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Over East's one diamond South must bid two
clubs and North must take out with two hearts.
Nest good players would double this informal
torily in the East, but Maj. william Faitout0
Keene, who sat there when the hand was &C.
tually played, passed with this powerful de-
fensive hand to await developments, since both
opponents were bidding South would have to
take out with two no trump, despite his single
diamond stopper, whether the double had been
made or net. This would be passed around 70
East. When it reached Maj. Keene h doubled,
which closed the bidding
Mrs. Keene opened the seven of diamonds,
and it requires little Imagination to see that
the bid is set five tricks. This hand illustrates
the Importance Of the smaller cards. II the
jack Of Diamonds we're in the South hand In
stead OF the four OF hearts, South could make
the contract, getting three diamond tricks,
three clubs and two hearts. Incidentally, 10
also shows the value of more than single stop
pers in the opponents suit when no trump b
bid Though the no trump would be called
by almost all experienced players On that South
hand 1t would have turned out safer to leave
in the two hearts, which could be set only three
tricks.
What b the correct bidding Of these hands,
opponents constantly passing?
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HLa7U a Week.

What Is the penalty If a player reHOunces -
that is, fails to JoIow suit tOhen able to do so
but corrects his error before his side has
played or led to the merit trick?
The penalty is different for the offensive
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RANdE Of mind is . factor In human
efficiency in any endeavor. One who
is upset by thoughts Of what has just
occurred is seldom at his best in the
next task to be performed. His atten-
ton usually is divided between what he
is doing and the thing he is bemoaning. 30 that
only part of his ability Is concentrated on the
dob to be done
The psychologist can find no better Ilustra-
zion of this than the moods of players IN
bridge game of any kind especially tOnna-
ment. When a perfectly sound bid turns out
unfortunately some players are badly upset.
They lose their confidence on the next hand or
two and bid timidly, or at least fnaccurately.
Othefs trying to make up for 1t, overbid. With
chose of both classes efficiency is impaired by
one extreme or the other.
If there is any one mental trait bridge play
er could cultivate profitably above all others
at is concentration. Real concentration m
cIudes not only the effort to observe everything
clearly when it occurs, but also clearing the
mind of eXtranc5us items. Forget the last
hand" would b. q good motto for plenty, and
another good one world be this. Console your
partner and try to help him forget the last
hand"
All of the good players enjoy intelligent post
mortems but when the next hand begins the
best of them take all recoliections of the previ-
Gus one put them on an out-of-the-way shelf
IN their Memories, perhaps for later reference.
and have all their faculties ready for use on
the new problems about to be encountered.
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The Neqe, Problem.

Hearts are trunps. North leads and his SA6u
takes all but one trick against any defense.
How?
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the South is able to read the location OF tho
remaining cards. How can he take tlaa last
three tricks, the lead being IN dummy?
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lowest card OF the SUIT led or may treat the
card played in error a. exposed, but may not
enforce both penalties
What occurs II q player has played after q
Tenounce, and it is then corrected, or II an OPP
ponent OF the offender has led to the merit trick
after renounce Which is then corrected
Contract Systems.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-26

Gold mines tn South Africa are eon~
tinutng their record rate Of production.
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INSTALLMENT XII.

- ILAS BABSON rose next morn
ing, sans headache, and with a
very definite realization that he
~ had many busy days before him.
He drove over to Gold Run first
to interrogate the county recorder, from
whom he ascertained that deed to q
uuarter-section in Eden Valley from
Nate Tichenor to the Mountain Valley
Power Co. and another deed for 1000
acres. from Lorraine Kershaw to the
same company, has just been sent over
by the First National Bank to be re-
corded.
Well, he had been thwarted by this
interloping power corporation, Just as
he had feared would be the case. Well
no matter. The Mountain Valley
Power Co. could not thwart him in his
plan to secure from the Department of
the Interior permission to erect a d.
version dam in the Handle and dig a
canal from Eden Valley Greek down
beyond the western buttress of For
lorn Valley. They might have influence,
but not with the Representative and
Senator whose constituency included
Forlorn Valley.
Well his first step was to create
public interest in the proposed irriga&
ton district-not at all a difficult task,
since the Valley Center Register was
the only newspaper in the valley, and
its editor, Joe Brainerd, had financed
his venture largely on money borrowed
from the Bank of Valley Center.
Brainerd would see his duty and do 1t
nobly. He must attack the power COM
pany and pay the community's respects,
in no uncertain terms, to those two
Eden Valley outlaws who had betrayed
them, or at least sought to betray
them.
Suddenly, as he drove home across
Forlorn Valley, thought occurred to
him with such force that he damned
on his brakes and stopped in the mid
die of the highway so suddenly that
car coming behind him Smote his car
in the rear ana skidded it of the right
of-way into a ditch. Babson emerged
from the wreckage unframed, but
frightened and exceedingly angry, just
in time to come face to face with a
young man emerging from a limousine
driven by a lReried chauffeur.
Whats the matter with your" he
cried furiously. Cant you stay on your
own side of the road?"
"I'll answer your question with an
other, sir. Why did you stop so sud-
denly, without giving the legal warn
ing by thrusting your hand out? My
chauffeur is not mind-reader."
you've wrecked my car, damn you,
and you'll pay for it."
I'm not wishful to argue that point"
The young mans tones were crisp and
unafraid, 1T got out solely to see what
damage has been done to my car. Very
little, I observe. Bumper thrust back
on the frame and twisted little, that's
ALL" Then to the chauffeur: We'll
stop in at garage in Valley Center and
have it repaired. Lucky you had most
of the speed of the car or we'd have
knocked this peculiar person over into
that alfalfa field"
This peculiar person wants your
name and your license number" Bah
son shrilled.
I'll give you my card, sir; help your
self to the license number. You will
furnish me with your name and address,
of course.
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dam-site to the Mountain Valley Power
Company" said Babson.
eyes, they made me an offer-a
mighty fine offer, in fact, and I couldn't
see any profit in rejecting it :. News
reaches you very promptly" he added.
"a new company, I believe. Know
anything about this outft-who's back
of it and why?"
"It is a Delaware corporation capital
lied for two million dollars with a Ii
cense to do business in California. The
corporation plans to erect a dam, I'M
polind the flood waters OF Eden VALLEY
Creek after they have passed over the
Circle K and the Bar H ranches and
use the water for the production of
power"
Babson now remembered the dazzling
thought that had operated to wreck his
automobile. "You may have noticed the
large number of gasoline-driven pump
ing plants, Nate"
1T did, and guessed the reason. The
water tables are receding and the lift
is increasing; hence more power is re-
ouired to pump. hear the power COM
panys rates are pretty high, so I sup
pose the farmers are trying out a cheap
er method OF pumping, although since
gaS-line is not cheaper than electricity
l SurmiSe the gasoline farmers must
have had their power cut off because
they didn't or couldn't pay their bills
to the power company"
you've gone straight to the milk in
the coconut, Nate. I wonder If it
wouldn't be a-good idea for the farmers
of Forlorn Valley to organize an irriga-
ton district and make contract with
the Mountain Valley Power Company to
sell 1t water for surface irrigation?"
"a good idea for the farmers but a
bad idea for the company. OF course, in
years OF unusually heavy freshet it
might be glad to divert its excess water
to Forlorn Valley, but in subnormal
years, such as we have been experiencing
the past three Winters, the demands Of
Forlorn Valley might lower the water
In the reservoir to point below the
power company's ditch and operate to
close down its power plant"
you seem pretty sure of your
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Outlaws of Eden
By Peter B. Kme
Observation-Disclosures gESTTNNITZEZgNWNNMEQZE
MY name is Babson, and I'm re-
sponsible and reputable citizen"

| MY name Is Babson, and I'm q re-
sponsible and reputable citizen"
"Ah, Mr.. Silas Babson. I didn't
recognize you. My name is Nathan
Tichenor and I, too, am q responsible
but, alas. disreputable citizen-at least
in these parts"
II beg your pardon, Nate. didn't
know who you were"
Your excuse is sound one and your
apology Is accepted. Sorry we couldn't
avoid hitting you, Mr.. Babson. How
ever, since we've set you afoot some six
miles from Valley Center we'll not de-
sert you. Hop in and I'll take you home.
You will have to send a. wrecking car
back for that mess.
Thanks" Babson stepped in. well
WELL" he began unctuously, you've
changed, Nate. I should never have
recognized you. Back in Eden Valley to
stay?"
Perhaps. How are things with you,
Mr.. Babson?"
"Fair, fairl Forlorn Valley, like the
rest of the country, Is recuperating
gradually. The banks had to carry this
doggoned valley since the postwar de-
preston struck u.s."
well" Nate soothed, you'll soon be-
gin to get your loans in. Beef's coming
up. 1Ile CaCIlSIn6n nave CSTbdIIllJ belh-
en- a bad licking, but those who have
held their breeding stock intact will
make a cleanup within three years. 1
was saying as much to Lorry KershaW
recently. Old RANGES estate is in a
bad way and Miss Kershaw was feeling
q bit downhearted
well, she's lght-hearted today"
Babson was pleased that his host had
opened this subject of conversation and
little dreamed that Tichenor had pur-
posely done so. shes sold four thou
sand acres of worthless land her father
gave her to the Mountain Valley Power
Company. Must have got at least three
hundred thousand dollars for 1t.
Cleaned up the mortgage and paid old
RANGES notes" He glanced slyly at
Tichener. unless you close in on her
I reckon she'll work out of the hole
she's in"
IT think so, too. No sense crowding
her, in that event. She's capable girl
and will make good if given chance.
So I'm going to give her that chance"
"By the way, hear you've sold your
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premise, Nate. How do you know ttat?"
Tichenor smiled q president little
smile. Because I'm the president of
the Mountain Valley Power Company.
In fact I'm the entire company"
For the remainder of the trip into
Valley Center, Babson was glum and
silent to such q degree that Nate Itch
enor noticed his preoccupatlon, saw
that Babson's hands were trembling.
For some reason or other" Tichenor
decided, that's a direct hit. I'll have
to figure this out
On his part Babson was thinking
confusedly. GAS yet the Mountain VAL
ley Power Company exists on paper only.
1t has its charter from the State of
Delaware, its permit to do business in
California, dummy board of directors
and the lands 1t has recently acquired.
If this wretch I am riding with should
die suddenly, the Mountain Valley
Power Company might die with him"
do you mean to tell me, Nate, that
you are alone in this power enterprise?"
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SYNOPSIS

Lorry Kershaw and Nate Tichenor are
the survivors Of two warning families in
Eden Valley, Calf. Nate has returned
whose father has Just died, has an en-
numbered cattle ranch on her hands Nate
promises financial aid. He and owen Ker-
shaw. Lorrys brother, had become buddies
in the World War, Owen later being killed
look after iorry. Forlorn Valley. a settle
ment adjoining Eden Valley, buzzes with
the news that the feud is ended. Silas
Babson. a schemihg banker, who is just on
the. point Of foreclosing on Lorry's ranch,
is baked when Nate comes to the financial
rescue But Babson, through condemnation
proceedings hopes to secure valuable key
lands, owned by Lorry and Nate, for irri-
extensive improvements on his ranch, finds
that he is falling in love with Lorry
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to carry through his plans for the
Mountain Valley Power Company. :.
The scheme would die with hirn-and
We might be able to buy the company
with all its assets. He'll have 70 do
some tan financing, Just the same. :.
His executor might not be capable of
the financing -damnation, what am
thinking Of? But he may ruin ne. :. =.
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"I own all Of the issued capital stock
of the Mountain Valley Power Company.
and I intend to keep it. It'll be valu-
able"
Guess it will, Nate" And again
Babson's wild thoughts took possession
of him. This fellow is liable to ruin
me. He's no mean enemy. He may
have more money than we have. He'll
fight as the power company and he'll
fight us privately as riparian owrer.
But If he should die, who are his heirs?
He's the last of his line, so far as I
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We've got TO have that water. got
to have it got to have It -. got
to have It. !"
The phrase beat Hike hammer IA his
brain.
Ito Be ContinuedA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-07
HEALTH HAZARDS IN FUR IN
DUSTRY CAN BE PREVENTED

to lead their struggle the fur workers can go
forward with confidence to battle for their health
and other demands,
Conditions in fur plants in the Soviet Union,
where workers rule both shops and government
in their own interests, will serve as model for
which workers here may strike Light, airy
workrooms, separate lunch and rest rooms, seven
hours of labor, one day of rest in every five,
a rising standard of living, special protective
measures for women and youth and the COM
plete elimination of the poisonous nitrate of
mercury are some of the conditions which the
Russian workers have gained.
CThe new formula used in the Soviet Union
was first worked out by Dr. P. w. LevitSky.
Briefly instructions run as follows: "Caustic
mercury (KOD is used in place of nitrate of
mercury. Drying should be done at 1920 cent?
grades, or better still in fresh air. Do not use
more than 10 per cent Beme formula. The skins
should be oiled and rubbed in with brush,
slightly moistened If brush is too wet, hard
crusts may result. Too strong solution will
break the hair of the skim
The elimination Of bleach acid and Of nitrate
of mercury, the introduction Of adequate ven
tilation systems, of free, pure drinking water,
of separate lunch rooms and clean wash rooms
and toilets are some of the immediate, urgent
demands which the fur workers are putting
forward, along with their demands for higher
wages, recognition of their shop committees and
the forty-hour week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-07
Try This On Your
Coffee Pot

Marvellous are the ways Of capitalist 'stabiliza
ton! The government of Brazil is not only
buying up 100000 out of the 100000 sacks
of coffee at Sc a SUBSTANTIALLY paying the
banks, the State Bank of Sac Paulo and the
Bank of Brazil. pretty penny Of interestbut
is imposing a tax on every new coffee tree
planted. CA sack of coffee weighs something
over two hundred pounds.)
The news that Brazil is restricting coffee pro-
duction will undoubtedly be hailed with joy in
Costa Rica, Venezuela Columbia and Ecuador
and among American fnanciers interested in
coffee plantations there Probably they will all
be SO glad that they will plant four new coffee
trees for every one not planted in. Brazil!
In the meantime brethren, do you notice any
difference in the price of pound of coffee, or
a cup Of coffee? We don'tl ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-07
Prepare TOR international
Women's Day!
BY BURCK

the social-faScist A. F. of L. is now leading
movement to throw married women out of in
dustry. This is just another attempt to lower
the standards of the working class, because the
vast majority of working class families cannot
exist on the low wages of the men workers alone.
We must carry on a vigorous struggle against
this attack OF the working class by the labor bu-
reaucracy, by organizing women workers in the
militant unions to fight for the partial demands
and slogans of the Trade Union Unity League
The International Women's Day campaign is
a means of bringing to the attention of the en-
tire working class the special needs and demands
of working women. Through this campaign, the
working class should be made to realize that
working women today are becoming a more and
more important factor in industry and that they
are revolutionary force in the building of a
strong counter-offensive of the working class
against capitalism
International Women's Day Is a rousing call
OF the Communist Party to exploited working
women of all countries, to unite their forces in
the ranks of the revolutionary unions and the
Communist Party for militant struggle against
the attacks OF their bosses and their government
against unemployment, against the increased cost
OF living, against the fascist and social-fascist
betrayers of the working class, especially the
bourgeois womens organizations, against the i'm
perialst war preparations of the capitalists for
the defense of the Soviet Union, and for str,Ig-
gle for unemployment and social insurance.
Preparations for International Womens Day
must begin now, in the shops, in the mills, in
the unions, in the mass organizations A well
planned campaign will rally masses of working
women under the slogans of the Communist
Party ON March g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-07
BY MYRA PAGE.

MERCURY and acid poisoning reaps such q
wi disastrous toll among the 10000 fr-felt
workers. as well as among the other $4,000 in
the fur industry, the insurance companies con-
slider them a bad risk and some companies, as
the Prudential refuse to insure cutters and car
rioters entirely Death rates in the trade are
estimated at fifty to sixty per cent higher than
that for the average population
Yet these literally murderous conditions In
American fur shops are easily preventable!
Various investigations and proposals have been
made from time to time by DR.. Alice Hamilton,
the Workers Health Bureau and others for the
elimination of mercury, and acids, and subsl-
tuition of non-poisonous bleachers, also Of ade-
auate ventilating systems and other items, but
so far none Of these have been put into effect
Here and there is a shop where conditions are
slightly less intolerabe than the one we described
Yesterday but on the whole, it is next to i'm
possible to over-state the hazards which fur
workers in the United States must facial
largely unnecessary.
However, Lee, Hickey, and other fur employ
ers are concerned, not with sparing human lungs
and eyesight OF those they hire, but only with
output, cheap production and profits. The work
ers on their part, being largely unorganized and
betrayed in the past by the American Fedora
tdon of Labor, have not been in a position to
enforce the minimum requirements for protec-
Sion of health.
Now, with the Needle Trades Industrial Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-07
Peaches and Cream

From reader we learn that Mr.. Steuer, other
wise known as "Dear Max" to Jimmy Walker.
not only has a son-in-law who has been APP
pointed Assistant Attorney General of New
York State-a matter we mentioned previously
to the time that Steuer himself became special
assistant" to the Attorney General in order to
Investigate the Bank of U. S."--but we also
learn that this son-in-law, Henry Epstein, who
is sorta partner with Steuer, was presented
by Steuer with the case of Peaches Browning
when that highly explosive dame was suing
Daddy"
1t seems that the Steuer family, who tickled
the cream off the banking business of New
York City, simply had to serve it with Peaches
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-07
LENIN SAID:

An oppressed class which does not strive to
learn the use of arms, to possess arms, would
deserve to be treated merely as slaves. Lest we
become bourgeois pacifists or opportunists we
cannot forget that we are living in class So
ciety and that there is not and cannot be any
other way out Of it except the class struggle.
In any class society whether founded on slav-
cry, on serfdom, or, as now, on wage labor the
depressing class is always armed. Not only the
existing standing armies but also the existing
militia, even in the most democratic bourgeois
republics. Switzerland for example represent the
armed bourgeoisie as against the proletariat
This truth is SO elementary that there is hardly
any need to dwell on it. Suffice it to mention
the use of troops against strikers In all of the
capitalist countries.
Henin: The Military Program Of the ProIetarian
Revolution)
1t is theoretically wrong and an obvious his
torical error to deny the possibility of national
wars under Imperialism: from practical aspect
1t is tantamount to European chauvinism. How
can we, belonging to nations which Cypress hun
dreds OF millions of people in Europe, Africa
Asia, ETC., tell the, oppressed peoples that their
war against "our" nations is Impossible?
(Lenin: The Military Program Of the Proletarian
RevoIution.)
Civil wars are also wars. Whoever recognizes
the class struggle must also recognize civil war
which is in class society natural and under
certain circumstances, an inevitable development
and accentuation Of the class struggle. All great
revolutions prove this. To deny civil war or to
ignore it would mean to become an extreme OPP
portunist and to repudiate the social revolution.
-Nenin' The Military Programme Of the
Proletarian Revolution)