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Show CRITICISM BY SIMS. j The current issue of World's Work j contains an article which corrects many false impressions that have re-1 suited in connection with the test!-1 mony of ftear Admiral Sims before a I senate committee and the officer's ; criticism of the navy department. 1 The article declares that Sims violated vio-lated no naval rule when he submitted submit-ted an article criticising the naval de-jpartment de-jpartment and setting" forth mistakes j which were made fpr just such reports j as Admiral Sims submitted were called for by Secretary Daniels with a view I to preventing duplication of mistakes' in the 'future. ' If Admiral Sims had given to the presB his report on naval activity, there would have been ground for criticism, crit-icism, but the admiral did not criticize the naval department In public. He did so in his report to Secretary Daniels, Dan-iels, his superior, and this criticism was invited. It was Secretary Daniels who gave to the press the announcement that Rear Admiral Sims had submitted a report which was decidedly critical. This announcement led to the demand from the public and the senate for the' report made by Sims and that is how the trouble arose. The articlo points out that twenty years ago Sims caused just such a stir as prevails now when he bluntly Bald in effect that American naval gunners, who were the pride of the American people, couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. Sims was hotly denounced for this supposed attack on the navy but an investigation disclosed dis-closed he was right and improved methods wero adopted which made the American gunner tho leader in the navies of tho wrorld. Later ho caused another fuss and was denounced again when he declared MEMM Hii '''' i that the American navy was made up in great part of "mud scows." There was another investigation and Admiral Sims was found to be in the right, j Several old vessels were junked, and new and modern ships added with the iesult that the navy was put upon a first class footing. The article concludes with the prediction pre-diction that Admiral Sims will be upheld up-held again and that decided good will , follow his critical report of America's j nnval participation in the war. |