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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM. UTA1I Chamberlain Gets Closeup of Front Line Warfare I v v- - r v . . v ' ; - 1 W , tr--V vv Y , rfs .... His umbrella discarded for the time being, Tremier Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain is shown Inspect-ing a camouflaged gun emplacement during his recent visit to the front lines In France. It was on this occa-- 1 sion that he replied to critics of the "boring" war with the sage remark that "it is better to be bored than bombed." The premier is equipped with boots and puttees, evidently prepared to rough it. General Johnson Jour: Uuu Fauna Jf WNV fcnto After Winter's Breathing Spell Look for Terrific Air Fighting . . . We Need National Defense Inquiry. By HUGH S. JOHNSON WASHINGTON.- - The experience of winter war in Finland does not indicate a likelihood of any imme-diate change from the present strange standstill war anywhere. Few great offensives have ever been begun in winter and few great bat-tles fought. The world Is almost sure to have a breathing spell, but the coming of spring threatens terrible things. I don't believe that Goering was bluffing in his New Year message. Nobody ought to prophesy, but how can the spring of 1940 be anything other than for the lit-tle handful of scoundrels at the head of the Nazi party and government? In a war purely of economic strangulation, they cannot possibly win. Furthermore, their gradual relative weakening and their con-stant Inaction makes less and less likely any kind of negotiated peace that, politically, they could afford to sign. The only thing that I can think of that will avert a terrible ordeal in the air no later than April is something that could happen within Germany to change its government. That there may be a popular up-rising against the Hitlcr-Gocrin- g gang I am told is most unlikely. But the life of no tyrant or even group of tyrants is ever secure. Assassination is not in the books as part of modern war methods. But when one single warped individ-ual holds over the head of the whole world so much misery, danger and death, who would question divine providence if something like that should happen to Adolf? WASHINGTON. I frequently do not agree with Oswald Garrison Vil-lar- d. I emphatically do not agree with many of the things said In his latest book, "Our Military Chaos." I can't support many of his con-clusions, but I have long supported his principal one which is that we need an impartial commission to look into the question of national defense. In summing up his own book, he says in the main, truly: "It has shown (1) that we have no defense policy whatever; (2) that all our ex-penditures bear no relation what-ever (?) to an established military program; (3) that we are asking the impossible of the army and navy since we do not tell what to defend or how or where to defend it; (4) that there can be no adequate de-fense policy set up until there is a decision as to what our foreign pol-icy is to be, until our objectives are defined; (5) that the primary de-fense problem for the United States is as to whether we are only to de-fend our shores or prepare again to fight abroad; (6) that, because of the failure to define what we shall to defend, our policies, notably in the Pacific, vary from year to year, almost from hour to hour; (7) that until that is settled we are adding to our vast expenditures without the slightest guarantee that those out-lays make for a saner or better de-fense . . .; (8) that there are grave faults in the organization of the war and navy departments and (9) that they fail to with each other; (10) that although no less than seven billions have been spent for defense since the fiscal year 1934-3- 5 the war department admits amazing shortage in supplies of fun-damental importance; (11) that there is no hope of balancing a nor-mal budget without putting a definite limit to the increase of army and navy expenditures now fast approxi-mating two billions of dollars, etc." There Is no room here to point out some of the inaccuracies, over-emphasis and conclusions, but in a general way, I strongly feel that the book does bring ample docu-mentation and authority to estab-lishing what he here says it proves. A commission inquiry is impera-tive. If it finds that this column and Mr. Villard's book are wrong, it will be a splendid vindication which I, for one, would welcome. If it finds that we are only partly right, the country ought to know it. General Marshall, chief of staff, has just said that in spite of these billions, our defense Is not 25 per cent effective. He charges it to the historians and he is right in his reasons, but there are other culprits. I would shudder to see a careful compilation of comparative unit costs per soldier or per ton of ship-ping as between our own and the armies and navies of all other na-tions. It would shock the country. It is no fault of army and navy officers. It is true that congress has not recently been niggardly, but there are plenty of reasons in congress and politics for this cock-eyed extravagance. It didn't make so much difference in former years that we paid more than was necessary for defense. We had the money and the need was less. That is no longer true. The worst disposition of this administrat-ion is to do things without comput-ing tneir cost. We are gatting to the end of that rope. Sportlight By Grantland Rice The Danger Zone . . . Pay for College Football Players De-bated . . . Reasonable Bounds And the Commercial Side. LOS ANGELES. In the active presence of some 400 famous football coaches and athletic directors from all over the map, I have been trying to get some group to answer one or two questions "Has football moved into the danger zone of proselyting and pay for athletes?" "Has the commercial side grown too Impor-tant?" Most of them tell you their uni-versities give a certain number of athletic scholarships and try to pro-vide jobs but nothing more. Yet it is a well-know- n fact that any number of universities or their ath-letic associations have from $10,000 to $15,000 to help roundup, corral and capture star high school talent from const to coast The pursuit of the elusive ball car-rier, the crack forward passer or the big linemen emerging from school play is the keenest I've ever seen. There Is another school of thought that believes the football player doesn't get nearly enough. They tell you he furnishes the battered body for the billion-dolla- r industry. I've found no coach who believes in paying any football player any form of salary. Yet in one way or another, I know many are paid. It is entirely too complicated for my limited brain. Maybe there isn't any real danger zone. But football is too great a game, it affects directly too many American kids, including the high schools, to move along unguarded. The count goes into the millions. One answer may be the different conferences. As it is now the Ivy league has gone into a covey of its own. It rarely leaves the fold. Try to slip some outsider into an Ivy league contest. The Big Ten has done about the same, outside of playing Notre Dame, and members of the Big Six. As one of the Ivy league coaches told me, "We have Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, Army and Navy. Syracuse and Colgate are O. K. Who else do we need? We can't play everybody." The Pacific conference and the Southwest are hanging together. They play most of their games among themselves. In spite of all this, I have found a strong feeling of distrust when it comes to the matter of proselyting and taking care of star players. In the last few weeks I've cov-ered several thousands of square miles through hot football territory. Today almost all territory is football hot. I've heard over 40 stories of high school stars offered board, lodging, scholarships, and a fairly substan-tial wage. I know part of this is bunk. I also know part of it is true. Almost every high school kid likes to boast of the offers he has had. Most of them are baloney. But not all of them. A kid likes to brag. I asked one veteran athletic di-rector just how much money he fig-ured colleges were putting out or giving away for football talent one way or another. "There are only about 100 colleges or universities," he said, "which can afford to meet the competition. Their funds range from $8,008 a year to $20,000 a year. My guess would be around $1,000,000. This isn't so much when you figure 40,000,000 peo-ple look at football each fall that football is easily a billion-dolla- r game for all concerned colleges, hotels, railroads, planes, tickets and so on." The main fault goes back to the colleges and the universities. The directing people are the ones who have turned football into a billion-dolla- r industry. They are the ones who have stood back of all the bowls and stadia. They are the respon-sible people. It is something border-ing on a crime to start blaming the coaches. "I'll give you one answer that will help some," a prominent athletic di-rector said. "Pass a rule that no team can play over two men who live over 300 miles away from the university they play for. Don't think we get fooled when we see teams with eight or ten players on the squad who come from 800 to 1,500 miles away. And there are plenty of these." I still think the main answer has to be on the scholastic or scholar-ship side. This is where the final segregating will take place. Who run our colleges and univer-sities? Presidents and boards of trustees or the football coaches and athletic directors? Most of the schedules today are money sched-ules. Why? Because too many uni-versities have built up expensive plants that must be payed for. Who pays for all this? The foot-ball players! The football players and the coaches. Teams are given schedules they nave no chance to handle on even .enns. I tpeakinx of Sports fining Year liadache to ng Industry ROBERT McSIIANE 'iNG, like world peace and the Louis Browns, is in a bad a4. it pulls itself together and it'O a new year, --.vived many a first class beat-in- g 1939, but is merely hold-Sow- n at present Recovery w, painful process, skillfully Ijd by many of the men who be nursing it carefully dur-- 5 period of recuperation. !raly alarming state of affairs fenced by the fact that Tony the battling barkcep, again ked No. 1 challenger for Joe . crown. A glance at the list onraging. Bob I'astor is sas No. 2, followed by Lou (Tommy Farr, and your old Maxle Baer. j'that i these boys didn't de-ei- r ranking. They did. The rging part is that no better ! have appeared on the scene tee them. year limped out with a ing scandal still unsettled .1 farewell to a year which 4w favorable developments, .rry Thomas fixed fight case nains on the books to haunt --commissioners and prizefight it ' v i j TONY GALENTO i. It should have been settled 'lately. Blame should have 'xed end punishment meted le the story was "hot." Then s would know that officials ''oing their part to keep the 'it a high plane. Dry Lingers id, a dark brown memory ' In the minds of those inter-- D the sport. The investiga-bee- n kicked around so long 's little more than a joke, t of the scandal are largely tin, i but the subconscious !y of another rotten deal lives 1 f itg promoters have helped Uves into their present predic-!- f They have arranged and (I matches which were mere--n- d rate exhibitions. ;trne that these fights bave .videly patronized. But a doesn't demand caviar, ?;man enthusiast Is lnterest-'li- s sport. He wants to see len pitted against each or a bas-oafch-against a big name, ers.should, and sooner or lat-- realize that their custom-l-a great deal about the Even the less ring-wis- e can te a poorly matched fight, ijrd C. Foster, National n secretary,' is none iusiastic at the beginning of year. However, he is heart-"orse- d in his statement that " one beneficial step has been The two-titl- e and three-titl- e ions have been eliminated id. I H be remembered that Ham-- . Henry Armstrong, during eld three titles at one time. i featherweight, lightweight, 'slterwcight champion of the I He relinquished his leather-ette, lost his lightweight title Ambers, and retains bis yeight championship. ' Title Rule !was as it should be. No fight-stl- d be allowed to hold more one crown. If Armstrong e logical welterweight cham-te- n it was unfair to the top-- ; contenders in the two other divisions for him t" be their f ag must put its house in the confidence and con-h- e patronage of fans. It is livable that the public wil ia to support the kind of a m to which it has been sub- - fof the past year. Second ;hters participating in ques--e matches have done much Z foxing into the gutter, e is a brighter side. Fighters )e Louis, Billy Conn and a iw more always do their best, less of their opposition. Bui e In the minority. housecleaning must come nd it will require the com-effort- s of fighters, managers. ;eri and ring officials to dc nigh job. anything less than a thorougl 1 b insufficient. led by Western Newspaper Union. I HOUSEHOLD Sf QUESTIONS To prevent gowns slipping; from wooden coathangers, cover th hangers with velvet. Tips of canned asparagus may be removed whole if the bottom in-stead of the top of can is opened. Give house plants an occasional feeding of a teaspoonful of bone meal dug into the earth in flower, pots. Give your cacti plants all the light possible during the winter. Keep in a cool place and in a dry atmosphere. When straining the pulp from liquid such as orange juice, if a piece of cheesecloth is placed in-side a strainer none of the pulp can go through. As chocolate burns easily, it is safest o melt it over hot water. Grape Juice With Grapefruit. Two tablespoons of grape juice added to a grapefruit after K has been cut gives a delicious fla-vor and a pretty color. . To remove feathers from ducks, first pick them dry. This leaves a down all over the skin. To re-move the down, wring out a large cloth in boiling water and wrap1 it around the duck for five min- - utes. Remove the cloth and the down can be wiped off easily withi a dry cloth. Crusty french rolls, cut diag-onally into slices a fourth of an inch thick, buttered and toasted, make a good salad accompani-ment, i Creamy Fudge. For a smooth-er and creamier fudge, add a tea--) spoon of cornstarch to each cup of sugar used in making it. I Civilian Planes Meet in All-Ameri- ca Air Maneuvers! The greatest aerial armada of privately owned planes ever seen in this or any other country concen-trated in Miami, Fla., recently to hold its annual air races. More than 1,500 civilian planes at-tended the meet. Winners Included Homer C. Rankin of St. Louis, left, who was awarded the trophy do-nated by Bernarr MacFadden, center, and Bobby Lupton of Detroit, right, whose precision stunting won for her the Gimbel air acrobatics trophy. On a Dollar Bill The design and inscriptions on1 our one dollar bill are taken from the reverse side of the Great Seal1 of the United States, adopted in June, 1782. The two Latin mottoes translated read "'He (God) favors, our undertakings" and "A new or-der of things." The pyramid Is an unfinished one, emblematic of the unfinishedi republic. Above is an all-seei-eye surrounded by light, to indi-cate the Diety. The other part of! the design shows an eagle holding an olive branch and 13 arrows. Business as Usual for Warren Billings Warren K. Billings, who served 23 years of a life sentence in Folsom prison in connection with the San Francisco Preparedness day bombing in 191G, is now running his own watch-repairin- g shop In San Francisco. Billings learned the profession in prison, where he says he worked on 10,000 watches owned by fellow prisoners and prison officials. Billings is pictured at his work bench, surrounded by tools presented him by friends, many of whom worked diligently to secure his release from Folsom. Tom Mooncy, convicted with Billings, was released from San Quentin after serving 22 years. I New War Minister f V ' "t I 'Civ 1 Conservative Stanley Oliver, above, was given a recent interim appointment as British war secre-tary supplanting youthful and dar-ing Leslie Hore-Bclish- a in the first major governmental shakeup of the present conflict. Oliver's appoint-ment aroused a storm of contro-versy. The appointment of Sir John Keith to replace Lord Harold Mac-Milla- n as minister of information was also announced. INDIGESTION SenMtiond Relief from Indigestion ind One Dot e ProTes It Tf tht flrit don or Uili pleaunt-Uitt- little klfk tablet dnaan't brim you the foiUat atid mart i oomplet relief you hive experienced .tend bottle back to u end let noUHUi MON KX BACK. ThU ; llill-u- i Ublet belpt the llumach dlgeet food. niixne (be eireta itoroich fluids bannleu and lete eat me oourlihUig fooda raa need. For bnrt-ur- n, tick headvh and uoeeU to often earned br exraea aiomaeb flnldi making yoti feei auur and ali all o?er JT7ST ONE DOSE ut Bell-t- prone iveedr relief. Km ererywber. Mi To Relieve Bronchitis Bronchitis, acute or chronic, Is an , Inflammatory condition of the mu-cous membranes lining the bronchial tubes. Creomulsion goes right to the seat of the trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm. Increase secretion and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, Inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell , you a bottle of Creomulsion with tha ; understanding that you are to lika the way it quickly allays the cougH or you are to have your money back, ' CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL v V v VCS ft I . i H S iiiiiiiiiiwyaffji 1 Hotel TEMPLE SQUARE B . Opposite Mormon Tsmpla S HIGHLY RECOMMENDED 1 Rates $1.50 to $3.00 I It's a mark of distinction to stop I at this beautiful hostelrv I ERNEST C. KOSSITEE, lies. I Within Walls The noblest deeds of heroism are done within walls, not before the public gaze. J. P. F. Richter.i Worthy Help Don't strike a man when he is down; yes; and help to keep from being thrown down. They're Lively IIere? V ,1 V V- ' i t I v : Lnr--T-- ?m ii ' "America Is the only country where the lively arts are alive," ac-cording to Marta Ley, European dancer, niece of the late Otto Kahiv who gleefully displays her first papers in New York. Service De Luxe by War Zone Waiters Steel-hatte- d German soldiers, serving as waiters, make their cautious way through the woods near the front line "somewhere In Germany" carrying rations for the garrison of an advanced outpost. The man In the rear is a guard, whose duty it is to protect the food. There is probably hot soup or stew in the tureens on the back of the "waiters." |