THURSDAY, MAY 23, !»■» VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON FOUR COL1T LIiKVtR, 'Sertuittia Eaglr $2.00 Issued every Thursday per year in advance Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922, at the post office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. ADVERTISING RATES—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 25c per inch; local readers 10c per line; legal notices 5c per line; classified lc per word. MARK E. MOE LEE SCHWAB Publisher ......Editor SWIM IN THE CITY PARK von Spee now began tils long Cefmuu navy knew aud cuustuutly gave expression to race toward Kiel. Only two routes the thought that Britain was our were possible, one by Cape Horn guide on the sea. Her great sea­ und the other by the Cape of Good Of course, he knew the faring tradition was our conscious Hope. and admitted pattern. We German British would be laying for him at both places. He knew also that naval men liked the English and were In sympathy with them, Our they would be after him with navies were alike in spirit. The swifter and more powerful ships French navy was somewhat dif- than his own. His one chance was ferent. Its morale was perhaps not to beat them to Cape Horn, lose so good. French naval officers all hlmselt In the broad Atlantic, make come up from the ranks. The a ruD for it. and probably fight bls British and German come from ca­ way through the blockade. det schools and are recruited most­ By now he was short of both mu­ ly from the first families. That Is nitions and coal. A wireless from best. It provides a finer corps of Germany brought the good news officers. I myself, came up from that a supply ship had slipped the forecastle, but I believe that, through the blockade and was now unless you have officers and men on Its way out to meet him. What from different worlds, your men a tremendous voyage he might now will have little respect for their have made! What a hair-raising commanders. It must either be dash at the allied blockade line he that, or your officers must inspire might have made! But he never respect with their fists as In the got the chance. old sailing-ship days. The French As he rounded the Horn, Dame ' navy no longer has a rich tradi­ Fortune tempted him, and he made I tion. It Is true thut the French what proved to be a fatal error. He I had far greater sea fighters than stopped a Brltluh collier and took | we In past centuries, and they had all her coal. This delayed him for their fine old naval traditions. But three days. Meanwhile, a fleet of | during the Revolution the old Royal Britain's mightiest battle cruisers navy of France was swept away had arrived at the Falklands. He I and remained abolished for twenty still might have run by them un­ years At the end of that time, a noticed had he not determined to I new navy was formed, hut by then shell and destroy the wireless sta­ the fine old French traditions seem tion on the Falklands. Thus ho to have been forgotten aud new stumbled into that nest of battle traditions had to be formed. We cruisers. He tried to run, but they I Germans, with a new fleet, took caught and sank him. That day the over the old, solid tradition of the British had their sea giants, the | British and made It our own. We indefatigable, the Invincible, the did everything we could to implant Indomitable, and along with them It In our men. and make It a real, a number of other battle cruisers, living thing Ingrained In our peo­ that later were to fight gallantly at ple Our sea leaders understood the Jutland, and then find.their way Importance of a tradition. That was to rest on the floor of the North why we were determined to keep Sea. a fleet after the war. When our Only one of Von Spee’s ships, the great ships went down at Scapa light but fleet cruiser, Dresden, Flow, our Socialists favored the showed her heels to the British le­ total abandonment of the naval viathans and slipped back around arm. but fortunately enough of our Cape Horn. But the Fates were people came out of their post-war meiely playing with the poor Dres­ trance long enough to prevent such den. and a few days later she was a fatal error. Perhaps It might be sunk by the more powerful British only a few small ships that we could cruiser Kent off San Juan Fernan­ retain, but It would serve to keep dez, Robinson Crusoe’s Island, In traditions alive until we could again the Pacific. She was lying in neu­ build up a fleet as great or even tral waters and should ?__ " 1 have ___ 1____ been greater than the one we lost. sheltered by the laws of war. Her Spee was a sailor's admiral captain signaled to the commander tie .was a seaman by temperament, of the Kent: open. honest, and Jovial, uneom- "We are In Chilean territory, forcible mi land and only himself "My orders are sink you when no Hie bridge of Ids flagship sight.” replied the Kent, “and no Too many of nur professional fight­ ing men. I regret tp say, were more matter where you are." The pnptaip of the Dresden blew ornamental than useful. They were giuMi at wearing gold lace and that up his ship, and with his officers Is about all. But not Yon Spee. He and grew swam ashore. The Island was at bis best on a quarter-deck was pot quite so deserted after this In a storm. I still can see him pac­ shipwreck as it was Ip Robinson ! ing hack anil forth with his bushy Crusoe’s day! That it) brief was the story of ’brows and piercing blue eyes. The