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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM. UTAH Sham Battles Give Boys Strenuous Workout TTI Below Is shown an Infantry group of 400 West Point cadets marching on the new Storm-Kin- g s, for a week of sham battles In the Orange county hills. New York. Fifteen hundred cadets with anti-tan- k guns and cavalry scout cars, simulating tank cars, participated in the sham battles. Upper right:: West Point cadets man the guns in a combat car during maneuvers. The combat car is equipped with machine guns nd two guns of 30 calibre. Upper left: A well camouflaged scout car of the Twenty-fir- st Reconnaissance com-pan- y of New York city Is shown near the road In the vicinity of Pyrites, New York, scanning sky and road for Invading "Black" forces marching down the St. Lawrence valley. WASHINGTON.- -It is Interesting to note the manner in which certain congressmen have consistently squelched attempts to investigate the state department's with the British tin trust and certain U. S. business firms to prevent the United States from acquiring suf-ficient supplies of tin. With Japan now able to seize the Dutch East Indies and the Malays, the United States may have her tin siiDDly cut off in a few weeks' time. Yet up until recently, the state department played in with the British tin monopoly, did nothing about the situation. Now Sol Bloom, energetic chair-man of th'f house foreign affairs committee, has introduced a resolu-tion to investigate the tin situation. But he faces the vigorous opposi-tion of Representatives Cochran of Missouri and Faddis of Pennsyl-vania, both Democrats. Interesting fact is that Congress-man Faddis comes from Pennsyl-vania's twenty-fift- h district, In which is located the Standard Tin Plate company, which is tied up with Continental Can and long has done business with the British monopoly. Also Representative Cochran comes from St. Louis, where the National Lead company operates the St. Louis Smelting and Refining com-pany. National Lead owns part of Patino Mines, which is the keystone of the British tin monopoly. Until recently National Lead has lobbied against all efforts to establish tin smelters in the United States, thus making this country independent of the British tin trust. JOIN THE ARMY With the biggest ballyhoo in 25 years, the war department is en-treating young men to join the army. By bil'boards, radio, movies, every conceivable publicity device, even including paper matches, the depart-ment is spending $28 a head to get recruits for the fighting forces. And this will continue, regardless of the new conscription measure. This recruiting is for the regular army, to bring it up to a strength of 375,000. Conscription, on the other hand, aims to get roughly a million men for a one-ye- training period, to form a trained reserve. The publicity drive is getting re-sults. It yielded 23,444 in June, a new record for peacetime. The July figure surpassed the June figure, and August, in turn, surpassed July. The cost of $28 a head for enlist-ments is low compared with other years. In 1930, the department paid $56 for each recruit; in 1931, the figure was $66. Today recruiting is on a "mass production" basis, also a lot of the publicity is obtained free of cost. For instance, express trucks, rail-roads and chain stores are carrying posters free of charge, while 350 trade associations are making a gratis display of preparedness slo-gans. Radio stations are donating free time for transcribed "join the army" programs, and 15,000 bill-boards are pasted with recruiting posters at half price. Most novel device is the mobile recruiting station, a truck and trail-er specially designed to carry a re-cruiting sergeant and staff about the countryside, park in the town square, and sign up youngsters for the army. Twenty-seve- n mobile "stations" are built or building, two or three for each corps area. Result is that voluntary enlist-ments are proceeding at the rate of about 8,000 a week, which should mean that the regular army will fill its quota of 375.000 men before snow flies. GETTING TOGETHER Bushy-browe- d John L. Lewis and shrill-voice- d William Green still are glowering at each other, but the A. F. of L. and C. I. O. members of the Labor Advisory commit-tee, appointed by Defense Commis-sioner Sidney Hillman are with real harmony. Their weekly Friday afternoon meetings with Hillman are like a happy family. The labor chiefs ad-dress one another by first names and lean over backward to iron out differences between their organ-izations. Illustrative of the good feel-ing is their sly jesting about A. F of L.-- I. O. peace. At last Friday's conference, R. J. Thomas, head of the C. I. O. United Auto Workers, happened to take a sea on the A. F. of L. side of the table. Wisecracked Dan Tracy, ic A. F. 0f L. electrical work- ers chief, "Aha, pulling a little peace stuff on us, eh!" All the laborites joined in the laughter. MERRY-GO-ROUN-Friends of Henry Wallace think he may come back into the job as sec-retary of agriculture between elec-t'o- n day. November 5, and inaugu- - CHul fanUary 20' means w- Sain k3rd W0Uld steP "own Sen aT Seat,e 00nseriPon debate t'onist, gave this don t have thought: "We ,0 take any the Naz.,. They may have JJbkneg. but we have our tatS Write "all u,eNowWn B4C,t! WESTERN V. M v Here's Launtjy That's Strea JJEHOLD this made of sturdy ticfc, red and white strip? flat against the wall , rings over brass neatly with a zipper!, opened with one hand. Per is applied in a cur,-a-ample opening, and held in shape with a be bottom. Surely you wi; of these and will warl one or more for gifts, CURVED OPENING' FIRST, THEN STITCh SEAMS-TUR- RIGHT j side out 1 iii ThrouchopeningNJ iwTs iwionot Jp Bonon ' IfiSwci i V --' iM"TICK! I: . 'BACK.BOTTO)' I WRONT ONE PifttK is not so far away, for a man, child. Everything yoa need , make this bag is giv i sketch. These directic: in any of the booklets, to clip them. There is I teresting laundry and ' pocket in Book 4. A make garment bag illi Book 1, and twin poc! pantry door in Book 3, problem of what to do and soiled tea towels, , closet accessories make f and bazaar items. I NOTE: These homemakiag a service to our rcaderi r published contains a descr, I other numbers, as well is I clever Ideas fully Illustrate I 10 cents each to cover CMt Send order to: 1 MRS. RUTH W7ETBS Drawer II Bedford Hills Enclose 10 cents for ordered. Name Address Calm Villi The height of human to bring our tempers d: circumstances, and to calm within, under the the greatest storm Defoe. J All Equal , Before God we; are wise equally foohsn." !s stein. ! Bt dnnkinf? itr'' ,t5j !( tion throwsJ if of the kidney ,nd other irnpu""" J ""Sot may '$f ac U8ed, nervous. 5 , fhl.Phillipr P RARELY SEEN A prison scene In which the In-mates are not working in shoe fac-tory. A cowboy picture In which none of the characters are named Tex, Buck or Gomez. TEN CENTS AN 'ARTICLE' A half dozen railroads have an-nounced that porters will now charge 10 cents per "bag or arti-cle" at railroad terminals, turn-ing over this money to the rail-roads and being placed on regular waees. Well, the rate is screwy and unfair to every-body. On the New Haven road, where It is being tried, we saw a woman give brief case, a small cape and a demi-tass- e bundle to a porter. She thought she was being IS; generous when she handed him 20 cents. And you should have heard her when the por-ter demanded 301 (P. S. During the argument a man who had giv- - en a porter a bass viol to tote hand-ed him a dime, which was strictly regulation.) The 10 cents per article rate Is Just going to make travelers hesi-tate to hand to a porter anything smaller than a concert grand, an Iron stove or a parlor rug. Mile. Eve Curie has a word for it. She says the Atlantic may be Amer-ica's Maginot ocean. If Gibraltar falls a certain insur-ance company Is going to have to change that calendar. AND HOWt "The new French constitution will give France an ultra modern version of democracy." Marshal Petain. Wanna bet? Hitler and Stalin may think they have their troubles, but look at Mussolini; he's written a play! HOME NEWS It was a funny noise that woke him He thought at first 'twas rain, But found his fife was dusting With a piece of "Cellophane." T. H. Miles. Elmer Twitchell is a nervous wreck. The doctors can't make out whether it's liquor or seeing Charles Laughton as the Hunchback of No-tre Dame. Elmer Twitchell saw a sign over a store "To Lease for 99 Years" the other day and remarked, "I wouldn't touch it Just about the time I got to making it pay, I'd have to give it up." Do you remember away back when all we had to worry about was whether the Chinese war would last very long? Quantity production of airplanes will be all right, provided they don't forget to tighten the left wing or fasten on the propeller. www THE LAST RETREAT The thinning ranks that fought alone, They gave their very latest breath Like Alan Seegar of our own, They kept their rendezvous with death. Now reveille shall wake no more, Nor enemy shall ever route These victors over modern war Forever in their last redoubt Harcourt Strange. ASSISTS Simile: As jittery as a European travel folder in a foreign investment broker's mail. My pet peeve: the announcers I who make a cereal story out of a baseball game. Sam Michael Gevins. One of the most trying mo-ments In the life of any radio addict comes when the broad-caster announces he will now give the news of the momentous naval engagement and then takes time out to describe a chocolate bar! There are so many nations trying to get into this world war that it may be necessary to an-nounce a waiting list AND THEN THERE'S THE FAN WHO IS SO DISGUSTED WITH THE YANKEES THAT HE THINKS NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN MUST BE COACHING 'EM. IT WAS THE FIFTH SCOTCH As I was driving, free from care. I hit a car that wasn't there; It wasn't there again today, They come and towed that car away, j L. M. Prescott ' James Fitzgerald wonders If Hitler keeps a scrap book. ' PGENERAL ? HUGH S. JOHNSON WASHINGTON. Mr. Hitler hasn't liquidated England, but he has pret-ty well disposed of the predictions of military "experts" as to what turn the war will take and how soon this or that campaign will start or finish. It is not Hitler alone who has made this war-castin- g business dan-gerous. It is also the almost com-plete lack of dependable facts and the puzzling conflict of rival war bulletins from London and Berlin. Making a prediction carries even more hazards than sports writers' dilemmas on the outcome of an evenly matched football game or a prizefight There are no hotter spots. This column has had fair luck in this dangerous military field of crys-tal gazing. For a special reason, it is going to shoot the works on an-other guess with all fingers crossed, and the desk piled high with rabbits' feet Mr. Hitler is not going to dispose of England this year. He probably Is not even going to try a lightning-wa- r invasion by land or, if he does, it will not succeed. As Napoleon did, when he stood on the channel Just before Auster-lit- z, he may suddenly shift the war to the south and smash Gibraltar and the Suez or something else un- - pleasant to the British empire, but I have a strong hunch that the rec-ord of 874 years since William the Conqueror is not going to be broken now by whatever name Hitler will take in history. It is more than a hunch. To risk an army across the great wet ditch of the channel, the Nazis must have clear command both of the air and those narrow seas and beach heads for a considerable distance inshore. The channel itself might be cleared by fixed shore batteries that would keep naval vessels at a distance, but British counter-batterie- s could make landings in force difficult if not Impossible, unless the back coun-try is completely dominated from the air. It isn't. I don't know why the Germuns, with their supposed over-whelming air superiority, didn't use It to reduce British air-pow- to since any quick decision depended mostly on that. They didn't. Doubtless the reasons were good. Most of their reasons have been good. I'm not guessing about that. I'm only guessing that in view of the rapidly advancing season of fogs and rough weather and all the other considerations I have men-tioned, Mr. Hitler Is going to eat no meals in London, this year. ' There are other guesses maybe better ones. One is that he actually prefers the fogs as a sort of natural smoke-scree- n for attack. Another is that with most of Europe in his clutch, he is prepared to offer the British empire a peace so firmly buttressed and asking so little of Britain that she can't refuse. I Just don't happen to trail along with those guesses. I didn't make my own guess for the chance of being right at the risk of being wholly wrong. I made them because I know the barometic char-acter of our public opinion. A good deal of our almost panic urge to prepare is due to our being told that out national life depends on the Brit-ish navy; that it is in immediate danger of being lost, scuttled or transferred to Hitler; and. above all, the monstrous absurdity that the Atlantic ocean is no longer an ob- - stacle. I don't agree with these extreme views, but I do agree that our de- - fenses are deplorably weak, that we must get into a position to defend ourselves with reliance on nobody else and that we aren't doing it My fear is that, If the present popular pressure is greatly relieved, by a demonstration that Hitler can't hop even the British channel much less the Atlantic ocean we are like-ly to lapse into a lethargy as dopey as our immediate past The whole of recent history should prove how silly and perhaps fatal that could be. Let's keep on going regardless of the momentary fluctu-ations of the news from Europe's war. REGISTER MEN NOW The basis of any successful sys-tem of equitable selection is the uni-versal registration and classification of our whole manpower into about seven groups in accordance with their relative ability for military training and service with the least possible interference with desirable domestic, educational, industrial and agricultural relations. You can't do anything intelligently and scientifically in the way of de-termining quotas, exemption and deferments or final selection until you have that information. To debate further steps before we have it is ignorant and futile. I don't know how long it will take this fumbling, blundering generation to do that preliminary job. In 1917, we did all that it requires in 90 days. I doubt if that record can be beaten or even approached. In any event, that essential process if start-ed now will overlap the election and leave us infinitely better prepared to decide. The solution is easy. Quickly pass a simple bill authorizing the regis-tration and classification of all men between 18 and 60. Child Refugees Met by Marshall Field glw wn i 4: ft A, jmnX'C. rtWr " niwriiiWfiiaiilriliiiiiW 'ffifffiijjtfrcfl i I- - Left: Marshall Field, chairman of the committee for the care of European children, gets acquainted with Gwendolyn Kell, 6, of London, and Geoffrey A, Newbold, 6, of Middlesex, as the children arrive on the Samaria. Homes are available for them, and according to all Indications, they were happy because of the hospitality extended to them. Right: Bunks were at a premium, and at times during the voyage some of the 138 refugee children from Great Britain slept in lifeboats. Clyde and Trevor Davies (shown) are so doing. They were sent to a home in Boston. President Roosevelt at Maneuvers ' ff-;- ' ,V-- J&KA?i 4 v -- Tf - ;,v7 ryr- - The situation lu the nation's biggest peace-tim- e army maneuvers is explained to President Franklin D. Roosevelt by General Hugh Drum at Norwood, New York. The President, who is seated in his car, and the general carefully go over a map of the terrain over which the maneuvers were held. I To A rouse America IIP-- . " " ' i Artist James Montgomery Flagg is shown beside the poster he has just completed as a contribution to the work of the "Wake lp, Amer- ica" committee, of which he is a member. Aims of the committee are Physical and moral preparedness with mightier force, and the pres- ervation of peace in the Western Hemisphere. Fires 10,000 Shots a Minute, Silently ft k - N t V Put through a test by Its two inventors, William Hale and Durand Beam, this rifle fired 10,000 shots per minute with absolutely no noise, rhe rifle operates with compressed air. It reduced three-inc- h oak planks kindling and turned airplane armor plate into steel mosquito netting. It esemblcs a gun, and when it starts firing the barrel gets ooler Instead of heating up. . Succeeds Wallace Claude R. Wickard, who has hpn nominated by President Roose veto succeed Henry Wallace of as sec eUrv agriculture. A nomination rr-d- eiU is tantamount , appl |