Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1926 — Page 6

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BE THANKFUL Those who see in this holiday only an especially appetizing meal, a chance for play, or an athletic event of some sort, can hardly claim kinship with that spirit of the founders of this day which finally gave independence and self-government. Thanksgiving day is, in a sense, even more American in its tradition and its significance than that day in July remembered for the courage of men who put their lives in the balance against the theory that any man is fit to rule another without his consent. In the bleak rocks of New England the day had its birth as a sacred day, one of true thankfulness to the divinity they worshiped, for their conquering of fereat obstacles. They had fled from a land of persecution—a land withoyt opportunity. A land of oppression of those who dared to think and believe and follow dictates of conscience. These were men and women of undaunted courage. They had penetrated an unknown wilderness. They had faced unknown dangers. They had met with hunger and famine. They had suffered —but they did not yield. And so, when their first year of sacrifice had ended and they could look into the bleak cold of another winter knowing that tfi?y would not starve, they Set aside a day to give thanks to that source which had inspired them and upheld them. It requires no belief in Christianity to admire their fortitude or their qualities. They had dared all and risked all for the right to be men and women, without the let or hindrance of others. How much of that spirit do*you have in your heart on this day of plenty and prosperity? How much does the right to think your own thoughts, worship your own God, follow your own conscience mean to you on this day of feasting? This country has long since passed the danger of hunger. Modern science and invention, the development of transportation, the conquering of nature, almost completely have taken from the minds of men any fear that starvation or even privation can ever come. It is rather difficult to be thankful for escape from fears or dangers we have never known. But there is still a necessity for thankfulness, if there was any worth in those rights for which these Pilgrims* sacrificed so much. Be thankful today that this land guarantees to you a religious liberty. \ Be thankful that in order to gain it you are not driven to strange lands, to terrible sacrifices. Be thankful that you, on this day, can hold in your soul, that broad spirit of tolerance which grants to all others this right which is yours and which was so dear on the day this holiday was established. Be thankful, too, that you have firmly established the right to rule yourself and to bow to no other who claims a divine heritage of kingship. Be thankful, if you can, that you exercise this right, and be more thankful that you have, if you wish, the opportunity to protect that right by fighting, ever and always, those who would steal it away by stealth and trickery. Be thankful, too, that you live in the most glorious age of all history, when through these rights and through the rising tide of knowledge and of thought, civilization is being lifted to the shores of real freedom. For real freedom comes only when men are able to lose their fears, their superstitions, their menaces of poverty, the necessity for hardship. That era is approaching fast, as times and manners change, and the old battle with nature is being won. The environment of the most modern cottage of today is more comfortable than that of any emperor two centuries ago. Men have become masters through thought. They are no longer slaves to brutal instinct or bodily necessities. The jungle land is going. Be thankful that you live in this age—and that you can help, if you wish to make it even more glorious.

THE PANAMA FLIGHT Here’s something to be thankful for. The Panama non-stop seaplane hop, instead of a flight, proved a flop, but as these lines are being written —in the early hours of Thanksgiving day—all hands are reported safe and sound. A few setbacks won’t do us any harm. In fact, somehow we can’t help thinking the failure of the Panama venture will do our national aviation program more good than had it been a dazzling success. We’re good losers but bad winners. Every time we win a war we puff out our chest inordinately and promptly suffer a shameful let-down. And we’ve never won a war until after we’ve taken a few good lickings. In this aviation thing we’ve been pretty cocky. We haven’t ever had any too many planes at any one time, but we’ve held most of the world's records and we’ve been first in most of the big stunts —first to fly at all, first to cross the Atlantic, first to cross the Pacific, first to fly around the world, first to fly over the north pole, and so on. Recently things haven’t been going so good. Foreigners are taking all our records away from us. An Italian has just grabbed our beloved seaplane trophy to carry back with him to Mussolini. Then we haven’t quite forgotten the Shenandoah tragedy aiyl the failure of the attempted nonstop flight to Hawaii last year, which came within an ace of disaster. These things ought to cause us to look around and take stock of ourselves. The truth is, as Sir Samuel Hoare, British secretary for' air, puts it, the airplane until quite recently had not made sufficient technical advance to be suitable for very long nonstop flights, and even now such attempts are entirely experimental. The human element is stronger than the mechanical —the heart of man is willing but his motor is still weak. Our round-the-world flight was a very fine performance, certainly, but when you come down to it, it was nothing more than a series of comparatively short hops, with much expert overhauling of machines and the substitution of parts between. Quite different from a 2,100-mile jump without a pause. There’s really nothing to grievo over today as a result of the Panama fizzle. Let us be thankful it is only a fizzle, and not the tragedy it so easily might have been. For the American Government who sponsored it and the American people for whom the experiment . - A

was so courageously undertaken, let, it with our recent failures, be a lesson. And that lesson is obvious —we have not yet conquered the air, not by a jugful, and unless we are up and at it other countries will leave us in the shade. SECOND SIGHT NEEDED NOW The Federal Trade Commission was created to control trusts. The Clayton anti-trust act was passed by Congress to give it power. By a five to four decision, the United States Supreme Court has now, in effect, rewritten the act and shorn the commission. The commission, according to this latest count of judicial noses, is empowered retroactively to force monopolies to give up stocks of former competitors, but is not empowered to force them to give up physical property or business assets. To even a school child it must be plain that business monopolies rest not on stock ownership but on property and business ownership. It must be even plainer that Congress, in passing the Clayton act, intended primarily to control, not stock manipulation, but actual property and business monopolization. Under this decision a trust, to get by the Clayton act, has only to acquire stock and property simultaneously. The Federal Trade Commission, to perform its delegated work, must read the future, know what is in the minds of men in control of this Nation’s 417,421 corporations and act before there is anything to act upon. ANOTHER YEAR Before another Thanksgiving day comes, let it be hoped that one cause of rejoicing will be the adoption of a city manager form of government and the erection of a city government in which there is confidisnce at home and for which no apologies need be made abroad. The present form of government is antiquated and embarrassing to even such officials as may wish to serve the public interest. But when the city happens to get into the hands of the boss-picked and mediocre, to put things mildly, It becomes a screen to hide their deficiencies The matter of city government is important. The present situation is not a very good advertisement for Indianapolis. There is nothing about it in form or personality which would attract either men or industries to come here. The modern city is really a business institution in which most of its common activities demand business judgment and expert control. Other cities have found that the employment of a city manager, an expert in city needs, without political bias and mortgages to bosses, gets results. In other cities, partisan politics has been eliminated and the high cost of bossism cut out. This city needs a change if there has ever been any city which could so profit. A change this year and a big celebration of thanksgiving and re.ief a year hence might be an attractive prospect. A New York woman got a divorce from her husband, who is a trombone player. Probably he showed too great a tendency to let things slide. A London newspaper complains that the interest taken by Americans In the rest of the'world is very slight. It should have read “from.” With Christmas near there are two choices in the matter—to shop or fight. It Is reported that many women are giving up smoking. It looks so effeminate. Today's definition: monolog—a conversation between a man and his wife. *

PEACE IN INDUSTRY By N. D. Cochran All over the country leaders or organized labor and organized capital are fighting over this, that and the other in an effort to adjust relations and bring about peace in industry. There is selfishness on both sides, of course. Nothing surprising in that. All men are two-legged animals, no matter whether they happen to be employers or employes; and all are moved by the same human impulses. Most of them don’t see much farther than the ends of their respective noses. Most of them are looking out for Number One and living for today. But there are some on both sides of the industrial war who can look ahead and who can see that there is a common Interest. Judge Gary of the Steel Corporation, for example, is one of the old dogs who can’t be taught new tricks. He hung on to the twelve-hour day and the seven-day week like grim death until greater intelligence shook him loose. Henry Ford, with less clouded vision, discovered that high wages and shorter working hours might mean lower production cost. William Green and other labor leaders with vision have discovered that the economic way to get higher wages and shorter hours is to convince organized employers that they pay for capital as well as for labor. That beats the brute force of a strike all to smash. When both sides discover that -industrial war is not efficiency and that war is waste, both the strike and the lockout will become relics in the museum of industrial history. What has caused much of the trouble has been the fact, in the past, that each side was trying to win by brute force; for that’s the meaning of both the strike and the lockout. All the same, there were times when both seemed necessary as the last resort. One side or the other wouldn't listen to reason and saw no way to get what it thought was Justice except by force of arms. There are evidences, however, that with better eye. sight on the part of some leaders on both sides, we are gradually entering upon a period of industrial cooperation. In manufacturing, the key to the situation is production cost, with greater profit both to employers and employes and lower selling price to the consuming /public at the same tfme. ' Henry Ford is showing the way to other employers in this direction, although there is still some darkness on the matter of how far his sort of efficiency can go without making men over into machines. Anyhow he is headed in the right direction. There are many indications pointing to a better understanding of economic laws underlying industrial relations. Profit-sharing is driving the old paternalistic welfare work into the past. Greater participation of employes in management has, in many instances, proved to be a good thing for the business. Old methods that were destructive are gradually giving way to better methods that are constructive and that consider the fact that healthy parts make a healthy system. Yes, the world is growing better.

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Tracy No Recollection of Strife Needed to Make Thanksgiving Glorious,

By ML E. Tracy Thanksgiving Is unique among holidays, the product of custom, a human anniversary kept alive by emotions that are common to mankind. It comes down to us from the Pilgrim fathers, but is without creed, prejudice or antagonism. You don’t have to recall some period of bitter strife to make it seem glorious. What child does not want to go back and see grandma; what grownup son or daughter does not long for a taste of mother’s cooking? That is the spirit of Thanksgiving day. Far Cry From First It is far cry from the rough table of Plymouth to the modern, well-ap-pointed dining room. Most of us would turn up our noses at the fare and service which gave Bradford and his followers such joy, and we would not be so favorably impressed with some of the guests. There was no sugar, no tea, no coffee, no forks, no swinging door to shut off kitchen odors. There were greased and feathered Indians, however, and plenty of strong liquor to put them in the right frame of mind. , -I- I -IHelps Us Be Normal Indeed, things have changed during the last 300 years, but the appetite and illusionment of youth remain to make the world a cheerful place. Grandparents may grow cynical and discouraged with the wisdom of experience, but they snap out of It when they see the table graced with a happy crowd of young folks who know little save the joy of living. Putting aside iis religious aspects. Thanksgiving helps us all to be normal and to appreciate those basic elements of human growth which are bigger than State or creed. •I- I -ICook Went Wrong Politics did not inspire the raid on that fishing camp, after all, and the Governor of Alabama is not a violator of the liquor law. It was the Negro cook who went wrong, who bought the hootch, who hid it where he had no right, and who came very near immolating nine prominent citizens on the altar of prohibition. You hardly know whether to condole or to congratulate the Governor of Alabama on account of that Negro cook. It was reprehensible, of course, for him to sequester thirteen bottles of booze in the Governor's camp, but it was right noble of him to come forward and admit ownership at the critical moment. If hls unfaithfulness nearly ruined the good name of nine dry fishermen, his sense of honor saved It. The sacrifice more than atoned for the sin. You are reminded of what Cardinal Richqlieu exclaimed when La Porte refused to, betray the Queen of France, though subjected to the most frightful torture — “Would to God that I had such a servant.” T -I- -IWork and Happiness “Boys drift Into crime,” says Henry Ford, “because society fails to teach them that more and easier money can be had from well-di-rected Work than from theft.” You can’t quarrel with a doctrine, though it fails to go deep enough. It is not enough for society to teach boys that work is tfie easiest road to success. It must also teach them that work is the easiest road to happiness, that there is no enjoyment so satisfying as that which comes from looking back on some job well done. -I- I- I. Coast Guard's Job “The noble Duke of York,” who marched his men up a hill only to march them down again, had nothing on the coast guard crew who seized that German rum ship 140 miles off shore. Having towed her into New York, the coast guard now will tow her back again to the precise point where she was taken and call it a day. -I- I I Sleeping Watchmen Inspectors for the New York transit commission discovered eighteen watchmen asleep at grade crossings on the Long Island Railroad last Sunday and Monday nights. This was considered a pretty high percentage, since only eighty-five crossings were inspected. An army would take big chances if its sentries proved deliquent ip anything like that proportion. An army, however, has no more to fear from a sleeping semry tl\an has the public from a sleeping railroad watchman. -I- I- -IPolitics Is Politics Zinovieff, official spokesman of the Red world for nearly a deeadA finds himself turned out in favor of another. man. Whether you call it bolshevism, democracy or whatnot, politics is politics the world over and without regard to place or time. If a leader can’t hold the confidence of his crowd he loses. It matters little to outsiders whether Zinovieff or Bucharin heads the third Internationale, but those on the inside take It seriously. SIX PUPILS INJURED School Bus Turns Over on Steep Hill Near Bloomington. Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 25. Six pujpils wore injured when a township schodl bus overturned on a steep hill on Nashville road. All are expected to recover. The bus, driven by Mrs. Edgar Empson was demolished.

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The school children of Indianapolis and other Indiana cities who are preparing to white essays of not more than 250 on the Roman galley. The above picture gives you a good idea of a Roman galley. So go to your books of reference, write your essay in a good, clear hand, be careful of neatness and facts.

Finding a New Place of-Beauty in City At the Fine Arts Studio Exhibition

There is anew and interesting place of beauty in Indianapolis under the name of The Fine Arts Studio, under the direction of Ruth E. and Ethel B. Kealing. The studio is located on the top floor of the Pierce building on Pennsylvania St. There are many paintings of the works of Indiana artists on view at this studio from 10 to 4 o’clock daily, except Sunday, which is from 10 to 12:30 o’clock noon. Simon P. Baus is represented with “Autumn.” "Landscape,” "Brown County” nnd "Flowers.” Dale P. Resuire —"Evening Glow,” "Golden Autumn" and “Golden Oaks."’ Randolph La Salle Coats —"Evening Lights,” “Winter Day,” “Song of the Cypress” and “Close of Day.” Helen M. Goodwin—"My Studio Garden,” “Santa Monica,” “San Juan” and “Bit of Beechwood.” Alice Ross Hadley—“ The Blue Pitcher,” “jesters, ’’ “Still Life” and "Autumn.” Frederick Policy “The Monument," "Christ Church,” “Library at Washington’’ and “West End, Provincetown.” Ada Walter Shulz—“Happy Summer Days,” "The I’et Duck,” "The Abandoned Cabin” and “Cabin in the Spring.” T. Nelson Vance —"Flowers” and “Upper Acres.” Here is an interesting collection and a visit to this exhibit is always most interesting. -I- -I- -IINTERESTING EVENTS AT THE HERRON INSTITUTE Etchings by Rembrandt. Millet, Whistler, Meryon, Cameron, Pennell and other masters of the eching craft; woodcuts and engravings by Albrecht Durer; lithographs by Bonington, Gavarnl, Davies and Bellows, and many other examples of fine quality comprise the present exhibition of prints from the permanent collection recently installed at Herron Art Institute in the print room. Selected as representing the finest work in the collection, they form a handsome group and one which holds unlimited avenues of education In the history of the graphic arts and in pure aesthetic pleasure. Prints are intimate things, having little of the boldness of colorful paintings or mass sculpture and being in themselves so small of size as to require close and long acquaintance to appreciate fully ther subtle charm. The sweep of a line, the richness of ink, the cleanness of white spaces or the allure of a tone, the contrast of light and shade, and the sheer beauty of line —these things do not reveal themselves to the uttermost upon a casual glance, but are a source of unending delight and inspiration to the lover of prints who

History Quiz

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This test is concerned only with Incidents and characters which have figured in American history. The correct answers appear on page 14: 1 — who is shown in the accompanying picture? 2 What group of people celebrated the first Thanksgiving in America? 3 what country sold the Louisiana territory to the United States? 4 who made the first American flag? 5 How long did the Revolutionary War last? 6 Who led the raid on Harper’s Ferry? 7.—Who became President of the United States by the death of Abraham Lincoln? 8— In what year was the Monroe Doctrine presented to Congress? 9 From whom did the United States get thq Statue of Liberty? 10 —Who was the United States’ President during the World War?

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Then send your essay to the BenHur Editor of The Indianapolis Times at The Times. On next Monday the judges will announce the twenty winning essays. Each winner w ill be given n pair of tickets to see "Ben-Hur” at English's next week. Ten of these pairs will be issued for Monday night and the other pairs on Tuesday night.

will give of himself to search them out. Recent accessions to the department of European art will be installed In Gallery 111 before Sunday, Nov. 28. Tills group will includo textiles, porcelain, and vari-* ous miscellaneous items. Sunday afternoon music will be given on Nov. 28 at 3:30 p. m. A program which from previous experience we know will be a delightful one wl'l be given by Bomnr Cramer, pianist and member of the faculty of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. This cooperation was arranged through the interest of Mrs. Henry Schurmann of the college. The public is urged to come and spend an afternoon at the institute enjoying the music and visiting the exhibitions in the galleries. There is no admission charge. •I- I -INEW ARDATH ACT AT THE PALACE TODAY Fred Ardatli promises to look after all Thanksgiving festivltes on the Palace theater bill the last half of this week and in doing so hints at several surprises that will be In hls long list of laughter-making devices. Again this master otf ceremonies his spontaneous type of humor will provide hls Merry Wags and other entertainers with new costumes ar.d settings to fit in with their surroundings. The Ardath funsters will also fill out their leader's supply of Jokes and novelties with little features of their own which are to be kept a secret until the performance. It Is Ardath’s idea not to have a set routine of stories, music, and novelties but to introduce fun as it occurs to him provoked by a current Incident. Bobby Vail and hls company of four women sing, dance and chatter through their “Black Outs,” a miniature revue. The Angel brothers are called the "Unrivaled Balancers,” who do many unique balancing feats. Ketch and Vilma are songsters with their “Vocal Variety:" Harrison Ford and Marie Prevoet,

Questions and Answers

You can pet an answer to an." question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Timr9 Washington Bureau. 1322 V 'W York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical. Icy a I and marital advice cannot be -iven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other ouestions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. What are the units of English currency and their relative values in American money? English currency is bused on the following table: Four farthings equal one penny (pence), 12 pence equal one shilling and 20 shillings equal one pound or sovereign. One pound is equal to $4.8685 par * value in United States gold. A shilling equals 24.3 cents and one penny equals approximately 2 cents. How largo is the continent of North Ameriea and wliat countries are Included in It? It has an area of 8,300,000 square miles and includes Canada, Newfoundland, United States and Mexico. What kind of airplane did Captain Alcoek and Lieutenant Brown of the British Air Service cross the Atlantic in and what was their time? A Vickers-Vimy. The flight from Newfoundland to Clifden consumed 16 hours and 12 minutes for a distance of 1.960 miles. What is the origin of the name Leah? It is Hebrew and means "worker.” What countries now have dictators? Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal and Poland. The present Shah of Persia, Reza Khan, was a dictator before a coup d’etat put him on the throne. How many fresh beef, pork and mutton is imported into the United States? / The latest flgres for 1925 show beef 12,159,573 pounds; pork 7,235,379 pounds; mutton 218,531 pounds. What Is an “Artesian well?” A spouting well bored down to a point usually at great depth, where owing to the conformation of the geological strata the pressure is great enough to forfce water out at the surface. The name now is often applied to. any very deep bored well. Who is the heavyweight wrestling champion? Who preceded them? At presen\ both Joe Steelier and Strangler Lewis claim the championship. Preceding champions were Stanilous Zbyszko, 1922; Strangler Lewis, 1921; Waldeck Zbyszko, 1921; Joe Stecher, 1920; Earl Caddock, 1918; Joe Stecher, 1916 and 1918. Lewis regained the title from S. Zbyszko the same year he lost it,

Put your name, age. address, name of school and name of English teacher on the essay. The judges will carefully consider every essay submitted. So send in your essays at once. Mr. A. F. Miller of English's, Mr. Head, representing the picture, and The Times are anxious to receive hundreds of essays.

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Elaine of Brown and Elaine Tn “The Love Pirate” act* at the Lyric today and rest of the week, Miss Elaine Is the love pirate who longs for laughs and gets ’em. She is a member of the tea%i of Brown and Elaine.

who were starred In that laughing vehicle, “Up in Mabel’s Room,” have the leading roles in “Almost a Lady.” Path© News, a comedy and topics of the day are the short reels. •I* *1- -I* Indianapolis theaters today offer: Mrs. Flske in “Ghosts." at the Marat, an afternoon and night performance: "Ben-Hur” at English’s; Pat Rooney and Marlon Bent at Keith’s; Busch Sisters at Lyric; Fred Ardath at Palace; “We’re In the Navy Now” at the Apollo; “The Flaming Frontier” at the Uptown; “The Waning Sex” at Sanders; “Whispering Smith” at the South Side; "Ladles at Play” at the Circle; "Across the Pacific” at the Colonial: “The Gay De-' ceiver” at the Ohio, and burlesque at the Mutual.

and held it un to the beginning of the present complicated state of affairs, which was created by Lewis’ defeat at tho hands of Wayne Munn, and Munn’s subsequent defeat by Joe Stecher, followed by Lewis’ victory over Munn, which left both Stecher and Lewis claiming tho title. Are all postofflee clerks required to take tine ease examination? Only those who are distributors. Why do cats like catnip? For the some reason that the humaiT animal likes liquor—catnip is a stimulant Rnd has the effect of making the cat roll over in glee when it is given some. Was any State in the Union ever named Kanawha? This name was proposed for West Virginia. Which is tho oldest university in tlie United States? Harvard, founded In 1636, Can a graduate of the United States Naval Academy refuse to accept a commission after graduation? Where and what was the original Crystal Palace? * It was a vast structure of glass and Iron designed by Sir Joseph Taxton and erected in Hyde Park, London, for the world's fair of 1851. It was removed to Sydenham, eight miles from London, in 1854 and became a place of popular entertainment. In 1911, it was purchased by the Earl of Plymouth to be held in trust for the British nation. The Imperial War Museum was opened there in 1920. Who wrote “The Street of Forgotten Men"? The story was written especially for the screen by George KJbbe Turner. A Correction In this column, Nov. 11, our Washington Bureau gave the relative salaries of the prime minister of England and the president of France as $20,000 and $200,000 respectively. This, was an error, due to failure properly to calculate current rates. Following is the correct answer: The president of Franco receives 2.000,000 francs, which at present exchange is about $70,000 per year; the British prime minister receives 5.00 J pounds, or about $24,250 per year. Who was (Toesus? A King of Lydia proverbial for his great wealth, born about 590 B. C.

NOV. 25, 1926

What to Do When Deal Is Off I Work Discusses Common Question Asked by His Readers...

By Milton O. Work Since the st;u-t of these daily bridge articles, I ffavo received hundreds of questions from my readers, all of which, when accompanied by a stamped return envelope, have been answered by mall. .1 have noted which questions have been asked with unusual frequency and am devoting this article end tomorrow's to them. incorrect Number of CARDS. Under this heading It may he found during the play: (A) that one player has too many cards and another too sow; (B) that one player has too few and the others the correct number; (C) that one player has too many and the ethers the correct number. In case A, tho hand is abandoned, nothing scored, and tho same player redeals with the same pack. (Law 15-d.) In case B, the cause may he either that the pack was incorrect, that tho player has played twice to one trick, or that, the player has dropped a card. If the pack was imperfect, there is anew deal as in case A. If tho player hdH played two cards to one trick, tflo surplus card is restored him and he is answerable for any revokes lie would have been liable for had the missing card been in his hand continuously; tlie ownership of the trick is not changed. (Law 34-j.) If the player has lost one of his cards, it must be found if possible and returned to him; he is then answerable for revokes as before. If the card cannot bo found, tho pack is Incorrect and there is a new deal as in case A. In case C, the cause may be either that the pack was imperfect or that the player has omitted playing to a trick. If the pack was imperfect there is anew deal as In case A. If the player has omitted to play to a trick, the other side may demand anew deal (except that this penalty may not be imposed upon Dummy; or they may elect that the deal stands and that tho surplus card at the end of the play be considered played to tho imperfect trick—there Is no revoke, however. (Law 34-h.) OBLIGATION TO BID* RESERVED BID: Like Banquo’s ghost which would not down, two absolutely erroneous and unfounded notions about tho auction keep popping up In the form of questions from correspondents. One is that under certain conditions (the query usually relates to Progressive or Duplicate) the fourth player is obliged to bid if tho other three In succession pass their original chance. The second is that a player (usually the dealer is tho player asked about) may pass h opportunity to bid and the right to bid later even if the other three pass. The answer is Law 17, which provides that the dealer must bid or pass and thereafter each player must pass, bid or double; also that four original passes end the auction. The law elaborates somewhat, but the gist .of it Is (as has always been the case) that a player Is never forced to bid and that no right to reserve exists. The pointer for today Is; Familiarize yourself with the Laws of the game and play In accordance with them. Tomorrow’s article win answer some more of tho questions most frequently asked. (Copyright, Milton C. Work.) Work, the recognized authority on auction bridge, will answer questions about tho game for Times readers. Write to him In care of Tho Times. Inclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

MR: FIXIT Spring Dealers Rejoice Over Street Bumps,

present ronr ciuw> to city official*. Ho is Tho times' renroT™o U Times th ® clty ha]l - Write hi ™ nl Manufacturers of springs rejoice at the condition * Arlington Ave., between Pleasant Run Blvd. and Tenth St., it appoared today from a letter Mr. Flxit haa received. DEAR MR FIXTT: Several weeks ago the writer noticed a letter in your column with references the condition of Arlington Ave., tween Pleasant Run Blvd. and Tenth St. At that time you said this condition would bo remedied within two weeks, but that time has elapsed and nothing haR been done. Arlington Ave. Is in terrible shape and we have broken several springs on our machine during the past two weeks. TAXPAYER. All excuses save the one of time have been removed through action of council appropriating funds for repairs. Look for early action. DEAR MR. FIXIT: There Is a bad mud hole at the south end of the alley that runs north and south between St. Paul and St. Peter Sts , in tho first block south of Woodlawn Avc - CITIZEN. Repairs are on the way. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Is there ary possibility of opening tho municipal theaters next year? What does the city plan to do along that lino? CIVIC. The present policy Is to confine dramatic entertainment to band | concerts and supervised amateur' theatricals. There are no actor* on the park board pay roll now. TRANSFER COMPANY FILES Incorporations rapors for the Ober Transfer Cbmpany, Indiana oolis, are on .file at the Statehouse today. Capital stock was given as SIO,OOO. Officers are ae 112 E. Maryland St. Incorporations §.re Arden G., Cecil S., Merritt L. and Isaac N. Ober.