Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1927 — Page 4

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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.

What’s the Constitution? Plain language is used by Attorney General Giliiom in his effort to get the Supreme Court to take another look at the legislative “salary grab.” He is credulous en9ugh to believe that the constitution still means something. He is courageous enough to tell the Supreme Court judges, or three of those judges, that they have been mistaken when they approved the Legislature’s action in raising the salaries of its members from $6 to $lO a day. The constitution, thinks Mr. Gilliom, endeavored to prevent greedy officials charged with the spending of the people’s money from taking for themselves. The people have had a similar Idea of the constitution but the majority of the Supreme Court thus far has thought differently. They have been unable to see that there should be the limitation which those who wrote the constitution thought they were placing on the power of legislators. As Mr. Gilliom points out, if it is possible through subterfuge to take out ten dollars a day, it is perfectly possible for other legislators to take out SIOO a day or more if they saw fit. ' The argument of Mr. Gilliom is even more important in the fact that it levels by inference the charge that the Supreme Court of this State and the legislature have thrown away the constitution. It calls-attention to the fact that the Legislature has disregarded the constitutional clause which declares that no bills shall be sent to the governor within two days next previous to the adjournment of the General Assembly. His argument suggests that he believes that the Supreme Court several years ago was wrong when it sustained a law which had been received within that period. In this matter, he hits at a practice that is even more vicious than the act of brigandage practiced by the Legislature, when the members took more money than they expected to receive when they were elected. It was in disregard of this part of the constitution that the local political machine put through its measure which tries to keep Mayor Duvall in office even if the people exercise their right to replace him with a city manager. That bill, which is now printed as a law, was enacted in a manner which is expressly forbidden by the constitution. It could only have been enacted at such a time. It was one of the clubs by which legislative leaders threatened timid members from the country. Nearly a hundred of the other measures which will soon become law, if the Supreme Court holds to its precedents, were passed in a similar disregard for the constitution. Those who are guileless enough to believe that the constitution ought to be preserved as a final prolection of liberty and a final defense against greed may be astounded to learn that this argument of Mr. Gilliom, coldly logical and to the lay mind unanswerable, suggests that the Supreme Court and the Legislature, two of the branches of government, have thrown it aside. If these officials can find nothing compelling in its language, the people may be excused if they fail to see anything very sacred in any constitution and especially in the Eighteenth Amendment. r Important, If True The Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, like almost all -up-and-coming organizations nowadays, has a research department. Research, as we understand it, is dispassionate pursuit of facts. It has nothing to do with opinions about what ought to be. It’s concerned entirely with what is. With that idea of research in mind we have a little job in which we would lik* to interest the research department of the Methodist Temperance Board. In one of its widely circulated pamphlets, “The Facts About Prohibition” the Temperance Board's research department makes the following statement; “The proposition to bring back beer and wine would restore ninety-two per cent of the liquor trade. It is reasonable to believe that the restoration of sucia a wasteful and harmful trade would destroy cinety-two per cent of our prosperity, and in a few years set us back where we were before 1920.” We would like to have the Methodist Temperance Board researchers prove by an impartial study et facts that that statement is true. We’re not interested for the moment in whether jn-ohibition is a good or bad thing for the country. We’re simply interested in and amazed by the statement that it’s reasonable to believe that the return of beer and wine would destroy ninety-two per cent J ohr prosperity. If it can be proved by facts it's quite an argument in favor of prohibition. If it can’t, we want the Research Department of the Methodist Temperance Board to change its name to the Debating Department, or something like that, and give some of the honest-to-goodness researchers a chance. The Autocrat of the Philippines A bit of disquieting news has just come out of Manila. 1 Governor General Leonard Wood, press reports tell us, is about to dispose of the entire business holdings of the Philippine government. Property, bought with money raised by taxation, and acquired under the acts of the insular legislature, is going to be sold, we are told, lock, stock and barrel, as soon as possible, at public sale and to the highest bidder. We sincerely hope the report proves untrue. But, while Washington says the governor general is not acting on its orders, officials 'of the bureau of insular affairs at the War Department, say the general’s action is “the result of a policy he has long considered necessary.” It !a said that some of the Philippine government’s enterprises are not money makers while others are. But whatever the financial condition be, we submit, General Wood has n<y moral right

to act according to his own whim when disposing of the property of the people of the Philippines. True, a recent ruling gave the governor general full control of* the insular government's business ventures, but Filipinos insist this does not extend to his power of disposal. Government ownership of railroads* and such things is still a debatable question in this country. It may, or it may not, be a good thing. General Wood, or any other individual, should not have the sole right to decide the issue for the Philippines. The duly elected representatives of the inhabitants of the islands used the people’s money to acquire certain enterprises—railroads, sugar refineries, cement workings, coal mines atid so on. Morally, if not legally, the people, through their representatives in the insular legislature, have every right to say what they want done with those things. In the face of this right, however, General Wood is described by a Manila correspondent as already “considering an offer from New York for the sugar controls.” Small wonder, in the face of news like this, that representative Filipinos like Juan B. Alegre, member of the Philippine senate and chairman of the committee on banks and finance, now visiting in this country, express their indignation and hang out the signals of war. “No government action will be countenanced,” he said, "that will mean a hasty disposal of these properties to. the profit of financial bargain hunters.” The whole trend of our present overseas policy seems in the direction of an un-American exploitation of, rather than a helpful cooperation with, the weaker peoples. For this we are being unmercifully hammered abroad and feared and suspected closer home, in Mexico, Central and South America. Asa matter of plain dollars and cents business policy, that sort of thing will eventually tell against us. Every little thing helps or hurts. And it won’t help us any to have the histories, now being written, say of us that the Filipinos swapped their Spanish exploiters for Americans only to find out they’d got the short end of the deal. What Is Good Luck? What is good fortune, anyway? When you stop to consider you’ll agree that it all depends on circumstances. An Arkansas man, fleeing the flood, reached Kansas City the other day with every bit of property he owned in two little pasteboard boxes. He had lost his home, his stock, everything—he was flat broke and the savings of a lifetime were gone. But he announced, “I am lucky.” Why? Because he had escaped with his life. The other losses seemed small to him. He was living and that was enough. It’s all a matter of circumstances—good fortune.

Advice to Dr. Butler

■By N. D. Cocliran

Believing as I do that Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is thoroughly honest and sincere in his attitude toward prohibition, and that he is leading a campaign that will be successful when the American people understand the situation and come to their senses, I would like to offer what seems to me to be a practical suggestion. That is that he work on the captains of industry who got back of the Anti-Saloon League and provided the funds with which the Eighteenth Amendment was jimmied into the Constitution. Although the campaign of the league to abolish the saloon started out as a moral crusade, and its first support in both money and votes came from the Protestant churches ( that made the Anti-Saloon League the political arm of the church militant, there came a time when the shrewd organizers of the movement wanted more funds and greater power. With carefully prepared statistics on labor turnover, factory accidents, lack of efficiency—and some propaganda on the saloon as a breeding place of radicalism among workers—large employers of labor were convinced that prohibition would result in greater efficiency in workshop and factory. So captains of industry who were personally wet but industrially dry stocked up their private cellars and put up the money to enable the Anti-Saloon League to put over prohibition, put the saloons out of business and drive the workingman to coca cola, grape juice, root beer and pop. The deal involved the big employers of labor putting up the money and the Anti-Saloon League delivering the church vote. Anyhow, we have had several years of the experiment. Whatever any citizen may say in public, he knows from what he sees on every hand whether or not the experiment of putting a police regulation in the Constitution is successful. Evidently Dr. Butler doesn’t believe it is successful. But to correct the mistake he thinks has been made, Dr. Butler can get results politically quicker by getting at the power back of the Anti-Saloon League. Let him convince Judgee Gary of the Steel Corporation, John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil and Colorado Fuel, Samuel Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive, the automobile manufacturers and other big employers of labor, Five-and-Ten Kresge and a few other contributors to the campaign fund, that the experiment is a failure, and the power of the Anti-Saloon League to control Congress -and State governments will be gone. If the Wheeler machine runs out of gas it rtl* run down. A short cut might be to convince Morgan & Cos. and a few other big banking houses that control industry, and then let them work on the little fellows. Dr. Butler may not know it, but he can find out that when the fight for prohibition changed from a moral crusade to an economic campaign, the AntiSaioon League became the most efficient political lobby Big Business ever had. By controlling members of Congress, Governors, judges, State Legislatures and other public officials, it was in position to show its gratitude to its contributors—especially the big ones So the best way to fight prohibition is to attack the source of power. Tackle Big Business first. Dr. sutler.

Law and Justice

"By Dexter M. Keeezer

A man hired a lawyer to help him get a divorce trom his wife. The lawyer reported to his client that arrangements had been completed to obtain the divorce. A few months later the man married another woman, and was hailed into court on the charge of bigamy. He proved to the satisfaction of a jury that lie had good reason to believe that he had obtained a divorce from ljis first wife. On that account he asked to have the charge of bigamy dismissed. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The court of King's Bench in England held that he was guilty of bigamy, and said that it was no defense that he believed in good faith and on reasonable grounds that he had a divorce from his first wife.

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What Should Be Done About the Modern Citiesl

By M. E. Tracy The raid on Russian trade agencies in London is shrouded in mystery. Admittedly authorized by Joyn-son-Hicks, the home secretary, it remains to be acknowledged as a government move. It is hard to believe that Scotland Yard would have staged such a spectacular performance without being pretty sure that incriminating evidence was to be found. It is equally hard to believe that the government would take so long to give out such evidence if it were found. Design or Accident Whether by design or accident the raid is sure to have a profound bearing on British politics. It will either prove that there is a definite connection between the British labor movement and Soviet Russia, or that the conservatives have misled the country. If the police have failed to unearth documentary proof of collusion between Bolshevism and British laborites they have wrecked the conservative government. Nor will it be enough for them to show that Russian representatives were spreading propaganda, or that some radical laborites had fallen in line with communist ideas. Experts Divided Experts are divided as to what should be done about the modern cities. Some think that its congestion should be relieved by abandoning skyscrapers and subways, while otohers think it should be relieved by buildt/ig more of thepi. Henry H. Curran of New York looks on tall structures and underground railways as bound to make matters worse. Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins looks for New York to have a population of 28,000,000 in seventy years and others embellish the picture by predicting that the streets will be five-decked and that the best offices will be on the 200th floor. What will happen after that is left to the imagination, but the line of reasoning on which such forecasts are based would seem to indicate a city of 100,000,000 in a century and a half and of 600,000,000 in less than three centuries, with buildings higher thnn Mt. Everest. In Time of Nero In the time of Nero, Rome was supposed to have had a population of about 4,000,000, and no doubt there were experts to delight its Chambers of Commerce and Rotary Club with predictions that it would have ten times that population in 200 or 300 years. At present Rome is not one-fifth the size that it was 2,000 years ago and there is nothing but sand and brush where Babylon once reigned as the metropolis of the ancient world. Amazing Growth The last century has been one of amazing growth and prosperity for America. This country grew from a population of less than 10,000,000 in 1820 to more than 100,000,000 in 1920. The moat amazing feature of this growth was the rapid increase of the number and size of its cities. New Y’ork contains forty times ns many people as it did in 1820, and Chicago contains 6.000 times as many as it did in 1830. It is absurd to suppose that this nation or its cities will continue to grow as fast during the next 100 years as they have grown during the last or that they ought to if such a thing were possible. Terms of Conservation We have come to a time in our history when we must think in terms of conservation and replacement rather than in those of unrestrained exploitation. Three-fifths of our timber supplies have disappeared. Larger areas of our farm lands have become sterile, at the present rate of consumption we have not oil enough for two generations, the mechanized type life which we lead is developing tenantry on the one hand and childlessness on the other, immigration no longer promises a considerable increase of population which the rural districts have been thoroughly drained. Any man who can take these facts and not realize that we are due for a profound change in social and economic affairs is plain stupid. Speaking of Oil Speaking of oil, the large interests have appointed a czar to see if production cannot be regulated in the Seminole field. The move is sound in theory, no matter how it works out in practice, but it conies too late, and represents too feeble an effort to accomplish much. The oil business has long since been ruined by wildcatters on the one hand and wild consumers on the other. The present over production is but an incident in the reckless game we have played with this irreplaceable resource and that seems destined to destroy it. Some day our grand children or great grandchildren will look back and wonder why we robbed them of this valuable heritage for the sake of joy riding why we allowed the ground to be punched full of holes without system or regulation, letting a large percentage of oil go to waste, and why we encouraged this consumption in so many useless way. Do deer grow new antlers every year? Antlers are renewed annually, the fully formed pair becoming detached from the pedicles on which they were developed, and anew pair arising at the same place. Antlers are usually shed so oi. after the close of the breeding s^pson.

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* . ’ * DO YOU REALISE WHAT IRE MISSISSIPPI FLOODS vnD COST THIS COUNTRY ANNUALLY? EVERY RED r 1,. YUP blooded ciiSkskoold demand of the • ,lj| Jj UH RUR GOVERNING POWERS THAT THEY STEM THIS TICE I Y-J £OP DESTRUCTION -WE SHOULD NOTCOUNT THE' '

Annual Convention of the Progressive Series Piano Teachers to Be Held Here

Tho third annual convention of the Progressive Series Piano Teachers of Indiana will be held Monday, May 16, In the Travertine room of the Lincoln. A delegation of sixty teachers from Ft. Wayne, Marion and Kokomo will be among the various out-of-town visitors to the convention. There will be a banquet at 5:30 p. m. Monday and this will be followed by an address by Edward Turechek of Marion. At 8 o'clock the following pupils of Mr. Turechek will be given: ••Polonaise in E Minor'' Liszt Ddvta Van Kirk "Concerto in G Minor" Mendelssohn Howard BrumfleL "Scene Draraatique." for bass clarinet Paul Edwards "Concerto in A Minor ' Grieg Gwendolyn Barrow* Quintette for Clanuets—"Scherzo" Mendilseohm-Trueihek • Humoretque" Turechek Eugene Leonard. James Elliot. Eldon Woodmansec, Edward Turechek. Bass clarinet Paaul Edward "Concerto In E-ttat Major" Liszt Floy Huston Payno EHE Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will present Louise Dauner, violinist stuuent of Ferdinand Schaefer, in a graduation recital Monday, May 16, at 8:15 p. m. Miss Dauner will be accompanied by Mrs. F. E. Dauner and will play Bruch's "Concerto in G Minor,” Bach’s “Ciaronna,” for violin alone; Schubert-Wilhelmj's “Ave Maria” (by request): Kreisler’s "Frasquita and Polchinelle” and Sarasiti's “Gypsy Airs.” The Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts presents Edith Duncan Pile, student of Ruth Todd, in dramatic art certificate recital on Friday evening, May 20, at 8:15. Mrs. Pile will be assisted by Gertrude Whelan, student of Bomar Cramer, artist piano teacher. Mrs. Pile will give Tennyson's “Enoch Arden” with a musical setting by Richard Strauss. Miss Whelan will play some of the sea pieces of MacDowell. Eleanor Beauchamp of the piano department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will give a recital in Knightstown on Wednesday, May 18. Betty Jo Laughner, pupil of Wilma Davis Hine of the dramatic art department, will give some readings on the same program. The Epworth League Is sponsoring the recital, which will be given at the Methodist Church. Beulah Hager, pupil of Wilma Davis Hine of the dramatic art department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will appear on the Epworth League program In Knightstown on Tuesday, May 17, at the Methodist Church. Pasqualc Montani, teacher of harp in the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will give a program at the home of Mrs. A. B. Tally, on S. Fifth St.. Terre Haute, Ind., on Friday evening. May 20. The students recital of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts in charge of Pauline Rees, will be held Saturday afternoon May 21. The following are on the program and are pupils of May Gorsuch, Kleanora Saunders, Gladys Loucks, Gertrude Hacker, Blanche Brown, Pauline Roes, Helen Sommers, Irene Hoffman and William Davis Hine: Betty Jean MeKamey Gretehen Seidel Beverly Herman Robert Liehtenauer Irl Smith Madge Mehrinf Stella Berkowitz Harold Phillip* Delores Mainard Marcaret Groover Mary Aliee Oval Clifford Johnson Betty Jane Tharp Frederick Tucker Eugene Williams Marian Miller Margaret Laugher Betty Seay Imogene Laughner Emma Gene Tucker Virginia Wood Margaret Ehlert Beverly Adams -Anna Mae Danner Mildred Claffey Charlotte Carl Ocie Higgins and Thomas Broadstreet, students of Glenn Friermood of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will sing at Cennersvllle on Friday, the 20th, at tile Junior High and High School banquet and reception. Helen Gertrude Slianer. Helen Schmidt. Artie Gibson, Ruth Neidhamer and Dorothy Gatewood, pupils of Gertrude Hacker of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts

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At Book Fair

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There will be lots of romance in this city on next Friday when Richard Halliburton, author of “The Royal Road to Romance,” published by Bobbs-Merrill Cos., Will be one of the special guests at the Ayres Book Fair. danchtg department will give three groups of dances in the "Goodbye Blues” with Charlie Davis at the Ohio, during the week of May 26th. mHERE will be three student recitals at the Metropolitan School of Music next week. All will be in the Odeon and open to the public free of charge. Tuesday evening, May 17, at 8 o'clock, a piano, voice and violin recital will be given by pupils of Frances Ann Wishard, Frieda Heider and Edwin Jones. A ladies’ chorus, directed by Miss Heider, will sing a group of numbers to conclude the program. Taking part will be the following: Elizabeth Hollenbeck Lloyd Carnon Gladys Foerster Dorothy Chaplin Er made an Metz Margaret Walker Maxine Lankford Lulu Fritts Dorothy Sterart Elizabeth Myers Lois Le Saulnier Rosalind Runl, Catherine Matthews Ethel Blum Edythe White Helen Myers Lueile Clark Noiia Westlund Beatrice Jullmnn Maurice Shadley Florence Ulrich Fred Lutz • Dorothy Fee Marilea Downs Velva Shirey Nell Von Staden Georgia Baumann Ruth MeMurray Irene Noerr Thursday evenning, May 19, at 8 o’clock in the Odeon, violin pupils of Henry Marshall and piano pupils of Leone Kinder will give a recital. There will be solo and ensemble numbers, the following students taking part: Eugene Kerr Lillian Judd Mary Katherine Kerr Maurice Kinir Ralph Holton William Johnson Marjorie Pendleton Betty Marttndale Mane Joseph Grace Rose Lois Jennings Elizabeth Couch Dorothy Grill Alice Keptier Mary Katherine Lutz Faye Ecclcs Mabelle Schumaker Juanita Swain Carl JoyAi Cola Rothstein Emily Mae Johnson Erma Hawkins Ida Jean Waltz Esther Stamm GiUmore Stott Elinoro Smiley Saturday afternoon, May 21, at 3 o’clock in the Odeon, a miscellaneous recital will be given by students of the Metropolitan School of Music. On the program will be voice, piano and violin numbers and readings and a short play directed by Miss Gladys Smead. The following will take part: Ruth Ann Wagoner Mrs. R. L. Schaefer Barbara Smith Mary Aliee Snider Mrs. Jerome Day Marjoirie Hinshaw Hilda Gemmer Helen D aync Beatrice Jullman Helen Sips Alfred Hallidav Priscilla Brown Emily Mae Johnson Marguerite McCarty Mary Nichoil Hiidred Marsh Beatrice Johnson Beulah Moore Harold Wehb Charlotte Berr.vhtan Matilda Uodcbeek Melvin Berryman Marv Frances Tatlcck Jeannette Solotken Martha Jane Mary Baldridge Bannister Mary Katherine Kerr Martha McFadden The students are pupils of the following teachers: B. F. Swarthout, Arthur G. Monninger, Mrs. Arthur G. Monninger. Grace Hutchings, Allie F. Eggleton. Helen Sartor, Lucille Wagner. Helen Louis Quig. Tull Brown, Henry Marshall, Frances Beik, fedward Nell and Frieda Heider. Students of Miss Frances Beik of the dramatic depiytment of the Metropolitan School, will entertain

with a play for the Lions Club of Fortvllle, Monday evening. Miss Ruth Otto has returned from a successful Lyceum season under tho Chicago Lyceum bureau and. will resume her duties with B. F. Swarthout of the Metropolitan school. Fletcher Woodbury, pupil of Hugh McGibney, will play violin numbers fop the meeting of the American War Mothers to be held at the home of Mrs. E. V. Hahn, Tuesday afternoon. Esther Lawlor, cellist; Pauline Hedges, violinist, and Mildred lawlor, pianist, will give a program for the parent-teacher meeting of School 44 next Wednesday evening. Elsie Adams, violin, and Cosette Hutchinson, pianist, gave a program for the meeting of the Ladies' Aid Society of the College Ave. Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon. Miss Norma Justice of the dramatic depar.ment faculty of the Metropolitan School, and Miss Beulah Moore, pianist, pupil of Arthur G. Monnlnger, gave a program for the Trvlngion Eastern Star Thursday evening.

r-TIRS. CHARLOTTE BECKLEY LEHMAN will present the following pupils in a piano recital at the Cropsey Auditorium, public library, May 18. 8 p. m. Janet Sharp Gerald Johnson David Dunbar Marvel Louise Hunt Eileen MoGrady / Helen Pitt Irene Underwood Robert Young Helen Searcy Thelma Whetstino Etbeld.a Mevera Pauline Clark Gwendolyn Wilson Claude Kelley Dorothy Rice Beatrice Power* Elizabeth Spinning Virginia Rohertion Betty Reed Edith Forsythe T.orene Lutz Josephine Meyers Geraldine Powers Mildred Forsythe Eleanor Berger Nora May Nichol* Mrs. Lehman will be assisted by Merle Krug, baritone, and John Edward Thurston, violinist. A r ~~~ RECITAL of unusual interest will be given at the Irvi—l ington School of Music on the evening of Wednesday, May 18, at 7:45 when the organ pupils and organ teachers of the school will present the program. The vocal numbers will be sung with the organ accompainment. This recital is open to the public. The program follows: •'Sonata III" Guilmont "Land of the Sky Blue Water".. .Cadman Dorothea Hogle. "Moonlight on the Lagoon” Friml “Fantasie” Stainer Mildred Smith. "Minuet. In G" Beethoven James Westover. "Arise, Shine" McDermid lone H. Agncw. ‘‘Evening Song." Mr. I.ynne. "Barcarolle" from “Tales of Hoffman.” Eleanor Maris. “A Deserted Farm" McDowell Grace Maton. '•Romance” McDowell Claude Van Sickle. “Cantiquc D’Amour.” Flora Ander*on. “Fear Ye Not. O Israel” . . .Bach Eva Hogle. “Song of India" Rimsky-Korsakov Bessalee Reavis. The A. E. F., Bel Canto, and 1928 clubs will have a picnic on Sunday, May 15 at 3:00 at Hogles residence on Pleasant Run Blvd. The 1928 class will meet for a business meeting on Sunday, May 15 at 2:00. The Estrellita Quintett assisted by Dr. Charles Arnold will broadcast a program entitled “At Sleepy Hollow,” from WKBF, at 7:30, May 19. f . T PIANO recital will be given I/\ by the pupils of Grace L. '•**•l Eaton, assisted by Gertrude Conte, cello and A. J. Russfl, voice on Tuesday night at the First Reformed Church. Q. Wliat does “Hannah" mean? A. It is from the Hebrew and means gracious. Q. If a person in flic United States wishes to copyright a book in Europe does lie have to obtain a separate copyright for each country? A. Most European countries are included in a copyright union, so that books are protected in all by a single copyright in this country. But the Scandinavian countries do not belong to the Union, hence separate copyrights are taken out to protect the author or publisher in those countries. Q. Has Switzerland a Navy? A. As an inland republic with no natural outlet to the sea, and no possessions beyond the seas it has no use for a navy and has none.

MAY 14, 1927

C.Work t ) Revoke Costs Two Tricks —Score Counted Despite Penalty,

Yesterday’s question was; Who was Cavendish’' The answer is: Cavendish was the pseudonym under which Henry Jones, England's most ’celebrated writer on card games, was known. He was born in London, Nov. 2, 1831. and lived until about seventy years of age. While whist was popular his books hud an enormous sale In all parts of the world. One of the questions most frequently asked concerning the scoring of the game is, how to score in the case of a revoke. 1 have before me a letter which cornea from Dallas, Texas, in which the writer states that the score was 20 to 0, rubber game, in her favor; that her opponents obtained a Spade contract and made six Spades, but revoked. She claimed that the two tricks penalty for tho revoke would give her nine points each and game; the opponents claimed that they could go game, as they had four odd tricks left after paying the penalty. My correspondent further contended that the opponents could not score below the line at all after a revoke. She says thut one opponent thought that neither side could go game, but did not know why; and that) the other thought that both sides went game, but did not know which won the rubber. No provision in any code of Bridge laws ever allowed the adversaries of a Declarer to score below the line (toward game). In the case in question, my correspondent was entitled to take two tricks, reducing the Declarer’s tricks and augmenting her own by that number; but as this reduction of the Declarer's tricks did not take her below the amount bid, the contract was not defeated and nty correspondent was not entitled to any score or trick-bonus whatever. Had the Declarer bid five and Lad her six odd tricks been reduced by the revoke penalty to four, my correspondent would have scored fifty for defeating the contract by one trick; but she did not defeat the contract, and the only revoke penalty in these days is tricks, not points. The Declarer was quite right In claiming game. She was left with four odd tricks at a Spade cqntract (36), and was entitled—her contract having been fulfilled—to score them all. Tho easiest way to Interpret the Revoke Law of today Is embodied in the following pointer: A REVOKE COSTS TWO TRICKS; AFTER THE PENALTY IS PAID, THE SCORE OF THE TRICKS IS < ()( NTED AS THEY THEN STAND .11 ST AS IF NO REVOKE HAD TAKEN PLACE. . (

3ixit Union St. to Be Repaired, Graded Soon.

Union St., between St. and La Grand Ave., is scheduled to be repaired and graded soon by the street commissioner’s office, Mr. Fixit was informed today. A correspondent of Mr. Fixit com* plained of the condition of the street, The letter: Dear Mr. Fixit: Will you please see if you can have Union St., between Schiller St. and La Grand Ave., graded. This Is a short stretch of about 200 feet and is travelled very much. The dirst Is over the curbs, leaving the center shallow with deep holes. After a rain the water stands for many days. A little grading is all it needs, and if you could get this done tho rcsidents of this neighborhood would be grateful. I. C. D. Sccording to Street Commission- . er George Woodward your request m will be complied with soon. " To W. J. R.: Your request that Forty-Fourth, Duke and Forty-Fifth Sts., which run up to the Nickel Plate tracks, be graded was referred to the street commissioner without any promise of relief. Mr. Fixit was informed that it will be somo tim® before the city can make the suggested repair. Truly Nolen, garbage collection superintendent, had promised to give relief to Mrs. W. P., W. Thirty-Fourth St., who reports she ha* not been getting service from the garbage collectors. AVith good weather here the collectors should be able to get through your alley from now on.

Questions and Answers

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