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Show uu SEC. DANIELS TO IMPROVE NAVY Washington. Sept. 19. Secretary DanlelB, It was announced today, has requested members of the new naval advisory council on inventions, headed head-ed by Thomas A. Edison, to formulate formu-late Ideas aB to an experimental and research laboratory to bo maintained by the navy department for the development de-velopment of inventions. The secretary, secre-tary, in a letter to the members of the advisory council, asks them to be ready with their Ideas when the council holds its first meeting next month. "In addition to obtaining the advice ad-vice of the most famous Inventors of the country, and in organizing In a practical and efficient way to get such advice," Ur. Daniels said In a statement tonight, "I intend greatly to develop tho resources of the navy department Itself, and to Increase largely Its facilities for experimental work in tho line of developing un-perfected un-perfected inventions. "Tho department possesses in the chiefs of the three bureaus of construction, con-struction, steam, engineering and ordnance, ord-nance, and In the officers assigned to thoso bureaus, men splendidly qualified qual-ified to carry to perfection any novel ideas and to originate many improvements improve-ments of their own. , "As a matter of fact, the wdrk along thoso lines, now being done under the greatest possible handicaps by tho navy's own officers, would surprise sur-prise the public, were It expedient to reveal improvements of a more or less confidential nature. "The navy has, however, been seriously seri-ously handicapped by tho lack of an adequate control establishment. ' . ' where the ideas of its own officers, as well ns those suggested by civilians', civil-ians', could be taken up and developed devel-oped In the same way that such Ideas are handled in great manufacturing establishments." |