Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1927 — Page 4

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■ v HAPPY NEW YEAR Bhere is every reason for faith that those who B a wish of a happy and prosperous New Year Beir neighbors will see that wish realized. Bhe old year in this State has brought anew Bening, not only of industry and material Bi but spiritually. Bt has helped to lift something of a burden that B>een borne so long by Indiana, a burden of Hnpt abroad and distrust at home. seen the beginning of anew spirit and Bv faith, rather a revival of the old spirit and Bid faith of the fathers. Bhere is passing, very rapidly, the beiief that Bng can be done to make equality more than a ■ in the dictionary, law and justice more than Bes, more than commodities upon tho bargain Bers of the powerful and privileged. Bvil Is being driven back into its caves and Bousness stands out of the shadow of fear in B ‘itjdagered. for so long. la its sincere wish to the people for the coming I The Times knows of no better or higher hope I that this awakened spirit will take on new B?th and new zeal. B trusts that before another year shall pass Biistory that the people of this city and of this I will feel themselves redeemed and uplifted. B believes that before another celebration' is Bthat there will be pride of accomplishment and Bift the shackles of bondage to the mercenary greedy will be broken. ■at wish goes to a much larger family on this Hum it did one year ago. For The Times is growing and enlarging its circle of friends Bollowers. Where three families found this Bfee of good will one year ago, there are four H*s now reading it today. Hid with the wish of happiness and prosperity B°°d will goes anew the pledge of service and Haltering fidelity to the causes which will make Hfeh come true. W SWEARING OFF Bii£re may be those who laugh at the ancient swearing off their bad habits on the Bning T>f the year. Bhe strong may look upon It as a device for Bings, a trick to bolster up a failure of Bience or of will power. Bf course, the time to stop any habit or custom Bing that is injurious and detrimental is the Bnt the individual decides that the habit is H>r dangerous or wasteful. But if the day does give courage to those who Hot otherwise find within themselves the power Bk and curb their own wanderings, it is a stop and take stock and throw aside all 'Jatthtud one .from a full life. HA howTmuch more sensible would it be, instead Hercly taking a vow to relinquish some evil to swlar on for some better one. H, r hy not, miake this a day to pledge oneself to a morf, constructive effort in life. you find more kindness and more fricnd|Hin the coming year? The solution is simple '.o be more friendly and more kind is I and keftt. M ould yol drive out of your mind the sugges!|Hof evil (fr of idle thoughts? A pledge to read and think only of better things would the temptation of the evil and the salacious rible. his is the day to swear on, rather than to Off. ; is the day to pledge anew ones thoughts, itions, ambitions and energies to better thing.-; that is done, you will not have to swear off a fence. . . • A PROSPEROUS NATION he nation today stands on its highest pinnacle terial prosperity. is'still a young nation, as the lives of nations leasured, only 151 years from the day when [founded on the rock of independence and self nnient. nd yet—ess than six per cent of the world’s land area, han seven per cent of the world's population, ; producing: iglity per cent of tho world's sulphur, ixty-six per cent of the world’s steel, ixty-five per cent of the world’s naval stores, ixty-four per cent of the world’s zinc, ixty-three per cent of the world’s mica, ixty-two per cent of the world’s lead and eum. ixty per cent of the world’s talc and soapstone, ifty-five per cent rs the world’s pig iron, iron id cotton. ■ifty-two per cent of the world’s timber. Hifty-one per cent of tho world’s copper, ■orty-three per cent of the world’s coal. Borty-two per cent of the world’s phosphate. Hurope owes it $11,000,000,000 war debt, and and corporations have borH>n individual citizens $11,000,000,000 more. 46 per cent of the world’s supply of gold. a gul more than $50,000,000,000 in y Jg|jlhloirculatioii has increased in the ;from $516,266.721 to more than wi;jpalrgiiring the last fiscal year twice as as during tho five-year ccnt of ,lIP world's automobiles; world’s railroad mileage; 51 per .J'Jy : 'c tou-mile traffic, and more tele- ' Y ** Kin 1,11 lho n;st of Ibe earth square miles of land; ?P,2O„Se:;. wealth, and about UMi.OOtt.niai ; Bnow Year, and may you get yours : U‘| DOCTOR’S TESTIMONY doctor” of the Majestic has just. Atlantic crossing, lie has s< rv*d years on tho ocean highway, and lias }log of inoro than three million miles. /Hatched over more than 1 l.ooiwum people his medical skill was till they had, i

with hundreds of miles of water behind and hundreds more ahead. *‘l know people,” says Dr. J. C. H. Beaumont, this chief surgeon of the White Star fleet. “People are nowhere so easily known, so transparent, so all that they are, as on the high seas, away from all the ties of land.” The doctor knows how people face danger. That is an unfailing guide to character. OLD FASHIONED! That anything or anyone is “old-fashioned” is one of today’s most scoring attacks. With the glib adjective “old-fashioned” we are inclined to dismiss everything and everybody that does not coincide with the thought of the passing second. This comment by the late Anatole France on “old-fashionedness” is worthy of attention: “The other day someone declared that Balzac was old-fashioned. I don’t quite understand the word, in that sense, though I've tried many times to fathom its exact meaning. It conveys the idea, I think, of something that is antiquated, of no use. A necktie which the dandy throws away is old-fashioned. “Is Balzac like a threadbare necktie? Should the thought of the human mind, the product of one’s life force, really be doomed, thus wasted? “In the great universe where not an atom is lost, not a tiny portion of the world’s energy squandered, should it be only the creation of the human brain which is wantonly .spent? “Youth is so proud of its power that it wants to rid itself of the creations of the masters and try new paths which never have been trodden before. They are thin(Ting ahead many centuries and the most modern isn’t modern enough for ( them. They want to destroy so that they can buim; they want to annihilate so that they ca nbegin. “They want to have anew Bible, Life’s new Bible, written in anew language. Do they forget the atavism of our blood? Don’t they realize that they’ll have to continue the subconscious life of their fathers whom they want to bury alive? How can they get away from the eternal continuity of things?” Anew sort of challenge to youth—the challenge of tolerance for “old-fashionedness!” THE PRACTICALITY OF IT Congressman Theodore Elijah Burton, who just passed his 75th birthday and who, reviewing his life, opines that bachelorhood aided him to scale those heights which he has scaled, once led a filibuster in Congress. This filibuster has gone down in history as the most famous of all talkfests ever witnessed within those sacred walls. For nearly twenty-four consecutive hours Burton talked against a rivers and harbors appropriation bill then pending. Congress was about to adjourn, and Burton had only to talk long eftough to prevent the bill from coming to a votelie talked and talked and talked some more. A page brought him some soft-boiled eggs. Burton ate them daintily, still talking, while congressional wags yelled, “don’t egg him on!” Burton is proud of the fact that this was no Mother Goose or Holy Writ or Shakespearean filibuster, but that he was so well informed on his subject that he could have talked on it alone forty-eight hours, if necessary. Perhaps Burton, who says that the price of fame is bachelorhood, knows whereof he speaks. ' Who but a bachelor could have had any opportunity to get in trim for such a vocal marathon? GOOD FORM AND GEOGRAPHY These funny savages. How childish, how superstitious, how utterly irrational they are. Take the South A f rican bushman, for instance; he will not drink water unless he is standing and throws it into his mouth with his hands. The Senoi of Malacca, however, will only drink when the water is held in a folded leaf. And other races would feel defiled if they did not drink from pumpkins, gourds or cocoanut shells, and some from human skulls or cups made from the scalps of their slain enemies. But suppose you told a bushman or a Senoi or some other funny fellow that there was a land where it was considered very, very bad to eat soup from the south instead of the north, that knives and spoons must be laid to the right of the plate and forks to the left, that napkins should only be half unfolded, and that- tin cups were never put on the table. How funny he would think of us. Etiquet and good form seem largely a matter of geography. PIR ATE GOLD In the marshes of south Louisiana men and women still hunt the fabled gold doubloons buried by the Pirate Jean .Lafitte For 100 years diggers havp plied up and down the great coastal stretch southwest of New Orleans, turning the ground in the hope for a glint of gold. Certain districts resemble war-torn areas in Belgium and France. On Pecan Islana, ir Vermilion, parish, trees have been torn up and the Indian mounds looted of their arrowheads and bones. It is man’s age-old search. Steam-heated apartments, street cars, radio, automobiles—they all fail to quench the eternal Argonaut that still lives in man's heart. The glint of pirate gold! Adventure! Romance! Man goes far for the treasures he can not find. A report shows 61,302 women have railroad jobs in this country. Pretty soon we’ll be able to go down to the depot and flirt with the lady brakeman. One person in every five in the United States owns a car now, according to registration figures. That Is, they did before Jan. 1. A New Jersey girl routed a burglar by kicking his shins. It must take nerve to dance the Charleston with a burglar. “Scores homeless In fire,” says a headline. How about those millions homeless in autos? European firms have boosted the price of rags. Such a demand over there from ichewers, perhaps. Britishers are carrying snuff boxes on their hips, according to a dispatch. Not much room for a snuff box in this country. V

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Tracy New Year’s Day Is Reminder of Centuries Required to Make Calendar,

By M. E. Tracy Well, another year has rolled into being, and you v.ouid never know It hut for the calendar and the clock. So many ticks to the minute, so many minutes to the hour and so many hours to the day—who thought out the system with all its elaborate detail and exactness? It took 6,000 years and more to produce a reasonably dependable almanac. There were natural phenomena to begin with —sunrise, phases of the moon, seasons—but it was very difficult to make them fit. The earth turns over once every twenty-four hours, the moon goes around the earth once every twentynine and one-half days and there are twelve and one-half lunations during the solar year. Men began to measure time by using *one or another of these phenomena, but they jjid not succeed until they had learned to work the combination. Rome’s Troubles Rome, in her proud, self-satisfied youth, decreed a year of 304 days, and got off the track before she was well started. An emperor added two months, hoping to correct the fault, but he fell short by ten days. Then somebody thought of the happy expedient of packing twenty-two or twenty-three days into February every second year. The job of padding February was left to the high priest, and he doesn’t seem to have been bound by any rules. If he liked an administration he could, and often did, prolong It by adding an extra week or so. If an administration did not meet with his approval, he could shorten it by taking reverse action. For several centuries there was quite as much politics as science in the Roman calendar. Varying Months When Julius Caesar came on the scene, he found Rome running three months behind schedule, with spring where winter ought to be and summer where spring ought to be. As was his custom, he took prompt and heroic measures to remedy the situation, first calling in an astronomer to find out wnat the trouble was and prolonging the year 47 B. C. to 445 days in order to start right once more. Caesar Acts You have wondered, perhaps, why we have seven inontns with thirtyone days, four with thirty days and on© with twenty-eight. It all goes back to the Julian calendar, supplemented by the vanity of a man. The Julian calendar provided for a 365-day year, with an extra dayin each fourth year. In order to divide the year into twelve fairly equal months, it was decreed that there should be six of thirty and six of thirty-one days, running alternately in the 366-day year, and that a day should be taken from February, which was the last month, according to the Roman calendar, to provide for a 365-day year. July, a thirty-one-day month, w-as named for Julius Caesac, and some years later August, a thirty-day month, was named for his distinguished nephew. The distinguished nephew did not like this arrangement. He thought himself entitled to just as long a month as the great Julius, so he took another day from February to make It so. After men learned how- to calculate and reconcile the phenomena of nature to a reasonable extent, it was a long while before they were able to devise methods- and machinery for measuring time. Asa general proposition, all ihe olclpr civilizations ate, slept and went to work by the sun. Clocks as we know them did not come into existence until about 400 years ago. Such personages as Socrates, Alexander the Great, Moses and Virgil never knew what It was to look at a wrist w-atch. The best they could do w-as read a sun dial, and that didn't do much good on a cloudy day. Water “Clocks” Back in ancient Babylon, priests experimented with a water-jar until they found one that would exactly drain itself between sunrise and sunset. Then they found what proportion would run out w-hile the sun’s disk made Its full appearance above the horizon. Thus w'as born the idea of that world-wide unit of measuring time, the minute. After the minute had been discovered and established, it took more than a hundred generations of hard-working scholars to contrive some device that would record it precisely, convert it into hours and the hours into days without too much inaccuracy. When you look at the dial of modern clock, or at the calendar that hangs above your desk, you are beholding one of the greatest achievements of mankind. an achievement which is not only root?" in the painful efforts of unnumbered scholars, but without which modern life would be impossible. \\ Ih> wrote the words of the song, “.Maryland, My Maryland”? James Ryder Randall was the author. He was born in Baltimore. Md., on New Year’s day, 1839, was edu cated at-Georgetown College in the District of Columbia and, when quite young, went to Louisiana and edited anew spaper at Poine Coupee. From there he went to New Orleans, where he was engaged by the Sunday Delta, and wrote “Maryland, My Maryland” during April, 1861. At the close of the Civil War he beaerne the editor of the Constitutionalist, published at Augusta, Ga. The song wais first published in Baltimore and was set to the fine German tune “Buhschenbecame one of the popular of the southern Conduring the CiviL War.

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A Series of Recitals to Feature Open House at Irvington School of Music

A series of recitals will feature open house w’eek at the Irvington School of Music from Jan. 2-8: at that time the school will be thrown open to the public and all are invited to attend the recitals and meet the members of the faculty. The A. S, F. club made up of Miss A. Conte's pupils will present a program on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 2; on Monday Che-ston A. Heath, organist at Christ Church and head of the organ department at the school will give a program on the new *pipe organ: an ensemble program will be given by the advanced students Tuesday evening; The Bel Canto Club composed of Miss G. Conte's pupils will present a costume recital on Thursday evening; the Friday program will be given by those enrolled in the Sonette Musicale Bureau. Dramatic art student, of Alice Cooper the Saturday morning dancing classes are open to visitors and Saturday afternoon a recital will be given by the younger pupils of the school. The following programs will be given: , A. S. F. RECITAL. JAN. 2 “Lunsl del earo beno." from "Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Mrs. Fergaaon. ‘Sonny Boy ’ Curran .... _ Mrs, Marj- Nugent. Ah Tho the Silver Moon Were Mine" „ . _ Mrs. Mary Nugent. Selected Duets. Gertrude and Adelaide Conte. Bel Raggio" "6emiranude” Bellini _ Carol Coapstlek. Se Seran Bose” Arditl Thelma Caldwell. Cavalier Fahtastique"' Godard “An Old Love Story. . Conte Mildred Smith. Selected Organ Numbers. . Adelaide Conte. Readings. Vocal Numbers. Mrs. Bertha Macy. Piano Selections. „ Claude Foley. Miss Cooper. Mr. Foley and Mrs. Macy are guest artists for the afternoon. ENSEMBLE RECITAL, JAN. 4 "Sketches of the City” Nevin Dorothea llogle. "Moment Musicale” Schubert Charles Dickens. "Rosary" Nevin "Arise. Shine" McDermott lone H. Agnew. “Arabian Nights.” Catherine Smith. "One Fine Day," from “Mme. Butterfly" ’ Puccini Mrs. Hamilton. "Where 'ere You Walk" Handel Joe Pcrrine. “Canzone” Pabst "Sextette from Lucia” Donizetti Elizabeth Achenbach. “Prelude In C Sharp Minor” Rachmaninoff Frances Hawekotte. “Marche Militaire.w Robert Schrepferman. Solo Dance. Catherine Smith. "The Bell Man" "The Open Road" Scott Ruth Fort. "The Blush Rose." Elva Feller. "Oh. No, John. Old English." "Who Is Sylvia?" Schubert Eva Hogle. “Beside the Still Waters.” Margaret Grainger. "Funeral March of the Dwarf King”. . Evelle Ruth Collins. "Love Song" Cadman Marjory Hufford. BEL CANTO COSTUME RECITAL. JAN. 6 "Aria, Cavalleria Ruaticana" Mascagni Dorothy Saltzman. “Muleteer" Di Nogero Cecelia O Mahoney. “Barber of Seville" Rossini V. Poggiani and E. Heberlein. “Flower Song" from "Faust"... ..Gounod Irma Vollrath. “Largo al Factotein Barber of Seville” Resini E. Heberlein. "Waltz Song.." from "Romeo and Juliet." Mrs. C. S. Miller. “Where Are You Going?”... .Old English Mrs. Rotz and Olga Krause. “Spirit of the EvU Wind" Stewart Mrs. Freisner. “Clavelitos” Valverdi Gertrude Conte. "Tra-la-la” Gordigioni Olga Krause. “La Vcochine." V. Poggiani and H. Montani. “Laruillo" Neopolitan Folk Song Opera Class. PUPILS RECITAL, JAN. 8 "The Story of a Mouse." Edith Witthoft. “Wild Flowers" Streabbog Marion Seholts. "Little Boy Blue," March Engleman Betty Ann Mangas. “Seeing Things Eugene Field Glenna Mae Jones. -"Ave Maria" Gounod Mildred Conway. "The Little Peach." “The Hole.” Dorothy Jones. "Moonbeams on the Water". . .Greenwald Dorothy Hill. Trio. Catherine Smith. Betty Ann Itandall and Marjory Hennis. Piccolo Studio. "II Primo Studio.” Gertrude Conte. “Idiio" Lach Ruth Griffith. “Time of Roses" Reiehardt Mildred Goodrich. “First Movement of Mozart Sonata." Robert Schrepferman and Ruth Griffith. SHE city Walther League will present the Lyric quartet, the leading quartet of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. Concordia is one of the largest Rheological schools in America, belonging to the Lutheran denomination. The concert will be given at Hmmaus Lutheran Church, corner <Y I

Orange and Laurel Sts., Monday, Jan. 3, 8 p. m. The program is made up of Christmas carols of many nations. There will be no admission, but a silver offering will be taken to defray expenses. The city Walther League cordially invites the public to this concert. The members of the quartet are well trained in music, have had years of concert experience, and spent the past two weeks in concert work in Chicago. Program follows: Prelude—"G-Major" Bach Carl Bergen. Germany— . „ , . . “Lift Up Your Heads Selected "Silent Night" Gruher-Lochner "in Duld Jubilo" 14th Centupr Baritone Solo—" The Infant King . . . . . Neidllnger Paul Streufrrt. Germany—- " All My Heart" Ebellng "PratM God the Lord” Bach Organ—’‘All Praise to Jeaus Hallowed Name" Bach “Praise God the I .on I" Buxtehude "From Heaven Above" Pachelbel Carl Btrgan. Holland—"ln Bethlehem tho Lowly. .17th Century England—- “ God Rest You Merry Gentlemen" Arr. by Stainer "The Firet Nowell Arr. by Stainer France— Tenor Solo—"O Holy Night"..A. Adam Carl Bergen. Poland—"ln a Manger He la Lying". .Traditional Bohemia—- ' Hail. All Hail" Arr. by Riedel "Let All Men Sing God's Praises”. Arr. by Riedel Italy—(a) "Glory to God" Pergolesi lb* "O Sanctissima" . . Arr. by Lochner United States—- ' O Little Town" Redner Postlude—" Hallelujah Chorus". . .Haendel Carl Bergen. Solo Quartet —Carl Bergen, Paul Streufert, Theo Nickel and Arnold Beawer. The weekly program of the Circle Theater Intimate Ensemble which is broadcast every Monday night from 7 to 8 o’clock over WFBM, the Merchants Heat and Light Company station, has been announced. The Intimate Ensemble is directed by Edward Resener and includes besides Mr. Resener, who Is first violinist; William Symons, violinist; Walter Hans Reuleaux, cellist; Arthur Deming, flutist and Dessa Byrd at the piano. Martha Philips Reuleaux, pianist, will be included on the program. The program includes the following numbers. “Festival Dance and Valse of the Hours" from “Coppella" Leo Lelibes Slierzo Mendelssohn Mrs Reuleaux. Suite Melodlque" Friml la) Intermezzo. (b) Oriental. (el I.ove Song. (dl Valse Lucille. “Valse" from “Valse Suite" Brahms Piano Solos. Mrs. Reuleaux. "Pierrette" Chaminade Just a Gem" Tobani mHE faculty business meeting of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will be held Thursday evening, Jan. 6. following a faculty dinner at C p. m. A special recital of advanced students will be given before the faculty only at 7:30 the same evening. A students' recital arranged by Flora M. Lyons will be given Saturday afternoon. Jan. 8, at 2:30 in the auditorium of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. ' The following students: Hazel Mae Fisher, Elizabeth Byfleld, Kenneth Calm, Eleanor Marshall, Delores Mainard, Lucile Jackson, Wilhelmina McElroy, John Hamlet, Harold Phillips, John Eklund, Margaret Louise Wilson, Erma Mae Steele, Barbara Bridges, Eva Allen, Velaria Scott, La Vance Chaplin, Mary Pauline Smith and La Von Patrick are pupils of Flora E. Lyons? Eleanora Beauchamp, Frances Johnson, Glenn Friermood, Pauline Rees, Helen Sommers, May Gorsueh, Gladys Loucks and Evan Georgieff. The advanced students of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will give a recital. Monday, Jan. 10, at 6:15 o’clock. Bomar Cramer has arranged the program. Lepha Wilson is the winner of the piano scholarship contest given by the Sigma Alpha lota musical fraternity, of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. Miss Wilson has an engaging youthful personality and shows talent whieh promises real pianistic ability. She is a graduate of Arsenal Technical High School and after graduation was recalled to the school to assist in the music depart ment. Thorugh the courtesy of WFBM, a Fred Newell Morris hour has been arranged to be broadcast the first

Wednesday of each month from 8:30 to 9.30 p m. The following pupils will sing Wednesday evening, Jan. 5: Miss Viora Frye, Miss Patra M. Kennedy, Mrs. Frances B. Wallace, F. W. Hummel, D. L. Neafus, V. L. Cornish, Miss Dorothy Bartholomew and Mrs C. H. Donaldson, accompanist. The Donaldson trio will assist in this program. K. AND MRS. DONN WATSON have been entertaining l as their holiday guest Jean Ten Have, artist violin teacher of the Cincinnati conservatory, with whom Mr. Watson has been coaching recently. Mr. Ten Have is the son of William Ten Have, known as one of the foremost composers for violin, and he had with him in Indianapolis his Guanerius violin, made in 1739 and valued at $16,000. The older Ten Have purchased this instrument from De Beriot, celebrated violinist, and the original bill of sale is in possession of the owner. Mr. Ten Have had with him also another instrument of interest, a Guadanini, made about 1745 and valued at $7,000. Violinists of the Metropolitan School of Music, of which Mr. Watson is a member of the faculty, had the privilege of playing on these Instruments while Mr. Ten Have was here.

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Bible Quiz

You’ll find this an interesting test bf Biblical history. The correct answers appear on page 12: 1. What incident in Biblical history is illustrated in the accompanying picture? 2. What caused Samson’s death? 3. Does the Bible say, “Money is the root of all eviL” or that “Love of money is the root of all evil?” 4. Who w’as the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus? 5. What was the namo of the angel who caused Zacharias to become dumb? 6. How did Judas, betrayer of Jesus, die? 7. Who saved the lives of the spies that Joshua sent to Jericho? 8. How long did Jesus fast? 9. What book of the Bible tells of the Israelites’ emigration from Egypt? 10. Why did Ahithopel kill himself? v i, , “

JAN. 1,

By Milton C. Work \ The pointer for today is: J Players should be familiar with] the exceptions to the denial rule. Yesterday's article gave live hands supposed to be held by North. South (Dealer) having bid one Spade and tV est having passed, the question in each was what North should declare. 1. Sp.: x-x-x. Ht.: Ace-King-Jack-x-x. Di.: x. Cl.: Ace-Jack-x-x. Pass. To bid two Hearts is tempting with that strength: but the suit has not tho length to jutsify a seeming denial of normal support for South s Spades. South might not rebid Spades after North had denied them, and yet the combined hands might have a game With Spades and not with Hearts. Tho short Diamonds make it probable that North will be forced to ruff that suit early; and it is better to ruff from Dummy than from th e Closed Hand. After once passing, North should bid Hearts if either adversary ovcrcall and South do not ribid Spades. 2. Sp.: x-x-x. Ht.: Ace-King-Jack-x-x-x. Di.: x. Cl.: Ace-Ja^k-x. Two Hearts. A close question but with the other Major a six-carder headed by Ace-King-Jack, a seeming denial is justified even with the normal support of three small Spades. It is possible that the opening bid has been made with a four-card suit. 3. Sp.: x-x-x-x. Ht.: Ace-King-Jack-x-x x. Di.: None. CL: Ace-Jaclc-x. Pass. Although the Heart suit is identical with No. 2, the fourth Spade (more than normal support) makes denying most inadvisable. Even if South have only four Spadps, the hand must work satisfactorily with that suit the trump. 4. Sp.: King-x. Ht.: Ace-King-Jack-x. Di.: x-x. Cl.: Ace-Jack-x-x-x. Pass. King and one Is normal support. The weak Diamonds should preclude any thought of No Trump, and a shift to a four-card Heart suit would be most unwise; so would overcalUng with the five-card Club suit, as that not only would deny Spades but also would announce “Nothing but Clubs here.” 5. Sp.: King-x. Ht.: Ace-King-x-x. Di.: King-Jack-x. Cl.: Ace-Jack-x-x. One No Trump. In spite of the normal Spade support, the great strength in all three remaining suits and the almost ideal No Trump distribution plainly point to No Trump as the best declaration. Work, the international authority on Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the game for Times readers who write to him through Tlie Times, inclosing a self-sid-dressed, stamped envelope. W'hen dfd President Polk die and where is he buried? He died June 15, 1849, and was buried in a tomb in the yard of the Polk mansion. On Sept. 19, 1893, his remains and those of his wife, were removed from the tomb and buried in the grounds of the State Capitol at Nashville, Tenn.

be done consistently and without affecting the peaceful relations between the United States aaid the country against which the citizen seeks redress. American citizens in a country with which this country has no diplomatic relations are beyond the protection of their Government. When did the United States resume diplomatic relations with Mexico? Early in September, '1923. Gen. Alvaro Obregon was president of Mexico at the time. Has anyone succeeded in sending a rocket to the moon? P>*of. Robert H. Goddard of Cfcark University, Worcester, Mass,, Inr a number of years has been wording on the idea of a rocket which can be propelled outside the predominating gravitational Held of the earth which might reach tho moon. Hkj present effort, however, is merely to construct a small rocket to explore the upper atmosphere of the earth. Who were in tho cast of “The Keeper of the Bees?” Robert Frazer, Josef Swlckard, Martha Mattox, Clara Bow, Alyce Mills, Gene Stratton, Joe Coppa, Ainse Charland, Billy Osborne. What is the home address of Rafaeal Sabatini? 27 Fitzjohn’s W. 8, London, England. Was Faust a living person or merely a fictional character In Gounod’s opera? Johann Faust was a German charlatan, astrologer and soothsayer, supposed to have lived for the first half of the sixteenth century and to have performed marvel* by the aid of the devil and to have been carried away by him at his death. Philip Begardi, a physician, mentions such a person in his Index Sanitatia, published at Worms, Germany, in 1539. What kind of wood is used in making violins? The breast is always made of pine. It may be of one thickness throughout. but frequently is thicker at the center. The back, sides, neck and head are almost invariably made of maple or sycamore, although occasionally beech and birch are used. Is Armistice day observed in Germany? No. Constitution day, however, occurs Aug. 11 and Is a national holiday observed to commemorato tiMi adoption of th new constitution.