Newspaper Page Text
PAGE FOUR
x-w t _
WnniWffiOflitiiCfniirs
'■w ✓
4
Pubitahed by
y P<F»Lie OPINION. ING.
PWWtHW) DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY
at
30E EAST BRYAN STREET
Cor. Lincoln
Entered m Beoood Ofaos Matter Joly >B, 1935 at the Foot Office at
Savannah. Georgia
SUBSCRIPTION RATHS
-50
Ose Mmji j 5
One week .... r .
ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION
rtIOST, LANDIS & KOHN
National Advertising Representatives
Cbioago New York Detroit Atlanta
Subscribers to:
Trwredto Pnm - International Illustrated News * Central Prow Ate’n.
G Wreath. P/ces Service - Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features
Stanton Advertising Service . World Wide Pictures
LET CLANCY ALONI!
Potrfxota at the Savannah Police Department during the past
few months have made it apparent that Mayor Gamble, trem
bling m hrs boots over his chances of re-election, has applied “the
heat’’ cf pernicious politics on Capitain John Clancy, who, by
popular demand, he made executive head of the department a
year or so ago.
In attempting to put this officer under the wing of machine
control, the maneuvering Mayor has collided with what the
vernacular of the day terms as the “well known headache.” In
other words, Captain Clancy cannot—and will not —b® con
trolled at the expense of his department.
Mayor Gamble, learning this, has transferred his pressure
and forced the protege of City Attorney (Keynoter) Shelby My
rick, namely Lieutenant James Rogers to fill the rote of the
thoughtless cat who supplied his customers with chestnuts at
the expense of burned fingers.
John Clancy is a policeman, nothing more NOTHING
LESS! By reason of his long and proven untarnished record in
the Savannah Police Department, he enjoys the confidence and
the popularity of the city. The shrewdness of Savannah’s May
or, in his pre-campaign to commercialise on this popularity, has
focused the attention of Savannah’s citizenry on this officer and
occasioned speculation as to what will happen to him next.
First there was a general order which went out from his ex
sellency’s office. It applied to the Savannah Police and Fire
Departments. Briefly, it called for every man employed in these
departments to file with their superior officer, a written list of
the persons in their immediate family who are qualified to vote
—and, of more importance, whether or not they are registered.
Like a good soldier, Captain Clancy accepted the order—al
though it was not in the “Manuel of Arms” jf any Police De
partment. Certainly it constituted no part of good police duty.
It did, however, come under the head of “Discipline”—and John
Clancy can “take it.” He relayed the orders to his lieutenant,
Jim Rogers. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Jim had apparently re
ceived his “orders” from the “keynoter”—Shelby Myrick.
Otherwise he would have never dared to have so embarrassed
Captain Clancy as to reduce Mayor Gamble’s orders to writing—
and applied Captain Clancy’s name as the authority for the
unconstitutional, illegal and distasteful order. Os course, when
Captain Clancy learned he had been maneuvered into such an
embarrassing position, he had the written order destroyed.
Following on the heels of this, there arose another embar
rassing situation—all patterned to annoy and reduce the poten
tial authority of the man who is supposed to be the head of the
police department. The city had purchased two new automobiles.
Captain Clancy, unmindful of political fear or favor, had as
signed the new equipment to his lieutenants. In doing so, he
had given thought to securing the most efficiency possible for
the money expended by Savannah taxpayers. In other words,
he had ordered that the car be kept in twenty-four hour service,
subject to the call of the lieutenant on duty.
The sage of the present administration, Shelby Myrick, saw
another opportunity to further embarrass the executive head
of the department. He caused his marionette, Jim Rogers, to
demand that the automobile in question be assigned to him-w*
for his personal use.
After a multiplicity of orders, all of which were confusing
and conflicting, the police mechanic in charge of the cars, re
ferred the matter back to the executive head of the department
where the issue obviously became stymied. As planned by Mayor
Gamble and his keynoter, Shelby Myrick, the difficulty re
verted to the City Hall where a “round table conference” was
called.
Ridiculous as it appears, these serious-minded gentlemen—
namely Mayor Gamble, Captain Clancy, Lieutenant Rogers and
Aiderman Furman King spent hours over the all-important
question: “Who shall drive the new police car?” When the
smoke of battle had cleared, Lieut. Rogers, of course, had won.
Captain Clancy left the City Hall a disillusioned public
servant. No doubt he was thinking of the thirty-seven years
he had served as a good police officer— only to wind up by learn
ing that he had not yet acquired the authority to assign a police
car to his subordinate officers! Thirty-seven years of faultless
and unblemished service—service which required him, at times
to risk h’s life. There was the time that h« broke up a race riot,
single-handed, when he rode his horse into the old Savannah
Press building to stop a frenzied mob of negroes who were de
termined to demonstrate their delight over the victory of Jack
Johnson, who had applied the narcotic drops to Jim Jeffries.
On another occasion, single-handed, he steered his trusting ani
mal into the very mouth of danger to break up a mob demon
stration at Whitaker and Broughton streets. His fearlessness
was the turning point of the street car strike during the unruly
days of the World War. He put down the riotry and simul
taneously gained the admiration of this city’s citizenry.
It does not require much thinking nor application of busi
ness economies to realize that an official, no matter how effi
cent, cannot function if he is to be handicapped and continu
ously embarrassed by his “higher ups.’’ Captain Clancy, no mat
ter what his ideals may be, cannot properly function if he is
to be continuously handicapped, embarrassed before his subor
dinate officers and forced into political by-play by Mayor
Gambit.
Savannah has, for years, pleaded for a police department
unhampered by petty politics. John Clancy is the first man in
‘‘Vany generations capable of placing this department on this
the sake of safety, good citizenship and efficiency, he
■ Aermitted to discharge his duties without interference,
’ • ;*br conspiracy emanating from th<City Hall ’.
.. Ancy discharge his duties. business,
. :* h« the ' ■ iry.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE-
WILL BRITAIN’S TORIES
If They Take Firmer Hold Under Chamberlain
RELISH LEFTIST FRANCE?
Central Press Staff Writer.
BY LESLIE EICHEL
WHEN NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
suceeds Stanley Baldwin as British
prime minister (if that does occur)
Europe will interpret that as a setback
to Germany and as an aid to France.
For Chamberlain’s rise would be due
to British dissatisfaction with Bald
win's “soft” policy. But it may be
a different France to which aid may
be given. For France goes to the
palls the first week in May—and the
electorate is expected to swing sharp
ly to the left. Will an arch Tory like
Chamberlain be eager to walk and
in hand with a Leftist government?
But win not England itself begin
to turn left—believing its election of
the Tories last year an abortion?
The Conservatives may change lead
ers in midstream because the elector
ate, in les than a year .has become
demonstratively dissatisfied.
The three chief European democ
i racles now seem certain to remain de
mocracy and not swing to dictator
ship. England, France and Czecho
slovakia are counted upon as the bul
warks of democracy. And rumor has
it that the Soviet. Union soon may
democratise communism. (Will the
democracies, in turn, communiae de
mocracy?) Os course, there has been
no such thing yet as a pure democ
racy. Even the farthest left na
tions have no such thing.
• • •
NOT CHEERING '
Nor is this headline over an article
by a special correspondent in the St.
Louis Poet-Dispatch concerning the
monarchist democracy of Britain
very cheering
“Undernourishment In Great Brit
ain: Diet of half of population inad
equate for health; only per cent
of people can afford proper food.”
BORAH’S SAYINGS
In “Borah of Idaho,” a biography
of Senator William E. Borah by Clau
dius Johnson, we read that the sena
tor said in 1920:
My Network
Jamesy/fowetii
NEW YORK, April 21—An old
warehourse on the corner of Christ
opher and Washington Streets
hums with a strange atcivlty from
down to duak. Swarthy and apple
cheeked men and women mob the
place in continual streams; they
have one thing in common and one
only—their English is broken with
a hundred Old World accents.
For this is the Naturalization
Bureau and in recent months, des
pite quota laws which restrict the
ingress of aliens, business has
boomed there. For a while, with
America in depression's grip, there
wasn't such a rush for citizenship.
But now the prospecting is good
again—at least better than across
the water —and the applicants for
citizenship swarm in. Many of
them can get more from the relief
agencies than they could earn by
hard work at home. And also word
has trickled across the pond that
tomorrow, or the day after, this
munificent government is going to
give everybody over a certain age
a princely income for doing noth
ing at all.
I am told that only one question
has never been answered in the
affirmative by applicants tor final
papers. The question: “Are you a
believer in the practice of polyg
amy?”
Fashion nifties come and go, and
fost of the wild predictions for
colored suits and feathered som
beros for men turn out to be the
idle dreams of newspaper prophets.
But only one innovalton for gentle
men currently on view in the town
captures this reporter’s imagina
tion. Those bright red shoes af
fected by Ray Bolger in ths finale
of “On Your Toes” are already on
my Santa list for next Yule.
Manhattan newsreel snap: Prince
Louis Ferdinand, of Germany,
grandson of the former Kaiser,
chatting hilariously with Eddie
Rickenbacker, at a meeting of the
Banshees, the artists-and-writer
luncheon coterie.
Incidentally, of all world war vet
erans, aviators maintained the
most Chesterfieldian tradition of
courtesy and gallantry to foes aft
er the war and during it, between
dogfights.
Case in point: Dr. Herman
Goetz, who has been in hot water
for alleged military peking recent
ly, was well-known during the war
as an inquisitor. When Allied aviat
ors fell behind ths German Hues it
was Herr Goetz’ duty to question
them closely, if they remained a
live, in the hope of extracting mil
itary secrets.
Yet when hostilities ceased and
Goats visited America he was feted
and extended lavish hospitality by
the very men, many of them re
nowned aces, whom he had once
pumped for information they’d have
opened a than give.
The Broadway boys tel! me that
insurance men are leary of policies
protecting actors against a mis
hap I had always thought was rath
er rare: falling off the stage!
And yet, if you examine the rec
ords closely, you will find a sur
prising number of these missteps,
even by the soberest performers,
every month. Joe Dorris, in Gus Ed
wards’ vaudeville revival, “Sho.
Windows", sprawled last week over
the footlights into a startled lady’s
lap in the midst of his routine. And
also last week, Mary Jane Cooper,
taking a bow during her first per
■onal appearance at a movie palace
after her hit in ‘.Scandals”, fell off
the stage and got such a bruising
she had to cut out part of her dance
routine for the rest of the day.
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1936
My radicalism consists in the at
tack, principally, upon those who use
the constitution of the United States
. when it protects them and. trample
upon it when it comes their way.”
Speaking for an income tax, he
> said, in 1909:
“It is all unjust and unfair, tyran
nical and to my mind, bfUtal, to hold
r on to a system of taxation whica
• continues to put all the burden, th:
5 ever increasing burden of govern-
- ment . . . upon what we must eat
s and upon what we must wear and
I nothing upon the , great incomes
? which fools so often’ flaunt in the
i face of the poor and which lead to
t all kinds of extravagance and public
' demoralization.”
The U. S. Supreme court had de-
• dared an income tax unconstitution
; ala generation previously. An Income
tax finally was adopted again and
- this time the Supreme court (differ -
- ent justices now) held it constitu-
- tk>nal.
THEIR TROUBLE
5 Speaking of tax, the worst trouble
the Republicans have in New Jersey
- Is said to be not over Governor Har
old G. Hoffman's stand on Haupt
1 mann, but over his ill-fated and now
’ repealed sales tax.
And in Ohio, the Democrats are
having rough sledding because they
imposed and have retained a sales
tax, which bears heavily on the wage
’ earner. It is devastating to the
■ weekly budget because it applies to
’ food and clothing and medicines as
1 well a* everything else. Governor
Martin L. Davey, whose administra-
■ tion has been under constant attack
• for extravagance and political kilo
‘ cyncracies, may not be able to make
the grade for re-election because of
is insistence on keeping the sales
tax if re-elected.
e e <
DAVEY’S OPPONENT
Indeed, Governor Davey may not
even win renomination. He is being
, opposed by Stephen M. Young, con
gressman-at-large, from Cleveland.
Young, a New Deal Democrat, is
making speeches such as this:
“In Ohio the governor, his cabinet
officers and other high-salaried state
officias are exempt from the federal
income tax. There is no state in
come tax on such salaries. I favor
such a tax properly graduated instead
of taxes on necessities which soak
the poor and retard recovery.
“In Ohio a poor woman who pur
chases a 10-cent soup bone must pay
1 cent as a tax. This is a 10 per
cent tax. Yet there are $47,000,000,-
000 in bonds held by wealthy people
of the country that are absolutely
tax-exempt.”
Young said also: "The day I take
office as governor I’ll clcee that great
big executive mansion. And there is
something more important than hold
ing an elaborate inaugural ball when
little children are going to bed hun
gry.”
The primary on May 14 will tell
the tale.
* • •
LAUDATORY
Virtually all the possibilities for
the Republican presidential nomina
tion now are being “honored” with
books on their lives.
The books are highly laudatory.
Perhaps the delegates to the Cleve
land convention will vote for the can
didate wose boohk tey liked best.
• • •
LETTER
Readers still are discussing the
Hauptmann execution.
Clarence McConnell of New Wil
mington, Pa., writes: <
“I agree with you in your article
about Governor Hoffman, and it
gives me much pleasure to know that
there are a few sane people like you.
When I hear people talking about
getting even and getting revenge my
mind takes me to the jungle among
wild beasts.
“Some people boast about our won
derful civilisation, yet we have a
long way to go , . ."
Well, Mr. McConnell, some people
may believe the writer is not so sane
as you think. Let’s hear from those
who believe otherwise. Not too fast,
not too fast. . . .
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MABLIN
I don’t mean, Are you lost on the
mountain side wandering around in
circles, desperately shouting for help,
thirsting and starving and giving up
hope? I mean, Are you lost in the
midst of human beings, as helplessly
lost as you could tto anywhere on
ths earth?
Can one be lost when people are
all around? Os course. You can be
lost beyond hope in the heart of a
crowd, if you believe you are lost!
You oa nbe lonely, you ca npity your
self, you oa nbe most miserably un
happy—if you want to be. And if
you have that kind of disposition you
can be lost forever!
Once in the heart of the woods the
penniless philosopher Thoreau be
came separated from is party and
was not seen for many hours. When
he serenely rejoined his friends and
was asked if he had bene lost, he re
plied “No, I was net lost! I was on
this earth and could not be lost.”
Thoreau was not lost, because ha
was at horn eamong trees, lying on
mosses, watching wild animals. He
might have felt lost in a city, but
never in the woods.
I was lost once and was quite dis
tressed about it. But I saw a slice
of golden moon caught in the limbs
of a bare, crooked tree ,and I found
an old man in a shanty who gave me
all the brea dan dmilk I could eat
and drink, and said I might use his
bed. I came away with more than
had been mine before.
So i suppose that if you look
around you, wenever you feel lost,
you wil find that you are not lost at
all or that it makes no difference if
you are. You are still on this earth
an dean not be lost, or there are many
things right at hand worth while and
precious, for you to use and enjoy.
Others may be lost, but you can
never be! i
WHY HE WAS FOOLED!
“I turned the way I signaled,” said
the lady .indignantly, after the crash.
“I know it,” retorted the man.
"That's what fooled . j
“Darkhorse” Senator Vandenberg
Characterized as Hometown Man
But His Progress and Undertakings, From Early Days of
Newspaper Reporting, Have Been Marked by
Dramatic Finesse
d • , , " ~~~
Persistent--- w : I
i Trenacious— WKSBSOi
I- c r '
t boon became " WfeMf
? Manager
' OR lw
',7„.i,.7Tiiiiiiii I vWr
e T fflnjMjljiyjl Z z ’4r /B rank T**re
« \ 1 JmMwL-L w >wl y. u*
• flEgff|R| ;3® ! z 'j> HfurM
v rSrr T" \ jl
■ \i jKw
e i r lift a I ■
’ When young Reporter Vanden- Il 1 | r 1
A berg learned that a new owner ■ V
«iv\ fa' had bought the newspaper, he hur-
Wfer-' jttSf ried to his office, cleaned out a LjJ
•?!;>:<hVTh 11 tKKSBi »:< •
e
y v x *t«» borrowed a chair and ad*
e vised the new owner where he
Bfilfe could find the editor, meaning
. Hmr himself. The next day Vanden* \ ''
herg was made general manager,
MBHBMMMMk JIL am
Z? \
; ? ■ ’ /? ■■■* F■ '
■■■■—■—mb Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg bmmbmmbmmbmbmmm
By A. P. JOHNSON
• Central Press Correspondent.
I GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 21—
United States Senator Arthur H. Van
denberg, although considered the lead
ing “dark horse” for the Republican
presidential nomination, is very much
a home-town man in this, his native
sawdust community of Grand Rapids.
He bloomed early and suddenly, ac
cording to tradition. And with a
dramatic finesse which has character
ized all his progress and undertakings.
The blooming took place while he
was city hall reporter on the Grand
Rapids Herald, along in 1907. The
senator then was about 23 years of
age. A year at the University of
Michigan, where his studies were in
terrupted by his own and his fam
ily’s needs, had intensified and partly
polished a strong, underlying urge to
write. Except tor his tireless energy,
he as typical of the mill run species
of young reporters. His first break
for upward was that out of his earn
ings as a reporter—and they were
small. He managed to buy one or
two shares of stock in the paper on
which he was employed.
“Bought” With Papa-
One day, the late United States
Senator William Alden Smith bought
the Herald. With it, he got Van
denberg, who remained until his
death, one of Smith's most helpful
assets. When Vandenberg learned
that a new owner had taken over the
paper, he hurried back to the office,
cleaned out a small back room used
for storage, borrowed a chair from
somewhere, ahd advised Smith where
he always could find the editor of the
paper. Smith gasped for a moment,
looked over Van’s six feet one (Smith
was about half his size) and decided
against an argument.
But that as only the editorial half
of the blooming. The next day, Van
denberg was made general manager.
He then was getting $35 per week.
Arthur had heard it rumored that the
“editor-manager” business usually
traveled in the big money. He spent
an eternal three weeks speculating
on what the next monthly pay enve
lope might contain, anchoring his
estimate somewhere around $125 per
week. The day came. In happy an
ticipation Vandenberg reached for the
blessed manila, sauntered nervously to
his back room, locked the door and
tore the thing open. It contained
$37.50. This experience, plus his in
herited Dutch thrift, made him an
efficient and successful newspaper
manager and may explain his aver
sion to waste, profligacy and spend
ing.
A Duality.
Vandenberg is a duality. When in
Grand Rapids, he walks down the
street to his office—an walking to
work, if it isn’t too far, is his only
exercise—he appears to be lord of all
he surveys. Inwardly, he is timid,
thoughtful and frightfully self-con
scious. He reaches all his conclu
sion* through a profound system of
analysis, which may account for his
billiard playing—if one has time to
play with him and wait for his shots.
It is his only recreation.
Although he is the most-sought
banquet speaker in Michigan, Van
denberg’s idea of a banquet is a large
bowl of succotash overlaid by an
equally respectable portion of mashed
potatoes. He eats most of what he
should not eat and little if anything,
of what is necessary to a balanced
diet; and always has enjoyed good
health. It is proverbial here that
Vandenberg actually can forget to
eat. His disregard for this little de
tail of existence is a source of end
less concern to his family.
Thorough—Beginning to End.
In all our knowledge of him in
Grand Rapids, Senator Vandenberg is
at his best under pressure. On big
news he almays followed copy from
the wire into the hands of the news
boy. In the days before amplifiers,
he religiously left his editor-manager
desk to personally megaphone the
post-series baseball games to the
crowds outside of his newspaper
office. Whey he ued the megaphone
always has been a mystery. He had
in his younger days a full, round,
fascinating voice, now quite worn by
incessant strain.
| Listening to one as
sumes he speaks cxtempo. A natural
flow of words set up in their right
order, gives the impression that he
can turn a switch, start his tongue
. going, and with no further impetus
I keep it going indefinitely. In reality
it is probable few labor more on a
speech than does Senator Vandenberg.
He must have all his facts, all his
. colors, pigments and shades before
. him. A marvelous memory does the
t rest.
L Still Viewed As Young Man.
, Vandenberg’s particular nemesis
’ is his youth, although he now is 52.
; He still is Michigan's brightest boy.
He is “Van” to many—“ Arthur” to
a few. Biologically seeped through
race and tradition in the domestic
, order, he is essentially a family unit.
He gratefully accepted an honorary
A. M. degree from the University of
Michigan and an LL. D. from Hope
College, Holland, Mich., but keeps the
evidence in his hat band. He is a
Mason, an Elk and a Woodman,
—WASHINGTONN AT A GLANCE—
JUSTICE STONE SURPRISES
By Becoming Known As Consistent Dissenter
WITH HIS LIBERALISM
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, April 21—There is
nothing surprising in the fact that
Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis
and Benjamin N. Cardozo are on
the liberal sid? of every split deci
sion which the United States supreme
<ourt renders. They are liberals of
long standing.
But one scarcely would have
thought that Associate Justice Harlan
F. Stone would be so consistently
of their faction.
His law firm of Satterlee, Canfield
and Stone had a highly conservative
practice. Among its clients, for ex
ample, was the house of J. P. Morgan
—first the elder “J, P.”, then his
estate, in the hands of the present
magnate. This was not what one
would be likely to call a liberalizing
professional connection.
♦ * »
COOLIDGE APPOINTED
Stonejras appointed, too, to the
general’s office and later to
the SSJrcme bench by President
Coolidge, who was not noted for pick
ing very liberal folk to fill import
ant positions within his gift.
What is more, his confirmation as
a supreme court justice was fought
in the United States senate on the
ground that he was a reactionary.
Liberal solons quite generally ob
jected to him.
An old mining engineer, now dead,
of the name of James B. Ownbey,
once a small partner of the elder
J. P. Morgan, came all the way from
Colorado and waged a formidable
campaign to try to show that Stone
was unsuitable. He charged that
Stone had furnished the legal acu
men to slim-slam him, according to
his own account, out of approximate
ly $1,000,000, in the Morgan estate’s
interest. Colonel Ownbey was armed,
besides, with a resolution of the
Colorado legislature, expressing sym
pathy with him. He also had the
support of the now defunct People’s
Legislative Service, a creation, prin
cipally, of the late Senator Robert
M. La Follette, and therefore, nat
urally, a mightily liberal outfit.
♦ * ♦
LIBERALS IN SORROW
The extreme liberals believed that
they had suffered a severe jolt when
the senate confirmed Stone's supreme
court appointment.
Some of them voted for him, to be
sure. \
The late Senator Thomas J. Walsh
was one of them, I recall. I asked
him how he reconciled his ballot with
Colonel Ownbey’s complaints, and the
senator said, “Even If the colohel
was slim-slammed, it was done strict
ly according to legal Hoyle.”
Senator Walsh was a fanatical leg
alist; If what was done, was done
staturatorially it was right, as per
his reckoning.
• • •
THE CASE
Parenthetically:
What Stone did, according to Own
bey, as a Morgan lawyer, was to dig
up a long-forgotten, obsolete law, and
suddenly apply it to the colonel’s dis
advantage. # ’
It was a Delaware law and the
f, Delaware legislature, its attention
- though by nature inactive in all
| things except what is before him to
i do. He goes to church (Congregation
• al) to commune with himself rather
than for edification. Withal, he is
deeply and sensitively spiritual, with
a steady leaning toward orthodox
truths.
The character of the man may best
be judged by his most outstanding
bit of personal behavior to those of
us who know him as a townsman.
Though not a teetotaler, he declined
to take a single drink of intoxicants
on American soil during all of the
prohibition period. As an editor, he
preached loyalty to the Constitution
and to American laws. He could not,
he maintained, preach one thing and
live another.
called to the matter, hastily repe"!ed
it.
But that was too late to help Col
onel Ownbey.
• • *
BELIEVED CONSERVATIVE
All this was of a nature to give
Justice Stone an extremely conserva
tive send-off.
As a supreme court justice he is as
inaccessible as any hermit, but I
interviewed him as attorney general
I thought he was a moderate conser
vative. Yet here he is lined up, reg
ularly, with radical Justice Cardozo
and still more radical Justice Bran
dels!
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
has some liberal tradition.
Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts
is a little bit liberal.
Heaven forbid any liberality in
Associate Justice Willis Van De
vanter, James C. Mcßeynolds, George
Sutherland or Pierce Butler.
But one would not have expected to
ori?y JUSt Ce St ° ne 111 the llberal min ‘
Contract
Bridge
WHAT THE law DIDN’T
Dear Mr. Shepard: One of the
four players who participated in what
I am about to relate, refers to It as
‘what the law did.’ I consider it
should be termed, what the law did
not. What do you think?” The
PT'iter goes on to recite a portion of
the latest Laws of Contract Bridge
pages 29 and 30. In substance the
rule is as follows bslow.
♦ 10 2
* 6 I
♦96 5 4 2
♦AK 7 6 4
♦ 5 3 A 7 ft
* KJ9B K • a « l ’
4 I* * ’32
♦Q 8 3 L <B. ♦lO 7
* J 8 2 AQIO 1
♦ AKQJ 98 4
V 5
♦A K J
♦ 9 3
It is improper to use a convention
:f which the meaning is not plain, to
opponents. It is necessary that a
ccnvention so vsed should be fully
understood by the other side. Play
ers should be ready to explain in de
tail the meaning of any such conven
tion when requested to do so, and
the partner of the one using the con
vention may be called upon to ex
plain, with the user of the convention
requested to leave the table during
the explanation.
Os course the player using the un
familiar convention is not allowed to
add any explanations to those given
by the partner. The latter must re
spond to the conventional call as he
1 has explained ha should.
Such a convention was employed
by one of four members of the Cres-
iTodayistheDciy
Jy CLARK KINNAIRD •
Copyright, 1836, for thio Newspaper
by Ceatrol Press Association
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Tuesday, April 21: Sau Jacinto
Day in Texas. State Election Day
in Louisiana. Anniversay of the
founding of Rome, a holiday in
Italy. New Moon
SCANNING THE SKIES: There
i* no time to think what to do
when an earthquake is upon you.
The maximum violence : usually
comes within five to 10 seconds af
ter the first tremor, and the worst
is ordinarily over in a minute. In
a small town, the safest place to
be is in the middle of a street; in
a large one, in a steel building.
• • » „
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Elizabeth of York, b. 1926, heir
presumptive to Britain’s throne . . .
Sir Basil Thomson, b. 1861, war
time chief of British secret service,
present day novelist . . . Percy W.
Bridgman, b. 1882, Harvard physi
cist . . . Dr. Clarence A. Barbour,
b. 1867, and Dr. Francis P. Gaines,
b. 1892, university presidents. Gil
bert Frankau, b. 1884, novelist.
• • * -
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
APRIL 21, 323 B. C.—A date you
can figure out by contemporary re
cords and references to eclipses:
Alexander of Macedon, called the
Great, master of the known world,
died of fever in Babylon, aged 32.
A few days before, in Ecbatana, the
Magi had warned him not to go to
Babylon because death waited him
there!
The body was carried 1,000 miles
for burial in a coffin of glass at
Alexandria. He was ever the in
spiration of emperors, even Aug
ustus Caesar, who had Alexander
crowned King of Kings 293 years
aftei’ the Macedonian youth’s death,
when the coffin was cpened and the
body found perfectly preserved.
* • *
APRIL 21, 1142—Peter Abelard
died, aged 63, the most celebrated
theologian and philosopher of his
century in Europe. He is remem
bered today only because of his
classic affair with Heloise, a pupil
21 years younger than himself. Love
letters that passed between them
are more enduring than all his
masterly philosophical and theolog
ical writings.
Torn apart in life, their greatest
wish was to lay side by side in
death. But Heloise survived him by
20 years and it was 700 years more
before their ashes were interred in
one sepulchre, in Paris.
• • •
APRIL 21, 1783—Reginald Heber
was born in Malpas, Cheshire, Eng
land, destined to become a bishop
and the author of the most popular
hymns of te Church of England. He
made “From Greenland’s Icy Moun
tains” famous with his hymn, but
he never saw Zem!
♦ * •
100 YEARS AGO TODAY—Sam
Houston led an army of frontiers
man with the skill of a Napoleon
and defeated a large Mexican force
in the battle of San Jacinto, to win
the independence of Texas. For
weeks, in order to scatter Mexican
forces, Houston had fallen back.
Then, when he had achieved his
purpose and reached a favorable po
sition ,he gave battle with his 800
men, killing 630 Mexicans, wound
ing 208 and taking 750 prisoners.
Among the prisoners was Mexico’s
president, Santa Ana. 1
• • *
APRIL 21, 1908 —The date upon
which Dr.Frcderick A. COok says
he discovered the North Pole. Whe
ther he did is STILL an unsettled
question.
• • • - n
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—Russians
stormed the heights of Ashkala,
30 miles west of Erzerum, and
drove back the Turks. It was truly
said that the Turks were fighting
for the Russians, for Enver Pasha,
leader of the young Turks who had
risen from the humblest of origins
to be master of Turkeyss internal
affairs, was a megalomaniac tp
whom no one dared offer a word of
advice and he fancied himself a
great military strategist. He had no
share in the Dardanelles defense
but he took all credit for it. Now
he was conducting the campaign on
the Russo-Turkish frontier in viol
ation of all the canons of good gen
eralship, though he had qne of the
ablest of German genarsl, Limon
von Sanders, at his side. His rela
tions with Sanders, chief of the Ger
man military mission to Turkey,
were strained, and the situation
was not helped by Germans who
were flattering Pasha in order to
undermine Sanders.
Same day, Italians captured 001.
di Lani, a point of great importance
and gave new impetus to their
. drive against the Austrian!.
I (To be continued
cent Athletic club. Opponent* asked
the maker of an opening bld of 3
Spades to leave the room while his
partner explained what the call
meant. South intended the bid M a
call for partner to show Aces. If
partner held no Ace he hed to bid
3-No Trumps. North explained that
the call asked him to bid 3-No
Trumps in case he had stops to the
three unbid suits .otherwise to pass
or show his own big suit.
South was called back. North re
sponded with 4-Clubs, which South
thought showed partner’s lowest Ace.
South showed his Ace of diamonds,
by bidding 4-Dlamonds, then North
ran teh bid up in diamonds every
time partner bid spades, ending with
a cal of 7-Spades, doubled by Wset.
The opening lead was the 5 of
spades, which declarer won in his
own hand. There was only one thing
to try, and dummy’s Ace and K of
clv.bs were taken. A low club was led
and ruffed by declarer, establishing
two good cards of that suit in dum
my. The North hand was put in with
its 10 of spades. Fortunately, all ad
versely held trumps fell. On dum
my’s two established clubs declarer
discarded his lone heart and the J
of diamonds. The remainder of hi*
cards were good, giving him a grand
slam doubled.