Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
DANIELS PLANS
TWO BATTLESH|PS
Secretary of Navy Sends De.
partment Recommendations
to Congress in Report.

WASHINGTON, Dec. LIN addi-
tion to recommending naval build
ing program that shows he is no zone
Dattleship man." Josephus Daniels.
secretary of the navy, embodies in
MS frst annual report the important
proposal that the United States gov
eminent acquire and operate oil wells
and refine Its own crude oil in order
tnat the fleet of the future shall be
plentifully supplied with oil fuel.
Two dreadnoughts, eight destroy
ers and three submarines constitute
Secretary Daniels's building pro-
gram for next year.
This is not a large program but 1t
Is progressive one" Mr.. Daniels
asserts. 1T meets the remand to go
forward in the continuation of an
adequate and well proportioned
navy
should Make Own Armor.
Other interesting suggestions in Mr.
Daniels's report are that the govern
ment shall make its own ship armor,
that a conference of nations shall be
neid TO agree on permanent policy
Tor the limitation of naval arma-
ments, that welfare secretary" to
lead In religious work be placed on
every warship that has no chaplain,
and that in establishing schools for
enlisted men ut is my ambition to
make the navy a great university
Wlth college extensions afioat and
nshore"
~ Serious reflections on the good faith
and patriotism of the three great
armor-making companies are con-
tanned in the report Written In a.
hEnn1U rrraA NRaxy &fA,4 Ia
report of the new naval secretary
lacks anything that suggests per-
functory preparation and is no less
interesting on account of its diction
than the far-reaching Importance of
several of its recommendations.
More Money Anoat.
Mr. Daniels says in one place that
his policy is more money afioat and
less ashore" and he exemplifies this
In his views as to naval construction.
The secretary says the time has
como when the navy department
should be freed from excessive prices
charged by private manufacturers for
armor, guns and ammunition AS for
the armor situation, 1t is "intoler-
able" he holds. The Bethlehem Steel
Company in particular is accused of
having utilized armor improvements
and designs worked out by United
States naval officers In the armor 1t.
furnished to a foreign government.
and all three companies are charged
with selling armor to foreign navies
at a lower price than to their own
country The other concerns at
tackled by Mr.. Daniels are the Car
negie Steel Company and the Midvale
Steel Company.
Secretary Daniels goes a step fur
ther than Winston Churchill in the
latter's advocacy of naval holi-
day."
Recommends Conference.
'It is not a vacation we need" says
Mr. Daniels, but a permanent policy
to guard against extravagant and
needless expasions. / trust that this
country will take the initiative and
that steps will be taken for a confer
ence of the powers to discuss reduc-
tion of the heavy cost of the army
and navy"
In recommending legislation that
will enable the department to refine
it's own oil from its own oil wells"
MT Daniels points out that winston
Churchill, first lord of the admiralty,
is advocating a similar policy for
Great Britain.
Regarding his building program,
Secretary Daniels says:
1.-THE wise naval policy for the
United States at this time is to find
the golden mean. 1t cannot wisely, by