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T HUNDRED SHIPS
ONE thought is likely to rise like a triumphant shout in the
minds of many Americans at the knowledge that more
than a hundred ships will be launched at the yards of the
country tomorrow to join our swiftly expanding war fleets.
"Tell it to the Germans!"
Our new way of celebrating Independence Day is impressive.
It is stupendous. We might tell it to the Germans with the assur
ance that they would not be any happier in consequence. And
yet that notion seems hardly appropriate in a nation that already
holds the German somewhere midway between contempt and
pity. The Germans are doomed and they are in agony, and the
guns in Europe are talking to them plainly enough. In the mat
. ter of the Hundred Ships it might be as well if we told it to some
of the Americans at home.
TT WOULD be a fine thing if all the profiteering packers, all the
- capitalists who have not yet found their souls, all the workers
who are no better than profiteers who employ them, all who are
selfish, all who' still try secretly to wring indecent profits out of
these terrible years, all who stand apart from the world of brave
men and women now fighting to keep the lights of civilization
steady, could be summoned for the celebration of this Fourth of
''July. It would be a fine thing to herd them in groups to see the
Hundred Ships go down to the water.
For these new ships are a challenge to every mean and
ungracious instinct that still persists in America. They are, for
the most part, worker ships, toilers of the war. N
Few of them will ever unfurl battle flags. They are destined
to the service that is performed silently and in obscurity. What
ever their valor or their sacrifice they will have no witnesses but
the unguarded seas. They make no pretensions to grandeur and
yet.they. will go out to uphold the hands of civilization at the
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common task. The great majority of us, rich and poor, try to
be like them without pretension, without fear, without selfish
ness in a cause that is too great for hatred and too noble for pas
sions of any sort.
Millions of men have turned from their plans and their ambi
tions to endure and to suffer on the other side of the world with
out hope of great glory or unusual rewards. Women have given
up their sons. And most of the Americans who are participating
in the sorrow of this war are still at home. They will never even
have the consolation of a flag above the long adventure. In times
like these there is great glory in the renunciation of glory and
great profit for those who will turn away from profit. Time and
the years to come hold-singular blessings for such as these. And
the Hundred Ships that go out to serve rather than to fight must
be the symbols of devotion such as theirs.,
HHELL it to the Germans!"
There are things about the Hundred Ships that we miglit
properly tell -the Germans for the good of their distracted
souls. We might say that these ships and the myriads that
are to follow them will go about the service of this war without
even the stimulus of cheers. Some will be lost. Others multi-.
plying will take their places till the sea is blackened with them.
We might say to the Germans that these ships in their fidelity
of purpose, in their steadfastness, in their fearlessness before
any adventure fittingly repTesent the great quiet spirit of the
larger America which is, in the final analysis, the force behind
our warfare.
The glittering fleets and the army upon the other side of
the world are the cutting edge of our national will and purpose.
Most of the unexampled number of ships that aro to be
launched tomorrow will serve them. Without the littler adven
turing ships the battle-fleets would find life doubly hard.
Europe could not continue to exist. The war might be even,
lost altogether. And so it is fitting to regard these transports
and cargo vessels as something more than a triumph of Amer
ican skill and determination.
The Hundred Ships are the embodiment of the will and
the purpose, the hearts and the minds and the strength of the
multitudes that made them possible and brought them into
being of the millions whose names you will never know of
the North and the South, the Werst ami the East and all the
regions that,contributed to their creation. We might tell that
to. the unhappy Germans. And we might say that these new
fleets represent the larger nation of America because they are
unpretentious and patient valorous and assured and content
to labor to the end without glory or reward.
They embody our high faith.
IN MORE ways than one the" Hundred Ships tell of our silent
might. Their number alone is an amazing thing. They
represent an achievement greater than anything of the sort
ever done since man first ventured on the deep waters. But it
is because of the nature of their appointed duties that they are
appealing. The fighting ships in the Fourth of July launching
list are relatively few. Most of the vessels are transports and
cargo carriers that will go to labor in a sort of splendid obscurity
after the farewell cheers at the ways. These latter ships have a
part in the war much like that which falls to most Americans.
They will toil unseen and without applause. And yet the work they
do will be felt everywhere in the world. They are the- final
impassable .barrier thrown up against the advance of savagery.
HAPPY will be that American who, after the war, will be
able to feel that he was not shamed by the service of the
iittler ships and those who manned them.
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