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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHOS NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Part on mVWVfTVWTTmTTVfTTV MEW ? ASK ME ANOTHER gave the name Em- an address delivered in 1784 as to the state of New York? being at present the seat of empire 2. What is a Rhodes scholar? pire. 3. The portraits of what two 2. A student awardwomen have been used on United ed a scholarship at Oxford uni1. Who YORK. In 1929, at the age Frederick H. seventy-onPrince, the Boston banker, was still States postage? 4. On what date does the govplaying polo. He has great faith in the durability of ernment fiscal year begin? , Time Better men, institutions 5. What do the Four Horsemen Than Reform and governments, of the Apocalypse represent? 6. What secretary takes precefor Business as long as they be have themselves. dence in the Presidents cabinet? He left for Europe to forget about The Answers business for a while and intimates 1. It is attributed to George that it wopld be a good thing if the Washington, who mentioned it in government would be similarly neglectful. Washington should stop to reform business and leave trying the situation to time, he says. of for a Days Skiing. Off Thrilling Winter Sport That Is Popular in Our Mountainous Regions with the feet obviously cannot be Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C. WNU Service. AMERICAS skiing season is A on. Snow and weather conditions are right and railroads are publicizing the accommodations of their special ski trains. When one has learned to enjoy it, skiing wins arKaffection akin to that of a golf addict for his game. No other sport, to a skier, is so much a matter of self. Skiing is essentially a solo performance. f A sportsman writes: In my own limited experience, I have tried many sports. Polo has its tremendous thrills, 'but, after all, the horse does much of the work. Sculling has its charms, but also its labors. I have never ridden a free surfboard. Perhaps that is as thrilling, for the sport resembles skiing. I have soloed gliders. Soaring cerBut even there, tainly is tops. the machine introduces an impersonal element. I suppose the first man to stand on the top of Everest will have a feeling of personal achievement beyond that of any other mountaineer. But in a more humble way, every skier who stands at the top of a beautiful, unmarked stretch of new snow, waiting for the clean, Sowing track of his own skis, experiences that exaltation. It is like being .the first one out in the crisp frosty air of an autumn morning. The skier gets a chance to breathe it before anybody else has breathed it. . Racing on Skis Is Thrilling. Racing has its place. It is a thrill to see a confident runner come streaking down a narrow trail, cutting a hot corner by a graceful quick thrust with his heels and an almost instantaneous skidding of his skis, which changes their course or to watch a skier in a slalom race, riding a steep slope in easy schusses, checking his speed with broken cns-tieor tailwagging, taking deep or soft snow in a graceful telemark, or steered turn. Some racers crouch very low to keep their center of balance near the ground. Others ride erect and s, confident. The most experienced make their control movements so easily that they seem to float while the skis do the turns. Tempo stuff, that, the acme of controlled skiing. But a person alone in the wilderness, finding a pair of skis and knowing what they were, could find fun long before he found technique. As a child on the Kenwood hills behind my home in Minneapolis, said a skier, I learned to stand on skis, then to walk on them, then to run on them, then to slide on them, and then to stop and maybe fall down on them. No matter what language one uses to name it, that sequence is about all that skiing is. I used to crouch down when I was afraid of falling. It was 25 years before I knew I was doing an Arlberg crouch. I still lose patience when I hear some fairly good veteran chilling skier the ambitions of a would-b- e with a display of ski terminology. Yet even the most group of novice skiers, each owning skis and harnesses from which price marks have not rubbed off, will register derision when they notice some uninstructed girl or boy with a pair of store skis having only the leather loop, or toe strap, on them. is a word of open scorn. Children always have learned skiing with only toe straps. .Grown people will find for themselves that toe straps are good for nothing exeasy slides. A cept straight-aheawhich do not turn skis of pair kind-heart- Toe-strapp- er d, ed controlled. When a grown girl attempts to d shoes it is abski with surd. When she falls, and twists her ankle, as she well may, her suffering is just a reward for her stupidity. Girls, however, must be credited with much of skiings popularity. Many no doubt became interested when attractive ski costumes were made available. They looked so swagger in the clothes that they had to carry on, buy skis, board the snow trains, and become skiers. And when all the pretty girls were going on the snow trains, they were not going alone. Said an I have no intention of ever running the full head-wa- ll in Tuckerman ravine on Mount Washington. My racing days are all behind me. The only skiing championship I hold and cherish is the neighborhood championship won for riding down the vertical pitch from the high tee by the bridge on the Winchester (Mass.) golf course on a single ski without falling. To have the worlds most extensive network of trails, more than 300 miles of them, as New England has, guarantees its popularity as a mountain runners paradise. Many of the existing trails, despite the effort to classify them as and intermediate, expert, novice, vary so much from day to day with weather and snow conditions that under certain circumstances even some of the novice trails will scare the beginner. New England Trails. After all, how much multitude appeal is there in mountain trails with such reassuring names as Hells Nose Chin Clip, Highway, and ThundeDive, Wildcat, rbolt? Those are actually the names of five New England trails. They have spectator appeal. People would want to go and watch others risk their necks on them. Obviously, if a steep mountain trail has plenty of turns, a skier will automatically slow down when he makes the turns, or in trying to In turn he will fall harmlessly. either case, he has killed the speed which can be so dangerous. A mountain trail with such frequent turns would not be fast enough for Olympic-calibe- r racing runners; most of the New England trails were laid out to the according preferences of racing men. Fortunately, New England has not netstopped with its work. Skiing, like golf, requires facilities. And communities, sensing the winter business possibilities, have undertaken to provide suitable open slopes, woods roads, new connecting trails, slopes which can be floodlighted for nighttime skiing. The snow trains, which brought 35,000 skiers to New England ski areas during the winter of 1935 have created an interesting new problem. It is difficult for the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, for example, to locate areas near enough to New York for a one-da-y excursion train trip, where the snow is sure to be satisfactory and where the skiing terrain can accommodate thousands of skiers. Week-En- d Snow Trains. ' The first regular snow train was run by the Boston and Maine railroad from Boston in 1931. That winter these trains carried 8,371 passeners. Last winter they carried 24,240 passengers, 80 per cent of whom were skiers. Being nearer the more mountainous section of New England, the Boston and Maine has a wider high-heele- old-time- r, down-mounta- in down-mounta- in down-mounta- choice of one-da- y in snow train des- tinations than the New Haven. However, New York has solved that problem by introducing the week. . end snow train. e, Time has treated him nicely and he may well give it a testimonial. At seventy-ninhe is the grand seigneur of American business. Only four years ago, he engaged in a g slugfest over the control of Armour & Co. He got what he was after the chairmanship of the board. He has many such trophies, having controlled 46 railroads, and, in general, one of the biggest cuts in the American dream of any man of his day. His (mainly liquid) fortune is estimated at around $250,000,000. But, for many years, Makes Point he says, he has of Being in made it a point to Debt Always b about $20,000,-00- 0 in debt. That is revealing in connection with his ideas about money and success. He emphasizes the dynamics of money. It isnt money unless it is working. Stagnant money just dries up and blows away. Hence you draw cards even if you do have to drag a few chips for markers. Hes a little too heavy for polo, with a massive gray head, deep sunken, pondering eyes, and heavy, gray moustache; a bit grim, perhaps, but not formidable. When, early in October, 1929, a small black cloud appeared on the horizon, he viewed it with a telescopic eye, saw it for what it was, and got out of the market. The cyclone never touched him. Until a few years ago, he was still riding to the hounds at Pau, in southern France, master of the hunt. He has marble palaces here and there, one of them the former mansion of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, at Newport. Remarking that he has been in business 55 years, he says this little squall will blow over in two or three months. e, these days, the colleges compete for tuba players as well as athletes. Dr. Walter Albert Tuba Aces Jessup deplores Prized Same this and other phases of the as Athletes scramble for students in the annual report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, of which he is president. The fight seems to be entirely in the field of activities. No mere scholar gets competing bids from rival faculties. Since he became head of the Carnegie foundation, in 1933, Dr. Jessup has been a consistent deflationist, so far as education is concerned. He wants fewer and better students in the colleges. He assails the colleges which would teach anybody anything. He is against educational trimmings, excrescences and gadgets, as the little Scotch ironmaster doubtless would be if he were looking over the current scene. Other leading educators join him in this, but the big mill has to have plenty of raw ma- Bratn Mul terial, to keep on Needs Raw grinding, or else become just a Material crossroad plant. So they go after even the tuba players. At any rate, each can blow its own horn. Dr. Jessup was president of the University of Iowa from 1916 to 1933. A native of Richmond, Ind., he was educated at Earlham college and Columbia and gathered several honorary degrees in later years. He was superintendent of schools in Indiana and dean of the college of education of Indiana university. He has won high distinction in the educational field and is the author of a book on arithmetic. One gathers that he would not recommend Benny Goodman for a college faculty and that quite probably the next Carnegie report may find adversely on the shag, the eep-e- r He is for low and the susy-kicking and high thinking, as against the prevailing reversal of this formula. non-Engli- sh versity from a fund which was established by the will of Cecil Rhodes. 3. Those of Martha Washington and Pocahontas. 4. The government fiscal year begins July 1. 5. War, famine, pestilence, and death. 6. The secretary of state. into a spread of unusual beauty. In pattern 5908 you will find instructions for making the square hard-hittin- HpHE reason isnt quite clear, but, A Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects shown; an illustration of it and of the stitches used; material requirements; a photograph of the square. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th St., New York, N. 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