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SWITZERLAND AND
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NOTES OF THE DAY
MEDICINE'S BETE NOIR
NOVEMBER 6, 1934.
IF YOU PLAY BRIDGE WATCH FOR SQUALLS!
By LIEUT.-COL. H. M. BEASLEY
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These experts assert that Con. The modern rules which apply traet Bridge is no longer a pleas to other sports where team work ant pastime but a flerce battle is essential apply cogently to Con- giving rise to heated discussion tract, for if ever a
was and even acrimony, the reason for essentially one of partnership it all of which is, according to them, is this, in which individualiam the modern system of "convention- must play second string to co-
gume
The Very Idea!
T
HISTORY FOR ADULT
trail for all the seekers after free publicity from Henerey the Eighth to the Empire Link.
Guy Fawkes was one of the first would-be uplifters and his downfall is felt more keenly to- day than ever before.
Men of medicine have given the world an amazing variety of use- ful discoveries, have ended the torturing treatment of a multitude of ailments, have given us other
TT is now so many years - are saying that soon) card by a particular 'bid, I might | and the hypodermic anaesthetle, PEOPLE
that Guy Fawkes laid have reduced the death rate in there is going to be a new be inclined to agree; but this form every nation in the world, have bridge controversy. Why? Be of code bidding is rarely, if ever, his gunpowder and blazed worked miracles in the saving of baby lives and have made mother-caure, apparently, various expon-employed. If, on the other hand, the hood not only less painful but farents of the game have put forward by "code bidding" is meant a less dangerous. They have per the opinion that Contract is fast scientifle system of bidding, then fected, to a degree, the selence of losing its popularity, since it is these critics would do well to be plastic surgery and have made now mainly looked on as a business guided by the laws of progress. great strides in the treatment of rather than as a game. mental diseases. They have come closer to the discovery of an in- fallible weapon for the fight against cancor and consumption, leprosy and venereal diseases, the Scourges of civilisation. But they have not yet found a remedy, ur a preventive, for the ordinary, every-day, common, or garden cold, Dr. Alphonse Raymond Dochez, of Columbia University, whose real or code bidding." Bearches in the matter of enlda bave won him an international reputation, and whose methods of As a matter of fact, the game of bly be produced without the in- prevention are the best in the Contract Bridge has never been so troduction of some basic principles world, according to some autherl-popular as it is today. It is on which partners, can act? ties, is not pessimistic. But the played all over the world.
By the simple process of elabora- best he can say in the matter of progress in: "I have not given up I have been a good deal abroad tton from these basle principles hope"
Jately and have visited many numerous so-called systems have different countries, but rarely did been produced; hence the confus I see any other card game but slon to which certain sections of Contract played or discussed and Contract players, very naturally the numerous bidding systems take ́ exception. A multiplication which have been evolved during of systems naturally leads to dis- the past few years were invariably | cussion among players. However, which they thought was aimed at used.
ENORMOUS LOSSES
The value of the fight which Dr. Dochez is waging, and othera be sides him, is indicated by the fact that in the United States alone the loss to wagc-earners through absence from work caused by colds. amounts to £400,000,000 per year. The immensity of the world's loss In time and wages through this common complaint is well-nigh incalculable. Dr. Dochez guys that colds are caused by a virus which is so small that it passes readily through filters which hold back ordinary bacteria. What medielne has been unable to da is And an inoculation which will successfully combat this virus, "If only the problem were
that almple as
encountered in treatment and prevention of small- pox," Dr. Dochez says, "we could
mile. But vnrcination against cold does not mean permanent re- sistance is set up. Many people gel colds every two months and we cannot help them."
SAD OUTLOOK
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THE SOVIET Foreign readers must have been somewhat puzzled by the vehemence of objections recently raised by Switzerland to the entry of Soviet Russia into the League of Nations. M. Motta, in presenting the Swiss objec- tions, stressed Soviet suppres- sion of religious worship and of
Somebody once said, when draw. n free Press. But this was mpting a picture of England 2,000 years the whole story. The truth ap hence, that it would be a perfect pears to be that the conserva- pluce, except that "the cold" world still be with us. The best way to tive elements in Switzerland are scared of the possible extension keep clear of colds, authorities of Red influence in Europe. It has to be borne in mind that the character of Switzerland has greatly changed from former conditions. Commonly regarded Keep good hours, as a land of dairy farmers and These rules, as a matter of fact, exporters of watches. Switzer- must be equally applicable to land, by her development of almost any form of Infection and water-power, has become, out-worth remembering at this season contagion, and are certainly well side of Britain and Belgium, the in Hongkong. most heavily industrialised coun- try in Europe. To-day, more
agree, is to follow these rules:
Keep your mouth shut: Keep clean and fit; Keep away from those who
cough;
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operation.
How can this co-operation pass
It was from his idons that tho Chicago gunman and
the New York, tough made a poor carbon copy and although Guy would not have got a job say, as storekeeper on Green Island, he would have drawn a high salary as press agent for Mussolini or na a sanitary Inspector at Wanchat, -
A study of the old books dealing with Guy Fawkes' attempt to make himself heard at Parliament raises a doubt in the mind of the render na to whether he was barnt for making the altempt or for failing
in it.
Certainly his excuse that he was
in the Thames was not accepted
making a detonation to kill fish and the Honourable Members were not pleased at the designation,
so for as i know, the complications them. Since I came back 1 have taken of modern Contract Bridge have the trouble to consult many of given rise to no more acrimony
the
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES. By Jullet Lowell, Only Air Is Fare.
America,
those who are directly and in-than has always existed in
Bad manners, if they exist directly connected with the Con- game. tract game, and I have asked them at all, de not result from the game Studebaker Sales Corporation of frankly whether it is their experi- itself, but from the persons play-South Bend, Indiana. ence that its popularity is on the ing it, and if a person is naturally Gentlemen: wane. I have put the question to bnd-mannered the simplicity. of book-sellers, publishers, and those any given game will not make him who supply the numerous acces- any better-mannered, for rules do Bories to the card-playing public; not make manners, their replies all go to, prove that the exact contrary is the case.
Before the advent of ende bid-}
The largely increasing number ding, there were only two ways of of entrants for the various tourna-becoming a good Contract player- menta organised in different parts either by the happy possession of of Britain are corroborative evid-a natural card sense or by years ence of this. The reason, I sug of experience, so that in those days gest, is that the modern seientific Bridge players were roughly divid system of bidding and playing hused into two camps, the good and proved to be of such absorbing the bad,
By the simple expedient of read- Interest among Bridge players of all nationalities that Contract has Ing or being taught by some com- pow earned for itself the title "the petent player, one can learn in king of all card games,"
Contract Bridge has emerged from its former purely family status to occupy a position of in-| ternational importance.
over
three months what in the past It would have taken years of expan sive experience to require.
has
I bought a car because of the
free wheeling. My wheel broke
bucks for repairs. Please and on Thursday and It cost me 5
check at once.
-6
Allen.
My wheel broke on Thursday. and it cost ma-5 bucks for re-
And HowL To a Railroad Company:
Your polite note arrived, saying, "The railrond is for the benefit of the public." My experience however, proves that the public in for the benefit of the railroad. A Commuter.
From this it will be seen that the two camps of good and bad When some few years ago Con- players have come much closer Iract Bridge came to displace the together; hence, it in obylous that old game of Auction Bridge there the popularity of Contract were those diehards who decried been Immeasurably increased and its advent. Some said it would an inexperienced player has now dever survive; the fact remains sufficient confidence and know- regularly all that Contract Bridge is played edge to oppose the experienced the world, player, and the younger generation whereas Auction Bridge is con- of Contract Bridge players is oust fined to a few clubs, to the more ing the older hands.
The plain facts of the case,are remote suburbs, and to the family
these: There will always be cer- circle.
tain players who find themselves The threst of this new Contract unable to keep up with the modern Bridge controversy is held over Intricacies of any game.. our heads by critics who look to But no one can hope to impede the palmy days of Auction, Bridge, progress, and as long as the pro-
Play Him Don't Read Him. They are bold enough to say that gresa which we are witnessing to Tobe Deutschmann Corp. Contract can never again come day in the game of Contract Bridge Canton, Mass. into its own, unless what they are continues to be as popular and an Gentlemen: pleased to call "code bidding" is conducive to general interest as it Your radio do, sound fine, but Anally obliterated.
undoubtedly is, then I have, no plese come to see wots wrong,
by.
•
Erich.
than fifty per cent. of her work- COSTLY ARMAMENT ing people are engaged in indus-
If naval technicians had Πολ try and only a little more than evolved their art to such a high twenty-five per cent. in agricul- degree of complicated and costly ture.. In metallurgy, engineer perfection, the price of building ing, machine-making, cotton and first-rate battle fleet would be a silk textiles, chemicals and dyes, | grent deal less than it is-and the the Swiss have made vast economic argument for armament strides. This means a big in-reduction would lose much of its force. Construction was begun crease in the town proletariat. the other day at the Philadelphia the ability to indicate a particular sensions in the Bridge world.
If by "code bidding" is meant fear whatever of any serious dis-Them bulbs not so good to read Added to this fact is another, navy yard of two new 1,500-ton namely, that the world depres- destroyers. Each boat will cost sion has given Switzerland "over approximately U.S. $2,700,000 for twenty-five per cent. unemploy-hull and machinery, or
approx- ment figures. The Socialist imately. £500,000. Contrast "that with bills that were incurred a vote has grown markedly in recent years. In the Chamber States began to rebuild its fleet generation ago, when the United the Socialists are now second following the Civil War. The party in strength, with 49 mem- Olympia, a heavy cruiser used as bers against 52 Liberals, 44 Admiral Dewey's Dagship at Catholics, and 33 Agrarians, Manila Bay, cost almost exactly So far, Switzerland has escaped what one of these new destroyers serious political trouble. But will cost. In other words, the cost lighter just two years ago, Socialist workers, provoked by Fascists, demonstrated in front of the Town Hall in Geneva, where the leaders of the Right were sit- ting. They broke down a bar-
craft, which a first-rate navy must number by the dozen, is equal to the east of a main unit of the fleet) a generation ago.
of building one of the
rier of police. The military the authorities. The Socialists Intervened, and thirteen people and their enemies, the Fascists, were, killed and 60 injured. promptly demanded a referen- Leon Nicole, Socialist leader, dum and badly beat the decrec. was arrested and sent to prison Prior to that the Federal Govern- for a year. Hardly out of his ment suffered two more reverses. cell, Nicole was overwhelmingly A referendum beat its proposal elected to head the government to lengthen the working week of Geneva canton. One of the from 48 to 54 hours in times of greatest cities of Switzerland, business crisis. Another refer-. home of the League of Nations, endum bent its proposal to cut thus became Red in political salaries of all public servants by complexion. Zurich has a So-72 per cent. The result is that cialist Mayor. So has Lausanne, the conservative elements of the Following the Geneva case, the country are badly frightened. Federal Government issued a They are afraid that the presence decree modifying the penal code, of representatives of Russia in It provided punishments for the League of Nations meetings In Geneva may push the country those encouraging riots: for those persuading men not to further along the Leftist road. the dominating serve in the national army; for And this is those participating in a meeting factor in the objection to Soviet or parade that was forbidden by membership:
"Yes, these are the same letters she sends me. Her mother writes thom for her.
From The Fan Mail. "Oh, Dou! What do you mean by talking about a plane to trim the plane trees up with? Don't you know that a reposition can't be
end a sentence up with ?"
uned
For this rebuke much thanks. I'm sorry I can't remember what book I got my little joke out of.
"George
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Sand, please, not Georges, na appears in your column |to-day."
WAB
My correspondent misses the point, I'm afraid. My "S" put in for reasons of paraphony.
"Several readers agres with me that your column wordd be much more palatable if you kept politica ont of your humour.... You are very careful to avoid bcapultering the funny little Liberal Party."
God forbid I should "bespal- ter" anybody. But the day wa cease to laugh at our politielana we shall deserve, and shall prob ably get, a dictatorship,
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"Your parody of Kingsley 'Thero, Little Girl, don't cry") in not a parody of Kingsley at all but of Reiley."
Thanks thought I'd done Kingsley, an injustice. I must have been thinking of that other. little girl, who was told to look etnning and let who would ho cute.
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