Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-04
Woodrow Wilson
BY CONDO
AS | KNOW HIM
BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY.

and not lose sight Of modern
experience. He is anxious to
have a program that will be
definite and positive, and wishes
to have the information in hand
before laying the matter before
the committees of the senate
and the house.
On July Fl, 1915, he addressed tn
letters to the secretary O
war and the secretary of the navy
respectively:
The White House, Washington,
July 81, 1915.
My Dear Mr.. Secretary:
have been giving scarcely
less thought than you yourself
have, to the question of ade-
quate preparation for national
defense, and / am anxious, as
you know, to incorporate in my
next message to congress a pro-
gram regarding the development
and equipment Of the army and
proper training of our citizens
to arms, which, while in every
way consistent with our tradi-
tons and our national policy,
will be of such a character as
to commend itself to every pa
triotic and practical mind.
I know that you have been
much in conference with your
professional associates in the de-
partment and that you have
yourself come to some very def
mite conclusions on these ex-
ceedingly important matters. l
shall be away from Washington
for a few days, but I would be
very much obliged if you would
be kind enough to prepare for
me a program, with estimates,
Of what you and the best in
formed soldiers in your counsels
think the country ought to I'M
dertake to do. I should like to
discuss this program with you
at as early a time as it can be
made ready. Whether we can
reasonably propose the whole of
it to the congress Immediately
or not we can determine when
we have studied it. The impor-
tant thing now is to know and
know fully what we need. Con.
gress will certainly welcome
such advice and follow it to the
limit of it's opportunity.
Cordially and faithfully yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
Hon. Lindley M. Garrison,
Secretary Of War.
The White House, Washington.
July 81, 1915.
My Dear Mr.. Secretary:
I have been giving, as l am
sure you have also, a great deal
of thought to the matter of a
wise and adequate naval pro-
gram to be proposed to the con-
gress at it's next session, and
would like to discuss the whole
subject with you at the earliest
possible date.
But first we must have profess
sional advice. T would be very
much obliged to you if you
would get. the best minds in the
department to work on the sub
ject. I mean the men who have
been most directly in contact
with actual modern conditions,
who have most thoroughly COM
pretended what the navy must
be in the future in order to
stand upon an equality with the
most efficient and most practi-
cally serViceable. I want their
advice, a program by them for
muIated in the most definite
wav Whether we can reason
ably propose the whole of it to
the congress Immediately or not
we can determine when we have
studied it. The important thing
now is to know fully what we
need. Congress will certainly
welcome such advice and follow
it to the limit of it's opportunity.
1t should be a program plan
ned for consistent and pro-
gressive development of this
great defensive arm Of the ma
ton and should be of such a
kind as to commend itself to
every patriotic and practical
man.
I shall return to Washington
in a few days and shall be glad
to take this important matter
up with you at your early con-
Venience.
Cordially and faithfully yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
Hon. Jesephus Daniels,
Secretary of the Navy.
(To BE Continued.)