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Show THE BULLETIN. IHMiHAM. UTAH For Freedom of the Seven Seas fclM1 llMl ail -- " ' II nil Ml III II HUM " .11 If 1 V IMcVrk ,t Midshipmen of the United States Naval academy, Annapolis, Md., pass In review (right) during presenta-tion of the colors ceremony. Graduation time takes on added significance with the expansion of our navy. In-set: Miss Fay Ann Albrecht of Columbus, Wis., presents colors to Midshipman William Heroneumas, of Madi-son, Wla. At right, beside girl, la Bear Admiral Russell Wilson, commandant of the naval academy. MILITARY HIGHW.? MEXICO TO PA"3 THE PRESIDENT! Kress for $20,000,000 of building, mJ the Panama canal Of Intended a, , Anf.ear Kxmi, sayin. k. ..7V planning an auto the northern border , through to Colombia t three months the, tempting that trip Z gressed as far J ragua. Following, an occassional short &, s can be found. th ress ranging from mile. . day for ft tempt to travel throuski American jungles. They may be able to e to the Canal after .noth four months, but it d they can go from thee to bian border. That is the country Indians and few white ever penetrated It for u The Indians do not Uki the whites. An acquaintance of K ago, Captain Fitzmorrii, soldier of fortune, a few white men accepts-Sa- Bias Indians. He made a blood member d and lived with them for of years following the ti last World war. Fitzmorris fought (or when his native country big or little, In any p: world. If it was not at hunted up wars In other a possible. When he coti; one in which he could p he would go to the San I try and live with the t. wore the Victoria cross, bars, earned, of course, ia ice of England. It 'is what I learned fro: Fitzmorris of the San Bk that causes me to questic: ity of the intrepid young make their way through Colombian border. LONG REACn OF MAD) TOUCHES FISHING TOI SOME 25 YEARS AGO few pleasant days in the I foundland fishing village c tia, located at the bead of bay on the southeast cea fog enshrouded island, h est way, it was an attract: consisting of some 12 to white cottages, with the blue trimmings, a Melhoi and a small store spec:; ship chandler's supplies, north and west of the vili was but the unbroken wild stunted timber, valuable pulp wood. Today the little village a tia is gone. Its white and tages and its little church en victims to the war pre of the United States. ' stood, this nation is today buildings that will house simple fisher folk, but to and men of an American n tion to aid in the protect;: world against the Mad Europe. GOVERNMENT ALSO Df IF BY 'EXECUTIVE 0BD WE FEEL a bit sorry for pie of any nation from an announcement of "f by decree." We think of other country moving towf tatorship, another peopled liberties. We thank God in that boat There is not much "government by dec "government by executive A violation of an execut' can send one to jail as qjt certainly as a violation and to a considerable o Americans are governed W tive orders." President Rooseveit or," authority, the heads of 100 departments or burea- - issued "executive orders erage of much more than day for more than the F years. The vast majority " can citizens know nothinl these orders are. They bated in congress. They reported in the w? yers cannot keep up witnw are laws that cannot the law books. Theyv subjects as there are e ders." For example: Should J grocery man sell a " , pounds of sugar to any w and fail to report that s name of the customer, be c tary of the treasury, to jaU and heavily to . tion of an executive J; eery men, entirely ignor a law, have paid fine terms in jail for violate order. If "government by " , stepping stone to dlCta" t is "government by der"? JE5 WMuPhilipr W AUTOMOBILIXG AND THE BLOOD TEST "Pull over to the curb!" "What for?" "For 8 ai ?T7i,fS "But I ain't TiWBifcX?C bleedin', officer!" "YU WILL lrSi SOC" This may be a fciMTV tvoical Sunday afternoon dialogue in heavy auto traffic this summer. Already one state, New York, has passed a law making the alcoholic content of the blood stream admissible court evi-dence in the case of alleged drunken driving. If your blood shows of 1 per cent alcohol, you're pickled. And if it holds more than but less than you're not any too sober. It has always been the custom to judge whether an automobile driver was soused or sober by his behavior, breath and monologue after the mo-ment of impact. But it is going to be a matter for a laboratory from now on. Once you just called a cop if some driver returning from a wedding tried to go between your front head-lights, mistaking your flivver for two bicycles. Now you call a chem-ist Little week-en- d travels, Little drops of gore, Tell which driver's half stewed And which driver's more. The cry after each sound of rip-ping fenders will be, "Quick, officer, the needle!" And arrangements may have to be made to have a chemical laboratory at every pump-ing station. Auto and the Blood Test. You may be able to tell how many times a man has been arrested for drunken driving by the needle marks on his arm. Can't you picture the scene: You are tooling along the highway when some fellow tourist tears off your left fender. You leap out, fire in your eye and demand, "Whatzam-mattah- ? Doncha know how to drive?" He falls out of his car, zig-zags unsteadily to your side and re-marks, "Lisshen, whoosha think thinkya talking to whaffor and what-z- a big idea comin' oush side street sixty miles sour and nosh give no warning, huh?" Now up to 1941 you could just draw back and say. "Why, you're drunk, mister!" But not any more. You've got to get a needle and make sure! But where? Have you a needle on you? Probably not. So you yell for a cop. Here is where the catch comes in. The blood test to be legal must be taken within two hours of the collision. What chance have you of locating a cop these days inside of two hours? Of course, if the drunk is a good fellow and wants to be fair, he will give you a little of his blood volun-tarily. If he is the right type auto-is- t, he will carry a needle on him, jab his arm and let you have a few drops with a polite "Here's my blood. Just call me up and if I'm drunk, let me know. We can adjust things." If you, too, are a good sport you will let him have a few drops of your blood, too. Fair is fair. INDEX TO IMPORTANCE Around the city's big hotels, A man is always gaged. Not by what he does or sells, But by the times he's paged. Merrill Chilcote. HUMAN TOUCH Wherever I see a sign "Fresh Paint," I gotta feel if it is or ain't. --Lee A. Cavalier. The house of representatives re-cently killed a bill to have a black- out test in Washington. It figured too many people down there are in the dark as it is. NO ERRORS To market, to market For U. S. Bonds new; It makes me feel loyal' And pretty smart, tool' "Some day our patience will be ex- - I've held, since a lad That women are sappy: And they cry when they're happy. Richard Armour. Those Golden Years WHEN Whirlaway added the of Mioland to his Derby and Preakness wins, when Bob Fel-ler picked up his eighth win in ten stints and Joe Louis went ambling along, someone brought up this point "How many stars have we around todnv who can compare with the Golden Age of 1919 r A and 1920? How many now on top could fit into the picture from 20 years ago?" In the Golden Age of sport we had Man o' War repre-senting the turf. We had Jack Dempsey on top in the ring. We had Babe Ruth ruling baseball. We had Bobby Jones Grantiand Rice and Walter Hagen for golf, not over-looking Gene Sarazen. And there was Bill Tilden starting a brilliant sweep against the best in the world. Man o' War Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey Bobby Jones Walter Hagen Bill Tilden I'm afraid 1941 can't quite equal that cluster. The current year can give you Whirlaway Joe Louis Bob Feller Don Budge with no outstanding golfer among so many good ones. The Drop in Color The big drop from the Golden Age to 1941 comes in the matter of color. Those stars of the Golden Age not only had unusual ability, but they had a flare and a flame that traveled around the world. They caught and held the public eye. They drew crowds that had no interest in the sport they featured. Thousands, who had no Interest In a horse race, came out to see Man l i if r'f 1 v, t; fit. .. o' war run. More thousands, who had only lean Interest In baseball or the fight game, came to aee Babe Ruth swing his bat and Jack Demp-sey throw' his left hook. The same thing happened to Bobby Jones In golf. The same was true of Bill Tilden in ten-nis. Man o' War All these I've mentioned caught the Imagination of millions. Of many millions. In this machine age there is al-most no touch of colorful tinting. They knew all about Man o' War, Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth and Bob-by Jones on the other side of the world. Also Hagen and Tilden. The most colorful champion we have in sport today is Whirlaway, a horse. He wins and he loses he may be a trifle on the goofy side, but he has caught the attention of the country. He can run like the wind and he can run any distance. Ilia main qualities are speed and stamina. What else can you ask for? . Once he started to move he was 20 lengths better than anything In the Derby field. Under the same conditions he was able to pick up and add 25 lengths on King Cole In the Preak-ness. Since Man o War quit as a three-year-ol- d, a short career, there is a chance that Whirlaway may go on to be the top horse of all time. And few horses have carried as much human interest color, no mat-ter what their careers. The long, g Whirlaway tail alone is something to look at and talk about. Some of the Others As great a pitcher as Bob Feller is, the first citizen of Van Meter, Iowa, has nothing like the color of a Babe Ruth or a Dizzy Dean. This is too much to ask. Don Budge Is a star tennis player, but in the matter of color he Isn't a Bill Tilden. Joe Louis lacks the flare or Jack Dempsey when the Manassa Mauler was at his peak. There are many more fine golfers today than there were 20 years ago. Thev are nlavina" better golf. But in looking through the list not even a Lick telescope could discover an-other Bobby Jones or another Wal-ter Hagen on the colorful side. All this doesn't mean that sport, along the road of skill and high-cla- ss performance, has taken any flop in the last two decades. Prac-tically every performance that can be timed or measured has been bro-ken more than a few times in re-cent years. There has been a gen-eral average improvement. But the crowd appeal on the human side isn't the same. What Is Color? Some deep bass voice may be heard booming these words at this spot, "Just what is color?" It is a difficult word to explain. It Is a combination of high-clas- s ability, plus certain other qualities that cause talk qualities that catch and hold the attention of the crowds. The color exuded by Babe Ruth and Bobby Jones was of different brands entirely different but both had it in copious quantities. The same was true of Jack Dempsey and Bill Tilden. fjllllllllllll'llllllllllllllll.'llllllllllllliu I Speaking o 1 By ROBERT McSHANE S Iom4 by Western Ntwtpopw Union nlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli: TOE LOUIS, the busiest fighter in " the history of heavyweight com-petition, looked like the Louis of old when ho disposed of Buddy Baer re-cently In the seventeenth defense of his title. The Brown Bomber has lost little of his sharpness and ferocity. Though a few of his past fights haven't been np to standard, the champ la there with everything neo-cssa- ry when the chips are down. Buddy was a badly beaten young man when he stumbled down the ring stepa and up the aisle leading to his dressing room. But for all that, he vindicated the fighting heart of the Baers. It wai five years ago September 24, 1935 that Max, Buddy's older brother, went down to complete and ignoble defeat at the hands of Louis. Maxie didn't really try he was beaten long before he stepped into the ring. It was like pitting a playful but scared puppy against a lean and hungry wolf. Buddy gave the fight everything he bad. He knocked Louis through the ropes onto the apron of the ring r .'- - I ' ' Buddy Baer grins happily as he diu playt the picture of Joe Louis hanging out of the ring in the first round of their bout. during the first round. Blood was flowing from the champ's left eye when the fifth round ended. Then, early in the sixth round, one of Louis' short rights caught Baer flush on the jaw. Buddy reeled around and fell flat on his face in the middle of the ring. It looked like the fight was over. But Buddy was on his feet at the count of nine. Louis connected with his right again and Buddy took another count of nine. When he struggled to his feet it was obvious that he was whipped but it was just as obvious that his courage was unshaken. Foul or Not? As he instinctively tried to ward off the champ's blows, the bell end-ed the round. A second later the finishing blow landed on Buddy's jaw, knocking him cold. Referee Arthur Donovan claims the blow landed exactly when the bell rang, ending the round. News-paper men at the ringside claim the blow landed a second or two after the bell rang. That controversy, like the Demp-sey long-cou- episode, never will be decided. Of course, it won't be-come as important a part of fisticuff history, but it will. furnish ammuni-tion for endless arguments. In this writer's opinion the argu-ment is a bit silly. Obviously Baer was beaten. He had absorbed pun- - ishment almost to the saturation point And then there's the cham-pion's record in the ring. No breath of scandal has touched Louis. He fights with a fairness that no one questions. Certainly he is out to win, but always according to the sportsmen's code. Buddy, unlike Max, was cheered at the end of the fight. He had done bis best and showed no fear of the dusky champion. In other words, he put up a much better fight than did his older brother. Brother Buddy isn't the type. He isn't a salesman. But be had some-thing that Max lacked a fighting heart. He went down, but he went down scrapping to the last. During his 17 title defenses Louis has met better fighters than Buddy. Also, he has met worse. Some of the men who climbed Into the ring with Joe were strictly second-rater- s, built up to championship proportions by plenty of ballyhoo. They figured a beating was inevitable, but their share of the gate receipts convinced them the beating was well worth while. Buddy didn't figure things that way. He believed he had a good chance to take the crown and was determined to do his best. Sport Shorts C A total of 5,433,791 persons at-tended American league baseball games in 1940. National league at-tendance totaled 4,748,100. Detroit, with an attendance of 1,112,693, topped both leagues in turnstile numbers. C Twenty no-h- it games have been pitched in the major leagues since 1920. C. Only three aces have been scored in the nine years of competition in New York's annual Hole-in-On- e golf tournament. Haile Selassie Stages 'Comeback' rl--CT W ffl iSP ' ft, !tf Officers and Ethiopian patriots are shown above listening to a speech by Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia, who, with British has once more entered Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, from which he was chased five years ago by the Italians. Inset: This road sign is also a sign of victory, for it shows British Imperial troops in Addis Ababa. Boche-Buste- r' l is , m England is proud of its biggest gun, pictured here, said to be the largest caliber gun in the world. This Is the first picture showing the huge railway gun being fired. Play Is Curing Bomb-Shocke- d Children W,W..WXOfrXK w.v.v.V.w. i in i tiuiii WWW ILtfJUIIuauuiJJlijmiJUMllL Ii ppr; jei In HI ; 1 The power of play Is credited with helping these children recover from the effects of bomb shock. At left, children are climbing in the "Jungle gym" at the Anna, Freud nursery center in Hempstead, England, maintained by the foster parents plan for war children. Right: British children enjoying the adventures of Mickey Mouse. Army's Latest - , Lieut. R. O. Norton, public rela-tion- s officer at Edgewood, Md., L wearin army'. t!lt " mMk --Web offer. mM vantages over the older type. New Type Army Troop Carrier fcfffrj?. y?Chfsr tXHsn First new personnel carrier built for the army by the Diamond T Motor Car company In Chicago. The truck, which will carry 13 men, la shown as It was Inspected by company and army officials. L. to R In vehicle, Brig. Gen. N. F. Ramsay, Fred A. Preston, C. A. Tilt, presi-dent of Diamond T, and Col. Donald Armstrong. |