Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — Better Ports In Europe. [ARTICLE]

Better Ports In Europe.

The beautiful harbor of Naples is to be much improved by the extension of docks and a general broadening of its Immense natural capacity. More than one French port has been raised from minor usefulness to first-rate importance. Even Bordeaux has profited greatly. And all these Immense new utilities will remain as a monument, in part at least, to American engineering efficiency and a liberal use of American money. We shall get full value from them all, and it is pleasant to think that they will also become a lasting benefit to our friends. Our own home ports, both Atlantic and Pacific, have alrefidy felt the stimulus, and will continue to grow under it. New York must inevitably be the greatest shipping point of all the world without exception, as time goes on. And the enormous new American tonnage now being launched will not go into the scrap-heap when peace comes.—Christian Herald.