In fact, were this modern
stra,es isTkHs r, military and naval
great backing force indispensable 10
victory.
or war colleges and general STAINS
much 1,,,, has has has been heard, Bu, Of
seas little or nothing has been said.
y Even il the name under which they
tee of the United States Shipping
Boards mentioned. i, has so techni-
cal a sound that il conveys no popular
meaning OF the vital ar-reachiuG re-
suits they are contributing to the wars
success by their dextcrouS handling OF
the huge merchant fleets under the
American flag.
Hereafter history will tell it's fasc-
mating tale OF this new species OF
genius in war--a genius first rccos
nized and used in tbs sturendous wa,
OIL peoples. For great armies and
naviss to he moved by a single head
is not new story. But the marshal
s alI-potcnt body of three men with the
entire globe as their simultaneous
arena OF operationS-ths is something
: original, and as effective as II is ,strik-
This war is highly complex To carry
, 1t on, demands that not only all OF the
IS, All be anticipated. and supplied. but
I. those of whole populations also. Every
e essential that goes into the manufac-
T ture of arms, munitions and equipment
must be obtained and in speedy guam
(. tity. Every sort of food needed to sus
tain hEh,ins forces and the popula-
hAh i,,1 tta,, - s-pl -
matter from what distant places. III
. the Americas, Asia, Australasia Africa
are foods and raw and manufactured
;. material that must be transported 10
. where they are most needed for the
United States and its allies. Failure
T DO THIS wGud mean can disasfer
strategy OF the shipping control COM
mittee comes in. Hitherto TO the pub
been fully chronicled and, therefore.
vide, widely understood: But that OF the
We, not a day has passed since Feb
ruary 1915, but that from its head
City, il has not carried on its maze of
Slobn -cnc;rciing operations. AT Its
command vast numbers OF ships have
sped hithcr and thIther over all the
ocean cXpanses, their changing courses
dictated BY the one supreme design of
getting and conveying the precious
20 a successful conclusion.
PROVIDES FoR OPERATION
As WELL AS BUILDING
America-and, in 'act the whole
world-has already had the evidence in
actual deeds wrought OF the phenome
nal quantity of new ships being turned
out by the United states Shipping
Board. But that fact OF itself gives
only incomplete idea of the ship
ping Boards all-cmhrac!ng program:
The buildins OF ships is not only well
mr. nd fnS nj II tt.,y. sAf
ships under the United States Ship
ping Boards jurisdiction. Months ago
Chairman Edward y. Hurley saw the
urgent necessity of a body OF expert
sea stratcGists TO administer all of
our merchant, ships efficiently. The
creation, Jointly by the United States
Shipping Board and the Secretary OF
war, of the Shipping control committee
into dynamic reality, 10 become at once
the biggest snip operator in the world,
At its head is man Of whom the
tell much. He is +. ~ = Franklin. To
identify him simply as the president of
gives no vivid idea OF his large quail
fications He knows all the water high
ways Of the world. lie has complete
knowledge OF what every country pro-
duces. The ports OF every land are ia
miliar to him. There is not detail Of
how TO operate ships on large scale
e.
itself mastery Of technical details
is a great attainment. Eui when to
IT. is ADDED breadth In, OF v!si9n; d@pt Il.
Character h,'n the combination is. IN
Z deed. ideal.
America Is an id"alis,c country, and
OF large hearts. Mr.. Franklin is, there
fore. just an American Eut Nature
vhas also endowed him with a massive,
snapely build, and he has large mind
n INN
That mind and that body are worthy
Of special notice. For months, IN the
been working twelve hours and more
day. IntermissiOu for luncheon is
merely nominal for even then Nj
Franklin discusses the nations ship
business. Often this prodigy OF applica-
ton leaves New York on the midnight
Train .or Washington where at 3
!. o'clock the next morning he will start
working and keep al II necessarily un-
iil midnight, when ne boards the train
back to New York. there rcsum!nS
work at In the morning To speak
.v,Of ii as work. however. IS something
OF a mianomer. MIR. Franklin docs not
recognize ii as labor. TO him II is en-
thusiastic service lie is there TO give
every particle OF his energy Ia serve
his country and humanity and the days
are all too short to do II as NJ would
like.
Shipping Control Committee are two
nther experts %. notable ability one
is II. II. Raymond. president Of the
Clyde & Mallory Steamship Company.
Mr.. Raymond has viiie spirlt that
energies al! mis- actions. It is this that
( brought him forward when ms cUuu-
Try called and That sent him TO France
10 make first hand information
The third member o! the Shipping
Control Committee is representative
that links the United States Shipping
Board and the British Ministry Of Shi'i',
F; ping, insuring the fullest and most cf-
. fective cooperation between the great
: ma ritime fleets OF America and Eng
Hand He is Sir Common Guthrie X
- T.. C.. special representative OF tho
. british Ministry OF Shipping IN tn.
= United States.
, SHIPPING COMMITTEE
Is ITSELF CONTROLLED
ffa Although th!s committee Is called tn,
Shipping Control Committee, ii is IL.
self controlled. II IS controlled by tn,
driving force OF one paramount idea