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Show MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA. UTAH PAGE TWO Bird' Skeleton Most El fid Th tkeleton of a bird U the moit rigid of ell the animal, Bone fuse together and pverlnp. The familiar wish bone" li limply the two collar bone grown together to give greater strength to the at tachment of wings. The breastbone Is not flat as in most animals, but has an enormous ridge down the mldcfie for the attachment of flight muscles. These muscles arc rela tively hundreds of times more pow erful than similar muscles in man. In some birds they are so' highly developed that they represent half the bird's entire weight Wrote "nail Columbia" The ballad "Hail Columbia" was written by Joseph Hopkinson, son of Francis, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independ' ence. Joseph was a Jurist native f Philadelphia, born November 12, 1770. He died there January 15, 1842. He composed it in the year 1798 dor the benefit of an actor named Fox, after an air entitled "The Presidents March, which had been written by a German named Teyles, on the occasion of General Washingtons first visit to a theater at New York in 1789. Free Lance Writer Free lance writers are persons who write on their own account and not as members of the stall of any organization. Sir Walter Scott and later writers applied the term to professional soldiers of the Mid- dle ages whose services could be purchased by any feudal lord willing to pay the price. The Cross of Lorraine The cross of Lorraine has two cross-pieceIt was the badge of the Knights the Hospitallers, Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, commonly called the Knights of Malta because Malta was given them as a refuge when they were driven from the Island of Rhodes. Names for Ohio River In addition to the Beautiful river, the Ohio was also called by the Indians, in their own language of course, "Very Deep White River, "Very White River, "The Shining River, "The White Shining and River, The Deep Broken Shining River." Fogs Really Mist Fogs are really mist which comes down on town and country alike when weather conditions aresuit-ablbut in cities the watery vapor holds up particles of dirt and soot from factory chimneys and the chimneys of thousands of homes. e, Victims of Angina Pectoris Angina pectoris usually attacls only those in later life, more at seventy years of age than at sixty, and more at sixTv 'than at fifty. Phlegmatic people are less subject to it than mentally alert and active people. Why Lincoln Changed Route Secret service induced Lincoln InTSBr to change his route to Washington to avert assassination, so he left Harrisburg, Pa., on a special train the night before his inaugura- Action of (be Air Speaking of Sports masses of air ar warmed and forced upward they un6-Man dergo considerable expansion upon reaching the lower pressures of the This expansion is acupper-ai- r. companied by a surprising amount of cooling. Dry air rising to an alti tude of a mile may be cooled by aa much as twenty-fiv- e degrees. This much cooling produces a drastic By IIERB ROGERS reduction in the airs capacity for hundreds should the if air holding water, and PROBABLY few of the wha watch the big be only moderately humid to begin with it finds itself with more Intercollegiate football games these water than It can carry. This fall Saturday afternoons have ever football." Yet surplus water is then condensed, heard ef "six-ma- n first to clouds and then to rain, more than 2,60 school in that many mall towns throughout the counsnow, or hail. teams In the try have pint-sizHome Hubby Chooses field this season. Although it is both a written and Reports from state Interscholastic an unwritten law that a wife la to athletic associations Indicate that live in the home which her husband the number will be doubled In 1939. Born only four years sgo, the game provides for her, the courts of several states have upheld many wom- has'already outgrown ita swaddling en who, for petty reasons, have re- clothes. footbaD is fused to do it. Not long ago, says Originator of Collier's Weekly, one court ruled a Chester (Neb.) high school teach-enamed Stephen Epler. Back In that a woman did not have to live in her husband's house because it September, 1934, he got tired of was located near the home of his watching students twiddle their thumbs from the opening days of parents school until basketball season rolled around. He felt that Chester stuOne of the Freakiest Floods One of the world's freakiest floods dents should have a fall sport His school didn't have enough stuoccurred in Californias Imperial dents to man a regulation football The Colorado rivValley in 1905-0er flooded 400 square miles in the team, and even if they had, there valley, forming a lake known as the wasnt enough money available to Salton sea. If the river hadnt been put them Into football gear. of his So, with the turned back into its proper channel, the entire Imperial valley would now superintendent Epler went to work. He started to remake football from be an inland sea. the million dollar spectacle it had become into a modest sport that The Fylfot Cross would fit the purse and personnel of The Fylfot cross is used principally in heraldry. It is often spoken of the small town school. as Thors Hammer. Thor was a Scandinavian divinity who represented the god of thunder. Us hamSeven tackles, he decided, are almer of flyfot shape together with his mallet, were the symbols with together too many. When they come which he performed marvelous together the spectators can't see whats happening, and the players feats. themselves hardly know what Its all about. Tackles only get in the Shark Can Contract Hide way of the ball carrier, anyhow. So Tlie nurse shark is the only animal. so fab as is known, that con- out went two men and two uniforms. Ttien Epler took the guards. The tracts its hide, when attacked, to team has to ibve ends to run down an armor-platehardness, which punts, receive passes, turn in the enables this fish to resist successoffense. It also has to have a center fully the penetration of as formidto get the ball in motion. But who able a weapon as a heavy harpoon ever heard of a guard making a Collier's Weekly. touchdown? So on each side of the center a guard was left jobless. His "Bounty Jumpers" In the military services, bounties team now had a center and two are sometimes offered to get men ends He had chopped off four men When it came to the baekfield it to enlist. During the Civil war so easy, but Epler shut his wasn't many recruits enlisted merely to off one halfback. get the bounty and then deserted. eyes and crossed His team now consisted of a cenwere called They "bounty jumpter, two ends, a quarterback, halfers." bark, and fullback. Three men in the line, three in the baekfield. Women Rutter Their Hair Because the town couldn't provide The woman of Tibet butters her gridiron, 100 yards long hair, plaits it into a number of thin a regulation ICO feet wide, without by rat tails, gathers them together ruining a at the end and plaits it with bhiek good crop. of standing, corn. Epler reduced the length of the field to wool till the thick queue trails al80 yards, the width to 40 yards. most to the ground. Football Clicking Fast In Rural Areas ed Indoor game WORLD'S fastest as might well hockey, be supposed, but an ancient game to you. called Jal alal, "by-ll- e The National Geographic society is authority for the fact that it was played three centuries sgo In the Basque country of northern Spain. There it Is known as pelota, meaning small ball Today It is a major sport not only in Spain but in South America, Mexico, Cuba and even such remote centers as Shanghai. New Jal alal seems to be taking root in the United States. One reason for the spread of the games popularity is Its simplicity. It requires only space, three high walls, a ball and a curved basketlike scoop lashed to the arm of each player. When played by hard- - six-ma- n Too Many Tackles " Yesterdays PINTS QUARTS 313 CODE K& 312 ' j ; it Sr v6I6 6op$ SUNDII 2?' MJ IV he might show you an old life pre.at sea, bn the afternoon of Friday, Head of Kinsale on the coast of Irewill even tell you the story of that tale. Pat wouldnt part with that old contraption of cork and canvas for half the wealth of the Indies, for it carried him safely through his lifes greatest adventure. And how great a danger it was you will easily realize when I tell you that although Pat lived, eleven hundred and ninety-eigothers lost their lives before it was over. a Yes Frankfort Distilleries, Inc., Loalsvnie and Baltimore Pat Hanley was on the Lusitania when ' 2 S r ;- - ' s W- iMuiis ' ' v. f ' Av ,4 ' ' r, t . tMj vViiy- BABE RUTH King of Swat tries jal alaL hitting professionals, the game is spectacular in the extreme. The ball, hard and about the sise of a tennis ball, Is served from the basket and driven against the front wall, to be scooped up before its second bounce and returned by a member of the opposing side. Teams range from one to four on a side. As in tennis, the technique lies in slamming the ball to a spot from which It is hard for the opposing player to return it. When played by experts the game appears easy, but great skill and endurance are required. There is also an element of danger, for a ball traveling at terrific speed lor a distance of 150 to 200 feet is enough to knock out a player whdtallows his head to get in the way. new-fangl- a German submarln shot a torpedo into its innards and sent It plunging to the bottom. Tha all tha way across the Atbig ship had successfully dodged the lantic. She was racing down the home stretch, and tha passengers had forgotten their fears and were beginning to have a good time when suddenly, at two oclock in the afternoon there came a loud report Pat Hanley bad shaved and come up on deck about 15 minutes before, and be saw it all, right from the first A panic started immediately. People ran wildly about the ship searching for their friends and children. Then In less than a minute the ship began to list "Right there," says Pat was where people started drowning. They got on the Incline and started sliding. The deck rail was broken away to starboard and they fell wholesale lnte the water. An officer bellowed through a megaphone that everyone must get on a life preserver, bnt two-thirof tha passenger were in such a state of collapse that yon couldnt get them to stand still to get a life preserver on them." Pat found a life preserver and started stripping off his outer clothing. A woman ran into him, and down he went on the slippery deck. With difficulty he managed to keep from sliding overboard like many others bad done. But he got to his feet again and began working his way aft A sixth got clear of the ship with passengers. Only five got fouled In the davits and the people In It were dumped into the water. "They fell like a load of sand, says Pat, "and I noticed that not one life-boa- a million To relieve the Bce Dex i yours effects of theii bdk: escape "add do this: Tsktfta day spoonfuls of Phillips hhikdk nesia in a glass of w,t , i we ,2er jaded BEDTIME. 95 yousleep.thi.w1 it alkahzw will be sweeteni. stomach . . . easing the ttpsetU nd nausea . . . helping ta a normal feeling. By iw . ing you feel great. Then when yon eib- -i' 2 more tablespoonfuh if ? sx - of PM, Milk of Magnesia with orangey That is one of the qnkhd, plest, easiest ways to overcoat tl bad effects of too much eating, m ing or drinking. Thonsandi n i But never ask for "mik I t alone magnesia always ask fc PWffips'"MilkofMaesii PHILLIPS ' HILK CF IN LIQUID 01 f ?xh "altt BE; here '2 hat HU TAUT 'sttem Be not simply something. t site With a Purpost eevele good, be food be iad hnstm If the V! Of How Worntu in Their 40s Can Attract invei ;tches rquoii t f.! d" T1 lows b don miMh zdvte to t lay be (usually from SI ta it), t ide t ber appeal to no, M am ev about hot Sashes, loea o I pep, tow Wi aptUa-Ga- t apart Burma and moody etc Borafreab air, A an. Seep lad In mi id a good general syftea tonic tab Ut. . Fink hams Vegetable Cotapoaad, ate rs of eperatiw er fomm. It help nttm at Are ; Una helps pa ap physicalto resistance, vivacity enjoy Ufe and id a tywp and nerren disturbing Jittery often accompany change i ait- - II I WQETU TfiYLKGl Hant good ban ba'U km Here and There In regulation football linemen have a thankless job. The ball carrier gets cheered by the crowd, while the poor tackle who opened the hole through which the carrier advanced merely has his face stepped A center's chance to score is on just about nil. n But in football every man on the team Is eligible to receive a pass; every man Is a potential hero. Flaying time is in four periods. Other changes from the regulation game are minor. In most of the towns where football is being taken up, the reigning sports were baseball basketball and track. A survey made LESSON NO. 4 by Epler shows that mere than half A kiss shot for the corner pocket. the high schools in this country have It is of vital importance that the never played football, whereas bet- balls are spotted carefully accordter than 90 per cent ol the schools ing to the diagram. Every object ball must be touching (frozen). play basketball But because the period between Again the striker must make a firm, the start of school and the start ef solid bridge, hold the cue absolutely basketball season has been a void level and use no english. If you n (or popular sports, reotbal! miss the shot It will be because you has proved to be a natural It starts did not adhere to the instructions the school year off with a bang, and given. Again let me warn you to recruits for the game leave your cue on the line of aim, if were not long in coming forward. you wish to master the game. Neutralize exeat ifaj ccidifp wakevpfttlintl While ts P 216-pou- six-ma- J. Hanley at his home at Richmond Hill, N. Y., server that he acquired May 7, 1915, off the Old land. And maybe Pat Only five lifeboats got clear nf the ship. them seemed to survive that upset I saw two more boats hurriedly pushed uff so that people tn The water could Cling to them. After that there was no chance to launch any more on either side as the ship was under water to the second deck on the starboard side." Pat arrived safely at the stern of the ship and, with about 40 ether men, made ready to Jump. We couldnt take a chance of Jumping from the side," he says, for it looked as though the ship might turn over on top of ns If we did. Already the water was fall of bobbing head. Suddenly n shower of water and Boot shot np from the second and third funnels of the ship, drenchand turning na aU black as ink spots. The ing the after-dec- k ship was going down steadily now, and we aU realised that If we didnt Jump soon the suction would carry ns down when she went nnder. Overboard we went. trawler the first craft to come to rescue was Just arriving at the scene of disaster. Pat, held up anilely and lom Other egni of kidney erder may be burning tha by Copyrleht. WNU Service. Utah, Indian Name it has generally been assumed. was taken directly from the tribal name, the Utes, of the aboriginals who originally lived In the territory. It was nht their own name for themselves, but was applied to them by the Navajos and Apaches. The term is derived directly from the word for "uper" and means Utah, "the upper people," or It was probably almost the direct equivalent to the English term, "highlanders, applied to people dwelling in the Scotch Wood nf Old Ships Useful No electric signs but ancient fig- ureheads from the prows of ships hang before the offices of u famous London firm. The company specializes in breaking up old vessels, the figureheads from these having made its offices a familiar landmark for travelers, because the wood of old ships is well seasonetLnna colored, it is in demand for many purposes. Some of the timbers which once sailed the seven seas end up as others as garden furniture to be set among English daffodils. wine-cooler- s, ! Help Them dun th of Harmful Body Yt Tour ktdbcy ar wbar ) , "" !iY tetUat up athU.a leauf Aider tha eye It was a began swimming toward it Says he: sailing vessel equipped with four big oars which the crew pulled liks Trojans. Already they were picking people out of the water by the dozen. Lifeboats were rowing out to it unloading their passengers and going back to pick up more. The small boats made several trips back and forth, but they only picked up those who showed signs of life. By ths time we reached the trawler there were 500 others already on it The time Pat spent on that trawler was an adventure all hi itself. The cockpit the deck the hold nQ of them were literally Jammed with people. Cp on deck the passengers bad tn stand close together and hang onto one another, for they were packed right to the edge of the deck and there waa an raillmg to keep them from going overboard. When the last bit of available space was occupied with the task of saving a human life, the little craft took In tow three lifeboats filled with more nf the rescued, and started away from the scene. Less Than 800 Were Saved. Pat clung for his Lie to the man next to him. Now the waters wer full of other craft steaming rowing sailing to the rescue. A large boal hove to and took the crowd off the trawler. While the trawler went hack to pick up more survivors, the big boat, with Pat aboard it, steamed toward Queenstown harbor. But the trawler didnt pick up another load like her first, for the records show that less than SO people were saved not of n total of nearly 2,000. Pat aays they met several patrol boats coming to the rescue, but they were too late to do anything but pick up the dead. The boat Pat was on landed him In Queenstown at about nine o clock that night. The next morning be waa asked to go down to the Canard pier, which had been converted Into n temporary morgue, to see If he could Identify any of the poor souls who had lost their lives. Pat still has the life preserver he wore when he jumped over tha stem of the Lusitania a souvenir of a remarkable adventure. He 11 get it out and show It to you and tell you the story Of It when you drop over there of an evening. But for the sake of the people who dont know Pat well enough to be dropping in on him, Pm glad hes given us a chance to spin that yarn here in this column. his life preserver, ecora wtuta matUf frwa the kidneys eometlmm tag sot set as Nature ova Impurities that,!" poboa the eyetea pad W body machinery. may e mre Saritaut haadach. Fishing Trawler Came to Rescue. By that time an Irish fishing six-ma- n WmKIS Y FRANKFORT DISTRllfilfS MD-1- 0 ttICORFOMTID-MIT- - Helloyoueverybody: go to see Patrick out-eld- six-ma- A BLEND Of STAAIBHT Off Kinsale Head Was Passenger on the Lusitania. Every Man a Hero ATTINGLYs HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI Maybe you've already got a hunch what this story la going to bg about Maybe that mention of Kinsale Head has struck a responsive chord in your memory. Then again, maybe it hasnt Its been more than 20 years now, and few people remember that the Old Head of Kinsale was the scene of the greatest of marine disasters,' the sinking of the Lusitania. The tiny mule mascot of the Army football team is a gift from Ecuadors minister, to Washington . . . Charley Keller, Yankee rookie from Newark, is hailed as a A of this condensed second Joe Dt Maggio TTT'MilIard ccrea-sCam triple-threhazards of football. Surveys show White. Tulanes that many football Injuries result back, is shot put and discus from the simple fact that In a pile champion of the Southeastern conof 14 men, some one has to be at ference . . . Pop Warner, Temple the bottom. Fewer linemen reduced coach, was called the Texas Steer in his playing days at Cornell . . . this major hazard. Also for the sake of safety, Epler Helen Jacobs will lecture On tennis added one rule to regulation foot- at the San Francisco world's fair ball The man who receives the . . . Wh'zzer White says his first ball from the center must pass it to three professional games gave him a teammate, either with a back- - more bumps and bruises than he ward, lateral, or forward pass, be- suffered in his entire college career . . . Santa Clara has won 21 out of fore crossing the line of scrimmage This slowed up the offense enough 22 football games since Buck Shaw became head coach two years ago to reduce much of the effect of bruise . . . The record for stolen line ing plunges. in the International league is bases When the game opened up, the of112, made in 1887 by Mike Slattery, fense had a shade too much advanwill probably never be broken, and tage. so Eplor handicapped the to present theft frequency. team in possession of the ball by according 6 Western Newspaper Union. requiring an advance of 15 yards instead of the regulation 10, in four successive downs. Surveys show that more Injuries occur near the goal lines where players of both sides get desperate than in midfield. To remedy this situation, Epler widened the goal posts to 25 feet, made them at least 20 feet in height, lowered the cross bar to 9 feet, and awarded a pre-- 1 miuin for goal kicks. A after touchdown nets two points If made successfully by kicking, only one point if made from scrimmage. This encourages kicking in place of scrimmage when a learn nears the goal line. ,T. Arriving at the PQ The P or personality quotient is determined by the subjects answer ADVENTURERS1 CIUB ht Safer Game Styles Fashions change rapidly. Judged by the teJt of passing timeL eachjs grotesque in turn. What makes each tion. CODE NO. Fastest Sport When large I Ton M Raa'a RtU. jetiJ sii Irieude lor Tbry have a Mtmmwj "2, b ftoogh, jtuwn 008 kbn to tak w pc rwr Eds tan li ud den Evei tat too. Mi thcnpi o ord, tame Like lemons. Lodes contain a factor that helps contribute toyoor alkaline reserve. 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