The Washington herald., 1917-01-24
Army and Navy News
Neat service Column In City.

Secretary of the Navy Daniels has COM
tnended Charles F. Glass. chief pharma.
cist's mate, u. s. N, for distinguished
zeal, initiative, and efficiency in the re-
cent night engagement in San Francisco
! ioe Macorts, Dominican Republic. Witn
only hospital apprentice to aid him
Glass organized his own little field hos
pital and by quick and dexterous WORK
saved the lives of several wounded blue
jackets
| Secreary Daniels also has commended
Eugene A. Reed, water tender on board
U. s. Scorpian, in the harbor OF Con.
stantinople. Last September Reed, a,
great risk to himself, threw overboaro
flaming tracer of a six-inch shell
from a second and probably more dan
gerous explosion.
The entire Mississippi delegation In
Congress, including Senators Williams
and Vardman. have been invited by Sec
retary of the Navy Daniels to attend the
LAUGHING of the super-Dreadnought Mis-
sissippi at Newport News tomorrow.
Secretary Daniels will witness the
launching in person, leaving Washington
tonight on the naval yacht Dolphin, anc
returning early Friday morning. The
new super-Dreadnought will leave the
ways at 1912 tomorrow morning-the hour
at which the tide is highest at Newport
| News.
That poll of the National Guard
may be taken on the question of uni
versal military training and service Is
possibility suggested in the hearing
| the Senate Committee on Military Al
| fairs accorded Mayor John PurroS
Mitchell, of New York. and other rep
resentatives of the Military Training
Camps Association on Monday.
With Mayor Mitchell were DIR. Henry
S. Drinker. president of Lehigh Uni
versity. chairman of the Military
Training Camps Association; Grenvillt
Clark. of New York, secretary; d. K
Jay and Alfred Rocker. Jr., also oi
New York. and G. Edwin Buxton, jr.
of Providence. r. l., all of whom ad'
dressed the committee.
| Senator Chamberlain, chairman o.
the committee. said he would like Il
see the result of such a poll. Mayor
Mitchell said that, as mayor of New
York and representative of tn,
Training Camps Association, he wal
heartily in favor of some plan to fine
out what the rank and file of the Ma
tional Guard thought of the system
81 do wish, IL 1t were possible" sait
the mayor to the committee, tina
| Congress could ask for a poll OF th'
| National Guard of the United states OF
this question of universal training IL
order that you might learn what is thu
real sentiment of these men. That Il
the only way you will get record o
the real feeling of the men of the Ma
tional Guard. l am sure II your com
mittee would ask the governors of thu
various States to cooperate. yoI
would have a most valuable contri
button to this question.
THE National Guard has broker
down in every instance where it hai
! been put to the test" the mayor de
clared with emphasis. 1T has broker
down most recently in the mobiliza
tion last year. There we saw eXempli
fed, in a minor way. what would re
suit in case this country were pre-
sented with a real. national crisis II
which it would become necessary Il
mobilize half a million or a millioI
men for the national defense. Th'
very fact that Congress is. today, con
sidering how It must supplement wha
was done last year by new Legislation
is a recognition of the fact that wha
was done last year proved a nationa
failure for national defense"