The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-05
AM ERICA PLANS
COMPLETE SMASH
OF HU n EN- P IRE
PREPARES FOR LONG WAR
OBSTRUCTION OF GER
MAN MILITARISM
TO BRING ENDUR|N c PEACE
Worlds Oceans Be Thick With
Great Ships of Merchant Marine
and the Blessing to All Nations
Historic Day at Hog Island Yard.

Philadelphia, August 5.-With
President and Mrs. Wilson, officials
of the shipping board and Emergen-
cy Fleet Corporation and thousands
OF shipyard workers, and their fami-
lies looking on, the Quistconsk,
cargo carrying vessel of $500 tons,
went down the ways of the Hog
Island shipyard today. marking in
the words of Cheirman Hurley, of
stone in Americas progress in the
the shipping board, another mile
war against the German govern
ment."
The Qustcock, Of which Mrs.
Wilson was sponsor. is the first of
the large cargo carrying vessels to
be launched at the Hog Island yard,
the largest ship yard in the world.
1t will be followed by another with
in few weeks, and it is expected
that more than fifty ships will be
launched from this yard by the end
OF the present year.
Beginning of an Epoch
st was no mere incident in ma
tons shipbuilding program that
brought the president and Mrs. Will
son to the scene of this achieve
ment," said Chairman Hurley, who
was the principal speaker at the
launching. at was the beginning of
an epoch in the nations history.
This launching marks another
milestone in Americas progress in
the war against the German govern
ment, it marks the beginning of
quantity production of ships in all
the yards of the United States.
1T is doubtful whether any ma
ton ever would have undertaken a
shipbuilding program on such a
large scale if Germany had not
plunged the world into war" Mr..
Hurley continued. 1--WE are in it
now and we are going through with
it. We are producing more tonnage
today than the submarines are sink
ing, and from this time forward our
great task will be to replace the tom
mage that was lost in the days when
we were far behind in the nerve
racking race with the sharks Of the
sea.
Tremendous Strides.
1--WE have made tremendous
strides in the ship building program,
and | doubt whether ! will ever have
a better opportunity to state that
the vast scope of this program was
due to the vision of the president.
Throughout the world, even in Ger
many. it is admitted today that
America has made herself effective
in the war.
I'VE are going through with the
ship building program to the finish
and we are going through with the
war to finish. The American gov
ernment is planning for a long war
because enduring peace will not be
in sight until the militariStic sys-
TEN OF Germany is broken. Nothing
else will convince Germany OF the
supremacy of right over might.
Nothing else will convince her that
weak nations are not the natural
prey of the strong.
Even then. the ship-building pro-
gram of America must go on. 1t will
take five years to complete the pro-
gram and place at the service OF
mankind a merchant fleet that will
make enduring peace by bringing
nations closer. as the eastern and
and western and northern and
southern states were brought closer
by nationwide system of rail-
roads. The end of the war will find
America master of the process OF
quantity production of ships. We
will build ships for ourselves and for
the world