South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-06
DANIELS SAYS
WILSON ENDED
Sub PERILS
Secretary of Navy Makes
Statement At Banquet
HOnOring H. S. Cummings.
ATTACKS RECORD OF G. 0. P.

by ASSOCIATED PFe6s
NEW YORK. Feb 5.-Pres't
Wilson was given credit here Thurs
day night by Sec'y Daniels. speak
ing at the democratic club dinner to
National Chairman Homer S Cum
minss for having seen the necessity
of shutting German submarines off
the sea as the only effective method
of combating theme before naval
staffs ION either side of the water"
moved to that end
You must shut ny the hornets
in their nest" the president was
quoted by Mr.. Daniels as having said
In a quarter deck speech to officers
Of the battleship Pennsylvania
early in the war, for you can never
end the submarine peril if you let
them out and then have TO devote
yourselves to chasing them all over
the ocean"
Approve Presidents Plan.
The barrage finally built across
the North sea-" Mr.. Daniels said,
was the American navy's answer to
the presidents counsel 1t was pro-
posed by Admiral Earle (chief OF
ordnance) in April. II, approved by
Admiral Benson and Admiral Mayo,
by the general board, by the secre-
tary of the navy and by the presi-
/ dent. It was the greatest new con-
structive naval measure of effective
ness in the whole war. 1t was a fac
tor both N destroying the morale
of the German navy and in its dead
" destruction of submarines.
Pres't Wilson had also pointed
out before naval staff had reached
) that conclusion, Mr.. Daniels said.
that the only way 20 safeguard
merchant ships was to send them in
conveys protected by armed ships. "
Sure Defeat for G. o. p.
The secretary attacked the rec
ord Of congress since 1913 when
dishonest appeal to hyphenated
politics enabled the republicans 10
elect a majority Of this congress"
and declared the people had 'al-
ready found they got a gold brick" "
/ That record. he characterized as
| certain to defeat the republican
party next November, "as it is GER
! tain that the democrats will have
I the wisdom to go forward and nom
/ mate a great leader who is himself
platform OF constructive legisla-
/ ton"
Mr.. Daniels said he believed that
/ a League of Nations such as that
proposed il the treaty would enable
/ the world TO maintain peace without
competitive naval building. but that
without such a league American
duty was "as plain as a pike staff. "
He quoted Pres't Wilson's statement
in 1916 that the navy should be in
comparable the most adequate navy
/ in the world" and added that none
OF the present American building
, programs would be delayed or
abandoned.
we are to have a League of Ma
/ tions with America making as large
] a contribution as any other country
/ to the mobile police force ahoat''
/ he said, "or we are TO have navy
/ fncomparably the most adequate
navy in the world which is it TO
/ be? 1t must be one or the other"
/ Reviews Merchant Marine History
/ Reviewing the history of the
( merchant marine through 40 years
Of republican neglect and indiffer-
( ence" the naval secretary declared
/ it was not until Pres't Wilson's first
/ inauguration when a shipping bill
was introduced in 1914 by Rep.
! Alexander, now secretary of com
merce, that a Constructive meas
ure TO give America a merchant
marine with administrative back
ing" had been presented.
''This new merchant marine is in