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CONTRACT BRIDGE
By W. E. McKenney
A strip and and play are al- ways interesting. A well execu- ted one is given in the following selected hand.
4A-8-3-2
Q-9-8-7-2
+4 4K-10-2
Q-9-6-
NORTH
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5 VA-6
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WEST
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10
• K-J-7- 6-5-3- 2
SOUTH) 4Q-5
10-7 K-J-5-4-3
• A-10
J-9-7-4
The Bidding.
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South passed, West opened with one No Trump-a bare minimum. North overcalled with two hearts. East bid three diamonds and South went to three hearts which bought the contract. At three tables the hand was actually pass- ed out.
The Play.
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East opened his fourth best din- moud-the six spot-which South the dummy won with the ace. A small spate was then returned, the declarer winning with the ace and returning a small spade dummy's 10, East winning the trick with the jack, East led the king of diamonds which the de- clurer trumped with a small heart. A small spadle was then led and trumped in dummy. Declarer re- turned the king of trump from dummy which West won with the aec. Immediately returning the six of trump. Declarer won the trick with the queen and returned his last spade, trumping in dummy with a heart.
The No Trump bil by West had practically marked him with the ace of dubs, therefore the declur. er now led a small club from dummy and when West refused to go up with the nee, the declarer played the king and then returned the deuce of clubs which Enst was forced to win -with the Queen. West could not overtake with the ace to prevent the end play or he would set up dummy's jack eluba.
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Stripping the hand down and then throwing East in the lend with a club foreing him to lead diamonds, gave the declarer four od, but as only three were bid. no game bonus could be scored,
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ROTARY TALK ON
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|MR. W. B. WATSON'S ADDRESS
TO CLUB
COLLECTING HOBBY
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An Interesting lecture given at the Rotary Club tiffin yes- terday by Mr. W. R. Watson, the subject of the address being "The Spirit of Rotary in a Scrap of Paper."
ed. The transmission of the matis had, for many years been yary uni- Batisfactory, in fact almost as bad DA our prosent. Trans-Siberian posta, and I expect quite a number | of people had written to the editor about it. Moreover the income from the service had dwindled, and as the postal revenues were used to a great extent to pay pen- sions to people who had no con- nexion whatever with the service, sweeping reforms were badly needed.
First British Stamp. Taking the number of letters that were handled by the London postal district, Sir Roland figured The Chairman, the Hon. Mr. out that it would cost far less S.W. Te'o, extended a welcome to than 1d. to handle the average the following visitore.-Mr. H. mlasive. Working on that basis he Schmidt, Hongkong, Rotarian J.R. prepared a plan whereby for 1d. MacKenzie, New Zealand, Mr. R.R. an ordinary letter could be sent Campbell, Hongkong and Mr. M.A.anywhere in the United Kingdom, Cooper, Hongkong.
whereas at that time the average' cost was from 4d. to 18. 8d. Finally
Addressing the Rotarians pre- sent, Mr. Watson, sald in part:
The emblem of Rotary is a wheel - figure whose circumference is
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Parliament, which approved it, in Bill was prepared and sent to. 1839 and Sir Roland Hill was ap-
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a circle, something without begin-pointed to carry out its provisions. ning and without end. The pro- Now the point I want to em- perties of a circle are discussed phasise is that it was hore, that by Euclid but it is so many the "Spirit of Rotary"-the spirit years since I passed through of the philosophy of service, found College that I can't for
the manifestation in what I have ir- Hie of
remember what reverently enlled that ange
"scrap of said about it. Any paper" about one inch square in how, a circle la something round size, carrying on its face a line and when flat, like a coin, for in-engraved design printed in black stance, will, if placed on its edge, and ou its back a surface of gum, roll, as many of us have proved in for Sir Roland H intended his our younger days when we acci-idea to stick and it did, and has dentally dropped a sixpence in the street and saw it career into the gutter, out of sight and be yond redemption.
The wheel represented in your "mblem has, like every perfect wheel, a hub and in this hub lies what I have termed the "Spirit of Rotary" which, as a result of the centrifugal force created by the revolutions of the axis, spreads along the spokes to the circum ference and never ecases to exert its influence unless the wheel Ceases to rotate. This descrip- tlon may be more picturesque than scientific, but it will. I believe. serve in a general way to illustrate my idea.
Like everything else to nature idens are subject to the law of evolution. Thus our modern in-
one on sticking for nearly a een- tury. This was the first adhesive postage stamp, destined to become the world's great philatelic classic, the penny Binck of Great Britain, bearing the portrait of Her Moat Gracious Majesty. Queen Victorin art that has never been excelled. --an example of postage stamp
With the organisation of hie postal system, Sir Roland I had created a sort of Garden of Eden in which the 1d. black was the first inhabitant. The Govern ment acting along the line that it was "not good that man should he alone" added a 2d. blue, another classic, to keep the d company. and these two stamps, the Adam and Eve of philately, kept one an- other company for about a year. Then, in obedience to the laws of nature, additions began to creep into the family, which goes to show how human postage stamps can be when properly understood.
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Establishing Rotary. Rotary, if my memory serves me right, was first established as a "going concern" some 26 or 27 years ago,
But long before that time the "Spirit of Rotary" was already in a state of ferment and unconsciously expressed itself in
Welding the Nations. a rather unusual but very impor- tant manner 92 years ago, in keep-as it may appear in itself, and the The postage stamp, unimportant ing with the rule that the general Universal Postal Union, have done fdea about a thing almost invari- more to bring together people of ably comes into existence long be- different nationalities in fore the thing itself.
accord for a definite object than This sentiment is shared also by any other humun organisation. ventions are but the outcome of philately, the science of stamp the efforts of our ancestors in ages collecting, in a remarkable degre past to solve problems which had
It is commonly said that death is to be left to us to conquer. Those the great leveller, as it brings all you who are Freemasons mankind to a common level in six will appreciate my point when I re-feet of ground, where, in the dis call that long before speculative integration of the elements of the Freemasonry took form in 1717 the body, nature treats us all alike. Masonic idea existed, and can be
But the postage stamp produces a traced back into dim antiquity able manner, for it brings kings like effect in a much more agree- when it served to form the founda- tion upon which was built up the social life of mankind in the dawn of civilisation. I am going to try to show you how this is also with the postal system.
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Ancient Postal Systems. History shows us that postal systems for imperial purposes are ancient institutions, the oldest known being that of China, known as the Chan, or Govern- ment service of Couriers for the transmission of official despatches, This is mentioned in the records of the Chow Dynasty, some 3,000 years ago. This system reman- ed In use until 1912 when the
and commoners to a common level
in the pursuit of a hobby. As an outstanding proof of this we have the fact that his Gracious Majesty King George V is an ardent collec- for, and has not only instructed the curator of his marvellous collection of Great Britain and British Dominion und Colonial stamps to exhibit his prizes to all who desire to see them, but often takes delight in explaining to visitors in person, when time and circumstances allow, the principal gems which adorn the pages of his collection.
First Philatelist.
Chinese post office administration. I might mention also in closing undertook the transmission of all that the first stamp collector in the despatches.
world was the father of our pre- Coming down to more modern sent sovereign, the late King times, in the 13th Century, Bri- Edward VII, who was born the tain had an organised system of year following the appearance of royal post messengers
whose the first stamp. It seems that the supervisor was the forerunner of Comptroller of the Queen's House- the Postmaster General. The first hold had, merely as a matter of person to hold that position was form, pasted in a small memoran- Sir Briau Tuke, but it was not un- dum book a copy of the 1d black til Sir Roland I took up postal and the 2d blue, to which he later reform that anything like a satis-added other stamps as they ILD- factory public system was perfect-
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