HIE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 7, 1913.
Frank Carpenter Tells of His Chat with Secretary of the Navy
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(Copyright, 1M3, by Frank O. Carpenter.)
ASIUNQTON, 8ept 8.-I want
to make you acquainted with
your secretary of the navy.
I do not mean President Wil
son's ecretary, nor the dem
ocratlc party'i ecretary, but
the man who represent you and me a'
the head of our Navy department H
la your aervant and my servant, th
servant of all the people, and we ought j
to Know what Kind or man we nave in
our employ.
Tou have all read that hli name la
Josephus Daniels, that he cornea from
North Carolina, that he haa been bred
and born a newipaper man, and that his
career has been that of a Jeffersonlan
democrat All that was published when
he camo Into office, I want to take you
behind the appointment papers and give
you a glimpse or so at Joiephus Daniels,
the man. How does he look? Wo wdoes
he talkT What kind of soul la that
which animates his six feet of human
clayT
Some (IrcTPtnrr Sle,
I cay six feet I havo not measured
the secretary of the navy with a tape
line, bu as he stood before mo today
In his office In the department building
he seemed a biz man. He has broad
shoulders and a. well set head. He stands
straight on his pins, and unlike the
typical tar he does not roll or wobble as
he walks. Tour secretary Is a good
looking man. I do not mean handsome.
He Is rather the reverse of that. In
deed, ho might he called plain. But he
Is good taking Just a Abraham Lin
coln was good looking. He looks clean
and his closest friends tell me he Is
dean, body and soul. His b'ue eyes are
bright, his dark complexion clear and
his language Is pure and free from
Man. He Is a man 6f simple tastes and
healthy tastes. He Is a family man, and
a picture of his wife and four boys
stands before him on his desk ns lie
Krinds awaV at his government Job.. He
is devoted to his mother. Hla father
died when, he was 2 years old, and his
mother, who Is now fast approaching t,
has been both father and mother to him
all these years. The relations between
the two are the closest Ho writes to
her almost dally, and the letters she
gets are the only ones he pens with his
owri hand. He Is a lover of his wife
and t feet safe In saying she Is the
better 1ialf of his soul. He Is a man
of mftnv friends. When hi newspaper
Plant burned down at Halelgh a month
or so ago men came In by the hundreds
and paid subscriptions In advance lor
ten year to come to help him nut. He
Is not a rich man and haa never been
a lover of money. But at that time he
said he felt like the richest man of alt
the wprld for he was "a millionaire in
Mends;"
Rough on Red Tnpe.
U Is the human aide of your secretary
of the navy that makes him the despair
of his clerks. When he came Into the
department ha slashed the red tape at ou
felj blow, and nnw newspaper men, con,'
grtssrhen or plnln ordinary cvery-day cltl.
isen can get at the secretary and huve
air the time needed for their business.
AH that Mr. Daniel asks is that he be
deleted with his bureau chlofs from 2
to 4 "o'clock In the afternoon. The most
of lil time before then la ipent In re
celvlng callers, and It Is only after tht
tlr that he gives his personal mall any
attention,
Neverthelcs, ho does an enormous
amount e-f -business. It Is said that Napo
leon could dtctntr- to four stenographers
on four different subjocts at the aamo
time and keep them alt busy. Tho seero
tnry seems able to carry on two trains
of thought in thf tamo way. He Is often
talking while signing hla wall. Ho Is a
stvlft reader, and his ye grabs a page at
a glance. Never theltur, he knows just
what he is signing, and he will often stop
ami order corrections or havo tho lettor
changed or Jald away for some future
time. He U an even minded man. He
doea not worry and lit- sleeps well nt
nights.
Abnat tti Trllio of Dnnlel.
fcjy talk with Secretary Dahlela coverjd
a wido range. He told mo much about
the. navy and his plans for elevating the
men and brlngtnit tho service closer' to tho
people. In responao to my questions lie
talked also of himself, and I will write
oc tnat urn.
I asked him to tell something about
the. .Daniels family and where It catnt
from. He replied!
"Th Rme Daniels it Welsh and the
mew:' ef my -.family cunie from Wale
They emigrated to this, country at ni
Hi We . my father wui a farmer. My
father begin h's life on e, farm. Then lis
took, a notion hr would, like to be a alil
bulM-erand ho went Into H shlpyartl and
learned, the trade, U 1b rkthcr slrnnco
that I. also, should' be ''connected with
ship after these many )vrs."
"I have been tnld thatynur father died
when you were yoiing.'
ye, I was' only J Jc-irs old at the
time. bat Was In WA, und the uouth was
almost bankrupt dn account of the war
My father loft comparatively nothing, und
my mother had to support the family,
consisting of herself and thr llttlo boyt.
"My mother Is a very extraordinary
woman.1' . continued the Secretary. "In
those hard times she succeeded not only
In making our own living, but sho nave
a fairly good education to her three
children. At first she kept a millinery
store- Then she made dresses, and after
a time she became postmistress o( the
town where wo lived. Of course, I helped
had to work, bard, and I think I was
fortunate. It la better for a boy to u
born poor than to be born rich."
Tribute to Ilia Htatr.
"Had your mother any ambition to
make you a statesman!"
"No, I thlnjf not Bh Is a pious
woman, and her only ambition was that
1 should be n, .good man. She once hoped
that I might becomo a preacher, but my
bent seemed to be tho newspaper and I
iiUov toward that profession. I think
J have done better as a newspaper man
than I could have done as a preacher-"
Bui you bellevo in religion, do you
notr
"Most assuredly I do. I believe In the
Bible and everything In It from cover to
cover. I think more people believe that
than U usually supposed, and I venture
quite aa many would go to the stake to
day ft they did when they burned tho
first Christian. It li hard to realise
the Influence of tbe Christian religion. It
haa touched all of the nations and has
'made them better. It has affected all
of the people. Many men who do not
Out God's ways are not our waya. It
may be slow, but It will come to pass."
"I understand that you aro greatly In
terested In the Y. M. C. A.r
"Ves, that organisation has been doing
much good. It has a great missionary
Influence, not only In the United State,
but In other countries, I want to sco It
introduced on shipboard and moro fully
at all naval training stations. 1 have
been talking with the officers of the Y,
M. C A. about that"
AVorU of I'lou Mother.
'Take your native state, Secretary
Daniels. What kind of a place Is North
Carolina to be born In? Suppose you
had to be born again, where would you'
chooser
"I would take the same place. I like
North Carolina. It Is the most demo
crats state In America. It lies, as you
know, between Virginia and South Caro
lina, and they used to say that It was a
valley of humility between two mountain
of concclt. Another story relates to the
North Carolinian who went to New York
and was thcro asked tvhero ho came from,
Ho replied: 'North Carolina. 'But,' said
the New Yorker, 'I've never heard of that
state. Where Is Itr Tho North Caro
llnlan replied: 'I will bound It. Virginia
He at the north of It and South Carolina
lies at tho south of It, and to tell the
truth, atrnnger, between bo much lying
on both side of It the rest of the world
hears but little of our truth-loving
state." "
Boost for the South,
"You are an editor, an adviser of the
people, Mr, Daniels. Horace Qreeley, an
other great editor, advised the young man
of hi day to go west What would you
say 7"
do south! The south Is" the west of
today. Lands are cheaper thcro than
they are In the west, and that Is the
coming part of tho Unitod States, If you
nave any doubt aa to theu part of the
south, I would say go to North" Carolina,
Our people there are kindly and humble.
They still live, to tome extent, tho simple
life. Besides, us Boncrott said of tuem,
they arc trco and Independent and will
not support any government but one of
their own creation."
"But Mr. Secretary, can one live the
simple life today!"
"Ycsj I bellevo tho nation Is to extrava
gant and that price are too hUh. Never
theless, one can live on a dollar a day it
he has to. I know I could. Almost any
one can earn the necessities ot toduy.
Wo all want to live too high, and prices
have gone up accordingly."
"I It so In the south?"
"Ye. The cost of the nccessltlea has
risen and our people also demand lux
uries which no one thought of having In
the day of my boyhood."
Ilia Nowojintier Cnreer,
"Tell me something about your career
aa an editor."
"There I not much to ay," replied tho
secretary. "I can't remember when I did
fnot desire to be a newspaper mnn. I
used to hang uround the office ot our
village paper when I was quite a small
boy, and at tho age ot IS I started an
amateur Journal called the Cornucopia.
Two ycai later my mother mortgaged
her house for fTOO to buy for me a third.
Interest In the little weekly of tho town
where we lived, and shortly after that I
was able to buy out tho other two-third
U 1 li Itl sLW XoiZT &C2ei
HSBMHBrif
and we are saving million on that I
don't mean that we save alone on the
making the powder, but the outsiders of
whom we buy have to fix their prices
at eomowhere near our cost of manu
facture. I think we could do the same
with armor plate, and I shall r.sk con
gress to give me enough money to put
up an armor plate factory and thus
bring down outside competition. As It
Is now we are held up by the steel trust
It managers know that we cannot
make our own armor plate, and they
have us at their mercy. When the dif
ferent competitors find that I am
going to give a contract to the lowest
bidder they all bid exactly tho same
thing down to n, cent. The competitors
work in collusion and wo are helpless
As It Is we need some cranes and other
machinery to equip our navy yards for
building such things and we wilt save
there as much as we are saving on
powder and guns."
School In thr Ttaxrt
"I am much Interested In your plan
of turning out battleships Into schools
for the men," said 1, "I it practical?"
"Perfectly so. I see no reason why
every sailor and every marine should
not receive a good education aboard ship.
I hope to make It so that every man who
enlists In the navy will have a chance to
learn & trade or profession. There is no
reason why he should not be an elec
trician, an engineer, or have almost any
owor practical trade, wnile I was at
Newport the other day I looked over the
records of the training station there. I
found that only nine of the student had
been to college before they were admitted
and that ninety had gone to the Tilgh
Schools, while ISO hod had llttlo educa
tion to speak of. Now wo have on every
vessel a corps of youug officers who are
.graduates of tho Naval academy, and we
can establish & school on every 'ship and
have these officer do the teaching. The
men will be taught' reading, writing and
arithmetic, as well aa grammar-and the
other fundamentals, and those' who- wish
It can go higher and learn a trade."
"Will that be a good thlnr for the
service?'1
"In almost every way, yes," was tho
reply. "It will be good for the men an.l
good for the officer. Within twp year
after a man ha left Annapolis he begins
to forget what he ha learned there. This
will make him continue his studies and
he will have the advantage, aa it were,
of a post-graduata courre.
"Besides," continued Secretary Daniels,
"I think our offlcem need more tralnli-g
nfter hey have left the academy. 1
want more of them to go to the Naval
college to learn strategy and to plan out
tho possible warfare of the future. Whan
I visited that Institution the other day I
found that there were about aa many
men In tho faculty as there were in tho
school. It Is my Idea that every officer
should spend some time at that college,
and that he ahould not be allowed to
command a ship unless he has gone
through a course there."
"What do they do at the Naval col
leger I asked.
"They study the principles and plan of
naval warfare. They make suppositious
campaigns and plan what would be the
course of the nnvv In cose the battle
ships were located at certain point and
It was necessary to move at once upon
another nation with whom we might have
war. They do for the mivy the same it
the War college at Washington does for
the army. All of the great nations have
such colleges and make such plan."
FRANK O. CARPENTER
Mother's Advice
To Her Daughter
A Real lira Doll to Fondle I Woman
Greatest Happiness.
Pointed Paragraph.
When we sing our own praise we must
supply the encore.
How dreary yesterday was, and how
bright tomorrow promises to bet
Optimism teaches us to let the othsr
fellow worry about what we owe.
He Is a smart man who makes mistakes
only at the other fellow's expense.
A fool may be a happy In his folly
aa a wise man Is lonely in his wisdom.
Many a man ha about aa much use
for his neighbor a he ha for hi wife's
folk.
The bathtub ha cut more of a figure
In the onward march of civilization than
the sword.
Most people are of a forgtvlnr nature;
at least they are always rady to for
give themselves.
As a rule, It takes less time to refrain
from telling a man Just what you think
of him than It does to recover from th
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IW Bams las Bt. Oatafca, ITek.
and own tho whole paper. From then on
I had many ups and downs, but I finally
bought the Raleigh New and Observer.
It was sold at auction for J10.0CO and I
cot It with the Aid of a friend. It was
hard sledding at first, but after that wo
made It pay well."
"Do you find that your Career a a
newspaper man ha fitted you for yjur
present position?"
( "it seem to me that the newspaper. Is
a good training for almost any position.
A newspaper man comes Into contact
.with all kinds of people. He learns hu
man nature and how to handlo It, and
people are much alike the world over".
They havo not changed greatly since
Adam. This Navy department Is a big
thing, but after nil, It Is something like
a newspaper establishment Just before I
left Raleigh one ot my friends said to
mo at a dinner: 'How can you be secre
tary of tho Navy7 You cannot sail a
nhlp, nor shoot a gun.' I replied that I
was the editor ot u newspaper, although
I could not run a printing press or a
linotype. It Is tho tamo In this depart
mcnt. One does not havo to know every
detail In order to direct It. When I came
In I did not know a living soul. I did
not know my. aids., nor the heads o't tho
bureaus, but I found that they were men
Just ilka those whom I had known In
North Carolina. The most ot them were
patriotic, nearly all were fine spirited
and all seemed to love the service like
the love of God. The machine Is a good
one, and I have not seen reason to make
many changes In It."
Just n lll Job.''
"But the Job I big, Is It not, Mr.
Secretary?"
"Yes, It U a pretty big Job for the
editor ot a country newspaper. We have
about 0,000 men In tho navy, .and we
are now spending something like tlSV
000,000 a year. Yesterday -we gave out,
a contract for the building ot a battle
ship which wljl cost 17,068,080, and w
have others which have cost that raucn
or more. Seven million oeuars wowa
all the newspapers ot IN or in uarouna,
and then some, but we are speeding that
much on one battleship."
"But you do not have to handle the
money yourseltr
"No. The most of the appropriation
aro fixed by congress. The officers, and
sailors are paid by congress, and that 1
so of our clerical force. The regular
btream through which the money llowi
have their source In tho house and am
ate, and are directed by them. Ot course,
the money for repairing the hipo got
through our hands. That la a large sum.
and we have to decide how It shall be
spent"
"Have you enough money to run the
navy 7"
"We have plenty for the varlou de
partment. We have not as much as we
would like for building new ship and
we could use more In the navy yards.
That navy yard problem is a vital one,
and I hope we can make a better solu
tion of it than we have now"
Cost of Battleslilp.
"Do we pay more for our battleship
than other nations?'
"I hardly think o, but we pay more
than wo ought to pay and I Jiope w
can cut down the prices. Take the mat
ter of guns. We used to pay Immense
rums for such armament hut since we
have established our own gun factory
hero at Washington wo have saved on
that account alone many millions of dol
lars. "We are now making our own pqwder
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I'ItlVTK INSTAU.VTION ON THW FARM OF F W. rom.lfS.3 T WAT ntOO.
NEB.
The editorial In The Bee ot last
Wednesday, regard n? the possibilities of
Irrigation In Nebrnuki bj j.a-.iji .u, t
emphatically endorred by F. W. Corliss,
vho owns n CIS-acre farm at Waterloo.
Neb. Mr. Corliss, profiting by hi ex
pertence, commencodthe Installation ot
an Irrigation system completely uqulppod
with a 1,500-barrcl cement tank, a S.foot
woll pipe, and Irrigating troutrht Mr.
Corliss found water under hi firm at
belief. In relic on giv to hospital and (twenty fort, but to bo .w .the ufe atdo
Alh.v ItaHtla Th.u t..w. . . ... . t 8 ' 1. i. - la. .i.K I...... . .1.. 1 t ...(..
by Christianity without Knowing it." jflve fiet. At tin lowr;- exira:nlty of the
"Do you beye the whole world will J p:pe he intertud u t w.v;.:oot cron
hi Christian eon Uyr point, which I sufficiently tar-e to draw
Ye, although I doubt whether I shall I water which will rtj to within elg'.t feot
liv to e It 1 btlkve that In time all lot the top ot the pipe. A rotary pump.
c stvt jwtleaa will come to see the light driven by a sjaaoUae agin, upflttcenu
the windmill, and throws fonv-fie a-ii
Ions a minute into tho cement tank
The ijstiiu installed Is t J Irrigate twonty
flvo acre of eardeu tract. The farm
Is rented for tho next var to three
Dune by the nan-.e of Holt from Count,
whq are said to know evv.ry fine point
of Irrigation. They r enthusiastic over
Mr CorllM' system. The Irrigation plant
was Installed at aji expenditure of t.0W.
WBleh l chiop wmnlctr'nt the amount of
benefit derived.
Mr, CorlUs Is satlsffwd that the system
ho ha Installed would bo aucecssful
over many part of Nebraska. " If the
laud does not slope moro than three
or four fot to the mllo, then Irrigation
can be successfully adopted," said Mr.
CrUoa, "and tasr ait aora HM) acres
west of the Rlkhorn river In Douglas
county alone which can be Irrigated In
a manner similar to my system. And
along tho Platte river there are thous
ands upon thousands of -acres that can
be Irrigated and should be Irrigated.
There can bo little doubt but what the.
Nebravka farmer Will come to Irrigation.
They have got to to aurvlce. Other state
are Irrigating and when a. drouth-arrive
Nebraska has no resources nd Is Inferior
to any other stute In ther way ot productt
and Nebraska baa the best possibilities
for Irrigation because ot the sheet wut.
that Is underlaid all over the state. Th.
farmer will com to It In th very near
future and when they do. ralpfall Or
drouth will have no ffeV taa farmer
will car llUl."
Grandfather's clock makes a good, heir-
loom hut it won't keep time.
GRANDFATHER'S clock was manufactured by a single'
.man. It took this single man years to make it and when
this single man got through' with grandfather's clock,
that primitive time-piece toek up a great deal of space, looked
grand and all that, but it wouldn't keep time. Why? Be
cause the chap who made grandfather's clock was not a special
ist he was & carpenter, a cabinet-maker, a machinist, a scientist
and several other things meaning that he was a jack of all
trades and you' know the rest. Before they got watches that
would keep trains from bumping together and manage great
cities on time they had to turn the job over to specialists.
rpHE same thing is true in every industry. Take' the auto
mobile industry, for instance. When the people demanded
better cars for less money they turned the job over to special
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best units and the best units can fbe made only by the best
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the Cole Motor Car Company of Indianapolis caught the cue
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