The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-16
LAKE, SUBMARINE INVENTOR, IS
 LAUDED BY SECRETARY DANIELS
Navy BFdgeporters Value to His Natfon-Cer tain to of Civilian Board of Naval Advisors Wright Ford Edison Will Be Other Honored Ones.

of them than eny other nation in the world. We have no standard type of aeropIane for war use now. Had we taken advantage of our opportuni- ties we would be 8. generation ahead of all other nations today
 MT. Dani els said that tHe first two problems which would be presented to the new board would be the perfec- tion of 9 standard type of aeroplane for naval and military purposes and the construction of an aeroplane and "a submarine motor which should be the finest in the world
 'sBut the board will take up all in ventions aimed at the Improvement of our navy MT. Daniels went on. and I hope ito have a great national laboratory in WeRsh4n gton, where these ideas may be worked out. T have been asked how the crea- ton of better facilities for the hand ling of inventions or suggestions will actually increase the number of use full ideas adopted to the navy. We'll, improvements in our ships, particular ly devices to increase their offensive resources, are extCem ely technical, and are not easily comprehended ex- cept by those with a, thorough know1- edge of naval architecture and what is now existant.
 "In fact, some of the most crying naval needs in this country and abroad are probably unknown to all but a very few people who have made a, speciality of studying the sub- ject. No better proof of this is need ed than is shown by the character of the suggestions we now receive. A great many of them propose devices to accomplish things which have al- ready been accomplished by our naval experts in other and better ways. An other large percentage are vague and general ideas which are technically impossible, although they would seem reasonable enough to a Iayunan.
 And it is only occasionally that an invention relating to a particular mat ter where the need of an invention had been long felt is received. In other words the inventive genius of the country. so far as the navy is con- cerned, has been largely misdirected through lack of understanding of the pro ob1ems,f and I think it is obvious that if we could instruct the inventors among our own people as to what we really need, and thus concentrate the inventive thought on the things most useful, we would speedily get many suggestions along practical lines that would be worthy of adoption after they had been perfected.
 sTt is my intention to give the wid- est publicity to such needs as they may be brought forward, from time to time
 Secretary. Daniels said he had de- eided to postpone the opening of bids on 1 6 newly authorized submarines to Sept. 29 to enable two American private shipbuiIding com panies to en- ter the mpetition.
 Today, at the regular meeting of his naval advisory council, composed of the ranking bureau chiefs of the Navy Department the proposition was dis cussed of postponing the opening Of the bids, which was scheduled for A11- gust ?, and the postponement was de- cided upon.
 The Newport News and the New York Shipbui1ding Companies said Mir Daniels, sshaVe procured the right to build submarine of the type used by one of the European lnati ons, but owing to the Interrupted traffic would be unable to submit bids on the date originally set consider it of great advantage to the government to have these two large shipbQilding compan- fes enter the submarine field. It in- creases comp petition and tends to in- crease the development of the sub marine
 The companies obtained the right known as the Hay-Denny type some time ago.
 The new vessels will be similar in size to the T. type boats now in com mission. They will have surface cruising radius of between B. 900 and 5000 miles and be equipped with the new three-fnch disappearing. gun re- gently developed by naval engineers.