Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 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 Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service ♦ * * Member of the Audit Eureau 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.

UNDER SUSPICION The demand for the abolition of the Public Service Commission can only be viewed as a cry of desperation, for it comes from the people, not the institutions over which it has power of regulation. It would be a desperate step to take. Yet the demand is made freely and openly that it be taken. The Public Service Commission is the child of protest. It was created to curb the greed of public service corporations. It was created to put a stop to the corruption of city councils. It was created to put an end to bribery of city officials in giving franchises. It was created to stop the corruption of elections by the greedy utilities. It has merely demonstrated that no law can in itself end any public wrong. Had all the councilmen been honest; had the electorate always been alert on election day; had mayors always refused bribes; had the political' leaders always scorned the contributions of those yvho wished to prey upoii the public, there would have been no public service commission nor any demand for one. It came only when the public had a need for some power to stand between it and greed. It is rather startling, therefore, to read the demands, such as were made by the warehousemen in their convention, a group which depends upon the new means of transportation by trucks and is iu competition with street railways and railroads. ' Read this demand which it makes: WHEREAS the law creating the Indiana Public Service Commission was enacted as a , measure to insure the citizens of Indiana against any unfair practices upon the part of public utilji itics which were granted monopolies in public v service, and WHEREAS the spirit of the Indiana Public Service Commission during a period of years indicates that this commission has forgotten or ignored the purpose for which it was created; i THEREFORE, Be it resolved by the Indiana Transfer and Warehousemen’s Association, Inc,, assembled in its Ninth Annual ConJ. vention; That if it is not possible for the citizens cf Indiana to change the present personnel of the Indiana Public Service Commission to one which will serve the public welfare; an appeal be made to the 1927 General Assembly to repeal the law which provides for that commission. ’ f Perhaps this resolution contains'the real remedy, not in tho abolition of the commission, but In a change in the personnel of that commission. The demand should go to the Governor, and If he fails to act, to the Legislature for an investigation. There should be and must be a scrutiny of the decisions which it has made; for the public has a light to know whether certain corporations have been protected at the expense of others; whether the public has suffered in the matter of rates; whether it has had too great consideration for the imge profits of promoters and very little for those tvho pay the bills. Especially is this true in the light of the fact that the attorney for this city has charged that it rs dominated as the result of a conspiracy and that appointments to it were dictated because of huge contributions to the campaign fund of Governor jfackson. ?• If the commission is abolished, it would mean a ] rpturn to the old corruption by retail. If it is continued in its present personnel, there Is the constant fear and protest that the public is unprotected. Yv r hy not try the suggestion of these truck owners that there be new faces on the board before the public is driven to the drastic remedy of wiping out the commission or the more drastic remedy of public ownership of all public utilities. For if regulation fails, the olio other remedy for greed and extortion is public ownership. There seems to be notiiing in between. THE LITTLE BLACK BAG The jury hearing the case of Albert B. Fall and 'Edward L. Dolieny is permitted to know about the famous little black bag. This is well. It seems that in the selection of this jury the lawyers were able to find twelve men who i ro. ably knew less about the oil scandal than any oilier twelve men in America. They probably lti&sej' the tale of the little black bag when it was hdhig rlisted in the newspapers. They should find it worth listening to,, as did the Senate committee of investigation* and the courts in which the civil cases, growing out of the same incident, were tried. ; Os course, from the standpoint of the prosecution, this evidence is all-important. The case de* pends on it. Doheny’s transfer of SIOO,OOO in cash to’ Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, and the subsequent lease of the Navy’s oil reserve by Fall lo>*; Doheny—a lease out of which Doheny said he expected to make a hundred million dollars —that, lu’the prosecution sees-it, was the crux of the crime alleged- against the two men. The judge’s opinion filled twenty-two typewritten pages and required fifty minutes to read. It is WO technical for discussion here. Suffice to say that he found the arguments against admitting the evidence, neither “appealing, convincing nor legally sound.’’ The important thing is that the story of the little black bag has reached the jury. For, in a sense, it is the little black bag that is cn trial. f Mere than the two harassed old men, now neari Z t-'.c i ccf their careers, it is that leather satchel and its contend, which must be judged. Unfortunately, if found guilty, this money bag can not be punished. Kicking it around the lot won’t help. Fall and Doheny will have to take the punishment. Just the same, the money bag, as a factor in government, is now on trial. A STRAW IN THE WIND? Dictator Mussolini of Italy has discovered that a boiler without a safety valve will eventually explode. Recently the duce and his followers clamped on the lid, announcing no opposition would be tolerated. Freedom of speech and of the press was_ entirely done away with. Yesterday, however, the cables inform us, the fascists went to the mat on the question and the democrats of the party came up victors on a free speech platform. The victoryis due to a sudden realization that • ■ :MU- *. ' . ■>. v ?

unless the various factions inside the fascist party were given a voice in the management of affairs the party would soon bo wrecked by internal discord. The leader in the fight was Roberto Farinaccl, idol of the humbler black shirts, former right hand man of Mussolini and one of those mentioned as a possible successor. Is this a straw in the vlind? A CONTENTED AND HAPPY PEOPLE News from the Philippines has been hectic for the past three or four years. The two big political parties out there have fused into one with independence as its outstanding reason for being. * , The native legislature and Governor General Leonard Wood have locked horns and legislation has virtually come to a standstill. Filipino officials are in open defiance of the governor general and Col. Carmi Thompson, sent to the islands to investigate conditions and report to President Coolidge, is understood to be .recommending a general shake-up of the Manila government to restore harmony between the executive and the legislative branches. Yet, in the annual report of the chief of the bureau of insular affairs, of the War Department, published today, there appears this paragraph bearing on the Philippines: “The governor general reports a contented and happy people living under steadily improving conditions and that the spirit of insular, provincial and municipal officials has been one of cordial cooperation.” Sounds exactly like what the Spanish governors general in Cuba and the Philippines used to write hack to Madrid. The buffalo has become the quarry for many big game hunters; the one on nickels. What has become of the old-fashioned juryman who never lost a case? Do you remember when the jolly storekeeper used to glue a dime to the top of the showcase? One man sues’ another because the other's bees attacked his goldfish. Not the first case where a fish has been stung. High altitudes hurt the pilot worse than the plane, says Lieutenant Macßeady. Not to mention the passengers. The Federal power commission warns that some of the constructions may be overcapitalized. A more generous appropriation might be in this case the best kind of economy. HOUSECLEANING BY CHURCHES MAY RESULT “ Isy N. D. Cochran —■ While the Ku-Ivlux Klan appears to be on the toboggan, the fundamental prejudice which makes such movements popular still exists. We have had some sort of an antl-Catholic movement about once In twenty years. The Know-Nothings, A. P. A.’s Guardians of Liberty and Ku-IClux Klan are merely different names for the same thing. With each recurrence of this antl-Cathollc movement a lot of cheap politicians of the Stephenson type in Indiana come up through the boiling froth and gain prominence and power in politics, only to sink back into their proper place in society when the fever has run its course. The same arguments are used each time the mental malady returns. Mainly the agitators play on the fear that the Pope of Rome, as head of the Catholic Church, is working night and day to “make America Catholic” ahd that when he gets strong enough he will destroy our public schools. The emblem of the A. P. A. movement in the early days was the Little Red School House; and the same arguments were used in the Guardians of Liberty movement about twenty years later. There will be, probably, periodical revivals of this movement as long as the Catholics maintain their own schools and Protestants can bo made to believe that members of the Catholic Church owe an allegiance to the Roman Pontiff greater than their allegiance to the United States Government. These periodical attacks don’t bother the Catholic hierarchy because they don't weaken the church. They generally serve to drive back to confession and communion many of the younger generation who have fallen away from their devotions. But such movements temporarily benefit politicians of the Evans and Stephenson type who ride into power on them. Chief among the Protestants who become interested in such movements are the Methodists and Baptists. As these churches are especially strong in the South, the strength of the Ku-Ivlux movement in that part of the country is not difficult to understand. But something new is developing. We begin to bear now charges that certain of the Methodists who have gone into politics professionally are doing the very thing the Catholics have been accused of in all these movements; and that is striving to bring about a union of the Church and State. Only a few days ago Dr. Charles A. L. Reed, of Cincinnati, a life-long Republican and former president of the American Medical Association, charged that the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, aided by the Anti-Saloon League, is the “sinister super-government” at Washington, where both organizations maintain paid lobbies. Dr. Reed said in his address that his indictment “does not and cannot lie against the great body of Methodists in this country. I know them to<7 well not to know that they are patriotically devoted to our most sacred institutions. The trouble is that that great organization, like the electorate at large, is in the hands of a highly organised but sinister minority that has succeeded in putting the church, as a church, in a false position before the world.’" He charged that this oligarchy is financed by Judge Gary, of the steel trust, and John D. Rockefeller, of the oil trust. Dr. Reed said he was speaking as a defender of liberties under representative government that have been largely destroyed by the Methodist Board and the Anti-Saloon League; and that the painful part of his speech was that among his “earliest and finest associations were those with the Methodist Church.” Dr. Reed has voiced what many other Methodists and Protestants have been thinking. Comihg from such a prominent Protestant and Methodist source, his utterances will doubtless lead others to speak out frankly. It may lead to a housecleaning movement on the part of sincere Methodists themselves to drive out as representatives of the church the professional politicians who are responsible for the situation, and upset the religio-political super-government. The people of this country won't stand for a union of Church and no matter whether the church happens to be Protestant, Catholic or pagan.

_THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

Tracy Gould's Victory in Maine Smashes Power of Klan,

By M. E. Tracy Maine has elected Arthur It. Gould, Republican, to the United States Senate by an overwhelming majority in spite of the serious charges that were brought against him. It is probably better so, because election of the Democratic candidate would have meant a Klan victory. Bad as it may be to put a man in the United States Senate, who admits that he was involved in a business enterprise which led to the bribing of a public official, it is not so bad as substituting one who would compromise with the “Invisible empire” for the sake of getting votes. Arthur R. Gould will take his place in the Senate as a most regular Republican. He will support party measures as fast as they are presented without so much as questioning their principle or propriety. He, will be a Coolidge booster, a stand-patter, a safe and conservative legislator. He will look askance at all ideas and suggestions that emanate west of the Hudson River. He will pity the farmers until it comes to practical measures for their relief, and he will be for the conservation of natural resources until it Interferes with lumbering or super-power schemes. In short, Mr. Gould will be everything that the old guard and big business could desire. Rut, and this is a lot In his favor, Mr. Gould has wrecked the ICuKlux Klan's ascendancy In Maine.

Another Chinese Episode British, American and Japanese warships are gathering off Hankow, the Pekin cabinet has quit and missionaries have called for the white man’s guns. So we come to another chapter in that strange record of events that have taken place since the mariner's compass, the fearless navigator and lhe ship of steel brought East and West together. China, her walls broken down, her traditions shattered and her isolation gone, is like an ant-hill disrupted by outside force, but her swarming millions and her prolific lands await a day when both shall be made powerful by the system, scienco and machinery of modern life. Cluttering the Mails Judges in the Hall-Mills case have received more than 5,000 letters, some of them signed with genuine names, some of them anonymous and some bearing obviously fictitious signatures, but none containing anything of value. What good do people think they accomplish by cluttering up the mails in this way? Apart from the fact that they have nothing to contribute but a lot of half-baked ideas, don't they realize that judges presiding at such an important trial have something to do besides rend a hatch of meaningless correspondence? Silly Accusations It is preposterous to suppose that President Wilson either desired to go to Mexico and help establish a Socialist government, or was the author of "Article 27.” In making such assertions, the Mexican newspaper Excelsior, not only strains its own imagination, but that of other people. President Wilson believed that landlordism was at the bottom of Mexico's trouble and sympathized with a revolution which promised to destroy it. He believed also thet Mexico would ha acting within her rightg If she adopted measures to prevent the seizure and exploitation of her natural resources by alien capitalists. He had no use for the American concessionaire who called upon his government to be firm only where dollars were involved, and he looked with suspicion on a foreign policy that took its cue from big business. It is very doubtful if President Wilson would have taken the stand adopted by Secretary Kellogg. The chances are that he would have regarded survival of the Calles government as of more consequence than any other feature of the Mexican situation today and would have looked with equanimity on the Idea of granting foreign oil companies fifty-year leases instead of permanent titles to Mexican lands. Tripped by Frankness The next time Edward L. Doheny has something to tell a Senate committee he will think twice. If he had waited to be summoned, instead of appearing voluntarily, that explanation of the black satchel he was so anxious to make could not have been used against him and the government would have found it very difficult to prove that he loaned Secretary Fall SIOO,000. Like many another man brought up on the Idea of “telling it” without regard to consequences, Mr. Doheny has been tripped by his own frankness. lie knows now that the law Is indulgent toward those who are slick and secretive, who say nothing that they can possibly avoid and never take the witness stand, except by compulsion. When Science Fails John D. Rockefeller and his physician, Dr. Hamilton Biggar. played a game of golf five years ago. They were both 82 at the time, and had enjoyed enough success to look into the future with optimism and assurance. “We will play another game of golf when we are 100,” said Dr. Biggar, declaring that he expected the nil magnate to live that long while he himself would live still longer. Dr. Biggar died yesterday, not from any particular ailment, bpt just because the human machine had run its course.

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Florence Moore and Irene Ricardo Lead Fun Forces This Week on Stage

By Walter D. Hickman

Am going to let the audience be the judge of I lorence Moore and her new farce, “She Couldn’t Say No.” Laughter In the theater is about as good a test to put against a farce as anything. On the laugh side of the ledger every-

thing is with Miss Moore. Taking one member of the audience, I will give his verdict in this way: “Florence Moore is the funniest worn an on tthe stage and she is the only woman in the world who doesn't need a playwright. Sho just senses the idea of the author and then breezes mer r i 1 y along.” And the public of Miss Moore takes this view of her antics. 1 the first act

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she works so rapidly that it is not easy for members of her company to keep up with her. And she is continually doing just as she pleases regardless of what the author wrote. And still letting the audience be the judge, I will give you a verdict of another patron of farce as follows: “I have tho Florence Moore complex. She can do more with little plays which would fail in tho hands of others. She puts life, laughs and even screams in this play.” And the audience last night at the Murat beam out this verdict of those who applauded after the second act. Personally I must devote my consideration to the first act because I decided to let the audience be the judge of Miss Moore and her play. And so for once I gladly turn over the entire verdict to the audience. And the audience is with Miss Moore and everything she does in “She Couldn't Say No.” She is also striking anew note in the theater today as she is playing here for a top scale of $2. On Wednesday she will experiment with a dollar matinee. And another verdict of another member of my jury in the audience is: “Miss Moore is funnier than ever. The play isn’t the thing in her case. It is just Florence Moore.” So you see for once an audience gives a unanimous verdict for Miss Moore. The cast of “She Couldn't Say No,” Is as follows: Walter Turnbull Ralph Kellard Christopher Morton Chester Clute Alieo Hillsdale Florence Moore Eddie T’apre Leward Meeker Marv Hudson Evelvno Humes Eliphalet Potter Joseph Dailey Hank Smith. I.ouiz Heine-' Ely Sweezey William D. Maek Judge Jenkins Walter •lone-' Ezra Pine Paul Porter Pansv Hooper Jane Salisbury At the Murat all week. LOOKING OVER NEW EVENTS AT PALACE Jack Wells and Joe Reeves, at the* Palace the first half of the week, have taken a comedy idea and forked it up in such a manner that the last bit of fun is extracted from the burlesque theme of the act. The act starts out as a burlesque on the Hall of Fame —the “Hall of Shame” they call it —and the famous characters of that institution are made to serve ns the background for the comedy lines that the two men offer. The act shifts a bit in action, but the comedy idea is still kept up well These two men are realiy clever entertainers, and, in our judgment, it should not be long before they are on big time. Frd Ardath and his orchestra have some more good melodies, and Mr. Ardath directs his orchestra with the same capable handling as before. The other features of the Ardath act are not up to the standards of the orchestra and we think the act would not suffer if the extra support were withdrawn. Duval and Symonds, a man and woman, are a pair who offer the other side of married life—meaning the side that does not go so smoothly. Their squabbles and quarrels have a good many laughs. Ina Alcova and company open with a dance act, featuring the man and woman team with the assistance of four girls. Have a good dance act with several colorful numbers.

Included on the bill Is a photoplay, “Her Man 'o War,” with Jetta Goudal and a news reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) SPLENDID CONCERT AT ACADEMY OF MUSIC Avery entertaining event of the Indianapolis musical calendar was the concert last night by the Indianapolis Maennerchor at the Academy of Music. As guest artist the Maennerchor had Mme. Karin Branzell, contralto of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Mrs. J. M. Walters accompanied Mme. Branzell' at the piano. It is a tonic to the musical appetite to hear a group of men such as compose the Maennerchor in concert. There is a strength and vitality to a large group of men's voices that if different from that of a choir of mixed voices. Os course, the delicate shadings of women’s voices aro not present, but the life that the men give to a song has its own charm and value as a musical offering. We enjoyed every number we heard. The numbers on the program were: “WeihiSrezanp" Warmer “IXyiune an die Naeht" Beethoven Maennerel.or. “A,if dem Meer"...' Mehiknntow “MoPdnaeht” Sehnmann "KruehlincunaoM" Schumann "Dan Verlasufne Maerdelein" Wolf “Wcyl’s Gen-ins ' Wolf Mme. Karin Branzell. “Graf Ebcratcin" Reinthalcr Maennerchor. "tea Feiidles sent Mortes" Holmes “Pastoralo" Bi/.et "I.CS Fillcs de Cards" Delibes Mme. Karin Branzell. . “Drivsno” (Drifting Snow) Norflovi“t 'Sav Sav Susa” Sibelius “Synnoves Sang” Kierulf "Ingrid's Vise" Kierulf “Sylvelin” Sine-ins Mmo. Karin Branzell. “Wenn fell ein Voefilein Waer” “Kimmt a Voeerl ccfloscn" “Jaeger aus Kurnfnlz” Arrangements by Othegravcn Maennerchor. “Cnmindfnl of the lliises".Coleridge-Taylor "Tlie Rainbow Child" ... .Colcridge Tavlor "Well to the Woods'* Grtffes Mme. Karin Branzell. Given %t the Academy of Music, Monday night Nov. 29, by the Indianapolis Maennorchor. (By the observer.) IRENE RICARDO IS A VERY FUNNY WOMAN Irene Ricardo is another funmaker of the stage, who works along original lines. This week at Keith’s she uses her revue experiences to advantage. jean Bedini is using anew way to put over a fun piece as an afterpiece to a vaudeville hill. He uses the members of the various acts on the 1 ill in a combined effort called. “Hello-Good by.” Bedini arts as announcer and he has the services of Miss Ricardo, Frank Ilurst, Eddie Vogt, the DiGatanos, Miss Mny Myers and tho Six Hello Girls, dancers. One of the funniest things In this afterpiece is a song number done by Miss Ricardo and the six girls. It tells of the long skirted ginl of other days and Miss Ricardo tries to learn where tho old fashioned girl has gone to. Then there are a number of scenes, little sketches, which one expects In the bigger revues. And then there is a pretty song number about a rose which comes to life, only to fade away. Bedini states that this little revue in vaudeville is an experiment and if successful that the vaudeville producers will not spare expense to imake it even more elaborate. In her single offering. Miss Ricardo does h"r well-known “Whoa Pagliacci” number. The tango. Apache and other dances aro offered by tho Di Gatanos. Frank Hurst and Eddie Vogt have a bunch of rap'd natter, some ancient and other a little too new, maybe. Jean Bedini. Nan and Biuch Lan dolf offer a travesty upon juggling. They emphasize the burlesque idea. Claude and Clarence Stroud are good dancers but their comedy attempts are not so funnv They are splendid dancers The Flying Hartwells, only tho man doing all the work, has a unique and splendid offering. He gives one a real thrill. At Keith’s all week. RPIFNDTD DWTFRS ON LYRIC RIM, TODAY One of the best dancing numbers T have seen for many months is to be found in “Clowning Around.” There are several dancers in this act who are deserving of real praise. The woman doing a sort of a elassi eal oriental dance is a fine artist Lot of twisting, but real dancing at that. “Clowning Around” might proper-

ly be called dancing around, because it is filled with real dancing. This act also has a novel beginning. And, in another act, Billy Sharpe’s Revue, you will find some more dancing which is the real article. Sharpe is a real dancer and a good impersonator of other steppers well known on the stage. Fisher and Ilurst center their fun upon what may occur in a very modern checkroom in a hotel. Most of their fun is along burlesque lines. Two scenes aro needed to carry on the fun in this lengthy offering. Nee Wong is a Chinese entertainer with the “uke” who is one of the real sensations on tho bill. He certainly can “blue up” a number to such a degree that he becomes about tho outstanding figure on the bill. Lloyd and Ward have an eccentric offering. Here is a blackface offering which is full of fun. Both are clever comedians. Robctta and Deegan have an athletic offering. Click and Bright offer jokes, most of their jokes are old enough to get healthy laughs. At the Lyric all week. Other theaters today offer: “BcnHur” at English’s; "Sparrows” at tho Circle; “The Great Gatsby" at the Ohio; “Up in Mabel’s Room” at the Uptown; “The Whole Town’s Talking” at the Colonial; “Upstage” at tho Opollo; “The Buckaroo Kid” .at tho Isis and burlesque at Rio Mutual.

Questions and Answers

oU . can an to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianenolift Time'* Washington Bureau, J.32‘2 Nr.v York Ave., Wa*hirurton. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical. Ircra 1 and marital ndvicH unnnot be si von nor can extend'd research be undertaken. All other nuestions will re.-oive a personal reply. Unsieped rcMUcnts nnnot. le answered. All letters aro confidential.—Editor. The Nov. 18 Questions and Answers column carried an incorrect answer to the question: “H'w can I find tho number of bushels a corn crib will bold?” Here Is the correct answer: “Measuring of tho number of bushels of car earn in a crib is at best only approximate, owing to tho wide variation and the quality and condition of ear corn and ftmgth of time it has been cribbed.. Tho common practice to calculate the contents in cubic set. then multiply by 4 and divide by 10, which will give bushels of shelled corn. This is equivalent to dividing by I*4 approximate number of cubic feet in a measured bushel and then dividing by 2 for an allowance of % for cob. Two bushels on the cob makes one bushel when shelled. When speaking of a bushel of corn, one usually means shelled corn unless specifically stat’d otherwise.” Who is the present Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of France? When was the present cabinet constituted? M. Aristide Ilriand is the present Minister of Foreign Affairs and M. Raymond Poincare the Premier and Minister of Finance.. The present French cabinet was constituted July 23, 1926. How long does it take for a letter to go from San Francisco, Lai., to Manila, I*. I.? About twenty-nine days. Where are file Federal Land Banks located? St. Paul, Minn.; Wichita, Kan.; Omaha, Neb.; Spokane, Wash.; Berkeley, Cal.; Houston, Texas.; St. Louis, Mo.; Columbus, S. C.; Springfield, Mass.; Baltimore, Md., and New Orleans, La. How long did the Russo-Japanese war last? It began Feb. 8, 1904. The treaty of peace ending the war was signed Sept. 5. 1903. Is a P.ritish subject who married an American husband on March 16, 1922, an American citizen or does she have to be naturalized? She became an American citizen by reason of her marriage and will not have to be naturalized. The law requiring wives of American citizens to be naturalized became effective Sept. 22, 1922.

NOV. 30, 1926

Work Do Not Take Out Your Partner’s No Trump if You Are Weak.

By Milton C. Work In yesterday’s article, I urged tho partner of a No Trump bidder to tako out the No Trump with Majorsuit length and strength on tho ground that there might be game in tho Major suit and not In the No Trump, while If there were game in the No Trump and not the Major suit the No Trumper could rebid his No Trump. In other words, with strong hands of this sort I resemble the little boy who desires the penny and the cake both. To illustrate with an extreme example: If the partner of a No Trump bidder holds: Sp.: Ace-Klng-x-x-x. Ht.: Ace-x-x. Dia.: King-Queen-x. Cl.: x-x ho apparently has wonderful assistance for the No Trump; but It is possible that his partner may have bid a No Trump with some such hand as: Sp.: Queen-Jack-10. Ht.: King-Queen-Jack. Dia.: Ace-Jack-x-x. Cl., x x-x in which ease a game, sure at Spades, might be lost at No Trump by the running of five adverse Clubs. On the other hand, transpose the No Trumper’s Clubs and Spades and the game would be thero at No Trump and might not beat Spades; but with the take out, the goal would still be reached because the No Trumper would rebid after his partner's announcement of strength. Os course tho No Trump rebid could not ho made safely if tho Major might have been called witli weakness; therefore today's Important pointer is: Do not take out your partner's No Trum with Major suit weakness. Passing now to the question of taking-out with a weak Major whicli our pointer for today prohibits; this is especially objectionable because, if the tnke-out may he n weak bid, tho No Trumper will not dare to rehid: and in many eases it Is essential for game-getting purposes that he do so. With no strength on the side, the weakest hand with which a No Trump should be taken out with a Major suit is King-Qucim x-x-x, but with strength on the side, so that If the partner return to the No Trump he will find tho expected help for his declaration, It Is advisahlo to give him the option between the Major and tho No Trump with holdings which, i without tho side strength, should not bo bid. Two ,lands illustrative of this were given yesterday, viz.: 1. Sp.: Queen-Jaek-x-x-x. Ht.: *x-x-x. Dia.: x-x-x. Cl.: x-x. 2. Sp.: Quecn-Jack-x x-x. Ht.: King-x-. Dial: "With No. 1 tho tako-out should not he made as a No Trump rebid might readily cause disaster; but with No. 2 the side strength amply protects in the event of the 'rebid. The consideration of the Major takeout will be continued tomorrow; and whether a take-out should bo made with the following two hands will he discussed: 1. Spt.: Ace-King-Jack-x. ITt.: Ace-x-x-x. Dia.: King-x-x-x. Cl.: x. 2. Sp.: Ace-King-Jack-x. Ht.: Ace-x-x. Din.: Kingx-x. Cl.: x-xx. (Copyright National Newspaper Service.) Work, the recognized authority on auction bridge, will answer questions for Times readers who write to lifm in rare of The Times, Including a self addressed, stamped envelope.

Times Readers Voice Views

Indianapolis Times: The press has always claimed tho distinction of doing more to mold public opinion than all other mediums of dispensing propaganda and when one reads such editorials ns appeared in The Times Nov. 27, there is no further need to wonder why s > many, especially the girls and beys, have m little respect for constitutional amendments and laws ns tlv y have today. Such misleading editorials no doubt cause more than one to presumo that they can go out and violate the prohibition laws, both Federal and State, and any "snooping" officer who Intrudes upon their personal rights is commiting a crime and not they. I therefore Issue the following challenges to the editor: 1. To prove that any motorist ha-1 been halted and had the car searehe 1 without cause, where and when, who the motorist was, also the officers. 2. To prove that drinking is not a crime as defined in law, and that one who is charged with violation of the liquor laws is not harder to convict with real evidence that ono charged with any other offense. 3. To prove what organization ever "avoided bringing a convention to Indiana" on account of its stringent liquor laws. 4. To prove "that tho prohibition laws have not bettered conditions in Indiana” in the opinions of the businers and social public. 5. To prove that it was really necessary under the law for ‘a high public official to make potential felons of his friends to save the life of his child" when the law provides legal ways for physicians to obtain liquor for medical purposes. 6. And last, to prove what dry legislators bartered their votes In trade to corrupt legislation by giving the names of these legislators and lobbyists. In closing I desire to state that In the many times I have ridden with the sheriff's squads and heard his instructions to the men. also orders regarding the use of their guns. I am therefore unable to believe one word of tho charges "of the young lady whose auto was fired upon," and It will be proven in court that what wnTs done was lawful and necessary. Let real Americans uphold all laws without fear. MILTON N. McCORD,