Show THE GUNNISON VALLEY NEWS GUNNISON UTAn Recent Deaths of Two Men One in the West and Youth Cornerstone of One in the East Recall Days When Ounfighters Wrote Their Names In Blood in the 'Wild West' Germans War Machine Technical Snotcflaltet: Nazi IdeologyfGrooved Into Places In Totalitarian Society West lived again and paradoxically It lived again because of the deaths of two men within the span of two weeks By BAUKIIAGE One of them died in the West New Analytt and Commentator and the other in the East but m C 8ervlc Union Trust Building common Her whole time Is1 given both had once been closely to the Nazi activities But have associated with events in what Washington D C my boy again They worked him so (Thla la '(he aecond of (we article was once known as the “Wild In the youth efimp that he ky Hr Baukhsge on where Ger- hard West of roaring came down with tuberculosis and West”— the to jet Ita fighting many continue cow towns and rowdy mining Hitler doesn't want him I shall manpower) The husky and determined young Sermans pictured on this page are i symbol of the force that made Eon Rundstedt's counteroffensive on it he western front possible-m- ade for the German armies possible tupposedly smashed to pieces in France to “come back” from their stand at Arnhem and on the Cologne plain These boy represent two things: preliminary military training snd second the control of the Nad party over the German people “As the twig la bent the tree's inclined" There are probably seven million “twigs" in Germany today In a previous column I discussed the various Nazi and siilltary organizations outside the German army itself Particularly the great “SA" or brown shirt or ganlzation which after its purge became the Implement for indoctrlns-lioand preparation for military training of the German people I also discussed In some detail the “SS" or Elite Guard now the most first The German counteroffensive on the western front has made It pos sible for another erop of six hundred thousand tough girls and boys to bolster the In IMS army and the (Courtesy— Infantry Journal) powerful factor In the Reich whose function was first to “overcomt ths enemies of the Nazi party from within" end which now haa taken over ths control of ths German armies snd thy protection of ths Nazi stats t from without Through SA representatives right down to the “ward" through ths powerful Gestapo (secret police of the SS) which gradually superseded all police force the adult are controlled by force and threat of force - Take Over Adults Dutiet But perhaps as Important as any Natl weapon today Is the Hitler youth organization whlcb Is ths Nazis grip on ths future Today thousands of Hitler youth art guard tng Installations watching foreign workers performing work which re Uevea men tor ths front Already many have shot to kill All can Tomorrow they will be In the army The youth group! In Germany had flourished tor e long time They embraced everything from the strongly rightist Prussian ized version of the Boy Scouts whose weekly excursions were given over to military games end maneuvers to the religious gToups In the mid die were the "Wandervogel" who despised regiments lion strolled about the countryside an holidays with thsir guitars on their backs sleeping In barns or in tbs open hobnobbing with ths peas ants singing snd also collecting ths id end Just having plain good time The writer him' self spent many happy hours with some of Iht carefree Wandervogel tiem tn ths “Elfel" the very territory through which Von Rundstedt led his chargt Ws talked of poetry love end philosophy— never about war Suffice It to ay the Nazis method IcaUy absolved all of theie groups ths religious movements which wtre well organized resisting as tong as they could Today under Nazi law ths Hitler youth (msls snd female) controls "all German youth within the Reich" I can give you the testimony of one German mother which was whispered Into my ear In 1030 Just before the war broke out “My daughter has gone" she said to me "IV have nothing tn i BARBS o o How ys goln to keep 'em down on jhe farm— after cancellation of ag- THE Old a drunkard can't weep In don't have to be a carpenter make a Venetian blind Juat (tick four finger ta hie efts But can fwt mak a birch bark? You so of have him to nurse at home" Poor woman I am afraid that by this time if he can walk and carry a gun he is at least a member of the Volkssturm the “home camps army" Military Training Begin at 14 When death claimed the Rev Peabody at the age of 87 In Maas Groton newspaper dispatcher chronicled the fact that he had been the founder of the Groton school and its headmaster for many years during which time he had molded the minds and characters of many an eastern notable Including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt But few If any of these dispatches mentioned the fact that this same Rev Endlcott Peabody had once lived and labored in one of the wildest towns in the history of the American frontier — Tombstone Arizona Into such an environment in the summer of 1881 came a young Episcopal minister recently ordained in Boston and what happened thereafter is best told In the words of e man who knew him then and there That man was William M Breaken-ridg- e who was ona of Sheriff Johnny Behan's deputies in Tombstone at the time In his book "Helldo- - 'The tiny tota Join the youth organization at six But not until they ere 13 or 14 doe the real "prep" military training begin for the boya and the serious work for the girls in their separate camps By this time they have already been indoctrinated with blind devotion for the “fuehrer" the belief In German superiority and abject loyalty to the Nazi state Aside from training In sports which art believed to condition e boy for military hardships end actual drill with weapons the “leadership principle" is stressed snd promising youths are sent to special schools (Ordensburg) When ths Hitler youth completes his training he Is fully prepared for whatever Nazi group Into which he He may in due course fits- best become a member of the esoteric SS— the force which under Himmler rules every phase of life in the Reich today II will probably find aome role In the great SA organization In any case he will become e member of some special group perhaps more than one which will prepars him to servs or provide e place for his service In his destined role as cog In the machinery of total war Normally when his Hitler Youth period Is ended ths next step unless the boy is physically disqualified or Id chosen for apccial duties is the Labor Service which is liks the American CCC insofar as It Is concerned primarily with auch work But aa construction and forestry the military training continues As In the Hitler youth organization the young Nazi Is drilled disciplined housed fed and clothed like a soldier When this duty is completed he probably finds himself Immediately But In peacetime or In the army if he is specially qualified there are a score or m£re organizations which will take care of him right up to old age such tor Instance as the Veterans organization in which military Ideas art kept alive One Important group Is the Labor Front which was crested as a check Thera Is ths huge on unionism Todt organization e kind of land Seabee outfit which was created from groups of highway builders tn order to complete the Weatwall Now It Is a vital part of ths army Thers is ths huge People's Welfare agency which collects charities three large civilian auxiliary air ths Nazi Transportation groups Corps snd many more not to mention the host of services under National Socialist Womanhood It must be remembered that all of these organizations stoutly maintain two functions: first indoctrination or If ths perin the Nasi philosophy son is too old or too stubborn to bow to these perverted Ideas ao to enchain him In discipline aa to achieve the tame result Ths second function of the Nazi organizations is to prepare German man snd woman power tor ths nearest thing to a total war effort achieved tn history The effectiveness of this system of militarizing e nation undoubtedly was underestimated by the Allice Ths facts concerning It were availFor example in excellent able compendium of the Nazi groups was published by ths Infantry Journal In Washington called “Hitler’s Second Army" for distribution to and study by the American armed But It was simply Imposforces sible for the normal individual to grasp the degree to which the Nazis had perfected their plans and had by indoctrination from childhood actually turned human being into efficient machine Herr Goebbela father of ties was not lying when he said recently that Germany had become “a warrior nation in the full sense of the" word" by Uaukhage chicken unlike e rabbit has to dye If It wants to lay an caster egg A ricultural deferment!? Eve sit bier Aa between the hare and the tortoise— I'U take the turtle— in my soup a war but you profiteer and can't smoke many cigarettes these days utile you can roU your own You may b own your roll wmr By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Westers Newspaper Onion Taken in Tow at Six Children Schooled in g peace officers and equally outlaws of lusty action-fille- d life and Boot Hill burials i “'I i A DR ENDICOTT PEABODY rado: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite" published by the Houghton Mifflin company in 1928 “Billy" Breakenridge write of "The Fearless Preacher" thus: "His name was Endicott Peabody r II was aboui years of age and full of vim and energy He Immediately got busy building up e membership for hla congregaUon end getting funds together to build e church He was e good mixer and soon got acquainted not only with the very best element of society in Tombstone—and there were some educated people there—but ha undertook to get acquainted with everybody with the mining magnates and managers the federal county and city officials the professional and business managers the miners and muckers the or teamsters and the saloonkeepers end gamblers He soon had e large congregation end had the money donated to build his church When it was completed he had the money to pay tor it and the church has never been la debt aince" now toe Honey Waa Raised An incident which Brcakonridge relates sheds light on the young preacher's money raising ability One day a group ef mining men Including E B Gage general manager ef the Grand Central and Contention mines was titling In a baek room ef the Prospector hotel enjoying e stiff poker game in which frequently as much ei e thousand dollars waa tn the pot ' “Gage was an Episcopalian" writes Breakenridge “Mr Peabody came back where they were playing and introduced himself and asked them for a donation to http build a church He explained that It was something needed badly and the only way It could be built waa to get everybody he poaslbly could to subscribe toward building It Gag counted out about a hundred and flHy dollars from his pile in front ef turn and evaryoa else to I Irkel King Geerge f Greece with his publie relation expert London his la him staying They kept hotel room during the Athena mess —Instead ef ekaylng His Highness' usual routine of making toe London late placaa surrounded y a bevy Cuba' Batista will of beauts settle to BrsrfL V i ' ' r A u ’VPi The Federal Trad eemmlsstoa "yt! is checking up oe endorser of prod" ''44 i ucts la ads Want to find out If too i ' " f'”"V V celebs wh endorse them actually L 4 The reason tor toe use them 'v New York butcher strike is this: ' Gov’t clamped down hard on ' The I The butchers black marketing learned the fine was too high to Episcopal Church In Tombstone Built by Dr Peabody make any profit even St bm fees decided it was cheaper to get the room followed his example pute with the Selmans — Young John They and Old John a out of business than mak wholePeabody waa dumbfounded for an a city policeman rich and themselves poor a salers aa Instant and then told them that it constable who had a record was a much larger contribution than killer himself The result was that Har19 1895 of Add on a rackets: Phones in Florida the for waa August he hd expected buf it night din went down before the blazing are bringing as high aa $300 cash good cause and he knew they would of Old John Selman— from peopl wh lost theirs to too never regret it The “Peabody waa a fine athlete and shot from behind so his friends said armed forces a year ago waa named the official referee in all as he stood drinking at the bar of mobs are eet to run toe bookmakthe Acme ealoon baseball games and other outdoor ing in Mexico and Havana They had been figuring on the brack sufSelman when tried for the killing sports that were carried on by the His denied that he had shot Hardin in fering disaster lor more than a men of Tombstone young Sidney Kingsley dashed decisions were never questioned as toe back He insisted that Hardin year he was known as being absolutely was looking him straight in the eye off a five page scenario in 80 minsquare and he had no favorites He and apparently about to draw bis utes for wMch Zanuek paid him More than a 1000 smackers A $30000 and freloved a good gun when toe constable fired quently attended the gymnasium young attorney named Fall who per minute where he kept himself in fine phys- had just come to El Paso agreed ical condition by exercise he never to assist In Seiman’s defense Years War plant absenteeism Though FaQ recalling toe was a contributing factor toe Washrefused an lnvltatloh to put on the later case told Eugene Cunningham au- ington grapevine la saying that toe gloves with anyone and never was bested" thor of "Triggemomerty: A Gallery main reason for closing the tracks of Gunflghters": was this: congress was preparing Bad Man "Backs Down” "I couldn’t help being Impressed to stick a 10 per cent tax on the Perhaps that fact had something and to track owners (inof one by Selman't appearance when he mutual to do with the " assured me that he had been looking stead of aooperating gladly in view of the bad men who infested Arifortunes of the in the I Selman knew Hardin they’ve garnered when eye tried In he sons those days It well and I felt that he wouldn't lie lately) made ready to fight it to bluff the "fearless preacher" to me and he had all the appearance wae their attitude more than anyBreakenridge tells the story thus: beelse which Irritated the powof man e he what firmly thing telling "In the summer of 1881 the Revlieved It puzzled me so I went ers that be erend Mr Peabody was invited down to look over the scene of the down to Charleston to deliver a serI stopped at toe Acme’ The first Broadway hit ahaw to mon His subject was the evil of killing looked inside There was beat toe jinx of the amusement page rustlers and the door and the a man standing at toe bar and he listing is "A Ball for alphabetical drinking and carousing cowboys lifted his bead Then I had toe ex- Adaao" Many shows that bad Billy Q ay bourn the would-bof Selman's statement For put aa “A" tn front of tot title to man who had killed one or two in planation aa that man stared into the mirthe Inherit of the list flopped top who saloon fights in Charleston and ror I had the illusion for an Instant "Angel Street" was toe exception waa afterwards killed by Frank Lesof looking him straight in the eye” for a long time The commies lie in Tombstone heard of the serFaU'a explanation was ta Indianapolis Xrio and Buffalo mon and sent word to Mr Peabody Apparently to the jury for Selman last waek started theiv campaign to that if he ever came to Charleston convincing was freed discredit Hoover with e naagain snd preached such s sermon era tional amaar attack "Few of the gunmen They say he Claybourn would come to the lived past the turn of the century" N Y Timas' critic Brooks Atkinchurch end make him dancs an editorial on toe passing oi son (now in tot hospital after a long told the man who delivered says Albert B Fall which appeared in session covering China’s part ta toe the message that he expected to re- toe Chicago Daily News recently An war) doesn't want to resume turn to Charleston in about two exception to that statement is Pat He prefers doing weeks and would preach a ser- Garrett slayer of Billy toe Kid the something important such as Ms remon that he thought appropriate with the 21 cent assignment His excellent reand if Mr Claybourn would come to notches Thatgunman killing made Garrett porta ere credited with actually Inthe church end listen to it and then a national Three times he figure U S policy ta toe Orient thought he could make him dance was elected sheriff of Donna Ana fluencing to try it In 1901 county in New Mexico Facee About Town: Libby Hol"Peabody was known to go into President Theodore Roosevelt apman toe blues the saloons snd heirpointed hint collector of customs in ess who Is and go up to the gambling-tablequietly backing Broadway El Paso Texas Then he retired when they were in operation with hows Band chief Joha Kirby from public life and took up rancha crowd around them and say 'Genin New Mexico He had a dis- $3000 wealtMer after winning a litlemen I am going to preach a ser- ing over some bel action from a Pittsburgh writer pute trifling matter with mon on the evil of gambling Sunwho cast aspersions on Ms draft a comparatively unknown young status day night end I would like to have Canary Bernice Parks you all come to the church end liscurrently at toe St Regis who will ten to it All who could get away decorate Life's pages as went to bear him Ha had large gal She haa 18 fur coats audiences always" Her match book covers featura Less than two weeks after the photos of her feller Horace death of Dr Peabody the wires carMacMahon one of the stage’s caparied the news that Albert Bacon Fall ble serving toe natlop by deliverhad died at ths age of 83 in El Paso ing war bond speeches— wMle waitTexas The news of his passing ing for producers to com to their i served to recall briefly a great nasenses Milton Boris who at tional scandal In the recent past-h-ow this tsrdy time is feuding with Senator A B Fall of New MexJo E Lewis over the song "Stm ico was appointed secretary of the You Made the Pants Too Long!" Interior in President Harding's cabApparently after reading toe “Fight inet how he waa one of the chief or Work" edict i figures in the Teapot Dome oil case and how he became the first cabiStory ef toe Week (By Dr Ellsh K net officer In American history to A King): Do you remember the serve e prison sentence for a crime Indian Juggler described by William Again few if any of the newspaJlazlltt in one ef his famoua essays? per accounts gava much space to his The Juggler waa perfect In throwing career as a young lawyer In the end catching brass balls— keeping Southwest or told of his associafour In the air at once That was tion with aome of the notables of his whols stock In trsds but It was the frontier Yet be was the attorthe he bad Seeing a number best b ney tog the defense who won freeof peopl go to the Shrine of the dom for the slayers of two famous man earned Wayne Brazel and on Virgin Mother bowing preying etc gunflghters— both of whom illustrate he became Interested and wented to February 29 1908 a ahot from the truth of the aeylng that ended the career oi worship Finally he went In "he who takes tot sword perishes the Pat Garrett squatted in front of the Mage end great by toe eword" Brazel waa tried for toe killing performed It was the best be had One of these gunflghters was John to offer end acquitted His attorney waa Aand doubtless acceptable Hardin of Texas possibly Wesley I mention lbert Bacon Tall "Few of the men this because of a the most notorious killer In toe en- who knew these gunmen or who saw report from Guadalicanal describing acts of the "Wild West" and a them alive remain alive today" Christmas evening service Father credited with 40 notches on bis toe Dally News editorial Gehring celebrated midnight Mast 39 of them before he wae Fall knew a lot about many of but no one could play Chrlitmss 31 years old tham It was popularly believed In music A soldier had gotten email The 40th notch— it wee Deputy to Southwest that he might if he organ from somewhere but no on Sheriff Che rice Webb of Brewn chose ahed light on mysterious cir- could pity It However on man put Hardin in toe penitentiary cumstances f°u"d wh0 knew only on tune surrounding the sudden He employed them tor 13 years demise of number of them But Ylddlsher Mem" to he played usefully studying law and after his If he could he didn't And that with release In 1804 he hung out hie shin- his death another colorful With the heavena for a root Mass segment gle In various Texts towns ending ©t frontier history grow was said In Latin a Jewish fainter boy up to El Peso the following year and recede farther and farther played the on piece he knew and There he became invelved in a dis Into the fabulous several hundred Protestants Cathopast" lics sad Jsw knelt and listened ?" M i " nr '' ssi synthe' Ue of lynthet 0fld Wetsfioli portwHorf and telephone cobl me eomervation by Cerpe ef the ho 12 rubber In the flnt pogj J bll Th Importance el tire to the aa is indicated — 45 2 Par hound end 69 per outbound freight In f U carried by motor cenjy iViiro (State iMkfltV that n Ceenb mak aaey problem hd CoDstipatioa can Bnderuil and confidence Txkt ) j Earned (NRTabieti)C4 hemlalsiu minenii)w tivstivesNKTsblsiniL' act different Purely apt aomblnstion of 10 wptibli J note formulated ont K TJneoatsU or ssady webe' action is dependable tiumr gentle as millions af Get a 25 Corner Ktvea Take only ssdiW N rONCHf T00HCi CUE WORD ron ACID our ef a cowboy fapltal was a town of lawlessness and law alooos and schools gambling halls and churches lurid malndrsma and It business routine red lights and altar candles The Rev Endicott Peabody educated at Cheltenham and Cambridge In England and now recUniversity tor of the Tombstone Episcopal church is anxious to have the churcbyajrd fenced and takes up a Collection for the purpose His con- - rogation Gm Crystal pastor' (hair com-- disappointment and with menu send the Rev Teebody the kitty from the night' ply the kitty comprising chips taken out for all hands above two pair The Reo Peabody return not of polite thanks and tha church fenc U bun — Walter Noble Burn In “Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest"Doubled Pg Co( pub!Uhffl The tsdloraclrs: Heymong Whew CDS Scet- Tslk about is it week dropped orchftrt twork $250000 ta two inherited by which Of trouble yeere) Milt more then wae the vpot Hrth'e Copca-bsa- has only three Ted Adams acting “We the Peop- l- booking It hd GROVE’S COLD Ilodgklns the for y pro Because Adam sum- taed nesr where the srle Unded —for 23 years EWrthfui gTtrn- - T ) p tt dull liomett Clas liwij prompt Bed TABLjl! Keep th With War Betti ItiiVfliiiir pw' ScouE““T-natural A 4 D t!l3U‘'a to kelp build soldi end minor smi sound tasting Scott dW J? no f 11 "TUMS'd fall gives meager! playing poker ta to Palace leans ef to good Mere tf r SUCGT - albert I INDIcrr J Gamblers Helped the Rev Endicott Ruild His Giurchyard Fence Tombstone was unique among to frontier towns that have achieved lurid distinction in the history of to American West It had according to ita legend ita man for braakfast every morning but it was touched with the refinement of eld and ordered communities It waa Isolated In an Artzona desert but civilization waa just over to horizon A mining town In toe heart of a cattle country it had to plctureaquenesa of a boom silver camp end toe col mn Sr - r 'dAUD1 hr t icrtt |