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Show Page WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1951 The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah t' 6 r ,.OTv SPORT LIGHT Cadets Victimized B y Win Disease GRANTLAND RICE By -- P - v, v They were entirely wrong. ' ' i. ' ' ? But they were not cheating for w f ' v's . I to ' of , line out V were to come through safely and clean, profit. They . . ; - " budged , ' ' too x. ' ' ' as things were set up. V,.. stay with a tough job, that Write this down for them all to see ' . , f mutilaor in death ends often Judge not, that ye be not judged" 1 1 1 tion. i'V3 The West Point System West Point and Annapolis are no -- 'Ll. . Possibly one of the worst, obsesWe still say that any system that baby-sittiv ' enterprises. They give sions connected with competitive involves so many cadets in deadly you 17 hours a day of rough going-ove- r, sport Is what one might call 'The serious trouble through so many mental and physical. When glory of winning." There Is very years must be wrong.. in football work exthrow you little actual glory in winning. The When the first West Point news tremely important to the Academy glory from a game not only lies in broke there were only 90 mentioned. and a wearing test you add greater giving 100 per cent of all you have As we understand it, there are pos- pressure. Few can take it in such but in the contest itself. Yet foot- sibly 200 involved, not counting the doses. You cant also ask these ball .coaches, especially, , have been other hundreds who go back through men or boys to be Stool pigeons and almost completely overwhelmed by some 10, 12 or many more years. snoopers. this hell-bedesire for victory. These-ki- ds who come to West The only honor test worthwhile t " There isnt a Point are as clean and as decent affects only the individual involved. ter football coach as any kids the country has. They There Is still very much we must I -r v ' .. nor a more honora- come to,. a honor system hear from the baffled and confused ble man in the coun- that has been broken and violated. Pentagon group. try than Earl Bed SEAGOING FILLING STATION . . . Oiler USS Manatee (center) Blaik. But Red ' pomps important fuel oil into the storage bankers of the fast carr Blaik, like so many, , rier USS Bon Homme Richard (left) and a destroyer in Korean many other coachwaters. Fast carrier task force 77 stays at sea for weeks without es, was caught in this swjrl of victory replenishment, relying on 6hips and oilers for food, fuel and ammunition. importance. He was a in system, caught not of his own makWARREN looked up from heard it once before in the recesses KATHLEEN NORRIS ing, a system that IULIA suddenly, and of her mind. Buds scream, a cars covers the country. futile brakes, Pinkys agonizing thought it had happened. Win win win, and win at any "Bud," she called. "Please try to bark. All she could hear then were Buds price, is an alumni slogan win or keep Pinky by your side. Hell get get fired. This covers the football hurt if he keeps chasing cars the sobbing words: "Pinky! Pinky!" we drop that word "se- map north and south, east and way be does. They buried Pinky in a small SUPPOSE is always something one can do; west. The .coaches know the anShe watched Bud through her wooden box in a corner of the back swer. So do the players who are kitchen window as he scolded Pinky yard among the flowers. Julia put a In the sense that it is used today there are always possible changes there is no such thing, and we would and makeshifts and plans and exrecruited, proselyted, pampered by waving a fat marker with Pinkys name into the all be and paid for in many cases not happier not thinking about periments, and all of them are imat hT m. ground while Bud just watched and finger it and not worrying about it. even forced to attend classes. mensely stimulating. v do, said nothing. was long-ag- o when I the In days Julia did not know whether there So that real security, by one 6f Today it has gotten so that Pinky! Mom says a rather formidable world, facing sorrow was relief more than her in over a winning football team lifes most ridiculous paradoxes, is youre ajbad dog!" there Is too often a heavier Then he pushed along the sidewalk heart. Maybe it was better that it we never 'used the word "security." insecurity. cloud or shadow of scandal happened now instead of five or six We didnt know that there was such in his wagon. Pinky at his side. "What we feared was for the than the losers know, "How Julia went back to baking her years from now when Buds love a word. We certainly didnt suspect writes Agnes Fairfield, a was such children," that there thing. much did they cost?" "How apple pie, a worried look on her for Pinky would have been too hard whose splendid letter from Johnsmuch do they get?" face. Pinky was lovable, but his for the boy to forget. .Bud could There were six of us in family, town set me thinking along this line. After a debacle around 1941 or habit of chasing cars through the forget Pinky now as she had learned the eldest was not quite 21. We had "Lew and I didnt care about ourwere streets of Collinsville made Julia to forget been raised in a comfortable, 1942, when Army teams selves. Wed both been nicely crushed. Army (I mean Army dread the event which must inevitawe knew fashion, family dinner that were there in the American way. I night raised, Brass) decided to get a winner. bly occur. Julia had urged her hus- AT nothing of the city in which we mean a small-tow- n words Mark spoken. many house, Army did. I was never impressed band Mark tto persuade Bud to suddenly had to make a living. We trees, car, his sons and head, and patted curly hopes high school, with Armys war teams, gathered, give up the dog, but Mark was too to console him. "Pinky never, in nine years of good hard for college. But Lew had only two tried as Navys were from civilian collike to see you so sad, son fighting and working for food and years business school, and I went "It will break the boys heart," wouldnt kids or leges, meeting Hed want you to remember him shelter, had five cents in the bank. into kindergarten work, and held 4Fs. Both Army and Navy went he would say. with a smile on your face, and for- There was nobody in sight to help a job for four years. But we wanted Not nearly as badly as it us and we never were helped. completely haywire those war get what happened today. better things for our children, fine would If something dreadful years. I think they know it now. seas But we of knew . . . nothing forget. Forget clothes, associates, amusements, Julia But in the desire to have winhappened to Pinky, Julia always went we with at looked and knew face Buds and when our plans went smash curity, along great thought. That could be somening teams, Army, and possibly of confidence a and never he would deal hapwe felt keenly for them, and indeed forget. Young great Navy, brought In stars who thing Bud might never get over. of Often the the week they did for themselves. They were minds dont forget easily. They piness. end That might be something he couldnt pass the scholastic test. us a found most without the but dont cent, forget usually then Deary, 14, Junior, 12, and important a like So they cribbed. It wasnt nice. would always remember there were if Julia knew. unprenourishing, things. But I wouldnt have agreed to Marylou, 0. Bad age? to make sharp continuous pain. Julia meals in the and house, children feel the pinch of poverty. After dinner when the family was tentious, knew well it would be that way. the Army honor code that inn She tried to cast thoughts from in the living room, Mark reading his there were beds made, and lots cluded work and Live Simply her mind that were like jagged paper. Bud playing listlessly with of books, and the long beaches of snooping. "It was then that I wrote to you, Armys system was 100 per cent glass. She opened the oven door, his blocks, Julia suddenly put down the Pacific to walk along and picon nic in this a of state and letter goes on, "and you told shocking wrong. Any system that involves saw that the pie was almost brown the sweater she was knitting. She me to begin to look down, instead from 90 to 200 cadets in any such enough to take out. got up from her chair and went to- insecurity we managed magnificentof up. To live more and more simIs ly. the door. Then wards like it she heard it heard snarl entirely wrong. 10 Mark "Whats wrong, Julia? I dont believe ply, rather than to continually exper cent of the she knew she would, like she had Leah Weeks asked alarmed. pand. To endure the childrens conHow we did I it faintthe havent sternation then, for the sake of "Nothing, dear. I must get some By Jos est idea. I imagine that statistics the childrens future. air. I think Ill see Helen Reynolds MAHONEY of those wouldnt be believed days for a few minutes." "Well, we did. In fact, we had There were lean weeks but today. It did not take more than a few to. We moved to a rather lonely minutes. Julia was surprised how there were fat ones, too. Every- and shabby place, we started growlittle time it actually took. If only thing we had in the way of writing eggs, we did other people had realized what little paper, candy, clothes, books, food, ing vegetables, selling everything. My stricken husband time it took. became convalescent, slowly, slowIt was not until Julia had stepped ly, slowly, and can walk around , into the living room that Mark his little farm now. Weve not had TELEVISION HAS Julia realized what had He done. one moments money worry since REALLY MADE THE PUBrose to meet her, proud of his wife LIC CONSCIOUS or we moved, and thats six years THE MUSCLE MOLLS Julia knelt down beside Bud and ago. Weve no money left over, but AND MANY A PRETTY showed him what her hands held and we we have the makings, BLONDE HAS TAKEN TO Buds eyes brightened. It was a tiny B of whom we THE GRUNT AND GROAN wf-v I Knr have three children A of bundle old month fur. cocker can really be proud. CIRCUIT. IT'S FOR REAL FAY TOO. MILDRED spaniel, with sleepy eyes, and pink "They rose to this crisis in a BURKE HAS BEEN ears.- EARNING 30,000 way that makes my eyes fill when "Pinky the Second," Julia said A YEAR, MAE WESTON h I think of it. Their father never with a smile. Bud reached out TOPS 15,000 AND MANY A heard one single word of complaint. chubby fingers for a new Pinky, a DAMSEL IS HITTING 5000 FOR APPLYas we began to see that on And new hope. ING A FULL NELSON A FW NITES A WEEK V the slimmest of margins we really Julia was glad she had rememcould make it, the exhilaration of bered Helen Reynolds telling her FOLLOW THE SUN "THE being so low that you couldnt go about the litter of pups. She was MOVIE THAT IS THEUFY w. . . the beaches . . " long STORY OF BEN HOGAN, any Tower began to inspire Us all." glad she had remembered one day BEN HAD ACTUALLY AS THE when she herself was common many years-ag- o Every little extra quarter for servand when property, TECHNICAL ADVISOR. with in was young important things better days began the sharing went ices or eggs or tourist accommodaGUN FORD PLAYS THE her life. tion overnight helped the budget. on, and does to this day. TITLE ROLE, AND IN Julia watched the sadness melt The effect of THE WEEKS HE STUDIED happily married now, with these hard Deary, WITH BANTAM BEN ON a baby .son, found a dozen occupafrom Buds eyes as he fondled the times was curious. It taught me HOW TO ACT 4 PLAY tions that interested her, and were pup. She remembered herself as a that utter and GOLF LIKE HIM, GLEN complete insecurity in for little girl on the day her own dog is not half as fearful a thing as it lucrative, too, and never went KNOCKED TEN STROKES TOiCHO GONZALES RECENTLY had been hit by a car. 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