Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • • Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally 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.

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FRENZIED FINANCE In the race to get a decision from the public service commission before the State Legislature can give those safeguards which experience has shown the public needs way of amendments to the' law, the men who are putting the two light companies under a single ownership are showing that they are skillful students of the art of frenzied finance. They brush carelessly aside that provision of- - law which limits the capitalization of merged companies to the total of the outstanding capital of the units. The petition before the commission itself is the best evidence that the method proposed of having,, a third company buy the two old companies is a trick and a subterfuge to evade this law and load the people of this community with a burden of many millions of securities. They are seeking to issue more than fifty millions of dollars in bonds and stocks. They calmly ask the guardians of public interests to authorize them to sell thirty-two millions of dollars’ worth of new,-bonds. They want permission to sell these bonds at ninety three cents on the dollar. There are twelve millions of bonds now - outstanding against the two companies. They propose to buy money at 93 cents on the dollar to pay 100 cents on the dollar for these bonds. They also ask that the public make those 93cent dollars into 100 cent dollars immediately, as is shown by their parade of figures. In a word, the trading of these dollars on the bonds alone would give these financiers, not electrical experts, nearly a million dollars as the wage for this part of the financing alone. There can be no mistake as to the ultimate purpose of these men. They expect those fifty-five millions of bonds and stocks to be worth at Igast their face value. They expect the public to pay on this basis, although the law says that when companies are merged and thrown together they shall not be capitalized at more than the combined capitalization. That is the trick. That is where they take millions of profit at the start and expect to keep on taking interest for all time on these fictitious dollars which they are asking for permission to issue as a mortgage upon the growth and welfare of this city. Asa matter of fact, the immediate profit is nearly four millions of dollars. But the big grab, bigger than even this, lies in the price which is being fixed as the value of the companies. They are seeking to take now the expected increase of value for at least a decade. This city is interested in having these companies thrown together, but not at such a price for such a service. The whole theory of public regulation of public utilities is based upon monopoly. It is wasteful to have two sets of lines running : through the streets. It is a waste that should be stopped as the city grows and there is an eager competition for the new justness. The people know that they must pay the cost and the interest on extensions and improvements. That is right and just. They should not be compelled . to pay interest and the cost on duplicated sets of : vires and duplicated sets of machinery. There should be some way of accomplishing this • without paying such extortion to the financiers who ■ nd here a pleasant and profitable field of exploitation. If the theory of the law is carried out by the •ommission, the companies should be combined at i fair price and on a fair valuation; not on war prices md inflations that have come through no effort of any ope connected with either concern. The duplicate materials and machinery should be discarded and sold and its burden upon the public amortized as quickly as possible. Whenever there is useless duplication, it should be eliminated and that burden lifted. Instead of such a program, there is presented an appeal for anew huge burden for trading dollars, anew mortgage upon the future of the city, anew ax upon every resident of this city. It is rather pathetic to listen to arguments from lawyers as to the power of the commission to give or not to give such permits as are now asked. Just plain common honesty and decency would suggest that the commission at once inform these financiers that the law in regard to mergers can not be avoided or evaded, that the companies should at once merge according to law, that wastes be eliminated and that the people receive the benefits frbm he monopoly thus created. SAME OLD STORY As expected, the Supreme Court of the United tates has decided that the people of this city must on paying high rates for yvater. Once more it is demonstrated that the theory of regulation of public utilities, hailed sb the cure for the greed of utility magnates, has been twisted and turned until it protects the companies and gives little relief to the people. Asa matter of law. the court is probably cornet although two outstanding members of that court it is merely legalizing undeserved profits which are collected from the people. 4 The thing that happened in the water case is vhat is happening to evei-y utility. It wants to collect its war profits from the people, turn the increase of copper and iron and steel into dollars on which the people must pay dividends. The fight is always unequal. The men who have millions at stake or in prospect are able to corral the most agile legal brains, the best political wire pullers, the most skillful of technical experts who can produce exacty the figures and the evidence and the influence they desire. The people, unfortunately, have few champions ind theße always at a disadvantage in resources. Under the latest decision, the water company will > ollect its rates on a basis of nineteen millions as a valuation of its plant and properties. It will collect a the canal built by the people of Indiana. Unfortunately there has 1 been no effort to translate into law the real basis of justice on which rates should be collected. Those who embark in public utility enterprises do so by sufferance of the public. They become, in theory, partners of the public when they use the

public streets. They are not on the same basis as commercial enterprises und Industries which must compete In open markets for their business and which must add brains and executive genius or Invention to their dollars In order to gain public favor. They not only use public property as the basis for their business but deal in necessities in which there Is no competition. This is particularly true of the local water company. It is unfortunate that the search was not directed to the original investment in this plant and the actual dollars which men put Into it. That would make an entirely different story than the now legalized nineteen million dollar valuation. How much money went Into these properties from the outside since the water company began to function? How much profit was taken out of it during its history and how much was built from money collected from the people? How much would the people have been compelled to put up or borrow to create this enterprise had it started under public ownership? There is the figure which would form, it might seem, the real basis for fixing rates. Instead of that there Is much talk of the cost of reproducing the lines today, at greatly Increased cost of materials and gigantic increases in wages. The dollar a day paid for digging and laying pipe lines for lines still In service have become four or five dollars today. The cost of pipe has increased several times. And now the men who have done little except hang on and hire some efficient gentleman to do their collecting and hire other men to build lines, come in and get the right to tax the public for every dollar in Increased cost which comes from the wprld war and the foray of the Kaiser. That is the story, now becoming an old one, all too rapidly. Greed seems to be In the saddle and riding hard. The original purpose of regulation is all distorted. The courts follow precedents. The public pays and pays and pays. We all are potential fiction writers, says an Eastern professor. He forgot to add that this trait is especially noticeable when the Income tax blanks come. Well-known last lines: “It worked Just fine last night until 2 o’clock, but tonight we don’t seem to be able to get a thing.” found in the Mediterranean Is capable of fifty miles an hour. Stories like that must be getting to be universal. Now we learn that the Maharajah of Indore has been in this country three weeks without Indorsing a single cold cream. Sir Harry Lauder is in America on a farewell tour. These annual occasions are getting to be quite a pleasant custom. * Headlines you never see: “THERE’S NO CURE FOR IT,” SAYS CRIME PREVENTION LEADER. Famous seats: Stock Exchange, Board of Trade, Senate, pants. It has been twenty-eight months since E-all and Doheny were indicted. It took seventy-six years to build the pyramids. Today’s fable: Once there was a Senator wasn’t a poor boy on a farm.

MORE THAN ONE ROAD TO CHICAGO By N. D. Cochran

Writing about keeping out of the Mexican religious controversy recently, I said: “My advice to both American Protestants and Catholics is to mind thenown spiritual business and keep out of politics.” Somebody pertinently asks why any citizen should keep out of politics because he happens to be either a Catholic or Protestant. The sentence wasn’t clear. What I meant, of course, was that they should keep their religion or their church out of politics. Any Protestant, Catholic or Jew has a perfect right to take part in political government as a citizen, and the right of one is as great as that of another. When any citizen permits his religious prejudice to Influence his vote as a citizen he is running contrary to the spirit of the American Constitution, which undertook to save this country from any union of church and state. The chief objection to the Ku-Klux Klan is its assumption that white Protestant American citizens have righs superior to those of other citizens. If the Knights of Columbus were to take a similar position as t<J Catholics it would be as objectionable as the Ku-Klux Klan. _ Protestants have a right to think anything they please. So have Catholics and Jews. Thought is one thing that is still free in this country. It is fortunate for family peace that neither husbands nor wives can be forced to tell what they think—sometimes. Any one has a right to think his religion is the best, but it is none of his business if his neighbor thinks otherwise; and there is no way to determine scientifically whichTs right. In traveling from New York to Chicago one may take any of several routes. Some may prefer the New York Central, others the Pennsylvania and still others might like some other route. But it's nothing to get excited about; they will all get you to Chicago. The object of all religions is to get you to heaven. The chances are you'll get there if you deserve to, no matter which route you take. So it’s nothing to fight about. And it is not the business of any government to pass a law picking out which route you must take. But that’s what happens when in any State there is an established religion. When there is union of church and state freedom of conscience is gone. Protestants in this country want to seek salvation in their own way. The antl-Cathollc movements grow out of a fear that the Pope of Rome is going to "make America Catholic” and then force all of us to take Catholic route to heaven. Cunning politicians play upon this Protestant fear, stir up religious prejudice and ride into office on a turbulent and unreasoning wave of fanaticism and bigotry. The protection against any church forcing its scheme of salvation on those who don’t want it is to preserve the religious liberty of all American citizens to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences by insisting always on the absolute separation of church and state. And that means any church. Control o# government, or the State, by Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, or any other church with an American pope would be quite as objectionable and quite as dangerous to freedom of conscience as control by the Catholic church with its pope at Rome. Control of any church by the state la Just ai objectionable.

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Tracy Fall-Doheny Counsel Was Over-Anxious About "Revelry,”

By M. E. Tracy “Revelry,” by Samuel Hopkins Adams, is supposed to have created a Nation-wide scandal by revealing the Inside story of the Harding Administration. - People all over the land, but especially in Washington, are supposed have laid aside everything in order to absorb its raw details and deductions at the earliest possible moment. Under such circumstances it is hut natural that defense counsel In the Fall-Doheny case should have been apprehensive of the damage this book might have done their clients andishould have questioned each and every prospective juror as ' to whether he had read It. None or the twelve good men and true had disqualified himself by peering inside the awful volume, while only two had even so much as heard of It. Like many, other people, the eminent counsel overestimated the pull and popularity of a scandalous book. -I- -I- -IBritain Changes Easily Great Britain is no longer an empire, but a sisterhood of nations, a collection of autonomous states bound by allegiance to a common throne. The change, though of a basic effect, is not only brought about In a space of weeks, but without the slightest commotion. It Involves a degree of surrendered sovereignty for the mother country and a degree of Independence for the provinces which history teaches us has been worth wholesale bloodshed in a dozen instances. Great Britain is able to alter her fundamental law in this way because she has no written constitution, because she accepts precedent, custom and public opinion as her guiding Influence. We could not get rid of the eighteenth amendment to our Constitution as easily as Great Britain has substituted a loose federation for a highly centralized government. + -|. + - "Main Street" at Work Two things happened in Rowley, lowa, Saturday night. First, there was a storm, with the snow drifting from four to six feet deep. Second, Willy Rowley, a lad of 5 years, was taken desperately ill. with an immediate operation as the only hope of saving his life and with the nearest hospital twelve miles away. It was at 9 o'clock and when the blizzard was at Its worst that telephones began to jingle all over the countryside. Rowley was calling out her men and Yearns to break a road for the ambujance. It took six hours to do the job, but they did it. That 1 is your "Main Street” town at work, your Rotary spirit with its sleeves rolled up. -I- I- IRadlo Progress After experimenting for ten years with a short wave length, William Marconi has perfected a radio system which will throw words across the Atlantic at the rate of 1 300 a minute and from stations about onetenth as costly as those now in operation. He says that this discovery Is more significant because of wh’.t It promises in the transmission of power and photographs thar. In the Immediate saving of time and expense. Speaking before a distinguished gathering in Rome on Sunday, he painted a fascinating picture of the economic, political and cultural possibilities of his new system. Far as we have gone In the last twenty-five years, we stand on the edge of more brilliant and alluring fields than have yet been explored. You he skeptical of this when such men as Marconi tell you so. -I- -!- -IWhich Is Which? Mussolini will found a school to produce an intellectual aristocracy, while Moscow will found one to produce clowns. It Is hard to decide whether the serious effort is -a Joke, or whether the joke Is a serious effort. Many a critical situation has been saved with a lough, which seems to be what the Russians have in mind. Many a good job has been spoiled by overdoing It, which seems to he Mussolini’s greatest danger. -I- -I* -I' Mother-Teachers Having turned down the $35,000 Nobel prize on the ground that his readers supplied him with all the money he needed, and having disposed of Gene Tunney, who criticised one of his books by advising him to rewrite It, George Bernard Shaw gives the public something else to think about by declaring every schoolmistress should have a baby. The town of Twickenham, It seems, dismissed the head mistress of its girls' school because “her responsibilities as a mother of a 7-months-old baby were incompatible with her school duties.” "Twickenham Is near the river,” says Shaw, “and the sooner Twickenham people put their education committee in the river the better. It would be far more sensible to refuse to allow any woman to become a teacher unless she has at least one baby and looked after it properly.” This Is a controversy that has plagued school authorities ever since came to play a predominant part as teachers. Paradoxical as it may seem, the opinion prevails that those who have no children of their own and who, consequently, know least about them are best qualified to train them. In several States it Is equivalent to signing her resignation for a school teacher to become a mother. The prevalence of old maids In our educational sj stem Is one of the things that m kes It so difficult for parents to cooperate. Motherhood and eplnsferhood are simply not strung on ths same wire.

Rosie O’Grady Is Charleston Now, So Declares Pat Rooney in His Revue

By Walter D. Hickman The family name of Rooney Is closely associated with that of Rosie O’Grady on the American stage. For many years the family name of Rooney has been glorified on the stage. And the memory of both Rooney and O’Grady is being brought back

this week by Pat Rooney, Marlon Bent and Pat Rooney the third. Rooney, as usual, has surrounded the family name with such talent as Towsend and Bold, a dancing team which knows the difficult trick of proper dancing; by Muriel Stryker, an Oriental dancer of merit; by Anita N 1 et, Mildred Bums, Van Joyce Sisters and others who know what

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they are doing. Rooney, with his famous pair of dancing legs, brings back the memory of Rosie O’Grady, with a thought of the other days. And tnen he brings Rosie up to date by announcing that "Rosie O’Grady is Charleston now,’’ and that gives him a chance to turn his dancers to hoofin’ that popular step. Rooney makes much alio about his son, Pat, the third, and he has a right to do just that, because this lad at least owns a pair of sensitive dancing fee* which is no reflection upon the name of Roonpy. Sometimes Rooney has asserted his personality in too strong a dose, but this season he is the artist who has a family name to protect and honor. And he and his upon the stage are doing Just that with the well timed assistance of Marlon Bent. But I believe that in face of nearly as perfect an offering as Rooney is giving this season that his musical director and pianist are taking too many liberties In the orchestra pit. The pianist seemed to take delight yesterday afternoon In telling by facial expression what ho thought of things to a friend in a certain seat near the orchestra pit. The orchestra conductor of the act, not the regular Keith conductor, seemed to me to rather emphasize his ' own importance by both words : -and direction. As far as Pat Rooney and his as-1 soclates on the stage are concerned. I never have seen Pat Rooney and those with him appear to better advantage lately. Billy Hallen has an individual comedy routine which requires some time to "soak in." Yesterday afternoon he had much to say about certian thfrigs going on in the orchestra pit. It may be a part of the act, but it didn’t appear so to me. Again the two concerned In this was Rooney’s director and pianist. I don’t quite understand “this freedom.” The Three Kemmys try to make! posing and acrobatics a symphony. George Ford and Flo Cunningham j have use of material furnished by I Jack Lait and Blair Treynor. And so the material is individual and is individually delivered. The Three Abbey Sisters hive a vocal offering with a dash of piano that is a real treat. A mighty pleasing act. 'Raymond Pike has his own idea about mixing dancing with Juggling. Pleases. At Keith’s all week. -I- -I- -ISOME THANKSGIVING TURKEY AT THE LYRIC The vaudeville Thanksgiving turkey has arrived fit the Lyric. And it is some turkey. 1 Here is a real class bill w’ith the Busch Sisters. Mogiloff's Orchestra and Julia Curtiss handing out sonnw

mighty good Thanksgiving food along entertain ment lines. First I want to call at-] tention to the ar-| tlstry and tech-j nlque of Julia Cur tlsS, a mimic, who gives her in pres slon of Harry Lauder, Olga 10 trova, Eva Tan “’guay and others She tells you that j Eva Tanguay reminds her of al parrot. And she, along those lines, re-creates Eva

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Here Is a mighty big artist who “gets” her audience by virtue of her own ability. Quite a triumph. The Busch Sisters have big time class as weir as big time success. I Here is a sister dancing team that Is ! capable of perfect duet stepping, j They have the x muslcal comedy stage ! manner. As pretty dancing as you would want to see. They have the assistance of Mogiloff's Orchestra, an organization featuring a string Instrument of rare charm. This act has definite class. It pleases with the utmost ease. Burlesque methods, not objectionable, are used by Joe Freed and company in melodramatic hokum, called “City Life.” Brown and Elaine work out In song and comedy

Two Big Triumphs—Raisa, Mendelssohn Choir

By Walter D. Hickman For ten years the Mendelssohn Choir of Indianapolis has had a musical ideal. For ten years these singers have labored toward the goal of as perfect choral singing as human efforts will permit. Last night at the Armory Auditorium, the X* o * s ® lßßo * lo Choir with the solo services of Mme. Rosa Raisa, dramatic soprano of the Chicago Opera, proved that It is one of the best choral groups in the country. Credit goes to the ten years training and study on part of the members pf the choir, of its founders and backers and above all its directors. Elmer Andrew Steffen, conductor, deserves the credit of bringing the choir into a commanding position in musical circles in this country. One of the memories of everlasting beauty will be the work of Mme.

Stage Verdict KEITH’S—Pat Rooney and assisting artists seen to splendid and pleasing advantage. ENGLISH’S - “Ben-Hur” is one of the big pictures of all time. VYRIC —Busch Sisters and Julia Curtiss have class offerings of real merit and general appeal. PALACE—Fred Ardath again makes a hit with his orchestra and his original way of handling his act. r

the pirate Idea In their act, “Laugh Pirates." Well done. Bobby McGood and company are European acrobats of merit. They have an individual opening. Jack Hanley and company offer ‘‘Making The World Safe for Democracy.” I missed Hughes and Pam. My fault. At the Lyric all week. •I- -I* -I* ARDATH HAS .ANOTHER WINNING ACT In his second week and third show’ at the Palace Fred Ardath and his orchestra have thought up some new things along the line of entertainment as to what a good orchestra act 'Should do. Asa prologue this time Mr. Ardath tells of a very young and very innocent fly from w’ay down State. After telling of the Journeys of this fly Ardath tells you what it’s all about. It is his way of opening the act and so far his little stories have been all right. Along with the orchestra features today and tomorrow’ he is featuring

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Raisa and the choir singing “Inflammatus” from “Stabr.t Mater.” 1 think that here the peal* of the concert was reached when thv> most majestic and moving of an aria for soprano and mixed chorus was presented. This one contribution Is enough to test the ability of Raisa as well as the choir. It developed into one of the real sensations of a program filled with sensations. I was interested in the way that Steffen and the choir presented a choral novelty, "Fantasy On A Russlon Folksong" as solo violins and chorus are used. The sustaining of a single note for many measures is one of the requirements of this number. Here is jomething new and a little bit startling but the choir is to be congratulated upon the way it was presented. Two violinists were used. Paul R. Matthews was accompanist for the choir and Isaac Van Grove for Mme. Raisa. Another group which reflected the

a trio of girls In several songs a*id some comedy In a country store. Billed as “Her Little Revue” is a good flash dance act with four women .and one man. The outstanding 1 features are the dancing of a team of two women and the solo dances of the man. A colorful number Is that of the woman singer who sings as different scenes are projected on a screen back stage with a woman model standing in front of it. Hunter and Perclval are a fine comedy team that seem to lack something; don’t know what It Is, but their stuff is good and they tire good workers and yet they do not register as they should. Think perhaps the wrfinan could do more blues numbers. \ Shields Delaney are a song and dance team with many clever lines in the act besides* the dance numbers. Both are good on their feet and have a well balanced act. Included on the bill is a photoplay with Tom Mix and a news reel. At the Palace today and'tomorrow. —(By the Observer.) -I- ’l’ -I-“BEN-HUR” STILL A BIG DRAW AT ENGLISH’S ’’BerMlur," movie version of *jhe stage play and book, is now In Its third week at English’s. It is doing marvelous business and should. One of the really great pictures. As I have gone into detnll concerning this movie, I will not repeat myself. Twice dally all this week at English's. ’l’ ’l* ’!’ Other theaters today offer “We’re in the Navy Now” at the Apollo, "The Gay Deceiver" at the Ohio, "Across the Pacific” at the Colonial, ‘‘Ladies at at the Circle, “One Minute to Play” at the Uptown, and burlesque at the Mutual.

What Is the present name of St. Petersburg, Russia? Leningrad. Dot's the United Stales employ hunters? Government hunters are employed l>y the United tSates Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture In Wyoming. Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, California, _ Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, South Dakota and Montana. No specified age limit is set, but men of mature judgment are employed. The. pay ranges from S9O to $l5O per month, depending on tlie ability of the man and the amount of equipment he furnishes. Earl Blair Zlrkle of Kansas refused to accept a commission after graduating from the Academy. He was not permitted to withdraw from the Navy r id If he had persisted In his refusal he would have been sent to sea for two years as a midshipman. *

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You should be able to guess the name of this moving star and the answers to the other questions without much difficulty. The correct answers appear on page 18: 1. Who Is shown In the accompanying picture? 2. On what day is Thanksgiving always celebrated? 3. What is the name of the undergraduate comic magazine of Harvard? 4. Whom did Frlncoss Astrid of Sweden marry? 5. Who Is creater of the comic cartoon, “Out Our Way”? 6. On what day of th w’eelc Is Jan. _l, 1927? 7. Who plays the leading role In the picture, “Bardelys the Magnificent”? 8. On what date of the year Is George Washington’s birthday celebrated? 9. Who Is Governor of Ohio? 10. Does Mary Garden sing soprano or contralto?

musical beauty of the choir was the Cadman group of two numbers. As great a personal ovation as I have ever seen given an artist here was tendered to Mme. Raisa. Here is a great artist of the opera. She comes with' easy grace and rare judgment to the concert stage and every second she is both the great artist and the wonderful woman. Never have I seen an artist more gracious with encores. Never believe again that Indianapolis Is a “cold audience.” Last night this great audience which filled every inch of space at the armory, gave the choir and the soloist ovations which one would expect at the opera in New York or Chicago. Again I call attention to the great record of improvement and growth of the Mendelssohn Choir. If I were in charge of every piece of literature sent out boosting Indianapolis, 1 would call attention to this choir.

NOV. 23, 1026

Three Hands And What to Do Three Aces and Evenly Divided Cards Call for* No Trump.

By Milton 0. Work In yesterday’s artless, after stating that the score should not affect the original bid, I gave three hands and asked whethor they should be bid originally by a Dealer | The answers are given today, and 1 ! will now discuss the hands In the order in which thej* appeared yes terday. t. Sp.: Ace-x-x. Ht.: Aoe-x-x. Dia.: Ace-x-x. Cl.: x-x-x-x. (x is any small card lower than Ten.) This Is the typical “three Ace hand. In days gone by, there were many who questioned the advisability of bidding a No Trump with this hold ing, the popular belief being that some further strength was needed to Justify that declaration; and even today there are a few who are too conservative to approve of the bid I agree with this conservatism when advising beginners, or Inferior play ers who are playing with experts; but on the broad question of whether three “hare” Aces should be declared or passed, I am convinced that In the long run the bid Is advantageous when the general distribution of t)<4| hand brings It within the No Trump dfffegory. With n worthless single ton I would not bid a three-Aee No Trump, and even with a worthless doubleton I might hesitate about do Ing so; but in the evenly divided hand above cited (the Ideal 3-3-3 4 No Trump distribution) and especially with four cards In the defenseless suit, I can see little justification, ox cept Inferior skill for falling to hid With No. 2, viz.. Sp: Ace-x-x. Ht: Are-x-x. Dia.: Kingx-x. Cl.: x-x x-x there would be a difference of opinion among expert players. Some believe in bidding No Trumps with two Aces nnd one King; others consider it unwise to hid with any strength less than three Aces. T be long to the latter school and would pass No. 2, although I would not criticize a No Trump bid with It as severely as I would with No. 3. Let us compare the tw’o hands. No. 3 is' Sp.: -x-x-x.' Ht.; Klng-x-x. Dia.: Ace At-x. Cl.: Ace-x-x x. While No. 2 and No. 3 contain ex same high cards, there are two distinct differences. One Is that the defenseless suit In No. 2 consists of four cards, while in No. 3 It Is composed of only throe cards; the former Is much safer for a No Trump than the latter. The second difference Is that In No. 2 both Majors would furnish good support fora Major takeout by tho partner; while In No. 3 the Major strength Is much less, offering a greatly reduced chance for game In tho event of a Major take-out. At a cursory glance on hand may seem as satisfactory for No Trump as the other, but I believe there Is a distinct dUfl| ference: I would consider No. 3 far less advisable than bidding No. 2. The pointer for today Is: Bid one No Trump with three Ares and an evenly divided hand; with less strength, pass. Tomorrow’s article will discuss the difference betxyeen rubbers and Progressive or duplicate. (Copyright, Milton C. Work) Work, tlie recognized authority In Auction Bridge, will answ’er questions about the game for Times readers. Write to him In care of The Times.

MR. FIXIT Stuart St, Likely to Get Water Mains,

let Mr. Flxlt present your case to City officials. He is Tlie Times’ representative at the city hail. Write him at The Times. Water mains will be Installed on Stuart St., from Twenty Sixth to Thirtieth St., if enough persons agree to become water customers. Assistant City Engineer Arthur Hatifler told Mr. Flxit today. DEAR MR. FIXTT: For the last three years we have tried to get water on Stuart St., from TwentySixth to Thirtieth St. Now this year every one signed the required petition, even the lost owners are anxious to build modern Some of us have hath rooms waiting for water. Now the Boy Scout reservation Is between the two street* and, of course, we did not bother to get their signatures tf> the petition. Does this hinder us any? For the last two years the petition has been lost, which seems strange. 2700 BLOCK, RTTTART ST. Haufler will blow the dust off the petition and get action. Failure to obtain the signature of Boy Scout officials would be no lpedlment, If you have practically a majority for the water service. DEAR MR. FIXTT: The alley next to my house, running east from Gladstone Ave. to Colorado Ave„ Is Impassable to such an extent that I cannot get my car to the garage. This is owing to the fact that there are no cinders tn the alley, PAUL JONEa 1525 N. Gladstone Ave. Repairs are on the way, Mr. Flxlt was advised. DEAR MR. FIXTT: What is the procedure for resurfacing a womout street ? How much do the property owners have to pay? TAXPAYER. Present a petition signed by as many property owners as possible. The city pays 75 pc® cent and the property owners 2<i per cent of the costs. What stories of lbanoi have been shown in the movie* for the first time this year? , "The Torrent," directed by Monte Bell; "Mare Nostrum” directed by Rex Ingram, and "Th Temptress” directed fey Maurltx Stiller,