Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-03-31
NAVAL ACADEMY IN
NEED OF EDUCATORS
Put Big Professors There, AS at
Harvard Says Secretary
Daniels.
WANTS CIVILIANS IN FACULTY.
Naval Officers Should Be On Line
Duty, He Holds Outlines Policy
to Committee.


a naval reserve that will include ali
kinds of 'seafaring Americans" was
strongly advocated by Secretary of the
the Navy Daniels Yesterday. The See :
retary appeared before the House Ma
val Affairs Committee and vigorously
defended his course as head of the
United States Navy.
The Secretary applied for reappoint-
ments from civil life of experienced
aviators to become officers. SAYING that
500 are Immediately needed In ad-
dition he declared that the Navy should
appoint thirty officers each year TO its
engineering corps to specialize.
The American Navy is the only big
organization in the world that is not
specializing" declared the Secretary.
"One of our greatest needs is the pres
ence of few great educators at An
napolis. Put at the Naval Academy
just as great professor of English as
there is at Harvard or Princeton or at
any other of our big universities, and
the benefit resulting will be great.
No great educator will go there now
because he is only elected from wear to
year, and has no voice in the faculty.
We couldn't get such man for less
than $4,000 a year, but / would favor
paving $4,000 and get the right kind of
an educator. and the officers relieved
from duty as instructors could be
given duty that will be of greater ben
eft to the country"
Tho SQNpnfn1.N advocated oil ,sf,. a.
the way so that any enlisted man may
become an admiral adding 14,452 men
and officers to the navy and providing
a reserve that viii include every sort
OF available man. from boilermakers tC
private yacht owners.
''We should find as great a professor
of English as there is at Harvard, Yale
or Princeton" said the Secretary in
suggesting changes amcne instructors
at the Naval Academy, 'anh We should
put him in at Annapolis. So with the
modern Languages and with every
branch of study which is not purely
military This would release a cor
responding number of officers for ac-
tive duty on the line
What we need at Annapolis is greai
educators, men having nothing to do
with the military, disciplinary and the
technical side To this end | recon-
mend increasing the appropriation 70
instructors at the Naval Academy from
SCI 900 to $4,000"
A final review Of the ACministra-
tion's preparedness plans for the navy
was given the committee by Secretary
Daniels who will be the last witness
heard before the committee begins its
framing of the bill
The Secretary added in several re-
speets to the program he had mapped
out in estimates previously submitted
to the committee. He urged the es.
tabiishment of a Government plant tC
manufacture navy projectiles. raise
the estimate for the proposed research
laboratory from $1,000,000 to 81 500.
900 and asked for about $4,000 adj
tional men instead of 10000.
Requesting that all provisions for ali
service be stricken out of the five-yeai
building programMr. Daniels urged al
appropriation of S2,000,O00for alrcraf
this year He explained that there
@as no way of determining what ex
penditure would be necessary
Secretary Daniels urged the commit
te to report favorably the 3rmor platt
factory bill which recently passed tn,
Senate, and which viii be taken ul
next Tuesday. He laid stress on tho
necessity, in his opinion, of providing
means f)r establishing a fair price fol
armor or any other material needed
by the navy through equipping Govern
mont plants to produce whatever coulC
not be obtained at a satisfactory figdr,
by contract
The Secretary urged the equipmen
of the Norfolk, philadelphia and PH
get Soupl navy yards for heavy con
struetion and the building of big drl
dock at Norfolk He said the delay il
constructing battleships 43 and "A hal
made it certain these ships would y;
far ahead of anything now afioat /.
torpedo protection The delay ha,
ben urged. he said, by the chief con
structor, who had only recently com
pleteh his plans