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Show UINTAH RASIN RECORD fOH Subterranean Wonders Hidden for Ages Discovered by Guides at Mammoth Cave GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON By JOHN MAC DONALD U.Phillipr Washington, D. C. JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON The President WASHINGTON. should not be displeased at the departure of Democrats. The whole political scene has changed to a sort of game of prisoners base. The (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) MODERN DAY POLITICIANS WERE FRAMING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IF and THE eyes ofthescientists nation over Washington, D. C. JAPANS RAMPAGE U. S. intelligence reports from the Far East stated late in July that Japan would join the Axis officially and actively just as soon as Hitler launches his big blitzkrieg on Brit- have been turned toward Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. (The scene is Independence hall, For there the National Park Philadelphia. The time is 1776 but service has just announced the delegates are modern politig the discovery of a cians.) nominated a First Delegate (reading the pro- network of galleries, avenues, colfar-flun- Republicans have Democrat of such characteristic posed Declaration aloud) When in or that Thomas Jefferson would recthe course of hu- i ognize him as a kindred spirit long man events it before he could ever distinguish Mr. becomes necesRoosevelt from Alexander Hamilton. sary . . . Mr. Roosevelt has held up to the Second Delyeomen, as Prince of Wales, Mr. egate I dont Wallace, a Republican by heredity like that word and long conviction, who says that necessary. Its he turned his political coat only bepretty strong. cause the Republicans hadnt done First Delegate (continuing) For one people to dissolve the political enough for agriculture. There is more in both Deihocratic bonds which and Republican principle than is have connected them with dreamt of in that philosophy. and to asIn the Presidents cabinet there sume among the are only two indubitable Democrats Hull and Farley. There are now powers of the the sepa four Republicans Stimson, Knox, earth, j rate and equal Wallace and Ickes two Socialists or station to which something Hopkins and Perkins the laws of nature and of natures and a couple of no pronounced poGod entitle them, a decent respect litical parentage, Jackson and to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes As for Jeffersonian policy decenstates which impel them to the separatralization of government government by laws, not tion . . . rights Third Delegate We ought to think men no personalized power rotation in office federal economy as that over more carefully. If we go little government as is consistent into all the causes it may get us with keeping men from injuring Into trouble. Fourth Delegate This calls for each other Mr. Roosevelt opposes caution. Why cant we put out some every one. Whether Mr. Willkie will be re- feelers first to see what the public wants. Its all pretty risky, if you garded as a reborn Republican or Democrat nominated on the Repub: ask me. First Delegate (resuming) We lican ticket, his whole philosophy is as faithfully Jeffersonian as Mr. hold these truths to be that all men are created equal . . . Roosevelts is the reverse of that Second Delegate Is it expedient In the traditional American political sense it is far more difficult to go that far at this moment? and Take it (Cries of No to see how a Democrat could supto easy!) wonder than Mr. Roosevelt, port how he could fail to support Mr. First Delegate (continuing) That Willkie. Alexander Hamilton didnt think they are endowed by their creator with certain inmen could be trusted to govern alienable rights; themselves except through a that among beneficent despotism. these are life, Mr. Jefferson asked, if man couldn't liberty and the govern himself had he found angels pursuit of hapto govern him? Plainly Mr. Roosepiness . . . velt concurs with Hamilton and has (Cries of Wait practically uttered and surely acted a minute, We the belief that both the annointed want and rush us Don't peace, governor and his successor have into war.) been found. Third Delegate I think we should Many sincerely believe and faith- cut the life and liberty stuff and just fully follow the President on this old let it go that we are entitled to the Federalist theory, which is their pursuit of happiness. It dont sound right. But that hardly justifies the so defiant. President in castigating as "party Delegate (resuming) That renegades all those Democrats who to First secure these rights, governments dont. If it were not for the bondage of are instituted among men, deriving the South to bitter memories of the their just powers from the consent Civil war, no southern Democrat of the governed; that, whenever any could possibly follow Mr. Roosevelt. form of government becomes deof structive He has taken away from them these ends, it is convenprotection of the the right of the tion rule, ruined the export market people to alter for their principal crop, cotton, negor to abolish it. lected to recognize the discrimination against them in freight rates (Cries of That and their competitive necessity for means war! No differentials in wage rates. Let well enough great political power since Thaddeus alone and Its capitalistic Stevens has been more unsympaplot!) thetic toward their problems. Southern Democratic leaders who Fourth Delegate I move to drop have opposed this have been conword "abolish." Its too strong. that Great feudalists. demned as Sixth Delegate But we propose to Garas such southern congressmen abolish the British rule, do we not? ner, Robinson, Barkley, Byrnes, Fourth Delegate Yes, but w Clark, both Bankheads, Rayburn, should be more tactful. Doughton and Marvin Jones have simply had to swallow it in the First Delegate (resuming) But name of party loyalty, but it was so brutally inconsiderate that it could' when a long train of abuses and have left little room for love and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reloyalty. These great political shifts take duce them under absolute despot. . . time to reveal themselves but it be- - ism Fifth Delegate Thats too strong. comes clearer daily that Mr. RooseHow do we know the people will velt heads a new party which Harry support such as the Hopkins once described 1 language. We iV'vOVJ have-not- s against the haves. n' draw 1 shouid I this up all over TWADDLE fl again and be a v This campaign will be no pillow Little vague. OthReed was punfight. we MAY erwise ished by the President for taking a have to fight. walk by being called a sweat-shoThe President paddled Johnny Hane First Delegate (reaching the end) and Lew Douglas by saying they We, therefore solemnly publish think more of dollars than humanity. and declare that the united colonies of excited about I can't get any are, and of right ought to be, free this. Jim Reed isn't a sweat-shop- . and independent states; that they An attractive lady in Kansas City are absolved from all allegiance to the Nellie idea the British crown and that named Donnelly got all politof applying automobile quantity ical connections between them and tine to manufacmethods production the State of Great Britain is, and ture of womens dresses. This made to be, totally dissolved. ought them at low cost and high excelWe are for peace (Cries of No! lence. Accordingly, she began to and This will drag us prosperity!" make so much money that a gang into war! etc.) kidnaped her. Jim was her lawyer. Fifth Delegate Ill not sign it. I This made him so mad that he must sound out my constituents first swore to resew her without a ranSixth Delegate I move we put the som and to jail her abductors. This whole thing over until AFTER A he duly did and his righteous wrath GALLUP TOLL! carried him over into romance. He (Curtain with a dull thud.) married the gal. But that doesnt make Jim a THINGS 1 SHOULD LIKE TO SEE sweat-shoI studied that case perIN THE MOUES A newsstand keeper who actually sonally in NRA. Wages and working conditions in Nellies factories keeps his mouth shut instead of yellwere by so far the best in that ining extra at the top of his lungs. dustry that her code competitors Dorothy Lamour unaccompanied principal complaint was that she wus setting standards too high for by a hurricane, typhoon, tornado, flood or any other version of the them to equal. Wind and the Ram in Your Hair. I.ew Douglas and Johnny Hane care about dollars, something may A meeting between hero and and who doesnt. But neither of In which the heroine doesn't heroine them has been nearly as successful drop her handkerchief, her eyes or In corralling dollars as the Presinumber. dent's cwn family after, but never her telephone MARTIN RAGAWAY. btlore, his election In 1932. an-oth- f Mor-gentha- u. self-evide- two-thir- & Yw' More of Marty and Her Bag of Trick, ain. streams, subterranean gardens and geological forma- tions that for countless centuries have lain hidden from the eyes of man. The new discovery is said by park authorities to be the greatest find since Mammoth Cave itself was first entered by pioneers in 1799. News of the first penetration of the hidden labyrinth of limestone caverns has been a closely guarded secret, known only by a few cave guides and officials and park service employees. On October 10, 1938, four excited cave explorers, exhausted and coated with mud, came up out .of the depths to report that they had just gone through Purgatory to Paradise. The four discoverers were Carl Hanson, his son Pete, Leo Hunt and his cousin, Claude Hunt. Their find developed out of an expedition up the black recesses of Roaring river under Lee Ridge to catch eyeless fish for display. Years of Search. For 20 years explorers had sought in vain to get beneath Lee Ridge. Because of its proximity to Mammoth Cave ridge and its similarity in size and topography, they were certain that beneath it lay a network of channels like those of Mammoth cave. Years of disappointment in this search made t the guides cautious about announcing their find. They confided first only in Martin L. Charlet, cave manager, a veteran of nearly 40 years experience at Mammoth cave. Their complete story, revealed for the first time, is an amazing account of hardship, of underground rivers which threatened to trap them hundreds of feet underground, of tortuous crawling, stooping and twisting through narrow crevices, past gaping pits, into towering domes and finally of stumbling into a yawning cavern which stretches for miles into a new world never before trod by the footsteps of man. Since then park and cave officials and engineers have followed the twisting trail of the four explorers. For months every main avenue in the new discovery has been explored, surveyed and checked by these men, who today verify it as the greatest find at Mammoth cave in 140 years. & y 4 V Above, a view of one of the passageways in the vast, newly discovered network of caverns, domes, avenues and pits found by guides at Mammoth Cave, Ky. Said to be the greatest find since the discovery of the cave itself in 1799, this subterranean wonderland has lain for ages unseen by man. Below, across a crystal and sand carpet hitherto untrodden by man, the explorer plods his way, figuratively leaving his footsteps on the Sands of Time While public showing of the new treasures unearthed by the discovery will be a comparatively simple matter, it has been determined to make haste slowly in preparing the new scenic wonderland for sightseers eyes, according to R. Taylor Hoskins, acting superintendent of Mammoth Cave National park. It will probably be about two years before the work is completed. This, he says, is because of the intricate engineering problems and development of protective devices. Before a single shot of dynamite was fired at the site of the proposed work entrance, observations were made above and below the surface to detect any possibility of disturbance to any of the delicate formations from concussion. The construction of trails, entrances, exits, placement of lights, and scores of other matters that contribute to the safety and comfort of visitors must require care and patience, Mr. Hoskins says. Gypsum Paradise. The guides who made the discovery consider its outstanding spectacle to be the great profusion of gypsum found in one section which they have called Paradise, and another which they identify a3 Little Paradise. Here for hundreds of feet one may walk through a garden of gypsum flowers that decorate walls, ceiling and floor. Great bursts of Auto Accident, Expert Reveals car The BRAKES shrieked. then left dizzily, the pavement to hurtle against a tree. Not long before, its driver had taken a few drinks and stepped out into the rain to race for home, lie was driving all right until he failed to make that curve. cident again, said Mr. Baker. The circumstances darkness, rain, intoxication and a curve are familiar. It is possible, even probable, that the darkness, rain, the curve or the cars speed had as much to do with the, accident as the drivers degree of intoxication. If we keep statistics on that same curve for a year, we may find that 20 drivers missed it and piled up in accidents, and that of the 20, only 4 had been drinking. So we put a safety engineer to work on the curve. He studies all the statistics on the accidents that have occurred. Perhaps the curve will be straightened out a little, or obstructions to the view may be removed. Possibly the engineer finds that the crown in the surface around the curve gives a reverse bank which throws into a ditch any car taking the curve at more than 45 miles per hour on the right half of the road. This is changed. Newspaper stories of the accident would probably attribute the drivers death tQ "driving while drunk. But enforcement officials and highway engineers who must work to prevent such accidents regret that the explanation isnt as simple as that. "An automobile accident is a lot like a winning poker hand or a losing one, according to J. Stan-nar- d Baker, traffic safety consultant with the National Safety council. Suppose youre sitting in a game and draw a straight flush. You win The following year we find that the pot Did any one card contribute more to the winning hand than only five drivers missed the curve, the rest? Of course not. It took all and that four of these had been drinking. The number of drivers five cards to complete the flush. The same test should be applied who cant negotiate it safely has to a traffic accident, Baker ex- been reduced to a minimum to those who are grossly careless or Darkness, rain, intoxicaplained. tion, a curve if any one of these quite drunk. It is true," said Mr. Baker, that circumstances had not been present, the accident probably would not one factor alone seldom causes an accident. But it is equally true that have happened. This fundamental analysis will be if any single factor which contribone of those presented by Baker in utes to motor vehicle accidents can the course he is teaching at the be called a joker or wild card in our National Institute for Traffic Safety poker game analogy, it is intoxicaTraining at the University of Ten- tion. The car and the highway can be nessee in Knoxville from August 12 to 24. The course will be one of improved for the safety of sober nine to be taught at the institute by drivers, but when a joker or wild card is introduced in the form of a the nations outstanding traffic authorities. drinking driver, things can go wrong Now lets look at our sanrple ac anywhere any time. Coming Events on Americas Calendar The 150th anniversary of the first trip of Old Glory around the world will be marked on August 10. The ship Columbia which sailed from Boston September 30, 1787, flew the American flag. It completed a voyage around the world in 17S0. C. The General Council of the ConC. gregational and Christian Churches of the United States will be held in Berkeley, Calif., from August 13 to August 20. && s ,f t v .( Single Factor Seldom Causes By EDWARD DUNCAN ,ft C. friendship will be promoted at the International Girl Scout Camp at Camp Andree, N. Y from August 14 to 28. Girl Scouts from all parts of North and South America will attend the camp. C. Seven thousand Indians of the Southwest will gather at Gallup, N. M , August 14 (or a three-daceremonial in which religious dances, chants, games, handicrafts and arts will be exemplified. ,t ? ; gypsum simulating every floral pattern found in nature hang in clusters of buds and rosettes, some with petals 18 inches long. Mineral deposits on some of the crystalline gypsum blend into a variety of pastel colors to create the effect of a fairy castle built of candy. One grotto covered with formations like rock candy, pink honeycomb, peppermint stick and taffy, particularly appealed to the discoverers who call it the Candy Kitchen. Snowball Formation. In one section of the cave white ovals of gypsum cling to the walls like hundreds of snowballs, while others, forced off by the thrust of new crystals forming underneath, clutter the cave floor. Flaked gypsum covers part of the cave like a white sheet. Here and there it has peeled back into folds and curves, creating patterns of every description. Thin banded lines in a variety of colors are etched into the white background. Crystal gypsum on the floor of the cave, mixed with red . sand, makes the walk-wasparkle like a jeweled carpet Sand banks for hundreds of feet are covered with crusted gypsum like a snow drift caked by a hard wind. Below this crust is the pepper-resand. Three Main Avenues. Three main avenues constitute the major part of the newly found cave network, though dozens of smaller channels spread in every direction. Largest of the three, which the guides call simply Big avenue, extends fully 7,000 feet. It is unequaled by anything previously known, being comparable only to the great Broadway avenue of Mammoth cave, except that it i3 more evenly cut, in straighter lines, and holds to its vast more dimensions consistently. Throughout its length it maintains an average width of 50 feet and a height of 30 to 35 feet Walls and ceiling for hundreds of feet in Big avenue are glistening white with flaked gypsum or studded with gypsum crystals. Frequently the ceiling has been water-cu- t in the shape of great capitol rotundas or cones; the domes, limestone fringed with creamy-whit- e a web-lik- e tracery in red, rust, black or brown. Fossil avenue, so called by guides because masses of crustaceans are imbedded in its walls, is distinctive for the uniformity of its carving and coloring. It runs for nearly a mile at right angles to Big avenue. A thin layer of sparkling gypsum gives this limestone channel the apd tunnel. pearance of a Another link in the network is tentatively called Onyx" avenue because of its stalactite and stalagmite formations. Although only about 1,200 feet long, 12 feet high, and 15 feet long, it is in many respects the most beautiful cave In the new discovery. Here at one time swirling currents of water etched out intricate limepatterns in the chalk-whit- e stone to leave an endless array of grotesque contorted shapes. The bed of a pond here is encrusted with simulated cave pearls. Of the travertine formations, the most unusual is a solid rimstone wall, 42 feet long and 4 feet high. It forms a natural dam across one large avenue where for centuries it had held back an underground lake. The former water bed rises up in a series of crystallized terraces to another strange formation called the Mushroom, though it looks more like an inverted cocktail glass of red gigantic proportions. A five-fostalagtite stem hangs 15 feet from a dome. Near the floor the stem U attached to a bowl-lik- e stalagmite, 40 feet in circumference one of the largest of its kind anywhere. The area below the bowl was once filled with water, and now the entire stone mass seems suspended y d fan-wi- white-washe- from the ceiling. Meanwhile, the Japanese military have adopted the policy of causing as many incidents as possible to annoy the United States and to fan them up in the Japanese press. There is no question in the minds of U. S. officials that this strategy is being worked out in with Hitler and has two ends in view: First, to keep the American public worried about the Far East, so that the White House cannot become too absorbed with the plight of England during Hitlers blitzkrieg. Second, to convince the Japanese public that there is nothing to fear from the United States. The more the Japanese press attacks this country, and the more American citizens are beaten up in Shanghai, the more the Japanese public will be led to believe that the United States Is powerless to send armed forces across the Pacific. Then when this conviction is thoroughly embedded, the military will make their long contemplated drive into the Dutch East Indies. Note Looking further ahead, U. S. observers in the Orient also are convinced that when Hitler gets ready for his drive into South America, Japan will strike toward the Pacific coast of South America simultaneously. Russia-U- . S. Allies? All of this demonstrates the fact that the United States, if it is not to be left entirely alone in the Pacific, must move quickly and must secure friends. To date, there are only two potential friends worth worrying about. No. 1 is Great Britain, which in fact is America's first line of defense, and which might be saved if the United States gave major aid. No. 2 is Russia, the natural enemy of Japan, whom Japan fear3 more than she fears the United between Russia States. A hook-uand the United States could hamstring Japan, keep her powerless in the North Pacific. That is why the Roosevelt-Bullistatement denouncing Russia is so important. Bullitt was the naan who persuaded Roosevelt p tt G. O. P. MUTTERS Privately, some of the G. O. P. farm leaders in congress are most enthusiastic about the prominence of Iowas Gov. George Wilson in Wendell Willkies agricultural campaign. The Capitol Hill group, who have devoted a lot of time and effort to preaching Republican doctrine in the grain belt, and who carried the ball on the farm plank, dont consider Governor Wilson to be any farm spokesman. However, it is possible that the real cause of the politicos' muttering is the fact that Wilson stole a march on them, by climbing aboard the Willkie bandwagon while they Willkie as a were still serious contender. By RUTH WYETH SPEAR$ to tc LAST week Martyouthelped of her c The Martmdale fam buffet. were in a dither when she tc them that she was going to furn. a combination guest and sevii room with the mirror and , legs of the old buffet; plus.soi spools, a butter tub, unbl some old rags and oth odds and ends. ( The rags were used for the ho. 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