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Show J THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM. UTAH Winter Winner IT J- - (DUTCH) HARRISON, lead-ta-money ter winner of the win- golf circuit, is one champion whojU keep both feet on Tonkins of Sports frm System I Fight Game ROBERT McSHANE IE MIKE JACOBS, who St exactly grown poor in business, has decided JSwg ldea from baS6baU ,S its farm system to the igue right game. lurse Uncle Mike will be su-- Indent of the cauliflower jbut wl e ided and be,ted le other than Benny Leonard. I,, sfrve as chief scout, coach. jnd general organization man. icn't so long ago that Benny Immander in chief of the light- - 4 division. He's Jtlarger around Mile now, but aJ an eagle $r ring talent Ce the talent juried there'll Ainor league nig d the rie of promo-- e for lathar-tosser- s i i Tome through . t - s 4 The Arhansas-bor- n lad, who Just few years ago was caddylng at W Per round, has picked up $3,601 him top winner among: the touring professionals. Horton Smith brought Dutch to Chicago after spotting his ability on Arkansas courses. He eventually became assistant pro at Horton's home club in Oak Park, 111. His Arkansas background gives him a level head. After smash-in- g par by 13 strokes to set a com-petUi-record of 271 in winning the Texas Open at San Antonio he was asked what he would do with the prize money. His reply was: 'That'll help to feed the hogs." took him quite a while really w get np steam. In the Chicago Open he led the field with a 67 the first day, only to have the officials cancel all the first round scores due to a thunderstorm. The next day he chalked up a bad round, well behind Sam Snead's winning total. His 67 tied Ilagen's com-petitive record of 11 years standing. Since January 1 Harrison has scored victories in Bing Crosby's tournament and the Texas Open. He lost a playoff to Dick Metz. an-other Chicagoan, in the Oakland tournament, and finished third at Phoenix. Though not the best of putters, he has power off the tees and great iron shots. They seem to be enough to win for him. Monarch of the Mile CELDOM does an athlete so far surpass his contemporaries that he is looked upon as an almost-certai- n winner as soon as he enters an event Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis Is one. The issue is very seldom in doubt when he steps into the ring. Glenn Cunningham, the tireless Kansan, is another. When he stretches out in the mile race his Lajrhain system Benny ieoasLri letup will be ctaiiy the same as in base- - I Accept there will be no Judge jfto serve as final authority, lajy's Job will be to scour the ,rinds In search of promising jilcrs and bring them to New k jo get their start In s couple nnor league" fight clubs that sbi plans to open in the near -- ej Benny will be a busy man, wlwill run the two fight clubs, i addition, hold "classes" for fling ring hopefuls, icftj" move, on the surface, at l, Teems logical. If the present I hothouse heavyweight con-en- ) had come up through ability al of publicity, interest in the fciould be much greater. His I "I 'Pin mi Iii'ii'iiiii jmt i'P'h.'si'K BfM m j'lj m j istem, if properly conducted. j eliminate the misfits and raJ fighters a chance. ! fas promised that any young lons discovered by Leonard Hit to New York for try-ou- ts net have to make the usual con- - It will be possible for get their chances without over to anybody's auspices, emphasized the fact that he ii. new monopolies for him-- 1 if the kids make good they have to fight exclusively c greatest sluggers In heavy H history came from the cross-Jji- Jeffries from Carroll, : css YVillard from Pottawato-Ifa.- ; Jack Dempsey, Manassa. ;and Joe Louis from Mont-rr- j, Ala. They didn't rely on nation and publicity to reach rips another Dempsey will be ved in the far-flun- g search lilft. If so, Jacobs and Leon-ul- d be allowed to congratu-thfmselve-jDukc Returns if RAHA.N'AMOKU, lord high sujritf of Honolulu, most be-ja- n in the islands, will re-tth- e United States this sum-fianag- e a team of Hawaiian Mrs on a tour which will take M San Francisco and New I f rld fairs. f interesting man of his pc, at 47. is in as eood GLENN CUNNINGHAM opponents are automatically classed as also-ran- Cunningham seems Invincible in the mile race. Of course, he has his off days, but whether he is in the best of form or wit he man-ages to break the tape with re-markable regularity. As milers go, Glenn Is practically pet feet. That's the trouble. He's too perfect. And perfection does get monotonous. Not long ago John Borican, (N. J.) Negro, beat Cunning-ham in a special 1,000-yar- run. Borican staved off a famous Cun-ningham sprint to win in 2:14.3. Glenn, however, previously had run v ... J physical condition s when he was breaking world rec-ords. And that's been quite a while ago. He came to the United States for the 1912 Olympic trials, and began a career that lasted 20 years and took him to all Parts of the world a champion. the distance in 2:01.1, a world rec-ord. A short time later the Kansan got revenge. In a mile race in Boston, Cunningham defeated the five man field without a great deal of trouble. The race found his 1,000 yards con-queror, Borican, in last place. How lone he can continue winning is problematical Soon some bar-rel chested youth will beat the vet-eran, and interest in the mile run will grow. There certainly is no blame to be attached. Cunningham gives the best he has every race, and is a true sportsman. But com-petition for him is lacking, though several promising milers have their eyes on his record. It will be a strange, somewhat sad day when the old workhorse is definitely unseated as feigning monarch of the mile. Pe 'At 'he 1912 4moku 0,ymP!cs In Stock-!- , holm," saId Duke '! sheriff's ofiicc in Honolulu, "ff of Sweden insisted upon me as royalty. He made X ? 80 ma"y have done, that 'Duke' indicates t from Hawaiian royalty. J"? name and has nothing lltl- - ,J4. ve met the all my trip, same thing. I fur' trying to eiDUlu,. Sport Shorts Ciencia, filly who won the $50,000 Santa Anita derby February 22, comes from the vast King ranch in Texas. The ranch embraces about 850,000 acres of Texas' finest ter-rain . . . Dizzy Dean has finally confessed that he was not born in Oklahoma, but in the hills of Arkan-sas, some three miles from Lucas . . . Only major league baseball team to change training camps this year was the Phillies, having shifted from Biloxl, Miss., to New Braun-fels- , Texas . . '. A Henry (Neb.) basketball player scored a basket for the opposing quint recently. His name was Corrigan . . . Archie San Roman! has beaten Glenn Cunningham seven times in the mile, but never on an indoor track . . . Amateur athletes in Australia are forbidden to receive instruc-tions from a professional ... A pin-tail duck banded by a Kansas farm-er during the fall of 1927 was brought down by a hunter in Mexi-co in 1938. C Western Newspaper Union. 'l,lfi0Pn did,,,t Want 10 be-- fl gave up trylng fct ,tft, records 1 his " and once in a Honolul he was c "ds t the almost unbe- - time of 48.5 tourusts wanted to Je AW'ia. Island host nabie politician was i ? years ag hen of a Sh?riff- - He was in Publ,cang in a disUnct Tunn PPncnt' a Republl-'23V- r Action. tTCCr- - Duke re. ' 4d''s sPches prom- - !' opdo? ,e'CCt him' he'd 2n, chief dePty-- 'ectd Hyeuby hia "" J his deputy is 8tiii Uot seem set for life. New Transoceanic Clipper Ship Bigger Than Five-Roo- m House kVtftS'. . Picture! ' h t l Parade Picture a five-roo- house flying through the air and you have an approximation of the new 74 passenger Boeing clipper plane shown above, soon to he placed in regular transoceanic service. Here is the most luxurious flying boat ever huilt, com-plet- e with a "bridal suite," full-siz- e sleeping compartments and every detail offered by a modern train or ocean liner. Six such boats are being built, operated by four 1,500-horsepow- er engines and related power plant equipment. mmmm mtouMMML. in mrrtriiTi Ti Mm liianj Above, a general view of the control room, remarkable for its simplicity as well as its size. Right, the flight engineer's station where most details of operation are handled. The engi-neer has charge of the power plants. " " --- " I ,;" f JiuM J i j Aliove. motlcls pone in the highly-advertise- d "bridal suite," which is simply a private com-partment in the rear of the ship, alheit elaborate. Right, sleeping berths are spacious as those on a regular train. Wrfi "- -,.- -:,...... ... v.. ?33ft.....ftni,, .a fifty 'III "'' Ilere is the large combination lounge and dining salon, a favorite rendezvous for tomorrow's air-mind- voyagers. Gutenberg Did Not Imprint Name Johann Gutenberg (1397-1468- )! the inventor of printing from mov able metal types, never imprinted his name on any of his works, says Collier'i Weekly. The first book t bear a complete imprint name of the printer, place and date was tha celebrated Latin Tsalter of 1457, which was published by a firm con sistinfj of Gutenberg's son-in-la- Teter Schoeffer, and his former partner, Johann "ust. Brucharft Washington Digest , Small Telephone Companies Hit By Application of Labor Law Again the People Are Made Victims of Too Much Gov-ernment; Act Forces Small Industries Into Spot Where They Cannot Do Business or Hire Labor. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press BIdg., Washington, D. C. would be $2,190 a year instead of whatever rate now is paid; and it would mean, moreover, that there would have to be three or four op-erators. That is to say, no operator could work more than 42 hours per week a seven-hou- r day of a six-da- y week. And what would that mean? Every one of those compa-nies would be forced to collect three or four times as much per month from the subscribers, or close down the system. Then, to show how widespread the effect would be, let me cite the num-ber of exchanges in a few states: Iowa, 802; Illinois, 917; Alabama. 1C7; Arkansas, 209, Indiana, 695; Maine. 128: Michigan, 351; Minne-sota, 578; Missouri, 778, and Texas. 898. It is to be remembered that these are purely local companies. Whatever number of exchanges are operated in those states by the Bell Telephone company are in addition. But we are not concerned with the Bell system. That outfit is big enough to fight its own battles. Cannot See What Thev WASHINGTON. On President Roosevelt's list of "must" legisla-tion a year or so ago was a bill that, when it eventually became a law, was called the "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938." It was made to apply to all business crossing state lines, or to products thus man-ufactured that went into channels of trade outside of the state where they were produced. It set certain rates of minimum pay and established a limitation on the number of hours workers could continue on the job. Everyone refers to it now as the wages and hours law. At the time of the appointment of Elmer F. Andrews, as wages and hours administrator, I discussed the potential success or failure that lay ahead for such a law. In looking over my files of the time, I found that I wrote, concerning the law, that "Mr. Andrews can either make or break it" by the policies he adopts and the interpretations ho makes of the law's provisions. I said also that he must use great care in the selection of subordinates. All cf which leads into discussion of a situation that has arisen re-specting application of the law to several industries. Generally, too, it forces a conclusion that here Is just another law under which gov-ernment is interfering in the normal living of people. As usual, the peo-ple are the victims of too much gov-ernment. While there are several lines of Industry about which I want to write in this analysis, the most flagrant misgovernment and the most dam-aging result, as far as I can see, is the application of the wages and hours law to the little known, but widely used, small independent tele-phone companies. I am referring to that type of telephone company which serves the small towns and villages and the farmers who live around those small, yet very essen-tial, trading centers. Are Doing to the Country Why these smart boys cannot see what they are doing to the country, is a question which I cannot answer. Either they are utterly dumb or they are promoting the organization work for passage of the wages and hours law. The C. I. O. certainly has demonstrated it does not belong in the list of real American organiza-tions, but it still has political power. The connection with C. I. O. agita-tion might be traced through the fact that the law contains a provi-sion permitting a worker to sue for damages if the employer (in this case the telephone company) com-pels violation of the law by forcing overtime work. The political phases of the situa-tion are quite important because of the vast number of voters directly affected. I do not mean to sav that Nearly 30,000 Independent Telephone Companie$ in U. S. When I heard that some of the subordinates in Mr. Andrews' agen-cy were determined to apply the provisions of the wages and hours law to the Independent telephone, I began to dig around for Information about them. I am acquainted with those units of service. I know what it Is to turn the crank on the big box that hangs on the wall in order to ring a neighbor on a party line; it is not an unfamiliar fact either to hear of how the switchboard, lo-cated in somebody's home in the village, closes down at nine o'clock at night, and no one is supposed to ring unless it is a case of sickness or other emergency. I was stunned, however, to real-ize that there are nearly 30,000 such companies in the United States. Nor was I prepared to understand, at once, that there are approximately 4,100,000 "stations" or subscribers to those companies. If we figure an average family as five, we arrive at the conclusion obviously that nearly 21,000,000 persons depend upon that type of service. The wages and hours administra-tion does not propose to apply the law to all of these; it eliminated Senator Herring and Representative Harrington, both of Iowa, have intro-duced bills to exempt the local com-panies, from purely political mo-tives. But I suspect that the political pressure will cause many members of the house and the senate to favor passage of those bills. I have mentioned heretofore how often the "unelected" officials of the government those appointed by the President or his subordinates either have ignored political history or they know nothing about political history. The case of the independ-ent telephone companies is a splen-did illustration. Lately, the little independent steel companies have felt the dead hand of government through the same law. I am not informed as to all details of their case, but there were 44 eastern independent steel eompa-nie- s appeared recpntly before the propaganda spreading temporary national economics committee, seek-ing relief. The independent steel companies are to the great steel manufacturers as the little independ-ent telephone companies are to the Bell system. The wages and hours law will wreck them, they told the national economics committee which has come to be known as the mo- - more man nonolv investientinn half of the total, but a bunch of the smart boys under Mr. Andrews have decided the law should apply to 12,401 such compa-nies. They decided the law can be applied, even though the companies are entirely within the confines of a county, in most instances, because the little switchboards are able to make a connection with "long dis- - Forces Industry Into Spot Where It Cannot Do Business If those little fellows have to meet wages and hours set for them by Miss Perkins, secretary of labor, to whom Mr. Andrews is subordinate, the steel people say they will go broke. Or, at least, they charged, they could get no government con-tracts because of failure to comply with the law. Since the government is spending billions of dollars to create employment and for general relief, I can not help wondering why it wants to force one segment of industry into a spot where it can do no business and employ labor. The whole thing, however, gets more cockeyed as time gones on. There seems to be no limit to the lengths to which bureaucrats, drunk with power, will go in abusing the nation. Who was there that did not express the greatest disgust at the assinine story which came out of New York city the other day. I re-fer to the problem before the New York state labor board which was called upon to decide whether a pro-fessional woman model was fired because she had been active as a tance" companies. It may not hap-pen more than five times a month, but the little company is doing "in-terstate" business. Hence, your Un-cle Sam, acting through the bureau-crats, proposes to tell the local com-panies they must pay the wages designated by the federal law and limit the hours of those who earn their living that way. Would Force Companies to Increase Their Rates Now, I am thoroughly familiar with the limitation of opportunities of employment for women and girls in the small towns. I know that the small telephone companies employ them as operators, or they employ somebody not physically able to do other types of work. The pay is small, but it provides a comfortable living in most cases. Perhar tha union organizer or because her hips were too wide. The woman claimed she had been fired because she was trying to organize a union of mod-els. Her former employers said her hips were too broad to properly wear the clothes they wished to display. While the story is not lacking in humor, it must be treated serious-ly because the width of this girl's hips may yet be a question of al importance. It is a fact, and not a witicism, that the national la-bor relations board may yet be called upon to measure those hips and determine, as judges of fashion, whether she can properly display the latest mode of spring apparel. Western Newspaper Union. pay ought to be higher, but If the pay is higher, the town and country subscribers will have to pay more. The reason those companies succeed and render the valuable service that ts rendered is because they hold down expenses and provide service at a dollar, or around that figure, per month. One realizes better what that rate means when a comparison is offered of the five or six dollars per month charged in cities. Should the smart boys in the wages and hours administration get away with their program, it would mean that a small exchange would have to increase the pay for opera-tors. The minimum for operators The Gorgons In classical mythology the Gor-dons were three sisters, Stheno, Kuryale, and Medusa, the last named alone being mortal. 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Jack jrnr- - AMERICAN BIG TREES ARE OLDEST Honors for greatest age among living things are to the big trees of western America in a summary study by the late Dr. Hans Molisch. The big trees' only close competi-tor for record length of life, in Dr. Molisch's tabulation, is the baobab tree of Africa, which is given an es-timated age of 5.000 years. Next In line come the banyan of India, sacred for having sheltered the Buddha. The identical tree un-der which Guatama sat when in-spiration came to him is still pointed out, and since it has been a holy place during all the centuries, it is quite probable that the tradition is accurate, so that the estimated 3,000-yea- r age of the "bo-tree- " is well supported. Not so well fares the giant cy-press of Tule, in Mexico, at which stout Cortez marvelled. |