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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-07
RUM0RS
 STARTING RUN ON
 BANK IN LEXINGTON
Tobacco Growers Select Dele gates to General Mas Meet ing to Decide Wheiiieg te
 Plant This Year
By Associated Press

Lexington, Ky. January 6.-A four hour run on a Lexington bank togeth- CT with the starting of a grand jury the run and news that Gov. Edwin P. Morrow had under consideration series of conferences about the set.Ss- ment of the tobacco situation were the chief developments today in the c.n- tral Kentucky tobacco district.
 County mass meetings of growers who forced closing of most tobacco markets in the state early this week when they refused to accept prices of fered by buyers this afternoon select ed delegates to general mass meet. ing to be held tomorrow morning. The meeting is to decide whether or not tobacco shall be planted In 1921, and to attempt to devise means of market ing the 1920 crop at satisfactory price.
 The Bank of Commerce of Lexington was the object of the run today. which for several hours threatened to gain dangerous proportions. Rumors flat the bank had loaned so much money on tobacco that it could not pay jeposi- tors we're alleged to have been respon- sible.
 THOROUGHLY SOLVENT
 The rumors reached the ears of the bank officials last night, 1t was said, and Cashier F. G. Stilz asked that . clearing house committee examine the books. This committee issued a state ment today that the bank was thor- oughly solvent. MT. Stilz supplements this with a statement that all the banks paper was fully secured.
 The statements, together with heavy deposits by business men and trans- fers of large sums of cash from other institutions to the bank had apparsa sat> ly the effect of quieting the nerves of the frightened depositors before cos ing time this afternoon, when gith- drawals slackened considerably.
 Investigation of the run by the grand jury was ordered late today by acting Circuit Judge R. c. Stoll. The meeting of growers and persons in- terested in the tobacco crop will be held here at 10 a. m. tomorrow in an effort to seek a solution of the lobac- co problem. Bankers and warehouse men are scheduled to meet in the aft ernoon to discuss the question of what aid they can give the growers.
 Dispatches from Louisville today stated that Governor Morrow had un- der consideration the question of call~ ing conferences to bring aoout a set- tlement of the tobacco situation. The governor issued a statement saying that the question had been brou.,ht before him informally, and said that he had not decided on his course of ..c- tion.
 Markets throughout the burley to- bacco district remained closed today. with the exception of few of the smaller ones, which did not close yyben the larger warehouses suspen led sales.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-07
. uy Assoeiatea Preas

The cost of running the United 5 sates govern q approximately t5,061 ,000,O00. us against about
 The total expenditures, outside of payments on e ted today n accounts obtained from the daily 70 1000, 900 mark set by Secretary Houston. in hs seded for 1nturs fiscal years, expenditures would qliqudation of WAT claims and expenses, officials h,T n expenditures, which. they aided, would have
 treasury. E
 .02o amounted to $6,4Sl, ,o00.o0Q n round num- <, ,g0Q for the pFevious year {7olleetions of in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-07
Refuses Crawford Pardon

Little Rock, January Ex-Governor Brough today refused to grant a pardon to w. D. Crawford former superintendent at the Odd Fellows Orphan home at Batesville, Ark, who was convicted ana sentenced to 10 years on the testimony of several young girl inmates of tf.a home. Crawfords pardon was bitterly contested by officers of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-07
Anxiety Somewhat Abated

Mexico City, January 6.-Anxiety on the part of the depositors in banks had some what abated today. as was indicated by the diminished line in front of the Banque Franchise Du Mexique. which did not open it's doors for business Tuesday. There WAS also only mild furry of de- positors before the other banks in the city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-07
Marse Henry Not Ill
By Asscciated Pre-

Galveston, Tex. January 6.-Reports that Col. Henry Watterson was seriously i'll at his hotel here were emphatically denied by Mrs. Watterson and the colonels physician tonight There is nothing to it." Mrs. Watterson told the Associated Press over the telephone when informed of the rumor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-07
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-07
ADMITS PROFIT TOO HIGH
Benjamin y1omas Dead
" Aseot lAted fFens

Chicago. January {. BenjAnin Thomas. former president Of rhe Chi cago and Western Indisna railroad and long prominent in transportation atfairs. died today after a long illness.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Queries and Answers
AUCTION BRIDGE

OuEsTIoN-A and are partners, and it
is AS turn to bid, but Y, on his left. saws
three spades, his partners three no.
trumps B says that it is not enough it must
be four spakes. then says, ''All right.
Four spades" then calls attention to its
having been his bid; but Y says that BIS cor
rection OF the bid out Of turn, asking it to be
made enough, accepted it as regular, so there
Is no penalty. How about this?-C. T. L.
Answer-There is nothing in the law that
covers such case as this, but as the law states
that bid out of turn may be cancelled hv
either player, and that the proper PLAYER NAV
then proceed with the declaration it would
seem that should be allowed to cancel tho
spade call, even after it has been advanced
to tour at the demand of AS partner. has
not made any declaration, and, therefore. can
not be said to have accepted the spade bid.
Question-During the deal by q, the PLAYER
b. on his right, has his hands on the table
IN such way that he turns over one Of the
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
BRIDGET PLAYERS SCHOOL,

i up The club three is won by the ace, and
Il leads the spade ten This trumps and
leads his last club, on which q makes the lack
of trumps.
Ii A does not play the queen of trumps at
the fourth trick, wins with the ten, and
leads two clubs, nine and SMALL This allows
Il to lead the jack of trumps, killing the queen
ana making the fourth club good for trick.
In answer to several inquiries from begin
ners, the reason there are SO few cards in a
problem is that it is supposed to be an end
game, IN which the position of every important
card is known to all four players, so that #
is practically double dummy.
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not. If they want to
win the game they will
have to bid game, and
they will have to bid it
on their own cards,
without being pushed
up by their opponents.
This gives the weaker
hands a chance to de-
feat a contract that
has overreached itself
without having ex-
posed themgelves to
being doubled and set
by bidding against it.
The card committee
Of The Whist Club re-
fused to include con-
tract in the new laws
ON the ground that it
gave the fine player
too great an advan-
tage. This objection is
purely theoretical and,
unlike most theories,
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they add 300. This makes rubber game won
in two straight games worth 400; but if it
takes three games to decide it, it is worth only
500.
The penalty for failure to make the con-
tract increases according to the number Of
tricks. 1t is so for the first trick, 100 for
the second and 200 for each trick beyond
that. A player who was set four tricks
would, therefore, lose $50 points, or 1,1OO if
doubled. This scale is arranged to prevent
reckless bidding to "save" games and
rubhers.
It has often been remarked that no one
can force new game upon the d-playing
world but if the game has any merit, is
properly introduced and it's principles clearly
explained certain number of card players
will be sure to try it out, and if they like it
they will not only play it, but will get others
to do so. All new card games hive come into
vogue gradually
The big clubs, where cards are the principal
or the exclusive attraction. are usually about
the last to take official notice of any new game
This is largely because they have made
study of the game they play, and have become
SO familiar with it that they doubt their skill
at anything new. They invariably play for a
stake, and do not care to risk their money on
games they know little or nothing about while
they can still cut into rubber at which they
have an advantage, however imaginary that
advantage may be.
The Whist Club of New York, which is now
the recognized authority on the laws of auc-
ton, originally voted against admitting the
game to the club, to replace bridge, on the
ground that it placed the players too much at
the mercy Of their partners. Outside pressure
was finally too strong for them. Within two
years every one was playing auction.
The weak point in auction, as now played.
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Author of Foster Auction, Auction Made Easy,
Fosters Complete Hoy1e, Etc.
By R. F. FOSTER

is that there are too many runaway hands,
the partners being SO strong that their adver-
sares have chance to bid against them
without the risk of being stung for several
hundred points. The deslarer gets the play
for bid of one or two, and makes five or six
odd, sometimes quite unexpectedly. On prob
ably not one-fourth Of these hands would he
have been willing to bid what he actually
made.
Contract is designed to make the stronger
hands bid, whether they get any opposition or
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or trans currency" are now in use in Ham
burg and other cities. The coins are very
sanitary, as to clean them all that is necessary
is to throw them into water Owing to the
technical plant required for their fabrication
they are difficult to counterfeit. But, they de-
feat their own purpose, as when they drop
and break that is the end of them There is
no redemption.
Collectors who are gathering these porcelain
coins must not think they are new, as two old
English potteries adopted "china" or porce-
lam tokens many years ago. They were made
in Worcestershire in denominations of one
and two shillings. In 1901 five and seven shill-
ing tokens were issued They were oval in
shape, flat on one side and convex on the other.
which bears the value in large figures. They
were called chang" or "chinu" money!
dialect corruption of Chinese
In Russia ruble values are so low at present
that the Bolshevik government now issues
10000 rube notes. These notes are already
considered small change and are carried
around in sheets by shoppers, which is not sur
prisng, as the price in Petrograd for two
pounds of tea is 1000 rubles and the price of
one pound Of butter is $500 rubes
An interesting view Of RussYa-s attitude
toward paper money was brought to this coun-
try recently. Lenine, it is said, plans to man
ufacture so much paper that it will DESTROY
moneys value altogether. He is obsessed by
plan to do away with money in the world.
Hundreds of thousands Of rub,e notes are
issued daily by our treasury" says Lenine.
"This is done not in order to fill the Golfers
of the state with practically worthless paper.
but with the deliberate intention Of destroy
ing the value of money means OF payment.
There is no justification for the existence of
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n INTERNATIONAL exchange in recent
hand tricks than the most skilled
gician. This is largely because the mar
kets Of the world have been flooded with paper
money to such an extent that currency values
have lost all stability.
Since the beginning Of the World War the
presses Of several European countries, par
ticularly Germany, Austria, Russia and Tur-
key, have been turning out paper money with
little regard for gold or any metal whatever
as basis. To add to these woes coins have
rapidly disappeared from circulation, so that
other tokens have had to take their place
tokens without any more intrinsic value than
the bushels Of paper notes.
From 1914 to 1920 there has been no less
than 800 per cent increase in the paper cur
rency of the world, while the gold reserve be-
hind it has increased only 40 per cent. The
four Central powers-Germany, Austria Hun
gary, Bulgaria and Turkey--show an advance
Of billions.
But Central Europe is not alone in it's ex-
sesive paper money issues. In one year since
.l- signing Of the arrnistice France has in
retsed it's paper money by $1,ooo,0o0oo0.
Every city and town and hamlet that had its
own bank received permission from the govern
ment to issue paper money. Five and 20 franc
denominations have been most frequent, but so
pcntimes, or half franc notes, also have been
issued, and some banks even went to the extent
of issuing and 10 centime notes.
All the French notes we're beautifully deco
rated with artistic designs. Even the paper
money of the smallest denominations had splen-
did figures. A 5o-centme note of one depart
nent carried engraved statues Of Joffre and
Charles Martel, the two men who had kept
the Hun at bay. The one-franc piece of the
Bank of Rochelle had the Bastile. When it
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money in Bolshevist state, where the necessi-
ties OF life shall be paid for by work alone"
Rubes are so cheap now that they are sold
only in five-ruble denominations for five cents
piece, or penny a ruble-one-fftieth of
their previous value. Pretty soon, if Lenine
is in power, he will have his wish They will
be kept only as souvenirs, and will be free for
the asking. Then they may be cheaper than
wall paper and just as pretty.
There is the story of the man who sold
rubes on the streets Of New York and was
arrested. When the choice was offered to him
OF paying either $40 fine or else spending ten
days in jail he accepted the fine. Pushing
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over some thousand rubies, he offered them d
the Judge as payment for his misdemeano,l
The judge, after a consultation, refused th
foreign money, whereupon the prisoner pulix|
out genuine American $50 note, showing ths
business in foreign exchange had been thrvina
America, happily, has escaped the ravagss ii
war to such degree that it has been unneces
sary to issue paper money of small demon
nations, but every one recalls the expression
1t isn't worth Continental 2 applied becsux|
Continental currency issued in 1775 in dsl
nominations Of one-sixth Of dollar, becau|
valueless.
The value of paper money fell so low during
the Civil War that people paid $1,000 for Il
barrel Of -four. In the early part of the Civil
War there was a remarkable financial sisn
alton. The prospect Of long struggle b.
tween the North and the South caused peopss
in the North to hoard their money Gold El
yer and copper money to the extent of man
millions of dollars disappeared from circuhl
ton. Trade actually suffered severely fol
want Of small change, and even stage, street
car and milk tickets were temporarily pressei
into service. On account of immediate necs
sity and for want of better medium postags
stamps of the issue of 1861 were used as Il
substitute for small change.
Europe is in similar situation to-day, anil
no financier will venture a prophecy regarding
the outcome.
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UTE number of card players are
! asking about the new game, or rather
the latest suggestion as variety of

UIIE 3 NUMBER or cara players are
asking about the new game, or rather
the latest suggestion as variety of
x auction, which is called Contract
Bridge" Several textbooks on the game have
already appeared in England where the game
seems to have gained quite foothold among
the younger generation, in spite Of the fact
that tho more conservative players in the
clubs are not keen on it yet.
Those who have tried it say that they find
it liveler game than auction, and it is the
opinion of many good judges that it should be
a good companion game, to be played
and then, as variation, and also as an edu-
Gator. 1t is undoubtedly true that nothing will
teach an auction player the true value of a
hand for bidding purposes like an occasional
rubber at contract because the leading princi-
! pie in the new game is to bid the hands to the
limit. :.
The bidding and the play, after the usual
prelimnaries of cutting for seats and part
ners, are precisely the same as at auction, the
only difference being in the scoring, which is
governed by the following rules:
Nothing can be scored Celow the line, or
toward the game, that exceeds the number of
tricks named in the contract All tricks over
the contract are credited in the honor column
at OV points each, regardless OF tne Ceclara-
ton; 100 if doubled; 200 if redoubled. There
is the usual bonus Of SO points for fulfilling
doubled contract. 100 if redoubled.
Suppose the bid is two spades and the de-
clarer makes four-odd. He scores 1S toward
game, 90 above the line for extra tricks, and
honors, if four in one hand If he bids four
spades, is doubled and makes five-odd he
scores 80 below the line for tricks at double
value, so for making his contract and 100
for 9 trick over, doubled, and honors, if four
in one hand.
There are no honor scores for less than
four in one hand, at trumps or no trumps.
Little slam counts SO; grand slam 100 The
partners winning game add 100 points in
honors atupnce; for winning the rubber game
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Numismatic Society has thrown up the sponge
present at least of listing every ISSUE Every
kingdom, grand duchy or other division of the
empire has had it's own issues In addition
numerous municipal banks have issued notes
of their own.
Paper money in Germany has been issued
in all sorts of denominations. The smallest
paper currency in the word-the pfennig-
has been issued from German presses The
note is 2z by X inches in size, and is now in
general circulation throughout Germany
The city of Naumburg quite recently is
sued paper money with artistic designs illus
trating Grimm's fairy tales. So popular was
the new money from pictorial standpoint that
it was bought up before it had chance to 90
into general circulation, and is now saved by
artistic and curio collectors
1t remained for Germany to issue the only
porcelain coins during the war, and, indeed,
besides paper, the only substitute for metal
coins resorted to by any government during
the war. But Germany was so pressed for
coins that porcelain was Coined" even though
it had no intrinsic value.
The porcelain coins are issued in 20 pfennig,
SO pfennig, / mark and mark denominations.
The reason for this issue is that the mark has
deprecated to such an extent that it would
hardly pay to count in anything more valuable
than copper iron, and porcelain seemed to
be an excellent medium of exchange
Municipal coins, particularly for use on cars,
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has no fact to back it up What the great ad-
vantage is, is not shown, and in practice I
have failed to discover it. The fine player
usually cuts into rubber game of his own
class; but the excuse offered by the commit
tee on laws seems to be that every rubber
would have two fine players against two dubs
The best player is supposed to have an ad-
vantage at any game; but that does not seem
to prevent the average player from cutting
into rubber with him. They will have
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became apparent that Verdun was to be one
of the turning points Of the war engravings of
the rock of Verdun became popular Most Of
these notes have been issued for two years or
less, like our short term certificates but un-
like our certificates they have been renewed
more than once
AS natural consequence of the increase in
paper, there has been a dearth Of coins France
once resorted in her extremity to the issuing
of. leather money, and postage stamps have
been extensively used as currency.
In England paper money was hardly known
before the war, as there was enough gold and
silver coin for currency, but during the war
and since England has come down from her
proud position, and has issued paper money in
the denomination of one pound. Fortunately,
the country has not had to resort to previous
experiments with different kinds of money. but
it is worth while to recall some Of her previous
issues. Among those are chimney money,
dagger money, fiimsiea, thirteen -pence-half-
penny and wooden money. - a
s Germany has had so many different issues Of
paper money since 1914 that the American
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

to find some stronger
objection to contract
than this.
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cards dealt him. This is not the fault Of tie
dealer. Is this misdeal?-M. c.
Answer-The law, 27B, says if any card y
found faced in the pack, or be exposed on
above, below the table, there must be new
deal. 1t does not say who exposes it.
POKER
Question-If player who has asked fa
two cards is given three can he discard another
from his hand, so as to take the three, aftsl
having looked at one of them only?-B. c. J.
Answer-If he has looked at one of the thra
laid off for him, and still has three in his hand
he has six cards, and his hand is foul, JUS
as much as if he had not discarded at o.
when he looked at one of the draw. The caro-
laid off are all his as soon as he looks at sn
of them.
FIVE HUNDRED
Question-If the holder of the joker wisns
to lead it and call suit to be played to "
must he call suit of which ne has none d."
self; or is there no restriction?-M. h. L.
Answer-There is no restriction 1t is qula
common to lead the joker and ask for sS'
which has failed to clear instead of lesa'as
a
the joker Suppose the player holds SIZE:
diamond, only one higher out against IT, o.
leads the joker, asking for diamonds, ne msA@
trick later with the small diamond.
EUCHRE
Question-In a progressive game there -
two big prizes. A and B are tied with fouf'e'
games each, while C has twelve. At the =
rection of the committee, A and B cut, ana
wins. He takes first prize and c takes secos
A insists she should get second prize.-Mfs
Answer-A is right. The two players y
tied for the two prizes and cut for the cn0ss
If wins the cut she can take whienfFe
prize she prefers, and a gets the otne4 I
is not in it.
Question-f the first player orders
euchre, can his partner play alone!- ,s1I
Answer-No, because no one but the a.
OF the trump can play alone in straight
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W iiIlu SOIIlc stronger
objection to contract
than this.
Here is the solution
of Problem No. 81,
printed last week, in
which hearts were
trumps, z to lead, and
w to win seven
tricks.
2 starts with his
smallest spade, which
B wins with the queen.
D ietuIilS tne space
king, which Y trumps
with the seven of
hearts, and leads the
club ten. The jack cov-
ers and the king wins.
z now leads the three
Of trumps; A plays the
queen and Y the ace.
Y then leads the nine
of clubs, B passing
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q Q ]
= 10 6
6 (
4 ] 3

Hearts are trumps and q leads. Y and
q ,oont sir tricks. Hoao do they get thens
Sel=s;ca sert aueek.
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Paper currency issued by the city of
Naumburg, most of which has been
bought up by collectors