Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-05-15 | Page 24 | Navy Ready When War Declared

INA jAvY Vf READY WH WAn WAif I u lA it Admiral h Sims' Sims Charge Jt iI t f Is f y vit l. Bia Branded ded Wanton as as l r Daniels ASHINGTON May May Mayi 15 15 J i Secretary Daniels Daniels' attacked f Admiral al Si Sims Sims' s' s charge that hc ha t department lacked ns a and 11 otherwise was R. R red for e war ar The charge was unfounded un founded tl 1 1 and wanton he told told the senate committee which Is Invest Invest- x ing the so so called SIms SIms-Daniels row row rd te testimony t nony of f Rear Admiral Badger e f sand and d. d other members of ot the the had proven such state- state eit nf 1 Daniels Danies described in detail the the organization org and nd operation o of the general j je eral board to snow enow that for years year before the war the board was elj en engaged el- el j in preparing and revising plans pans battle in the Atlantic Ad- Ad had h studied the situa- situa th the beginning of the Euro- Euro Jean rean war and in March 1915 had I If forwarded f a sta statement ement 0 of preparations I I necessary necessary- The nav navy department followed fol fol- ollow ol- ol I low lowed d the Dewey outline as far faras faras I as congress appropriations would permit j Mr Daniels declared i 1 GROWS UNDER WILSON ir Da Daniels le s reviewed his recommendatIons to congress from 1913 oh on Incidentally he told the committee th t that the navy under President Taft TaCt 91 d fallen back as s the United tates s which h had d advanced to second place pace among the naval powers in l 1107 OT dropped back to third n n 1911 i Between tween March 1913 and Septem Septem- ber 1916 el 1916 the navy was waa increased in f personnel material and efficiency more than in any similar peace period Ji our history f ry said the secretary tary ROOSEVELT'S TS T'S ATTITUDE l H Th pr r attitude of ot the United State Stat 5 s j towards preparedness was wn by President Roosevelt's Roosevelt message message mes- mes Esage sage to congress in 1905 declaring that tit it It d does es not seem to me necessary sary ary that the navy should should should-at at least In Inthe Inthe the le Immediate future future future-be be Increased beyond e oid the present number of ot units sald Bald Mr Daniels a Under the Wilson administration 3 2 said we find for t the e first tIm In In years congress authorized a larger arger program than Germany The Wilson administration took steps to secure for the United States that position this country had lost yost during th the Roosevelt and nd Taft by reason reason of ot the policy which prevailed In those ye years rs In the first three years of ot the Wilson administration the navy became became bein be- be came came in better organized better officered better manned and better supplied with ammunition and more efficiently anti and nd more economically governed than before in Its history