Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1927 — Page 6

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FRANCE REJECTS France has not improved her moral standing among the nations of the world by her rejection of President Coolidge’s five-power naval pact proposal. Rejection is based on the ground that the proposed conference would Interfere with the arms limitation work of the League of Nations. A better course might have been for France to accept the Coolidge view that, instead of hindering the league s efforts, the five-power conference could contribute to the effectiveness of the league’s proposed general conference. If no agreement proved possible among the five powers, France would have lost nothing. The situation of France is perfectly understandable. She can not hope to compete with Great Britain or tlie United States in the building of an offensive navy. She feels, however, that she can provide herself with a defensive navy, capable of protecting herself against any country, if there is no restriction on the building of submarines. So she proposes to remain free to build submarines in any number. France, furthermore, has insisted that the League of Nations arms commission consider land and naval limitation as one problem. This renders the problem so complex that hope of solution is very slight. President Coolidge probably will attempt the only alternative method that is left to him. He is expected to sound out Great Britain and Japan on a three-power limiting cruisers, destroyers and submarines to the 5-5-3 ratio already established for capital ships. Great Britain is unlikely to reject the suggestion of a conference but obtaining any useful agreement is certain to be extremely difficult. England wants her long line of cruisers. They are the fast moving defenders of the trade routes to her dominions. Her attitude, informally expressed, is that the 5-5-3 ratio would be acceptable to her if it meant no diminishing of her present cruiser strength. She evidently would be willing to have the United States bring our cruiser strength up to a parity with her own, though that would require the building of many more such ships by this country. It is a difficult job on which the President has embarked. That he is sincere in his efforts is indicated by his persistent opposition to the building of even three more cruisers by the United States. The three-power agreement should be attempted. Even though it may not be obtained the world will benefit by the open discussion of the problem. The subject is one on which too much light can not be had. TWO MOVING PICTURES Two dramas of the Colorado River are being enacted in America. One is at the picture theaters, the other at the capital in Washington. At the theaters there is a picture that shows the pitiless desert of the Southwest, and the terrible river, raging down out of the mountains, breaking its banks and sweeping whole towns of people to their death. Hot, sandy, intolerable desert anu menacing flood, capable together of creating the richest country on earth. In the story greedy capitalists see this vision of wealth and try to secure it for themselves. But, of course, they are thwarted and the people of the Imperial Valley in the end dwell in happiness and safety. The picture is called “The Winning of Barbara Worth.” At Capitol Hill the plot of the play is practically the same, but the real desert and the real river are infinitely more terrible than the celluloid ones. Private interests are determined the profit from any enterprise to harness the river shall be theirs. While they make their demands, flood threatens the people of the Southwest daily. The story is called the Swing-Johnson bill. The end of this story has not yet been written. It can end with safety and happiness for Imperial Valley. It can end with private interests wresting from Congress control of the Colorado and all its potential wealth. Or it can end with an appalling flood vhiie .Congress delays action. If a wise scenario writer were in charge of this story all would be well. But the writing of it is in the hands of five hundred and more congressmen; and it is a bitter fact that true stories do not always end as movies do. RULED BY PRIVILEGE Unless there is some showing of public sentiment and protest in a form the legislators and the politicians will understand, the public utilities of the State will continue to control the laws and the regulation of the necessities. The utility lobby and the leaders of the dominant party are working together to prevent any legislation looking to the relief of the public from oppressive rates and conditions. The politicians of the party in power are delivering whatever and whenever they can. These politicians understand that the utilities are generous in campaigns and can be relied upon for the money they need to operate their peculiar brand of politics. There is no mistake about the attitude and demand of the people of this State. They believe, perhaps mistakenly and perhaps in truth, that the present commission is a utility body, named and controlled by the public utilities, k and that it has ceased to function for the protec- ™ tion of the public. The commissioners themselves and the Governor of this State are responsible for this belief. When it was openly charged by a responsible official of this city that the utilities contributed $19,000 to the 1924 campaign for the purpose of controlling tlfb commission, the people had every right to expect an indignant denial and a demand for an investigation. Instead of that demand, not one of these commissioners appealed to the Legislature for an investigation at which they could be vindicated. When the Governor changed one member of that commission on the eve of its most important decision, he invited suspicion and distrust. The people do not and cannot understand the silence of the commissioners nor the unexplained / ‘ r • / j :

change in the commission under which a man not known to the public and not known as an expert on utilities was placed on the board with great haste. The utility lobby is fighting to prevent any change in the present commiss'ion. That damns the commission still farther. The utility lobby is fighting to prevent any change in the law which would give the'people the right to investigate the manner in which their money is spent by these utilities. The utility lobby is fighting most of all to prevent any inquiry into the new invention of holding companies under which contracts with themselves permit the inside rings to take out large profits without any regulation. This lobby is composed of shrewd lawyers, genial gentlemen who put the lawmakers under social obligations, who whisper to them of advancement, of memberships on commissions, of fees when they are lawyers. The people do not seem to have any representatives. That is the sad situation. There is no one persistently keeping the facts Wore honest lawmakers. Only the lobby is busy. Perhaps the people will speak later. When these legislators go home, they may tell them things if they fail to change the present commission. Members of the Legislature might refnember that they are here in the company of these special pleaders for privilege only two months. They must live with their neighbors the other twenty-two months of the biennial period. Some of them seem to be forgetting this fact. —, WHEN CONGRESS ADJOURNS You may feel that the United States Government already has gone much farther afield than any international law warrants in its dealing with Central American republics. But apparently, you have seen only the beginning. Some indication of how deeply we may become involved is given by the Washington Post, owned by Edward B. McLean of oil scandal fame. This newspaper, it will be remembered, anticipated, step by step, the amazing progress of the State Department’s interference in the domestic affairs of Nicaragua aud Mexico, up to the point where the American people called a halt. The Post talked about Bolshevism one day and Secretary Kellogg talked about it the next. The Post suggested lifting the arms embargo one day and Secretary Kellogg hinted at doing the same thing next. And so it is useful for you to know the path tiife Post is pursuing now. First, editorially, it demands that this Government neutralize the whole country of Nicaragua. It is the plain duty of the United States to put a stop to the revolution in Nicaragua, says this newspaper which also says that our Government has thus far leaned backward in the effort to avoid the'charge of interfering in Nicaraguan affairs. Such a proposal sounds silly, of course, but that doesn’t mean that our present Government is not capable of attempting to carry it out. It is suggested as a means of preventing further bloodshed. Instead it would certainly result in bloodshed on a much greater scale.

THIS IS REALLY TERRIBLE! By N. D. Cochran -

thoughts pure? Perhaps you don’t know. You may think you do. I Your thoughts may be satisfactory to you. In your judgment your pure thought batting average may be right up with Babe Ruth’s bdseball batting average. But don’t get overconfident. Don't be too sure. "When the Universal Pure Thought League gets around to you and gives you the once over, you may | be surprised. You may get an awful jolt. Just how this new league will go about manicux-ing impure thought hasn’t developed yet, although we are | given a sample of impurity by the enthusiastic presi- j dent and general manager, Mrs. Bee Jennie Hyde of Denver, Colo. She says there are several thousand I members so far, and adds: “We are strongest in Sioux City, Council*Bluffs 1 and Omaha.” : Many a good thing has come out of the West. I Gathering headway in the wide open spaces where men are men, and where some of the good women are now spcializing in pure thought, this new movement may become a regular tornado by the time it reaches New York, Baltimore and Washington. Wearing skirts that reach down to invisible ankles, Mrs. Hyde informed an inquisitive reporter that the league was “to save' the human family from total destruction by opposing to the utmost all> public display of the nude human form.” She considers v modern art magazines to be as great a menace a3 modern-day short skirts, but what makes her righteous indignation climb clear up over the boiling point is a picture of human legs. “Pictures are legs—legs—legs,” says President Bee Jennie Hyde of the Universal Pure Thought League. “It seems to be a veritable epidemic. Pictures of women prisoners emphasize legs. And pictures of bathing.beauties—all legs—awful!” Describing what she thinks is a proper costume for women, Sister Hyde says: “The skirt is long and ample. The bodice is loose, comfortable and graceful. The human form is not displayed—it is not even indicated —and that is what we must have. Remember, our grandmothers’ knees were invisible—and our grandmothers seldom frequented the divorce courts." The reporter who wrote the story for the United Press omitted something of both news and psychological value. He didn’t tell what kind of a looker Mrs. Bee Jennie Hyde is. It would be much easier to appraise the value of the estimable lady’s opinions if one had some notion of how she would look either in a one-piece bathing suit or a garment that drags on the sidewalk. But even that anatomical information wouldn’t make clear just how pure thoughts would result from making of the human form divine an impenetrable mystery. / Clarence Darrow once defined perfect femininity as being, made up of 1 per cent intellectuality, 2 per cent spirituality and 97 per cent anatomy. Darrow may be wrong about it. I suspect he is. But if he happens to be right, the woman of •man’s dreams would disappear from off the earth. With the spirituality and intellectuality being invisible because imponderable, and woman so dressed that the human form would be not only concealed but not even indicated, there wouldn’t be anything to look at at all. Even masculine old age, which through eyesight may still enjoy this world’s most delightful scenery, would be deprived of what little Joy there was left to make hanging on to life worth the effort. But I’m afraid what the pure thought President Hyde is thinking about is no thought at all. If she will search the best poets she will find that some of the best and purest thought- ever generated on this old world was lnsp:red s by beautiful femininity. And no poet found inspiration in a Mother Hubbard gown.

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Tracy French Rebuke to Coolidge Doubly Sharp, Because Deserved.

By M. E. Tracy m/Brand’s suavity does not conceal his sarcasm. He says, in so man.4 words, that France is not willing to help President Coolidge steal the League of Nations thunder when it comes to disarmament. The rebuke is doubly humiliating because it is deserved. This Government not only repudiated tne League of Nations after having fathered it, but is now trying to nibble at a problem which the League of Nations was designed to solve. No wonder the world laughs iffour face. Why should other nations confer with us when we have made it plain in a dozen ways ihat we feel ourselves too good to sit at a council table with them. What NeKt? President Coolidge is faced with the sorry alternative of building a few light cruisers that would mean little save useless expense or of crawfishing. If he runs true to form, he will crawfish. Reed’s Hat Tossed Missouri Democrats have virtually pulled Senator Reed’s hat from his head and tossed It into the presidential ring. The Smith-McAdoo deadlock may make him a formidable candidate. Besides, he has merits of his own. Generally speaking, the country admires Reed for his fearlessness and independence. The big stumbling block is his opposition to most of the Wilson policies. His elevation to the presidency would represent little short of another complete flop on the part j of the Democratic party. The Democratic party is used to complete flops. Indeed, one wonders if it hasn't become a slave to the habit. But there is still quite a Wilson hangover, and Senator Reed has a hard row to hoe on account of this, even if Smith and McAdoo do spoil each other's chances. Denver’s Orchestra Denver has a symphony orchestra composed of 110 volunteer musicians. It gives two concerts at the city auditorium each month. The music is high class, but the tickets sell at 10 and 25 cents. This is an example of civic consciousness thut other communities might well follow. Most American cities have good' music and plenty of it, but at a price which bars us common folks. Futile Protest • Boston clergymen will forbid Airrtee Semple McPherson the use of' their pulpits. You can’t blame them much, perhaps, but still. At Is just one more manifestation of futile Intolerance. All Aimee will need to do is hire a hall and take advantage of the advertising. Subduing Nicaragua - More marines to Nicaragua to establish more neutral zones. The task of making that little republic accept the President our Government has chosen for it, appears harder^than was supposed. The constitution of the United States and the flag must be upheld, of course, even if it takes every “devil dog” we can - muster to make Nicaragua hallow Adolfo Diaz. What a glorious achievement we are carrying out, and how stictly in line with our war aims. Princely Wisdom The PrinCe of Wales has started another fashion. He expressed the profound thought that a full-sized cigaret was too much to puff between dances, and some enterprising genius designed a midget case containing half-size cigarets. Now they are all the rage in Paris and London. England should feel peculiarly secure with such an heir apparent. His interest in major national problems, not to mention his ability at falling from horses without getting hurt, is enough to win the confidence of any people. All-Wise Hawkins Norval A. Hawkins, former sales manager for Henry Ford, has some rosy dreams with respect to the future, but especially with respect to the auto business.— There will be no more panics or depressions in this country, according to his view. By 1935 every family will own one car, if i ot two, while Russia, which ex-Secretary Hughes thinks is an economic vacuum and China, which is suffering from an incalculable number of revolutions, will double the market. Henry Ford certainly lost some optimist when Hawkins left. You wonder how they get that way, and if they do, why they don’t keep quiet and cash in on their superior wisdom. No more panics or depressions, and a car for each kid over six—- | where will the east side of New I York park such luxuries? What shall we have to occupy | our minds if all the problems are i to be solved in this neat and effeci tive manner? | Too bad Mr. Hawkins wasn't i around to prevent the World War In 1914 or that Secretary Kellogg didn’t call on him before getting tangled up with the Nicaragua revolution. Are there American cemeteries at Bellau Wood and Chateau Thierry ; in France? | There is a permanent American ; cemetery a(* Bellau Wood in which 2,212 bodies of American soldiers are j buried. There is none at Chateau Thierry and the bodies formerly in- ; terred there have been,- transferred to Bellau Wood or elsewhere.

Mr. Napoleon Never Knew a Real Waterloo

The Great Leon Brings His Illusion Act to the Palace Theater Today

“So This Is Marriage” is a prototype of t musical comedy production written by the producer of many musical shows, Will M. Hough, and staged at the Palace Theater the last half of this week with a cast of former musical comedy stare headed by Guy Voyer, who himself was a feature of the Broadway success, “Mr. Battling Butler.” The plot of the act deals with contrasting the marriage status at one, five and ten years. Six tuneful songs are used in bringing out the theme of the story and three different scenes are used. The Great Leon is staging what Is considered the “world’s super thriller” In illusion acts. This man who is a scientist, inventor, and showman is presenting his “DeathRay Gun,” with which he pierces a woman’s heart with a yard of steel. He loads the gun with a woman and shoots her through a sheet of solid metal plate. As another trick he shows how “8 man can lose his own shadow. Gladys Greene and her boys are giving “A Jazzical-Claspical Revue” in which the girl does Oriental and toe steps and the boys play saws, one-stringed violins, and the piano. Mallon and Case are “Nut 'Eccentricles,” who have muctf comedy to offef. Griffiths and Young have a comedy concoction entitled “Ain’t Love Grand,” in which they sing and talk. “When the Wife’s Away,” is the film with George IC. Arthur and Dorothy Revier. This is billed as a picture crammed with laughs. Pathe News, a comedy, and topics of the day complete the program. I theaters today offer; “The Green Hat” at English’s; Kitty Doner at Keith’s; new show at the Palace; Heidelberg Charm at the Lyric; “It” at the Circle; "The Sensation Seekers” at the Colonial; "Altars of Desire’* at the Ohio; “Love’s Greatest Mistake” at the ApoJlo; movies at the Isis; “Wings of the Storm” at the Uptown, and burlesque at the Mutual. Who conducts the National spelling contest each year? The Courier Journal of Louisville, Ky. What is the meaning of the name Ho/ner? It is from the Greek and means “security.”

What’s Wrongi

This is an easy test, especially designed for children. The correct answers appear on page 16: 1. What is wrong with this picture? 2. What Great Lakes city is known as “The City of the Straits?” 3. In what year was Washington first inaugurated President? 4. What celestial body influences the tides in the ocean? 5. Who was President of the United States during the war with Mexico? 6. What American naval commandfer wrotef after a battle, "We have met the enemy and they are ours?” 7. What is the capital of Greece? 8. What is the largest country in South America? 9. What two famous explorers went through the Northwest territory of the United States in 1803? 10. What is the fifth largest city in America?

Legislative Calendar

HOUSE Bills Introduced K B 355—Babcock. Provide* for prohibition of the prepayment of municipal bond* commonly known a* Barrett law bond amt providing that Interest on these KO into the public fund. Judiciary A. H. B. 35(5—Brown. Authorize* Governor to appoint committee of five to select a site for a tuberculosis hospital in southern Indiana. Appropriates SIO,OOO to purchase the land. Ways and Means. H. B. 357—Rice and Clayeombe. Appropriates $350 for relief of Grace Philputt Younfj injured when bridee collapsed on State Rd. 30. Ways and Mean*. If. B. 358—Claycomoe. City plan bill. Provides for issuance of '‘thoroughfare bonds” to tarry out city plan ideas. Af. fairs of the City of Indianapolis. H. B. 350—Braun. Exempting from taxation real and personal property of Chambers of Commrrir. women clubs, etc., in city of population between 85,000 and 150,000. Cities and Towns. H. B. 3(so—Freemyer and Shull. Opening up t'-aehtrs retirement fund eligibility to permit teachers who failed to dtet nitnibersliip under the old law to come in by Oct. 31. 1028. H. B. 3(sl—Rice and Clayeombe. Appropriating $2,000 for relief of Alice N. McDonald injured in collapse of bridge on State Rd. 30. Ways and Means. H, B. 302—Rice and Clayeombe. Appropriating $175 to Ralph J. Nelson for injuries received on State Rd. 30. Ways andMeans. H. B. 363—Carlson. Amends mechanic lien law to allow justices of the peace to render judgments in cases of $25 or less. Criminal Code. H. B. 301 —McKesson and Drake. Permits municipalities tc own and operate public utilities without consulting utiltes commsson. Cities and Town*. H. B. 305—Ebaugh. Permit* Indiana Village for Epileptics to accept real estate in Henry County. Benevolent and Scientific Institutions. H. B. 30ii—Fulwlder. Provides that insurance rating bureaus shall make written surveys of all risks and these are to be tiled in commissioners office as public records. Insurance. Kills Killed ** H. B. 283—Duncan. Increases salary of State House custodian to $2,500 a year. Indefinitely postponed by Fees and Salaries Committee. H. B. lU!—Bosson. Provides that half of surplus in excess of $2,000 in county dog fund be diverted from school fund and given to Humane Societies where such societies exist. Ayes, 25; noes, 68. Bills Withdrawn H. B. 214—Clayeombe. Creating a separate Circuit Court district for both Monroe and Owen Counties. H. B. 242—Harris. Amending 1910 draft law. Provides for changing course of old open ditches. Bills Passed S. B. 6—Pell. Killed Tuesday. Reconsidered. Provides for expenditure oi surplus war work and war chest funds. Ayes, 88: noes. 0. H. B. 10—Saliwaser. Defines crime of bank robbery and prescribes penalty. 94-0. H. B 200 —Wray and Pittenger. Authorizing acceptance by Indiana University of the William H. Coleman gift of $250,000 for erection of women’s hospital in Indianapolis. Appropriates $75,000 a year lor maintenance. 90-0. H. B. 80—Sallwasser. Separates Circuit Courts of La Porte and Porter Counties. Provides for selection of Porter County judge. 85-2. H. B. 158—Mason. Provides for licensing mid supervision of beauty parlors, and beauty parlor operators. 65-25. H. B. 150—Carlson. Authorizing corporations formed under 1921 law to merge under terms of 1908 law relating to incorporations of mining and manufacturing companies. 09-10. H. B. 94—Nolan. Permits fraternal so-cieties-to pay death benefits on children of certain ages. 77-0. H. B. 153—Werner and Duncan. Amending fraternal beneficiary associations law to include adopted children in scope of eligibility. 77-0. S. B. 39—Steele. Provides for appointment of railway police and specifies their powers. 77-1. S. B, 119—Holmes. Enables municipalities to provide parking grounds. 79-0. S. B. B—Holmes. Makes uniform laws concerning handling of trust funds. 71-4. SENATE _ Bills Introduced 8. B. 259 — Alldridge. Providing method for turning platted tracks back to farms. County and Township Business. S. B. 200—Beeson. Makes trust company boards consist of five instead of six members. Banks. S. B. 201—Clancy. Places street widths under city plan commission. Creates thoroughfare commission and taxing unit. Cities and Towns. S. B. 202—Cravens. Permits holding company to build Hanover High School. Countv and Township Business. S. B. 203—Cravens. Provides county sheriffs ami clerks office terms to start Jan. 1. County and Township Business. 8. B. 204—Doogs. Legalize* fees paid to. Spencer County recorder. Fees and Salaries. St B. 265—Doogs. Legalizing fee* paid to former Spencer County recorder. Fees and Salarie*. S. B. 200—Harrison. Provide* penalty for possession or use of machine guns. gas. bombs and other instruments of bootleg warfare. Criminal Code. _S. B. 207—Hodges. Permits church eor. poration to raise number of trustees. Benevolent Institutions. 8. B. 208—Inman. Empower* public service commission to order municipal owned utilities to provide 7 nor cent of valuation for "improvement hih! extension" fund. Judiciary A. S. B. 209—Koenig. Limits number of i us tiers of peace in second-class cities, ’ixes salaries at $2,500. Fee* and salaries. S. B. 270—Lochard. Takes municipalowned utilities from the jurisdiction of the public service commission. Judiciary A. S. B. 271—-Markel. Makes city treasurer’s bonds cover all his activities. Cities and Towns. 8. B. 272—Nejdl. Clarifies and codifies election laws. Elections. S. B. 273—Pe11. Raises county road assessments from 1 to 2 per cent. County and township business. S. B. 274—Perkins. Governs recorder’s fees. Fees and salaries. S. B. 275—Shake, Lindley. Perkins. Permits county council to decide salary of county agricultural agent, not to exceed 82.500. Agriculture. S. B. 270—Steele. Prohibits discrimination in butter, cream and butterlat purchases. Agriculture. Bills Passed S. Bw 91—-Harrison. Provides Juvenile court reporter for Marion County. Ayes. 39: noes. O. i 8. B. 93-—O'Rourke. Increases Allen County prosecutor's salary to $5,500. 34-9. S. B. 132—Qtiillin. Raises Indianapolis fire,and police chiefs to 35.000. 20-10. S. B. 153—Holmes. Permits probate judges to close est ites in six months. 32-0. S. B. 190—O'Rourke. Koenig. Provides Allen County Court with probate power. 35-6,

S. B. 210—Hodges. Requires municipal court clerks to pay fees directly to treasurer, rather than judge. 44-0. S. B. 227—Harlan. Richmond sewer for Eastern Insane Hospital. 43-0. S. B. 144—Nejdl. Increases mine safety. 44-0. S B. 189—Steele. Legalizes Michigan City bond isue. 33-0. 8. B. 171—O'Rourke. Extends police pension system to Ft. Wayne. 41-0. H. B. *B—Wray. Adds court to White and Carroll Comities. 27-19. Bills Killed S. B. 51—Bradford. Sims. Licensing real estate brokers. Killed by striking out enacting clause. Ayes, 20: noes. 18. S. B. 192—Martin. Giving banks Wednesday half-holiday in summer. 9-30. 8. B. 207—Harrison. Providing Indianapolis pay 35 per cent excess sewer costs. 18-28. Indefinitely Postponed S. B. 138—Draper. Extending platoon system to fire departments in towns of 7.500 and less. Ayes, 23: noes, 22.

Questions and Answers

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How are national bank examiners appointed? By the controller of the currency with the approval of the secretary of the treasury. Appointments are usually made from a list of cligibles secured by noncompetitive examinations, lieJ4 in the office of the controller from time to time ns the needs of the service require. The examinations cover questions on general banking practices, accounting, negotiable instruments, commercial and banking law, and the National bank and Federal reserve acts. Is the moving picture, “The Flaming Frontier,” depicting Custer's last stand, historically accurate? The Incidents leading up to the massacre are accurate historically, but the massacre itself had to be imagined, as no one escaped to give a real description of it. If Christmas falls on Sunday should it lie observed on Saturday or Monday? By custom it is observed on Monday. • Wliat is the correct spelling of the word “gage or gauge” when It means to bind or secure by a pledge? “Gauge.“Gage” is found in the dictionaries,’but is called obsolete. Should a forty be placed to the left or right of the service plate? Left. On what date did Easter Sunday fall in 1919? April 20. What is the miniipum weight requirement for a railway mail clerk? One hundred and thirty pounds. From what animal does broadtail fur come? It is the skin of winter-killed Bokhari or Persian lamb. It is nearly always black. It is much smaller than regular Persian lambskin and

Will Sing on Times Program

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Waller Marlin

Among those who will appear Friday night on the Indianapolis Times program over WF l&I from the Severin will be Walter Martin in a song cycle.

FEB. 17, 1927

Work Contract Appeals Most to Those Who Like Deuces Wild,

(lii reopon.se lo numerous requests. Work writing on Contract. for several days Instead of Auction Rridcp. During that time Ills dally Auction Bridge Pointer will be omitted, but will b re sumed later.) By Milton C. Work The statement at the conclusion of yesterduy’s article that Contract has always been more popular on the Continent than In England, la explained by the character.of the game which is more appealing to the Continental taste than to the conservative English mind. It Is a game which pleases that type of player who likes to play Poker with the Three Fours, Fives and Sixes taken out of the pack and with “Deuces wild.” To understand thoroughly the basic difference between Contract and Auction Bridge it is necessary to realize that in Contract partners are constantly overcalling each other, even when the adversaries do riot bid at all; for in Contract, to make a game it is necessary to bid for it. For example, a side that had two No Trumps in one hand go out in the succeeding hand by bidding and making one No Trump or two of a suit; but with the ecor* at love, a Declarer could not makf game—even if he took every trick —unless his bid had been at least three No Trumps, four of a Major suit, or five of a Minor. The same limitation Is carried into the scoring of Slams. In Auction bridge the bonuses for Little and Grand Slam (six-and seven-odd, respectively), are counted when a side wins twelve or thirteen tricks, r* gardless of the amount of the bid; but in Contract a Slam is not counted except by a Declarer who has bid six or seven. And-lnstend of the fifty and 100 bonuses allowed in Auction Bridge, much larger ones are awarded to the Contract player who makes the Slam for which he bids. In most Contract “counts” 500 is allowed for a Small Slam bid and , made, and 1,000 for a Grand Siam bid and ftiade; but even on this characteristic Contract feature the counts do no agree; in some places, bidding for Slams is not a part of the game and they are counted as in Auction Bridge. Another article on Contract tomorrow. (Copyright, John F. Dilie Company.)

liu a very silky moire-effect wool. If a frog on a fifty-foot lor hops one-half the length of the lor and with each successive hop crosses Just half the distance reniaininß, would lie ever reach the end of the log? Theoretically no. Actually, however, the distance would at last become so small that from the very nature of things he would reach the end.

MR. FIXIT Public Hearing Soon on Sixteenth St,

Mr. Fixit, The Times representative at the city hall, will bo irlaii to present your troubles to the proper city official.. Write him in care of The Times, sivins' full name and address. Name will not bo published. - One person wrote Mr. Fixlt asking when Sixteenth St. will be widened. He stated that there has been talk of this for the last three years, “but nothing has come of all the talk.” This matter was taken up with the board of works and the city engineer, Chester C, Oberleas. The letter is: Dear Sir: Could you give me some information in regard to widening Sixteenth St.? There has been talk of doing this for the last three 'yeurs and nothing has come of talk. If you could give me any /formation concerning this is will be appreciated. H. F. V. / Roy C. Shaneberger, president of the board of works, told Mr. Fixit that plans for the widening of this street was approved by the board some time ago. lie said the assessment roll is now being’ prepared and as soon as It is finished a public hearing will be held to give citizens a chance to remonstrate. If no remonatrations are upheld work will begin immediately after the contract is let. Mr. Fixit: Will you please see what you can do about having the back yards on Herbert St. cleaned up? They have not cleaned the yards all winter, and when it la warm I cannot leave my kitchen window open for the horrible odor. Thanks. MRS. M. E. This complaint was turned over I to the health board by Mr. Fixit. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the board promised to huve the matter investigated, j Dear Mr. Fixit: The curbing at ! the alley on the south side of I.am- , ljert St., between Harding and Blaine ! Ave., has been in a bad shape ever 1 since Lambert St. was paved. Every time it rains hard the water comes i down the hill and most of it goes j over the curb aud Into our back j yards. It also runs Into the base- | ments of some of the houses here. I have made several visits to the city hnll about It. Various city officials have promised to look after this sfl nation, but have never done thing. Mr. Fixit took this matter up with Chester C. Oberleas and he promised to have the matter attended to at once. If it is not attended to within a reasonable length of time write Mr. Fixit again and he will see what can be done.