Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1927 — Page 4

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THE PRESIDENT’S VETO President Coolidge’s message to Congress vetoing the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill says, in effect, that it is wrong for the rest of the country to be shaken down for the benefit of the farmers. His indignation at the proposition would be more effective if he were not committed through the advocacy of the present high tariff rates, to shaking down the rest of the country, including the farmers, for the benefit of the manufacturers. Much sound sense is scattered through the message. There is little quarrel with his contention that the bill is unworkable. Its provisions were clumsy and complicated, and for them to work out right would have been, perhaps, a miracle. But his denunciation of the “price fixing - ’ and “taxation” features of the bill is funny. Here, for instance, is his paragraph denouncing the equalization fee: “It is a tax for the special benefit of particular groups. Asa direct tax on certain of the vital necessities of life, it represents the most vicious form of taxation. Its real effect is an employment of the coercive powers of government to the end that certain special groups ... may profit temporarily at the expense of . ... . the community at large.” These words may be true of the McNary-Haugen bill, but they are just as true of the present high tariff rates. The only difference is that the “special groups” benefited under the tariff include the Eastern industrialists, such as Secretary Mellon, through the high aluminum tariff rates; Jujlge Gary through the high ste,el and iron rates, and the President’s former Senator, William Butler, through the high textile rates, instead of the millions of farmers. The rest of us now pay the freight for Mellon, Gary and Butler, just as we would have paid the freight for the farmers. Again, the President says that the' McNaryHaugen bill “involves governmental fixing of prices . . . price fixing, furthermore, on some of the Nation's basic foods and materials. Nothing is more certain than that such price fixing would upset the normal exchange relationships existing in the open marketing anTl that it would finally have to be extended to cover a multitude of other goods and services. “Governmental price fixing, once started, has rJike no justice and no end, and is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.” These are good words, but they apply to the present tariff schedules which are the pride of the President, as well as to farm legislation. Again, the President says: “Whatever may be the temporary influences of arbitrary interference, no one can deny in the long run prices will be governed by the law of supply and demand.” This is copy book, economics. It is not true as things actually work out, because a tariff which did not interfere with the law of supply and demand would be no tariff at all. The McNary-Haugen bill was foredoomed, because of the Administration’s known attitude and because of the peculiar farmer-political forces which joined to pass it through Congress. At first glimpse it would seem that the veto left things as they were before. But it doesn’t. The long discussion of the bill, and the peculiar applicability of the arguments against it to the tariff, have started thousands of Republican farmers to figuring out what is really hurting them. They find it in the unconscionable tariff rates which aid to make the cost of living so high for them as well as the rest of us. And when they start to act on that discovery, Eastern industrial domination of our politics will be lessened and an equable tariff system will result. • RULED BY UTILITIES Asa final and most appropriate act of the session the State Legislature should take a step to change the name of this State from Indiana to Insull. Since the State is ruled by this utility magnate, its laws dictated by his lawyers, its officials selected at his command, it would be a graceful and fitting gesture as well as an honest act to properly label it with his name. ■' There can be no question as to who really rules in Indiana. The public utilities who sell the people their electricity, their gas, their telephone service, their street car rides and water for the city have taken over the government. The demands of the people for legislative relief have been .spurned while the whisper of the lobbyist has taken on the thunderous note of divine command. Not a law which would curb the rapacity or greed of any utility has been passed and the people suffering from extortions and exactions demanded many laws. The same public service commission which did not resent the open charge that it was named by the Governor this State in return for a huge campaign contribution two years ago still remains in power, nor has the Governor who named that commission demanded or asked that the charge of this influence be investigated by the Legislature. Instead, his party associates in the House of Representatives by a caucus vote declined to investigate this charge. The Governor did not ask for vindication. Thus far everjr suggestion of any change in utility regulation in order to make it a protector of the people instead of an almoner to the corporations has been defeated. The same commissioners are left in office, the same burden is borne by the people. In addition, the State has been treated to the shameful spectacle of an arrogant utility lobby apparently able to deliver the votes of the people’s legislators to their masters. This lobby has shown all the evidence of prosperity and wealth. These special pleaders for privilege have spent their money freely. There have been entertainments of various kinds and social favors at least which do not come within the power of those who might rely upon $6 a day salaries, if they should care to return kind for kind. The capitol has been besieged by men brought here from other cities to play upon their friendship for and influence with local legislators. This lobby has conquered. It has secured all that it desires. And since the master mind of that lobby directing his horde of sauve solicitors as a general directs an army on the field of tattle lists

himself as an employe of Mr. Insull, why not finish the job and make the surrender as complete as it is now abject? THERE’S A DIFFERENCE When the grand jury which investigated for eleven weeks charges of fraud and corruption In the State adjourned three legal advisers of that body declared that it liad failed to do its duty. Prosecutor Remy was one of these. Ralph Kane and Judge Gause likewise declared that In their opinion some officials should have been indicted.^ The law does not permit the prosecutor to file direct informatiohs while the grand jury is in session. In a similar situation in another county the prosecutor immediately filed such information when the grand jury adjourned. Mr. Remy did not do that. Another grand jury was called and after a few weeks failed to make the further investigations recommended by its predecessor. One member of that grand jury has resigned and apparently, Mr. Remy does not believe that the remaining five members constitute a grand jury, at least this inference may he drawn from the fact that one of his deputies issued a warrant charging a felony and dragged a prominent citizen from liid home at night, had him held for several hours and proceeds to prosecute. It is true that this citizen was not an official, he was not one of those against whom Mr. Remy and his assistants heard evidence of corruption, he was not charged with offenses against the public. There are those who are curious to kpow why informations are not fifed against those officials that Mr. Remy and his assistants said should have been indicted months ago. There’s a difference some place, perhaps Mr. Remy knows what it is. PITY POOR ARTHUR What a pitiful spectacle Indiana presents to the Nation in the performance of Senator Arthur Robinson, who fights so earnestly and yet so foolishly to prevent Senator Reed from continuing a probe of the last Senatorial election. If any other comment were needed, let it be found in the fact that Senator Watson, even more anxious to prevent such an inquiry, apologizes for Robinson’s acts and words on the ground of his youth. Never before has one Indiana Senator been compelled to apologize for his colleague, and if Indiana, which may have to suffer two more years of Robinson, desires to know what other Senators think of Robinson take this description of what happened to Robinson written by Frank Kent, a veteran observer of national affairs and an expert in truth: “As directly a man could be, without rebuke from the presiding officer, he (Robinson) was told to j his face and with the manifest approval of many of his colleagues that he was a coward, a liar, a fool; that he was peurile, callow, contemptible, unmanly, consciously untruthful, lost to a sense of decency, familiar with the smell of garbage.” Read the list of illustrious Senators given by Indiana to the Nation, and read again this picture of Robinson drawn by his fellow-Senators. Energetic youth declares he will clean up a million by 1928. He’s a dishwasher. Two thousand crows were shot dead by the embattled farmers of Salem County, N. J., according to a reporter. Imagination lias not fled from the earth. A man in Boston was fined ?150 for selling liquor to his father. .Maybe they were only celebrating Father and Son 'w eek. OUR PROPERTY IN NICARAGUA By N. D, Cochran ! T Some critics of President Coolidge’s Nicaraguan policy are too quick on the trigger, and are too prone to shoot before they sec the whites of his eyes. Take the criticism about planting marines all over Nicaragua and claiming it is done to protect American lives and property, for example. The Administration is bawled out because the marines always pick out some spot where their presence will interfere with Sacasa’s liberal troops giving the troops of Diaz, the phoney president, a good licking. The inference is that the marines are not protecting American lives and property at all, but are playing Secretary Kellogg’s game of making it impossible for the people of Nicaragua to unseat a president they never seated. In fact it is claimed by some of the critics that American lives and property have not been in danger any time anywhere in Nicaragua. Nevertheless a good care can b 6 made out so far as the protectio'n of American property is concerned, even though there appears to be no clanger to American lives. It should be remembered that Diaz, who is now/ functioning as president of Nicaragua, was not elected to the job by the people of Nicaragua, and that Dr. Sacasa was elected vice president and properly became president when the elected president threw up his job and flew the coop. Diaz got there through a revolution he pulled with American money, having learned American tricks while working as a clerk for an American mining company; and he was promptly recognized by our alert State Department as the right man in the right place —at least so far as Uncle Sam was concerned. And while it is true that we have sent marines to Nicaragua and have neutralized zones occupied by liberal troops—and have planted marines at the capital to protect Diaz, and had marines on hand ready to step in front of Saeasa’s guns whenever he takes aim and is about to shoot —still, a good argument can be advanced to prove that by so doing our noble Government was protecting American property. For President Diaz himself is really American property. It can not be argued that he is American lives, for he isn’t a citizen of the United States. Working for an American mining company as a clerk doesn't confer citizerf3hip of the country where he happens to be working. But if American interests took one of their Nicaraguan clerks away from his desk, ordered him to start a revolution, financed the revolution, got him the job as president through a subsidized congress and then got the great United States Government to recognize him as the real president—well, that comes pretty near making that president American property. And American property comes in mighty handy as president of a Central American republic when we want to make a treaty with that republic. We can draw up any old treaty our Secretary df State w%nts to draw up, ordr our property to sign on the* dotted line and thus make the thing unanimous. This is very convenient and harmonious diplomacy: for it isn’t necessary to consult the people of Nicaragua. American property in the person of our Nicaraguan president can act for them. So you see, we must protect American property in Nicaragua, i

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Tracy Weather As It Affects Crops Will Fix Status of Coolidge Veto, /

By M. E. Tracy FT. WORTH, Texas, Feb. 26. Under ordinary circumstances, President Coolidge’s veto of the McNaryHaugen bill would be unpopular in this section, but oil has softened the blow. Land has suddenly become valuable for what is under it, or for what some folks think is under it, and, generally speaking, the farmers of northwest Texas are looking to the lease hound for relief. In some other parts of Texas no such happy illusionment prevails, and If the usual Democratize majority were not a foregone conclusion. President Coolidge would have alienated thousands of votes. The Issue It is in the grain, not the cotton belt, that the political effect of this vote, will be revealed, and even there the weather will have a bearing. A drouth in the United States, with big crops for Europe, would smash Mr. Coolidge’s fine argument, while a reserve condition would convert it into a masterpiece. Argument-Fails “Surely,” says the President, “a real farm relief measure must he just and impartial, and open the way for all farmers. Surely it must not contemplate, as this measure (the McNary-Haugen) inescapably does, that farmers in some regions should be penalized for the benefit of those in other regions.” Such reasoning falls flat when offered by a spokesman for the protectionist party. Admitting that the McNary-Haugen bill is all Mr. Coolidge asserts, it still represents exactly what a high tariff does. Economic Injustice We have developed an economic situation In this country which is unjust to the farmer, especially If he raises staple crops. The average grain or cotton grower does not make as much as the average carpenter, plumber or brick mason. Things have come to a point where it is impossible to take an average i thousand acres of land and make it pay with labor that is hired at average city wages. The idea that the Government has no responsibility in the matter would be tenable if the Government had not helped to bring about sucli a situation through its control of the banking system, its distribution of credit and especially its tariff. Farmers Unite If the Government fails to act in their behalf, farmers will organize. Asa matter of record, they are and have been organizing on a larger scale than most people imagine. While some of their efforts have proved fruitless, others have resulted in a degree of price control which is starring. The fruit growers association has entrenched itself in such a way as ought to make consumers and politicians think twice. Sapiro’s Deeds Aaron Saplro, a Chicago attorney, has probably done more to help farmers organize than any man in this country. He won nation-wide recognition by organizing the California fruit growers some fifteen years ago. Since that time he has organized scores of co-operative enterprises, as well as great market- j ing pools in wheat, cotton, beans, po- ! tatoes and tobacco. He also has' acted as counsel for the American j Federation of Farm Bureaus. Ford's Charges Henry Ford’s magazine, the Dearborn Independent, charged that Sapiro was in league with Jewish bankers who were trying to gain j control of the food markets of the world, and that through his activities a more or less direct hook-up was being established between them and the various cooperative farm movements in this country. Sapiro brought suit against Ford and the magazine for $1,000,000, claiming that the charges made against him were untrue, that he had never organized a farm cooperative, except when he was asked to do so, and that he knew of no conspiracy on the part of bankers to gain market control through such activities. Ford has retained Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, as his chief counsel in the case. Tlvus, the farm problem enter politics from anew and different angle. Looking to 1928 As the situation now stands President Coolidge, who is commonly regarded as a candidate to succeed himself, has vetoed the McNary-Hau-gen bill; Senator Reed, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, will defend Ford in a libel suit which grows out of the latter’s charges of chicanery in connection with co-operative farm movements and Tammany Hall is out for some Ifind of farm relief to help A1 Smith. If we don’t have good weather, the farm problem is likely to become the paramount issue in the next presidential campaign. Who is the author of the following: “Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they jrrind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all?” It is “Retribution” from Friedrich von Logan s “Sinngedichte;” Longfellow has a translation in Poetic Aphroisms. It is also found in the Greek Ornacula Sibyllina. The same idea is found in Plutarch’s “Sere Humanis Vindicta;” x and Horace's “Carmina.” What system of weights is used to weigh metals? Troy weight is generally used for precious metals such as gold, silver and patlnum and in scientific experiments. In all other cases avoirdupois weights are used.

‘Carrying Out ’ the Farmer’s Demand!

The Mendelssohn Choir Will Present Lawrence Tibbett at Murat Theater

iriTl H|i! 'second and last of the j I* I Tenth Anniversary Festival 1 * J concerts of the Mendelssohn Choir will be given May 9, at the Murat. Lawrence Tibbett, the nsw baritone star of the Metropolitan Opera ! Company will be the principal artist of the concert. The Mendelssohn Choir, under the conductorship of Elmer Andrew Steffen, will be enlarged to 150 voices. The choir will be assisted by several local instrumentalists of prominence whose names will be announced later. Weekly rehearsals for the concert will begin next Tuesday evening at Hollenbeck Hall with the women’s voices. General rehearsals for the entire choir will follow ev- j ery succeeding Tuesday until the ! concert on May 9. In arriving at the decision to pre- j sent this concert at the Murat, the j executive board of the Mendelssohn j Choir was actuated by a desire to j give its associate members and patrons the most convenient and satis- \ factory auditorium in the fcity thus insuring perfect acoustics and maximum seating comfort, it is announced. In the appearance of Lawrence. Tibbett as the artist for this concert, Indianapolis will have the opportunity of hearing this brilliant American operatic star for the first time. Last week, Indianapolis newspapers in common with the press of the country, noted the report of the of Mr. Tibbett’s successful appear-; auce in the premiere rendition of the "King's Henchmen,’' the tiew American opera presented by the j Metropolitan Opera Company in New York the week of Feb. 18. Mr. Tibbett was born and educated in America and has achieved his musical triumphs in this country. I HE regular Saturday after- | I | noon recital given by I- * students of the Metropolitan School of Music in the Odeon next Saturday, March 5, at 3 o’clock, will consist of cello, piano, voice and violin numbers, and readings, and will be concluded with a short play, “The Fairy Ring,” produced by Miss Norma Justice, the roles to be taken by the following of her students: Clara Jane Hickman, Jean Hickman, Marie Shaner, Cleo Reed, Florence Smith, Philip Smith, Alice and AVilliai Weghorst, Martha Schrieber, Margaret Branaman, June Fletcher, Doiothy and Robert Aldag, Helen Meyers, Josephine Whitten. In the recital will b Dorothea Ward, Robert Schultz, Irene Noerr, Mrs. C. J. Rhinebarger, Marjorie Pendleton, Ruth Eloise Dale, Frieda Roderick, Georgia Baumann, Lucky Clark, Mrs. H. Jacobelli, Edith Ga - rlson, Lucile Stanley, Elizabeth Thale, Helen Payne, Nellie A. Fowler, Eleanor Murphy, Eugene Kerr, and Lucile Oglesby. These students are pupils of the following teachers: Adolph Schellschmldt, Edward Nell, Hugh MeGibeny, Arthur G. Monninger, Mrs. Mary Wilhite, Earle Howe Jones, Helen Louise Quig, Frieda Heider, Franklin N. Taylor, Leone Kinder, Mrs. Allie F. Eggleton, Gladys Smead, Laura D. Galvin. Mrs. Asel Spellman Stitt, soprano, student of Franklin N. Taylor, was special soloist for Central Presbyterian Church at Lafayette last Sunday. Miss Elsie Adams and M‘ss Arabella Chambers, students of Mr. Taylor and Edward Nell of the Metropolitan school, sang for the banquet of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Tuesday evening. ‘ rZTI R. TALLENTIRE of the VioI|j I lin department of the Indiana ■ College of Music and Fiufii Arts, Mildred Schmedel and Robert Weiler, pupils of Glenn Friermood of the voice department, gave the first program of the College Radio hour over WKBF, Hoosier Athletic Club on Thursday evening. The monthly luncheon and business meeting of the faculty of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will be held on Thursday, March 3. at 12 noon. Bomar Cramer of the piano department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts gave a program before the members of the Propylaeum Ciub at the Propylaeum on Friday afternoon. Kathryn Zimmersoheid has been selected as first violinist to play in

the National High School Symphony Orchestra, which will assemble at national convention in Dallas, Texas, the last of February. Kathryn Is a pupil of Ferdinand Schaefer of the violin department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. Word has been received from Louise Essex, in Paris former cello pupil of Ferdinand Schaefer of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, that she appeared on the concert of the International Peace Congress with every gratifying success. Miss Essex is finishing her second years cello study in Paris, under Alexanian, having spent three years in study in Leipsig. James Hatton, tenor; Ocie Higgins, ■ soprano, and Evan Georgieff, violinist, of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will go to Lebanon on Wednesday, March 2, to take j part in a Music Memory List pro- i gram, arranged by Airs. Clarence j C. Maxwell, public school music j chairman of the State Federation of Music Clubs. j The semi-monthly students recital of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will be held on Saturday,'j March 5, at 2:30 o'clock. Arthur Grube, Beverly Hermann, Mary Margaret Fisher, Jack Ford, Marie Nelson, Evelyn Draper, Marthabel Geisler, Helen Raasch, John Noller, Barbara Bridges, Mildred Schmedel, Helen Dauner, Beatrice Johnson, Mary Brown and La Von Patrick are pupils of May Gorsuch, Eleanor Saunders, Helen Sommers, Ferdinand Schaefer, Gladys Loucks, Pauline Roes, Frances Johnson and Eleanora Beau- j champ. Miss Beauchamp will have the program in charge. ' mN response to many urgent re-, quests, the choir of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Thirty-Fourth and Central Ave., will sing Guonod’s “Messe Solennelle” (St. Cecilia’s Mass) Sunday evening at 7:45 o'clock. This work was sung last year and proved to be the most popular of the various works given. Mr. Elmer Andrew Steffen, baritone and director of the Mendelssohn choir, will again sing the baritone solos. Mrs. Florence Kinnaird, soprano, Mr. Floyd Chafee, tenor, members of the quartet will sing also. The choir will be augmented to fifty voices. Fred Newell Morris, director, and Mr. Paul R. Matthews will be at the organ. “Kyrie"—Trio and cjiorus. “Gloria in ExeeUis"—Trio and chorus, baritone solo. "Credo"—Chorus. “Sanctus”—Tenor and chorus. “Benedictus"—Soprano and chorus. “Apnus Dei"—Chorus. ' ya HEN Madame .Maria Jeritza, Vl/ the famous soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, appears here on March 20, in the fourth Sunday afternoon concert of the Ona B. Talbot series, music lovers will, hear and see the most sensational prima donna of the day. Madame Jeritza appeared in Covent Garden, London, last June tis three sold out houses. After her first performance in Tosca the furore which she created was so great that she was asked to repeat this performance so that the King and Queen might be present. The request was in the nature of a royal command, and it marked the first appearance of their majesties at the opera house in several years. The night of the momentous occurrence was called by the London press the most dazzling in the history of Covent Garden. In the royal box with the King and Queen were the Dowager, Countess of Airlle, Lady Cynthia Colville, Hon. Claude Willoughby and Major Reginald Seymour. The boxes were crowded with nobility of all European countries, and the stalls filled with brilliantly gowned social leaders, ambassadors, dukes and princes. During the intermission Madame Jeritza was received by the King and Queen in the reception room behind their box. Inspired by the brilliance of the occasion and the great compliment paid to her art by the presence of Great Brita'in’s rulers. Madame Jeritza sang and acted as never before

and gave one of the greatest performances of her triumphant career. After a summer of rest at her beautiful estate outside of Vienna, Madame Jeritza returns to America on the Majestic on Sept 29 for her annual fall concert tour. In early November she rejoins the Metropolitan Opera Company, where she will appear in several new roles to be announced. The complete program for her Indianapolis concert follows: “Ario" Bach “Rondo” Mozart-Kreislcr Maximilan Rose. —II— Aria "II est doux, il est bon” from Herodtadc ’... ' Massenet Mme. Maria Jeritza. —lll—"lmmer ieiser wird mein Schlummcr” (Lighter lar is now my slumber) Brahms "Komni, wir wandeln" Cornelius (Como well wander) “Erlkonig” Schubert Mme. Jeritza. —lntermission—"lnfidelite" (Infidelity) Hahn "Au Pays ’ (A soldier s song) Holmes “Constancy" Mae Dowel) r’Sprtng Dropped a Song Into My Heart" Beatrice Fenner Mme. Jeritza. Hymn to the Sun" Rimsky-Korsakoff "Hungarian Airs" Ernst Mr. Rose. —VI— Aria "In quests Reggia" from Tilrandot Puccini (In the royal palace) Mme. Jeritza. X next Monday right at the Academy of Music, the Indii___J anapolia Maennerchor will be heard in concert. The guest artist will be Dusolina Giannini, soprano. Dusolina Giannini begins her third American season after a tour of Germany where she made her operatic debut, scoring, according to despatch from Berlin to the New York Times, "one of the greatest triumphs ever accorded a young artist, and without doubt the greatest success ever made by a foreign artist on her first appearance here. The final curtain brought the entire house shouting and clapping to the footlights, where they refused to allow her to retire until she had thirty-six curtain calls.” Stirred to an exaltation rare in the annals of German musical history, both the public and the critics were at once at her feet. Throughout Germany, whether she appeared in opera, in concert, or in recital, the reports were the same. Everywhere she sang to capacity houses, and on her second appearance in Berlin a huge crowd waited outside (Turn to Page 7

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor of The Times: After having read the article in last night’s Times concerning the book agents who gain admittance to homes and then demand that one buy, I decided to write to you and tell you how I have been pestered with them, and ask if you can suggest a methof of ridding the city of siich pests, for peats they certainly are. I live on the west side of town and they are in the habit of paying annual visits out here. The first time one ever called on me I was surprised, and received her just a"s the paper told last night, wdhderlng what was wrong with the children’s school work, since the teacher hadn’t sent me any pote. Well she was in and she realized her advantage to the fullest extent, and T was absolutely dumb before her line. They all have a line that you could hang the family wash on, and it seemed as if I couldn’t find anything to say. When I finally made it clear to her that I didn’t intend to buy the book, she became very. Indignant and said just exactly the things that were quoted in last night’s paper. . By the time I had the door closed *on her I felt like a wreck. Even Dorothy Dix and Mary Bostwick would have jaw practice keeping ahead of these book agents. The next spring another call was made by two ladies and a man. One lady did most of the talking When she weakened the man turned in and if I hadn’t had a hooked screen door .between they would have been here yet. That same year, in the fall., two ladles called and demanded that I give them time to expliir,. etc. I I told them to run right along that I | didn't have any more use for that | book than the desert has for a boathouse. They became very angry. 1 They said that they would report me. Can you imagine that? I asked

FEB. 2G, 1927

Work Too Soon to Give Safe Bidding Rules on Contract,

For the past two weeks Mr. Work’s daily Auction Bridge Pointers have been discontinued and jn place he has been writing on Contract. His daily Auction Bridge Pointers will be resumed Monduy. By Milton C. W ork *’ ’ An often asked question is: what changes should a player make in bidding when switching from Bridge to Contract? A successful Contract player must understand Bridge bidding thoroughly: the Bridge bids now are and probably always will be the basis of Contract bids; but what differences should be made for Contract cannot yet be fully and accurately stated. Contract has not boen played in this country sufficiently to permit Rn expert determination upon any conventional bidding system. As an illustration of how “the doctors disagree,” at a recent gathering of experts I heard two of the most brilliant players the country contains voice their views upon Contract bidding as follows: The first said: “I have no well defined ideas for a complete system, but I am sure of one thing; an original bid should show one more than it does at Bridge.” flj The other (who had not heard tliv above) said: “It is too soon to suggest any conventions for Contract bidding, but one thing is certain: the original bids of one should be exactly the same as in Bridge.” Which of these two views will ultimately be adopted, or whether a compromise will be reached, are questions for the future to determine. One thing, however, does seem certain; the original two-bid of Auction Bridge will not be used. In its place •a number ’of different holdings, which would be one-bids at Bridge, will be started with two. There probably will be many hands which will qualify for an original two No Trumps, although but few Bridgo Auctions are opened that way. What strength should be required to raise an original hid made by partner from one to two, or from one to three or more; or to raise an original bid of two or three, are matters still undetermined: but in a short time expert opinion doubtless will begin to formulate conventions which have prcA-ed to be the best for Contract and which, if Contract continues in favor, will gradually be generally accepted, thus relieving the chuotic condition which exists today. (Copyright John F. Dille Cos.)

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to whom they would make their report and they said to the al board.” "Oh,” I said, "I nut pos|l tlve that when you first spofcfe you said that tho "school board*' had sent you! “Well,” one said, ”Wb are working in cooperation with tho school board.” I said, "Either off this porch in two minute* time or I will make a report, and It will not be to tho board either. St will be to the police!” I never !jct;rd such impudence as they put out. A young lady called just last month again with that same line.nd I told her that I couldn’t let her in. that I was in a hurry to rid t out doors with tho children. Hh* just kept taking up my time. I told her again that I had not time to spend with her, that my children needed outdoor air and exercise, and T was rushing to get the baby into l)ljj c<(b and get started. After she saw 4ht I was wise enough not to let her indoors she began to insist tlfratfl just had to allow her to com® ha(*k and that she had to make a report of her call on me, etc. I told her she could report that there Is oqe born every minute, but she wasn't talking to any of then) right Ihefi, that I didn't intend to donate'fifteen dollars, and she might as well start out and find the fool who could easily be talked into her flfteen-doll^ir jr sal|\ I told her that a mother wap very foolish to be talked into so much for a book when not another child in school would hp n£t to have one. I know that tb children could get all of their llefesotjs in the school reference rooms and at the public library. I knew }h<J the school teachers are not going W assign lessons out of the boo Ip fjigt these agents are trying to 5e11.,. , Can you or anyone else snt*ite*t a permanent method of .golOhg ahead of these pests? Sincerely. _ J mrs. w. m. Biuaqjr.* 112 llau&jft.