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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-15

Washington, March 15.-(UP)- Rapid progress of repairs on the navy dirigible Akron gave navy of- ficials hope today that the ship could be taken west to participate In the naval maneuvers which be- gan off California last week.
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'As Rich as Cr0esus"

The expression. LAS rich as Croesus," some
times used in referring to any one of vast
wealth, had its origin in the great riches of
Croesus, King of Lydia. who assembled the
throne about 562 BIC. Croesus is the richest
man mentioned in ancient history. His landed
estate was valued at more than So, 600, 900.
His kingdom furnished great natural re-
sources. Quantities of gold were found in the
sand of the river Pactolus, and Croesus owned
mines near Pergamus. His people were gener-
ally industrious, and they were, in all proba-
bility, the first to establish a system of retail
trade.
Croesus was also great conqueror and at
one time ruled over 10 nations He was fond
Of entertaining and was exceedingly proud Of
his great wealth. When he asked Scion. the
Greek law-giver, who he thought was the hap
piest man in the world he was greatly puzzled
when Scion replied, ''The man whom heaven
smiles upon to the last"
Croesus remembered this saying when his
land was captured and he himself was threat
ened with death.
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Farm Values DROP

CARM land, which was sold at a great pre-
! MUM during and just following the World
War, has dropped now to the extent that all
the gains from war imitation have been wiped
out and in addition the decline in values has
continued to point where the average is now
only 80 per cent of the pre-war index.
In particular the East North Central States
have been hard hit, the average price being
about 70 per cent of pre-war. The New Eng
land and Pacific States maintain values slight
ly in excess of the earlier figure, but all other
sections show decline. The average price
in 1920, the peak year. was ITO per cent Of
the pre-war record.
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Humbug

JAMES II Of England responsible for an
- issue of coin from the Dublin Mint, the
worthlessness of which was never equaled in
Irelands history. 1t was composed of any
thing on which he could lay his hands such
as lead, pewter, copper and brass. So low was
its real value that 20 shilings of it were worth
only two pence sterling
The soft mixed metal used in the coin was
known among the Irish as uim bog (pro-
nounced oom-bug) that is, soft copper or
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RIDDLES

Well guarantee the riddles we have this
week to entertain and amuse you, but they'll
make you wrinkle your brow, too, as you try to
puzzle out the right answers
l. How many sticks go into the building Of
. crows nest?-Esther Gottsman.
2. What travels its head?-Henry C.
Richart
g. Who are the most wicked people in the
world, and why?-Bobbie Carroll.
T. Spell mouse trap with three letters
Bryan Turner, jr.
S. What is it you don't have, you don't want,
but If you did have you wouldn't sell for q
million dollars?-Dale Sensenig
ANSWERS.
1. None. they are all carried. 2. A tack in a
shoe. 3. Pen makers. because they make people
steel (steaD pens and tell them they do write
(right). 4. Cat. S. A bald head.
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BY ". BOYCE MORGAN.

The Parkinsons spend their Summers in a cottage
on Paaua Lake. and this Summer they invite Bop
with them. The FIRST day at the lake is spent
in opening the cottage. which Is next to the last in
the of cottages stretching along the shore from
the village Some new people have taken the last
cottage. and Bob thinks there must be children in
the family because they have dog, The boys get
to him. but the dog fox terrier is unfriendly and
girl their own age rebukes them for calling him:
After breakfast the boys out in their cupboard
motor boat while the girl next door with her older
in expensive speedboat; Just after this boat
the the dog falls in but the boat speeds
because the young girls frantic cries drowned
by the noise of the motor.
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Il Good Formula

One writer of adventure stories once gave
the following directions for his kind of writing:
Get your hero up tree quickly at the
start. Then throw rocks at him. Get him into
worse and worse difficulties. Finally, have
him solve all the difficulties by one masterful
stroke. Then finish in hurry"
The rocks and difficulties are the rising &C.
ton. The masterful stroke is the climax.
Finishing in hurry" is the conclusion.
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Suppose We try a couple of word chains, 80
that we don't forget how to solve them Re-
member that you must go from one word to
the other, changing only one letter at time,
and always forming real word
Change EYES to LIDS in four moves.
Change EARS to NOSE in six moves
;
ssIn the sentence below each Of the missing
words is spelled differently but pronounced the
Rme.
AS he swung the axe perspration be-
gan to-from his every
Curtail a howl and get dairy product cur
hail again and get quantity of paper.
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off his shoes Then as Ben turned the boat
and headed for the struggling dog, Bob dived
into the water.
A few strokes took him close to the dog,
which was pluckily swimming about, but SEEM
ingly unaware of which direction would take
him toward the shore. Also, Bob could see
that he was firing rapidly.
mot used to water that dog" thought Bob
to himself. Probably is kept in the house all
Winter. and is soft. Now, II that was Rex,
he'd be ashore in no time"
Remembering the dogs unfriendly attitude,
Bob approached him warily meanwhile speak
ing to him in a soothing voice. The dog evil
IDENTIFY realized that rescue was at hand, for he
now padded to Bob and allowed Bob to grasp
the loose skin at the back of his neck.
There you are. old boy" said Bob. you're
all right now But don't try to crawl all over
me that way
Bob swan slowly toward the boat, which Ben
was maneuvering alongside him. Ben reached
down and pulled the dog into the boat, then
helped Bob to scramble up. Then he headed
the craft toward shore.
Aren't you the hero, thought" said Ben to
Bob with a friendly grin. You'll get the
Carnegie medal for this"
YEAH" said Bob sarcastically. THAT snooty
girl will probably bawl me out for getting her
dog wet"
"She finally made the others hear" said Ben.
"They are coming back now"
THE boys reached their dock at the same
! moment that the speedboat drew up next
door. Immediately the young girl scrambled
out, and she came running breathessly to
where Bob was lifting the dog out of the boat.
Her face was pale with fright.
"Dink!' she cried, catching the fox terrier
up in her arms and huggng him. ooh, I
thought you were dead"
Bob felt uncomfortable. He had a dog Of
his own and knew just how the girl felt, but
he hated to witness her emotion. His embar
rassment was increased hundredfold when
she turned to him.
"Oh thank you'll" she cried. trying to make
her voice steady THANK you thousand
times for saving Dink!"
cav, that's all right said Bob grufdy, while
grinning Ben locked on. "He wouldn't have
drowned. Dogs are good swimmers, you know"
But the girl was not to be persuaded that
Bob wasn't hero In a moment she had told
them that her name was Betty Vickers, and
she had apologized humbly for the way she
had acted earlier that morning. Then the
older boy and girl came up introduced them
selves Is Jack and Madge Vickers, and added
their thanks to those Of their younger sister.
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They were moving to another house. when
suddenly Mrs. Thompson wondered where little
Eric was. She hadn't seen him for half an
hour.
Have you seen my little Eric?" she asked
one of the movers.
mo, num- replied the man. IT amt seen
i'm since we rolled the carpet up"
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worthless money. In the course of business
dealings, the modern use of the word hum
bug" had its origin, as in the phrases, That's
a piece of uim-b bog or Don't think to pass
of your uim-bog me-"
Hence the word "humbug" came to be ap
piled to anything that has a good appearance
but which is in reality of little value.
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FINALLY Dink having been released at last
from Betty's arms trotted over to Bob, sat
down, and raised one paw to shake hands.
Whoops Of Joy were the boys answer to this
invitation. They tied up the cupboard and fol-
lowed their new friends to the Vickers dock
Jack, Bob and Ben got into the front seat,
while the two girls climbed into the rear.
With the motor started Jack let Bob take
the wheel and showed him how to engage the
clutch.
Running her is a cinch," he explained.
Gust about like driving a car"
Thrilled Bob followed directions, and pointed
the nose of the fast little boat out into the
lake. Soon they were roaring toward Samp-
sons Island.
That's funny little island" said Bob,
speaking above the roar of the motor. 1T
looks as though it might have been hiding
place for pirates or smugglers or something"
Il guess there were never many pirates or
smugglers this little lake" scoffed Jack
Vickers.
uTHERE is something funny about that
] island, though" said Ben seriously. This
old Doc Sampson that lives out there is sort
Of queer. and everybody around here is rather
scared of him.
whats he like?" demanded Bob, ever alert
for a mystery.
IT don't know much about him." admitted
Ben 1--WE only seen him once or twice. But
once last Summer, some people in one Of the
cottages had dog that got sick. The only
veterinarian around here was away, so they
decided to take the dog over to Doc Sampson.
We'll, don't know just what happened, but
I guess the old man acted awfully queer. The
rumor got around that he gets dogs over there
on his land and cuts them up or tortures them,
or something. A dog disappeared last Summer,
and people who have passed the island at night
say they have heard dogs bowling as though
they were being hurt"
Bob's face was hard. "The old brute!" he
said angrily. Anybody that would hurt dog
isn't worth living"
They were quite close to the island now, and
Bob slowed the boat down as they skirted the
shore. They passed little clearing, and Ben
uttered a cry.
There's the old man now" he pointed out,
indicating a stopped figure hobbling along the
shore Isn't he strange looking?"
THE others saw a bent old man, whose hair
] and beard were shaggy and whose clothes
hung loosely from his thin shoulders. Suddenly
he noticed the boat, and at that moment Dink
leaped to the deck and began to bark.
Immediately a strange transformation came
over the old man. He Strengthened up. He
began to shout excitedly and wave his arms.
Pointing to the dog, he rushed down to the
very waters edge, then began to yell unintel-
ligible things in even wilder excitement. The
girls in the seat uttered cries of alarm,
and Betty pulled Dink back into her lap.
"Golly!" exclaimed Bob in an awed voice.
HE is funny one. Let's get out of here"
(To be continued next Sunday)
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PUZZLES

| low are You at making up rhymes? The
! words in the picture below all rhyme. Can
you find them?
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The definitions are:
HORIZONTAL.
1. Signs, emblems.
8. Proceed.
z. Organ of hearing.
8. Point of the compass (Abbr).
II. Troop ship.
IT. Mirth, gayety.
~. Greek letter.
"a. Instrument for washing floors.
&c. Beside.
AZ. Kind OF candy.
VERTICAL
1. Therefore.
al
3. Kind Of fish.
4. Used with either"
S. Steamship (Abbr).
6. Procure.
9. Moist.
10. Egyptian sun god.
II. Perform.
Is. Regret, grieve for.
IA. Used with neither"
Is. Girls nickname.
49, Move swiftly.
II. Silent
l8. Railroad (Abbr).
10. Heather image
20. Printers measure.
81. Plaything
%. Toward the top.
"a. Mother.
IS. To tumble type.
rs. Exist.
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INSTALLMENT III.

S soon as he saw what had happened
Bob leaped into action. He was
wearing only a pair of white duck
sailor pants over his bathing suit.
and it was but the work Of a mo-
ment to slim them off and to kick
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ANSWERS.
l. Jail, sail, rail, bale pail and mail
2. EYES - dyes - dies - lies - LIDS
EARS - bars - bass - boss - loss - losp
49, NOSE.
3. Pour, pore.
f. Scream.
5. Crossword Puzzle Solution.
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ALaqc a Week

So9th having become declGreT Nth contract
OF fve Clubs, East remarked: III you're got
them all, spread them" Nobody else said any
thing West led a small trump, Uhich Soath toon
tcith the ace East repeated his earlier remark
South, after studying dummy spread his oton
hand face up on the table, and said: "I'H con-
cede you the king OF Gibbs and claim the bal
ance, fpe-odd and an oUeTtrick. East said:
"IH concede you your contract, but no oOeT-
trick" West also said he iuoHld concede fue-
odd. but not sir, tollereupon South offered West
a t0ager that he tDould make the ertrd trick.
West accepted, and South began playing the
hand Near the end he led totpard the diamond
ace-q queen in dummy. West played lop and de-
cIarer played the queen for dummy Both op-
ponents protested that he had no right to
fneSse after having made claim, OF specific
number of tricks. South declared he had not
relinquished his rights to fnesse, but had cr-
posed his hand merely to accommodate his op-
ponents. Under protest, he played the hand
iGithout fnessing, and lost trick to Vests did-
mond king in addition to one to the clrb King.
South contends that he tpon his tpdger, as he
ipould hcpe made the contract If he bad fnessed.
Is he right?
1t must be assumed that South's wager was
that he would take the tricks claimed while
playing under the laws Of the game Of con-
tract bridge not the laws of base ball foot
ball tennis or under some revised laws OF
bridge revised to suit himself. Under the
laws, when a number of tricks has been
claimed by declarer, either adversary may re-
quire him to place his cards face up on the
table and play out the hand" He may not
take any finesse unless he announces his in
tention to do 50 when making his claim" or
''the adversary on the left Of the f1nesstng
hand had refused the suit before the claim
was made"
East haping taken q trick, West led the ace
OF clubs, of course, out OF turn. Soath, the de-
cldrer claimed the right to make East lead his
highest card OF that suit and compel West to
play the ace on it, or to make East lead his
highest or lo1rest card OF some other suit, tohic
declarer might designate. rs he richt7 ~
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NORTH
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q 9 6 5 5
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Declarer counted up the heart suit seeing
that West had five hearts II he held the one
lower card than the lead the three. He let
the jack win for East, then took the queen
with his ace. West played the six, making it
seem he did not have the three, therefore only
a total of four and his partner three. Tfie1
declarer forgot that West having bid the suit
headed only by the king must have at least
FIVE and therefore East was now void Of
hearts.
He ran four club tricks, then lazily figured
that when he lost the spade flnesse the adver-
saries could take the rest of the tricks. 1t
would be better, he carelessly thought, If he
merely cashed his club and let them have
the rest, which he did, going down three tricks.
Had he remembered Vests heart bid, he
would have played a small spade to the 10
after running the clubs This would have
enabled him to make his contract unless East
put up a perfect defense. The latter could
do it in two ways either by taking the spade
and returning another then playing low on
the first diamond lead, or else by letting the
10 win and on the first diamond covering it
If it was the jack, ducking if it was low.
Either Of these procedures would beat the
contract one trick any other defense giving
declarer game. To give up the hand and accept
a verdict of three down was childish
Who can imagine South bidding one no
trump on the following hand and making six
odd with the assistance of East and West2
That actually happened, with two noted play
ers furnishing brilliantly unsound' defense,
as will be related next week.
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area, which became submerged again with the
return of rains last year. This tremendous in
crease in the breeding fields naturally brought
a great increase in elle gnats.
1t the grasshopper, however, which did
the most damage last year, a damage
tensive as to be termed unprecedented by the
Department of Agriculture officials. The hop
pers most concerned were the two-striped and
the differential lheavybodied insects which are
not able or, at any rate do not migrate over
very large territories. They are strongly con-
trasted to the so-called Rocky Mountain locust,
which in the past has gone in huge swarns over
areas hundreds of miles IN extent
So great was the infestation of last years
hopperS instances were found in which as many
as 10000 eggs were found to a square foot Of
SOIL Proper cultivation Of the soil and the
placing of poisoned bats for the insects which
survived the anti-larvae cultivation aided in
keeping the insects down, but the fact that
previous years with plenty Of rain had seen the
grasshopper pest at minimum caused too
many agriculturists to disregard the warning
of the Federal entomologsts that serious out
break was due.
The japanese beetle, at one time threatening
to become the most serious of all the insect
pests, has been placed under fair control and
it Is believed now that the number is much less
than few years ago at the height Of the in
festation. The introduction of parasites which
keep the beetles down in Japan was the most
effective means Of controlling the beetle, while
tilling of the soil during the grub stage and the
proper disposal of refuse heaps has done much
to discourage the insect.
The danger at the present time IS that farm
ers may grow careless because Of the drought
conditions holding the first four named insects
under control and relax in their vigilance, as
they did with the grasshoppers last year.
Should this be so, the four in question may
rise to do the damage done by those which
thrived In the past two years on the drought
conditions
The fight of insect and man is unspectacular.
1t calls for much heavy labor, much discourage
ment but nevertheless 1t Is war as vital to
mankind as any In which man has engaged.
1t is o warfare requiring eternal vigilance and
great cooperation.
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Cott0nseed Fertiliser Gains

THE use of cottonseed meal fertilizer is
] growing in this country with the use for
this purpose consuming about IL per cent Of
all the cotton seed meal produced last year.
The meal is particularly good for the treat
ment of lawns which are overrrm with crab
grass and weeds The meal tends to make
the lawn acid, which, in turn, stimulates the
type of grasses most desired In the lawn,
while at the same time discouraging the
growth of the undesirables which thrive best
ON an alkaline soil.
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As7 2S74 o32 %KJsssa

North had opened with dealers bid OF
one spade, South called one no trump,
North two diamonds, South two no trump
and North three no trump. which East doubled.
What should West lead from that combination
Of cards and bidding?
Favoring the spade lead under the cir
cumstances, we wondered how many others
would agree, so sought a concensus at
recent championship tournament. The col
lection of opinions was almost bewildering,
each with an amount of good logic to back
it up
diviiual championship and national pair title
and member Of the famous -Four Horsemen,"
would prefer the spade lead, as would about
a third of the stars interrogated Their rea-
soning the same in each case Spades
having been denied by declarers first no
trump bid and secondly when the latter did
not shift from the diamonds to the spades,
South probably had only one two spades,
IN which event East would have five or six
and expect them to produce the setting trick
if in the meantime his side entries were not
disturbed too soon. Furthermore, East with
a hand capable of doubling three trump,
probably would not have passed the original
spade except because he liked it.
Another sizable group among them John
Rau. the young psychic" addict whose team
of four won the national open championship
a year ago. was strong for the lead of the
little diamond, not just because that suit
was bid second and therefore might have
the wide open spaces in it which would enable
East to make merry, but because the little
diamond would look more like a fourth-best
and consequently confuse the declarer.
Quite a delegation, with Geoffrey Mott
Smith, former holder of the Eastern pair
title prominent in it, considered the heart
lead clearly marked. The partners double
he held, practically requested the lead Of
one Of the two unbid suits, the one in which
he was better equipped; that the leader knew
this could not be clubs and therefore must
be hearts.
Still other fine players called the club the
obviously correct lead, mostly designating the
fourth-best; but one of this group Curt II.
Reisinger, donor of the famous trophy bear
ing his name, would lead the jack. In such
a case, If East had an honor, the jack would
force out declarer's stopper, and return
would probably mean that the suit could be
run he reckoned. In any event, this lead
would put declarer on the spot and make
him lead up to the hand of the doubler he
contended.
So there we have logical reasons for each
of the four suits in the lead. In nearly all
of the cases the exponent of one lead thought
the logic of the others was sour" The plain
fact is that the out-of-sight hands might have
been of various kinds, so that any one of those
leads might have been the only one which
would defeat the contract. As it happened,
these were the cards, as reported by Mrs. George
r. Lamade, the reader may easily notice
which lead will defeat the contract and which
ones will enable declarer to make game: