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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

Judge Kelley. and Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Fred J. Munder Of Suffolk County. l.. I.
 Expenses of the Florida trip were being paid, strangely enough. by a news syndicate, but Judge Kelley announced he would recom- mend that Suffolk county pay the expenses of it's own investigation. The party will arrive in Florida to- night and return Saturday.
 The formal inquest into Ceilings death, 1t was announced, would be resumed here this morning. It was adjourned last Saturday following testimony of Dr Otto Schultze who since has suffered nervous break down.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
WOlcOtt Fair
 Big Parade
Attracted Much Attention Passing Through City
 Streets Last Night

The second pre-fair parade staged by the Wolcott fair commit tee was held last night. The pa- rade consisted of hundreds of autos and trucks decorated to rep resent some phase of farm life and wound its way through principal streets in Waterbury. Prizes were awarded as follows: First. John Kulman; second, Rose Klitka; third, Julius Cowles. Judges were Charles Fleming, John Mraz and Arthur Baker. Prizes were don- ated by Fred Galipeau. Ray Per kins will be the judge of the sporting breeds at the dog show to be held Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

stock exchanes would act in the matter before congress has e chance to intervene.
 Thus far many senators and rep- reHentatives have criticised short sales. Their objections to this form of selling have been aug nented by protests from business men and attorneys. One stock exchange house has come out against short sales and has banned lending It's customers stocks.
 Meanwhile the stock exchange has-for all practical purposes curtailed ell but a small amount of short selling. !. Records are kept of every short sale to deter- mine if attempts are made to raid
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

the raarl<st. The street. s locking for a statement on the size of the short interest soon.
 Ordinarily when short selling comes under exchange scrutilly q report Is delayed for Q long period. In the present instance the presr sure has become 90 great, that 1t is believed the stock exchange will be forced to act to meet pub lie opinion.
 Among those who have come out against short selling recently are Senator James P. Watson, repn Ind, Senator Smith ". Brookhart, repn, Ia; Senator Lynn !. Fra zier, repn, N. D., Senator T. HI. Caraway, dem. Ark; Senator Car
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

ter 0laea. aon. ve; Senator '. ,. pickinspn. repn, "A; James ". Gerard, torgaer mbesaador to Ger many; ' ". Parsons, editor Of Business Trade pppeFs; and I. Mon- tetiore Lew attorh6y.
 Pouch q co, sock exchange firm, has sent word to its clients that 1t will not handle short sales.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

Schenectady. N. Y. tUP)-sav~ ing the lives of two adults may merit Allen Roosa, 12. q Carnegie medal. His fellow boy scouts are working toward that end. Roosa rescued Mr and Mrs Eugene Young of Gloversville when they fell from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
WOMAN GETS AUC19oNEHR,s

North Kingston. R. I. (uP)- Miss Clara L. Mackenzie of Allen town, recently appointed an sauc- tioneer by the North Kingston
 council. is Believed to be the first
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02

Two bank buildings being erectqd in Bogota, Colombia, wdere design ed by Arnericans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
SHORT SELLING
 IS FOCAL POINT
 OF ALL ATTACKS
BY ELMER Q. WAIZER United Pres Financial Edit0

New York, Oct 2.-(UP)- Growing agitation against short selling on the stock exchange has attained such proportions that predictions were made to-day the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
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woman to hold that posisiez \ Rhode Island.
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Contract Systems.

How would you bid and play the following
hand South being the dealer and neither side
vulnerable?
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The contract cannot possibly be made against
proper defense by West. South. when this
hand was played recently, was the keen Col.
Sydney L. Smith, who realized his plight and
also sized up the left-hand adversary one
who might help him make the contract il
afforded an opportunity. SO. after taking the
first trick with his diamond queen, he led the
deuce of clubs. This enabled West to coop
crate to the queens taste.
II West had played low to this trick, South
would have to lose two hearts. a spade and q
club West however. took the trick with the
ace, and OF all things, instead of second
trump returned the four of spades. perhaps
imagining that his partner might have the
ace. The jack won this and made a perfect
squeeze. play possible.
The spade ace took the next trick. then the
last four trumps were run. This made total
of eight tricks played leaving five cards in
each hand In trying to protect his hearts and
spades. West had to discard clubs on two
tricks leaving him only the king of spades, his
hearts and the club jack. Now the club six
was led and three club tricks run. On the
second Of these West dropped his heart seven
and on the third had to choose between the
king Of spades, which would make Norths
queen good for the next to last trick and the
jack Of hearts, which would enable the colonel
to take the last two tricks with the ace and
queen Of hearts. Thus six odd we're scored.
P. S-When you know you can't make your
contract unaided, give your friends the en-
envy q chance to help.
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like a battle between steam riveters and rapid
fire guns because seven or eight boys were
scootng round and round as usual in their
little motorboats
It was remarkable how they could come back
to this form of activity day after day breath
ing q good deal OF carbon monoxide and I'M
pairing their hearing, with SO much enjoyment,
but of course Mark Twain was right ana
large part of the pleasure in the average boys
life is Showing off," II there hadn't been
any other boys to be outspeeded, or any spec
tators, doubt il any boy in the lot-just left
alone with no one looking anything
would have kept 1t up very long.
Little Paulie in his boat. went roaring by
me- close up TO the wharf, and gave me
condescending wave Of his hand. His express
sion was q good deal like Napoeon's and you
couldn't doubt he felt perfectly grand. You
could see how il would have astonished him II
he'd known that the spectators were muttering
words that really ought never to be applied 70
minors He almost hit . canoe that had q
man and his family in it and he probably
thought they admired the mastery way in
which he contrived to miss them for he gave
them . condeScending wave of the hand. too,
and was wholly unaware Of what they shouted
after him.
After awhile I heard Q kind OF moan behind
me- It was from Mr. Carmichael, and he came
round and sat beside me- "Sickening. isn't t?"
he said IAN the parents OF these boys say
it's so nice because they can always tell just
where the boys are. So can the rest OF US
tell lust where they are, heaven help US! 1t
strikes me as O little self-centered to force
whole community to know just where . boy
is when it would . good deal rather not have
the information" His voice got fiercer as he
asked me the question, DO you know the last
thing those people have been up to?"
YOU mean Mr. and Mrs Tfmberlake?"
ct certainly dol The Undertakes cottage
Is between the MacGregors' and ours Early
this Summer the MacGregors had q house
party Of young people and Mrs Timberlake
made her husband write note to Mr. and
Mrs MacGregor asking them not to allow their
monograph or radio to be played after
O'Clock in the evening, because O'Clock is little
Paulie.s bedtime. Now, the MacGregors prac-
tically live ut camp back somewhere in the
woods on account Of little Paulie and his
friends motor boats but that's not what I'm
talking about. My little daughter Helen took
fancy to o rooster o farmer brought and
we didn't have him killed because she wanted
him for o pet. Well Timberlake and have
quit speaking, but do you know what he had
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OTHER PEOPLES CHILDREN

the nerve to do? Wrote me q note yesterday
intimating he'd hire lawyer II we didn't get
rid of that rooster because 1t usually happens
to crow under Mrs. Undertakes window about
daylight. What do you think of that?"
Just made q kind of helpless laughing
sound knew I couldn't tell him, because If
I hadn't happened to go thinking while about
the mother of the boy the bicycle. that
Enid and Eddie had almost hit, nobody'd have
been able to tell me-not so could have un-
derstood. I couldn't answer my own question
about what the children themselves actually
were-that was beyond me-but I did COM
prehend the meaning of my remarkable new
discovery. which is that we ourselves are just
as stupefed by being parents as other chill
drens parents are.
don't claim it's original beeause anybodyu
tell you it's discovery most likely made for
the first time at least 5000 years ago, and
good many people must have been making 1t
about that many times year ever since; yet
the way we all act nobody ever does seem to
make 1t. Why don't 10 just about the
troublesomest puzzle in the whole world
(Copyrisht, 1891, By Booth rarknstonD
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10 make O bid sufhcient), or from pass TO any
bid may not be made By inadvertently IS
meant 3 slip Of the tongue. not change OF
mind. Except as above provided player may
not change his declaration. and II he attempts
to do 50 the second declaration Is void and
may be penaized as bid out Of turn
What occurs in this case? The dealer. hefi-
tatino oper his hand, draOls "Oh. III" white
the player at his left expecting him to pass. Is
preparing to say so aoiH T." The dealer at
this stage quickly says bid club" The
merit player. IN careless fashion. promptly says
tOhat he expected TO. so Uiu H. and then.
realizing his opponent had bid instead OF pass
in0. immediately corrects himself with tOh.
rseon pass" Has he made ar insufficient o,d
OF one cIsb or has ne passed?
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The OIfcialLaws.

st have been following your "A Law a Week 80
says K. M. Lansing. Have you the laws COM
piled in book form? They include penalties
usually not found in the books I have and
which seem to be very necessary"
All of them can be found in the Official
Laws" Of the game adopted by the Whist Club
in New York and by other recognized clubs in
all parts Of the country. They are published
in The Contract Bridge Guide" and prac-
tically every other book by any authority. The
paragraphs to which the correspondent refers
are interpretations of those laws put into nom
technical language and in some cases showing
how the laws apply to complicated situations.
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Players who measure everything by honor
tricks and who require from four and half
to five and q half OF them in order to make
strength showing bid would be obliged to bid
one spade on South's hand. Their theory Is
that when the bidder has four honor tricks or
less either the partner will have enough strength
to bid voluntarily over one bid or else one OF
the opponents will be able to oyercall it. This
quite normal case illustrates the fallacy Of the
idea that it is safe to depend upon opponents
to help you bid game when you are reasonably
sure of one, for the partner will have to pass
and the hand gets played ut one spade.
Those who use their forcing bid, whatever 1t
be-either two bid three bid or an artificial
one or two clubs, depending upon the system
whenever they have hand with which they
are willing to take the responsibility Of promis-
ing q game will force with this kind Of hand.
. After the spades shown, the partner will
keep the bidding open and give the dealer
chance to show his hearts, in which the side
will bid four and make five, no matter what Is
led.
How would you bid and and play the follow
ing hand. South being the dealer and both
sides vulnerable?
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contract Solitaire. :"

Thomas Shepard Southworth writes in that
he is one of those who play what ne calls
contract solitaire" This name. he says, is his
own land not copyrighted" BY it he means
dealing contract hands bidding them and
mentally rather than actually playing them"
He has shown this to various beginners, who
are often panic stricken at the idea Of play
ing dummy hand in addition to their own.
sThey know" he declares, that every mistake
made is exposed to the silent criticism Of the
opponents kibitzers They quickly lose
this fear after playing contract solitaire
las 1t happens" he concludes Il know no
one. except of course, experts, who do it,
That. it may be mentioned is one of the chief
reasons why experts are experts. They learn
much of what they know from dealing hand
after hand alone and noting the way some
theory works out in various circumstances be-
fore even considering trial of it at the bridge
table.
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4Law a Week.

what occurs in this case? East dealt ard
bid one heart. South one spade. West two
heart South tco spades. East three hearts
and South three spades. West notu said: Pour
spddes-oh. mean four hearts"
The bid 10 four hearts. and there Is no
penalty for what was plainly slip OF the
tongue. otherwise known as q lapsus lfnguae.
The law on this Is very clear. 1t says:
"A player who inadvertently says No bid
when meaning to say No trump or vice versa
or who inadvertently names one suit when
meaning to name another. may correct his
mistake before the next player declares A
change in the number OF tricks bid except
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Continued from Second PGge
Laramie and when the giant figure OF "Portu-
guese" Phillips came through the door q gay
Christmas ball was in full swing.
The besieged folk at Fort Phil Kearney were
saved. Phillips was paid $500 for the ride land
various other scouting duties" The Sioux
swore to pay him back for the victory he had
beat them out Of and six years later they killed
all his stock-his whole property. In 1883 he
died in Cheyenne. penniless. Thirty-two years
after his ride the grateful democracy Of
America paid his solitary and destitute widow
IS .00O-to settle the claim against Indian dep
relation. 1t is said that no monument marks
his grave. No classic celebrates his ride. 'Por-
tuguese" Phillips was just one OF the riders
that won the West. The story Of his ride Is
lust O detail in a riding tradition that neither
automobile nor airplane can every entirely run
away from.
And 80 the stories go on. The American saga
of the saddle has only been suggested.
Copyright 1891, By J. Frank DObte.
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Il have found" Mr. Smith goes on. that
chess Is one game where alibis count for naught.
= buck is n-existent and the etiquette OF the
game Is far better than any card game"
As for the luck, once heard Of chess
player who accidentally touched the wrong piece
when startled by the sound OF blasting was
compelled to move it, and so lost the game. In
etiquette and ethics chess is O blank. It is no
test Of q mans code of honor or q woman'S and
can never offer the beautiful examples of fair
play that bridge provides. In re the alibis,
bridge gives us the JOY of being human. with
human weaknesses. Chess tends to make US
thinking machines devoid of all other attributes.
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The Ne1v Problem.

North having made q semi-forcing bid %
two hearts and South having gone immedi-
ately to seven no trumps. how can the latter
make his contract against q lead Of the dia-
mond three?
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Whatkmd Are Y0u2

What kind of dummy are you?
Do you care not rap what you do?
Do you throw down your trumps with
abandon and speed
Before your opponent has taken lead?
Do you lay down the other cards any OLD
way.
To bawl up your partner and help him
miSplay?
Do you ask the opponent to give you
peek
And cancel your right in discussions to
speak?
In short, when your turn to be dummy
has come,
Do you act like a dummy who really Is
dumb?
r Is customary to call q winning session at
bridge q successful one. But any sane per-
son who had too consistent winning record
would become bored by the game just as
the other extreme is slightly tiresome, not to
say exasperating and expensive.
Be that as it may, some kind OF laurel wreath
should be awarded to R H. Smith of Dickinson,
N OAK who is the first known case OF man
who quit the game because he won too often.
About 10 years ago, he says, Il began play
ing bridge It proved to be the first card game
capable of sustaining my interest over any
length of time. After playing regularly for
about two years the game became so lacking In
interest that / gave it up. The reason Is q
strange one-a run of cards SO consistently good
that very seldom was afflicted with the losers
end Of the score. For example, over period OF
Il weeks 1 won fist prize weekly at our club
tournaments for nine consecutive weeks The
other five weeks showed me second twice and
third three times. And so gave up bridge
rather than lose my friends"
And then he took up chest
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Problems ofPay-

Having bid both hearts and diamonds. Souem
plays this hand at five diamonds, doubled by
West. who leads the three OF trumps. How can
South make his contract?
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him that she had the softeat eyes he
ever had looked into. That was be-
cause Il was - ioBg since ne had really
looked into the eyes Of little Mrs Peter
Then, too. Molly said such nice
things to him She told him how hand
some he was and led him 20 believe
I that she thought him the brsvest and
most wonderful person she had ever
met II tickled his vanity. He liked It.
about that Peter fsncied himself IN
+ love. In love with Molly OF the Old
Pasture. Yes. sir. that is just what
+ Peter did OF coarse. he knew he
+ shouldn't be In love with ANYBODY but
+ Mrs Peter, but ne was sure he was.
Z Il can't help II" said he 10 himself.
I II just can't help II"
/ OF course, he could have helped II BY
/ staying away from the Old Pasture. but
/ this he didn't do He made all sorts
OF excuses for going up there. of
/ course" said he. Il only want to help
| her The Old Pasture is a dangerous
place unless you know It as ] do. and
II she is really going to live there she
ought To be shown all the safest places
and where the best food is 70 be found
and how to keep out OF the way OF Old
Jed Thumper. II / didn't know all
these things il would be different. But
! do know and I feel that / ought TO
show her. She hasn't any one to look
after her and II would be dreadful II
anything should happen TO her Just
because she didn't know her way about
IL really is my duty 10 see that she IS
properly looked after. My, how soft her
eyes arel"
All this he said TO himself. You NAV
be sure he took care not to say any
thing OF the kind TO little Mrs. Peter.
In fact, he never even mentioned the
fact that Molly was living up in the Old
Pasture.
she wouldn't understand" thought
he. She might even be jealous. ! am
afraid that she wouldn't believe that all
want to go up there for is to be Of
help. feel It is my duty. 1t is the
duty OF every one to help every one
else when opportunity offers. II every
body did this, what a wonderful place
the Great World would be-" Peter
sighed and had vision of soft eyes.
SO 1t came about that Peter spent
his days dczing in the dear old Briar
Patch and dreaming of soft eyes. With
the coming of the Black Shadows to
cover the Green Meadows with a blan-
ket Of soft dusk he would slip away the
first change, headed for the Old Or
chard or the Green Forest When he
was sure he couldn't be seen frcm the
dear old Briar Patch he would turn
and hurry, lipperty- lipperty-lip for the
Old PASTURE He was IN love. Anyway,
ne fancied he was.
tcopyriEtt, 1917
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AUTUMN
nj d. C. PEArTIE.

- VERY year the Autumn crop oil
- chrysanthemums is Just a BIZ
more dazzling than the year
A-% before. Some new and fancy
twist to the quilts OF the great
greenhouse blossoms. some new shade
OF russell or maroon or old gold OF
orange or copper, has been bred into
the "nnums" In the last IL months OF
tireless work by the commercial and
amateur breeders. and new labels APP
pear on the plants TO attest 10 the fact
that there is. after all. something new
under the sun.
There are more new names than new
ehrysanthemums. Many Of my old
friends among mum. varieties seem to
me merely to have changed their aliases,
and what was, let us say the General
Grant" OF yesteryear becomes the
General Pershing" of the new chrys-
anthernum shows q am using an i'm
aginary case) Even I'm very well reg
ulated shows q good deal OF rechris-
tening occurs, from the American pas
sion for novelty or the semblance Of
novelty and because such a fashion,
able flower as the chrysanthemum
must not. even In its labels. go out Of
fashion.
The fashion in chrysanthemums, at
the shows and among the breeders, has
changed from the monotonous raw vel
low or dead white great cannon-ball
OF the early efforts, but most of the
florists still do their biggest business,
see by their windows. In the old-fash-
toned sort. The public admires the red
NUNS at the show, the marvellous
anemone types. the tawny and russell
and bicolored types, but when 1t goes
into q store TO pay out hard money 1t
buys, as rule. conventionally, in the
style OF chYysanthemum that Prince
Albert must have sent to his queen. At
church, In hotels. public hallS-it Is the
same everywhere. 1t seems pity,
when We have hi chrySanthemumS what
are supposed 10 be the most variable
flowers In the world. that we boycott
ell yarlationl
For the pyrathrums. the marguerites
and daisies, the cu0tmaIy. some OF the
plants called feyer-few, the Summer
chrysanthemufns. and the So-called
Shasta daisy (claimed as the work of
Luther Burbank) are all chrysanthe-
NUNS too.
Out Of a modest wild species. look
ing rather like n daisy. the Chinese,
thousands Of years ago. began to breed
the chrySanthemums OF today. The
Japanese polished of the work. and
probably have brought the mum to its
greatest possible perfection. Most OF
our Mrs. Somebody" and General
Somebody Else" NUNS are merely old
Chinese and Japanese species that have
cropped up again in breeding work and
have been renamed According to
many authorities. Burbanks Shasta"
was q reversion to q Japanese variety
OF old standing.
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she no longer fiattered him and told
him how handsome and brave and
wonderful he was, perhaps because she
had long ago found out that he was
also vain and selfish and thoughtless
Of others. That doesn't mean that she
no longer loved him, for she did. She
loved him for what he really was and
not for what she imagined him 70 be.
and that is the best kind Of love. SO
she no longer nattered him.
Now Peter had found some one who
did natter him. and because he loved
% be fiattered he fancied himself in
love with the fiatterer You know those
who love to be fiattered seldom know
that they are being fiattered. They
accept all the nice things said about
them IS being rightly theirs, and the
more they are fiattered the more they
want to be fiattered. 1t was just so
with Peter He had made the acquaint-
ance OF q lady Rabbit named Molly over
IN the Old Pasture, and 1t seemed to