Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1927 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, EdltoP. W M. A. MAYBORN. Bus. Mgr Member of the Seripps-tloward Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United l’fess and the NEA Service * Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis'Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * • * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Ceuta 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.

* YOU PAY THEM Make no mistake about who pays the hills of the suave and resourceful gentlemen who are registered as lobbyists before the Legislature, or other equally suave gentlemen who hang around the hotel'and club lobbies with unlimited expense accounts to give advice to legislators. That lobby, representing the public utilities of this State, spends the money of the people of this Slate just ,as surely and as certainly as though they , were on the pay rolls of the State. Thus far these gentlemen seem to have been fairly successful in their efforts to direct'legislation. Nothing has happened to offend even one of them. They can report back to their employers that they have killed any measure that would promote tjie interests of the public and that tiiere is no danger on the horizon. There are sixteen of these lobbyists registered under the law as seeking to influence legislation. That ought to warn members of the Legislature as to their intentions. They are special pleaders for special interests. They want laws that wilil permit them to make money. The railroads are well represented. One of them, the Big Four, lias five men watching that Legislature. Only two railroads have no one for whom they take responsibility. The Instill Interests are well represented. They have three men who spend all their time on the job. The traction companies have their men, usually lawyers, to see that nothing happens. There is a reason, of course. The utilities of the State are well satisfied with the present conditions and especially with the lack of any teeth in the law that will give any power that can not be easily upset in Federal Courts. Just as long as they control the spending of money, they will always be able to get rates to give them all they want. The cost rs maintaining tiiese gentlemen in In dianapolis for ( 3ixty days runs into real money. They pay fancy prices for rooms. They are geu- , erous in the'r hospitality to members of the Legislature. They have no limits to their bills for expenses. Later all this money will be collected iu the form of hills for gas and water and street car fares and electric lights. The people w ill find these bills for lavish dinners hidden in the bill that comes to the house for gas. or electricity. You might expect that lawmakers elected to represent the interests of the people would be rather skeptical of the advice of these lobbyists. But you would again be mistaken. They are taken very seriously. It is legitimate, of course, for any industry or bus ness to protect itself from oppressive laws. Banks and factories and farmers have their repres zntatives on the ground to watch and guard. But these private enterprises pay their own agents. 'They do not go back and soak their customers under a guarantee of a definite profit. If you want to got a line on just how well you are being represented in" matters that relate to utility regulation, see flow close your Senator or Representative Is to one of these lobbyists. There are those who have more tlf&n a suspicion that these agents are really running the present session. If you like the idea, well and good. But always remember that in the end you pay the hills. SAFEGUARDING LIFE Os course the occupation of mining will no longer be a “dangerous occupation, industry and business’’ if tho legislators repeal the present law declaring it to be such. There may be a different purpose behind the pro•posal to abolish the law which was obtained after years of demand by those who work beneath the ground that other industry may operate. The law, at present, provides that men must* qualify and have some knowledge of practical mining before their ignorance imperils the lives of their fellow workers. Now it is proposed to wipe out this law and permit owners of mines, who may be so foolish, lo hire any one they please, unskilled and inexperienced, with no knowledge of the dangers or of common safeguards. Mining of coal, under the very best of ccndi'ens and the most, careful watchfulness, Is dangerous. Each year there is taken a heavy toll of human .fa that comes from accidents and explosions. Instead of wiping out all legal safeguards, there , a necessity for further protection of life, unless he cynical policy of declaring human life the cheapest of commodities is followed. No man has the right to place the lift of another n jeopardy. To permit the lives of many men to be endangered because a coal operator finds it cheaper or convenient to hire inexperienced men to work with them is nothing short of criminal. It is significant that the man who now proposes o make mining safe by merely declaring it to be tucb is the same lawmaker who balieved he could wipe out all appetite for alcohol by making it illegal NO EVIDENCE Rather guileless is the statement of Representative J. Glenn Hnfrris, instrumental in getting a resolution to investigate charges of corruption killed, that no one brought him any evidence of such graft. The resolution which he succeed and in havifcg killed in a party caucus of Republican members merely recited charges that have rocked the State for months. The purpose of 'the investigation wh' h ,was ( asked, was to hoar such evidence, and to discover the truth or falsity of certain open charges. The purpose of the Harris committee was to nass upon the necessity of any investigatioin, not o pass upon (he charges iu advance. There is no question as to tfee widespread belief hat corruption has existed. There can be no denial of the fact that Indiana las been shamed and disgraced and humiliated. The people have not forgotten that these charges, beginning with those sent from the prison cell of the man who two years ago was giving orders to the Legislature, were specific and detailed. The people know that in the matter of the high--7 . .

way commission, indictments were returned, never tried and now dismissed. They know that for two years that commissioi hurled the charge at the State boahl of accounts that it had helped to frame false charges at the be hest of D. C. Stephenson. The people know that Alvah Rucker, when cor poration counsel for this city, efiarged that the pul lie service commission had been najned and in fiuenced by u huge contribution to the campaign funds iu 1924. The people know that the State paid for a grand jury investigation in this county and that a its finish that grand jury called attention to unusual conditions within itself,sufficient to demand inquiry and investigation. If there be any member of the Legislature who now has heard from his home people and who may desire to escape the inevitable censure that comes from unceremoniously stoppiing an investigation, why not call upon Prosecutor Remy, his special assistants, Ralph Kane and Judge Gause, and Attorney General Gillioin and ask them whether in their opinion the conduct of the last grand jury should lie probed, whether they believed that evidence justifying indictments had been presented. No evidence? The question is whether any one wants to hear the evidence given to that grand jury out in tho open, not before a body which requires five out of six to indict and which, according to popular rumor, did have four members who wish to indict. it is not too late to repent—or apologize. ROOM FOR CHINESE DOUBT You can’t blame the Chinese for being a bit skeptical over Secretary of State Kellogg's Shanghai gesture. Kellogg’s note to the wan ing factions is cordial and considerate. But it proposes that the international settlement of Shanghai be neutralized. * Inspecting Kellogg's idea of neutr: 11, ati ju, as exhibited in Nicaragua, the Chinese may not want any. Just as the secretary’s Shanghai proposal was made public, the cables carried another illuminating dispatch from Nicaragua. Telling how the liberal forces, outnumbered two to one, had captured another city, the cables added: "In event the liberals remain in control of Chinandega, it is virtually certain that United States marines w ill be landed there to establish a neutral zone and re-establish communications.’’ It is to be hoped that the Chinese have never heard of unhappy Nicaragua. They might not understand that the American alphabet is much more sparse than their own and that the word “neutral” may carry many meanings. Frank Kellogg, apparently sincere in his friendly attitude, is in position to help the Chinese greatly. It might be one of the tragedies of history should they decide his candor is entirely nominal. ...... ,v Anew town in Oklahoma has been named Bowlegs. It seems the Charleston hasn’t feurd its way out there yet. i Naming towns for legs is a good idea, though. Philadelphia might be called Fallen Arches, in memory of the Sesqui. Twenty-eight thousand bottles of Canadian beer were seized in Florida. With Canada wet, it seems that booze is just bound to get out border States.

SECRETARY KELLOGG'S HANDICAP By N. D. Cochran

• There appears to be a disposition in some quarters to criticise Secretary of State Kellogg because cf what appears to be a rather wiggly and wobbly course in his Central and South American diplomacy. Some writers get peeved because he seems to see arbitration with Mexico one day, a strong-arm policy the next and then something else again the day following. If critics want to oe fair, however, they should take into consideration all the facts in the case. Secretary Kellogg is just a two-legged, man like the rest of us. Ho is a human being, not a god. He didn’t come from Olympus. On the contrary, he hails ftknn Minnesota, and worked his way front, that great Stkte through law school, the United States Senate and an ambassadorship clear to the State Department. But. being human, he naturally never lost his human way of lookiing at thiings. And it isn’t strange that he doesn’t look at and seg things as some other men do. Each of us sees things as they appear to our own ayes; and our individual minds work upon the information our eyes carry to our brains. It is not strange, therefore, that qufte different opinions come from different brains. Some of us are lnore nervous than others. Some people ar fidgety while others are what we call calm and collected. Some people jump to conclusions while otlters jump over them or around them. Some don’t jump at all. They just mosey along. Anyhow, each of us sees what he sees. Mr. Kellogg is a very nervous man. He can’t help that. YYhtn he was a respected member of the dignified United States Senate his colleagues referred to hint as “fcjervous Nellie,” which indicates that even United States Senators are sometin es frivolous, thoughtless and unkind. For Mr. Kellogg can’t he’p being nervous. If lie could help it he would. If doctors or surgeons could help his nerves he would have his nerves helped. So we should give Mr. Kellogg sympathy rather than criticism. ' And if Secretary Kellogg doesn’t always see things below the Riio Graflde or elsewhere as others sec them, there may be a reason for that which Mr. Kellogg can’t help. To illustrate, Secretary Kellogg is unfortunate in ltqj. having two good eyes like most of his critics. Through no fault of his own. Secretary Kellogg has eyes that are not mates. While one of them is normal, tho other is glass; and no fair-minded man would expect Mr. Kellogg to see as well with his glass eye as with his regular eve. Science is working v onflers in the physical world nowadays. It has divided the once indivisible atom into njarvelous elections that dart around a central nucleus as the stars and planets revolve around the sun. They have sent the human'voice hurtling through space at the speed of light. They have even sent photographs of the channel swimmers on the beach at Catalina about to leap into the waves and swim to San Pedro so that within a few hours the photographs could appear in New York papers. But they have not yet developed a glass eye that will see. And until they do we should bear sympathetically with Secretary Kellogg when he is looking southward toward our neighbors beyond the . Rio Grande and trying to see what’s going on. If at times he appears to have a onen-sided, or one-eyed, view of things down thehe, just remember the facts and give Secretary Kellogg time to readjust his physical and mental vision and get things straight.

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Tracy California Too Cosmopolitan for Intolerance to Exist,

By M. K. Tracy SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. B—Like many other States, California lias an anti-evolution bill to argue about. There is very little excitement, however, for nobody believes it will pass. California is too cosmopolitan to l.e intolerant. Besides, people can't dwell ut the base of snow-capped mountains, look out aver the Pacific and put a narrow construction on the handiwork of Providence. Even the bill itself is comparatively mild and would permit the teaching of evolution as a theory. The author says that it is his position that no man lias proved, or o.in prove, that men are related to mankeys and that he seeks to go no farther than to keep that idea alive. Not pausing to debate the question, such bills go a long way toward suggesting that whether men are related to monkeys they can act like them. Children Forget Mrs. Myrt.le Huddleston is the first woman to have swum the Catalina channel. She had a terrible experience, having been lost in the fog for three hours and bitten by fish. On reaching the shore, after more than twenty-two hours in the choppy, cold water, she was so exhausted as •to fall back in the waves unconscious. She went through such an ordeal to give her 11-year-old son a college education. It is but another illustration of what mother love can drive a woman to perform. The sad part of it is that children who benefit the most from mother love, often forget. Deadly Auto's Up to this time last year, ten peo- ' pie had been killed and 192 injured by automobiles in San Francisco. I This year's record is eighteen killed and 217 injured. It is tli" same story wherever one goes—more deaths, more accidents and no apparent remedy in sight. We pass more laws, take out more insurance and hire more traffic cops, but without results. More Americans have been killed and injured by automobiles during the last five years than during the World War. How can our lawmakers pause to argue about evolution in the face of such a problem'.* Proud of Wet City Three citizens of San Francisco have told me that it was the second wettest city in the country, and there was more pride than regret in their tones. That, also, is the same story wherever one goes. Defiance of the Volstead act has become a matter of local satisfaction In every large city. Liquor has taken the place of weather as a topic of conversation when people can’t think of anything else. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that children are seeing more of it and hearing more about it than ever before. Whether on the Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf of -Mexico, every town appears to be infested with rum runners, and proud of it, while interior communities brag on their home brew. It is no longer uncommon to hear men uphold the Constitution and demand rigider dry laws with the smell of booze upon their breath. Business as Usual Strange as it may seem, Pacific trade has not been affected by the Chinese situation. In spite of all one hears about war, Bolsheveism and fleeing refugees, business in the Orient continues to function. You wonder how this can be until you remember that there are 400,000,000 Chinese and that probably not 1 per cent of them has been drawn into the rumpus. What would be stupendous armies in any other land, amount to nothing in that swarming country. No matter how much of a stir the war lords and the Cantonese may have made with their marching and mobilizations, they have hardly scratched the surface of the countless multitudes that must go on eating, drinking, laboring for a pittance and producing vast quantities of merchantable goods. China Moves On Politically, China may be in chaos, but industrially she moves stolidly on according to the traditions of her fathers. The land is not awake in the modern sense, nor can It be disturbed in the modern sense. Only when mass production with machinery has become a fact in China, can she be thrown prostrate by a breakdown of the government. When that time comes, however, her armies will assemble, not by the hundred thousand, or even the million. but by tens of millions, and there will be a different tale to tell. Does the United States own the United States Steel Corporation? It is a private corporation having a large number of stockholders. The United States has no interest in it. What is the value of a penny dated 1820? A United States large* copper penny dated 1820 is worth from 2 to 25 cents. Y\ hat do the names Edwin and Gladys mean? Edwin (Anglo-Saxon) means “gain|er of happiness"; Gladys (Celtic) ! means "brilliant.” To whom should application be made to enter the National pocket billiard tournament for the world's championship in 1927? Tho tournament is sponsored by the Erunswick-Balkc-Collender Company, 799 Seventh Ave., New York City. You should apply to Thomas Dwyer of that concern.

It Does Look as Tho It Wo* n oing to Hatch

Adela Verne Dignifies Classic and Miss Seeley Glorifies Syncopation

By Walter D. Hickman * The wonder of wonders —The music of Paderewski, Liszt rad SaintSaens actually stopped a vaudeville show and the pianist was given one of those great ovations which genius so justly deserves. Am speaking of the triump of a concert pianist, Adela Verne at

Keith's this week. And in the same line I must register the triumph of Bios, som Seeley and Benny Fields. Adela Verne dignifies the classics of great piano music on the vaudeville stage and Blossom Seeley and Mr. Fields glorify American syncopation. Here are two great extremes—the classics and jazz, syncopation or any other term that you care to use. Both stood out on

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their own merits. It is seldom that a strictly concert pianist playing "The Wind,” Paderewski’s “Minuet in G;” Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2,” and Saint-Saens’ “The Swan,” reaches those heights of great artistry and general appreciation that Miss Verne achieves on the vaudeville stage. I have always contended that great music may be “sold” any place at any time of the day if it is “sold” the right way. It takes both artistry and showmanship without too much unecessary fireworks to accomplish that. But Miss Verne is an artist of the piano, who understands her composers and she knows how to project great melody over tho footlights of a vaudeville theater. Nothing is too good for variety and the appearance of Miss Verne, a concert pianist, proves that point. Here is really fine playing done by an artist first and by a showman second. Both are needed to put great music over on the variety stage. There is a melody treat awaiting you at Keith's this week. When 1 was present yesterday she was given such an ovation that she stopped the show. , Miss Blossom Seeley has the services this season of two pianists and Benny Fields. To this act someone has brought a beautiful set, exquisite lighting effects and anew and unique use of transparent curtains. To this delightful atmosphere which invites swaying syncopation, Miss Seeley and Mr. Fields bring the finest fruits of their entertaining ability. Miss Seeley makes a senti-

Stage Verdict PALACE—Brown and Elaine are sharing honors the first half with two comedy acts of merit. • KElTH'S—Blossom Seeley and Adele Verne are ringing up complete triumphs on this bill. A worth-while vaudeville bill. LYRIC—With three acts of headline caliber, the current bill is mighty interesting.

Put Something Amusing in the Soup, Says Ruth

By Walter D. Hickman. Now I ask you: Did you ever hear a lady of fashion telling the cook to "put something amusing in the soup” and to surprise ’em with the dessert? Whether you did or did not hear it before, you heard it last night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club when Ruth Draper again proved her right to be considered America's greatest actress. Life's shadows, the comedy of the dressing room of a lady of fashion; the small talk of four women, all on a diet eating boiled cold potato, carrots, three pieces of French pastry and the juice of seven lemons in a glass: the heart cry of a Dalmatian peasant in a New York hospital looking for her man; the sheik-getting formula of a Southern girl at a dance: the neighborhood gossip as given out by an old woman on a porch in a Maine coast town; the silly, serious talk of a debutante and the troubles of a German governess

mental classic out of "Breezin' Along With the Breeze.’’ The really great manner in which she makes a sort of a sob ballad out of this popular tune explains more than ever her ability In developing a song until its possibilities arc exhausted. The Spanish numbe- of both of these entertainers is delightful and they have a lot of fun with a "Black Bottom" number and their travesty upon a park bench has a lot of punch to it. Miss Seeley and Mr. Fields this time are delightful, lifting syncopation to a Paul Whiteman height. They are stopping the show and deserve to do that very thing. It is a personal pleasure to me to record this triumph of Miss Seeley and Mr. Fields in this department. Harry Jans and Harold Whalen are back with their individual nut stuff, about the same as other seasons. but still getting he laughs. Bert Lahr has always been a panic to me with the aid of Mercedes. Here is fine burlesque fun. About the same pattern as last season, but still a comedy triumph. Lahr also works along strict burlesque lines with Jeanie, billed as the world’s tiniest star. At times the burlesque is too broad but Lahr handles the situation to get. laughs instead of chills. ' Jaynes, Lehman and Kayser are melody singers who get real harmony. Harry and Harriet Secback show how really entertaining a boxing bag may be. At B. F. Keith’s all week.

THREE FEATURE ACTS AT LYRIC Three feature acts on this week’s i program at the Lyric make up what we would call a "darn good bill.”

The acts x\ liicli we liked especially well were Kelly and Forsythe, the S o ven Br own Girls and Miss Lee Morse. Kelly and Forsythe are two men who have to offer some comedy by one of them and an excellent baritone voice by the oilier. The comedy * put out by these men is of the order of slapstick and is funny. You don’t have to hunt sor 1 any of

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their points. The Seven Brown Girls arc a feminino musical organization with plenty of melody in their fingers. With a man at the piano these girls go through a program of popular pieces and then turn to solos by the different members. Feature solos on violin, saxophone and harp. And we do like harp solos. Miss Morse is an example of what one small woman may do when it comes to having pep and personality in her make-up. She is a first-rate blues singer, having a husky contralto voice that makes these blues melodies get right over to you. The “Thank You Revue," with a company of four women and two

teaching a bunch of youngsters—all of these were to be found on the remarkable program of Ruth Draper last night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club,. With the use of a shawl here, the proper atmospheric use of a bundle representing a baby and with the aid of no make-up. Miss Draper created living characters right before your very eyes. She gets her comedy with as much ease as she is awarded with tears, serious thought and a pain of understanding about the heart. No scenery is needed by this really great woman who has lifted the art of “reading” to the greatest possible heights until. it becomes the most powerful theater. And the voice! It changes with every character. One has heard of the actor with a hundered faces, well, here is the artist with as many voices as characters. By a gesture of the voice, a meaning movement of the hand, a lifting

men. is a small edition of the larger musical shows. The women have several dance numbers to offer, but the main features of the act are the short sketches presented. In our opinion the humor present in some of the sketches is exceedingly bad taste. Leo Greenwood and company present a comedy-playlet, with the central character that of a romantic old Hebrew who is seeking a divorce. There is quite a bit of fun in the act if one cares for this sort of comedy. And as no one gets dramatic it goes over all right. Bascopo is a young man with several whistling tricks to offer, besides a pleasing voice which he uses once in a while. The Dancing Milliards open the show' with a dancing team and a soloist on the saxophone and violin. The dancing is fair, but the chief feature is the solos played by the man on the saxophone and violin. A feature of the dancers is the quick change in costumes effected by the team in their last dance. Included on the bill are a, news reel and two comedies. At the Lyric all week. (By the Observer.) WARMS LEY WALKS AWAY WITH THEIR SHOW Frank Walmsley seems to have the whole show the first half at the Palace, judging from the time he takes up in two acts. With a peculiar type of eccentric comedy that fits

him exceedingly well he provides enough comedy to last one over quite a few hours. First we see him in company with a woman, in which he takes the part of a very bashful young fellow with a distinct fear of the feminine sex. Is all right in this number, and then proves that he still has a few laughs left when he appears in the

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act following. This act tells of a party of sailors who land in China and Walmsley, of course, is Ihe one who is always getting “in bad.” Marie St. George is present in this fun. Adele Jason and Boys have a pleasing ct in which they offer several song sketches ami some dancing. The men in this act have good voices when they are singing harmony, but are not so good in solo numbers. Walter Walters and Company is a ventriloquist, who does the accepted things and brings out a little comedy with the aid of a couple of small dummies. Brown and Elaine have a splendid idea of their act and we wislt to say that it is the best looking vaudeville number we have seen for a while. iWth a drop representing the deck of a mythical pirate ship these two have worked out a short comedy sketch in which the woman is the bold, bad pirate, and the man one of the crew, who must amuse his feminine captain or lose his head (Turn to Page 7.)

of the eyebrow, Miss Draper introduces character after character with the greatest ease and with the most consummate artistry. . She seems to be so many personalities all rolled up in one. At times she is a Mrs. Fiske, then a Pauline Lord, now a Duse, then a Bernnardt, now a Mary Boland and about everybody who has created character on the stage. The Indianapolis Athletic Club in bringing Miss Draper to Indianapolis lias dorie such a worth while service that 1 have the thought just, now. at this early morning hour as I tell you about Miss Draper, I feel like electing the club to the 1101 lof Fame. And it is a real pleasure to record that every inch of room was used by an audience that taxed the capacity of the scene of this wonder entertainment. If there was ever anybody who should be termed great, then it is Ruth Draper.

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Work Ace-King and Five Minor Cards Calls for ‘Opener’ of One,

By Mi),on f. Work The pointer for today is: A suit-hid of one should lie made on five cards headed- by Ace-King, even with (lie oilier right'eards ut - terl.v worthless; hut fl\o cards headed by Aec-Queen with nothing oil the side, should be passed. Today tho subject of our consideration will be initial suit-bids made with five-card suits, unaided by any side strength. For Hie purposes of illustration, it may lie considered that the small cards (xl in the examples given below are Fours, Threes and Twos. Yesterday three hands were given to illustrate the slight margin which may exist between hands which should be passed and those which should be bid. 1. Sp.: x-x-x. Ht. 1 : x-x. Di.: x-x-x. Cl.: Ace-King-x-x-x. In No. 1 there are two quick tricks at the head of a five-card suit, and that suit accordingly should be named. To fail to bid with this type of suit is a common error which Is apt to he fatal. The points Is so important that a special explanation of the reasons for the hid will be made in tomorrow’s article. 2. Sp.: x-x-x. Ht.: x-x. D!.: Ace Queen-10-x-x. Cl.: x-x-x. rids hand is just a shade under the strength required for an initial bid It has not two quick tricks and. although tho Queen and the Ten of the suit will probably produce a trick between them, they may not do so (if produced, it may be belated! and. therefore, with this holdingstrong as It is—the hand should be initially passed. ’ 3. Sp : x-x-x. fit.: Ace-Queen-Jack-x-.v. Di.: x-x. Cl.: x-x-x This band should be hid as it is a shade stronger than Aee-King-x-x-x. with the adverse King of the suit on the right of Hie hand tan even chance), it will take three high card tricks and probably will keep the adversaries from making a trick in the suit, k ith the adverse King on the wrong side, it will still take two high-card tricks and. while these tricks may not be ns ‘quick” as would be the ease with the AceKing. nevertheless the winning qualities of the high cards in tho hand will average higher than the winning qualities of Ace-King Therefore, a hid of one should be made with this combination. The following hands will be dis [ cussed tomorrow: 1. Sp.: Ace-King-4 3-2 Ht.. 3-2 S Di.: 4-3-2. Cl.: 4-3-2. ! 2. Sp.: 4-3-2. Ht.: 4-3-2. Di.. 3-2. Cl.: Ace-King-4-32. (Copyright, John F. Dille Col Work, the international authority on Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the game for Times readers who write him through The Times, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor of The Times: I am seeing things and haven’t been drinking white mule either. I am seeing the-good old Republican party, to which I belong, forsak ink the true Gods and running after Baalism. I am seeing it smothering Staterights and making a joke out of what our forefathers did for us. I am seeing it standing no longer for a government of the people and by the people, but for a government of the board, by the agents and for the commission. T am seeing it harboring swollen fortunes that have been hatched from calloused hands mingled with the sweat from laborers’ shoulders. 1 am seeing it selling Itself to such' as the Ku-Klux Klan, whose very name ought to be enough to freeze the blood within the veins of a trim Republican. 1 am seeing it giving more heed to a few hired reformers than to thousands of people who vote the ticket. J am seeing it setting the imperialistie egg from which bolshevism will be hatched within our country. I am seeing our country flounder ing under barbarian vandalism that's floating beneath the cloak of the law. 1 am seeing human vultures with cattish eyes that peep front every shadow, watching and wishing that people might make a move whereby they can be pounced upon and robbed of their substance. I am seeing swarms of comma sioned pirates swooping down, raiding homes under the pretense of sobering people up: but Instead, by van dalistic ‘ acts, are iuaking people drunk with hatred for all law ami government. lam seeing easteism set up. That means you obey the law while 1 break it, and you serve the .time while I use the goods confiscated from you. f am seeing this vandalism advocating that if you are not violating . some law there will be one invented 1 that you will violate. T am seeing it teaching that the way to Heaven is by donating-to tin' prosecuting attorney instead of tinchurch and the way to good citizen ship is through the jail. t am seeing offices created and multiple of officers created with spies to watch the people and spies to watch the spies. I am not seeing the Republican party raising its hands against any of these things. So we Republicans must all have fallen into a semi-conscious state of exhausted intellect lesi some or ym would wake upyind say, "Let’s free our party or let it die." A. U. WILKINSON, Yecdot'sburg, lnd Is there any kind of ink that can be used on slickers and will not wash off? Ink will not ’take' on the oily surface of a sticker. Paint of an: desired color or the "bronzes" used on steam radiators and other exposed piping in dwellings are good Asphalt varnish is a good quick dry ing black and will adhere to the slicker.