The Syracuse Journal, Volume 25, Number 5, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 26 May 1932 — Page 2

News Review of Current Events the World Over Norfolk Boat Builder Confesses Cruel Hoax in Lindbergh Case —Terrible Tragedy at Sea —Gossip , of Rational Politics. By EDWARD W. PICKARD

BREAKING down under long continued examination. John If. Curtis, the Norfolk boat builder who bad put himself forward as an Intermediary In

the Lindbergh baby case, confessed to Inspector Harry. Walsh of the Jersey City police that his story was a hoax' and his with the were entirely a fakei. He said he “never Iqtew such persons as I those he named to if o ion e I Lind berg h and to meet whom! the -districted father made

W. H. Stevens

. many trips to sea on a yacljit in company with Curtin. In bis brijef written confession of his cruel swindle < urtis said he "biwaine Insane, on tiiie subject ' for the tlni.- beirfg. wh|Cf» caused Ml tn create the story in its entirety.’ ami ■ that tie was ’ I rou<ht bapk to bls senses" by a telephone ; conversation ,e. With his wife. . .Cortis' activities the night of the liltb'upinK "ere being investigated, tie , i ' Was l<ick»‘<| up and inter arraigned on ■/. Atuirges Os giving false reports that ' ‘ hindered the apprehension of the per M>fi» g'lifty of the Crime. If convicted ' i tie rrfhy be Imprisoned for tliree years or titled SI,OOO. or both. He waived w‘ preliminary hearing. H-l - ArresuM in Brooklyn for abandoning tils family. Frank Farzych, a thirty year-old nor'otic .addict, told detectives— and citing to the story After more than twelve hours’of questioning —that be was one of a band, pf seven men who kidnaped the child and that the baby died after the man carrying hint down the ladder from the nursery window accidentally. dropped him. to the ground. The police weft? Inclined to believe this story was fajse. Though tht authorities <lf the entire Country are of course hunting for the kidnapers and murderers of'Tl'e b:iby, New Jersey W still the center of the , opt'ra’O’iiS. at 1 tli«> invent. ga’l-.n there is in the charge of William 11. Stevens, attorney general of the state, and of Prosecutor Erwin Marshall of Mercer dßinty. Neither of these •<: • ’ ndstlc. fearing the case will lie added tn the list of ut-oA. d crimes be. a use. as Mr? .Marshall Raid, whatever trail is now virtually dead. The necessary excessive caution of the po.llce while the child was still thought tn be alive lessened the chances for solving the mystery. However. Attar ney General Stevens by m>-means gave up. At a conference bit. fetat£ federal and county police and Investigators in Trdbton,plan was established for co ord!nitiug all activities in the hunt . fort! e : ft • ONE of the worst marine tragedies of recent years occurred near the entrance to the Gulf of Aden when tjie new French liner Georges I’hilippar of the Mcssagerie* Maritimes sudden ly hurst Into lluims and? was destroyed. The loss of life Is uncertain at this writing, bnt probably about 100 persons perished. The survivors were picked up by ’ several steamships and landed In different ports. Two British vessels took ,254 of them to Aden, and they said at least 100 of the thou annd odd aboard the doomed slap were trapped tn their cabins. Many others lost their lives tn the stormy sea. From early rejK»rts It appeared that ' <T*Sf»taln Vicq. and his crew did all In * their power to save the vessel and its - - pOMenpers. PROMINENT banker* and industrial •leaders, convinced that publie fear and uncertainty have prevented the • federal reserve system s jadicy frotn taking full effect in the stimulation of recovery of prices and of prosperity, have fanned a committee v»f - twelve to aid in patting to work the •hundreds <*f 'millions 6f dollars being (mured into the market by the system Hi Sts -program for credit expansion. -, Tbcw gcath-nam gathered in New York at the call of- George L H»b . ...ri’sbq, governor of the Federal Reserve tyuxk of New York, with Owen D. Young as their chairman. The follow- * Yng’shifetnenl was issue’!: '* ‘‘'•Governor Harrison of the Federal Reserve bank of New York has called committee composed of taftvtera ami Industrialists f t* the purpase «f considering methods of making the large funds now being released bJt the federal reserve hanks useful affignsuiraly in developing business. •“Its purpose will also he generally "to co-operate with the Reconstruction Finance corjtoratlon and other agencledf to secure more co-ordinatedand so Andre effective -action on the part -of the banking and. Industrial interOPEAKIIu GARNER put forth his •. O cvwtr phua ft»r depression relief, and alt indorsed by Representative V»|ney leader of the house. Its main features dre: "1. Appropriation of $11<\<M)0.000 to be expended by the President in his ’dUtcMion for rhe relief of destitution. , *' ■* T.-* Increase of, tI.iMW.iMMMWO tn the • borrowing power of the Reconstruction Finance c<»qxvniti>’n for loans to . - stato and local governments, corporations and individuals for the purpose . at Increasing employment. JL A bond Issue of JU.WD.<IOO.OOO for ’' construction of federal public works to the interest of revival of Industry ' * and iferbase of employment, this ex- * be met by a tax of one-third of omr’cent a- gallon on gasoline. OUR teoators are not yet willing to five ns ml beer, even as part of bPton bring-relief to the unemployed. By a rote of? 4to 61 they ra-

Jected Senator Tyding's amendment to rhe tax bill. This amendment would have legalized 2.75 per cent beer with a lax of 24 cents a gallon upon it which was calculated to yield $200,000.(XX) annually for amortization of a construction bond issue' and an additional $200.000,000 to $300,000,000 that/ would have allowed that amount to be stricken from the tax bilL I I TUTU the near approach of the Vl l>etnocraiic national convention speculation ns to the chances of GovFranklin I>. Roosevelt for the nomina-

1 Owen D. Young

tion grows Intense. His pre-con vention manager. Janies A. Farley still believes he will be nominated on the first roll call . He asserts that velt will t»e sure of 691 votes to 4453 for all other aspirants, and that before the. tally clerk gets down as far as Wyoming and the territories, enouga states vyilt change their votes from fa-

vorite sons to put the New York governor across the two-thirds line—--770 votes. One of the most preeminent of the “dark horses" has taken himself'definitely out of the running. Owen D. Ypung. who had a large and hoj>eful body of supjs>rters though he never had been an hvowed candidate, made the “final” announcement that he would not accept the nomination if it were offeree! him. In a letter to John Crowley.. publisher of the Times of Little Falls. Young's home tobn. he said his reasons for this decision were “so controlling as dot to be oi>en for argu merit." It was assumed the chief of these reasons was Mrs. Youngs 111 health. With Young out of consideration, the “Stop Roosevelt" Democrats began to turn to Melvin A. Traylor, the Chicago banker. Whereupon there came from Rnpaevett supporters various sugges*. ttotis and .tentative dlckpra. Vnrwas' that If the Illinois deFegation woyld shift to lt<H>sevelt and the New Yorker should win. Traylor would be made treasurer of the national committee. Another Wits that in this case the banker would, be given the portfolio of. the treasury' if he wanted 1 It of course. Roosevelt is elected President. j/L I SMITH has by no means snrA* rendered, in a radio-address he -et forth his persona): platform containing; pjatiks de- gned to cure the Ills from which the country Is suffering The main features were: Balance the national budget. A Tnanutacturers' sales tax to meet the SI.S(M,Hi«XUXM) deficit. Reduction of national expenditures to an “irreducible minimum;" . • Opposition to a veterans' cash Nvnus. Repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. ' Immediate nn>dificatlon of the Volstead act. to permit wines and beer. His previously pft»pose<l bond issue for public works >to relieve unemployment. rhe bonds to be amortized by proceeds from a wine and beer tax. Defeat of President - Hoover’s proposal to relieve unemployment through funds of the reconstruction finance board. , • Clothe the President with power to extend, if need be. the moratorium on International debts “until a real solution can be reached " Suppress. “all -blocs which bedevil legislation." SENATOR W AYSON of Indiana, majority leader of the vnate. does not think congress can possible get through its necessary business with out a summer session before June 14. when the Republican national convention openis. so he proposed to other leaders of both parties that a recess be taken from June. 4 to July 11. Speaker Garner demurred, believing oil legislation can be disposed of before June 11. boa decision was postponed until June 4. If it appears then that congress can end its work by June 11. the recess plan will not be pressed. A new coalition, secretly formed has appeared In the bouse and it Is said to have sufficient support to hold congress in session until a nonpartisan program capable of correcting unemployment and other related conditions has been evolved. The coalition was announced by Representatives Mead. Democrat, of New York; Kelly, Republican. .of Pennsylvania.. and La Guardia, nominal Republican, of New York. They declared they had been selected as a steering committee. UNLESS reparations payments are maintained. Rumania. Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia will refuse to pay their International debts. This was decided upon at a conference of these nations. which form the little entente, at Belgrade.,and it will be their attitude at the coming l»ausanne parley. It Is not a new position for them, and Is the same as that maintained consistently by France, their great friend. Jugoslavia is especially concerned about reparations, since the amounts due It were estimated on the basis of damage done. The Jugoslavs fear Germany cannot be persuaded to resume payments. In which case they will lose annually an increasing amount beginning with $ 19.0(11.000 and reaching eventually $26,000,000. or a total tn alt of $875,000,000. Jugoslavia's war debts to the allies Total about $300.060.000. so that full cancellation of reparations and debts would cause a loss of $575,000,000.

LOU T. REICHERS. a daring American aviator, was the first of this year's crop es would-be transatlantic flyera, and he failed. Hopping off from Harbor Grace, be sought to fly to Parts with a landing at Dublin. But he got lost in the clouds when nearly across the ocean, came down not far from the south end of Ireland and was picked up by the steamship President Roosevelt, whose commander. Captain Fried, and chief officer, Harry Manning. have rescued many persons from death at sea. CAPT. ROBERT DOLLAR, the aged and spectacular dean of the shipping and lumber industries of the Pacific coast, died at his home in San Rafael. Calif., after an illness of sev- = era) weeks. Born in Scotland in 1844, he began work as a lad tn Quebec and rose steadily to the dominant position he held at his death. The coast guard lost its able commandant when Rear Admiral F. C. Billard passed away in Washington, where he resided. He was fifty-eight years old and hgd been ill two weeks. Dr. B. J. Cigrand, founder and president of the American Flag Day association. died at his home in Batavia, 111. HENRY L. STIMSON; secretary of state, returned from Geneva, says his conversations there convinced him that Europe agrees with the United States on what can and must be done in regard to the far eastern situation and will co-operate with Uncle Sam. He is certain neither Japan nor Rus sia wants war, and he indicates that the great powers will strive to keep the Manchurian trouble localized, at least for present. However, the authorities in Washington are rather alarmed by the military situation in Manchuria because of the continued concentration of troops along the frontier. Both Japan and the Soviet Union are sen<ling men. munitions, food and war planes in great quan tides, and there is no use concealing (he apprehension that, if war does break out there, it Would spread and Involve perhaps many other nations. JAPAN is in a state of ferment and the occidental mind can scarcely figure out what the results may be. Premier Tsuyoshi Inukal was assassinated by a group of

young army men and at the same time mil- ) Itary terrorists raided and bombed various buildings and <lid other .damage in Tokyo. These events signalled the oU tbreak of an actual military revolt against the existing government and its course in national and especial I y international

T. Inukal

affairs. Imikai’s cabinet resigned and plans were made to install Kisaburo Suzuki, new president of the Seiyukai party, as premier. But the representatives of the army served notice that a national cabinet must be formed not based on political parties. The vice chief of staff declared the army would refuse to approve any nomination for war minister in a party cabinet- The constitution provides that the war minister must be a general of the army, so the army cqn prevent the formation of any ministry that it disapproves. Late dispatches from Tokyo indicated that the army, would have its way. and all over the world there was simulation as to what “tight he the effect on Japan’s relations with China and especially with Russia. Prince Saionji. last of the elder statesmen, was called to Tokyo to try to effect a compromise. IN MANCHOUKUO the Japanese made some progress in their Campaign against the Chinese ’ “rebels." General Nakamura’s brigade occupied the important town of Ilan, headquarters of the Chinese irregular general. I.i Tu; but the. Chinese, before withdrawing. massacred 35 Japanese prisoners and set fire .to the town. HARRY j. LEIK. superintendent of Mount McKinley National park in Alaska, and climbed both peaks of she mountain, the first

Allen Carpe

time this ever had been accomplished, and discovered that tragic disaster had befallen a group of scientists headed by Allen Carpe who had attempted to scale the niountain' for the purpo s e of measuring cosmic rays. Carpe himself and Theodore Koven lost their lives. Ko ven’s body was found on Muldrow

glacier, and It was certain that Carpe had fallen into a crevasse. The lost leader was regarded as the ablest mountaineer in America. He was working under the direction of Prof. Arthur 11. Compton of the University of had expected to join him in Alaska to continue the cosmic ray study. Two other members of Carpe’s party, E. P. Beckwith and Percy T. Olton, Jr., both of New York, were safe, encamped on the glacier, Lelk reported. Beckwith was seriously ill with fever and was rescued by airplane. N: D. Spadevcockia. also of the party, had left the caibp to seek aid and was missing. HINDUS and Moslems in Bombay fought each other for days and about a hundred were kilietLhnd many Injured before the British troops could quell the riots with rifle fire and tanks. The strife between the two races spread to Calcutta and also, ft was necessary for the police io fire on the mobs. POPE PIUS XI issued an encyclical entitled “Charitas Christi” In which he called the world to prayer, penance and mortification to save itself from "the peril of terrorism and anarchy” and “the sti» graver ei»s that are threatening.” For this purpose be set aside a period of eight days for “reparation" on the octave of the feast of the Sacred Heart, beginning June 3. IC. 1»M. W«Mm Dai**.*

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL.

Roses for the Veterans

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Plant roses by the highways for boys that manned the trenches, Place stars along the skyways for aces of the clouds. And maples on the boulevards which grief with tears bedrenches; Let cedars in lone graveyards guard those our love enshrouds. A wreath float on the sea wide which o’er their graves is mourning; ■ Put lilies by the bedside of boys with limp and scar; And help them at the crossways where crowds rush by in scorning, And open all the doorways from wlach marred limbs debar. Forget-me-nots strew always along the veterans’ marches. And keep the tombs and memories of loyal heroes green; So may the golden gateway, with glorious rainbow arches, Bespan the veterans* roadway that leads to the Unseen. f m r r Nation’s Gold-Star Mothers

American gold-star mothers in France for visits to the graves of sons who died in the World war gave an impressive background last year for the most extensive observance of Memorial day yet held abroad. ° ' » Troops fired volleys in salute of the lead at the American cemeteries throughout France. Taps were sounded, and dignitaries spoke. But the feature of the day were the trifft before and after the ceremonies by the war mothers to the graves of those they lost more than 11 years before. At Suresnes cemetery, outside of Paris, Ambassador Edge made the principal iddress, referrihg to them as those “who

had given those who were dearest to them that others might live ip the full enjoyment of their liberty.” “You mothers instilled into these young men the principles for which they laid down their lives,” he said. “You taught them the -fundamentals of loyalty, courage, truth and vision. You with the fortitude which mothers throughout the ages have mustered, held your heads high as you bade them good-by. “Let us look upon the myriads of crosses.” he concluded, l“and realize with poignant emotion the magnitude of our responsibility. We seem to see the heroes of Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, Thiaucourt, St. Mihiel and the Argonne pointing forward, forward; we seem to hear the great chorus of their voices calling to us to carry on until mankind breaks through the shadows and ►.ternal peace dwells on earth." R ,R '.R R Lesson of Memorial Day ,

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age person to answer. The day symbolizes so much sacrifice and recalls those critical moments so rare in the history of a great nation that words and phrases too often fait But if we cannot express all that the day embodies, we can let it remind us tha 4 rom the birth of the Republic there have always been men and women who have so richly prized America that they were willing to give up their all that America might survive. If the blessings of peace which these dead gained for us rnakt similar sacrifices on our part unnecessary, they should not blind us to the suffering which the soldiers of ’6l, ’9B and T7 endured. Rather should they impel us to care well for the country they prized so highly. Pride in their achievements may, indeed, be ours on this day. RR R R Their Deaths Not in Vain

An eagle’s nest, befouled with the remnants of dead things, the relics of grim slaughterings for the preservation of life, and comfort is an unsightly and unsavory object, still from its squalor emerges in due time the golden eagle, most glorious, and grandest on the wing of all the birds So from all the tragedies and sorrows of homes, fortunes and battlefields recalled to mind on Memorial day is, we trust, to come the promise of a peace which is to soar far above all possible prospects of wars. It adds to the thankfulness to bear tn mind that those splendid ones whose

steadfast valor and sturdy vigor won for us the victory we commemorate, won also for us and the future a promise of a peace which we trust will never be ruptured by war. They whose loss we recall by no means died in vain, since they won the victory for peace and the right. , // Could we but hear them from their places of rest, they would doubtless be declaring in unanimous chorus, that their discomforts, sufferings and deaths all made up but a trifling price to pay for a peace, which will assure to mankind an ending of all wars. ' ft R R R ’ Honor Both Blue and Gray

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ora. This year for the first time in history the veterans of both armies will march together through the streets to strew with flowers the graves of those who perished in the great war. Such an event marks a new epoch. It is the apotheosis of the revived feeling of brotherhood. There has been a great deal of oratory on this subject and some charming verses have been written, but now the banner of fraternity is flung to the breeze without hesitation and with faith in public approval The Blue and the Gray clasp hands above the tomb of their fallen braves, and in the great future of this reunited country there is to be no resurrection erf sectional feuds and dead and buried bitterness. “The past is forgotten, and the country’s future is everything. This is the lessen and the era erf reconciliation.”

The mothers on the byways have looks of yearning sadness. And helmets by the stairways flood home* with memories; A sense of loss on gay days subdues the note of gladness, While winter with its gray days moans through the lonely trees? And fathers on the May days pin on their scarlet poppies, And gratitude on pay days reminds of others' loss; Read “Christ in Flanders” Sundays and pass around their copies. Recall their boys in old days before they faced the cross.

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Memorial day is one of the most impressive, most touching and most typically American of the days we set apart. From earliest childhood one remembers the gathering of the old veterans, the mar%h under the warm spring sun and the graveyard where gay flowers and the bright Stars and Stripes are placed at the headstones of the dead. What hath this day deserved? What has it done That it in golden letters should be set Among the high tides of the calendar? It is, indeed, an easier question for Shakespeare so to ask than for the aver-

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As Memorial day approaches and we prepare to observe the beautiful custom long since established of remembering the heroic dead it is interesting to read the account given by a leading newspaper of the inauguration of that custom. In an editorial written in 1877 we read: “Preparations for observing Decoration day were carried in this year upon a far more extensive scale than ever before. For three or four years attempts have been made to effect « co-operation between the survivors of the Federal and the Confederate armies and to insure an equal honor to the remains of the deceased Northern and Southern soldiers and sail-

NEVER FORGOTTEN Fh (sSb) h h Ever grten B The memory Os those who ! Rest in the * “Patriot graves Os the nation.”

Few Survivors of Men Who Marched in Youth’s Vigor Sixty-seven years ago a valiant and victorious army marched in the heyday of its youth along the broad stretches of Pennsylvania avenue in Washington. That was the beginning of the Grand Army of the Republic. Following the fall of Richmond and Lee's surrender at Appomattox the victors 'came to the Capital of the Nation.f there to be reviewed by the President of the United States, John J. Daly writes, in the Washington Post. Figures vary as to the number of men who inarched in that historic parade—a procession that took fully three days in the passing, according to some who witnessed it. Othws say the parade was over in a day, that stragglers came into town the day-after the parade and carried on the march —a gathering of upifdrmed men that undoubtedly numbered somewhere near 50,000. Men? They were boys, most of them, and they marched with a song on their lips—a certain satisfaction in their souls. After this demonstration they did what most returning warriors have done from time iinmeniorial—turned their Attention to the pursuits of peace, to the prosaic tasks of “making a living." Now. 67 years after that celebrated parade in Washington, the survivors that grand old army gather in little groups throughout the land to make preparations for the proper observance of Memorial day—Decoration day. as some call it. They are going out to the federal cemeteries that dot the land here, there, and place flags and flowers on the resting places .of their comrades. , Tlie two great ceremonies are at Gettysburg. Pa., and nt the National Memorial cemetery at Arlington. Va. At Gettysburg, the President of the United States delivers the principal address. ’ At Arlington. Va.. w here rest in one grave more than 2;000 unknown soldiers of the ('ivil war—Confederate and Union—the cerergetfkies are in charge of the Department of the Potomac, a branch of the Grand Army of the Republic that has numbered amongst its ranks the great and outstanding names of Union soldiery; An army whose youngest veteran is s pproachifig his eightieth birthday is getting up in years. So, there are just a few of the old fellows left. In all the nation’s capital —Washington, which once boasted the greatest number of Civil war veterans —there are just about 100 veterans who wore the blue. On the first Thursday of each month .the Civil war veterans meet—to carry out the old traditions; but, as one of them put it the other day. “it’s hard to get the boys out now. only about five or six show up at meetings, and there isn’t that same old ‘pep’ there used to be.” Sixty seven years ago they were young men, boys in the prime of life —and how they totter into their meeting halls to recall those glorious days of old; when they were the heroes the hour. So few remain, it Is not easy to visualize what the immutable workings of time have done tq the G. A. R. itodies bent and broken, that old si»irit still survives—and will. too. tilt the last man only remains; to turn out. some day. alt by himself, and lay a wreath and hoist the flag over all his dead comrades. Britain Pays Honor to War Heroes of America Ceremonies which occupy several hours mark Britain’s public recognition of Memorial day. although actual observance of the day as regards Amer ica’s war dead takes place on Sunday. The American ambassador places a wreath upon the tomb of Englands Unknown Soldier, in the Westminster shrine. The American Legion post and America!) Overseas Memorial day association members send wreaths. Last year. Rev. W. H. Garth, of St. Martin’s church, Islip, N. Y., assisted the canon ifi a service at Westminister. On Sunday, in Brook wood cemetery, where lie 453 of America’s 582 war dead in British sq». the formal Memorial day exercises are held with many American and other military and civil notables present. All of these graves are on that day decked with the colors of the United States. Birth of G. A. R. The first post was organized at Decatur, lIL, April 6. 1866, but the membership -was slow in growing and there were in 1879 only about 45.000 enrolled. From then until 1890, though, the numbers steadily Increased and in the latter year there were 409,489 members. Ten years later death had cut the roll to 277,000 and by 1910 to 203,000.

| Modern Contract; I Bridge B Leila tiattersley

No. 1. The Approach-Forcing Principle THE first rule of the Approach principle is: "Whenever a hand contains a biddable suit (be it even a four-card tninor> an opening bid in the suit ami not at no trumps should be preferred." It Is on this rule that the whole principle of the approach method rests. For by these low introductory blds, a partnership has room for the full exchange of Information so often necessary before they can choose the best bid for their 26 cards. This decided preference which is given to original suit bids including minor suits, four-card suits, and weak fivecard suits, provides against shutting* them out with opening no trump bid's. *The approach principle of opening a suit bid instead of a no trump applies even though the hand contains no singleton or unprotected suit. Most hands with sufficient strength for an original bid offer a choice between a suit and a no trump. In many cases if a no trump is opened the bidding runs so high that it is too' late for partners to locate a possible major suit which might have resulted in game where the no trump would fail. 1 The following hand illustrates one 1 of the thousands where a game which , could have been scored with modern scientific bidding Is thrown away by . the old fashioned no trump bidder j who has never been schooled in the value of approach methods. NORTH . 1,. S-A J 9 2 H-A J 7 “ . . IKS 4 C-J 10 5 4 WEST EAST i’ 8-8 6 8-7 4 3 , H-5 432 H Q iOS6 D-A.T53 2 D-KlO 9 C-K2 C-9 63 f SOUTH S-KQIO 5 11-K9 DQ 7 6 C-A Q S 7 i If South, the dealer, opens with a ! no trump, he will end with that contract for game, as North, having no* j take-out, will correctly raise a no trump. In thfs_case West will lead I hi/ fourth best diamond, and before ' South can gain the lead lie will be 1 set. But what a difference if the scienti--1 lie approach principle is followed with ; an opening bid of one spade,. I The approach method has simply s removed the no trump from its former) dominant -position in opening bids) where It was,. so to speak, “blocking the traffic.” But at the same time the system has greatly enlarged the range ! of no trump take-outs, even extending I them to include hands containing I trump support for partner’s major suit bids but better distribution for ! no trumps. J . I The success of the approach prin- ! ciple is predicated, on the fact that the partner of the original bidder, if ) the next player passes; is forced to keep the bidding open unless his'hand is practically a "bust,” Lacking a raise or a suit take-out for the original declaration, the partner makes a negative no trump bid. The negative no trump is clearly understood to be a sort of courtesy response, not a j strength showing bid. In the approach-forcing system, all opening suit bids of one are modified j forging bids. That is, as we have seen,, ' after an original suit bid of one is opened, if the next player passes, the, partner is compelled to bld unless his hand is practically trickless. But the system also includes three absolute forcing bids which compel the partner to keep the contract open until a game is reached even though he holds a bust. hand. The three absolute forcing bids are: First—THE FORCING TWO-BID. Any owning two-bid in a suit. (Not" In no trumps.) Second—THE FORCING TAKEOUT. Any Jump bid in a new sult'by either partner provided oae. of them previously opened the bidding. Third—THE FORCING OVERCALL. A bid of an opponent’s suit (©. ISSS. by Hatter»ley.) (WXU Service) f Harvest Moon During the month of March fte moon rises one hour and. twenty minutes later each succeeding evening, but during the autumnal equinox it rises in the east at nearly the same time after sunset for four or five successive evenings, and this phenomenon has been known for many decades as the Harvest moon. • In northern Europe and Canada it Is much more noticeable than in the United States, where for centuries it has been regarded as a lantern hung in the sky to aid the thrifty husbandmen to harvest hi,s crops. Doggerel Verse* Are Ancient The idea of inventing doggerel verses to sing with bugle calls seems to have had Its beginning in Qermany. Some pf these rhymes are said to be very ancient The verses were eot confined to their own army but were sometimes adapted to those of their traditional enemies, the French. In England similar rhymes, some of them nonsensical, are invented for some of the calls.. This practice has also been adopted in the United States army. , New Nut The latest thing in the nut line Is the Mean — a cross between a pecan and hickory nut. It is shaped like a hickory nut but has a thin shell. The nurseryman who developed it, had been engaged In developing hardy Tarieties of nuts for 15 years. Spot* Befbre the Eye* There jwas a time when, if a man saw spots before his eyes, he blamed Ms liver. Nowadays he knows they're just taxicabs flitting past—Columbus (Ohio) State Journal