Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 261, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1927 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. "M. A. MAYBOUN. Bus. Mgj Member of the Serlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * * Client of lie I'uiied Press and the NEA Service * * • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week * •, • PHONE—MA in 3500.

No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever—Constitution of Indiana.

FIXING AN ALIBI There is nothing new or even ingenious in the scheme of certain legislators to spend a few thousand dollars for national “survey” of public -service (ommissions and the control of utilities. - It is an old trick. It often works. Just as shrewd burglars find it convenient t manufacture an alibi in advance of their crimes, la v makers often find it convenient to create plausib excuses for the people back home. The plain truth is that the utility lobby is vc. powerful in the Statehouse and that it would be pc nctly happy if conditions and laws are allowed ; remain exactly as they are for another two yea; They could go home, draw their fees and get t (hanks of the Insuils and others who hire them. It is an even more evident truth that there i widespread dissatisfaction with the workings of tin public service law and such protest that the mis guided would even go to the extent of abolishing tin commission and taking a chance on getting justic from city councils or mayors. Justice compels the statement that howeve kind the public service commission has been to tin utilities the Federal courts have been even more gen erous. None will deny, however, that the utility con; panies of this State have no fear of the commissio: and that the agents of the utilities are fighting harde to retain the commission than they fought its es tablishment when it was created as a protection so the people. “ The proposal that the Legislature give five o; its members a nice assignment to journey over the country during the next two years, at State expense of course, merely jmeans that the utility lobby believes that many legislators will hesitate to go home without making at least a gesture toward amending the present laws. This would furnish an excuse that would be plausible. The legislators would! explain that they did not want to be hasty and desired to know what other States are doing. They hope they would not be embarrassed by any citizen asking if they did not already know what the commission has done in Indiana. What they want is the old alibi and they will trust to luck to save their standing in their own homes. They know that the people demand some redress. The people are already asking why the Legislature refuses to investigate the open charge that the present commission is dominated through a huge campaign contribution two years ago, a charge made by a responsible official of this city. They know that the people would like to drive th£ utilities out of politics, or at least make it more difficult for them to control politics. They know that the utilities have been in politics, are in politics and probably will stay in politics. What the people want is only a fair deal. They do not want to try their cases before prejudiced •bodies. Instead of delay of two years for an expensive junket or survey or excursion or what have you, the legislators might more profitably spend two days in trying to discover amendments which will restore confidence of the people In the principle of public control of public utilities. At least, It ought not to be permitterto furnish a shelter for the timid or hesitant. Straight votes that will show either corporation influence or the lack of It will be much more Illuminating. The people have a right to know where their representatives and Senators stand on public questions. Ten thousand dollar alibis are too expensive. THE DEATH PENALTY At a time when crimes of violence are increasing in number, the proposal t oabolish the death penalty for murder in Indiana will probably arouse debate and nothing else. Asa matter of fact, the people have practically abolished the death penalty, except in those occasional cases where sentiment in a community is aroused to an unusual degree by a peculiar atrocity. The argument that its presence in the law actually results in lighter punishments than would be inflicted were life sentence the limit, has a real basis of fact. That is always true of any law which provides greater penalties than are supported by public opinion. The same result is noticed in liquor law violations where juries that might convict if the penalty were a jail sentence, actually acquit when the charge brought brings a term in the penitentiary. While the people may approve of the theory that life should be the price of a life, it does not work out that way in practice. Very few die in the electric chair. Nor will the statistics indicate that the fear of death penalty has any direct result upon the number of murders. The States which*liave uo such penalty in the law have no more murders than those in which it may be inflicted as punishment. From the broad standpoint of humanitarianism, it is tragic to think that after seven thousand years of written history, mankind has devolved no better protection for itself than legalized taking of life. Less than a hundred and fifty years ago AngloSaxon justice executed boys for stealing. We have made some progress since then. Public opinion is always just ahead of the law. FORD’S BILLIONS We can read that Henry Ford is worth two billion dollars and feel no sense of outrage. Too much money or too much power in the hands of any human is, of course, bad. As Lincoln said of slavery, no man is good .enough to be another man's owner. ' But the wealth of Henry Ford is not,like the wealth of some otffers. It is not wealth extorted by monopoly, it is not wealth built on the wrecks of small businesses, victims of ruthless competition and economic bludgeonry. It is not wealth sucked from the pap of special legislation. It is not the Svealth, leeched from usury. It is not sweated from -basement tenement workers. It is not extorted in rents from tenement dwellers. It is not won by blackmail or even got by a lucky bet on the stock market’s roulette wheel. Nor even is it the lucky find of the prospector. The Henry Ford wealth is the reward of a man who has worked out one of the greatest inventions of

his time and who has placed that invention in the teach of every man, woman and child in the United States. It is the reward of a poor man with vision and determination. ' It is the reward of a man who sees it is good i usiness to pay good wages and give time to workers a recreate. It is the reward of a man who broadeus his mar•i by lowering the price instead of cheapening the o.luct. It is the reward of a man who shows enterprise, t also self-restraint; who is not afraid to try new ’as and apply new principles in the face of the aids skepticism. It is the reward of a gentleman who squanders s money, not on women and drink, but on old dnning wheels and picturesque relics out of a poetic st. Two billion dollars! It's a lot of money, Henry, You're welcome. IF YOU DRIVE A CAR Drive an auto? Ponder, then, the Latin-American situation. Argentina, according to a Washington dispatch, s become the chief foreign market for American ude tires. The next six leading markets include three LatinHuerican republics—Mexico, Cuba, Brazil. Now you, of course, want auto tires and tubes ■ii be manufactured as cheaply as possible. And heap manufacture depends on mass production. And mass production demands an increasing export consumption. What if bungling diplomacy in Washington destroys this country's commercial advantages to the south? An economic boycott against the United States is dready being a’gitated in Argentina. An economic slump has already been caused in Mexico: SpanishAmerican wrath over Secretary of State Kellogg s attitude toward Nicaragua and Mexico is growing daily. All of which would seem to affect the America*! auto owner vitally. Not only does Latin America oiter the best automotive export markets but Latin America is also the pontential source of this country’s crude rubber supply of the future. Two government commissions are right now- studying rubber culture in Brazil. Your next blow-out should remind you of Secretary Kellogg in more wavs than one. THE COLLEGE WAY When scandal appeared in basketball and the ugly rumor went out that bribery had been attempted to corrupt the players, the head of Franklin College demanded a grand jury to investigate. Not only a conviction 'of innocence, a clear conscience and a high sense of honor, but a belief that the way to cure evil is to expose It must have inspired this brave and courageous action. How it must have thrilled those members of tiie Legislature who allowed a party caucus to deliver their votes against a resolution to probe charges of wrongdoing, definite charges of corruption, specified acts which had brought State-wldo distrust and suspicion to ro<l of this action. They must have been impressed by the difference between this ringing demand for an inquiry and the effort of many under this official cloud to suppress and hide and smother all inquiry into State affairs. What would have happened had the State officials named in the resolution of inquiry been in the same position as the basketball players and the college organization at Franklin? , Would not those named in thafresolution, those implicated in the charges w-hich aroused the State, been pounding at the doors of the Legislature for vindication, just ns this college president demands an official exoneration? The college way seems to hq somew hat different from the official way in Indiana. Perhaps after this demonstration of the path to public confidence, the officials who w r ero named in the probe resolution will ask, next week or the next century, for some investigation which will, if they be innocent, vindicate them in the public mind. THE GOOD OLD DAYS in London recently a man died from trying to eat a dinner too big for his capacity. This set certain people to comparing modern menus with the meals eaten by our ancestors a few hundred years ago. We have hardly half the eating capacity our ancestors had, they report. True enough. Apple pies, in the. old days, were real pies, nearly big enough to fill a dishpan. An Englishman didn’t consider his dinner official unless it had included five or six kinds of meat and a couple of quarts of very filling beer. Read Rabelais for an idea of the staggering lists of sausages, tripe, pot pies, roasts, fricasees and so on that graced every table. Then think of our modern business men’s lunch—a baked potato, glass of milk and small piece of pie.* Verily, a glory has departed from the world. People knew how to eat in those days. Another regiment of the leathernecks is on the way to'the Orient. That makes two regiments over there. We still have a regiment left to use if the Mexicans get enthusiastic. There's a movement on foot in New Mexico tf> rename the State after Coolidge. They might call it Calico. And they could change the name of that famous town to Calbuquerque. McAdoo says he isn’t aiming, at the presidency. That needn’t keep him from going after the Democratic nomination, however. Now that two men have conquered the Catalina channel, some 10-year-old school girl will swim across with an anchor under each arm and towing a boat. It is best to have a couple of marines on hand when there are so many thousands of those rough foreigners. Today's definition: College—A place where young people go to study suicide.

. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Tracy

Sproul’s Dry Bill Will Not Pass Honest,

By M. E. Tracy. Representative Sproul of Kansas has prepared and introduced a bill w hich breathes the real spirit of prohibition. It provides for assistant United j States attorneys and dry commissioners in every county and city with a iH'pulation of 25,000 or more, I makes jail sentences mandatory for first offenders and forbids the sale and manufacture of liquor as medi- j j cine. The bill will not pass. It ,t too honest. Whether the ; American people favor prohibition in ' name, they certainly do not favor it j in fact. There is not. and never was a ma- j jority in this country for straight- ! forward “dry*’ enforcement. Sprout's bill discloses the genuine article, the water-tight mind, the intolerance, the bureaucracy, the ruthlessness, which redl prohibition includes. For this precise reason, it will be snugly put to death. Radio, Ore Finder Ore bodies can be discovered by ■ radio, according to the corporation \ j department of California. Thus wc ' take another scientific step, while ; ! an old and romantic trade passes j into the discard. Where the lonely prospector used to gamble with fate for fortune and j sometimes for life, the engineer will I go forth with battery and loop to j find the bidden secrets of hill and ! dale. "The device. says Corporation j j Commissioner McMillan, “is model-, i led after a radio broadcasting sta- i | tion and set up on the area to be j examined. High frequency current induces secondary currents in the ! unknown ore body which are dej tedeii by an apparatus similar to I tlie loop used in radio sets." Europe Hates Us It is a gloomy message that Gen. Peyton C. March brings back to the j United States from Europe after a ' five years' tour. He says we are cordially bated over there. What a European na* ; tiou wants most is a "strong man" | to help it beat Uncle Sam. Debt, restricted immigration and i prohibition. What a comment on our part in [ the war, on the gratitude of a world ' which we Undertook to "save for 1 democracy.” If Benito Mussolini, Primo do Rivera and Mustapha Rental have come to embody Europe’s dearest 1 hope, ;ts General March declares, ! what was the shooting all about? t is possible, of course. that : General March has misread the sltuI ation in spite of his shrewdness, that underneath the superficial symptoms ; of hate and distrust* there runs a kindlier feeling towards us and a ; truer understanding of our motives. If not. we certainly wasted a lot of money and life. i Sparing the Rod Two youths were whipped in a Dctroit court—one by his father, and I the other by a sister. They had been i convicted of stealing an automobile : radiator cap and chose to be whipped | father than go to jkil for sixty days, j The important point is. are we rc- • turning to corporal punishment. If jit is good for a courtroom, then why j isn't it good for a schoolroom? Apparently the switch has been | spared for little kids only to become ] a strap for larger ones. Does this j represent good sense, or childishness running true to form? Isn’t it quite I possible that if we made children . mind better in their early years we j would have less trouble with them later on? - | Red Tinged China j °ut of revolution, China is bccom- . ing coherent. To a measurable ex- | tent the confusion has resolved itself into a struggle between two major factions—one represented T>y the Cantonese government and the other by a coalition of war lords which lias been formed around the tottering Pekin government. It is tho north against the south,. Russian influence against that of “capitalistic” countries. Borodin is in Canton intriguing for the Soviets. While several eminent foreigners ! are trying to .steer the war lords as more conservative governments would have them go, within the next few days there will come a great, if not a decisive battle. The Cantonese are moving Heaven and earth to get possession of Shanghai, while North China is making just as great cfTorts to prevent them. Huge armies are being mobilized oil tiie banks of a convenient river.' Euch side is hurrying forward all tho reinforcements it can muster. The Pi cscncc of a British fleet and some thousands of British troops is feared more by the Cantonese than their native opponents. It is obvious strategy to force battle before more British arrive.; We of the western world find it hard to visualize a great or important war in China. Our teachings are at variance with such a conception. We have grown to regard the Cinese as a vast, inarticulate multij tude. That is because we ignore j some chapters of human history. Big events and strong men have originated in eastern Asia, Napoleon believing ,they might do so again. And Napoleon was no fool. MAN, 81, SHOOTS BOY, 13 Fired Shotuguu at Youths He Says Were Teasing Hint, Bu Times Special ELKHART, Ind., Feb. s.—Cecil Skaife, 13, was recovering today from wounds received when Henry Vescelus, 81, Civil War veteran, fired a shotgun into a crowd of boys, who he charged were teasing him. Vescelus was arrested on a charge of assault and battery. More than 160 shots were picked out of the boy's back.

It Looks As- If the Referee Had Made a Bet on the Outcome of This Scrap

Ona B. Talbot Puts Answer to Future of Symphony Concerts Up to the Public

i~-iIYK years ago Ona B. Talbot I P I organized the Indianapolis t 1 Symphony Society, with the promise at that time that she would assume all responsibility for the annual series of three orchestra com certs for that length of time. This season marks the time limit set to ascertain if the music going public of Indiana and Indianapolis really desired great orchestral music, and in order to give to those whose practical support and loyalty during these five years has enabled Mrs. Talbot to believe the desire had been created, one qf the rare evenings of music only offered in the great cosmopolitan centers, the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra bf 107 men with Leopold Stokowski famous conductor was engaged for one concert during the short tour of one week, on Monday evening, Feb. 21, at a cost of more than $5,000. The attendance at tho Philadelphia Orchestra concert and the Cincinnati Orchestra with Fritz Reiner conducting. Sophie Braslau, contralto soloist on Monday evening, April 18, must be the answer to the question —Does Indianapolis want great orchestra concerts? The Philadelphia Orchestra, founded in 1900, numbers 107 virtuoso musicians under the leadership of Leopold Stokowski. It has an endowment fund of nearly two million dollars subscribed by 14,000 citizens of Philadelphia in amounts ranging from $1 to a hundred thousand. It plays to capacity audiences at home and abroad, and has a waiting list of over one thousand people for its New York performances alone. It is controled by an association of subscribers to the Philadelphia concerts, and is thus a democratic organization. It has been incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania and has had the same president since its foundation, Alexander Van Rensselaer. The Philadelphia Orchestra has had three conductors. Fritz Scheck was with it at the beginning. At his death the choice of conductor fell upon Carl Pohlig. His successor was Stokoswki, who took over the leadership in 1912. and who has brought the organization to its present standing—as greatest orchestra in the world.

Bible Quiz

How much do you know about the Bible? Look over these questions and see how many you are able to answer. The correct answers appear on Page 14. 1— What incident in Biblical history is illustrated in the accompanying picture? 2 How did David end the famine which lasted three years? 3 What was the name of the giant slain by David? 4 Which of his sons did Isaac love most? 5 Why did the Lord cause Uzziah to be leprous? 6 Who restored the life of r'aljitha? 7 Did Moses enter the land of Canaan? 8 — What men did Christ take with him to watch His transfiguration? 9 Who ordered Athalia slain? 10— From what book of the Bible is this taken: “I am Alpha and Omega, tho beginning and the end," the first and last?

TWO of the five Sunday afternoon concerts in the Murat i__J Theater, under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. will be given in February. Sergei Rachmaninoff on Sunday afternoon, Neb. I’, will present one of his famous piano recitals and Roland Hayes, famous tenor, will again give pleasure to his hosts of friends and admirers on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 20. Rachmaninoff, like many of the great composers, first won fame as a soloist. His present :our is, therefore,, of special interest as it will setve to present more intimately his genious to a great and increasing number of American admirers. Rachmaninoff is now at the height of his power. Not only is he justly regarded as one of the foremost living composers, but Ins magnificent playing stamps him us a truly great pianist as well. There is nothing peculiar or freakish in his appearance, and distracting mannerisms are absent from his performance. He plays without affect." tion of any kind. Tall, rather bread of shoulder and with sober face, he sits at his instrument and plays upon the emotions of his hearers. A wonderfully clear and certain technique- is at his command, and through it he speaks tho language of the heart, for Rachmaninoff believes that in music "the heart is all.” Program follows: Andantino and Variations. Sclinbert-Tausis: Fautaisie. "Wanderer" Sehubirt-Liszt (Hi Intermezzo. Op. 118 lb) Ballade Brahms <a) Rondo. Op. 16 lb) Nocturne (c) Waltz Chopin "Fairy Tales"— (a) F minor. Op. 26 Medtner (b) B minor. Op. 30 Medtner Frelude Rachmaninoff "Rakoezy March’..* Liszt Members of the faculty of the Irvington School of Music will broadcast the following program from station WFBM from 7:30 to 8:30 on Wednesday, Feb. 9: kVocal Duet—“ Serenade" Tosti , G. Conte and A. Conte. Voice- , "Solvejs'a Sonu" Grieg “Mattmata ’ Tosti “Lass With Delicate Air” Arno A. Conte. Tiano —First Movement of "Sonata Pathetique” Beethoven “Cavalier Fantastique” Godard M. Smith. Violin— , , “Legend Wieniawski “Obertass" Wieniawski Elise McClure. Voice—- “ Shepherd's Song" Godard Whistling—William Hogle. Reading—Alice Copper. SHE fourth lecture in Oscar Seagle’s Master Class Course for Voice, being held at the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will be given on Sunday, Feb. 6, at 2 p. m. The subject will be: “Spirituality in Singing.”- This hour >vill afford opportunity for all who wish to attend concerts scheduled for that afternoon. The final lecture of the course, “Tone Coloring and Shading,” will be given Monday night, Feb. 7, at 7 p. m. Mr. Seagle is singing In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on the tenth. OHE second semester of the Indiana College of Music opened on Tuesday with an increased enrollment and new classes In harmony and theory have been formed. SHE Studio Club will meet on Wednesday night, Feb. 9, at 7:30 p. m. in the auditorium of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. This is open without charge to all students and music lovers. Mrs. Lenora Coffin will conduc/ the meeting and the subject will be “From Song to Symphony.” Folk songs and dances, art songs, opera and oratorio illustrations will be given. Miss Norma Mueller will give German folk songs, Miss Louisa Steeg, Italian opera; Bernice Showers, ' Dutch shoe dance, and Marian Weller, the Highland Fling. Mary Pauline Smith, the country gardens, and : the violin will illustrate the Tatantella. On Monday night. Feb. 14. an advanced students’ recital will be given at the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. The students are Maxine Rue, Lepha Wilson and Maxfne Vander-

grist, pupils of Bomar Cramer; Katherine Schwindler and Marion Barr, pupils of Frances Johnson; Mrs. Sweeney and Martha Martin, pupils of Glenn Friermood; Albert Keep, Haydn Frye and Frances Robbins, pupils of Eleanora Beauchamp; and Carl Frye, Charles Buckley, Gladys Power and Herman Slutzky, pupils of Ferdinand Schaefer. Ruth Todd of the dramatic art department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will give a program of impersonation in the high school auditoriuny, at Connersville, Thursday evening, Feb. 17. Miss Margaret E. Delameter of the progressive series piano studios will present her pupils In a class demonstration and piano recital Thursday, Feb. 10, 7:45 p. m., in the Irvington Masonic Temple. The program will be as follows: “The Elephants” Vandevere Scott Jackson, Jr. “The Monkeys’ Vandevero _ Do Armand Doeliez. The Lion Vandevere F.ugene Mack. •Frolics of a Fairy Night" j... Heller Gatharine Caubls. "French Child's Seng" Behr Rose Louise Wald. "Cherry Time" Faeth Virginia Austin. "Darling- Heart" Deedig Rosa Lena Voeller. "Spanish Dance" Behr Caroline Stone. "Mercedes" Tone Picture Virginia White. "Dance, Dolly, Dance!" . .Reinecke Jano Hennessy. "The Daisy" Kroeger Bobby Joe Vestal "Playmates" Wetdig Helen Osterhage. "Tyrolienne" Bummel Marie Smith. "The Traveler's Song" *.Oesten Elnom Morris. Song of the Lark" Tschaikowsky Dorothy Jane Fulton 'Minuet in G" Beethoven Millieent Cummings Gypsy Rondo" .Haydn Stanley Johnson Berceuse from "Jocelyn" ..Goddard Dorothy Wchlermnn. "Minuet in G" Beethoven Edith Marie Overtree. "Second Vaise" Godard . iris Boyd. Spring s Approach" Kroeger ~ Florence Janitz. "Air de Ballet" Lemont _ , Helen Rasener. Prelude in "C Sharp Minor Op. 3, • No ’ ~ ’ 4; ••,■ • • •, Rachmanioff Martha Jackson. Class Demonstration—"Carnaencita" Tone Picture Rhythm Orchestra. SHE A. S. F. Club of the Irvington School of Music will hold a meeting at branch studio No. 2, the home of Mrs. Mabel Cradick, 606 Drexel Ave., at 3 Sunday, Feb. 6. Those who will furnish the program are Helen Owen, Mrs. Cradick, Gertrude Conte, Adelaide Conte. Mr. Saffran, vocalist, and Mrs. Glenn Kingham, reader, will be guest artists. IISS NORMA FRANCE, contralto, daughter of Mr. and —J Mrs. Thomas France, 2110 N. Pennsylvania St., has accepted a position -with “Tho Vagabond King” company, which recently showed (Turn to Pago 7.)

In Recital

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Catherine Wade-Smitli

The Matinee Musicale will present Catherine Wade-Smith, violinist, in recital at the Masonic Temple next Friday, afternoon at 3 o’clock."

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Work

When to Take Out Double With Bust and No Long Suit.

By Milton C. Work The pointer fob today is: With a bust and no long suit except the one doubled by the partner, the double should be taken out. In yesterday’s article, consideration was given to the case of a doubled suit-hid of one when the partner of the doubler held five cards of the suit doubled and no other strength. It may be stated as a broad rule that a Business Pass of a doubled suit-bid of one is inadvisable, unless the holding of the suit doubled contains unusual strength (e. g., Iving-Queen-x-x-x) and the hand has one side trick. Os course, there might be some freak holding, such as seven or more small cards of the suit, which would justify a pass; but rules aro not framed for such unusual hands. An example was given yesterday of the much more trying case when the doubled suit consists of hut four cards, and all the other suits of three. Under suefi conditions a No Trump may he the best declaration when the doubled sujt is surely stopped; but when the doubled suit is not stopped, a No Trump Is very dangerous and a pass much worse; if the doubled suit be Spades, Hearts or diamonds, the refuge left for theJ unfortunate player is to make the™ cheapest declaration, which is two Clubs. The double'*, should be aware of this possibility and should exercise great care in bidding after his double has been answered by two Clubs; although the chances are, when two Clubs Is bid in answer to a double, that the bidder has at least four Clubs.

When Clubs Is the suit doubled, an answer to the double Is called for from the holder of the hand given yesterday, viz.: Sp.: x-x-x. Ht.: x x-x. Di.: x-x-x. Cl.: x-x-x-x. his cheapest take-out Is one Diamond. Whether he should make that bid, or another one which might be more dangerous, but would be more informatory, is doubtful. The other bid is two Clubs. To bid two of the doubled suit shoiws four cards of it and a complete bust. It denies the strength for a bona fide bid of two because with such strength, a No Trump or a Business Pass would be made; and therefore it tells the doubler that he must extricate himself from the dilemma his double has produced. Whether this bid should be made in Clubs is doubtful, under similar conditions in Diamonds it would be still more questionable, and it surely should not be made in a Major as it may force the partner to a declaration so high that disaster ensues. (Copyright John F. Dille Cos.) Work the international authority on Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the game for Times who write him through The Times" inclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any quesor information by writine Bl.rTm? 1 , !Jo!, ar l? poli ?, Times Washington Bureau. 1J23 New York Ave.. Waghinea?ivioc Pl marital sssyss* sx&sy *%rsts All letters are confidential.—Editor. Who painted the picture "Tlie Horse Fair?” Rosa Bonheur. How long after deserting his ship In the United States Is an alien seaman subject to deportation? Ihe Act of Feb. 6, 1917, provide that any alien seaman landing in a port of the United States contrary to the provisions of the act shail he deemed unlawfully in the United States and shall, at any time within three years thereafter, upon warrant of the secretary of labor, be taken into custody, brought before a board of special inquiry, and if not admitted, said alien seaman shall be deported as provided in section 20 of the act. Where did the Christman tree originate? . Therejare hundreds of legends con-’ cerning the origin of the Christmas tree. Some attribute it to Martin Luther, who. wishing his wife and children to realize the beauty of the snow-covered forest, brought a little fir tree Into the room and covered it with candles to resemble a snowladen tree. Another older German legend makes St. Winfred the inventor of the Idea. It is said that in Ins crusade against the pagan Druids he cut down a giant oak, the symbol of their worship. In France there is a romance about a hero who finds a gigantic tree whose branches are covered with burning candles and on top a child with a halo around his curly head. In Scan dinavia there is a very old myth that tells of a service-tree, sprung from blood-drenched soil where two lovers were killed by violence. On certain nights during the Christmas season mysterious lights were seer flaming in its branches and no'wind could blow them out. There are other legends, but it is quite certtain the German emigrants brought the cu.itom of the Christmas tree t America. How many nurses who served fn (he World War are receiving com pensatlon? For service in the Army, 1,518 and for service in the Navy, 132. What Is the language of Bragil? Portuguese. What Is the average age for eik (ranee to high school In the United a Slates? ( 13 or 14 years. \J* J. ' W hat is (he re!a(ion be(ween M population of New York City im2 the United States? According to the 1925 State ren,3i| nia of N’.av Yml, Cjfy 'jj