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Show DANIELS SPEAKER AT ACADEMY EXERCISES AXNAPOLIS. June 6. Secretary Daniels Dan-iels in an address at the graduating exercises exer-cises at the' United States naval academy acad-emy today declared tho closing of hostilities hos-tilities did not mean the United States navy could . "rest on its oars," but that it must "surpass its great war record by a greater record in peace." The 454 members of the graduating class, the largest in the history of the academy, were urged by the secretary' to apply all their initiative and energy in the great task of developing the efficiency of the navy. "You are coming into the nat'y in a period pe-riod that will challenge all your resource and initiative," said Secretary Daniels. "You must not imagine lor a moment that because the war is ended the navy will or can lest upon Its oars. All your force and energies are needed, for we are determined deter-mined the navy shall not, as it did after the war between the states and the Spanish-American war, mark time for a decade. "The navy has made a great record in war. Let us make a greater record in peace." |