Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-25
NAUTICAL TERMS
FOR PUBLISHERS
Secretary Daniels Divides Up
Press in Names of Fleet
at Journalists Dinner.
MANY NEWSPAPER MEN !:
CHEER NEW NAVAL HEAD
Refers to His Thirty Years Expert
ence in Journalism-Work of the
Associated Press Praised.

| NEW YORK, April 25.-The editors and
the publishers constituting the Associated
| Press and the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association met at the Waldorf
last night for their annual dinner. More
than 600 newspaper men from every cor
ner Of the United States were present.
and it was nearly midnight before the
| last speaker had his say.
| Charles r. Miller, editor in-chief of the
! New York Times. was the POSTMASTER.
and the speakers were Secretary of the
Navy Josephus Daniels, who. in addition
| to having the civilian command of the
service afioat. owns and. until he entered
| the cabinet, edited the Raleigh News and
Observer: Representative Frank l..
| Greene. publisher of the ST. Adams Vt)
Messenger: Charles H. Grasty of the Bal
timore Sun, Col. n. G. Osborn Of the
New Haven Journal-Courier, Bernard H.
| Ridder of the New Yorker Staats-Zei-
| tung and DR.. Charles Alexander Rich
mond, president of Union College
Melville E. Stone. general manager OF
| the Associated Press. is i'll and was not
| able to attend the dinner.
In the early part of the dinner Secre-
| tary Daniels received a long distance teie-
phone message from his home in Ralelen,
and when he returned to the dining room
he informed his friends that misfortune
had overtaken him. His newspaper plant
had been entirely destroyed by hre yes
terday afternoon.
Secretary Daniels was the principal
speaker, and when Mr.. Miller introduced
him his friends of the newspaper world
jumped to their feet and cheered him.
Il have for thirty years heen continu-
ously engaged in sea service, said sec
rotary Daniels. 'and my present position
is nv first short assignment in these
years For that long period | have been
in command of a "gunboat on the sea of
journalism, and rough, stormy sea II
has been at times. as all newspaper men
will appreciate. A few weeks ago the
commander-in-ch of the American
army and navy decided that man who
had thirty years of sea service ought to
be detailed on shore, where he could
make assignments for the officers of the
navy.
Commanders on Journalistic Sea.
During the years that / have been
commanding a gunboat' on the journals
tic high seas, my friend. Melville E.
Stone, has been in command of a dread
nought; William Randolph Hearst has
been in command of flotilla of torpedo
boats. firing simultaneously from New
York, Boston, San Francisco and Los
Angeles, not to speak of points in the
interior; Ralph Pulitzer has been on the
outposts and with hydroplanes able to
drop bombs into the camps of the real
enemies Of true democracy; Col. Nelson
has sought by the proper employment OF
submarines to blow up the old parties,
having as his first lieutenant the gifted
Medill Mccormick, while Frank MLnsey
| has been the paymaster general of this
new fotilla Of submarines which car
ried terror into many hearts toward the
ides Of last November; our venerable
| friend, Cor Henry Watterson, ranking
rear admiral Of the old democratic fleet,
commanding the battleship Kentucky,
and sailing under no orders except those
| issued to himself is the most brilliant
and audacious naval officer since the
days of John Paul Jones. to whom, in
| his adventurous spirit and enterprise. ne
| is akin; always gallant, too on the high
seas is our distinguished Admiral Felix
Agnus commanding the cruiser Amerl-
can, who received his sailing orders
quarter of a century ago. and has led
the old republican fleet into many a safe
harbOr.
Commends Presidential Preference.
IL hope | will be pardoned for saying
that we have had two Presidents in the
| last half century who gave peculiar evil
| dence from an editorial point Of view,
| for the wise exercise of the high duties
/ of the greatest Office in the world. l
| refer to Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow
Wilson / say this, not because of the
| greatness OF the martyred President, nor
| of the scholarship of our present execu-
tive / give them this high place solely
| because they are the only Presidents
| who knew exactly where to go when
| they came to name Secretary of the
Navy.
why do l single out Lincoln and
Wilson fer my highest praise? 1t is be-
cause each went outside of the field of
politics and business to secure an editor
as Secretary Of the Navy Arthur also
| chose a newspaper man in William F..
Chandler. but the distinguished New
| Hampshire senator had attained more
| reputation as publicist than as editor,
while Gideon Welles and the present in
| cumbent came direct from the sanctum
to become managing editors of the navy
Grasty Praises A. P. Work.
| Mr.. Grasty in his speech made the As
ISOLATED Press his topic. He paid a
tribute to Mr.. Stone. Mr. Noyes, Victor
F. Lawson of the Chicago Daily News
and Charles w. Knapp of the st. Louis
Republic, as the four men most respOn-
sible for the great success that had mark