El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-06

10 make you statesman
n NO, think not She is a pious won
l. an, and her only ambition was that
st should be a good man She once hope
e that might become a preacher but m
= bent seemed to be the newspaper and
e strOVe toward that profession thin
o nave done better as a newspaper ma
:. than 1 could have done as a preacher
Interested IN =. II c. 4. Work
4 understand that you are great
interested in the Y. NJ. c. a work."
Yes, that organization has been do
ing much good 1t has great mission
airy influence, not only in the Unite
! states, but in other countries. I wan
to see II introduced on Shipboard an
more I1IIy at All naval training sta
tons have been talking with tn
officers Of the Y. NJ. c. A. about that
Take your native state, secretar,
Daniels What kind Of place is Norti
Carolina TO be born in? Suppose you ha,
to be born again, where would yol
choose?"
7 would take the same place. I Xix,
| North Carolina. It is the most demo.
cratic state in America 1t lies, as yol
know, between Virginia and South Car.
DINA. and they used to say that it was
EaHey OF humility between two noun
lalns OF cOncelt Another story relates
70 the North CarOlinian who went &c
New York and was there asked where
ne came from He replied: North Car
DINA But said the New Yorker !
/ nave never heard of that state Where
IS IL! The North Carolinian replied
viii bound it. Virginia lies at the
north Of it and South Carolina AT the
south of it, and to tell you the truth.
| stranger, between so much living on
both sides of it the rest of the world
! hears but little of our truth-loving
Advises Youths to Go south.
You are an editor, an adviser of
] me people, Mr. Daniels. Horace Gree
| ley, another great editor, advised the
] young man of his day to go west.
/ W nat would You Say2'
| Go south The south is the west OF
/ To-Day Lands are cheaper there than
/ they are in the west. and that is the
/ coming part of the United States If
/ you have any doubt as to the mart Of
the south, / would say go to North
carolina Our people there are kindly
( ana humble They still live. to some
extent. the simple life. Besides. as
Bancroft said, OF them, they are free
ana Independent and will not support
any government but one of their own
creation.
I believe the nation is too extrava-
CANT and that prices are too high New
ertneIess, one can live on 81 a day if
ne mas 10. know 1 could. Almost
any one can earn the necessities of to-
day We all want to live too high. and
prices have gone up accordingly"
Is 1t so in the south?"
yes The cost Of the necessities has
risen and our people also demand iuxu-
ries which no one thought of having
IN tn. the days of my boyhood."
do you find that your career as a
newspaper man has fitted you for your
present pOsitiOn2|
1T seems to me that the newspaper
is good training for almost any no.
sitiOn- A newspaper man comes into
contact with all Kinds of people. He
learns human nature and how TO han
world over. They have not Changed
greatly since Adam. This navy depart
L .as Is a big thing, but after all it is
SOIne thl4g IKE newspaper establish
ment Just before I left Raleigh one
OF my friends said to me at dinner.
How can you be secretary of the navv7
I GU cannot sail a ship nor shoot a gun.
IepIled that 1 was the editor of
newspaper, although I could not run
a printing press or a linotype. It is
me same IN this department. One does
NOT nave TO know every detail in order
70 direct it. When I came in did
IIot know living soul I did not know
my aids, nor the heads of the bureaus
put 1 found that they were men lust
IKE IKE those whom had known in North
Caroilna- The most Of them were pa
triote; nearly all were fine spirited
ana an seemed to love the service like
me love Of God. The machine is a
Sood one, and have not seen reason
70 make many changes in it."
Reducing Naval Costs.
Have you enough money to run this
We have plenty for the various de-
partments. We have not as much as
we would like for building new ships
and we could use more in the navy
vital one, and I hope we can make a
now"
-, do we pay more FOR our battleships |
than other nations"
Il hardly think so. but we pay more |
than we ought to pay and I hope we |
can cut down the prices Take the mat |
ter OF guns. We used to pay immense |
sums for such armament, but since we |
nave established our own gun factory /
mere at Washington we have saved on /
that account alone many millions of 4
dollars.
I'VE are now making our own pow
DER and are saving millions on that I /
don't mean that we save alone on the I
making the powder. but the outsiders /
Of whom we buy have to fix their /
prizes at somewhere near our cost of I
I think we could do the /
same with armor plate, and shall ask /
congress to give me enough money to |
put up an armOr plate factory and thus |
bring down outside competition AS /
II IS now we are held up Oy the steel !
trust. It's managers know that we !
cannot make our own armor plate, and /
they have US at their mercy. When |
am going to give a contract to the |
lowest bidder they all bid exactly the
petitors work in collision and we are
As it is we need some cranes
and other machlneeIrX 10 equip our
and we will save there as much as we |
are paying on powder and guns"
Is n Practical Plan.
at am much interested in your plan
Of turning our battleships into schools
for the men" said L rs it practical?'
Perfectly so. / see no reason why !
every sailor and every marine should |
not receive a good education aboard I
ship. I hope to make it so that every
man who enlists in the navy will have |
4 chance to learn trade or profession |
There is no reason why he should not
be an electrician, an engineer. or have !
almost any other practical trade !
While was at Newport the other day !
[ looked over the records of the train
nine of the students had been to col
lee-e before they were admitted and |
that 80 had gone to the high schools, |
while 156 had had little education to
speak Of. Now we have on every yes /
sci a corps of young officers who are /
graduates of the naval academy. and
we can establish a school on every