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Show BINGHAM. UTAn J THE BULLETIN. Simple, Isn't It? I Turkey. foTf About 1 per cent J year. I February, turif era intended to increa! 8 Per cent lut we,thjl and labor shortage. cl crop. A Siamese cook, arrested for va-cancy at Los Angeles, gave his Lleieusszuieusszei Hariz-zissteiz- name as Williminiddssteizzi and proudly translated it as "Great Mountains Wonderful Strength Lion of the Sea." . o Geography Makes Modern History in Huge Mediterranean Theater of War (Specially prepared for Western Nswspaptr t nlon by the National Ceofraphie Society.) OF THE many regions that stretch behind the world's shift-ing battle lines, none is more fantastic than those of the. Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East (the "Middle East" in British geography). In size alone this theater of war, and preparations for , 4 ' 1 ' ' x iM J f V-U- I; ' . j ! 1 - t 1 --JT JPU ' $ A L - , vl'V: 'vr" " IV J i "? r 1 the Mohammedan war, is spectacular. It covers a broad band of land and sea that extends from somewhere in the vicinity of bomb-shake-n Malta to the shores of the Black and Caspian seas. Within this general area, four significant campaigns al-ready have been fought with varying degrees of intensity and bloodshed: The battles for Greece, Libya, Syria and Iraq plus a fifth struggle near by for East Africa, which resulted in the return of the No man may wear his street shoes Into a Mosque, house of worship. Since Moslems (or Mohammedans) dominate the ine-at- er of war in North Africa, scenes like this are customary. the Chaldees, birthplace of Abra-ham. For Bible students these are the Holy Lands: Land of Goshen, where the Israelites toiled; Mount Sinai of the Ten Commandments; Jerusalem, Jericho, and the River Jordan. The world's three major religions, Judaism, Christianity and Moham-medanism, were born in this corner of the globe. In Jerusalem are found three shrines, sacred to the adherents of these faiths the Wail-ing Wall, where reverent Jews come to pray and lament, the Christian Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and And Now Ethiopian King of Kings to his ancient throne. Today, the east Mediterranean and the adjacent land-bridg- e of na-tions, which links the continents of Europe, Africa, and Asia, form a gigantic chessboard, made up of in-dependent and occupied countries, of opposing colonics and island bases. It includes Axis-occupi- Greece and Libya; British-hel- d Egypt; technically at peace while bombs fall on her cities and battles rage in her deserts; and uneasy, neutral Turkey. It holds the approaches to the Egyp-tian and Russian fronts by way of the Red sea and the Persian gulf, through Iran and Iraq, across the Levant States (Syria), Trans-Jorda- n and Palestine. The mere list of place names on the routes of men and materials bound for the battle lines indicates the international complications and physical difficulties. To these far-flun- g regions, the war has brought innumerable problems for techni-cians and diplomats and ceaseless activity. New motor roads appear and airports spring up in desert wastes. New harbor facilities are built in old ports, toward which con-voys of troopships, oil tankers, freighters and vessels of all kinds, race under the constant threat of the enemy in the air. Key Points Manned. At key points throughout the east-ern Mediterranean and beyond, the armies of fighting men and ma-chines have gathered. Axis forces may operate from Italian Taranto, Greek Piraeus, Libyan Tobruch; from the German-capture- d island of Crete; and Italy's Pantelleria and Dodecanese Islands. On their side, the United Nations stand at such vital spots as Suez and the Nile delta, in the Egyptian deserts and on the island of Cyprus; at Syrian and Palestine ports and inland oil fields of Iran and Iraq. On a map you can see at a glance how geography dictates the war's movements. You understand why the British base of Malta, athwart the Axis life line to Libya and the Egyptian front and less than 60 miles from Italian Sirilly Is the most bombed spot on earth: How the oil pipe lines from the Caspian fuel the Russian fleet on the Black sea: How variations in the earth's surface, from the sunburnt Qattara Depression of Egypt to the eternally snow-cappe- d mountains of the So viet Caucasus, determine the meth-ods and tools of warfare. The Mediterranean and Near East areas, however, are extraordinary for more reasons than contrasting battlegrounds and governments. There, where East meets West, to-day's machine-ag- e conflict is being played out against a background as old as the recorded history of man. Where New Meets Old. 'Multi-motore- d bombers fly over the traditional Garden of Eden, now largely desert, and over the City of Babylon, seat of empires that rose and waned thousands of years be-fore Christ Flying boats land on the Sea of Galilee, and tanks rum-ble along routes that once were car-avan trails such as the Three Wise Men followed to Bethlehem. Brit-ish and American engineers set up anti-aircra- ft positions, and plan un-derground storage tanks for gaso-line and water for their winged forces near ancient routes followed by the Children of Israel and the foot-wear- y armies of Alexander and the Crusaders. They install mod-ern machinery for unloading mass war shipments in Persian Gulf ports of Arabian Nights romance, such as Sindbad the Sailor knew. The Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx rise within sight of busy, crowded Cairo on the Nile, British base and capital of Egypt. In the bazaars of Damascus (probably the earth's oldest inhabited city), American soldiers from Boston or St. Louis, Oregon or Florida, may bargain for candied fruits, or sit around smoking braziers where Or-iental chefs fan spitted mutton with a chicken wing, or serve such clab-bered milk of sheep or goat as has been a mainstay in the Levantine diet for thousands of years. Cradle of Civilization. This part of the world has often been called the "Cradle of Western Civilization." From the regions of the eastern Mediterranean spread the alphabet, knowledge of mathe-matics, medicine, politics, and phi-losophy; lessons in sculpture, ar-chitecture and drama. There primi-tive wheels turned on their bulky axles, and men learned to use sails and save their arms from the heavy pull of galley oars. Near the Euphrates in what was Mesopotamia (now Iraq) is Ur of And now, what? Fast action and stirring deeds on the African front have replaced the earlier talk about that continent's possible strategic importance. But the prophets, aware that anything can happen (and often does), are maintaining a Sphinx-lik- e silence. Here an In-dian soldier is shown chatting with an Egyptian. the Moslem Mosque of Omar. Leg-endary site where Jesus was bur-ied, the Church of the Holy Sepul-chre, is shared by most of the world's Christian religions, includ-ing the Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Armenian, Jacobite, and Coptic. Moslem World in Allied Sphere. The eastern-Mediterranea- n and Near-Ea- st areas within the wartime sphere of the United Nations are, however, predominantly Moslem countries. There is found the world's heaviest concentration of the follow-ers of Mohammed, whose ways may seem strange to many a British Tommy and Anzac, many an Amer-ican Doughboy, engineer, or tech-nician meeting them for the first time. The Moslem disciple liven accord-ing to dogmatic religious rules, in-cluding prayer, fasting, and the holy pilgrimage, especially to Mecca. Pork and wine are strictly forbid-den. During Ramadam, the sacred ninth month of the Moslem calen-dar, good Mohammedans observe a rigid fast between dawn and dark, when they neither cat nor c!"ink, or engage in any activity that might come under the head of p'easure or comfort, from smoking to smelling perfume or flowers. From Egypt to Iran, this is Arab country, where the flapping bur-noos- e, the mosque, and the "ship of the desert" the camel-a- re still typical features of the scenery. Yet, more and more, long before the outbreak of the war. the "Change- less East," was changing fast under the impact of Westernized industry and Western habits. Radios, electricity, movies and cafes were becoming in the cities of the Near East along with modernistic apartment houses, smart shops and night clubs On the streets, girls In modern dress, with bobbed hair and high heels-a- nd the vote-w- ere the oldtime replacine shrouded, veiled worn-a- n. Across the desert, fleets of mo- tor buses streaked; regular peace-tim- e airplane service was main tamed; and on new railway lines trains drawn by locomo! lives were equipped with Pullman sleepers. Blanket. PL More than 56,000 blal of discarded papcr have been rubricated l to Britain. Grow Hedges on Farm A variety of hedjre plants may be grown on farms for fences and protective screens, as well as for ornamental purposes. THE top word and the most word and what should be the rarest word in the language is the word "best." This is a word that covers more ground than we can follow, using an airplane and a telescope. By this we mean such phrases as "the best team" "the best passer" "the best receiver" "tho best kicker" "the best line" referring here to football. For example, some days ago Major Jablonski, one of the leading Army coaches, rated Angelo Bertelll of Notre Dame as "the best passer." Lou Little naturally countered with Paul Governall of Columbia. rtlh nr fin ft DOSS. crs. But what about Frankie Sinkwich of Georgia or Eddie Prokop of Georgia Tech? Or Glenn Dobbs of Tulsa? They all work un-der different condi-tions, with varying support, through widely different schedules. Of the lot, Cover- - Lou Little " nail, Columbia's able sniper, has the hardest handicap to overcome so far as team protection Is concerned. Most of the better passers work on teams that also can run. Columbia's only scoring passage Is through the air, and ev-ery opponent knows it. The Top Man Football's three best passers are Sammy Baugh, Cecil Isbell and Sid Luckman. You can have them in any order so long as Baugh is No. 1. Taking a crack at our earlier angle about the word "best," foot-ball haa never known a pass receiv-er close to Don Hutson. Hutson has grappling hooks for banda and the speed of a cheetah. He also has a deceptive method of faking the en-emy oat of position. Baugh is an amazing athlete. "I weighed 180 pounds when I played with Texas Christian several years ago," he told me recently. "I still weigh exactly 180 pounds. I don't figure I've changed as much as two pounds In any recent year." I can recall few athletes who have kept In such fine physical shape for so long a time. Back to the Collegians How many would run far and pass well against such teams as Minne-sota, Alabama,; Wisconsin, Ohio State, Georgia, Georgia Tech or Notre Dame? For example, Wisconsin has two of the star backs of the year, but look at that Badger schedule! It included Notre Dame, Missouri, Great Lakes, Purdue, Marquette, Northwestern, Ohio State, Iowa and Minnesota. How many new records could the best of backs set up against this opposition? The caliber and quality of oppos-ing teams too often la overlooked. And there ta many a potential star who la also overlooked on some of the poorer teams, with which he has little chance to operate. Hard to Compare It takes no starry-eye- d expert to announce that Boston College and Alabama have two of the country's greatest lines, including depth of material. They can't be stormed along the ground just too many big, fast men. But it is harder to compare such passers as Governall, Sinkwich, Prokop, Dobbs and others. Gover-nall hasn't anything like the man-power support the others have. There is a large difference between working or playing with Columbia and playing with Georgia or Notre Dame. A good running game can be a big help to any passing game. Aft-er all, Baugh has Dick Todd, and yon may recall the time he had Cliff Battles two of the best run-ners working with a great passer. And Luckman has had some of the greatest backs In football history with the Chicago Bears Standlee, McAfee, Osmanskl, Nolting and oth-ers. Sinkwich has his own running ability to call on in addition to other fast backs. Bertelll has all the run-ning help he needs. The best single exhibition I've seen this year came from Sinkwich In his march against Alabama's strong defense some-thing like 11 passes completed out of 13 tossed in that final period. Apparently no set of adverse fig-ures ever can prove to the racing bettor that he is up against a bit more than he can digest. For example, the case of Whirl-awa- y serves our point. Long Tail is the biggest money winner of all time. He has had an amazing rec-ord of running and winning. let, if someone had bet $5 on Whirlaway in every race of his career, said bettor would be behind financially. The answer is that Whirly has lost too many races when he was an odds-o- n choice. After his first few races there was little chance to make any money backing Man o' War. There were times when he was or Vto-8- 0. Ipbaklng Released by Western Newspaper Union. WHEN a fighting football team the University of Illinois defeated Minnesota's Golden Go-phers early this year, the pre-seaso- n estimates were thrown in the waste-baske- t. When twice-defeate- d Pur-due edged out Northwestern, the wastebasket was burned. Not since the late 1920s had the Midwest witnessed such a close race for the Western conference title. Teams found out that to be named a favorite In the press was the virtu-al kiss or death. Wisconsin knocked Ohio State out of the Big Nine lead and the natlon'a number one place. The latter spot was promptly filled by Georgia. Iowa then proceeded to topple Wisconsin from the pinna-cle and from among the country's leading undefeated teams while In-diana rose to peak form to drop favored Minnesota. The renascence of Illinois as a power In Midwest football came as an exceedingly pleasant surprise to followers of Big Nine football for-tunes. Oldtimers re-member wistfully the glory days of the Fighting Illini. Particularly do they remember the his-toric battles of the Illinois Ohio State series. , Li --SVK i Probably the two Bob Zuppke most famous games of the series were played in 1919 and 1920. In 1919 at Columbus the Illini were on their own line with the score 8 against them and only a few minutes left, when Larry Wal-qul- st completed three passes to Chuck Carney. end, which put the ball on the Buckeye 20. Bob Fletcher place-kicke- d a field goal to give the Illini victory and the championship by a 9--7 score. A Close One Next year, on the Illinois field, the game wss still acoreless as the pis-tol sounded but Workman's pass to "Track" Meyera was In the air for him to catch nd score the touch-dow- n that won the game (and cham-pionship) for the Buckeyes. Illinois first became acquainted with the immortal Chic Harley in 1916. The Illini were leading 6-- 0 in the closing minutes of play when Harley broke free for a touchdown, calmly changed his shoe and place-kicke-d a goal. - Illinois' victory in 1934 uncovered Bob Zuppke'a famous "flying tra-peze." In this delightful little num. ber everyone on the field except the officials and the Waterboys handled the ball. Illinois deserved to win by the final 14-1- 3 score. Red Grange played an Important part as a sophomore In the 1923 game. He scored one touchdown that made np the majority of the 9 points by which the Illini claimed victory. He waa Injured and did not play In 1924 when Illinola won. In 1925 Grange played his last col-lege game at Columbus, contribut-ing more than bis share to a 14-- 9 victory. Boxing Industry Takes It on Chin The boxing industry, less con-cerned than other sports by the transportation problem, is faced with a talent loss that likely will result in the doom of all big scale opera-tions. While exact figures are not avail-able, It Is probable that on a per capita basis boxing has sent more men Into the armed services than any other branch of athletics. The National Boxing association recently summarized the induction or enlistment of 18 champions and contenders. Hundreds of unranked fighters are in the army or navy and increasing numbers are seeking work in war plants. Four world champions are in the service Sergt. Joe Louis, heavy-weight; Gus Lesnevich, light heavy-weight; Tony Zale, middleweight; and Fred Cochrane, welterweight. Contenders in service represent five of the eight standard divisions: The Roster Heavyweight, Corp. Billy Conn, Melio Bettina and Pat Valentino; light heavyweight, Billy Soose, Tom-my Tucker and Ken Overlin; mid-dleweight, George Abrams, Tony Martin, .Coley Welsh, Fred Apostoli and Steve Belloise; welterweight, Marty Servo and Jackie Wilson; featherweight, Mike Raffa. Also gone is Bob Pastor, heavyweight who retired to join the marines. Boxing has been in rather a bad way for the past several years. Joe Louis outranked his heavyweight contemporaries so far that interest in that division reached an all-tim- e low. Most of the other divisions were in a chaotic condition. Now, with the army and navy drawing from its ranks, the cauli-flower industry must adjust itself to a changed situation. The wild, unhampered promotion of past big time bouts is doomed for the dura-tion. Fights will be less of a specta-cle, with little-knuw- n brawlers earn-ing no more than ham md rggs. 100,000,(100 Shades a " Richard HunteTofthi standards, Washington! developed an instrumen jaw-breaki- name of P Tristimulum Colorimeter distinguish aprroximatii 000 shades of coori on itesimal few of which a ible to the human eye and "invisible" distincti. value in certain operat dustry. j Catch as Catch Can The world hasn't beaten a path-way to the door of Private William J. Monroe at Camp Roberts, Cali-fornia. But there Is still a possi-bility. The private built a flytrap at the request of his mess sergeant, and placed it in the drill yard near the mess hall. Two hours elapsed before anyone checked it to see how it was operating. The trap worked, but not as originally planned. In-stead of flies the trap contained two mice! Direct Quotes Before a cop-o- p can b "building a better mous needs to know a lot of ' the type of mouse trap , wants. Tom G. 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Charles Heck, Morn who has shod 300,000 hoft last 50 years, announce! that the blacksmithing I improving this year, fk again using horses inste' tors, he said. I Old Meets Neiv on the African Front Wigtown wotWW wm.m :.?.-. v.v. v -- Tr,i AFv ri , ' am W-t s r V 1 1 ' I L This picture tells its own story! The camel (sometimes humorously called the "ship of the desert") is valuable in desert warfare. But for combat and for swift maneuvers the airplane is still indispensable. Moslems Spiritual Rulers of No. Africa Founded by Mohammed, the faith which bears his name dates its era from the year 622, when Mohammed and his disciples were driven from Mecca to Medina by Arabs who sup-ported the traditional form of idol-atry, against which Mohammed preached. Later, however, Moham-med's power increased sufficiently to enable him and his followers to retake Mecca two years before his death in 632. Mecca has remained the capital of the Moslem world. The Moslem religion has no sacra-ments and neither altars nor images. The mosques, the Moslem house of worship, contain a pulpit and a reading desk, but no chairs. A niche indicates the direc-tion of Mecca, toward which a Mo-hammedan must turn when he prays. The mosques are always open and are used as general meet-ing places. They even serve as quarters for travelers and as school-rooms for the local teachers. |