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Show THE BULLETIN. H'NGHAM. UTAH GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Jour: Unud him W WNU Smta GULF STREAM ATTACK WASHINGTON. This column if as crazy as ot least nine out of ten of the world shaking schemes that come in my mail daily. But one out of a thousand does have a little merit. For example, once a gent wrole me that ordinary chicken wire could stop a tank. I thought that was goofy, but my college mate. General Wesson, now chief of ord-nance, wrote me that the letter presented a real idea. Well, this is my brainstorm. So many people pull them on me, I ough' to be entitled to at least one. Ever since I was a kid I have been told that the Gulf Stream is a sort of hot water radiator system that is held away from most of our eastern coast by a cold wall of Arc-tic water. It is out there just the same, from 40 to 200 miles to sea-ward. You can actually see It and know it from the encircling warmth when you enter it. It veers across the Atlantic ocean and Is partly responsible for the mild, warm climate of the south coast of England and also of Spain, France, Ireland and Scotland. If it could be deflected up our own and the Canadian coasts it might give them the climate of the Riviera and put most of Mr. Hitler's conquests on ice. The Gulf Stream itself is not very great, but it carries a lot of tropical water with it at least on the sur-face. It goes through a narrow pas-sage between the Bahamas and Florida. Could any kind of engi-neering works there divert its flow? Exactly what makes the Gulf Stream act the way it does is not quite certain the rotation of the earth the configuration of the ocean floor prevailing winds and a lot of other unknown quantities are in the equation. The engineering of hydrodynam-ics, water in motion, is largely em-pirical, which means that it is gov-erned by no predictable mathemati-cal formula. The way water flows through a faucet or what happens when you stick a dyke out into an ocean current has to be determined by experiment No hydraulic engi-neer is wise enough to say with ab-- , solute assurance either that the Gulf Stream could, or could not, be di-verted in along our Atlantic coast and away from Mr. Hitler's Europe. The only dependable way to find out is to make a miniature model of the Atlantic ocean and play with the water in it. As a practical mat-ter, that is impossible. But there have been many well-inform-speculations on this possi-bility. Nobody ever wanted or dared to go very far with them be-cause, in spite of our winter and rough weather, we were getting along well enough, and it was un-thinkable to meditate on turning South Europe into a Labrador by a few clever engineering works off the Florida coast. It may not be so unthinkable to-morrow if our interventionists are correct, Mr. Hitler may soon have converted his cradle of our civiliza-fin- n into nn ahnmination and threat- - en us with a similar fate. He may have seized the British navy and enough French, British, Dutch, Dan-ish, Swedish, Norwegian and Bel-gian building capacity to make it hopeless for us to compete. Since he hesitates at no methods of de-struction, however devastating, why should we? If this particular method is, by any chance, remotely available, it would never have to be used. Even Herr Hitler could not risk the glacia-tio- n ol half a continent As I re-rea- d what I have written, it seems too grotesque to submit, and yet I have heard competent engi-neers toying with this Jules Vernes fantasy. It certainly is not impo sible. In today's frantic search t weapons that may be used against us, I wonder what a commission of expert hydraulic engineers would say of this one for our defense. May-be they would just say: "Page Or-son Welles!" SELECTIVE DRAFT To beat dictators, democracies have got to show the power to see as clearly and efficiently and be as willing to serve and sacrifice any of their potential enemies. A case in point is the new selec-tive service bill. Fully 90 per cent of our people are ardently in favor of "adequate defense." There is a difference of opinion about just what that means, but most people know that it means a very large navy, a great increase in our army, large reserves of trained men and moun-tains of new equipment. I have heard few people who were unwilling to accept the judgment of our military and naval experts as to type, numbers and quantities need-ed. Thus far, therefore, democracy U working as well as any government. But. when it goes to conscriptivc methods for raising that army, tne welkin rings with every sort of coi-fusio- n of counsel that defeats democ-racy or drives it to dictatorship. There are several provisions of the service bill that I think I can prove wrong in principle, but in the main the bill is necessary and sufficient. Failure to enact it promptly may lead to something much worse. One objection is that we can ret rely on volunteering to get more than a million men. Willkie's Home Town Prepares for Big Gala Day . ' ,.w.v '- -" r H" 7 jHW i Vsr " ; 11 kill - v' x'MfAfi fit'' : i J J&l m 'nl'iiT1 imum ' Citizens of Elwood, Ind., are sprucing up the town In preparation for an Invasion of 300,000 visitors whet Wendell L. Willkie formally accepts the Republican nomination for President, on August 17. Willkie wi! make two speeches, one from the steps of the Elwood high school and the other at the park. Above, left, 1 shown the house In which Willkie was born, below, Mr. and Mrs. Willkie and right, the high school. auu iw mnuiii iuiiuim iai i i - . itflt mum WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK I I By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features WNU Service. I NEW YORK. J. B. Priestly and U. S. A. got along nicely together until his play "Time and the Conways," began to make trouble in 1937. In 'Voice of England thisplayiMr. Tahea Jab at Our Priestly went Radio Comment en metaphysi-cal and con-jured time Into fourth dimentional unreality. Perhaps because they had long felt the urgency and reality of a newspaper deadline, the Ameri-can dramatic critics didn't quite get it and scored the play as just so-s- o and maybe not even that. Mr. Priestly said they were rude and boorish about it and challenged not only their time sense, but their sense of propriety and their fitness for their jobs. That must have gone deeply under Mr. Priestly's skin, since, as the "Voice of England" at a moment when time, at any rate seems to be real, he takes a short-wav- e, short Jab at radio commentators In this country. He thinks that "people who are not prepared to fight anything, anywhere" should mind their manners and not belittle others who can and will fight. While that may not necessarily make "Time and the Conways" a good play, it reveals Mr. Priestly, and no doubt England, as ready to meet all comers, and that seems all to the good. This reporter, having once talked with Mr. Priestly, can testify that he has a nice smile. While his esti-mate of our present or potential belligerency may have been some-what tactless, in his novels and magazine articles he has shown much more sound discernment of the American scene than the writ-ings of certain other visiting Brit-ons, who kiss and run and there-after engage in long-distan- smear-ing. He, at any rate, said his say while he was here. Mr. Priestly, 46 years old, took honors in literature and history at Cambridge, went to London from his native Yorkshire and found the lit-erary ladder just an escalator. His novel, "The Good Companions," was his first big success. This read-er thought there was deep insight in his "Midnight in the Desert," written after his stay in Arizona, with his family. In his routine short-wav- e address, he stresses the common cultural ties of England and America, without being oily about it and has seemed to this hear-er an effective special pleader. But he does seem to look on our critics as alien parachute-jumper- s, or even something less admirable. THE professor who pieces out the from a single bone has a distinct advantage over Interpret-ers of world events. Nobody can dispute him. Jap War Minister This writer Bears a Feather has just fin-O- n His Shoulder lshed readin a magazine article of 1934 about Lieut. Gen. Eiki Tojo of Japan, in which it is made clear that he is typical of the head-strong army caste, sure to destroy Itself, and that quickly. But here today is General Tojo named war minister in the new army cabinet which seems bent on de-stroying anybody or anything rather than itself. In the short view, at least, the dinosaurs of totalitarian-ism are subject to laboratory obse-rvationbut only in the short view, close to a deadline. Little Is known about General Tojo in this country, but avail-able data Indicate that his rise to power will not be reassuring to those who look for peaceful, pleasant solutions of world dis-cord. His betes nolr are the U. S. A. and Russia. Like Pericles of Greece, he ad-vanced himself by kicking up war scares. He agrees with the doc-trine of Adolf Hitler, expounded In "Mein Kampf," that all alliances are push-over- s and that the only tough and durable nation is the one that stands alone. He is smart, hard-boile- resourceful and con-temptuous of theories, sentiments, and negotiations. He is of an un-reconstructed feudal family, and has been in the army since his early youth. Stubby, bespectacled little Yo-su- Matsuoka, Japan's new foreign minister, is cut out of the same cloth. At the Univer-sity of Oregon, he was an easy conformist in superficial mat-ters, picking up sports-pag- e Idi-om and playing poker cleverly never caught bluffing. After he led Japan's contemptuous walk-out from the League of Nations in 1933 he made no further ges-tures toward Occidentalism. They call him Japan's Clive of India, signalizing his long Indus-trial outreach on the mainland. THERE could be X you another footbS slightest doubt tenance of Bo Mc Hoosier of Indiana "It won't belongs the conversation, ' "won't. iniimo game, ta York. And just be,!; the canto color, of intercollegiate "This sho' over the map," CcJ In his Texas-Kentuc-ery section Is Mt powerful teams, ruck Fordham and Princeton --Ohio State, Michim and Notre Dame k pretty near all of 'em i Tulane, Duke, TenneS(( and others. "The Southwest! I ever, headed by Tea, and Southern Methodli the way to the West Nebraska, Missouri, a few more. The W be headed by Sonthen and Washington, but others almost as tool "About Indiana? Wi' speed this time. That's been shy. We'll be b season." Twenty Years It has been 20 yean Bo came on to Haraj Centre college team aci country. That Kentuckl McMillin, Weaver and 5 three of the best K named McMillin and I Uncle Charlie Moras, tirement at his home in Ky., was Centre's coat! Charlie knew more fa ) BO McMIU of football. We played gether and against ea Nashville, and I can rather play with him him. Bo still grins when V time at Geneva when 1 va's president, "I juste these boys from h around," one of them be by the name of Cal Hul 4, displacement 240 pom er than most backs. 1 era when Cornell beat 0, a game during which penalized only sometti yards. A week later outfit beat Harvard. "That Cal Hubbard team ad near a whole tells you. Still a Favorite Bo McMillin is still ball's favorite sons, no i he happens to be. Bo' smart coach butbigUJ, his players, or, as He "My po' little Indian" The only time I " upset was the dayC Georgia Tech. W game Bill Fincher, made his addres. "You're a great p&l are 30,000 out hereto" play. Ifeelwftl2 cause you are there very taUr utes." Unfortunately for ecy came true. "I'd certainly game between ' State," Bo said. Ohio 9 is strong, but have great team. Don Scott, I. ontj players I ev J he is a sparkplug there's a grea 'oo B j he Isn't the only About Michigan? has Tom Harmon start There's another the greats." I ran into yojl J Yale, grandson founded St. And r i real pioneer t ol lately pres.Jcn Yale :, ing Cornell this tej J don't expect 0 glad weareplagsu! 0u can learn f of Sports- - LongCampaign Tests Greatness Of Armstrong By ROBERT McSHANE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) YOUR next argument as to the greatest fighter of' all time, pound for pound, take a quick look at the record of Hammering Henry Arm-strong, one of the most tireless fight-ing machines of boxing history. At one time Henry held three world boxing titles. It's a bit in-volved, even now, but this is the general idea. Holder of the feather-weight, lightweight and welter-weight titles, Armstrong won the first crown when he knocked out Pe-te- y Sarron. To fight as a feather-weight a man must weigh 127 pounds or under. He made the weight all right, and after the laur-els were his, he tore into a few addi-tional steaks to put on weight. Then he proceeded to whip Barney Ross for the welterweight title. These matters taken care of, he bought himself a new robe to wear In the ring. On the back was em-blazoned, "Henry Armstrong-featherwe- ight champion, welter- - HENRY ARMSTRONG weight champion." Between the two he left space for the lightweight part of it, a seemingly premature prognostication. But Henry proved to be an admirable forecaster, for not long afterwards he licked Lou Ambers and won the lightweight crown. Heart of a Heavyweight Armstrong throws more leather than any other puncher in the ring. Often he sacrifices quality for quan-tity, which means that he tosses at least three punches to his opponent's one. He has moved at that wind-mill pace for the past 10 years, and according to doctors, his heart is as big, in actual physical di-mensions, as that of a heavyweight. Unquestionably Henry is one of the ring marvels of ail time. "Su-perhuman" is one of the words used most often to describe the great Negro fighter. "Tireless" and "ter-rific" are others. But the legend of superman was flattened long ago. No fighter is impervious to punish-ment. Nor can Henry go on for-ever at the pace he set for himself long ago. The long years of campaigning have taken quite a lot out of Arm-strong. His recent fight with Lew Jenkins, the Cinderella man, proved that. Though he administered a terrible beating to the lanky, hungry-- looking Texan, Henry was more sluggish than usual, and his punches lacked some of their old-tim- e snap. But never forget that Henry Is still king of the welterweights. The fighter who removes that crown from his brow will have earned It. He has fought the cream of the crop in fact, the cream of three crops and has proved Just a lit-tle better than the best of his corn- - peuuon. The Same Old Finish Lew Jenkins wasn't expected to be a set-u- p for the dusky mitt thrower. And for the first two rounds it looked like the fight was going against Henry, who never was a particularly fast starter. But the end was the same or even a little more definite than usual Complete-ly dazed, Jenkins wasn't able to an-swer the bell for the seventh round. Interesting were the comments made by boxine authorities the nrt day. One of the leading press asso-ciation writers stated that "Arm-strong took everything Jenkina dished out and waded in with a two-hand- ed attack that would have bro-ken through a stone wall. Henry is one of the greatest of all time." Most experts agree that Arm-strong is quite a ways past bis peak, but all of them agree that his name belongs on any list of all-tim- e truly great battlers. A few old timers might claim that he d be easy for the great fighters of the past, but at any reasonable we.ght-s- ay 135 pounds-Hamme- r-ing Henry deserves a unanimous vote for top ranking. Sport Shorts While Jack Dcmpsey was busting up that wrestler in Atlanta one night recently. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Tun-ne- y were among the social lights ap- plauding Lily Pons in Ne 6 C0lhns of the Philadel phia Athletics stole six bases In one formL ?6VOre holds rk for bases during one nning hjch hfi frame J a hgaamPePpdlayeind the ninth way back 'Liquorless Night Club' at W.C.T.U. Convention r-r- LiffiiinrMimw'tt & rj 11 1 mLai fci'Vtf Mieut i vf Iff Z.AJi&X-- , M- -i"! Members of Youth's Temperance council will attend a "liquorless night club" as one of the attraction: of the annual convention of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union which opened at Chicago, Au gust 7, to continue for the rest of the week. Milk and soft drinks will be served as evidence of the increasing trend among young people toward temperance. In inset at left is shown Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national pres Ident of the W. C. T. U. and at right is pictured Frances Willard, its founder. Trotters Get Ready for Race Classic Outstanding harness horses of America will run In the historic Ham-blctoni- Stake at Goshen, N. Y., on August 14. Biggest race of its kind in the United States, the event annually attracts thousands of lovers of trotting races. Above Is pictured a typical scene at the famous track. Scores of champions have been crowned here. 66th Milestone f , s v :'Ak X ' ft j - ntilrilMiinniiliiyiiilllliiHiHniMi il Congratulations on his sixty-sixt- h birthday will be in order for former President Herbert Hoover on August 10. Mr. Hoover will observe the milestone at his home at Palo Alto, Calif. He was born at Long Branch! Iowa. Eagles' Conclave - ' fa. than,., M,.rn , x " " Hot Competition in Soap Box Derby fit I 3; ' SSJ 7f--- - nk! -- o Piloting homemade cars costing not more than $10, hundreds of boys from the ages of 11 to 15 will compete for prizes at the AU American and j International Soap Box Derby at Akron, Ohio, August II. The grand prize is a four-ye- ar college scholarship to one of America's leading iiversi- - ties for the lad who comes In first at the finals. |