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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH am puzzle COMIC BOOKS Educators Believe Comic Books May Have Future in School Work Comic books may soon be required reading for children. Psychologists and educators have been contending for some time that comic boks of the proper kind could be used to further the emotional, mental and educational development of children. The only trouble, they have added, is that such magazines would have to be especially designed chological theories Flavor 10. Inventor of dynamite 12. Pocketbook 9. tertaining. One of the country's leading comic book publishers, after a year of intensive research, has begun issuing a comic magazine based on the recommendations of psychologists and educators as to the ideal comics magazine for children in the age bracket. He is convinced that if his new publication is a success, other comic book publishers will recognize the need for really constructive comic magazines and follow his lead. The publisher, Leverett Gleason, expects the test to prove the theories of authorities that the powerful influence of comics magazines on children can be utilized in a constructive way. Gleason estimates that 80,000,000 comic magazines are purchased each month and that each of Mason THE very British James a to have developed screen strong liking for roles. His two latest for 20th Century-Fox certainly indicate it. In these has three readers. The Desert Fox he gives a magnificent performance as the late Prominent educators and psyField Marshal Rommel, one of Engchologists have agreed that comics lands most unrelenting enemies magazines can be used to emduring World War II. And he has phasize the moral and ethical teachjust finished work In 5 Fingers, ings of parents. They have advoIn which, as the highest paid spy cated comics magazines as a means of draining normal aggressions of children that might otherwise erupt into outright aggressive acts. TTiese authorities see comics as a means of teaching a child how to read, and the use of good grammar and a sense of artistic discrimination. And they have at the same time complained that the Widely distributed comics magazines are not accomplishing all these objectives. There is no reason why all of these objectives cannot be achieved in a comics magazine that is still exciting enough to hold the young readers Interest, Gleason said. He quoted Josette Frank, educational associate of the Child Study In history, he does his prying at Association: One must regret that comic magthe British Embassy in Istanbul, for the Nazis. But his next film will azines have, in some respects, find him playing a missed their opportunities for giving probably Frenchman; hes pretty well set as children more than they do. The comic magazine has a high Inspector Javert In Les Miser-ablepotential value not only because its form is so acceptable to children but because it can be timely and conMason has the support of an In Descast temporary In a way books cannot. "The outstanding Here, perhaps, more effectively ert Fox, which was produced than elsewhere, we can find an by Nunnally Johnson and directed by Ilenry Hathaway. opportunity to give children forward looking attitudes, ideas and Jessica Tandy, Cedric Ilard-wickideals about the world they live Luther Adler and Leo In. Carroll are all excellent. anti-Britis- h 13. NBCs Ed Herlihy has been vacationing in Bermuda with his wife and children year after year. So he's finally bought a cottage there. Maybe he was egged on after a recent storm flooded the basement of his home in a suburb of New York. The basement Is used as a party and play room, and the household formed a bucket brigade to bail it out. film Tembo, a feature-lengt- h dealing with Archer Howard Hills big game African hunting safari, will be distributed by RKO. 4. 5. 6. Make amends for Past 15. Title of respect 17. Greek letter 18. Feeler on leaf of a plant (Bot) 7. Foretell Tangle Torrid Hautboy set of false teeth 8. A 9. Young oyster 11. Acquires 21. Biblical 16. knowledge Frozen water 19. Open 20. 24. country. To meet that force we have, Including those of our European al 9 36. Plant ovule 38. Gourdlike 42. 44. fruit Rodent Constellation Search Paddle-lik- e process Close to 31. 32. Coarse, water-wor- n pebbles 87. Invalid's food 39. Coin (Swed.) 40. Part of to be Variety of corundum 43. Potato (dial.) 41. 45. Division of the calyx 46. Step " heavily 47.- Memo 48. randum Organs of hearing It wont be long now until the angler, while his hunting brethren are busy afield, will be getting ready to store his fishing gear for the winter everywhere but In the South, that Is. However, the wise angler who gets enjoyment out of the use of his tackle, doesn't have to break down" for the winter unless he prefers to do so. 4 Whether or not he realizes it, there is a way to enjoy his fishing tackle all through the winter and, at the same time, perfect his techJoin Casting Club The way to do that is to join a casting club somewhere in the vicinity; but if there is no casting club, that doesnt bar the sport were discussing. If there is a casting club, our angler may join it and then enjoy the use of his casting or fly rod equipment through the long months of winter. These clubs, as a rule, have an indoor area wherein to cast. They use targets, or play skish, which is the same sort of game, wherein targets also are used. The members gain a remarkable degree of accuracy, to say nothing of the pleasure obtained by keeping their hand in on fishing gear, topics and forecasts. And that accuracy garnered in practice sessions will stand the angler in good stead the next season when he is required to do some casting to get at that just right spot under an overhanging branch or beside a rock or log. May Enter Competition The angler who becomes fascinated with this indoor sport usually moves into the tournament field and in time will find himself casting In competition as an individual contender or as a member of his clubs competitive team. And, if he goes this far, a whole new field of lasting technique and interest is opened up for him. But right here we are concerned with the average angler who just hates to put his gear away, come winter, and who would vastly appreciate the enjoyment he is now missing if he would ally himself with some casting club. But, as we started to point out earlier, there doesnt have to be an organized club in existence to provide this winter sport. If there is no such organization, the angler usually may obtain permission to use some indoor area, say the YMCA, a nearby armory, a local auditorium, a gymnasium anyplace where there is head-rooand enough length for ordinary accuracy casting. The equipment? Your own, of course. For, unless you plan to enter the tournament-castin- g field, you may get all the fun you want out of the tackle you actually use on stream or lake. Cost Is Negligible The cost is practically nothing. Inasmuch as casting weights may be obtained for about 35 cents each and two of these will keep an angler In the practice-castin- g business for pin-poi- was a member of a large There were four boys and three girls besides Jane. The mother was dead. The eight children lived with their father on a farm on the edge of Gransberry. Jane was the eldest of all the children. When their mother died Jane assumed the responsibilities of the household. She was a large girl, very plain and rather JANE greater importance. Perfect grammar should be used by the characters so that children can learn through the example of the heroes and heroines. Particular attention should be devoted to the art work which would be of a quality comparable to that of the books. best In childrens hard-covAs with all comic books, these pictures, used as a guide to the meaning of the words, should help the young child learn to read. Six thousand schools already are using comic books in connection with the school curriculum, Gleason reported. The issuance of comic of superior quality magazines might easily make them an Instrument all schools would want to use to further the teaching of young children, particularly as a means of teaching them to learn to read and to like to read. dull looking. I met her and the rest of the family last summer when vacationing in Gransberry. She fascinated me because she was so sturdy and strong and uncomplaining. The longer I knew the family the more 1 came to realize how easy It was for the others to lean on Jane. She did s of the work. It was Interesting (and a title annoying) to watch. I soon came to understand that Jane was the goat. When one of them wanted a holiday he or she would pretend to be sick. Jane kept things going. It seemed unfair to me. They thought Jane was dull. They took advantage of her. The more 1 talked to Jane the more I began to wonder If she were really dull. Yet srmetimes I become discouraged. She seemed absolutely stupid. "Last year," I said to her one day, I met a family named Burdon, down south. There were six children in the family, and poor Mrs. Burdon had her hands full. She assumed all the responsibility and did all the work. Her children had never been used to anything else, so it never occurred to them to pitch in and help. The more she gave, the more they asked. It really wasn't the childrens fault. They never lies, some 5,000 effective planes, which include some 50 or 60 capable of attacking Russia. We are talking of or planning for a fleet of from 50,000 to 75,000 war planes. But so far it is only talk, none of them have been ordered. We have adequate facilities for building such a fore, but the joh Should cannot be don e overnight. Russia have the force she is credited with having, and if sha has atomic bombs, as the President tells us she bos, without our having adequate air protection for our airplane plants, Russia could destroy those plane plants, and there would be no possibility of our meeting the Russian bombers. the preparedness program are listening only to the top brass of the army. They would hink in terms of ground troops and their equipment To win a war ground troops are necessary but Eisenhi.wer knows that air power is equally needed. Congress authorized and ap I came to realize how easy It was for the others to lean on Jane. two-third- propriated funds for the construction of radar listening equipment for both the east and the west roast that our planes might have an advance warning of Russian planes, should an attack come. The President has Ignored that legislation. It was a lack of radar that primarily was the cause of the Pearl Harbor ratastrophe, A German contractor had delayed the completion of the station, and, because they did not know of the approaching Jap planes, such air force as we had in Hawaii were caught on the ground and destroyed along with the naval vessels that could have gotten out of the harbor, had their commanders known what was coming. But with that recent illustration as a reminder, the President has not taken steps to protect our east and west coasts, with ell they would need should war actually come. It it such things that cause me to think that the President is using his frequently repeated war scarat for political purposes rather than because of bit actual belief in any threat of war. A full scale congressional investigation of our preparedness program and what is happening might be well worth while. It is too teriout a matter merely for the playing of politics. If we are threatenea with war, we must prepare both for offense and defense, but we must do it in a practical way, not merely talk about it, and do first things first OR SECOND weight PLACED OPENS .. OUT OF NINE NATIONAL first HE FIRST GAME IN WHICH NUMBERS WERE USED ON FOOTBALL JERSEYS WAS THE 1913 nique. coins OBVIOUSLY, no desirable comic book could portray sex, cruelty or primitive violence, Gleason said. But the findings showed that many other factors were of equal or We are told we are building tanks, guns, and other equipment for the ground forces. We are rtcruitlng, oy draft methods, an army of 3,500,000 men, but such an r.rmy cannot hope to alone meet the "some 7,000,000 men of the Russian Red army. No ground army we can muster, whatever Its size, can defeat Russia, without an adequate air force to support and protect it. Such an air force is the first thing needed should war come, and it seemingly the last thing be'ng provided. Possibly those who are directing Give It A Try to be'1 By even'nslity. He announced a year ago that Russia had perfected an atom bomb. On the basis of that statement congress authorized an air fleet of 75 fighting groups Including a larger number of bomber groups. The President did not then think such an air force was needed, and arbitrarily reduced the number to 62 groups, despite the verdict of the congress and the air commission which he had appointed. Since then he has raised the fig ures to 85 groups, but has not ordered the planes or recruited the per sonnel for such a force. We are told that Russia has now an air force of 50,000 fighting planes, and the President said that Ruzsia has Lie atom bomb with which to destroy our ground forces ar.d to devastate the towns and cities of our European allies as well a' those of this Ogling Part of Forms Fruit stone Indefinite article 28. An alcove dining room 30. Pinaceous tree 33. Authority on card games 34. Tardier 35. Silkworms Nation Is Not Preparing For War That It Dreads His actions In connection with oar preparations for war would not indicate that be fear an immediate confllot. We are certainly not preparing for ancb aa fruit pies 22. Grow old 23. Spun wool 25. Extra 28. U. S. silver 29. 30. Joe MAHONEY PJ, 25. 26. 27. GRASSROOTS Wright A. Patterson THE PRESIDENT really DOES that we are destined In the near future to be engaged in a full scale shooting war with Russia, or are his numerous war scares merely for the purpose of encouraging more and larger appropriations and the levying of more and greater taxes? ANSWER city e, material. signal 14. s. Marilyn Monroe will be starred by Darryl Zanuck in Night Without Sleep, playing a baby sitter which will be pretty easy, for she was acting as a baby sitter when she was discovered by William Mayberry. She went to school on the lot, did Asphalt Jungle at MGM, whereupon her own studio realized that she was really stellar estimate 2. Protective garment 3. Distress 1. An with shoes to meet psyand still be en- three-to-eig- By INEZ GERHARD DOWN ACROSS Pant 5. Furnished 1. SPORlTSCOiPIE WEEK'S LAST knew anything different. Eventually the inevitable happened. Mrs. Burdon wore herself out. One day she was taken sick and died. She was only 51 years old. I shook my head. It was certainly a pity. After she had gone the children discovered that they could get along very nicely by themselves. They found out that they could do the things they had heretofore always believed themselves incapable of doing." I stopped talking and looked steadily at Jane. But she only returned my look dully. Wasn't it a shame! she said. m a long while. see Jane again that sumIt is true, of course, that as one mer. Three days after my talk becomes more proficient in this with her I went home. This summer 1 came to Grans- pastime, there may result a greatader desire for higher-priceberry again. One day I drove past vanced tackle and the caster may the Whitefield farm and. acting on find himself shopping, or planning impulse, drew up at the front gate. to tournashop for the lightning-fas- t Amelia, Janes oldest sister, was ment-type and the longer, reels on front the porch. sitting lighter tournament rods. Is Jane In? 1 asked. But, that is a matter for the InAmelia looked at me with wide Yes, but shes not feeling dividual and, as we have pointed eyes. out. need not Interfere with real well. She's lying down this after sport and enjoyment In general noon. practice-castin- g activities during Lying down? Jane? May I see the winter. her? AAA Amelia went into the house. A moment later she came to the door Fish for Mounting and beckoned to me. I went into It is preferred by most taxithe front room. The shades were drawn. It was quiet and cool. Jane dermists to receive a fish unwas lying on a couch. She smiled skinned In order that they may Very up at me. She looked much prettier make a cast of the same. often this is impossible. After than the last time I saw her. catching a fish you want mounted, Shes been having attacks," place it on a piece of paper and Amelia explained. She cant go run a pencil carefully around it, on for very long without lying making an accurate outline and down. We've been doing everyalso the size and individual shape thing to make her well. We don't After making the outline and let her do much of the work. the fish is prepared as folIm sure Ill be all right very notes, lows: Cut open the side, not the soon," Jane said. Amelias eyes lighted. "Oh, 1 hope belly, preserving the perfect side. Take off skin carefully most skin so!" will peel off very easily. Fins listI much. I didnt say merely should be sepsrated at the base ened. Presently I understood that with a sharp pair from the Jane was spending a good deal of of scissors body or a knife. Scrape off time on the couch these days. Ocgrease with a spoon. Skin should be casionally she was able to go out spread and rubbed down with salt driving in the evening with a young on the Inner side only and let lay man from town who had developed until the next day. The following an interest in her. roll it up in a piece of paper day, After ft while I rose to go. "Take and ship fa) a box or tin car with I told Jane care of yourself, air holes. "Dont try to rush things. If you AAA started in too soon you might have a setback. Take It Easy I know, she said. "How are the This is a tip on taking off that Burdon children? covering on the handle of plastic Oh! Theyre fine! Get Who? g or fly rod that new nicely. ting along this Christmas, or She sighed. I'm glad. My sisters which youll get next spring. and brothers won't let me work perhaps The pitch is to dampen the covmuch. When I get strong again they ering before trying to remove it want to be sure Ill stay strong. can avoid doing And Janes right eyelid fluttered In that way you what we did: chipping two pieces downward as she looked at me. of cork off the handle of a brand new fly rod when we tried to rip Fish Drinking the covering with the fingernails do fish sharks water and Fresh Just take It easy. not drink water. Other fish do. I didnt fSH ever caught oUlargest CNROO WAS ANO REEL TO GAFF AT BROUGHT TUSSLE IN 1941. ISLAND, AUSTRALIA 1919 P0UNP9. WEIGHED MONSTER THE mInCAROO -- SPORTLIGHT - Baseball and the Third Big League .By GRANTLAND THE West Coast A has been asking to be rated as the third big league. This is a reasonable request if the West e Coast can dig up enough cities and enough e ballplayers. Suppose we inspect the situation at large. There are now 16 major-leagu- e clubs with enrollment of an some 500 ers. Does ballplayanyone think there are 500 ball- major-leagu- e players in action today? Does any-- o n e actually believe there are 200 major-leagu- ball- e players around? Does anyone believe there are 100 certified, dead sure major league ballplayers operating? Look over the records of the hitters. Look over the even more scarred and tattered records of what they now call pitchers. Look over the home-ru- n balls and the bases on balls and the blow-up- s and the frantic rush from 16 bull pens. What is a big league ballplayer? The stars are Muslal, Robinson, the DiMagglo brothers, Campanella, Ashburn, Berra, Fain, Rizzuto, Williams, Kell, Minoso, Irvin, Dark, Kiner, Reese, McDongald and a few more. Especially Rizzuto, who ontclasses many of these. The good pros include Country Gil Hodges, Slaughter, Furillo, Snider, Lockman, Pafka, Fox, and a few more. The promising kids include Mays, Mantle jlus a small number of others. But if you add up the entire list you wont reach 100 ballplayers. Look over the old Cubs Johnny Kling, catcher one of the greatest. Brown, Overall, Ruelbach, etc., pitchers. Chance, Evers, Tinker, Steinfeldt, infield. Sheckard, Schulte and Slagle, outfield. Every one a major leaguer. The old Athletics Mclnnls, Collins, Barry, Baker, Thomas, Schang, Bender, Plank, Waddell, Coombs, Coakley, Bosh, and Pennock. These were exceptional teams, of course. But It strikes me that the real big leaguers abounded in those good old days. e Car-.asqu- el big-eag- Hof-ma- n, RICE. It is bard to understand the slump. More kids are playing baseball today than ever before. The Little League has thousands under good Instructors. There are many, many other leagues or teams for players ranging from 10 to 18 years. Maybe they havent had time to develop. But many of them should a little later on. To show the scarcity ef big- league players, meaning real caliber, take the Dodgers. Well, the Giants did. The Dodgers had five er six men nominated for an team. These men were Cam- - j panella, Robinson, Hodges, Roe ' and Newcombe, with Reese close up. They were among the elite of 1951 baseball. Yet they couldnt hold a lead on August 11. This included a lead on the important losing side. Now the Giants were a good ball club. So were the Yankees. But certainly neither was a great ball club. big-leag- ; all-st- ar u Texas Talk. At this point in the annual fall proceedings the state that leads the field by a wide margin is Texas. In Texas A. and M., Texas and Baylor this expansive commonwealth has three of the countrys finest football teams. You can add SMU to this list from now on with Rice and TCU always danger- ous. Why should Texas have so many fine football players year after year? The answer is fairly simple. The state has more strong ol football teams than any in the country. One Texas statistician high-scho- wrote me they had over 600 high schools with good teams. This may be true, but it sound rather high. These teams start playing in September and many are still battling late in December. Many of these squads are well coached and they go all out at every start. No wonder they give football such men as Sammy Baugh, Bull Dog Turner, Dave OBrien, Doak Walker, Kyle Rote,1 Larry Isbell and Fred Benners, Football Story Years ago, when football player were much cheaper, eastern crowds often ran from 75,000 to 80,000. Todays trouble is that football The Big League Angle costs have mounted heavily. The The West Coast first needs more double-platoo- n system has been ball parks and partly responsible for this. One big1 populations in many cities. university admits it has 80 men who' Los Angeles and San Francisco? must be taken care of, including Dne hundred per cent scholarships and boards. But what about Baltimore or I know of one coach who was ofBuffalo? What about Houston or fered $18,000 a year with $80,000 Dallas? year for his scouts expenses. big-leag- HOW tQE bait-castin- MAKE EMERGENCY PINCH THE DROP INTO A MEDICINE DROPPER IN AN TWO HAIRPINS AND A CORK. HAIRPINS TOGETHER TO RELEASE THE THE SPOON. FROM |