New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-14

linen after all you cOulun OlaHle tHe
feller," Birsky said, nor President
Wilson neither No doubt if they was
allowed to play their own hands with
out remarks from the Kibbitzers,' they
would of done pretty good"
swell, I'll tell yer" Zapp said:
Politics is very similar game like
playing pinochle oder skat in coffee
house. A Teller who plays such game
must got to expect there would be Kib-
bitzers and if he lets their remarks
rattle him, understand, he's got no
business to sit in at all. President Will
son is like a whole lot of fellers. He
starts in with good cards and instead
of playing them like Mensch, yunder-
stand, he considers first should he come
trump, understand, and he's got his
thumb and finger on the ace of trump,
when he thinks why should he give his
hand away like that. He then gets an
idee it would be good thing to lead
small diamond, and he's just about to
play it when he remembers that he read
somewheres in Hoyle where Hoyle says
YOU should never lead small diamond
when you've got big club in your hand.
So he skins over his hand again and Mr..
Roosevelt who is looking over his shout
der yells: M! A card oder stick
hoIzr This makes Victor Ridder sore.
He is kt5bitzing behind Won Bernstorff,
and he says: Let the poor Nebich play
his own game, can't your And Mr..
Wilson gets so ratified by this that he
drops face up on the table two diamonds
which Won Bernstorff thought was lay
ing in Lansing's hand all the time, and
Lansing, who is a pretty good natured
Teller at that, gets also sore. He throws
his hand down and says: What is this?
Tiddledy winks oder cards? I'm Gottes
Wiuen, Wilson, SpielP And Wilson
says: Say! If you've got to catch a
train oder something, don't let me de-
tain YOU Then ne considers five
minutes more, and ends up by leading
small trump, and from that time on,
Won Bernstorff walks away with EN-"
"Well. Mr.. Wilson done the same
thing before with Mexico" Birsky said.
That time there at Vera Cruz, you
would think the way he rushes in with
battleships and soldiers that he had
two color hand when as a matter OF
fact he played his cards so rotten that
he might just so well have schencked
it to em from the start, and l bet yer
he would act the same way again IN
Mexico"
AT that think Mr.. Wilson is trying
to do the right thing in Mexico" Zapp
interrupted.
Sure know" Birsky agreed, "but
the trouble with Mr.. Wilson is he is so
busy remembering to play the game &C
cording to Hoyle that he don't notice
it when Germany and Mexico deals
themselves aces from the bottom of the
the deck. If you're president oder a
king, Zapp, the thing to do is to see
that the other Teller plays according to
the rules, whether you yourself stick to
them or not
81 don't know where you read that,
Birsky," Zapp said, "but president or
a king who tried to do business on that
basis couldn't expect to get better rat
ing as NJ. to P. third credit. But what
is the use of talking so poetical, Birsky?
When you are dealing with a PROPOSE
ton like Mexico, rules don't figure at
all. AS rule, Birsky, presidents are
elected for a term of years, aber in
Mexico they go out of office at unequal
intervals, feet first and looking very
natural if the bullets happen to hit 'em