New Britain herald., 1916-01-20
DANIELS NAVAL
 PROGRAM ASSAILED
Weak and Insufficient Claim Na-
 tional Security League Speakers FOREIGN POLICY ATTACKED
President Nenken Says It Is Time to Let Country Know Who Are for the Nation First and Who Arc for Their Own Selfish Advancement.

Washington, Jan. 20.-Secretary Daniels naval program was assailed as weak and insufficient and the coun- try's foreign policy was attacked as American citizens life of late had "scarcely enjoyed the consideration accorded that of a turkey buzzard in the land to the south of us'' by speak CTS at stoday's session of the National Security League convention.
 ''This is not a time To mince words," declared President $ Stanwood Men ken in his opening address, "but to state the facts so as to let the coun- try know who are for the country first as distinguished from those who are for themselves and their own sell fish advancement"
 Not Sufficiently Far.
 Secretary Daniels recommenda- tions, he said, did not go sufficiently far.
 "His program is weak and insuf- ficient for the needs of the country. The navy he recommends will not be built under his plan till the eXpira- ton of ten years. If we need a l navy at all we need it now. Any program which leaves the securing of navy to the chance of events for ten years, under present war condi- tions, is radically wrong and must be strengthened
 Particularly Menacing. '"The present congressional situa- 1 tion is particularly menacing,' he 1 continued owing to the fact that | the majority leader of the house of 1 is opposed to the recommendations 1 of the chief magistrate and finds sup port in the position taken by Will ! liam Jennings Bryan. MT. Bryans view, according to his supporters. is 1 based on sentiment. To my miud 1t 1 is merely another proof of his mo- 1 torious inability for direct or hard thinking on any grave matter" "The appeal to Washington unlike i the appeal to the Rome of ancient 1 days, no longer stays thc barbalian n hand" declared Frederic R. Coudert l of New York. An American citi- zens life of late has scarcely enjoyed the consideration accorded that of the | turkey buzzard in the land to the south of us.
 Rights Mere Name. | Neutral rights become a mere 1 name when neutral nations cannot l or will not combine to maintain them l and the voice of, an unarmed, timid, l hesitant United States may carry lit | tie more weight in the world of pub 1 lie opinion than the OuerlllolIs ,,rO- test of Persia or Peru"
 David Jayne Hill, former ambass dor to Germany, declared that Even now our pacifist friends accept with reluctance the unpalatabIe truth" but they are beginning to realize, in the 1 presence of war conditions, that their reasoning, however logical, is inet | fectual.
 WOman's First Duty. Woman's first duty in the campaign for preparedness, said Miss Maude Wetmore, chairman of the womans department of the National Civic Fed 1 eration, is to make war as ilnpossi | ble as can be.
 Spies and their work were discussed in a paper by John B. Stanchtield of | New York, who advocated uphuilding an effective American spy system.
 Roosevelt Letter Tonight.
 A letter from Theodore Roosevelt will be read at tonight's session and the speakers will include Robert Ba- con of New York, former secretary of state, and Luke E. Wright of Memphis, Tenn, former secretary of war.