The Washington times., 1930-09-06
Funny Old Shipi No Funnier Than Our fa
Obsolete Battleships.


greatest fighting man that ever sailed the
News Of his victory and death at Trafalgar at the
time the greatest and saddes that reached
England.
On high monument in Trafalgar Square, erected to gorfy
victory statue of Lord Nelson stands Of mmor
talty there be any Immortality planet that science
says will last MILLION MILLION YEARS, and that in
evably will utterly despise Nelson's of barbarism.
Interesting in this picture are the two portfolios under.
meath the of windows at the stern
In the OTHER portfolios the port and sarboard sides
guns ready for action.
The portfolios the ships empty Nelson
put guns those porthoes FOR HE NEVER INTENDED TO
TURN HIS BACK ON THE ENEMY, NEVER EXPECTED
no NEED GUNS THAT COULD BE USED WHILE HE
WAS RUNNING AWAY
These empty little openings for called sern
chase ports used by Nelson because he would not fight
retiring actions"
truly great sea fighter was Nelson although weak
man in other ways proved in his foolish long drawn out
relations with Lady Hamilton his inexcusabe dawdng and
wasting Of time the Court of Naples and in other
The fact that he achieved Of the greatest in
history sending the stod British wild with rejoicing and
at the time weak in many directions should en-
courage each knows his weakness unless he
is fool The heart knoweth his bitterness, the
Bible says.
It encouraging to know that man can be foolish and
great.
For instance Nelson when young captain in charge Of
British ship patrog in the days Revolution
fell violently in love with girl in Canada He abandoned his
ship crime unforgvabe 60 the girl and marry her.
Brother officers took him back the ship forceoherse
the world probably would have heard of him.
Concerning this odfashioned warshp which the
powerful fighter of its day. the average would say What
Ia funny ship But at least this ship in the least
funny when Nelson used it to fight the French and died
its deck He had said England expects every to do his
duty and set the example by doing his duty-and dying
Unlike the ship the oden times which funny
it used big baeship costing fifty seventy million
dollars eac with their coers and other parapherna really
ARE funny
any modern they would be worthless Bombs from
ships would sink them before they could get their unwedy
hulks under way
And the really able in Army and Navy like Gen.
William Mitchell who put out of the Army for knowing
much and others discreet that keep silent are all
of it.
In the great war Britain possessing the greatest fleet Of
batteshps the world kept her fleet carefully hidden away
with camouaged merchant ships outside of it, to protect
from submarines and hide it from airplanes
Only in that whole the British battle fleet taken
out meeting the German fleet for little while Then the
British fleet and the German fleet both hurried back that
was all they did in the war;
They would do even LESS in another war.
And yeNthe money of people spent millions upon mil
lions Of to keep baeshps that every much out
of date as this ship.
And the millions belonging to the people NOT spent
they SHOULD BE sPENTto build up for this nation the
worlds greatest fighting AIR fleet and SUBMARINE fleet
that would have power to destroy the cities and merchant ships
of any nation that might attack