New Britain herald., 1916-02-15
MENKEN DEMANDS
 DANIELS RESIGN
National Security League Head
 Says Secretary Is Unfit

X P1ItSDurS, Penn., FeD. I5.-Demand # for the resignation of Secretary of 1.-the Navy Daniels was voiced by s. T Stanwood Menken, president of the Il National Security league, before the # Engineers Society of Western Penn $ sylvania here yesterday
 S ''I have regretfully come to the # #conc1usion,'' declared MT. Menken, #"fhat MT. Daniels has shown no fit ness for his position nor title to con- M tinue in it.
 'I say this because at the present suncture, with no politics but pre- peredness, no creed but America, we must feel it is the proper time to ask if the American people show the be- lief in Mr. Wilson by re-electing him, l whether four years more of MT. Will l son means four years more of Mr. Daniels.
 Gravest Moment. "This is of the gravest moment to those of us who while recognizing Mr. Daniels many amiable qualities and political record feel his control of the Rupbuilding of our navy and it's per- sonne1 is a menace to national safety. "His retention is applicable only be-  Tim, born of friendship or because of political expediency; neither con- sideration concerns the American people.
 Best Equipped Man. seWe want navy sufficient for our defense. We want it now, and de- mand it's construction on scientific, businesslike, economic lines under the direction of the best equipped man in the country, and we cannot believe in any one's convictions in favor of Dreparedness who does not recognize the good sense of this declaration. It is simply applying the methods you adopt in your engineering work to Government affairs of the largest proportions"
 Precious time was being wasted, MT. Menken declared, in discussion of preparedness rather than in it's achievement.
 Have Done Nothing. "For twelve precious months" MT. Menken asserted, i've have been talk ing of what we should do. Yet in this possibly fatal period we have done nothing. gro us who feel the whole life of
 
 actuaent and proper execution of full g5aeasures of defense the presidents S expressed views do not mean accom- ptishment of our object.
 Refers to Garrison.
 we are ready to urge most of his late secretary of wars recommends lions for the army-because we be- Ijeye in MT. Garrison, though some of us wished he had dared 6 little n1ore-attacked on principle past waste and present wrongs, especially in useless army posts. We also, wish be had recognized the law of supply and demand as to men and pay fo1 men for the army and advocated the only sovereignty, the system of uni versaI obligatory training Of our goung men, and had further estab- lished a comprehensive plan for utili- ration of auxiliary volunteer forces and for industrial mobilization
 strengthened, if need be, by govern
 ment munition plants located in the
 interior of our country.
 As to our navy, the situation is
 very different The president wishes
 1t to be the foremost in the world
 The recommendations of the secre-
 tary of the navy indicate that he has
 approached the entire matter as 6
 painful obligation He plans to give
 us a promisory note for g. navy, pay
 able in ten years, with instalment.
 maturing about five years from tht
 date of congressional enactment. H.
 ilas called upon his staff for recon iaendations planned on price limita lion, not on national necessity-jus
 as if price or cost is of moment at 2
 time when MT. Wilson tells us the
 world Is afIame with fires which have
 already touched our continent.
 No Fitness for Position.
 'In a word it is apparent that the secretary of the navy has not under stood the situation as now sensed by