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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT. MOAB, ee --Speaking of Sports-, UTAH Tri - Cornered| Military Trai ning in Nation's Schools Increases Supply of Reserve Officers Fight Seen in WAU THEY SWING THROUGH JUNE }ASEBALL form still is somewhat muddled as the major league ams swing along. In the National \ gue, the Reds and the Dodgers e holding up, but the Cardinals, vy pennant choice in some secs , \ when the spring predictions » under way, lag so badly that "they are not already out of the » they are teetering on the verge. Re ES S In the American league the Yanes have come on but not rapidly ~ enough to fit in with the pre-season schedule that called for them to be away out in front by this time. Otherwise, the race in that league is in accord- ance with the dope, i with the Red Sox, Indians and Tigers up ahead and the second division held a . &erantland by Rice the White Senators, Sox, Athletics ks and Browns. The is towns, it seems, have had their siz, lurge and from now on not much likely to be heard from them. -$ne of the main surprises has TH en offered by the Giants who, aftay bad start, running. have moved up At the outset, Siants didn't look any into the better than "Sy did at the finish of the 1939 ‘"mpaign. But the return of Joe "more, the fine pitching of Carl Hub- -!] and the batting of Harry Dan- ~~ ig pulled them out of that early ason slough. ey still don't look as if they t sneak through and grab the ant. But they do loom as a eat to the Reds and Dodgers, ben whom the pennant seems te They can make a lot of trouble nt i those teams. vith ars-to 4 have win Unable-or so it themselves, they something does to say about win. > Reds and the Dodgers e Reds naturally are favored. ®@y moved back briskly from their apse against the ni@kees last fall, utgt little time takover the lead have played at ady gait most e way. Again year two of the d bo ni él st important fac- | in their play e been the pitth- ck tw of Bucky Walsi8 and the all- " ntiund work Bucky ber. of Bil] Walters Walters seems headed for i ason as brilliant as that which ad in 1939. Take Werber out of Red infield and it would sag so t hs wily the weight team down. or, tpn Dodgers of it would have drag exceeded the tim #ectations of Larry MacPhail and by dst met those of the Brooklyn » y 8 Larry said in the early spring eg didn't think the Dodgers would as good as they were last year, le the fans claimed the pennant. nut of course, they remain the exciting team in baseball. wi uick Comeback titlthe robustness of the Dodgers' gilt was emphasized by the manp* in which they threw off the efS of the loss of those two games he Giants on Memorial day. it, it must be remembered, was fe than just the loss of a doublefer. It was a bitter, humiliat- jae @nd total defeat suffered on the fe grounds at the hands of a hatet memy and with all the fans who wSIbDly could be packed into Eb- my field looking on. It was enough lave thrown them off their stride ygiitia couple of weeks at least, but te bounced right back from it as s #7 8 thoroughly game outfit could. [mice more Leo Durocher is demating his skill as manager as he *s the Dodgers past bumps # as that defeat by the Giants ne loss of Pee Wee Reese. The Klyn players-and this is one tir main sources of strength- he is the greatest manager he ame ever knew. I e that far with them nere is no can't go but I will manager in base- now who is doing a better job. ees on the Way ® Yankees, though they have a, may be on their way at last yet with the aracteristic 49n that smoothness that of them-but in a makes them still look fair bet to smash precedence in a fifth pennant in a row. ‘have got over their bewilderg> brought on by early season grcks, and are hitting again. In in Breuer-they have the best far either league. di have had days recently such as in g@ "Sually have at their peak. see Red Sox, holding #9 By ROBERT (Released first place, B0ing to be overhauled eas- #ven the Yankees know that. and, with Bob Feller swinging ® ®nd a fine second-base comlon in Mack and Boudreau, and "fo with a lot of power, are mous, too. The White Sox are "THINK Terry Knows for a minute His Players Manager Bill Terry is far from the most popular figure in baseball, but he is a canny pilot-one of the smartest in the business today. He would be one of the least surprised if the Giants captured the pennant. The Dodgers, a strong team with plenty of aggressiveness, became stronger with the recent acquisition of Joe Medwick and Curt Davis. Lippy Leo Durocher finally has the hitter he wanted-a hitter he can count on when runs are needed. From 1935 through 1937 Medwick hit .353, .351 and .374. He had a bad time the past three years in St. Louis, but is fig- § ured to become as solid as ever with Brooklyn. With Davis to help out with pitching and chores Medwick supply the to badly needed daily punch, the Dodgers are loadedfor Leo Durocher big game. The deal whereby Brooklyn acquired those two men also may help nail the pennant to the Ebbets Field flagpole. Residents of Brooklyn already see the pennant in the clutches of the Dodgers. And they won't stand for anything that might interfere with the reaching of that goal. Witness the near-riot when the Cardinals' Joe Bowman beaned Medwick recently. Even the police took part in, that fiasco. Civil war was averted, but narrowly. The Louis effect passing of Medwick from St. is not expected to have much upon the fortunes of the Carthere, unhappy was He dinals. wanting to play with the Dodgers. Soe, one of the last of the Gas Hotise Gang, didn't hold his popularity with teammates and with fans. Of course the race is far from St. Louis can't be counted out over. The passing of Medwick mereyet. ly completed a shakeup begun with the release of Manager Ray Blades. or not the Cardinals' Whether alter the standing they took two games just Union.) According to pre-season dope, the Giants have no reason for their rapid turnabout. Thousands of amateur and professional crystal gazers are casting baleful glances at their present standing. And why not? The Giants sagged badly last year and were scheduled to look even worse this year. Only a few die-hards, probably relatives who hoped for a future touch, picked them to finish in the first division. The Giants were a team of ‘‘ifs.'' If Carl Hubbell could come back the cause wasn't hopelessly lost. If Joe Moore and Mel Ott could charge in and really play baseball, why then things wouldn't be so bad. There were plenty of other "‘ifs'' on which success would depend - uncertain spots that might crack when the pressure was on. Carl Hubbell Look 'em over today. Hubbell, Moore and Ott came rushing back practically as good as ever. Hubbell won't win any pennants single-handed, but he's still the meal ticket, the fellow they can rely on when the chips are down. Ott has been doing better than all right since he started wearing glasses, and critics of Moore refuse to believe the evidence, which is all in his favor. Burgess Whitehead was another question mark last year. He had developed a bad case of the quick jitters. Now the unbelievers suspect that his presentday success is the result of strange herbs and a witch's cauldron. now last back, Newspaper Unpredictable Giants to be troublesome from time were McSHANE Western to the start of this year's major league baseball Camp aign and see if you can remember the teams you thought would be the chief contenders for first place in the National league standings. Odds are 10 to 1 that you didn't consider the Giants a very serious threat. Early in April it looke d like a two-club race-a bitte r fight between the Reds and the Cardinals. The Reds were looking good in Spite of last year's fiasc o and the Cards were expected to main tain the stride that almost carried them past the Reds to the pennant in the final stretch of 1939. : Now, after about 10 week s of active campaigning, it's a threecornered race-and it looks as though it might continue to be just that. But the Cardinals aren't in it and the Dodgers and Giants are making life miserable for the Cincinnati delegation. ne-as they by Everybody's Happy ‘oh pitcher Senior Circuit Service week, out of was new | from. the Yankees-but they Jy are contenders and the rest flubs do not matter, either. 's the way it looks as the oll through these weeks. light to be remains it looks shakeup will final league as though seen. Right the change However, a too long delayed. and plus sweetness manager in wonders the rank toward and reviving file may do the Cards. And they do need reviving! But time alone will tell if the shakeup is suc» cessful. By MILTON R. KENTON {Released by Western Newsp aper Unio : MINNEAPOLIS, MINN._Number of students taking R. O. T. C. military training at U.S colleg es, academies, and high schools has _increased 20 per cent in the last two years, and totalled 186,75 0 men in the academic year just ending, according to a study of the current Status of military training in U. §. schools, by Northwestern National Life Insurance company. Less than 1 out of 12 univer sities and colleges in the United States offer military training-136 out of approximately 1,700 schools of college grade. Yet, 116,309 collegians at these schools received senior R. O. T. C. instruction during the year 1939-40. The great majority were taking the basic two-year course; however, during the month of June, 9,099 men were graduated from the four-year training course, qualify ing them for Reserve Officer commis sions. When the United States entered the World war, our reserve of officers numbered only 2,900; it now numbers over 103,000, thanks largely to R. O. T. C. student military training, the study finds. ‘Texas A & M Is Largest. Largest senior R. O. T. C. unit is at Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas, where the cadet corps numbers 5,701 men; Ohio State university has the second largest senigy unit, with 4,395 cadets enrolled, and the University of Illinois has the third largest corps with 3,988 men on the military roster. Meanwhile, at 138 public or private secondary schools and 42 military academies, 70,441 youths received junior R. O. T. C. training, under U. S army officers, during the school year just ended. Of these, 126 were public high schools; the remainder were private high schools and prep schools, both civilian and military, but all with junior R. O. T. C. military units. Chicago has the largest junior R. O. T. C. unit in the United States; 7,634 regular cadets are enrolled at 27 high schools in that city. In addition, 1,516 freshman students take R. O. T. C. training at their own expense-the war department provides only for the cost of training second, third, and fourth year high school students. The Detroit high schools unit is the second largest in the country with 2,280 cadets, and the Dallas high schools unit is a close third with 2,250 junior R. O. T. C. cadets enrolled. Compulsory Military Training? In view of current proposals for compulsory military training in U. S. schools, certain figures given in the study are of interest. R. O. T. C, training was changed from a required subject to an elective at the University of Minnesota in 1934; enrollment in the cadet corps fell from 2,484 in the to 497 in numbered Radio preceding the 565 school year 1934-35 school year; men in the 1939-40 Tests made by the forest service on the Chelan National forest in Washington last fall with a crew of parachute jumpers indicated the practicability of dropping fire fighters from airplanes to put out small fires in some of the inaccessible back-country areas of the national forests. The new radiophone has been developed so that the ‘‘smokejumper'"' can keep in touch with the plane pilot and with his headquarters when he reaches the ground. The smoke jumpers use a specially designed parachute which has a rate of descent of about 12 feet per second and permits a_ certain amount of steering toward the landing spot.. A special chute harness and protective suit and headgear were also developed to so protect the jumpers that they can land almost anywhere at any elevation-in tall trees or open spaces, or on rough ridges. Jumpers who went down into stands of young lodgepole pine last fall christened them ‘"featherbed landings'? because the young pines will catch a parachute readily and absorb most of the shock on their bending, swaying tops. In order to facilitate descent from tall trees, the jumpers carry a coil of light, strong rope. A small number of complete units of equipment have already been purchased, the forest service reports, and these will be used to train tion. In outlining the problem before an institute at Rutgers university, this federal farm official pointed out that ‘‘are becoming hopeless, migrants discontented and increasingly doubt- and Laws Minnesota, Alabama, Rhode adopted civil serfice laws during 1939. Civil service laws were, however, repealed outright ‘1 Arkansas and modified in Michigan during great success hunters. By LEMUEL (Consolidated F. PARTON Features-WNU Service.) EW YORK.-Dr. Frank Kingdon resigned as president of the University of Newark to serve the cause of American unity against i Embodies Hope ABOVE, LEFT-Here are pictured University of Minnesota R. O. T. C. cadets marching into their stadium for annual review. At 136 U. S. colleges, 116,309 young men took military training in the school year just ended. CENTER-University of IIlinois R. O. T. C. cadets are shown in anti-aircraft drill. LOWER, INSET-Pretty drum majorettes like Caryl Pedersen Hughey (left) (right) and add Jane enthusi- asm to Chicago junior R. O. T. C. ceremonies. academic year recently completed. Approximately half of the 136 colleges and universities having R. O. T. C. training make it a required subject for the first two years and offer it as an elective for the junior and senior years; in the remainder it is on a voluntary basis. It is a required subject at all of the universities which have the larger R. O. T. C. units. bers began to decline immediately after peace was declared, and by 1928 only 250 public high schools offered military training, and 47,080 students were taking it. Same in Secondary Schools. The same general story is true of private secondary schools during the same period, the study shows. In 1914, 86 prep schools were giving military drill to 6,835 boys; by 1918, 474 boys' schools were giving military instruction to 28,893 students and 65 girls' schools were drilling 2,639 girls in military formations. By 1928, this number was back to 116 prep schools offering military in- But in the World war years of 1914-18, the number of U. S. high schools offering military instruction and the number of students taking it increased many hundred per cent, the study shows, and then tobogganed rapidly again when the ‘‘war to end all wars'' was finished. In 1914, only 75 public high schools in the United States giving military ‘‘drill,'' of a sort, with 8,702 students enrolled. By 1916, just before America's entry into war, the number of schools giving military training and the number enrolled for it had approximately trebled, to 224 schools, and 24,433 cadets. By 1918 it reached a peak, with 1,265 public high schools in the United States giving military instruction to 106,986 boys-and to 5,697 girls! The num- smoke-jumpers in actual work on forest fires this summer. The work is just getting under way in national forests in the northern Rockies and northern Cascades of Montana and Washington. Planes which deliver the parachuting fire-fighters scout the fire on their first trip over the spot and drop a small test chute with a 10pound sand bag to determine wind drift. They then circle back and make a second approach, at which time the parachutist descends, and by using the steering flaps on his parachute, generally manages to reach the ground close to the selected landing spot. On a third approach the pilot drops the fire-fighting kit which is carried down by a burlap parachute with a yellow streamer attached to prevent its being lost-a method used by the forest service for some years to deliver tons of equipment to back country fire-fighters. The burlap chute pack contains necessary tools, rations, first-aid kit and the like but the parachutist will carry with him the new lightweight radio so that he can contact the pilot or his headquarters immediately if necessary or can make reports later. The small type radiophone devel- oped by the Forest Service weighs only six pounds with dry batteries and all accessories, and is not quite as large as a loaf of sandwich bread. It measures 2 by 4% by 12 inches, and opérates on ultra-high frequencies between 30,000 and 40,000 kilocycles, having a two-way communication range covering an optical distance which with sufficient elevation may be as much as a hundred miles. Migrant Farm Laborers Are Serious U. S. Problem Migratory farm laborers ‘‘may prove a very real threat to our deto helped are they unless mocracy"' achieve security, according to Philip supervisor regional E. Henderson, for the Farm Security administra- Island Service states, greatly 1939. Streamlined Coyote Hunting Streamlined snowmobiles, capable of 80 to 120 miles an hour over good snow, have been used with struction, with 16,528 cadets taking it, Thus, the report points out, in 1918, at the peak of the war effort, a total of 1,739 public and private secondary schools were giving military training to 135,879 boys, and by 1928 the combined total had fallen to 366 schools giving military training to 63,608 boys. The study points out as a matter of comparative interest that today approximately 180 public and private secondary schools in the United States are giving war department-supervised military instruction to more than 70,000 cadets, compared with a combined total of 161 public and private secondary schools in 1914 which were giving military ‘‘drill,'' in many cases of a very sketchy nature, to 15,537 boys. for Parachute Fire-Fighters Developed by U. S. Forest Service WASHINGTON. - A _ new lightweight radio for the parachuting fire fighters being used on the national forests for the first time this year has recently been announced by the forest service, U. S. department of agriculture. Civil Three ful about our American way of life,'' adding that ‘‘they constitute the most fertile seedbed for those social ills which already are disrupting Europe."' Asserting that the impact of Europe's war falls more heavily on the farmer than any other group in the country, the FSA spokesman said effects of the war are striking with "greatest force' on migrants the low-income farmer. and A number of private military academies were not included in the 1914 figures, and private military academies not under war department supervision are not included in the current figures, the report points out; however, the comparative growth in number of military trainees would not be. greatly changed, could the additional figures be obtained, the study states, because a direct checkup of comparative attendance at 41 military schools which furnished the insurance company with their 1916 and 1938 enrollment figures showed an increase of some 250 per cent in average attendance. New Units Desired. The war department has applications now on file from universities, colleges, high schools, and prep schools for 50 additional senior R. O. T. C. corps and 111 junior units. None have been added since the fiscal year of 1937, as no funds have been available for the purpose since then. Annual cost of the R. O. T. C. runs about $11,500,000-a minor item in our gigantic defense budget, the study points out. Of this, $5,000,000 goes for uniforms, equipment, and general expense of operation, and 6% million dollars for salaries of the army officers and noncoms detailed as instructors. University and college R. O. T. C. men who elect to take the advanced course-third and fourth years-receive about $175 in pay from the government during their two years of study, plus free transportation to and from a_ six-weeks' training camp, plus all expenses while at the camp. Only about one student out of: six in the basic two-year course elects to continue in the advanced course, the study finds. A little over 9,000 men completed their four years' senior training, during the school year ending this month. Ordinarily, only a part of the graduates apply for commissions; due to limitations in vacancies, only a part of the applicants are actually commissioned. When effect is given to resignations and retirements from the active list, the net result has been an increase of about 1,500 per year in recent years, in total Reserve strength. and Our hidden disruptive and Faith forces. Certain industrialists have become dollar-a-year men for military rearmament. Dr. Kingdon is perhaps the first man to give up his job to work for intellectual rearmament. With others, he built the Citizenship Educational Service to advance tolerance, cooperation and all-around American solidarity. Theodore Roosevelt is its chairman and Dr. Kingdon is educational director. "American Unity" was the subject of Dr. Kingdon's address before the Institute of Public Affairs at Charlottesville, Va., recently. A few days ago, this writer happened to be present when Dr. Kingdon was conversing with a New York citizen of distinction and influence who maintained that democracy was both decadent and impotent. In his Charlottesville address, Dr. Kingdon said: "The other day, I was arguing with a self-confessed Fascist. I happened to use the word freedom. He immediately scoffed, saying, ‘Freedom for what? Freedom to be unemployed? Freedom to starve?' He knew that the word was one of the signal words of human history. He could not meet it squarely. So he tried to tie it up with all kinds of other words having unpleasant definitions in order to destroy its own appeal by transferring to it their dismay. His was a deliberate effort to empty of meaning a word that is packed with hope and faith. His performance was typical of the planned and concerted attempt to destroy the foundations of our thought so that we shall crumble before a _ vigorous onslaught from the cause with which he has allied himself." In the above address Dr. Kingdon assays such words as Christianity, freedom, religion, propaganda, isolation, in the interest of tolerance and unity. Such is one of the unique endeavors of the Citizenship Educational Service. Dr. Kingdon, tall, urbane schoolman and cleric, was born in London and came to this country in 1912, at the age of 17. He was educated at University College school, London, and Boston university. - } by Montana coyote Ancient Indian Temple One of the most amazing constructions erected by man is the Kailas temple in India. Dating back to the reign of King Krishnu 1,200 years ago, the temple-hewn from a mass of solid granite-is 90 feet high, 109 feet wide and 164 feet long. Rooms 17 feet high were cut from the interior of the granite mass and these were covered with plaster and coated with paint. Earl of Sandwich The sandwich is said to get its name from the earl of Sandwich, who so loved his games that his only food for days would be a piece of meat between two clices of bread. Earliest Easter The earliest date on which Easter has fallen in over a century was March 22, 1818. Why They Jitterbug Jiterbug dancing is nothing but an outlet of physical energy, in the opinion of Miss Ethel Bowers, field secretary of the National Recreational association. She said youth needs violent dancing, running and racing games as well as mental games, observation games and educational games. New Type Glass Announced A new kind of glass, which shrinks by one-third in size after it has been formed into dishes, is announced. It is immune to heat cracks and sudden temperature changes. Ducking Stool for Shrews A ducking stool was used to punish "shrews" in England in 1745. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT ~~~~ HOTELS When in HOTEL RENO, NEVADA. stop at the GOLDEN-Reno's largest and most popular hotel. 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At about morning two o'clock of November on the 10, 1937, President Vargas telephoned all the members of his cabinet and the leaders of his legislatur@é to come to the palace immediately. They seized weapons as they dashed for their cars. The president received them urbanely, broke out cigars and wine, chatted a few moments and then handed them a document in 350 Rooms-350 Baths - $2.00 to $4.00 Family Rooms for 4 persons $4.00 Air Cooled Lounge and Lobby Grill Room Coffee Shop Tap Room Home of Rotary-Kiwanis-Executives see tne timas-"20-30" Chamber of Commerce and Ad Club Hotel .Ben OGDEN Come T which he had scrapped and fired congress, nullified existing laws and substituted his own code. There was no dissent. as Lomond UTAH you € are Fitzgerald BBO LOOM" WNU Mgr - Week No. 4027 - SALT LAKE |