Evening journal., 1921-06-14
Commentator
FOR Adm. SIMS
Was Justified in All He Said,
- Army and Navy Regis
ter Declares
DENBY KEEPING
SILENT FOR PRESENT

WASHINGTON. Juno 14-Rear
Admiral Sims is not without valiant
and outspoken supporters in WASH
ington. one OF the two principal
organs OF the naval and military set.
the Army and Navy Register. in its
weekly edition. warmly espouses his
cause. In an editorial entitled The
Reprimand OF Admiral Sims" the
paper piliories the attack on Ad-
miral Sims as a ''vote-truckling af-
fair" aEsails Sim Feiners as "miser-
able traitors" and declares Admiral
Sims more entitled to applause"
than a reprimand. The article says:
The periodic reprimand OF Rear
Admiral Sims has achieved the vir-
tues of mathematical precision.
About every so often that officer says
something with a vigor and frank
ness that surprises the Navy Depart
ment- when II does not openly shock
IL or. as now. when IL reduces the
Secretary of the Navy to a state Of
confessed amazement The present
Administration has evidently chosen
To inherit the animosity which Rear
Admiral Sims friends lavished upon
the late regime. for those partisans
are hardly likely to agree under e1-
listing circumstances that Secretary
DENLY was justified in converting the
episode OF the London luncheon
speech into an occasion for rebuke
of their hero. They may be de-
pended upon To read with every
manifestation OF disapproval the de-
partmental bulletin out on June 8.
'srhe fact that Senator McCorn-
fclx. Republican. Of Illinois, is tho
com mplainant. does not in the least
add TO the dignity OF the proceeding
or embellish II with the merit OF
warrantable protest The whole az
fair viii look to many people as a
trucking to voters of class, for,
brought down 10 the real significance
and pith OF what he said. it must be
acknowledged that Rear Admiral
Sims, despite the loosely construct
ed phraseoiogy as transmitted in the
cabled report and OF which that Of
dcer is imaginabiy capable. said nc
more than. or nearly so much as
was entirely justified by the conduct
of tho particular people 20 which h'
was applying his epithets-
mo language can be stronf
enough in the condemnation Of thos'
who, during the war, sympathizes
with Germany and did what thel
could 10 materially aid the enemy
II Mr.. DENLY was looking for an op
portunity to be amazed he nigh
very well have transferred his emo
tons TO the ignoble incident of th'
World War that found British sub
tects in secret alliance with the Ger
mans. The comment OF Rear Ad
miral Sims upon these miserabl
traitors deserves applause As fol
his other remarks at the LondoI
luncheon they do not seem to be d;
worthy object Of the repudiatioi
threatened by Secretary DENLY ans
demanded by the Illinois Senator.
In Appendix / of Admiral Sims
book. "The Victory at Sea" he pub
fishes an extract from the navy regu
lations Of 1913 (Article 1890. whicl
b the one, II any, under which disci
plinary action in the present cas-
may be taken II reads as follows
section 2. No person belonging
10 the navy or employed under tn
Navy Department shall publish o
cause or permit TO be published. di
rectly OF indirectly, or communicat
by interviews, private letters or 9th
srwise, except as required by his Of
hcia1 duties. any information in re
gard 10 the foreign policy OF tn
United States or concerning the act
Or measures Of any department o
he Government or Of any officer act
ing hereunder or any comments o