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HONGKONG TELEGRAPE. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932,
CONTRACT BRIDGE.
By W. E. McKenney,
Secretary, American Bridge League.
Perhaps the most difficult thing for the boginner at contract to learn lo how to properly overcall the bid of an opponent when using the straight forcing system. In our previous article we explained how to overcall with minimum hands, and we further learned the use of the informatory double,
CHEMISTRY & THE COMMUNITY
MR. DOVEY'S INTERESTING ADDRESS
ROTARY TALK
"Chemistry and the Community" was the title of an Interesting address which was delivered to members of the Hongkong Rotary Club at yesterday's weekly Jun- cheon by Rotarian E. R. Dovey. F.I.C. The luncheon was held in Crawford's red- Messrs. Lano taurant under the Chairmanship of Sir William Hornell.
The Chairman welcomed the following guests. Rotarian Yin-
COMING SHORTLY
TO THE
CENTRAL
SAMUEL
COLDWYN
GLORIA
TONIGHT
"NEVER,
SWANSON
There are types of hands, how
son Lee (Shanghai), Mr. W. A. Since that date all articles of food ever, where we overcall our op ponenta' original bid with a jump Wong (Canton), Mr. S. Simpson and drugs have been under con percentage of articles bid; e. g. opponent opens with one (Hongkong) and Mr. Joseph Y.stant scrutiny, with the result that spade and we bid three hearts. Tacu, business manager of the the This is known as a jump bid. Canton Daily Sun. The Chairman adulterated has fallen from 90' per There is considerable disagreement announced that Mr. Tscu was very cent to about 10 per cent or even to keen to work up pro-British pro-less, and the adulteration now among different authorities
and they all found la usually more in the nature of fraud than danger to what a jump overeal! bid shall paganda in Canton, indicate, but generally, under the hoped he would be successful.
Sir William also announced that health.
The community's water supply alraight forcing system, it indicates a powerful hand containing about the meeting a fortnight hence, on
a strong May 3, would be a closed business is another matter in which the three quick tricks and
meeting, when officers for the en-hemist takes a deep Interest in con. lunction with the bacteriologist.. five-card suit.
Some players insist that partner suing year would be elected.
Rotarian Dovey sald:-To that The bacteriologist's business is to shall take this bid as a forcing bid
that and must keep the bidding open, oft-referred-to person, the man in 300 that the water is free from while other authorities call it an the street, the term chemist means pathogenic organisms, while the
not an absolute little more than the keeper of a analyst's business is to 800 "urge" bid, but
or A sterilised forcing bid. It is made with a two drug-atore; the man who can, more what is supplied is water, and not suit hand or a strong re-biddable or less successfully, interpret the sterilised mud
Pure Water. auit, and while it is not an absolute mystie hieroglyphica emanating sewage, forcing bld which requiries the bid- from the family physician, and who
He must see that it is clear, pos- free as ding to be kept open until a game-carries out his daily pre-occupa
in bright, and as going declaration is arrived at, it is tions behind a shop window
soft enough for an urgent appeal to partner to sup which large glass vessels filled sible from colour and odour. port the bid even though he does with coloured water are displayed. must be
The vendor of drugs, though household purposes and for use in not have normal trump support but
rendering excellent service. to the steam bollem. It must contain no han one probable trick.
Another thing for the partner of community, is about as accurato a metallic contamination, such the jump overcall bidder to remem-representative of the chemical pro-traces of lead or zinc. It must be It will attack the water mains. ber is that even though the op- fension as a bank clerk would be of neither too acid nor too alkaline,.or ponent puts in a bid after the jump the world of finnace.
To attempt to deal with the sub- These requirements can only be ob overall, you should endeavour to
Not only must drinking supplies support partner's bid if you hold ject of chemistry and the, com-tained by rigid chemical contral.
munity in the time available after one trick.
Overcalling Oppenents' Sult
With the Same Suit, This strategic hid is now general- ly used only after partner has bid; 4. H. partner deals and bids one heart, opponent bids one spade and you bid two spades. This shows normal support for partner's sult and no losers in opponents' suit and In addition shows slam possibilities, It is a forcing bid and requires partner to keep the bidding open until a game-going declaration arrived at.
If the
Health Matters.
Industrial Risks.
It
AB
a Rotary tifin is like trying to give come under such control, but also a ten minute talk on the British sewage effluents, the waste water Empire. I can do no more than from chemical, works, paper mills industrial concerns, touch briefly on some of the lines and other along which the chemist of to-day especially when such waste is dis- charged into rivers, streamss and is trying to serve the community.
harbours. A new problem has arisen within recent years, namely the Take the health of the com-pollution of harbour water with oll munity for example, a subject in from oll-burning ships. a great in- which chemists take terest. Seventy years ago there)
Chemistry has also played a great were no public analysts and no of- inficial examination of food and part in reducing industrial risks, drugs. Adulteration was every-The Davy lamp, invented by Sir was of the most Humphrey Davy, has saved thou- Some players also advocate the where rife and
even blatant and dastardly description. Jands of lives, and its modern coun- bidding of opponents suit though partner has not bid, but For example, it was common to find terpart, the Clowes-Redwood ap- now that paychle bidding has en-food and confectionery coloured paratus, which is used for testing tered the game, it better to em- with the pigments sold for painting mine atmospheres and empty petro- ophounes! You may have heard of leum tanks, for the presence of ex- ploy other tactics. ponents open with one spade and the loaf sugar manufacturer who plosive and suffocating gases, has not had so increased the moisture- con-done the same. The development you bid two spades it does necessarily show that you have no tent of his product that he boasted of the safety match has made the that be had made water stand up-match-making industry a compara spade losera or slam possibilities.
tively healthy one and the introduc- has of cellulose paints Supposing a good peychic bidder right-(Laughter),
In 1855, the results of sometion
danger was not vulnerable while you were) vulnerable and he held a singleton analyses of food materials were eliminated most of the spade and opened with a bid of one published, and they make interest-which formerly existed where lead spade. If you had a very good ing reading. Out of 218 samples pigments were applied with a spray. were found to be Coming from the question of apide suit, it would be better for of coffee, 184 you to bid two spades and then, if adulterated; 42 samples of mustard health in general to medicine in partner shows another salt, re-bid were all adulterated; 24 samples of particular, we find chemistry play- the spades. Partner could well pie- bread were all adulterated; out of ing an important part. Ever since ture the fact that your real suit 28 samples of cayenne pepper, 26 the time when the Moors were in
were adulterated, 13 of them with Spain, the connexion
and medicine was spades.
red lead and one with sulphide of chemistry
a close
One onc. mercury. A similar state of things been
exist with almost the greatest contributions ever
to medicine food made
was made article
by a chemist with no regular medical qualification, namely the discovery by Pasteur of the germ origin of disease. As a result of (Continued on Page 10.) Pasteur's work on the optically ac-
NAVY SUMMER CRUISE, was found to
MEDWAY AND SUBMARINES LEAVE YESTERDAY.
With the departure early yester day morning of H.M.S. Medway the and the. submarine flotilla, annual summer cruise of the South China Squadron was commenced.
H.M.S. Medway is proceeding direct to Weihaiwei, but the nine submarines comprising the flotilla stationed at Hongkong have split up into two sections. Submarines Osiris, Olympus and Perseus proceeding to Swatow, while Bruce, Oswald, Pandora, Parthian, Phoenix and Proteus are en route to Amoy,
aro
the
H.M.S. Hermes will depart for and Woihalwel on Monday next, will be followed shortly afterwards by the other ships comprislag the South China Squadron.
every other examined.
of
First Analysts in 1860. In 1860, the first Food and Drugs Act was passed in England and the first public analysts were appointed,
between
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