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IF YOU PLAY BRIDGE WATCH FOR SQUALLS!
By LIEUT.-COL. H M, BEASLEY
card by a particular bid, I might be inclined to agree; but this form of code bidding is rarely, if ever, employed. If, on the other hand, by "code bidding" is meant scientific system of bidding, then these critics would do well to be guided by the laws of progress.
Men of medisine have given the world an amazing variety of usb- ful discoveries, have ended the torturing treatment of a multitude of aliments, have given us other and the hypodermic anaesthetic, PEOPLE are saying that soon have reduced the death rate in there fe going to be a new every nation in the world, have bridge controversy. Why? Be worked miracles in the saving of cause, apparently, various expon baby lives and have made mother- hood not only less painful but farents of the game have put forward less dangerous. They have por- the opinion that Contract is fast fected, to a degroc, the science of losing its popularity, since it is plastic surgery and have made now mainly looked on as a business 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 cancer and consumption, leprosy and venereal diseases, the acourges of civilisation. But they have not yet found a remedy, or a preventive, for the ordinary, every-day, common or garden cold,
These experts assert that Con- tract Bridge is no longer a pleas
fierce battle aut pastime, but a giving rise to heated discussion and even acrimony, the reason for all of which is, according to them, the modern system of "convention Dr. Alphonse Raymond Dochéz, of at or code bidding."
Columbia University, whose re searches in the matter of colds have won him an international reputation, and whose methods of prevention are the best in the world, according to some authori. ties, is not pessimistic. But the best he can say in the matter of "I have not given up progress is: hope."
ENORMOUS LOSSES
The value of the fight which Dr. Dochez is wnging, and others be- Aides him, is indicated by the fact that in the United States alone the loss to wake-oarnera through sbsence 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 in well-nigh incalculable. Dr. Dochez Anya that colds are caused by a virus which is so small that it passes readily through filters which hold back ordinary bacteria. What medicine has been unable to do in to find an inoculation which will successfully combat this virus. "If only the problem simple as that encountered in treatment and prevention of small- pox," Dr. Dochez says, "we could smile. But vaccination against cold does not mean permanent re- alstance is set up. Many people get colds every two or three months and we cannot help them."
SAD OUTLOOK
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The modern rules which apply to other sports where team work is essential apply cogently to Con- tract, for if ever a essentially one of partnership it in this, in which individualism must play second string to co- operation.
The Very Idea!
HISTORY FOR
ADULT
TT is now so many years
that Guy Fawkes laid his gunpowder and blazed the 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.
It was from his ideas that the was Chicago gunman and the Now York tough made a poor carbon copy and although Guy would not have got a job say, as storekeeper on Green Island, he would havo drawn a high salary as press agent for Mussolini or s a sanitary inspector at Wanchal.
How can this co-operation possi-
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 reader as to whether he was burnt for making the attempt or for failing
in it.
As a matter of fact, the game of bly be produced without the in- Contract Bridge has never been so troduction of some basic principles popular as it is to-day. It la on which partners can act? played all over the world.
By the simple precess of elabora- I have been a good deal abroad)tion from these basic principles lately and have visited many numerous so-called systems have different countries, but raroly did been produced; hence the' confu- I see any other card game but alon to which certain sections of Certainly his excuse that he was Contract played or discussed and Contract players very naturally making a detonation to kill fish
numerous bidding systems enke exception. A multiplication and the Honourable Mombers were.
in the Thames was not accepted the which have been evolved during of systems naturally leads to dis-nat, pleased at the designation, the past few years were invariably cussion among players. However, which they thought was aimed at used.
so far as I know, the complications them. Since I came back I have taken of modern Contract Bridge have the trouble to consult many of given rise to no more acrimony those who are directly and in-than has always existed in directly connected with the Con- game. Bad manners, if they exist tract game, and I have asked them at all, do not result from the game 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
wane.
the
I have put the qucation to bad-mannered the simplieity of book-sellers, publishers, and those any given game will not make him who supply the numerous acces- any better-mannered, for rules do sories 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 code bid-
.
The largely increasing numbering, there were only two ways of of entrants for the various tourna becoming a good Contract player- ments organised in different parts either by the happy possession of of Britain are corroborative evid-a natural card senso or by years ence of this. The reason, I sug- of experience, so that in those daya gest, is that the modern scientific Bridge players were roughly divid system of bidding and playing has ed into two camps, the good and proved to be of such absorbing the bad. Somebody once said, when draw-interest among Bridge players of By the simple expedient of read- ing a picture of England 2,000 years all nationalities that Contract has
petent player, one can learn in hence, that it would be a perfect now earned for itself the title "the ing or being taught by some com- three months what in the past it place, except that "the cold" would king of all card games." : still be with us. The best way to
would have taken years of expen-1 keep clear of colds, authorities
sive experience to acquire. agree, is to follow these rules:
COSTLY ARMAMENT
evolved their art to such a high If naval technicians had not degree of complicated and costly perfection, the price of building a Orst-rate battle fleet would be a great deal less than it is-and the economic argument for armament reduction would lose much of its
Keep your mouth shut: Keep clean and fit; Keep away from those who greatly changed from former
cough; 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 hier development of almost any form of Infection and water-power, has become, out- contagion, and are certainly well side of Britain and Belgium, the in Hongkong.
worth remembering at this season
most heavily industrialised coun- try in Europe. Today, more than fifty per cent. of her work- ing people are engaged in indus try and only a little more than twenty-five per cent. in agricul- ture. In metallurgy, ongincer- ing, machine-making, cotton and silk textiles, chemicals and dyes, the Swiss have made vast strides. This means a big in- crease in the town proletariat. the other day at the Philadelphin 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-huli and machinery, or approx ment figures. The Socialist imately £500,000. Contrast that vote has grown, markedly in with bills that were incurred a recent years.
In the Chamber generation ago, when the United the Socialists are
States began to rebuild Its Beet now second following the Civil War. The party in strength, with 49 mem- Olympia, a heavy cruiser used as bera against 52 Liberals, 44 Admiral Dowoy's flagship 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 just two years ago, Socialist of building one of the lighter workers, provoked by Fascists, number by the dozen, is equal to craft, which a first-rate navy must demonstrated in front of the the cost of a main unit of the fleet Town Hall in Geneva, where then generation ago. leaders of the Right were sil
ting. They broke down a bar-
force. Construction was begun
at
rier of police. The military the authorities. The Socialists intervened, and thirteen people and their enemies, the Fascists, were killed and 60 injured. I promptly demanded a referen- Leon Nicole, Socialist leader, dum and badly beat the decree. 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 Genova 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 beat its proposal to cut thus became Red in, political salaries of all public servants by complexion. Zurich has a So-7 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 représentatives of Russia in It provided punishments for the League of Nations meetings. those encouraging riots; for in Geneva may push the country. those persuading men not to further along the Leftiat road. serve in the national army; for And this is the dominating those participating in a meeting factor in the objection to Soviet. For parade that was.forbidden by membership.
Contract Bridge has emerged from its former purely family status to occupy a position of In ternational importance.
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My wheel broke, on Thursday and it cost me 5 bucks for re- pairs,
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 tract Bridgo came to displace the together; hence, It is obvious that old game of Auction Bridge there the popularity of Contract has were those diehards who decried been immeasurably increased and its advent. Some anid it would an inexperienced player has now
And How! never survive; the fact remaine sufficient confidence and know that Contract Bridge is played ledge to oppose the experienced
the world, player, and the younger generation To a Railroad Company: regularly all over whereas Auction Bridge is con- of Contract Bridge players is oust Your polite noto arrived, saying, Ained to a few clubs, to the more Ing the older hands,
"The railroad is for the beneft remote suburbs, and to the family these: There will always be cer- however, proves that the public is The plain facts of the case aro of the public." My experience circle.
tain players who find themselves for the benefit of the railroad. The threat of this new Contract unable to keep up with the modern
A Commuter. our heade by critics who look to Bridge controversy is held over intricacies of any game. the palmy days of Auction Bridge, progress, and as long as the pro- But no one can hope to Impede
Play Him Don't Read Him. They are bold enough to say that gress 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 as Gentlemen:
Your radlo do sound fine, but pleased to call "colle bidding" is conducive to general interest as it finally obliterated.
undoubtedly is, then I have no plese come to see wota wrong. 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 rend
by.
"Yes, these are the same letters she sends me.
writes them for her."
mother
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Erich.
From The Fan Mail. "Oh, Dog! What do you mean by talking about a plane to trim the plaus trees up with? Don't you know that a preposition can't be used to ond a sentence up with ?"
--For this rebuke much thanks. I'm sorry I can't remember what book I get my ifttle joke out of.
"George Sand, please, not Georges, as appears in your columu. to-day."
My correspondent misses the. point, I'm afraid. My "g" put in for reasons of paraphony.
wus
"Several readers agree with mo that your colums would be much more palatable if you kept politica out of your humour.
You are very careful to avoid bespattering the funny little Líberal Pärly”.
God forbld I should "bespat- ter" anybody. But, the day wo cesso to laugh at our politicians. wo" shall deserve, and shall prob- ably got, a dictatorship,
of
"Your parody Kingsley (There, Little Girl, don't cry) & not a parody of Kingsley at all but of Reiley."
Thanks thought I'd done Kingsley an injustice. I must have been inking of that other little girl, who was told to look cunning and let who would abo cute.
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