The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-08-06
RAILS ! and
SHIPS ARE
/. ONE SYSTEM
Especial Correspondence

II VSpeCldA NOTIeSpOnueucel
Washington Aug. 6.-The Republ-
ican Publicity Association through its
Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr.,
today gave out the following state
ment from its. Washington Headquar-
ters:
"The great value of corrsleioa Of
railroad and ocean Transportation sys-
TENS, as proposed by John H. Ros-
setter, Director of the U. S. Shipping
Board will be readily apparent. Of
course there are few large shippers
to whom convenience of this kind
is Of relatively little Importance. It
would help them some, but if their
land ocean transportation with little
loss. Large exporters of wheat, of
steel, or of coal, for example, have
their terminal facilities, their foreign
agencies, and their regular customers.
They would be materially helped BY a
correlation Of the railroad and steara-
ship lines, but they can get along un-
der the systems heretofore prevail
ing.
.tBut the full development of Am
erican foreign trade, with greatest &C.
onomy and efficiency, requires adop-
ito nand perfection of the Rcsseter
plan. Briefly stated, his lea is that
the government should establish and
later turn over to private enterprise
a complete and comprehensive system
of, ocean transportation, comprising
permanent and regular service be-
tween American ports and the ports
Of all nations with which we caa hope
to, build up a profitable trade. He
would have the schedule Of sailings so
arranged as to be dependable and
would have rates published and ava:!-
able in every railroad Office so that the
producer Of any commodity in arf Sec
ton Of the United States coull as
certain at what time, at what cost
and undcr what conditions he could
ship his goods to any importan: port
on the fact of the globe.
"With the transportation service in
existence and dependable, our foreign
consular service would assume new
importance. The frequent reports of
trade opportunities would then be Of
interest to large proportion Of our
population. At present few people
are interested in such announcements,
: for few can afford to undertake to
j 8. ablish foreign trade if the trans
portation service is infrequent, slow,
IL uncertain of duration. Once as
sured that he can take his product to
! his local railroad freight office and
get shipping receipt which guaran-
tees it's transportation over land and
SEQ to the final destination, the rela-
lively small producers can hope to es-
tablish permanent and profitable bus
mess by forming connections with re-
liable firms in foreign lands.
"They accomplish all that is desired
a syste nsuch as this must be under
the American flag, under the supervi-
sion of American, and assured Of per.
nancy by the American government
Such a service will expedite trans.
portation Of American mail, thus aid
ing the building up Of foreign trade
Every American flag in a foreign port
will be an advertisement for Ameri.
/ eNGan Arm will be a builder Of bus.
can goods. Every agent for an Am.
iiness not only for the particular line
of goods he is promoting but for othe.
lines Of goods which his customers
may desire to procure. And thai is
Of no less Importance, America may
thus build a merchant fleet upon
which it can depend if we should ever
again become embroiled in a foreign
war which would require us to trans
port troops or munitions across the
sea. We learned the value of mer-
chant feet when we were compelled
to send troops to the Philippines. We
learned it again when we found it
necessary to send troops across the
Atlantic. Such feet should not be
established with primary view to
war uses, but it's maintenace as an en-
terprise Of peace will always be an
assurance of preparedness, to that ex'
tent, in case of recurrence of war"
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