Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1918 — Great Need of Fearless Men to Carry Our Flag to Foreign Ports [ARTICLE]

Great Need of Fearless Men to Carry Our Flag to Foreign Ports

By HENRY HOWARD,

Director of Recnrithf Service, U.S. Shipptag Board

The sea’s call to our country’s youth today is clear and strong. At no other period in our national life has need been greater than now for fearless men to-carry our flag through stress of war and storm to foreign ports. The American merchant mariner of today takes rank in the greatest of all wars—the liberty and force—beside the honored brothers of tHearmy and the navy, an exemplar of the strength and plenty of this free and chivalrous new world. In his hands we trust our trade; but more than this, we trust our honor, too. Neither shall perish so long aauour mariners sail the seas. Their calling is a cherished legacy from God-fearing forefathers, who in their day sailed hard and far on errands of peaceful commerce, while ever ready to fight for freedom. The descendants of such men do not fail in their duty when the sea calls them in this time of war. The ways of the sailor may have been lost to them in generations of peaceful land pursuits; but the salt is in their blood, and with steady purpose they say to the sea, “Take me and teach me what you would have me do.” This response, from shore to shore of a mighty land, makes possible the new, great things America is doing on the sea to end the war. On a thousand new ships now taking shape upon our shores American merchant sailors by tens of thousands will go forth without fear. Veterans in sea service will have trained the new comers to the fleets so w ill be wrought a strong, close-knit, all-American personnel for our reborn merchant ~ A dollar is Worth only 75 cents in Denmark, but you probably buy just as much butter with it as you can here at home. - .