| Show t Fag THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE JUNIOR SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 14 1930 Four Little Stories of Great Events- - Gun Powder in' Europe’s Wars RAMON COFFMAN School Hours Make Necessary Work §chedule By 4t 3 In this article Ramon Coffman the early nse of gnnpow-ilc- r In Larope’f wars and the cawere emwhich cannon rious ployed in conjunction with the methods of fighting drarribra Six centuries ago gunpowder began to come intd use In the wars waged In Europe This explosive appears to have been Invented In Asia probably by the Chinese The Saracens carried the knowledge of It to Europe At first the Europeans used gunpowder as a plaything— for the makThen someone ing of fireworks gained the Idea of using It for killing were At an early date mortars made These were short cannon with wide barrels They hurled large stones for short distances Mortars were clumsy to handle Although they might cause terror to "the enemy’’ thev seldom did serious The French learned to damage make small ’’cannon’’ which could be better aimed These had long narrow barrels some were small enough and to be carried by a slnRle soldier ’’ n The were called could be well aimed and could hurl balls to long distances Metal balls were molded and these took the place of the stones used In former times Powder Causes Heavy Damage In the year nil the Duke of Burgundy had 4000 soldiers who carried n and later years saw give say to the the hand-canna arquebuse heavy and clumsy type of musket The cannon and muskets were now Not such a long point list tills week due to the fact that we had no special contests and also perhaps to the fact that this material was submitted just at the time that many of our members were putting the finishing touches on their vacations and so had little time to think of any kind of work no matter how pleasant The awards are rather well distributed however and add points to many hand-canno- scores You will no1 ice that Aide Arthur Butler is back from his vacation v ilh a clever new comic strip which is strictly K of Y We hope that now that school is in full swing In most places our young artists poets and essayists will arrange their sihcdulrs to allow for a definite period of Tribune Junior work each week "hand-canno- were more like muskets than like modern cannon The use of gunpowder brought alxUt slow but Important changes In the methods of warfarehand-canno- n Knights Well b Melded Dining the gieatrr parts of the middle ages knights archers and were common on the fl Id of battle Knights were covered with armor sometimes In the form of metal cast In su h shape that It would cover the bodv 'ometlmes In tlie foim of men-at-ar- coats-ol-ma- ll was usually formed rings slaked together ina such a manner’’ that they formed ll The strong "cloth was especially designed to cover the trunk of the bodj but many knights employed It to cover arms and legs A coat-of-m- of metal The cannon and muskets were to the knights coat-of-ma- as well Ey means of their solid armor and metal cloth the knights shielded tlvmseKes from arrows Stout shields were their best protection against spear thrusts wore a An hers and men-at-ar- reitain amount of armor but were not so well protected as the kngihts and crossArchers used long-bobows to shoot arrows toward the other side Tlie used swords and pikes and were In the thick of the close fighting Most armies of the middle ages also had slingers — common soldiers who hurled darts For a long period after the beginning of the use of gunpowder the knights archers slingers and still took part In warfare Hie cannon worked damage but not enough to enable an army to do without the methods of men-at-ar- men-at-ar- warfare As time went on the however Thev were Cannon were Improved made in such a manner that tiiey used to do heavy damage to the knights and the knights learned that It was not safe to come on the field of battle Bullets tore through their armor and caused wounds or death The day came when knights stayed away from battles they still amused themselves with tilts or sham fights but they did not stray where bullets were flying Pistols were invented A pistol could be held in one hand and could do deadly work at short range Only one bullet could be fired from a pistol before reloading The double-barrelpistol and the revolver were much later inventions To set off the pistols muskets and cannon torches and flint sparks were used The firing was rather slow but even so the firearms were much more dangerous than the old-tiweapons Another Important change caused by gunpowder was the ending of the ed now used to do heavy damage In the old Importance of castles days a baron who caused a stone castle to be built was fairly safe from attack With the coming of gunpowder cannon balls tore holes in the castle walls and the defenders were forced to surrender Ruined castles in many places In Europe bear witness to the power of Oliver In England gunpowder Cromwell used gunpowder to blow up numerous castles and for the ast three centuries those castles ave been of no account except as Interesting ruins In modern times gunpowder and other explosives have made warfare more dangerous than ever before During the World war more men were killed in a single week than during the entire American Revolution The deadly results of modern warfare have been partly due to the use of poison gas If another world-wid- e war should ever take plaqe poison gas and explosives dropped from airplanes might destroy the large cities of the earth i Application for Membership in Knighthood of Youth Knighthood of Youth Editor The 8alt Lake Tribune I want you to enroll me as a member of the Knighthood of Youth and I enclose 13 cents which I have earned myself to pay for my first button ribbon and chart I pledge myself to be strictly honest In filling out my chart Name Parents’ Name Age Date of Birth Address (Street) Grade in School (City) (County) Name of School Date of Filing Application I Earned Thla Money CvaewMWewT: i by (Explain in detail just what work you did) (State! w Copyright 1930 Publishers Syndicate ) Novelist’s Life Given in Sketch James Fennimoie Cooper was bom In Burlington New Jersey on September 15 1789 He studied at Yale but was expelled before gradOther things he knew beuating sides books and hts intimate acquaintance with forests and sea furnished him w ith the material for his He served in the novels later on navy until about 1812 retiring just our before He war with England then settled at Cooperstown New York and became a farmer At one time he made the boast that he could write a better novel than many of those that were popular at that time His wife held him to his boast and he produced "Precaution’ a tale which was not especially distinguished as it (dealt with English high life with which he was wholly unacquainted In 1821 Cooper began to write tales of adventure dealing with his own He wrote “The Spy" and country was Immediately recognized as an au’hor of ability In the 20 years that followed he wrote many books dealing wllh frontier life In America PAGE CLARISSA PETERSON '50 points) Bountiful Inner this neck re Point Arthur Butler Halt Lake com'e strip 300 AUrsiiret Dudley Salt Lake cross a or cl 200 100 Jllope Ntlson 8i!t Lake story 100 sale Park Logan story 100 Lois Milton Green River story UK) Margaret Dudley Salt Lrke story 100 Hope Nelson Halt Lftke poem NaldA Richardson Loan esay li0 Dorothy Robcrtnon Halt Lake snapshot 100 Cortnne Durham Bountiful snurnot UK) 100 Hope Nelson Ball lake JrawiP7 Eureka Wanda Heilman intcrtsUng SO fat t Helen Reeley Fort Duchesne Interest50 ing fact Josephine Stone Obrien Interesting fact 50 r0 Margaret Dudley ©alt Lake article 50 Hope Nelson Balt Lake article r0 Vlma Bleri Jtrome Idaho article 50 Charlotte Paik Tremonton article 50 Andrew Gardner Mona essay 50 Janet Higgs Bini'ham Canyon poem 50 Tomoko Watanuki Midvale drawing 25 Bernice But Junction rector Balt Lake comical Margaret Dudley 25 uner Mcr’e Maxwell Fort Duchesne conirrl 25 cap 'T 25 Mona comical caper Myrl OeTdner nonsense Hufh Milton Often River 25 rhyme Marie Robinson Delta nonsense rhvrne 25 Fern Ivy Gardr er Mona nonsense ri yme 25 Helen Ruth Saunders Cearfitld non75 sense rhyme M anon June Lee Tooele nonsense rhyme 25 Margaret Dudley Salt Lake non&tn&e 25 rhyme Roberta Colburn Aberdeen Idaho bright 25 saying a Rue Arlene I Fairbanks Duchesne 25 bright snrjng Tomoko Watanukl Midvale bright say25 ing Lucile Peel Mt Pleasant bright say25 ing Janet Higgs Bingham Canyon bright 25 saying 25 Betty Cowan N phi bright savin" Ad laid Rmetti Salt Lake bright say75 ing June Neilson Holladay bright saving 25 25 Hope Nelson Blt Lake bnpht saying 25 Cleo Fail Ornnaeville essay 25 Fern Ivy Gardner Mona poem A dell perse 25 Salt Ike drawing 10 Bessie Pack Lo"an essay 10 Vc’ma Bierl J rome Idaho poem A dell Perse Hi Balt Lake drawing 10 Velma Bleri Jerome Idaho drswing — 4 COMICAL f — —— —— Ik t -- V 4- CAPERS ) — I Comical caners may be submitted at any time boints are awarded for each one publihed THE WRONG STORE On our vacation we stajrd at a camp on the Provo river On the way there we decided to buv some peanuts at one of the small towns we passed through Finally we came to a small town and daddv stopped the car I saw a building I thought was a store and I said "Let’s go in there ” "I should say not” said my sister Then I looked avaln at the "store and this Is what I jaw on the winTwenty-fiv- e dow 1 Mortuary Caskets for Sale MARGARET DUDLEY Salt Lake AN EASY SOLUTION When a friend of mine was teach- ing school In Cedar City she had a little boy In her class who couldn't tell when to say “sit" and when to say "set” At last she said "Johnny If you had company at house which would you say jour ’Sit down' or ‘Set down?’ ” ana Johnny thought moment and swered "I'd sav ’Have a rhrir”’ KNIOHT MASTER MERLE MAXWELL — Fort Durhesne A J r- COOPERATION One day when my twin Miter Maurlne and I were about six months old I did a comical caper We were sleeping together In our crib When daddy came home he went Into the bedroom to see whether we were awake Guess what he 'aw! Maurlne was still asleep but I was wide awake sucking Maurlne'r fht Age 6 Mona 4 MYRL GARDNFR The only pure white mnnkej now known to exist was recently brought to London s |
