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SECRETARY DANIELS DEFENDS THE NAVY Though the Navy is Strong lie Inti. mates that the Future Poliey will be to Make it Stronger. New York, May 15.-Oillcers of the Atlantic fleet gathered here tonight at a dinner In their honor heard Secre tary Josephus Daplels defend the navy as efficient and prepared for war and promise that the Administration, with the support. of the people, would make it more powerful and more efficient. Mr.'Daniels answered the navy's crit ics, particularly the National Security League, which recently made public an open letter declaring that investi gation disclosed that the navy was inadequate and unprepared for war. "With the . praise of a great city ringing in our ears," sad the Secre tary, "with our mighty ships in all their splendid strength lying just out side; in this hour of natural and par donable exultation in our great naty. as the head of that navy I feel it right to utter a word of warning 'lest we forget' to those who may feel inclined to rest too sure on this visible and outward display of our strength and at the same time to speak a word of promise and cheer to those who, per haps, have looked' too despondently upon the task that still lies before us in our efforts to reach as near as pos sible to perfection. "Our navy is good; it is not good enough. With your help, as long as I am Secretary of the Navy, we will all try to make it bVtter. The navy is strong; it is not strong enough. With the help of the whole American peo ple, with the help of a Congress and an administration thoroughly com ilitted to the policy of 'taking leave to be strong upon the seas' we will make it stronger. This review is not the end of a century's labors. We do not nere exhibit our completed work. Rather, we here begin a new era, sup ported by the Chief Executive and by an enlightened and progressive Con gress, which gave evidence of its faith in a strong navy by the passage of the best navy bill in the history of your country. - "We are entering upon an era of progress such as the navy has never known before, whose keynote will be onward and whose watchword will be forward-an era marked by the lifting of our navy out of politics and by the subordination of all things afloat or ashore to the elliciency of the fleet in order that by our very strength we may be able to demand the right to live at peace with all the world. KIDNEY TROUBLE CAUSES INTENSE SUFFERING Sixteen years ago I was taken sick with Kidney trouble and suffered ter ribly for three months. I (lid not work during this time and was mostly con fined to the bed. After using other remedies I finally tried a bottle of Swamp-Root. I immediately began to feel better, and after using seven fif ty-cent bottles, was entirely cured and have had no Kidney trouble since. I can truly say that I owe my good health to Swamp-Root. You may pub Ish. tils letter for the benteft for oth er peopile amlictced as I was withl tihe hope of bringing to thleir attentionl this most wvonderful remedy. Yours very truly, 36 S'pruce St. Watem'vil , Mlaine. State of Mlaine Kennebec, County, 58, Personally appe1 'ed th above nam ed Hattie A. Quim , w o subscribed above statement an n dec oathl that the same Is trute in 1 stanlce andl in fact. Anna M1. Drummond. Authorized to administer oaths, etc. L~ter to IDr. Kilmer &Co, Prove Wh"t Swamp-Root WIll Do For You. Send ten cents to Dr. K.ilmer & Co., IUingham tont, N. Y., for' a sampl)1e size bot tle. it will convinice anlyone. Yout will also receive a booklet of valuable in forumation, telling about the kIdneys and( liaddler. WVhen writing, be sulre and tmemti onl the Lau11rens Weekly Ad vertiser. Rlegular fIfty-eentt and( one0 dlollar size bottles for sale aIt all dIrug stores. METT"S' LOSES 1N OIREENVILL1E. Dav id H. ITrax let' Namuted ats Postmauts ter ont NominatIon of Smtith and TJillmnan, Washington, May ii .---President Wilson today ntamied DavId II. Tlrax ler' as postmaster "4 Greenlle, up on the recommendation of Senators -Tillman and Smlith. Fo)rmler Rlepresetativye Josephl T. Johntson some nmoths ago recotm mlendied William D. Metts for posttmas ter at GreenvIlle. Considerable oppo) sition to Mr,. Metts dleveilped ont the luart of certain citizens in Greenville, one result of which wvas a suit for libel. The postmaster gener'al, after considering the situation, decided, inl vIew of the fact that the Fourth dis trict Is without representation in the honse, to recommend the appointment. Tis was done today and t he president made the appointment. The tact that both senators endorsed Mr. Traxier makes his confirmation, practically certain. Mr. Trailer aji4 Senator 10. D. Smig .spenlt syesterda. pee .Dyil9 TraxhpF 55. ,pges put of. the Traxler Real Estate company and has always taken a stand for the up building of Ureenville. JI00SEV EL' FAVORS ACTION. WoAld have Commereial Intercourse with Germany Forbidden and with Allies Eneouraged. Syracuse, N. Y., May 11.-Former President Theodore Roosevelt tonight made a plea for prompt action by the United States on account of the Lusi tania disastor, while commenting on President Wilson's speech of last night to a gathering of naturalized Amer ieans in Philadelphia. Col Roosevelt wvs particularly interested in that part of the president's speech in which Il" latter referred to "such a thing as a man being too proud to fight," aid "a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right." "I think that China is entitled to draw all the comfort she can from this statement," said Col. Roosevelt, "and it would be well for the United States to ponder seriously what the effect upon China has been of man aging her foreign affairs during the last fifteen years on the theory thus enunciated. "If the United States is satisfied with occupying some time in the fu t.re the precise international position that China now occupies, then the United States can afford to act on this theory. But it cannot act on this the ory if it des!rcs to retain or regain the. position won for it under Washington and the men who in the days of Abraham Lincoln wore the blue under Grant and the gray under 'Lee. "I very earnestly hope that he will act promptly. (The proper time for deliberation was prior to sending the message that our government would hold Germany to a 'strict accounta bllity' if it did the things which it has now actually done. "The 150 babies drowned on the Lositania, the hundreds of women drowned with them-scores of these unomen and children Americans-and the American ship, the Gulflight, which was torpedoed, offer an eloquent coim n'entary on the actual working of the theory that it is not necessary to as sert rights and that a iolicy of blood and iron can with efficacy be met with a policy of blood and water. "I see it stated in the dispatches from Washington that Germany now offers to stop the practice of murder on the high seas committed in viola tion of the neutral rights she is pledged to preserve, if we will now abandon further neutral rights, which by her treaty she has solemnly pledg cd to ce that we exereise w ithout mociles at ion. "Such a proposal is n-., even enti tlad' to an answer. Tihe r'nnruia':tuore amA aimpment of arms an-l amnini tion i'6 aav belligerct 14 n:jrrlu or Ill moral, according to the use to which the arms and munitions are to lie put. If ti(y are to be used to prevent the ruc.. .3 of hideous wo.r.s lnill!t. I ca ;elgium, then it is immoral to ship them. If they are to be used for the redress of those wrongs and the res toration of Belgium to her deeply wronged and unoffending p~eople, then it is eminently moral to send them. * Without 24 hours delay this coun tr'y should and could take effective a ction bw declaring that in viewv of Germany's murderous offenses against the rights of neutrals all commerce with Germany shall be forthwith for bidden and all commerce of severy k.nud permittedl and~ encoumragedl with Fr'ance, England and the rest of the "Thuis would not be a declaration of war1. it would merely prevent munmi tions of war being senit to a power whbich by its condcit has shiown' wil ilngness to use mniti ions for thle tlauightler of offending mhen, women amid chilren. "Ido not blie lve that thle firim as stion toif Our r'ighits means wvar, but it is well to renimeme there arie tinils u orse than wvar. "'Let us ats a nation unlder'stand~ that i'(aceQ is wVorthby only wh'len it Js the hanid maiden of internatioinal r'ight cousness andl of pational self-re S I-ect." tilgy' of lKalser'. Rome, Mlay 15.*-.('Via Paris.) May Iit D-Iemonstrators this mnorning pa r'adedi with an effigy r'epresentinig the G;er'mlan Emporer. The crowvd was uin ablle to r'esist the ipolice, and rather than surrender the effigy, buried it among frantic excitement. In Favor of War. Naples, Mlay 15.--Two thousand stu dents made ti demonstration today in favor of wvar. Tlhe police tried to dis per'se them, and several on both sides were wounded. Whooping Cough. "About a year ago my three boys had whooping cough and I found Chambel'lain's Cotfgh Reonedy the on ly one that Would felieve their cough ing and Whooiling spelrs. I dontidhted this romea; ~ y . gprpriseg.to ~tyble rookatil1 4 f. Iia e by alldoeer " -- ' Maxwe 11 Wins Test Over 40 Cars Result of the great Yale University Sheffield Scientific School Test. Of the forty automobiles tested at the famous Sheffield Scientific School laboratory the Maxwell stands first in economy of Gasoline consumption. -- -.P MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT iHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL VALE UNIVERSITY NEW HAVEN. CONNECTICUT iMay 1st 1915. The Biever Motor Car Oompany, 1079 Chapel Street New Haven, Conn. Gentlemen: - I am enclosing report of test of your Maxwell automobile recently nade in orlaboratory. I should like to add the following oommntes 1. RELIABILITY OF TEST. A preliminary test was made on April 19th, using a new car Which was rather stiff. - The showing was so good that we decided to make a second test. This was made on April 30th, using same car. On this test, the oar showed less stiffness and the performance was better than on the first oar. The second test was supervised by our most careful experts, and the results, I believe to be perfootly reliable. 2. MILEAGE. The efficiency of the Maxwell automobile as indicated by the number of miles on a level roads is exceptionally high. This mileage record is better than that of any one of forty automobiles tested in our laboratory to date. 3. MOTOR PERQRMANOE. The efficiency of the motor and carburetor as indicated by the pounds of ga. oline used per hour per horse-power at rear tires, is exceedingly good, and indicates very perfect carburetor action over the whole range of speed and load. This record like that on miloago per gallon. is the best one that we have had. Very truly yours, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ECHANIOAL ENGINEERING. The table furnished by the Yale Sheffield Scientific School Powcr and Fuel test made on high gear of Maxwell stock Touring Car on compara Schvl alelroads by Pirofessors E. H. Lockwood and T. Q. Boyer, Sheffield Scientific ScholYal Unverity 2. N m fc rM X E L 9 5 M d l " 5 2. O n r o a i v r M t r C r C . e a e 3. Dae o te tA rl 0t, 1 1 4. 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