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THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
The Daily Times congratulates the new officers of the Sa
vannah Chamber of Commerce as well as the organization itself
on their election. We take occasion also to extend to the retir
ing officers felicitations on the splendid reports rendered of their
activities during the past year and the results achieved. This
ie particularly true of the results shown in attracting to Savan
nah many worthwhile conventions.
Without reflection upon other fine organizations working
for the upbuilding and progress of the community, the Chamber
Os Commerce occupies an advantageous position, not only in Sa
vannah, but in every thriving community, and is looked upon
by local butiness interests, as well as by enterprises desirous of
becoming domiciled among us, as the focal point from which
•very business and civic improvement should have common ac
tion.
It is important that there should be some organization where
the butiness interests can meet for the purpose of concentration
of effort for the good of all. In the strong bond of union lies
the strength to demand and obtain those things essential to suc
cess. A division of effort can but bring reduced results. It is
for this reason that the Chamber of Commerce should be heartily
supported by all.
There is much to the interest of the City of Savannah that
must be looked after. The important part played by the harbor
interests in the life of Savannah in the past has been due almost
entirely to the support and activity of the Chamber of Com
merce. A concentration on this item, using proper effort toward
the end that the federal government appropriates propr sums
in keeping with its importance are made. The time has arrived
in the life of a growing city that the river should be further
bridged, not miles beyond its limits, but at the city. Our neigh
bors are knocking at the door; lend them a helping hand.
FLOODS AND FAMINE.
In the floods and freshets which are now devastating our
adjacent counties, as well as vast territories in various sections
of the United States, one fact stands out. Why are people per
mitted to have their homes in the lowlands where it is known
that, sooner or later, flood waters will overtake them and as
sistance must be rendered? Until the time arrives when flood
waters in a given section can be controlled, why permit that
section to be inhabited?
We are a great people for suggesting preventive measures,
and, under certain conditions of enforcing them, for almost all
the ills that beset life. We combat disease, restrict the dangers
of fire, have zoning laws for this, that, and the other, and yet,
here, where year after year with human life sacrificed from
known causes, we seem to take little or no intrest in corrective
measures to reduce the loss.
It occurs to us, in all the lowlands adjacent to such rivers
as the Altamaha, and others, pending the time when these sec
tions can be made safe, some steps should be taken whereby hu
man life would not be risked, and the consequent demand made
for assistance from a people who never failed to respond to the
call of the unfortunate. Certainly, as year after year, in the
same sections we have a repetition of the same conditions, the
thought is worth consideration.
Aside from human values, the more material things upon
which we spend vast sums of the taxpayers’ money, should re
ceive such attention so that further losses of a similar character
should not occur. Without entering into a discussion of the
causes of the failure of the Oglethorpe Highway to stand the
strain of the flooded waters, the actual and direct loss in trade to
the City of Savannah by virtue of this misfortune is of deep in
dustrial concern.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
TRADE TIES GROWING
Not Over The Atlantic But Over The Pacific
BETWEEN JAPAN-U. S.
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
WITH ONE COUNTRY at least
American trade has been growing
■without much ado. While, with oth
er countries, trade has not been
growing, even with much ado.
The one country is Japan.
Will trade bring understanding?
It often does.
♦ • *
WILL STANDARDS RISE?
Labor and manufacturers do pot
look with joy upon a flood of Jap
anese goods made at “coolie”
wages.
But export of American products,
at good prices, is welcomed.
Os course, Japan could not buy
if It did not sell.
Hope Is expressed that American
Ideas on living standards will infil
trate Japan— thus rectifying the
"coolie” condition
• ♦ •
JAPAN’S GROWTH
The interesting comment below is
gained from The Living Age, maga
zine of world opinion.
"The year 1935 saw Japan break
many records. The population of all
the possessions of the Island Em
pire surpassed 100 million, and in
dustrial production doubled as com
pared with 1928. The industries
working for armaments and exports
showed the greatest gains, and total
exports increased 17 per cent, while
imports advanced only 10 per cent.
The total volume of trade exceeded
I billion yen for the first time in
Japanese history, and the unfav
orable trade balance of only 30 mil
lion yen was more than overbalanc
ed by the so-called "invisible im
ports ' from foreign Investments.
"Uhreo factors made these re-
cords possible—first and foremost
the superior efficiency of Japanese
factories turning out low-cost
goods; second, increased exports to
the United States; third, the Ital
ian-Ethiopian war, which opened
several markets to the Japanese.
Os particular interest to American
citizens ,who ar© being urged by
such British spokesmen as General
Smuts and Sir Frederick hWyte to
fight Japan in behalf of England,
is th© fact that Japanese-American
trade is now three times as great
as Chinese-American trade. The fly
in the ointment lies in the Japanese
budget. This will show a deficit of
757,500,000 yen, or two-thirds of the
total government expenditures, ex
cluding the military and naval ap
propriations, which, in turn, account
for per cent of all expendit
ures.”
♦ * ♦
LAST SPEECH
To Asia Magazine we are indebt
ed for the last words of the Japan
ese finance minister, Korekiyo
Takahashi, who was assissinated by
militarists, for his persistent oppos
ition to militaristic policies.
We quote from Asia Magazine (in
an article written prior to the assas
ination):
“As a realist Mr. Takahashi is
much more afraid of further ‘semi
peaceful’ military adventures on the
Asiatic continent. On this subjet
he has uttered frequent warnings
to the country and he has made a
bundantly clear his resolve to deny
financial support to any such pro
ject. The finance minister is well
aware that Japan could not foot the
bills which a campaign of this kind
would entail. Doubtless it must oc
cur to him to speculate also as to
how long Japan can go on flnanc-
-WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
REAR PLATFORM TALKS
To Be Made By President in Campaign
SEEN BETTER THAN RADIO
BY CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, April 20.—Valu
able as the radio is to a presidential
candidate it does not altogether take
the place of personal contacts.
Os course the candidate addresses
an immensely larger audience via the
“mike” than he can meet face to
face, but he can talk more initmate
ly to folk he can see and be seen by
than to the whole country at once
“on the air.”
Hence President Rooseveltt’s deci
sion to make a campaign tour of most
of the states, speaking briefly but
pungently to crowds at scores of lit
tle whistling posts from the rear plat
from of his train—the old-fashioned
way of appealing to the voters, before
the radio was available.
Scarcely needful to say the air will
not be neglected. For the more im
portant presidential utterances at key
points the microphone will be in
stalled. The White House tenant's
corporeal presence is to supplement,
not substitute for it.
• * •
TOO MANY GROUPS )
The radio has one distinct disad
vantage for political campaign pur
poses.
The orator is compelled to adapt
his remarks to the tastes of too many
different kinds of group* of listeners
at one and the same time.
For example:
Assume that he wishes to placate
an industrial gathering, hostile to the
price boosting of food. It is embar
rassing to him to have some millions
of farmers, enthusiastically favorable
to food price boosting, harkening
over their receiving sets to every
word he says. On the opposite hand,
when making promise* to the farm
ers, it handicaps him to have the in
ustrialists’ ears attuned to his every
syllable.
MUST BE CONSISTENT
In the good old pre-radio days it
was possible for an aspirant for of-
VIEWS on REVIEWC
A WEEKLY CHRONICLE
By
F. BASIL ABRAMS
Going places with that indefatigable, mirthful and side
stitching song writer, Billy Hill, the rawboned “man-about
town”—or “man-about-the-world” for that matter, who foist
ed on a world which had been fairly serene up to that point,
such ditties as “Last Round-Up,” “Spinning Wheel,” “Boots
and Saddle” et cetera, is comparable with negotiating a stockade
barbed wire fence with a wildcat under each arm—only worse!
Bill was in Savannah a few days
ago and those who knew him when
ho visited here a couple of years
ago—and therefor© were forewarn
ed, wisely and definitely eliminated
themselves as escorts and compan
ions early in the evening. Obviously,
they couldn’t take it —the big sis
sies. (Neither could I, but I wasn’t
to learn that until later—much lat
er!
• • •
No matter how resolute one is on
abstinence, early-to-bed hours and
such, he’s attracted to this elong
ated soldier of fortune and, so long
as Bill will sing one of the count
less songs he’s written, hours slip
by unnoticed.
ing her growing army and navy on
borrowed money while at the same
time she neglects her rural popu
lation and lowermiddle classes. And
he must have grown decidedly pes
simistic in recent months. For in
the most courageous speech that
he delivered in his long career
before the cabinet council, on Nov.
26, 1935 —he was reported to have
said that ‘Japan is seure from chal
lenges to war from any quarter’;
that 'th- organs of public opinion
do not dare to say what they really
think of th© military, and the lead
ers of financial circles are in a sim
ilar plight’; and.that ‘if the military
persist In their unreasonable
course, they will become the object
of public condemnation.’
• * *
BANKERS OBJECT
Speaking of armaments, some of
the largest British banks have reg
istered disapproval of the Baldwin
government’s two-billion-dollar arm
ament program.
The magazine Living Age pro
duces the response of St. Japhet
and Co., large International banking
house, in London, to the argument
of Neville Chamberlain, chancellor
of the exchequer, that armament
expenditures stimulate employment.
Says the bank’s financial review:
“Heavy armament expenditure
leads ipso facto to international
nervousness and thereby is addi
tional stumbling block to geuine
international trade and more so as
this nervousness is exploited by the
advocates of national self-sufficien
cy. This vicious circle is a the same
time tending to perpetuate trade
restrictions as well as subsidies to
certain home industries.
“Defense expenditure w© must
still have in this imperfect world,
but a reduction of this costly item
and a release of capital, laobr and
raw materials for other more pro
ductive uses will only be achieved
when, inter alia, the fallacy of re
armament as a means of furthering
economic prosperity is realized.’’
• • •
WHAT FOR MONEY?
It soon will become a question as
to what European nations and Jap
an will use for money to pay for
their armament expenditures.
Possibly, as in Italy, it will lead
to complete state capitalism.
The United States itself has ap
propriations of $1,160,953,903 for
land and sea forces this year. Then
there are allotments from funds at
the president’s disposal ,so that the
total armament figures for the
United States are approximately a
billion-and-a-half for the year. That
is second only to Great Britain’s —
but the United States has far greats
er wealth from which to draw its
expenditures.
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1936
fice to travel around, from place to
place, saying exactly what ought to
be said in each and all of them and
satisfying everyone.
He might be caught in an occa
sional discrepancy, but it wasn't seri
ous; could be explained.
Now with the darned radio, he
must be consistent.
* * e
WILL SEE PRESIDENT
President Roosevelt undertake* to
modify this evil with his series of
rear-platform chats.
If he can make enough of them,
the totality of his rear-platform hear
ers may rival the number of his lis
teners-in over the radio. It will be a
better quality of hearers, too; they
will have seen the president in per
son, and there is no denying the
charm of his personality Some of
them iwll have reached over the rear
platform rail and shaken his hand.
And naturally the local bosses will
have been received on his train, and
will do some effective subsequent ad
vertising.
How Intensively the country can be
cultivated, not exactly in competition
but in combination with the radio, is
problematic, but the plan looks good.
The president presumably will gen
eralize over the '.‘mike”; give local as
surances at flrstr rear-platform hand.
Seemingly his rear-platform cam
paign will be a very thorough job.
He will leave June 1 for Texas,
making rear-platform speeches all the
way and coming back. He’ll be on the
road while the Republican convention
is progressing. By the end of Au
gust he is expected to leave for the
northwest, perhaps traveling a* far
as California.
And other circuits may be added.
Here and there, there will be radio
speeches also, but mainly the presi
dent will be plowing the countryside.
He believes in modem improvement
—the radio.
Yet, the horse-and-buggy ha* its
utility, too.
One of th© gay spots—among
many others —Bill insisted upon in
cluding in his itinerary was De-
Soto’* Tavern.
• • •
As a matter of course, his pres
ence and identity soon spread about
and there was th© usual onrush of
autograph seekers. Os these, there
was one celeb worshipping Savan
nah miss who gushed:
“Oh, Mr. Hill, what do you con
sider the best thing you've ever
written?”
“Little Lady”, niftied Bill, “that’s
easy. The best bit of writing I ever
did was when I wrote home for
money!”
♦ * •
Bill was amazed to find his old
friend, Ed Courtney and the Tavern
orchestra still packing ’em in. He
knew Ed from his last visit here.
Comparing memories, notes, profes
sional knowledge, history and au
thorities from Billboard and Var
iety magazines, Bill decided Ed’s
two and one-half years unbroken
run at the Tavern sets an all-time
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All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
THE LOVELIEST SPOT
FOR ME, THE most beautiful place
in all the world is a hill about thirty
miles away from where I live.
At all seasons of the year that hill
is good for me ... In the summer,
when its sides are yellow and tawny
and have a satin sheen ... In the
late fall and the early spring, when
the young grass is green and sweet
to see . . . And in that time when
the farmer has his way with the slant
ed earth and the hill is a great,
plowed patchwork of dark browns and
purples and reds.
I come through a little town and
along a wide highway and make a
sudden turn—and there’s my hill . . .
There's a little old farm house at its
foot, with tall trees around it. There’s
the great shape of it behind the far
mer's bam . . . rising . . . rising
. . . lifting its great flanks to the
eastern sky where it cuts sharply
away . . . And my eyes lift and lift
to it and climb high above it to the
limitless sky.
Behind that hill are other hills with
cattle on them and cowboys riding
their lean horses . . . and beyond
those hills are little dusty, common
place towns. My mind tells me those
towns, that ordinary life, are there
beyond this great hill, but my heart
tells me that splendid back-drop of
beauty is the edge of the world with
nothing behind. I do not look beyond
. . . all I see is this grand rise from
the earth, soothing, comforting, up
lifting.
This hill of mine has never failed
me. Whenever I come its way I look
for greatness and find it always. It
has never disappointed, and unless I
change for the worse, it never will.
. . . When I think of it I know the
meaning of those words “I will lift
up mine eyes to the hills, whence
cometh my help.”
For me, the loveliest spot on all
this earth . . . that hill of mine that
asks for nothing and gives every
thing to me.
orchestral engagement at any giv
en place.
• * *
It seems as if Bill’s sudden visit
to Savannah was unheralded, unex
pected, without particular motive,
rhyme or reason. One gathered he
had been in Miami for the season,
had just finished writing the mus
ical scores for Bing Crosby's new
flicker which will be released in
June, then suddenly went temper
amental —over a bottle of Scotch
and soda!
• • *
“The next thing I knew I was in
Savannah”, confessed Bill, “but
that’s really nothing at all! The
last time I decided to bend an el
bow or so, I woke up in Rumania!”
It developed that was without
exaggeration. Bill started hitting
the highspots in New York —from
Radio City to the Harlem, and sob
riety found him in Vienna right at
the moment insurrection broke out
and the little Chancellor, Dollfuss,
was assassinated.
* * ♦
All this reminded me of the yarn
they tell on a certain newspaper
man, formerly a local reporter, who
periodically went out on a bender
and invariably hang-overed some
where either north or south of the
Equator. On this certain occasion,
he found himself in Chattanooga.
His City Editor here was frothing
at the mouth because of the report
er’s sudden and unannounced dis
appearance. Just at that moment
the C. E. received a telegram from
the missing reporter—collect. It
read:
“Please wire me ten bucks and
my middle name. I want to join
the Elks!”
It will soon be time for those folks
who have country cottages and lots
of friends to wish they didn’t.
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GOVERNOR IA FOLLETTE ENJOYS
$75,000,000 LAUGH AT EXPENSE
. OF STATE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
QUEER SITUATION IN WISCONSIN WHERE PROGRES
SIVE EXECUTIVE’S PLAN, FAVORED BY ROOSEVELT,
IS BALKED BY PRESIDENT’S OWN PARTY
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Gov. Phil La Follette of Wisconsin smiles in anticipation of his
forthcoming “$75,000,000 laugh”.
BY JULIUS C. EDELSTEIN
Central Press Correspondent
MADISON, Wis., April 20. A
hearty $75,000,000 laugh is owing
these days to Gov. Philip La Follette
of Wisconsin, the result of a politi
cal game cf check and double check
played with the governor last year by
leaders of the Wisconsin Democratic
party.
The younger of Wisconsin’s famous
La Follette brothers will not really
dare to have his laugh until after No
vember’s elections, but the smile is
already appearing, and -any day now
he may start saying, “I told you so”
to Democratic chieftains.
The joke centers around the orig
inal four-billion-dollar public warks
appropriation made by Congress. The
laugh comes in a summing up of
what Wisconsin eventually got out of
the total four billion.
This Was the Plan.
It is recalled that no sooner had
Congress given its final approval to
the huge public works appropriation,
than Governor La Follette scurried
off to Washington with a brief case
full of ideas. Governor La Follette
popped in to see President Roosevelt
and submitted for the administra
tion’s approval a scheme that became
known as the Wisconsin Jftin. The
plan provided for the turning over to
Governor La Follette of $100,000,000
in a lump sum for the carrying out
of an experiment; a state-wide pro
gram of small-scale state enterprise,
socialization, and improvement that
was to expend, through 1935 and
1936, a total of $209,000,000. The
extra $109,000,000 was to be made up
by an Ingenious scheme of finance
centering around the creation of a
qu.asypu.blic, e ami-socialistic Wiscon
sin Finance corporation, whose bor
rowings were to be repaid by “pros
perity taxes” cn increased “prosper
ity” revenues.
—Central Press
The plan was enthusiastically re
ceived and approved by President
Roosevelt, who sent it back to Wis
consin, together with a check for
$100,000,000, with the request that
the State Legislature pass certain
pieces cf enabling legislation to make
the whole thing legal.
What occurred subsequently was a
little drama in political paradoxes,
acted out by leaders- of President
Roosevelt’s own party in Wisconsin.
Disregarding the pressure of approval
from Washington, Wisconsin Demo
crats decided that their political for
tunes depended upsn their defeating
La Follette’s carefully cherished pro
ject. This they proceeded to do, by
means of a coalition with Old Guard
Republicans in the Upper Reuse of
the State Legislature.
Strategy.
Democratic leaders proclaimed that
Governor La Follette, for the sake of
his desire to experiment and control,
personally, the federal allotment for
Wisconsin, had rejected a federal
offer of $120,000,000 for Wisconsin, to
be administered in the usual manner
by federal officials. Thus the state
stood by this reasoning, to lose $20,-
000,000 of federal funds if it accepted
merely $100,000,000.
Wfth this clinching argument,
Democrats succeeded in sending to
its final death the La Follette plan
for a $209,000,000 experiment in so
cialized public works. This was- check
and double check, as far as the gov
ernor was concerned for, despite
pleading, and bogging, and coaxing,
and threatening, the Democrats would
not retreat from their position.
A minor satisfaction came to the
Eadger executive, however, in that
when the federal program finally was
launched in Wisconsin, its director
was not a Democrat, as expected, but
a Progressive, M. Immell, whose
selection stirred the wrath of leading
Wisconsin Democrats to a point where
they demanded the ouster of Presi
dent Roosevelt from the Democratic
party.
But the death of the La Follette
plan was to be yet more fully avenged
than by mere conciliatory patronage.
For the federal government appor
tioned to Wisconsin for its allotment
from the four-billion-dollar public
works fund a mere total cf $25,000,-
000 instead of the original offer of
$120,000,000. And that despite fran
tic pleas from WPA officials and state
officers alike.
Boomerang.
Whether Wisconsin voters will get
the joke in November and decide that
$75,000,000 is too much to write off
for the political antics of Democratic
strategists remains, of ceurse, to be
seen. Chences are that a $75,000,000
laugh will be just too funny ... for
the Democratic jokesters.
It must be remembered that Gov
ernor La Follette’s chagrin is with
the state Democrats, not with the
Roosevelt administration. It is the
state’s Democrats he intends to
“punish.”
The state’s voters in the recent pri
mary indicated where they stand.
Twice as many put a check after
Reosevelt’s name on the presidential
preference ballot as voted for con
vention delegates cn the Democratic
ticket. Now the state Democrats are
hanging on to the Roosevelt ccat tails
for dear life.
You’re Telling !
Me? |
With all the advertising it has been
getting this next World war had bet
ter be good.
• * *
Hard work may be a sure cure
for rime but cnly if tred be
bore and not after, which makes
it no cure but a preventltive.
• * *
Now we know why the League of
Nations is called a leauge. Every
one in it wants t be the pennant win
ner.
The world Is full of vast
hordes of buried treasure. But
don’t get too excited over that
Like the money your earn you
must dig to*get it.
A bird in the hand may be worth I.
more than two in the bush if the <
bird Is on a shiny, new silver dollar.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD »
l Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper
by Central Press Association
By CLARK KINNAIRD
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press
Association.
Monday, April—Nisan 28, 5686 in
Jewish calendar. Zodiac sign: Tau
rus. Birthstone: daimond.
SCANNING THE SKIES: Rain
does NOT clear the air. Public
health service studies made in Bal
timore, Boston, Chicago, Pitts
burgh and St, Louis, “the dirtiest
cities”, and 11 other places, filters
failed to show any decrease in pol
lution either during or after the
fall of rain .
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NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Haroly Lloyd, b. 1895, in Bur
chard, Neb., cinemactor for 23 years
. . . Gregory Ratoff, b. 1879, Greek-
Catholic dileneator of Jewish roles
on stage and screen . . . Adolph
Hitler, b. 1889 . . . William H.
Davis, b. 1871, English poet- author
. . . Bruce Cabot, b. 1900, cinemac
tor.
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TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
April 20, 1676—There’s one thing
the Shakespearsns can’t take away
from the Bacon family and that is
credit for starting the revolt against
British rule in America.
When Virginians raised a company
to end the depredations of Susquehan
na tribesmen, Gov. Sir Will Berkeley,
fearful his probable fur trade with
the Susqushannas would be disrupt
ed. ordered the force disbanded.
Nathanial Bacon, 34, displaced Col.
John Washington (great-grandfather
of George), led the colonists to the
Susquehanna villages, routed the red
redskins. Berkeley declared Bacon
a rebel as of this date, and had a
revolution cn his hands. For the low
er settlements, already chafing un
der heavy and unequal taxes, united
in insurrection and forced the disso
lution of the Assembly and the re
call of Berkeley, who had prevented
printing presses from being set up in
the Colony. He said: “Thank God!
there are no free schools nor print
ing presses, and I hope here will be
none for a hundred years; for learn
ing has brought disobedience, and
heresy, and sects into the world, and
' printing has divulged these and other
' libels.”
* * *
' First World War Day-By-Day.
1 Twenty Years Ago Today The
; first Russian troops to be sent to the
Western front arrived at Marseilles
1 for service in France.
The state of feelings between Penn
' sylvania Avenue and Wllhelmstrasse
• did not prevent German industrialists
and American business men from
making a deal, and contracts were
signed for the exportation of 15,000
tons of dye-stuffs to the U. S. Brit
ish authorities smiled when they
learned of the pact. How was Ger
many going to deliver them? The
Germans had already thought of that.
They were preparing the world’s first
cargo submarine. 't, «
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Bidding went: West, 1-Club, sec
ond hand; North let the id stand;
East. 1-Spade; West, 2-No Trumps,
which his partner raised to 3-IJo
Trumps, after hesitation
The opening lead was the 3 of dia
monds. South’s K held the trick.
The return lead of the 10 of dia
monds held. West played lo wand
North showed an original 5 diamonds
by dropping the 2. South certainly
would not lead his lone 8 of the suit
originally bid by West, nor would he
lead a spade up to dummy’s A-Q. He
led his fourth-best heart. Declarer’s
Ace held the trick.
West saw 5 club tricky provided
that suit broke 3-2, as expected.
There were certain 3 hart tricks and
the Ace of spades, without having
to take a finesse. That meant a
speedy and safe game, if all went
well. He took his Q of clubs and
dummy’s K, only to have South show
| out, and drop the 2 of hearts, indi
cating an original 5 cards of the suit.
Were that so, North originally held 1
spade and 3 hearts, as he surely held
5 diamonds and 4 clubs. That meant
new strategy must be employed. A
low heart was led back and declarer
took his Q.
Declarer’s 9 of spades was led.
North played his 10 and dummy’s
Ace won. A player with convictions
must play them out. Dummy’s K of
hearts was led. On it declarer let go
his last spade. The last 5 cards held
by each player were as shown below.
♦A J 8
AJ 6
♦ Q7 4Q4 32
♦ A97 * 410
♦KJ 8 7
V 9
stripped hands beau
tifully. All he had to do was to com
plete his program. Dummy’s 10 of
clubs was led, and over taken with
aelarer’s Ace. North studied his
hand a long while, s my
states. Any way North *
cards, he woul dwln just two f i
and declarer wotftd win the 3 ♦ |
required for gaiO If North*
his J under the- 4of clubs, * 1
wfii win 3ch tricks, then« I
will win 2 dlam J tricks. , I