New-York tribune., 1921-09-05
oorts Of Shipping and News Of Foreign Trade

tie up most of the Shipping Board
tonnage.
II visited Newcastle on Tyne. where
| inspected the shipyards Of Swan &
Hanter, who built the Mauretania. and
ut Armstrong g. Whitworth. who
nuiit the Japanese navy, furnishing
that nation with 100 vessels. from a
oattleship to a tugboat. These yards
snow vast improvements and quite a
lot of building is going on in them.
SIR George Hunter said he was con-
iident of n large shipbuiiding program
despite the present depression. He
has established clubs for his clerks and
officers and schools to teach his ap-
prentices the mechanical part of the
trade he WAS astonished at the
amount of cooperation between en-
ployers and men. absolutely no diff
cultles, such as strikes, involving the
workmen.
"The great lesson for the Amcric
business man to learn in Europe to-
day is to recognize the immense loss
which every country in Europe has
suffered, directly or indirectly. by the
great war. 1t means to the American
business man the most drastic
economies in the pursuit of his own
business. to reduce costs to level
in order to trade with them.
"The shipping situation is under
ecing a revolution, for it is not the
Scandinavian or the Greek that is the
chief competitor to-day. 1t is the
Asiatic. Mechanical ability is the
basis of all our civilization, ana this
ability is being acquired by the
Japanese. who are to be found in
Scandinavia and every country in
Europe.
THE civilized nations are the me-
chanical nations, and the supremacy of
the white man has only been main
tanned by mechanical ability"
Germany Building Ships
Mr.. Reid, who entered the ship
building industry in 1882 with the
Harlan & Hollingsworth plant at
Wilmington, Del. was twenty years
with that organization. He is con-
sidered ore of the best posted men IN
the shipping world and though his
speciality is petroleum he has figured
in other snarts Of maritime commerce.
Mr.. Reid paid high compliment
to President Harding by saying that
he was one of the best informed men
on shipping that it has been his good
fortune TO meet.
u
SHINES, considered by some to be the
most important power in German in
dustry, but while he was in that mag
Mates Offices the two did not come to-
gether. Mr.. Reid did not consider
SHINES menace to the future of the
American merchant marine.
While in Hamburg Mr.. Reid was
told that Germany would have her
first new ships in four months and
would be shortly on her feet again as
far as ships were conc eTned. They are
building vessels as fast as their work
men can turn them out, ne said, and the
abolition of militarism has released
hundreds Of thousands OF young men
who are devoting themselves to the up
building of a new republic.
In England economic conditions
have forced the leisure class to turn to
trade, and this will mean the devel-
opment of many young men who will
make their mark in industrial, iinan-
cial and commercial circles.
Taxation in Norway has interfered
greatly with progress, but indications
are that the country soon will realize
its handicap and come to the fore
"A strange train Of misfortune seems
old shipbuilders. the men Of the sos
and 90's," said Mr.. Reid in conclusion.
Hugo Ballin, who made the Ham
burg American Line one of the most
colossal concerns in maritime history
died in the streets of Hamburg, | was
told, as he was being led by two men to
q hospital. He was stricken with pneu-
monla and not even horse cab could
be found to take him to the infirmarv y