Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-12
CHARGES NAVY HEAD
HOODWINKS PEOPLE
League Speaker Claims Real Con-
ditiOn of Country's Sea-Fight-
ing Force is Hidden.
WHITE AND GARDNER HEARD.
Too Much Politics" in Selection of
American Diplomats and in Army
and Navy Alleged.

Too much politics in the selection Of
American diplomats and in the army
and navy. and that Secretary Daniels
IS woodworking" the people regarding
the real condition of the navy, were
charges that enlivened the second
days session of the eleventh annual
national convention of Navy League
Of the United States at the New VIII
lard Hotel. Washington.
These attacks on the administration
were made. respectively, by Henry
White. former United States ambassa-
dor to France, and Representative A.
p. Gardiner. of Massachusetts,. Dis
cusison Of the strategies and resources
OF the Unitol States for establishment
and nfoIcemen OF its foreign policies
end Of the general subject Of prepared
ness leading up to the necessity for
national defense commission. was the
general theme of more than 2 dozen
speeches by authorities on interna-
tional iaw, commerce ard military and
naval science.
Establishment CT national defense
commission ana abolition of the volun-
teer system. which interferes with in
dustry were advocated by Perry Bel
mont, who presided over the mornin,
session. He said il is unfair to Con-
gress to thrust upon it the complicated
problem of providing for the national
defense without a commission 70 gath
er the necessary data" For every man
in the trenches" he said, there must
remain at home three men to take care
of production and transportation.
To provide financial means for car
rying out the defense program, MIR. Bel
mont suggested the issuance Of nation
al defense bonds of small denomina-
ton, extending over a period of years,
so that one generation would not have
TO bear the entire burden.
The United States has enunciated
wirh doctrines, and yet it is not pre-
pared to defend them" asserted. Ber-
nard Walker of New York, editor OF
the Scientific American. mo greater
power in the world" he declared. has
promulgated q line of international
policies fraught with possibilities OF
conflict as our own"
Condemnation of Secretary Daniels
as woodworking the American people
as to the true condition of the navy al
time when the people should know
the truth featured the address of Rep
resentative A. p. Gardiner, of Massa-
chusetts. on "Why Congress is Relue.
tant TO Develop the Navy" He declar
ed that until eighteen months ago not
one man in one hundred realized thai
our navy had lost its international
standing and had drifted down STREAM
20 a bad third. or worse
Yale men responded in no uncer.
tain tones to the call for prepared
ness stated George Parmley Day, the
treasurer of the Yale University. in his
address on THE Yale Battalion Of Fell
Artillery" He argued that then
prompt response may be taken as q
gauge of the sentiment of the country
on this subject
Mr.. Day told how more than nine
hundred Yale students came forward
within the first week to join the bate
~, although, owing to lack of equip
ment, the numebr enlisted had to be
limited to 4S6, but four batteries were
formed" he boasted