Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-08
More Than 1000 Delegates
Expected to Attend Four a,
Day Session. a.B
WILL HOLD SYMPOSIUM ="
ON PREPAREDNESS ISSUE
First Organized Effort to Determine
What Constitute Adequate
Defense Measures. e

About 1000 delegates, some Of them
coming clear across the continent from
California in special train, are ex-
pected to attend the annual convention
of the Navy League Of the United
States. which opens in the willard Ho-
tel Monday and will continue its ses-
sions through Thursday.
This meeting will be the first or
ganIzed effort to determine IN a eyste-
matte. carefully planned and logical
way what constitutes adequate military
preparedness for this nation. 1t will
be symposium of experts on all
phases of this great federal problem.
including eminent authorities on inter-
national law. military and naval sci
ence. craftsmanship, business and COM
merce.
Purpose to determine just what ado
quate military preparedness" means Is
stated by the Navy League as the real
object of the convention.
The committee on arrangements be-
lieves it has already been determined
that the first necessary steps are the
creation of an international defense
commission and a navy general stan.
also call for an immediate report
to what it believes is the necessary
building and personnel program for the
navy in order to meet. efficiently. any
emergency which may grow out of the
existing international situation.
Discussion of national policies likely
to involve the United States in war will
occupy the first day. with these speak.
ers: Charles Noble Gregory, David
Jayne Hill. former ambassador to Ger
many: Henry White. former ambassa
dor to France, and Albert Bushnell
Hart. professor Of political science at
Harvard.
Strategies and U. S. Resources.
Strategies and resources Of the United
States for establishment and enforce
ment of national policies will be talked
over on the second day by DIR. Edward
Brock. Navy League lecturer: J. Sar-
gent Cram of New York. and j. Bernard
Walker. editor of the Scientific Amer
lean. In the afternoon the general sub
ject of preparedness Will be discussed
by s. Stanwood Menken. president OF
the National Security League: Repre-
sentative Augustus r. Gardner OF
Massachusetts. DR.. Richard Cockburn
Maclaurin. president of the Massachn,,
sets Institute of Technology. and
Henry A. Wise Wood.
Why there should be a national de-
Tense commission. summary of the
arguments brought out during the pre-
vious days discussions, will be set
forth Wednesday bv Charles q. Curtis.
the turbine builder; Judge Sidney NJ.
Ballou of Honolulu. and Mai. Gen. Will
liam II. Carter, u. S. A. retired.
Will Discuss the Navy.
Discussion of the navy will he in
duIged in on the fourth and last day.
Among the speakers scheduled are:
Lawrence Y. Spear. a designer and
builder of submarines: Lieut.. Com
mander II. c. Muslin. head of the Navy
Aviation Corps, and Franklin n Roose-
The organization and administration Of
field hospitals will be discussed by DIR.
Joseph NJ. Flint. head of the Yale Medi-
cal School, and DIR. Morton Prince both
noted surgeons recently returned from
Red Cross service on the French front:
poration of Yale University, will de-
scribe the battalion of field artillery
which has been organized among the
students of that institution.
More than 100 state and local branches
of the league will be represented
Capt. f. D. Cock. a delegate from the
peninsula branch of the Navy League is
scheduled to fly from Newport News. Va,
to Washington in one of the Ia-rasf
hydroplanes ever built in the United
States. The machine is now being con-
structed at Newport News.
Capt Cock. who is to arrive here Mon
day morning about 9 O'Clock. if he can
from the mayors of the peninsula cities
of Virginia to President Wilson, assuring
the administration of their united support
of the preparedness campaign.