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-BY JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON,
Be Careful with Free Raises
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If I were asked to put my finger counting on the ace or ace-king of on the one phase of bidding that is diamonds and, therefore, South did most often responsible for bad con-not hesitate to redouble, naturally from would not choose light open-(expecting u for better tracts, ing bids, nor even shaded overcalls. North.
West opened the jack of diamonds, I would point unhesitatingly to un-i warranted free raises and free rebids. Duminy ducked and declarer ruffed. With any partner except the runaway The heart king then was laid down type, it is not dangerous to shade to trap a possible singleton honour in one's values alightly in opening the East's hand. West won with the ace bidding, but even the most con- and returned another diamond which servative partner thrown off stride was won by the king, declarer dis- by an unjustified and unnecessary carding a club. A spade to the ace free raise. North, in the hand shown followed, and the finesse against the below, could thank his lucky stars, heart jack was successfully negotiat his generous opponents, and his skied. The heart queen drew the last ful partner for the fact that his own outstanding trump and declarer then bidding resulted in triumph instead eashed the diamond. ace, discarding of tragedy.
his own spade ten.
North dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
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Pass Pass
Redbl.
(final bid)
W
On the second heart East hud in
discarded the
three
of nucently spades, and this the stage for set declarer's triumph. The last trump squeezed both defenders, West had to hol
dummy's spade to overlny (1
clab. five spot, hence he fet
fel 10 R Dummy then relinquished the space
Now it
turn to uhm. He had to hold a diamond! to stop dummy's device and, there fore, could
uld keep only two clubs, Der laver led to the club ace, returned to the king and cashed the six-spot for the fulfilling
trick. West's Without
all revealing double, without East's direurd of a spade tif East, had guarded spades and diamonds and West hnd guarded only clubs, the double squeeze could not have operated) and, finally, without declarer's excellent techini-
would have met a different fate,
To-morrow's Hand Rubber bridge.
South dealer.
Both sides' vulnerable.
4284
♡ KJ
OAKQG3
AJG
Although I deplore the indiscrimque, North's unwarranted free raise inale use of short-sult bids, I admit that in this particular hand a dia- inond opening on North's part would have been embarrassing South At sy responded with two clubs.
of rate, it was not North's choice
Blighty un opening bid that led to dangerous contract: It was his fre heart raise. North's hand was 015 near a minimum as is safe to open,
hnd the very fact that he and started with a club shout have neted ns a brake on his future bid- ding. Front South's point of view, the opening club bid was highly the heart encouraging, and after ralse-his-hand-suined a definite slam complexion. When West fool- ishly doubled Ex hearts, South i thought that ho probably
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July 4, 1941.
By Walt Disney
THE NAZI MYTH
OF A RACE OF SUPERMEN
One Nuzi myth has been swallowed by a lot of other- wise wary people, including:
Here's ardent anti-Fascists. how the myth runs:
Granted that Hitler has mistreated Jews, radicals, liberals and Catholic and Pro- testant clergymen. Granted, too, that he has deprived the whole German people of their liberty. But it must be ad- mitted that the people as a whole are materially better off than they used to be, that they have better health and more security. At least this was the case before this war broke out.
Indeed, in view of the long. string of amazing victories on the military front, many are wondering if the Nazis, after all, are really breeding a race of
Nothing is supermen. further from the truth-Nazi propaganda of robust, care- fally-chosen soldiers to the contrary.
. Overwork, fatigue, under- nourishment, unrelieved ner- vous tension, lack of proper medical facilities-these and other factors have left their mark on the nation's health. It is true that the soldiers ware well cared for; hence, before the war, some parents were glad to see their son's that knowing conscripted, they would at least be well fed.
It is difficult to get a clear picture of the health situation in Germany since the war began, but in the years of Hitler rule that preceded it the "guns, not butter" dictum was definitely not breeding a One may race of supernien. reasonably suppose that the health of the German people under war-time conditions is certainly not better, and prob- ably is worse, than it was in 1939. Here are some sulient
facts about health under the Nazis in pre-war Germany:
The most sensitive index to the people's health is provided by the statistics of the Ger- Insurance Sickness man Burenu. These show that in 1939 there was 33 per cent more sickness than in 1932- the last year of the Weimar republic.
Mortality rates, which have been declining steadily in the rest of the world, kept rising under Nazi rule until in 1937 there were 80,000 more people dying each year than in the year before Hitler power.
came
to
Tuberculosis, which has been decreasing in the U.S.A: and in other countries, rose sharply in Nazi Germany, in spite of the vaunted "totali- tarian war on tuberculosis."
Only 55 per cent of the young men examined for army duty were found fit for completo military nervice. Many cases of lung and heart discase were found among the youth.
Writing on "Experience in the Health Roll-Call of the Hitler Youth" in 1938, Dr Maerz, leading German physician, stated:
"The registration of foot deformities surpasses to an
astonishing extent our uncagy expectations. In more than 70 per cent of the youth of both sexes there were cases of splayed, twisted or flat feet."
Children have fared no bet- ter than their elders, accord- ing to the available health statistics, as revealed by Dr Martin Gumpert, former head of the Berlin Dispensary for Deformities, in a study pub- lished last year and based on contemporary German medi- cal and scientific sources. Rickets a disease caused by
IBy ALBERT DEUTSCH
malnutrition has increased alarmingly under the Nazis.
A survey conducted by Pro- fessor Rominger of the Chil- dren's Clinic of Kiel Univer- sity in 1938 showed that in Dortmund 55 per cent of the children were stricken with rickets, while in the West- phalian industrial area about two out of every five infants The under one year had it. German death rate for in- fants under one year was 6.4 per 100 in 1937, as compared with 4.5 in New York City, which has always served as the classic example, in Nazi
eyes,
of the debilitating effects of "race mixture.”
as
The fanatical Nazi hatred of the Jews was partly re- sponsible for the great in- creuse in the rate of infectious and contagious diseases. Vac- cination was discouraged by such influential Nazis Julius Streicher of Munich as a deep-dyed Jewish plot to contaminate the mire Aryans with disease-bearing bacteria. In many places salvarsan in- Jections for syphilis was for- bidden because it had been discovered by tho Jew, Ehrlich.
Other children's diseases rose sharply after the Nazis took over. Diphtherin almost doubled from 1933 to 1937, in
contrast to a downward trend in other countries. (Deaths from diphtherin in Nazi Ger- many are four times as high as in the U.S.A.) Scarlet fever also rose about 50 per cent in Germany between 1933 and 1937.
The terrific speed-up in in- dustry and lengthening of working hours long before the war caused considerable in- crease in industrial diseases and accidents, especially among miners. According to the German Bureau of Statis- ties, "enses of incapacitation for work have increased to such an extent that 700,000 workers are constantly out of action,'
Bad and insufficient food also play a part in the serious breakdown of health among German workers. The Direc- tor of the Institute of Hygiene at Marburg University de- clared that "the premature collapse of working capacity and the early invalidism
which are unfortunately ob- servable among so many Ger- mans are conditioned to the extent of 60 per cent by mal- nutrition."
The rate of suicide among Germans catapulted with the advent of Hitler, and at pre- sent four times as many Ger- mans take their own lives as do Americans.
A tremendous increase in mental and nervous break- downs has been registered since the Nazis took control.
Things got so bad that, at a recent annual convention on psychiatry und neurology, Dr Rudin, most prominent Ger- man psychiatrist and no mean race-hygienist himself, constrained to criticise the vain boasts of the Nazi en- thusiasts and to point to the rising tide of mental disease in his country.
Was
The idea that the Nazis have been building a race of supermen is a myth, pure and simple. In a later article the general welfare of the Ger- man people under Nazi rulo will be described.
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