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Show DANIELS SHOWS ENTHUSIASM Declares That Navy was Never in Such High State of Efficiency. Washingt:i. Immediate acquirement acquire-ment and operation of oil wells and refineries to furnish fuel for the navy, an international conference to secure a reduction of naval construction, the addition of two dreadnoughts, eight destroyers de-stroyers and three submarines for the navy during the coming year, government govern-ment manufacture of armor, more naval na-val chaplains and religious leaders, better educational facilities for enlisted enlist-ed men, and a "graduated retirement law" are chief recommendations in the first annual report of Secretary Dan-ilds, Dan-ilds, made public Sunday. The secretary says the navy was never in such a high state of efficiency as today, and that in considering its future needs, he has given less thought to the guns than to the men behind the guns. Believing that the efficiency of the navy as a fighting force will be in the highest sense promoted by the adoption of a serious and systematic course of instruction abvard ship rather rath-er than at shore stations, he points out that the department is trying to make the navy a great university. |