Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1927 — Page 4

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THE FIVE-DAY WEEK Very probably, there will be a cry in some quarters that the miners who cheered the suggestion of a work week of five days are Bolshevistic. That criticism will not come exclusively from men who follow occupations wliic lirequire no physical labor. There are many workmen who probably oeneve thwi there ic sometldiig immoral or socialistic or terrible in the hope ol* such an industrial coalition. Yet the purpose behind every invention is the same as that behind this demand. While every one talks with impressive morality about the dignity of labor the real struggle of mankind from its inception has been to get away with as little work as possible and still have the comforts which appetite or imagination demand. Men do not w r ork because they really like work. They labor because they want the products of labor. They want the clothes, the food, the automobiles, the means of transportation, the comfortable houses, the more comfortable furniture. They want the things that accompany the constantly rising standard of living. In these days of development of power machinery and quantity production, wealth increases rapidly. The pair of shoes that once took the labor of a cobbler over a period of two days is produced in a few minutes through modern methods of manufacture. The substitution of electrical energy for muscle should, at some time, reach the point where man is not required to work as hard or as long in manufacturing the machine as he did before to make the product of the machine. If the miners of the nation can produce all the coal needed by working five days, and other workers can produce what the miner buys from them in five days, why worklonger? The five-day week is not a dream. Asa matter of •fact, we are probably approaching it much faster than we believe. It will come when the output of machines in five days supply the needs of the consumer. Fifty years from now, industry is much more likely to be on a four-hour a day basis than it is on the present standard of eight hours’ labor. What men do with those extra hours of leisure will determine what happens to civilization. The big problem is not to obtain a five-day week, but to create a state of society that can safely us and appreciate the extra day of leisure. ONE NECESSARY CHANGE Whatever may happen to the many suggestions for changing the membership, powers and duties of the public service commission, there should be a united demand for the Hill which excludes publiclyowned utilities from the qontrol of that body. Lobbyists for the utilities will probably fight that,measure much more Insistently than they will any of the other suggestions. They might be willing to take chances on gettiug a friendly commission if the present one is abolished and probably would not strongly object to an elected eommission, but they do not like the idea of letting cities run their own water and gas and electric plants without the mandates of the State body. They understand that comparisons of rates and service between publicly owned utilities and those owned by private capital might prove illuminating to the public. If rates are invariably lower in public plants people of other cities might get the idea that they would like the same advantages. There is nothing in the theory of utility control that demands that publicly owned plants be regulated by the State. Regulation was demanded and obtained Avhen the utilities became too avaricious and greedy and found it easy to get control of city councils and mayors. The public service commission was established to act as a curb on utility greed and on injudicious politics. It was created to see that the people received service at a fair rate and that the utilities w'ere net subjected to political attack by those who tried coniscatory methods. But when a city or town owns its own plant, it s not tempted to do either of these things. If it dies up surpluses by high rates, the people can get ction if the State control is removed, by the simple xpedient of electing officials pledged to such a urse. If the public officials put the rates toq low ui permit the plants to suffer, they can be put ou‘ office and wiser officials elected. The cities which own utility plants of one kind ■ another have joined in a demand that they be ken from under the guardianship or espionage o 3 State commission. That demand is in itself the strongest indict Hit yet made of the present commission. It sug .ts that the commission has hampered the pul utilities. The nearer any government comes to the pco ', the better is that government. The theory ot ne rule for cities is the best principle yet deed. Cities Bhould be free to do the things they - e the judgment and wisdom to do. They should : be forced to submit their plans to a State govament as long as the State is not interested. The vote on the measure which exempts these ilities from State control will indicate pretty comletely the corporation attitude of the members of he Legislature. Those who are found fighting that . leasure can safely be put down as quite friendly to the utility corporations which maintain a rather extensive and expensive lobby for the purpose of persuading legislators to follow the coloration program. THE WRONG LABEL Just why any one should look upon the passage of a law making mandatory jail sentences for drunken drivers of automobiles as a dry victory is hard to understand. Such a law lias pothing at all to do with the question of prohibition o rany phase of prohibition. It is simply a traffic law, made necessary by the common use of the powerful automobile of today and the extension of the State highway systems. The most bitter foes of prohibition could well join with the most ardent dry advocates on such a law. The trouble with much of the legislation on the question of liquor comes from putting labels ou laws,

calling them wet or dry. instead of following common sense and the will of the majority. There are few, for example, who would welcome back the old saloon with all its attendant evils. There are many who believe that prohibition gnd the Wright law are failures and mistakes. In fact, the big drive of the temperance forces and the slogan under which they gained the most advocates was made as an anti-saloon movement, not a prohibition effort. The founders of the league which lias become the spokesman for the dry forces openly declared that prohibition was no part of their purpose. They looked upon the prohibition party as a menace to their cause of destroying an institution they declared to be un-American in origin and un-American in influence. They pleaded that citizens had a right to rid themselves of institutions they did not like and gained ,uo small share of their support by declaring that the people must rule and that they should have the right to govern themselves locally through local option laws under which any community could decide for itself the question of the open saloon. They were on tile firm ground of real Americanism. real democracy, real government by the people and of the people. They became influential largely because they deuied any purpose of regulating appetites or habits of others through law. They stood on the single plank that a saloon was a menace, that people had the right to abolish them, and that they would be abolished when a majority of the people so declared. It was a far different principle and a far different purpose than is to be found in the effort to bolster up laws which fail in their purpose because they do not appeal to the conscience of the judgment of a majority of the people. The thousands who today give no aid in the enforcement of prohibition would have acted quickly in communities which had voted out saloons. There was no general complaint that jnries failed to convict the bootlegger of those days when the evidence was clear. Nor would there be any hesitation ou the part of juries to convict drunken drivers, knowing that a jail sentence went with that conviction, if it were not falsely labeled a dry law. There is no question of the danger of a mixture of moonshine and gasoline. It is deadly. The traffic conditions in all parts of the State demand that men who use automobiles refrain from drinking. In these days of bootleg poisons it is especially imperative that such a law be strictly enforced. Prosecutors all over the State have reported that they find it difficult to get convictions of liquor law offenders except in the most flagrant cases. It is unfortunate that any division on this drunken driver law comes between those who make capital of their prohibition principles and those who have begun to suspect that the present system should be changed or modified. Putting a label on anything is always dangerous, especially a wrong laid. Tills is a traffic ineasu-e, not a dry law. There were no pardons from the White House this year, says a dispatch. Maybe it was because nobody has been put in jail lately. Laugh and grow fit, is the slogan of the January Laugh Month committee. That almost tempts us to throw one Many a “sugar daddy” probably is just a plaiu sap.

M’AIJOO AND NULLIFICATION

■dy X. 1). Cochran

There is a fine chance for a presidential candidate to get all mixed up in fractions when lie starts out to play sectional politics. Take the care of McAdoo, who led the dry and fundamentalist forces in the Democratic national convention of 1924 and is evidently on the same trail for 1928. The strategy of his campaign for the Dem era tic nomination involves a combination of the dry West with the dry solid South and letting Eastern and Northern wet States go hang—hoping to get enough electoral votes in central and mi 1-Western States to finish the job. Having learned the language of the Anti-Saloon League, McAdoo is now charging all anti-prohibition-hits with being nulliflers of the Constitution. McAdoo ays the action of New York and Montana in repealing State enforcement laws is “open and undisguised nullification of trie Constitution of the United States.” But he goes farther than that in his speech to the Ohio Bar Association. Note this: “Constitutional government is impossible if we proceed on the principle that only those parts of the Constitution are to he ibservcd and enfjrced which any given State or indiidual happens to like or approve.’’ And this: "A rep, al of the Volstead act by Conress would lie illegal." and he contends that repeal >f a State enforcement act would be illegal unless a new enforcement act was substituted; adding, “there has been a flagrant and notorious refusal on the part of certain States of the Union to perform their duties under the prohibition amendment." That will sound reasonable to an ardent prohibitionist, of course. In some States many will agree that it is all right if applied to all amendments to the Constitution. But there are other States where M<s Adoo wouldn't get three rousing cheers if he would demand the sane attitude toward the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments; and those States are in the Democratic solid South, where McAdoo must look for his strongest support. The Fourteenth amendment says that all persons horn and.naturalized in the Uni ed States aye citizens of the United States, and that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges of citizens of the United States; and the Fifteenth amendment follows this up by declaring: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State oil account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; The Congress shall have power to enforce the provisions of this article by appropriate legislation.’’ Now theie are certain States in the Union that have not enacted State laws to enforce the Fifteenth amendment. Will Mr. McAdoo hurry down South and tell the good folks that they are guilty of “flagrant and notorious refusal ... to perform their duties under the Fifteenth amendment?’’ I have substituted "Fifteenth’’ for “prohibition’’ In quoting Mr. McAdoo. Will the eloquent and indignant Mr, McAdoo as roundly abuse some of the Southern States as he now abuses New York and Montana? Os course he wbng. That isn’i the amendment he hopes to get votes by supporting. But when a candidate begins hurling charges of nullification right and left it would he just as well to look all around him and see where his missle might land —even if his missle is nothing more dangerous than political applesauce.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Tracy

McAdoo May Be Dry Advocate Just to Beat A 1 Smith.

By M. E. Tracy. William G. McAdoo’a address before the Ohio State Bar Association might have been made by a paid apostle of the Anti-Saloon League. It lacks effect through novelty. The man has not been a roaring prohibitionist long enough to impress people. The suspicion prevails that lie would not be one now. but for the idea that it offers a chance to beat A* Smith. Row Shatters Hope About the biggest cloud on I lit? Democratic horizon is the prospect of another cat and dog- fight between Smith and McAdoc. The Coolidge myth is passing, the dumbness of the Administration is becoming apparent, and the rotten politics disclosed in the Pennsylvania, Illinois and Indiana primaries lias shocked the country. "But,’’ asks your average man, "what can the Democrats offer that is better?” From a political standpoint the Smith-McAdoo row is shattering all hope of party success. From a patriotic standpoint, it is spoiling the chance for a better administration. Gift to Earth A meteor landed near Socorro. X. M., last Wednesday night. There was brilliant light in the sky for four minutes and then an earth shock. Students of the State university are going out on the desert to see if they can find the deadly missiles. Meteors are the only product this old earth receives from the outside. Where they come from, or what gives them direction is one of the unsolved mysteries. They have a story to tell, however, if we could only read it. Education's Product American education may have produced a Joan of Are for the Moros. Tarhata is her name, and she is a graduate of the Unlvers.ty of Chicago. Some weeks ago. she won the spotlight of publicity by laying aside her modern airs and accomplishments to become the fourth wife of a rebel leader. Government authorities suspect that she is the brains of the upprising. China Awakens “The most magnificent scene in the world," says Senator Borah, "is to see a great people, after years of turmoil, strife and oppression by ou* side powers, coming into its own, and that is what we are witnessing in China.” The thought is worth emphasizing. It strikes the deepest chord of history. There is nothing in the pages of the past month that so intrigues the imagination as the revival of some down trodden race. Who lias nor - been thrilled by the story of the exodus, or the successful rebellion of the Germans against the tyranny of Home?

Dawn Breaks There is more in the China situation than its important effect on foreigners or foreign interests. An empire has crashed, the shackles of forty centuries of despotism have been broken, a mighty people is aspiring to avail ilself of modern civilization. Os course, there will be chaos, bloodshed and injustice for the time, hut those are blind who cannot see the breaking of anew dawn. The Princess Tarhata represents ; hut one effect of education on a sav- ' age, or semi-barbaric mind. There are thousands of poets and statesmen to represent a different and better effect. When Porforio Diaz established a put lie school system for Mexico he said that he had done something which would destroy him. He was probably right in one sense of the word, but public schools will ultimately do Mexico more good than he, or those like him, ever could. Dry Training The advantages of education are universally recognized. Even Gen. Lincoln Andrews, our dry czar, believes in it. General Andrews is about to open a'training school for prohibition investigators. The course will take three weeks and will include about everything from the art of smelling correctly to that of search and seizure. It sounds like “How to Play Cakewalks In Twenty Lessons." Courtesy Needed General Andrews describes the enterprise as a sort of finishing school for those who have had more or less practical experience. “Expert knowledge,” lie says, "is essential to courteous and efficient relationship between Government and business.” This is a splendid idea. Putting aside the question of efficiency, there has been a great lack of courtesy, as an appalling death roll proves. If ever politeness and amiability were desirable, it is between the bootlegger and the dry agent. At present they appear to he afflicted with nothing so distinctly as the idea of “shooting it out,” regardliess of innocent bystanders. If General Andrews can stop this barbaric custom, he will have earned the gratitude of the present generation, no matter what posterity may think. What is “.Maundy Thursday”? The anniversary of the institution of the Lord’s Supper by Christ. What were the first coins made in Llie United States? The “Pine Tree" shillings, made by the Massachusetts colonists. What does “Amen” mean? “So he it.” "So it is." “So shall it he.” "Verily. ” "Assuredly.

UNITED CHINA? BLOOD STAINS OF AGES MOCK THE PROSPECT

EDITOR S NOTE—The world news of today centers on the situation in China, where civil strife is complicated by warlike moves of foreign powers. This is the first of three articles in which Rodney Duteher of the NEA Service Washington stats pietures the intensely lull-renting background of alt the trouble. By Rodney Duteher NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—1f the Cantonese nationalist forces manage to obtain control of all China, it is not sure to mean that China will long have a strong, centrally controlled government. The aim ot the Cantonese' is to weld their country into a great national unit, but history mocks their laudable effort. In the first place, the Chinese are not* a homogeneous people. They speak, in effect, a number of entirely different languages and their system of writing is such that few of them can read. Just as Important, any strong central government would require a fairly good system of communication and railroads such as China now has not. Lark Native Ability If the nationalist chase all the foreigners out of the country, they may bo cutting off their own noses, for experts on the Chinese situations do not believe that the Chinese themselves are yet anywhere near In a position to establish an adequate system of communication and transportation. Not only would foreign brains and foreign initiative probably be required. but such a program would necessitate loans from western nations. China might expect and obtain some aid from Russia, but the effectiveness of such aid is problematical. The success of war lords in various sections of China lias been partly due to their inaccessibility. It lias been hard for the central government or their rivals to get at them, and it is to be noted that in the past few years, most of the Chinese warfare has been seasonal. Mud presents an important obstacle marches of Chinese. The earliest Chinese dynasty recorded and generally regarded as historic was the Chow dynasty founded by Wu Wang about 1100 B. C. Wang divided China into twentytwo feudal states and Chinese internal warfare, if it wasn't already old stuff, began forthwith. Just as China's lack of unity lias in modern times made it comparatively easy prey for the powers, so did this disorganized system i*ermit raids and invasions by the Tartars. The Chow dynasty ran until 255 B. C. and rival kings fought with each other for increased power during most of that period. Chow Hsiang-Wang, founder of the Tsin dynasty, tried to bring all China under his control, but his

The Metropolitan School of Music Adds Miss Grace Flagg to Its Faculty Here

Metropolitan School of I I I-Music announces an addition L ■ i to its piano faculty in the engagement of Miss Grace Flagg, who will liegin,classes in the school with the opening of the new term Monday. Miss Flagg was associated with the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Music, studying eight years there under Beveridge Webster, famous American teacher, who is now resi-dent-dire tor in Paris, France, of the Fontainebleau School of Music. Miss Flagg was also a student under Charles N. Boyd, and was assistant in the conservatory. She has been maintaining a private studio successfully in Indianapolis for several years, and has also taught in Anderson, Ind. The second semester of the Mertopolitan School of Music, affiliated with Butler University, will open Monday. New classes in all theatrical branches will be begun at this time. y There will be a recital at the Metropolitan School of Music Saturday, Feb. 5. in the Odeon at 3 o'clock. Solos will be given by violinists, pianists, singers, readers and cornetists. The public is invited to attend.

Bible Quiz

See how many of these Bible questions you are able to answer. Check your answers with the correct list which appears on page 14: 1 — What incident in Biblical history is illustrated in the accompanying picture? 2 What happened to Haman's ten sons after lie was hanged? —Where did Job live? 4 Which Psalm starts: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want?” 5 What was Jesus’ motive in washing the feet of His disciples? 6 How many tribes of Israel did Jacob name before ids death? 7 How many times did Peter denv knowing Jesus? 8 — What was the color of Esau’s hair? *J—Did Paul heal the sick and crippled? 10—Who anointed Solomon king.’

great-grandson, v ;,•> first to K ' ' • k - call himself an emperor—the Chin- A'., v &-;•**' \ jr esc word in "Whang''—.succeeded. He built many roads, canals and '-y buildings throughout the country. .j nKi ‘ ,? defeated the Tartars and other tribes, j.u* down internal revolt and Ms g }**%*' started the Great Wall. * Another Break-up ■/ > Again this unified China broke up /. # ~A;> 'v'\ into three states. And thus developed /jpi|- ;* ? * a#**the war lord system which has so j/W | | badly bitten China and led to the t chaos of recent years. / i V v The Pekin government actually / f > V only nominally controlled the prov- / /'? J’ \ inces. The governors were cm- / / ' \ \ powered to collect taxes for it. but / / k. V \ \ most of the taxes were kept by the / / t|Jf \ \ tax collectors and the governors. I I >.} . ||§ 1 1 The Pekin government handled I I 5 : - P|. I foreign relations for united again I V IP? / / in the third century A. JJ. Warfare \ \ ||) I J was more or less continuous until \ \ •&. f j the founding of the Manchu dy- \ ; • MfcfS / nasty, however. \. j'Hr / The Manchus subdivided China ..< */%!&' into provinces and appointed gov- £;*•>*' Mil. ernors to rulo them. Thev devcl- "

great-grandson, who was the first to call himself an emperor—the Chinese word is "Whang”—succeeded. He built many roads, canals and buildings throughout the country, defeated the Tartars and other tribes, put down internal revolt and started the Great Wall. Another Break-up Again this unified China broke up into three states. And thus developed the war lord system which has so badly bitten China and led to the chaos of recent years. The Pekin government actually only nominally controlled the provinces. The governors were empowered to collect taxes for it, but most of the taxes were kept by the tax collectors and the governors. The Pekin government handled foreign relations for united again in the third century A. D. Warfare was more or less continuous until the founding of the ■ Manchu dynasty, however. The Manchus subdivided China into provinces and appointed governors to rule them. They developed no national Chinese army, hut each governor had his own. But the provincal governors borrowed money on their own hook and it has all been charged up to Pekin, so that t.odny no one knows just how much China owes the outside world, although an estimate has placed il at $3,500,000,000. The famous Tac-Ping rebellion began in 1850 and raged for ten yen's. More people are said to have been killed in it than died in the World War. Massacres were i>erpetrated by wholesale and China was reduced to a state of weakness which enabled Britain and France to gain strong footholds. "Chinese" Gordon finally put down this nationalist TaePing rebellion for the Manchu dynasty—and Britain. FYom that time on the powers

Keith’s Books Phmous Team

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Harry Jans and Harold Whalen

One of the feature acts to be Sben at B. F. Keith’s for the week starting Feb. 6, will be Harry Jans and Harold Whalen, a pair of big local favorites. Jans and Whalen are eccentric comedians of the "nut” variety with an original line of squirrel food.

Taking part will be the following students: - Katherine Olihaii. Margaret Smith, Juliet Baker. Barbara Smith, Lois Ethel Kniirht. Morrison Davis. Flm-em-e Palmer, Freda Doeppers, Geraldine Kuntz. .Martha MePadden, Zero a Gable. Robert Jones, Charles Jackson, Ralph Holton. Mario Joseph. Mabelle Sehumaker, Thelma McClain. Marthubelle Bright, Violet E. DovaJ Dorothy William. Helen V. Payne, Mildred Curtis, Clifford Kmhardt, Dorothy Ammcr--1" an. Ethel L. Finley. Katharine Weiss Emily Ann Miller. Russell Quinn. MardPnnu Johnson. Richard Griffith Bettv Pittender, Marjorie Krull, Mary Cloud and Rahih Henderteh. These students are pupils of the following teachers: Edward Nell. Leslie E teok. B. F. Swarthout, Grace Hutchings, Mae A. Kolmer. Willard MacGregor, Gladys Smeafl. Mrs. Arthur G. Monniflger, Henry Marshall. Laura D. Galvin, Helen Sartor Earle Howe Jones. Nora M. Beaver. Lucille Maenci, Allle F Efsleton, Otis Pruitt. Leone hinder, Helen L. Quip and Florence M. Keepers.

Bernadine Crowe, pupil of Miss Gladys Sinead, and Catherine Matthews, pupil of Miss Frances Wishaid of the Metropolitan School of Music, will give a program of dramatic readings and piano numbers of the parent-teacher meeting of School 21 next AVednesday. The Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will hold an informal reception for Oscar Seagle of Schroon Luke, N. Y., on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 30, from 4 to 6 o’clock. The public is invited to attend. The first lecture of the Oscar Seagle master class course for voice will be held in the auditorium of the Indiana College of Music Monday evening. Jan. 31, at 7 o'clock. A large enrollment has already been made and much interest Is being manifested over this splendid opportunity for musicians and teachers. Air. Seagle will a dinner guest of Mrs. Grace AVatson Duckwall on Tuesday evening, Feb. 3, and a guest at the faculty luncheon on Thursday. Feb. 3. Mr. and Mrs. Everitt < . Johnson will entertain for Oscar Seagle. who is holding a muster class at tfce Indians College of Music and Fine Arts, beginning Monday the 31st. at dinner, Saturday evening, Feb. 5. TANARUS! - second semester, of the School year of the Indiana College

Above, ' a view of the river at Shanghai. Bight, a typical “doughboy’’ in the Nationalist anny.

were engaged in intermittent warfare with China, generally as a result of real or alleged Injuries in their nationals, and the Chinese were always beaten. Just now it appears that the powers are frightened at the spectre of a united, nationalist China, with soldiers well armed and trained. But if Chinese history continues to repeat itself, the Cantonese regime will be just another historical phase rather than an important forward step In national evolution. Read the second article in The Times Monday.)

of Music will open February Ist. Already a number of new enrollments have been made and for the benefit of the mid-winter entrants, new classes in Theory and Harmony will be started. A class in Form-Analysis will also be opened, February, 1, under the leadership of Arthur AV. Mason, the director of Indiana college. The regular monthly faculty luncheon and business meeting of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will be held Thursday, February 3, at 12 =3O o’clock noon. RECITAL will be given by IA I Catherine AVade-Smith, L*M violinist, at the Masonic Temple at 3 o'clock, Friday, Feb. 11, under the direction of the Matinee Musicale. Among the foremost of the younger violinists of America is Miss! Catherine AA’ade Smith, who won the national prize in the biennial contest conducted by the National Federation of Music Clubs at Portland, Oregon, June 1925. Miss WadeSmith comes from Bellingham. Washington, but she has.spent the last few years in Chicago studying with Mr. Leon Sametini. Following the recognition of her unusual talent by the National Federation of Music Clubs, she was accepted by the committee of the National Music League, Inc., as one of the brilliant young artists they are sponsoring. She then competed for and won the prize of the Walter AV. Naumburg -Musical Foundation, which meant that she was given a New York debut recital in Aeolian Hall, the expenses being defrayed bj the foundation. The critic of the New York Sun wrote on the occasion of this appearance: “Her performance confirmed the laudatory opinions which served to herald her debut. It disclosed a large tone, a praiseworthy “technical equipment and a dashing, authoritative style. Her general reading had the suavity, sentiment and grace of genuine musical intelligence." Miss Wade-Smith has played successfully many important engagements with-the most prominent muse club 4 fcopi coast to coast, (Turn to Page 7.)

JAN. 29, 1927

Worl%

Count All Tricks Double When Doubled Contract Is Made,

By Milton C. Work The pointer for today is: A player who makes more than his contract on a doubled declaration counts all his tricks at double value. Some players have the erroneous impression that when a contract is doubled and more than the amount of the contract made, the Declarer counts the double value of only the amount of the contract, and the single value of the tricks in excess thereof. The fact is that whenever a contract is made. Declarer counts all his odd tricks, at double value if he has been doubled, at quadruple value if he or his partner has redoubled. Five-odd', made on a contract of one, count exactly the same in the trick column as five-odd made on a contract of five —and neither doubling or redoubling changes this except as to the value of each trick. There would, however, be a great difference in the bonus-count in the two cases. Making on a doubled contract of five would carry a bonus of fifty above the line for making a doubled contract; but making five on a contract of one doubled, would count the bonus of fifty for making the contract and an additional for each of the four tricks wonfl| excess thereof, or a total bonus of 250 points. Another point to be clearly understood is that the adversaries of a declarer never can score for tricks (i. e., below the line.) i emphasize this point, because many players have the idea that when the Declarer has revoked, and penalty tricks have been awarded to the adversaries, the latter score their penalty tricks below the line. Neither are the adversaries limited as to their undertricks by reason of the size of a contract; for every trick the Declarer falls short of tho number he bid, the adversaries count fifty against an undoubled contract, one hundred against one that is doubled, and two hundred against one that is redoubled. A Declarer who bid two (which of course means two odd tricks—two more than a book of six) and who took only one solitary trick, would be down eeven and the adversaries would score 350, 700 or 1,400, defending upon whether the bid had been undoubled, doubled or redoubled. They would also score 50 for Small Slam which can be made by adversaries as well as by Declarer. (Copyright, John F, Dille Cos. Work, the international authority on Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the game for Times readers who write him through The Times, inclosing a self-ad-dressed envelope.

Questions ana Answers

.. You can get an answer to any ouesnon ,of tact or information by wiltin'to Tho Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. IJ~2 I.ew York Ave.. Washingc - inclosing 2 cents in stamps lor reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be eriven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal replv. Unsigrnod requests cannot be answered. All letters aro confidential.—Editor. ‘.What is the present population of the United States and the net increase from immigration in 1924 and 1925? For 1924 the net increase was 662,557 and 232,945 for 1925. The estimated population of the United States for 1925 is 113,493,720. How are canapes made amt served? Cut bread in slices one-fourth-inch thick, cut into strips four inches by one and one-half inches, or in circular pieces. Toast or fry in deep fat or butter and brown in oven. Cover with a mixture of eggs, cheese, fish or meat. Herve hot or cold, as a preliminary course at dinners and luncheons. Who were the “Itiddcnden Maids"? Twins joined together, according to ardition, at tho shoulders and hips. Their names were Mary and Elizabeth Cliulkhurst, and they were born at Biddender, Kent, England, about 3110. They lived together thirty-six years and when one diqi| the other persistently refused to l* separated from the corpse of her sister and succumbed six hours after. What States in the United States are officially designated commonwealths? Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky. Is the president of Germany elected in tlie same manner as the President of the United States? The president of Germany is elected by direct vote of the people. The President of the United States is elected indirectly by the people through presidential electors who are elected by the voters of the several States. Who founded the English University ol’ Oxford and when? This university is said to have been founded by King Alfred in 572 A. D. What sentence contains all the letters in the alphabet? The quick, brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Who said: “A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness of fools”? John Ruskin, in “Crown of Wild Olives.” What four nationalities are represented in the cast of Rex Ingram’s movie, “The Magician”? Gladys Hamer, English; Flrmin Gemier, French; Ivan Petrovitcli| Russian, and Paul AVegener, Gei™ man. \\ lio wad tiie English lung who is said to have furnished tlie apartments of his mistress with solid silver furniture? According to tradition Charles II furnished the apartments of Nell Gywnn in that way.