Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-12-07
An MglOHOuS End.

item in Seattle Sunday newspapers reported the fact
that the Cmeas Of the thirty wooden h that have been lying
in Lake Union towed Richmond Beach and fired Saturday
night This the first of fifteen purchased by savagng company
that will burn them 0 the metals they contain
Thus ends of the shameful chapters American his
tory Every one who knew the history Of the wooden shpbudg
industry of Seattle could help but blush with shame for gov
eminent that would permit of such atroc every time that the
eye rested the line Of worthless hu Lake
Union for the past three or four years.
When the German submarines began destroy worlds ship
ping at the alarming of dozens weekly
ship building boom was launched The allies needed shipping
steel woodenanyhmg would do just would float
Government agents who knew absolutely nothing of spbudng
hurried and scued here and yon Shpyars pang up like the
proverba mushrooms only the Pacific the
antlc coast as well Contracts LET at exhorbant figures
absolutely unld engaged wages and green limb
that experienced shpbuder would spu for scaong
were dragged from the forests and hoed the ribs the
vessels Knots bored green mbers
became seasoned most kind of fish from mnnow whale
could swim through the providing huks ever reached
the open seas The government knew they
worthy before they launched the builders they We're
providing fat profits and the building laughed among
themselves over the worthless hul Not of the
have been able through the raghts Fuca safely
say nothing of making the through the and
the stormy Atlantic.
On hand the workers people means were urg
ed to buy Liberty bonds saving stamps un it hurt
while allegocal whal prodiga up and down
the of the country and money among the shin
builders
lot attorney
OF the United States has thus far hundreds under nvcpa
ton and has collected $232OOO has additional
Judgments of $225OO0 outstanding About involving
T63OOO exclusive of the Chemical Foundation suits are now
pending IN the courts with "a indictments already returned
While the boys in the across the ocean thousands
Of roeers and thieves stepped pundered the treasury Not
one spark of patriotism marked their during war nu
show of greed and lust for spo The working people furnished
the funds for all of these steals
would be difficult finance war during the memory
the present generation Not thousand service men would
voluntarily participate in the is doubtful if one
bond buyer in ten thousand would again buy bonds money
was to be used to build unseaworty ships railways into
timber belts where not foot of timber cut for war Dur
poses and Sqandcred other characterized World war
Yet the grandchildren of the present generation will study
histories telling how gallant and heroic the the STAY
"home ship builders mton manufacturers and profers
Time lends gamor and romance The lot of bunk
mat present day children read in history Our history del
es George Washington tell Of the shame of the war of
o and leads the young mind to believe that Monitor won
decisive victory the Merrmac when reality it was almost
as badly injured as its opponent War lose its thrill and its
gamor if the truth was really known.