| Show - - : - 't ' ' - v f' - ' i ' - - t 1 1 - ' - - 0 '' 12 I - ' I ' - - : ' ' - - ' or - -- ' t ! s - ' ' - - '' : ' : I I I I r - -- i - - l - - - - - - - Wiimma -- for Second Place 'Swimming Pools On Truman's Ticket And Health Bat-kle- y S One of the ironies of modern living is the attitude that Swimming once regarded as one of the healthiest most wholesome pastimes is now considered dangerous to health This is accentuated in Salt Lake City where all public pools are closed- down with plans to open wo remodeled Swimming places late in the season As a result many children are going to the or 'swimmin1 hole reservoirs and streams where danger is greater to life : Insurmountable Born- hi a log cabin in Graves county Kentucky on the 24th of November 1877' he was only nine years old when the bumble home burned down forcing the family of seven children to seek7?sfielter In frame' shack' where Alben worked in his father's tobacco patch and studied during the inter vals Caused by weather and se asons When the lad was 16 him father sold his farm‘and took the family to Clinton "' in the same state where Alben attended a sectarian school until he became an office 'boy In the law office of ludge Priest" a ' real and original character immortalized in several stories of the section by Irvin S Cobb' Here the lad studied tltrough every' Interval of leisure and soon campaigned for the post of county attorney riding a borrowed-'mulfrom house to house and drumming up audiences which he addressed regardless of m - 52-ac- re - I ' e: ' - at- - - - - - - - 14-pe- - - ' 4 - F - ' ' ' f 1 - ' ' ' ' 3001"ate ":die'"'sere - - moodllos"--907- I I aor'r - I I if- ' 4- 'Al LE JiøJ - Ari1 - 'ICk 2000 1 toor:creel1117 q ii t Ins lit I Al --- 'hot L oort I' --4 77 r -- :I e'- - -re 0:Law'-'11- - - the senatorial candidacy of hne 4i Rep Estes Kefauver Mr Meeman tuLa been ' 'sup- lax' porting Rep: Kefauver Crwrip haa been - derunmding him The basis of the quafrel is somewhat academic ' to this article but because Rep fauver on 4nany occasions-4icongress has voted the same lay as Rep MArcantanio of Isew York therefore Mr Crimp l'in- - - - - - : 1 - m - ' 4 : H I 111 M or!lbossei"" I t - d Over ar n r t"-'!17- IL 't FT ' tit Press-Scirhit- - 74Lit ear- j 1 - i''''' I ) "r 14111' i Is - - z l'Ait 111' Memphis Lmft41000061"1"mk (4) J41 Vbeel-AUP- s - 1 r-"- -1 bMillommemod""r'S4 VI- - If I rx 1' Ak A f P 7 t :12-"T- ifn Louoptri 7I I ) - Ase - 121--1- fArssAttyprybks:tii AV I tt er I I I —005:t Itt it F I t : - 1 A -- - I '006 Ip- mindiwgt - of a Mr where 'Memphis tem' E H Crump designated is i)o ' boss of the city has ben litical engaging Ini an altercation with editor Edward J Meeman of OA 01sA IOC sb1 that Ketauver has tclrn- munist leanings a somewliat arbitrary classification not leltyk" fried with too much sense CII Notable nen Expooers t f - mists' - :r 0700 ‘eiNoe that the a I - 404 111 - It I 100' 4111 - fz Press-Scimit- - Et - Scripps-1141wnotab- ly - - World-Telegra- m tr1 - 11 1' ew - - - t - 4- ' - 4 -- AY' — 1-1- 5' Nd - - : - The Public Foritr4 - Our Readers - ee I I I - t e ' ' i i 0 - ng - ' er I - I -- - -- 1 I - SENATOR i 1 1 '- - - - - - - I " - - cr:1If 1 1 Press-Scimit- - ar - - : 4 Ir-Edito- l r - r - f t l i - 160-pie- ce - j - I - ' 1 r 1 I - I A British scientist has designed a robot tortoise but fails to say why If it is proposed to match this with the mechanical rabbit we're betting against the fable -- 'f ' ' - 1 e Another childhood fantasies now on the way Ao coming true is that "billion trillion dollars" we used to bet o 1 the slight- est provocation off-th- t r ' - 01 WredseTevn°RKrtgi—ninttAllillintethe ewpo'tellielitr: ill- self-destructi- on ' I e ApaistiMbect 'duel ties i - - 1 lb I - - ' t ' ' - t I - fi ht - - ' I i i f i ' 1 0 ' ' t -- t -i of rr '1 By PAtITL GALLICO - - : t t 7' - a ' i e - 4--"It '3 I I Unique-Ide- t '' Stalin must be wrong about Tito cuddling up to the west and vice versa Even as a polaical bedfellow for war's duration the ' fellow is iremembered the as a porcupine - '' -s - g- ' t - ti--- - I I ' - 4 41li I 7 ' - - i 29174 Although a loyal citizen of his native state and a southerner whose antecedents were prominent pioneers and colonizers of North Carolina Senator Barkley never Tesponded to the title of "colonel" nor reveled in the refreshments of a mint julep Always an ardent "dry" in a land of distilleries said an opponent of horse racing as a form of gambling the eminent Kentuckian retains hit popularity by loyalty to his convictions and eloquence In their support His nomination should 'lend strength to the ticket' especially from the middle south lie :subsequently withdrew from the race - - t - - - r ! "mer-men- 0' - '(1 al and health Salt Lake' s public pools were closed last summer as a result of pressure from medical 'authorities and parentit Strict health' codes calling for circulation and treatment of water in sufficient quantities to allow for a 'complete change every !eight hours: resulted in official condemnation of every city tank 'Wasatch plunge undergoing repairs will open August 1 and Fairmont park plunge with a clean bill of health is expected to be ready for use 14 days later Jordan and Liberty park pools must be reconstructed and may be ready next summer Pioneer and Central park pools also are under' lock and key The greatest feat is that swimming pools will spread polio One doctor has remarked that the danger of infantile paralysis is not nearly as great as the menace occasioned by children finding their own unsupervised swimming in unauthorized places Be that as It may Salt take Clity is doing what it can to modernize its pools and open them as soon as possible 1: i A study by Dr 1I Roswell Gallagher of Phillips academy pool Andover Mass showed that even pools with filtered chlorinated water are not entirely safe He found after seven years of that the number of hospital adiniSSIOnS for respiratory tract infections was cent greater among swim mere than nonswintroers Acute sinusitis was almost twice faa high mumps and measles spread more rapidly among the " But Dr Gallagher reported in the New England Journal of Medicine boys who didn't catch cold in the pool were injured in other athletic events All told nonswimmers spent 7as much t time in hospitals' as the swimmers record-keepin- -- co' '1'-7- r I ' ' public-impressi- - i He taught a small school in Crder to tend la larger one served as judge and was elected to the national house of repiesentativest when 011ie Tames won his race for the senate- - Reelected six times he was the favor- Ite son of his native 'state when a:vacancy occurred in the senate to which position' he has been repeatedly 'returned during the past 22 yea Senator Barkley has been chosen as conkeYnote speaker so many times that itaany biographers have lost ' count He is 0 forceful and convincing orator of the old 7'scheol in which Patrick Henry 'John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay were pist masters On the 2311 of June 1903 tthe struggling 'young attorney was united In imarriage with Miss Dorothy Brower of Paducah Kentucky One son and two daughters blessed the union —one of Abe girls becoming Mrs Douglas MacArthur wife of a nephew of the general and the other Mrs Max-Pruitt: Mrs Alben Barkley died in Washington- in March 1 rmrips Word Duel i - -- - numbers- ':- 1 eB oss 1 C ' - ' 1 Alben W Barkley Ls an outstanding exisra:-bf what American boys have been able to do' in the face of social and financial handicaps üiat less forceful 'Characters regard - as - ? - - - I 1 By Reg Manning ' L es I - - "I 1 - i - ss - - 1: 41 I - 4 fo ' Is the concpt Equally silly ar whic is ' le Scripps-Howar- d 't releapat r 6116 ' would support anyone een I I E010-L ede ' Aor-1 'f1 I Is I frio faintly identified with the tied ' 1 I -- Its 1 I 14 brotherhood The 11r ruzivw papers and 000111 000401015alt ' 41(? here in lsVew York have been notable expos- ' era and fighters-o- f Communist infiltration in thet U S A However ' whati we are con- -' s p cerned with is the novel propdsal T tr!!" L ' made last week' by Mr Crulnp -- 0 1! 14i 61110"" :t4it an impartial committee i '— that 4ple"t e -' 4 rot erof clergymen bsinager':00:00'1"' composed ' PA i"soge ''t:04!71:3 )1t40e s 4 essmen women labor or p'ro- - ' '-tee— MANWS6 fessional men etc look intoiltis 77 000 den7:1PF— Me Naught S3rildicate inc T:re charges against Rep Ketaulet ': ' t If this committee Cfin prtive i them false Brother Crump rt43- poses' to reach for his skimrrer By' I noolle clamp it down over Ala Ten-o-st leave and Memphis ' nth values too will undoubtedGhosts of Past return never never to FORUM RULES ly ber adversely affected There If - on the other hand: itheEditor Tribune: They are 4 of Utahns who are thousands finds that the accuIm-committee secursome in difficulty having of Letters becan be Substantiated di-t-or n tions state live opinions to express this for the United prefer behind-thescening buildings The which with contributors Meeman ps to pack his Mg aus of these values If these ' Nations- organization —'talking chatand house of his may or may not agree dispose about the time the place and Tribune re destroyed il they will transWriters must sign true names tels and shake the dust of Mera-Which brings to the money ' to more desirable er 'addresses ink in letters ! but and places his forever from clogs phis mind the story of the fine and w11l1-bor living m is is food for carried over assumed Faseination4 Certain imposing buildings of the League ' names if requested: thought to thpse- who believe of Nations at Geneva SwitzerLet- used be ill not not what dispo al do know I Poetry to of Utah industrialization land ' ters' may be rejected if they: if that Made of this been will have of recreational thei detrimentl some are accusing thete Today 200 Exceed words (2) (1)' :values is necessary to keep our - original idea broadcast over111 ghostly presences in those discuss religious or racial matradio stations by Mr CrumP's young people rom leaving the 1 buildings which housed one of terst in a sectarian way (3) state mayor by the time this appearsthe greatest institutions ever t ' t coma cridea GroVer carry R has Austad' in print but the partisan political :' ' set up for the security of MEM ' ment or advertising (4) make fascination The tain thought and the peace of the world : A Tragic Error personal aspersions or (5) con- - 1 of a public figure returning home These ghosts are peering from tain' libelous matter obvious incim "Well and at saying night Editor Tribune: If the presevery window and door and misstatements of fact 'pr statethe debate today Pack I lost the ablest of the president's ' rnti trencl of recicing the inthey are the ghosts of all the ments not in accord with fair Get the kids duds your up which America ' advisers 1Clark Gifford also men and boys murdered in the upor stitutions and good taste 'for- sale play and stick that ready re nues s will con to founded tame it two wars They shout in one the same conclusion as house the of in front up sign the northern leaders ' But the suit lid the nost tragic errors We're ghastly chorus: 1'Why did you central Utah irrigitio to is Ashtabula" ' moving project committed b the American't' president did not make up his betray us ? Why did you fail rather pleasing OWn mind until the eve of the huge plan was conceived to carry forward the torch we andThis people As it is now it IS a little too is by a4co1d blooded convention last Friday evening AR opposition to this "wreckflung to you with our dying efficientguided for statesmen political opagency easy governmental when he telephoned with its being disregarded hands? Why did you turn away whose existence Is dependent-- ' ing" Douglas in or persons in the public ponents oratorical-politicthe northwest and and pass by on the other Side flip insulting) pressed the eve to blackguard one another' upon these vast much woncause which place on him ' with flattering while World War II was coming phrases projects No thought except ought to be a littleasomewarmth der about the journalistic ethics There at on ? Why did you crucify the man is law that stake to make given' required by thing of American 'did Douglas already knowing many publishers white angel of peace? Why to the destructive i aspects consider remarks hlst carefullyill was what "tittle space and time given probably coming had you blot out from the world's life before he sprays them into the Propaganda hat generally to efforts of those who oppose long decided to refuse He unGod's dream for the race ? Why ether Man was alwaysa quer- convinced that many anything is made let mention And the president are you now blindly preparing fortunately hardly any and prone not reisome to water lou supply improve )of any group that believes the to see eyecreature persuade him to think it over for World WarIII ? Why do you to eye with his fellows be good and do not anaIn the following 48 hours every should rule stone the prophets of peace' ' must people on a number of subjects but It lyzel results kind of pressure was put on The fdar that another world C N Lund IH seems to me that in days of rire If the Utah projecti Is c war own him to accept mean our would in its present form the he was a little more cautious The first argument was that is prevalent This Make Better World because the custom was then for recreational value of the ento do he would put vigor into the causes !south Uintah slope will be ' naturally what people tire Editor Tribune: contending parties who could not Christianity have preand prevent a Repub- ' Is a universal religion-Iounde- d collectively they campaign the with upresolve their differences to slip ' destroyed together Orlican walk-ovviously done individually: on principles of security and Into their hardware let them- per Weber and Ogden rivers all their and with oppose ganize The dried up stream beds of Additional Argument be hoisted aboard their :selves peace for all people and want evils of the might our all remaining There is not one thing in compractically trusty steeds and have At one IArgument number two the inIts gauses—huge profits for the trout streams will onlY be heat munism that Christianity and with spear and sword another to the death and tended clincher was best exfew 'suffering‘ reminders to thouone or the other was to breaking not are until of ' leaders the churches pressed by Frank Hague who 'palmy! sands of our citizens and tourpresent to corporeally longer fighting for' outside of throw'demodmore needs 'America istsii one cogentl3r remarked that "if the who spent enjoyable ' carry on the argument which ing the rule of reason away fellow wants to be president racy There is nothing needed 'then week' ends fishing and relaxing drove the Jesus changmoney sense terminated automatically to establish ommOn but now's his chance DOuglas would the banks of camping along streams ers out of the temple We have have put every Democratic it! marvelous Proposition Sporting these a long way since then for wildJack A- - McQueen leader in the country in his debt gone Deer and'other : hunting has been quoted' all Ketauver of betterment the people Rep if he had taken the vice presileaderMr as to The have have that Crump's sugsaying people dency now and he can have 'a town cannot hold men of vision and we have that ship gestion whatever he wants four years two men of differing opinions to follow them from now" The paramount aim of life smacks of dictatorship but I PARK HAM By As everyone knows these arcannot go along: with him On not to live for another world is guments did not Dougthis It looks to me likes sportbut to mike this world better las telephoned hisprevail All excellent things are as refusal to the lyric But not up there in "Show and happier for having passed proposition in- which:' it its I I 'beard every word of ing president a little after nine Monas they ' are 4rare true Brother Crump probably difficult this way Boat" day morning (which means that feels he has !some kind oredge S pinoza "Italy' s Communist leader the songs by Cale Page Pegg he rose' before dawn Pacific coast but there is 'nothing te P"vTt urges Italy to revolt Togliatti Eccles and and Mary Enge! time) show Boat side from other if imperialist war comes" It the ' The president who had exnearly blistereci my hands looks like that kind of talk is seconds to the fray to make sure done By it again! They've men the them As for iti reason on pected another answer was both run the rule of the plauding up against '"they" I mean tei energetic ' well Ralph Dumke has no apolOur country right or wrong bitterly disappointed and very public-spirite- d group responsible angry our country We are willing to Cap'n ogies' to offer any former rnp is a jugheada ' The same emotions were and die to preserve Old Glory for !last year's "Promised i Aral- the Andys and Richard Charles' will be- - per- are felt hy the chief leaders of me of : service to the made think voice' E T Shreeve' a Jimmy forming ptiblic fellval 1ey1 and this year's ' the Democratic Organizations Melton and I think Jimmy'i state of Tennessee by &wring Ogden Utah had the I If Boat" "Show ' is That him to move to Mississippi or tops But Kenneth Spencer's why any future talk of of medals forl disting-uishawarding Meeman is Cooperative Housing Alabama getting Douglas off the court singing of "or Man River" has ed service in the public and into politics again is almost me l scratching for adjectives a wrong horse maybe Editor Tribune: It seems to - field of entertainment they backing certain to be empty speculation me that if the veterans were he had better be- - editing some- Now look!-Don'- t would get a diamond-studde- d you go and else The ll S A is large seen l where the in "I've one1 beating really interested Rue Hollow Triumph say' l'to yourself The are numerous and - cost of housing they have roads know a and before I to when I !ShowBoat' high go Ordinarily At the same time what has excellent In my delighted mindea the proper facilities and abilithei Music backwards so I ain't home talent show I suffer for happened should not wholly cast ties among themselves I said to eye I see them packed and crissand with the amateura But on goini" That's what down the progressive Democrossed with bosses ' politkos‘ Many of the veterans are of "Show znYfleit but the missus wanted the opening night ' cratic groups The point to note trained plumbers electricians defeated candidates editorial tCp our she thinks because it's The no did go' I Boat" suffering Is that the chieftains of the statesmen and their writers carpenters architects The ones to such things support duty support our boys and girl's gave northern organizations that aren't could assist in the who stars was highly so we went and boy! are we worldly goods piled up onontop the 'imported a of house work that to of the ole heap moving building picked organization man Truglad!i No matter how many professional from thel opening didn't require skill Why couldn't man in 1944 now sadly rue that other quarters A boon to many times you've seen the show be chorus to the grand finale AB hollow tilumph And they were Industries would be the first re-they organize I cooperative fore you've never seen it In orchestra :started the surt--t- he httilders association and build the principal Douglas men this roadside dinner the as have old such familiar up they a the and setting loverture each others' houses on Saturpark--thtime trailer service station And if stadium the came 'in there forth melodies nostalgic in and their days evenings 1What this means is very simand the real the me like tireccompinies of old the memories of yoti're the you've probably day 'I The spare time collecting instead idea is estate Johnnie& ple and very important a These of me over lot it !Memo anyway theater swept forgotten ol the money it would cost for same organization leaders have national of 2n We: expansion at the New worthy lot "summer ries exaggerated laughed operal labor only the written promise now utterly abandoned the old and particularlY applicable to manner of acting current just England where we put on "Boof the veteran to lend his aid of the turn of the Girl!' Washington which is overthe before "Robin' Hood" theory hemian century big city Inachines vetIn homes the for building crowded bethat any hack was a good erans anyWay and !'Piriafore" and other many heartily laughed freely that had helped him to beautiwas mimicked cause enough candidate Iso I it long as were operas Personally build whenever light his prefer ' they he was 'safe" fully" But there was one- - bit it light opera to grand opera I like ready to build WHAT AM LSASENG In short they realize 'that Which the missus and' the auto to what be understand beable work 'If this wouldn't I safe men are no longer safe candidn't dience but when roared' and I can't By FRANK MORGAN it's all about lieve it would be only because ' was Itoo startled I heard my didates This in turn provides a aren't interested the every word is sung and usually people foundation on which to build a in a -foreign language Now first name bandied about It high With thóIMarhai1 plan- - go enough in overcoming was a love scene between a parto do anything but sit there's another thing i I liked genuinely progressive Democratic prices into effect throughout EuIng son and his sweetheart He pro' around and ' complain about it about this "Show Boat'' productionparty with a sound orit's often struck me - as ---:the A Veteran's Wife liked the lyrics ganizational framework Such a posei and she cries ecstatically singers odd that practically all our "Oh 'Hamilton!" and everybody Clearfield Utah I party of Ms future will no longer enough to enunciate the words foreign relations seem to be shrieks- - How :Would you like be regarded by 'Republicans or Even the women Many clearly relations Which reminds poor Those Streams 'Save thifilc sue should a Do as I the country that? wonien soloists strive so to get rather macabre you me that-witpoor relations it's that : them? An3rway go and 'see usually a matter Editor Tribune: For the good pblitical zonibie—which is what of touch and perfect tone productiona vocal Boat" and enjoy " IH they practically !make r: !I the present Democratic party II of Our state please present the go "Shor '' I loOks like at this convention I other side of the story of the Copyright N T 110416' exercise out of a good song I: I - - i' ' " i - It - - Tr-m- - two-roo- s - i t II I' ' - 'c i and in the Argonne After leaving theservice the 'general gave I 'freely of his time and influence to a campaign he headed for :eradicition of certain insidious ailments that were !spreading to an extent I that alarmed federal tataie health authori- 1—wanted Truman as a "safer" ties Finally he had to relinquish that activity 'organization man They were His heart so brave and strong for more than joined in this by Robert Hannegan then chairman of the fourscore years failed him at last committee—The Doug'1 Born of pioneer ancestors in the frontier I national las junta was managed by amatown of Laclede1 in the state of Missouri on i teurs mainly Thomas G Corthe 13th of September 1860 the general chose '1 coran andheroic) Ickes The Roosevelt did not actually a military career which he followed and in ailing on insist Douglas And the prowhich he rose to- the five-st!constellation fessionals simply rolled over the ' while resisting the relentless encrodchments an amateurs and nominated of imperialism in 16 desperate struggle for survival against the increasing Odes of perloses Interest I sonal liberty and popular government 'Thesesame professionals plus After facing death in many climes under Truman spent forty-eighours to get Douglas to take trying many conditions he! was doomed by disease to watch and wait ten years before' he sur-' - another vice presidential nomination Douglas wanted it very rendered to inexorable fate much ji 1944 He did not want it man of action and not of this time But he took just Although a words he left proverbial counsel to his counenough time making up his mind to place the president in a fairly trymen at the dose of both global Conflicts humiliating position and to dissome three decades apart In 1918 he insisted close Publicly the bankruptcy of : upon "unconditional surrender" and the occuthe Democratic party All this adds up to One of history's neatpation of Berlin before signing a peace treaty When his advice was rejected he predicted I est little jokes if you like to look at it that way another world "war as the aggressors were There is more to it than that not convinced of ultimate defeat however What has happened in the first place permanently reIt came sooner than he had contemplated moves Douglas the most prombut when It was drawing to a close the strickof all the progressive ising en general repeated his warning Although Democrats from active political heeded he deplored demobilization of the life His friends still think his allied forces and urged preparedness as the lichance will be in 1952" But in sober Vt2Uth his last chance was only guardian of peace in an age of atomic now as the story of bombs and guided missiles He wa a great general and a militant ates maneuvering plainly American who rejoiced in the triumph of his Dee de on Douglas troop!' and sought to perpetuate the princi was at least three months It pies for 'which they had fought and bled He ago that the northern leaders died on the 15th of July 1948 within a few held a meeting in New York under Ed Flynn's shrewd auspices weeks of his 88th birth anniversary- An outdecided that Truman's runstanding patriot and soldier has gone from - and ming mate had to be Douglas the land he loved but his name and fame They sent Douglas a message to are indelibly inaribed in the history of the this effect at the supreme court 1 nation and of the world through the then executive secretary of the national commit) tee Gael Sullivan At that time I ' - 10:?)' 7 ar from-lwhic- - - "i - - - - : I ' ' - ! ' - L T ! I ' 1 1 - ' I I - - : - J -- ":' ' j - Demo-eràeks - :JOSEPH & STEWAET AESOP PHILADELPHIA—Fit he Were 'a different sort of man ' one would Suspect JustiCe William IO:Douglas of having purposely 1taken his ravenge on the man :1Jurh denIed il)rn the opportunity I :77! Franklin D Roosebeconling I ffil I Afeit's heir four years ago Too few people now remember I that Pres Roosevelt's choices 'for'the vice presidency in 1944 I Were William O Douglas first 'Truman second S slid Harry I I At that time however the I Inorthern leaders—Ed Kelly of I !Chicago Ed Flynn of New York Frank Hag-ti- of New Jersey and David Lawrence of Pennsylvania r : - - ' i t -- - - Salt Lake City 'Utah known to the world it will be conceded that he justified the honor and trust bestowed by President Woodrow Wilson and bore himself wellamong the heroic figures the great war developed In the face of 'covert threats and veiled insults by the !arrogant- - Clemenceau of France and the impetuous Lloyd Gorge of Britain he kept his forces intact as an Amen-ca- n army enabling his men to demonstrate their courage and fighting skill at St Mihiel - - - s i ' - - 7 Friday 1 - : - i - ' Blunders Spur Democratic ' Party Reform I 1 - General John J Pershing gallant leader f of the American expeditionary í forces in World War I'' the commander who refused to !Permit hil troops to be used as 'replacements In other arrnies- the patriot who preserved ' in history the credit due our soldiers for their service sacrifices and successes in that great conflict has made his last heroic stand and Ins— first surrender on islands of the Antilles and the Philippines on the Mexican border and in France confronted during his active career by Spanish veterans Mexican dragoons Filipino Insurgents and German legions he challenged the ' uncrowned king of terrors on many a bloody field of battle in two hemispheres !?firttilly meet him face to face at the Walter Reed hospital on his native soil and yield his flam-- 1 ing- sword of life to a conqueror no warriorr may hope to vanquish in mortal combat Black Jack'' as' he was 'called by his comrades in the army: after' graduating from 'West Point in iS86 took a conspicuous part In the Indian campaigns under General Nelson Miles by whom he was commended for disA ' tinguished service In the war with Spain he was promoted and assigned to duty as executive officer of the 'military department of the Philippines' t He commanded the United States army in' pursuit of Villa's guerilla band through Inexico and was appointed to the highest post of responsibility with the 'American army in the European alliance and given tlie rank of general General Pershing was decorated by many governments at the close of the first world 17war4 thanked by congress and made chief of he was retired by Presistaft dent Coolidge in 1924 at the termination of his tour of duty In the decade following the Versailles peace treaty' he had been called to Europe every' year( to take part in the un- veiling of some mortnnent to valor or victory until the ardor of aliens gradually cooled to achievements of their heroes and suct dedi- -' cations were discontinued He suffered several serious spells of sick-Leafter his retirement and was reported dying in Arizona a fro' years ago But he re--' covered and until his ifinal and lingering teas was frequentli seen wandering about Washington a lonely :gold veteran never losing his military bearing and impressive dignity although his step was more measured and the grim set of his lips and chin was softened with age and inaction: In an impartial retiospect of the years in which the name of General Pershing was ' - Patriot - a' Great- General Whose Sollit' d Advice Will Be Missed ' - Death-of- - - ' - i Issued every morning by The Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Co - ! THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Ftiday July 16 1948 - 1 - ' ' - - z ' i ' - 1371 13 - i I - - - je- alt ga Itr ri tint Editorials Established April - i ' - - ' - - I4- - c' - '' !! i : 1 ' 1i V - P I I a 1 - N I' '''' w s ' I i ' ' 0 ' i - J ' I I - ' 4tott - ' |
