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Evening star., 1933-05-26
Conquering Contract
BY P. HAL SIMS

I heart support supplies the slam-key for
this hand.
With . 5-4-4-0 Distribution.
Take the same standards as for
$3.50 regarding primary tricks for
Jump takeouts. Remember that when
ever YOU bid four-card minor suit
secondarily, after a major, your partner
knows 1t is the start or continuation
of slam try and that you have at least
one other bid in reserve. With
a9;. sg; < 4 hsxx 9xxx e. 1la Xxx
you could safely bid three spades over
one no trump. When you show your
void, it will be by bidding five diamonds
over four no trumps or four spades,
and If that information does not enable
the slam for you, he has g safe sign
off in five spades. Howeva,, If spades
were the void suit, you would need
three primary tricks for the same rea-
son as with $3.50 hand pattern-you
will be showing your void at five spades,
so it will be impossible to stop short
Of slam If you bid your hand to its
proper limit. Consequently, would
need as much as
sss. sR; exxx 1l: ei. < ssH axx
TO plQ Lnree QearCS over one DO CIuLlf~
Change the club holding to K J X
and I1would bid at first only two hearts,
but would make later slam try in this
fashion; The bidding having been one
no trump, two hearts, two no trumps
three clubs, three no trumps-I would
now bid four spades. My partner could
not read this as anything but cue bid.
If my black suits were each of four cards,
would I not have bid spades before
clubs? If my clubs we're five in num-
ber and my spades were four, I could
have had no right to bid hearts at ell
on the first round, as could only hold
four of them and must then bid them
only after bidding spades. One would
have to hold IA cards for this bidding
procedure to cause any confusion.
If my partner signed of by bidding
four no trumps over four spades, I
would sign off at five hearts, an easier
declaration to handle. A diamond and
a club Eve are now considering the
weaker hand with K j in clubs)
might well be lost If openers bid was
Sp K @ D. K1Oxx
Hts. A xx Ct. AK
(Copyrisht, 1889
Mr.. Sims will answer all inquiries on
contract that are addressed to this news
paper with q self-addressed stamped en-
yelope.
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so he says to me. I'm in love with
the most wonderful. charming, exquisite
enchanting, alluring bewitching girl IN
the whole world. and I says, 7 like
you, too, Oliver. Purple Parrot.
do you think petting is more dan
gerous than spooning was in your day,
grandpa"
"Yes, because in my day the parlor
sofa wasn't In danger of running into
tree. southern California Wampus
He-The biggest men get the pref
tiest girls.
she-You conceited man. Punch
Bowl.
Applicant-I played the belle in "The
Love of Kathleen Mauvoreen."
Sound Technician-Hey, Bill, book
this girl for off-stage noises.-Ski-U-
Nah.
II Adam would come back to earth
about the only thing he would recog-
nize would be the jokes.-Rice Owl.
She asked the druggist for soft lead
pencil because she wanted to write a
love letter.-Ski-U-Mah
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connect them and act almost as lat
tice work are done in figured and
plain.
Two of the small diamonds are of
plain material. which accents one of
the colors in the other two blocks,
which are made of figured.
For instance, the plain small dia-
rnonds might be green, with green
and white print for the other two
diamonds.
In the next set of four diamonds
the plain ones might be pink and the
figured pieces of a pink and white or
pink. white and green print.
Another block might use plain, soft
gray for the plain diamonds and
gray and blue print for the companion
diamonds.
Be sure that the prints are fast color
and of small figure. If the pattern Is
zoo large the design does not show to
good advantage. And If there are large
patches of white in the print the white
makes an uneasy outline for the dia-
mond. It blends in with the big
diamond and the small block does not
look clean cut.
The club members sent for the life
size pattern of this quilt. You may
get yours by following the directions
at the end of this article.
In cutting allow one-quarter inch
on all sides for seams. Take small
stitches, fastening thread well at start
and end of seam. The seam starts in
one-quarter inch from sides and end
Of patches.
The actual pattern for the diamonds
quilt design may be obtained by sending
3 cents and a self-addressed. stamped
envelope to Nancy Page in care Of this
paper Back patterns may be secured by
sending an additional cents for each
pattern requested.
tCopyright, 1933l
Evening star., 1933-05-26
Little Trips Into Nature.

EImS and Naples.
A MONG the great gifts which
~ nature has given US is the tree,
~ and in the Springtime the world
4 \ is frightened for us when trees
take on new green coats.
Among the fine shade trees is the
graceful elm. You may have seen long
rows of elms on either side Of road,
with upper branches stretched across
the road and interviewer in such man
ner as to make what We might almost
call tree tunnel"
To grow their best, elms need soil
which contains good deal OF water.
All trees need a supply of water, but
there are some which can get along
with much less than the elm.
The maple is another excellent shade
tree, and in the maple family we find
members which provide sap for maple
sugar.
Anna Botsford Comstock, in her val
liable Handbook of Nature Study
tells Of March days during her child
hood when she and others went forth
to "tap the sugar-bush." Her account
of the treatment of the sap runs, in
part: :.
After about three days of gather
ing and boiling sap came the 'siruping
down During ali that afternoon we
watched the tawny, steaming mass in
the kettle. When it threatened to boil
over we threw in thin slice of pork.
which seemed to have some mysterious
calming influence.
THE odor grew more and more de-
licious and presently the sirup was suf-
ficiently thick. The kettle was swung
off the logs and the sirup dipped
through cloth strainer into carrying
pail.
THE next day our interests were
transferred to the house where we
'sugared off, There we boiled the
sirup to sugar on the stove and stirred
it until it grained, before we poured
it into tins to make cakes of maple
sugar"
Other trees produce sweet sap, but
the sugar maple gives better sap for
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UNCLE RAYS CORNER

sugar making than any other tree on
this continent. III some lands sap is
taken from palm trees and made into
a very high grade of sugar.
(For Mature" section OF your scrap
book)
The leafiet called "Marvels Of the
Sky" contains diagram showing sizes
Of the planets and their distance from
the sun. 1t tells about Donatfs comet
and other wonders. If you want q
copy, without charge, send a stamped
return envelope to me in care Of this
newspaper. UNCLE RAY.
(Copyright, 1880
Evening star., 1933-05-26
NANCY PACE
Diamonds Come From
Doylestown.
By FLORENCE LA GANKE.

"You will all be interested in the
pattern I am showing you today. It
was sent by girl II years old who
says she enjoys making quilts. She
designed this herself and has two
other quilts in the making. Dorothy
Hoff of Doylestown, Ohio, gave this
quilt no name. ] thought that the
Nancy Page Quilt Club might approve
the name I gave it-'Diamonds.' It
might be field Of diamonds or
diamond BEDS"
The large diamonds are made Of
white material.
The four small diamonds which
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Strawberry Mousse,

Press the Strawberries from 2 eight.
ounce cans through q sieve. Bring to
boiling with one-third cupful of sugar,
and color bright red. In this red
sirup dissolve two teaspoonfuls Of gela-
tin which has been softened in two
tablespoonfuls of cold water. Cool add
one tablespoonful of lemon juice and
freeze to mush in the refrigerator
tray, stirring several times. Add. one
and one-third cupfuls of beaten. cream,
and continue freezing. Serve in mounds
or balls garnished with bits OF angelica,
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mind responded to still smaller sights
and hearings" At any rate, he ad-
mitted that imaginations didn't neces-
sarily need to square themselves with
the reality of reality.
No matter what the poets say and
the day-dreamers think, one thing Is
certain: Your imagination Is first OF
all based upon sensory experience. It's
impossible to imagine something you
have not seen, heard, tasted and felt IN
some way And this is true of all the
imaginings derived from all the senses,
whatever they are.
How does it come that you some
times say: ,"I can't imagine" It's an
admission that you have not sensed
anything like 1t before Imagination is
by no mean3 gift. 1t is the natural
result of exposure to reality, some time,
somewhere.
(Eonvripht 1Q99l
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! would accept his decision and not bid
the slam.
An Informative Raise.
If the bidding went as above up to
my bid of four hearts, but my partner
then bid five hearts instead Of four no
trumps, would read this bid as mean
ing sound heart support TX @ x or
K j 10 or K 10 x) and would bid six
hearts. Assured of no red losers, the
slam contract becomes obligatory. Only
an adverse Al or SO holding in a red
suit will endanger it. Partner un-
doubtedly holds at least the queen In
spades. Definite information about the
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N A r u r E. S
C. HI LID r E N
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.

Bowfn.
Amia calva.
"A feller isn't thinkin' mean
Out hshin;
His thoushts are mostly good and clean,
Out hshin;
He doesn't knock his fellowmen
Or harbor any grudges then
feller's at his finest when
Out nshin.
Harry Lee Burgess.
TINE bowf1n is the only fish to
have full name. He is known
by many as John A. Grindle;
i to others, grindle for short. 1t
seems that the bowfin, though
the last of the order of Halecomorphi,
has gained for himself an un-avory
reputation. In the Great Lakes he is
known as the "dogfish" because even
the dogs will not eat him. DR.. Kirt-
.6OWFlN. l45
Evening star., 1933-05-26
Everyday Psychology
By DIR. JESSE W. sPRowLs.
Imagination.

Some persons imagine they can
imagine anything. And that their
imaginings must represent some infal-
lible oracle. Surprised, amused, or, per-
haps, consoled by their own day.
dreams, they come to regard the work
of the mind as limitless. Those who
are best equipped to summarize and
symbolic these imaginary wanderings
turn out to be poets, more or less.
Walt Whitman said his business was
to make poems" Critics differ much
among themselves about the quality of
his poetic efforts. But If you read his
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" carefully
you may sense "the glories strung like
beads on the smallest sights and hear
ings" Edgar Allan Poe wrote "out
of space, out of time" Perhaps his
Evening star., 1933-05-26

Southern Gumbo.

Place two cupfuls of diced cooked
chicken with one sliced onion. one No.
2 can of drained okra, one No. can
of tomatoes and one cupful of cooked
rice, In kettle. Add three cupfuls of
hot water and two cupfuls of chicken
broth. Simmer gently for fifteen
minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Evening star., 1933-05-26

Mr.. Sims is universally acclaimed the
greatest liping contract and auction
player. He ,oas captain of the renowned
"Four Horsen1en" team and has NON "a
national championships since 1924.
These articles are based ON the Sims
system, Which includes the one-oper-
one principle which the Sims group of
players iuas the first to employ and de-
Uelop.
Evening star., 1933-05-26

WILL blAl CS N%
u1onds on
Sp. K J x
Hts. A X X X x
Di. X @ X X x
CT.
because If my part
ner were unable
to m a ke other
than minimum re-
sponses, the bid
ding would go:
One no trump,
three diamonds.
three no trumpS,
four hearts, four
no trumps, five
clubs by me. Now
my partner could
sign off in either
five hearts or five
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Slam Tries After a No-Trump Open.
ing Bid.

~ ONTINUING the subject of yes
4 terday's article, you will now
see clearly why it Is safe to
" make the slam try on a
slightly weaker hand with the
s-5-3-o distribution, when your void
suit is the lowest ranking suit that you
will have occasion to name In your
bidding. For instance, would respond
Evening star., 1933-05-26

OF TEETER.
told about it instead Of seeing it he
wouldn't have believed it.
Can you swim?" he demanded of
Teeter. -
"Of course I can swim" replied
Teeter. do you mean to tell me that
you have been acquainted with me
practically all your life and didn't
know I could swim?"
Peter had to admit that this was
true. Almost since he could remember
Evening star., 1933-05-26
Peter and Teeter.

~ ETER RABBIT had to confess
- that Teeter the Spotted Sand
piper had astonishing babies.
i This wasn't surprising to Teeter,
because, like all good parents,
he thought there were no other babies
in all the Great World equal to his.
Peters astonishment was complete
when one of the fuzzy mites took to
the water and swan across little pool
rather than run around it. He was
willing to confess that had he been
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Contract Bridge

passing is absolute certainty that
the contract can be set, and that
the resulting penalty will be more
valuable than any contract that
could be made by his side.
If he holds weak hand, he
should make a minimum response.
Example: South one spade, Yves.
double, North pass, East two dia-
monds. This bid indicates that
East has four or more diamonds
but little high card strength and
has no desire to continue bidding.
If East has one and one-half high
card tricks and a biddable suit, he
should make a jump response. Ex-
ample: South one diamond, West
double, North pass, East two
spades. This bid is strongly con-
Structiye, and indicates that East
has enough strength so game is
probable for his side.
Great caution should be used
in supporting a defensive bid. 1t
should be assumed to be weak I'M
less the defensive bidder shows, by
a rebid, that his hand contains a
fair amount Of strength.
Copyright. 1888 by NEA Service. Incl
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purpose that smoked glasses did for
you on earth last summer when you
watched the eclipse of the sun
through them.
The disk of the sun has three
times the diameter that it appears
to have from earth. Since Mercury
has no atmosphere, the sun shines
in black sky. We also are able to-
see many of the features of the sun
which are visible from earth only
during total eclipse Of the sun.
This is because upon earth the
light of the sun is reflected back and
forth by the molecules of air and as
result, the whole sky is so bright
as to obscure these features. They
become visible from earth during an
eclipse because then the direct light
OF the central portion of the sun is
cut off by the disk of the moon.
Sun Spots Seen
Looking directly at the sun. we
note that its surface is not smooth
but notified. We note bright grains
which seem to be sprinkled upon a
darkiSh background. We recall tc
mind Professor Langley's descrip-
ton of the suns surface as snow
flakes on gray cloth"
The flakes or grains are irregular
in shape. Their true size is enor-
nous, ranging in diameter from 4O(
to 600 miles. They change form
continuously, old ones disappearing
and new ones taking their place.
We also note a number of spots
upon the disk Of the sun, the famil-
lar sun spots. We note that each
spot consists of darker portion
known to scientists as the "umbra,
and a somewhat lighter outer por-
ton known as the 'penumbra."
We note that these sun spots are
scenes of intense action. Clouds oil
gaseous material are whirling about
them. Sometimes a great cloud Of
gaseous matter is sucked down into
the center Of a sun spot.
Drama Is Gigantic
We forget how gigantic is the
drama we are watching until WE
recollect the size of the sun. Actual
ly, the disk of the sun is $4,000
miles in diameter. That larger sur
spot at which we are gazing has g
diameter Of about $4,000 miles. The
great cloud of gas. sucked down ir
less than second, was larger thar
our entire earth.
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VEG Oh 70 HEhk

children whose adults parents
we're not near-sighted did not
often develop this Characters
tic; but that parents, one or
both of whom were near-sight-
ed, had children who developed
it in about the percentages eX-
pected by the laws of heredity.
An enormous amount of help
can be achieved by early fitting
of proper glasses.
8. To an amazing extent, yes.
To understand this fully, read
William James famous essay,
The Will to Believe" Also, rs
Life Worth Living?" AS he
says. your very belief in a fact
helps to create that fact.
If you have to do a thing,
but believe you can not sue
coed, usually you will fail Be-
lieve you can and usually you
succeed.
AS James says: ct is the
part of wisdom to believe what
is in the line of our needs, for
only by such belief is the need
fulfilled.
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RURAL RATE SLASH
PACTS GIVEN 0. K.
20 Counties and 3 Towns
Are Affected by Orders.

Rural rate agreements made by
the Public Service Company with
its farmer customers in twenty
three counties and three towns have
been approved by the public serv-
ice commission.
For the most part the new rates
represent decrease for electricity av-
eraging around 20 per cent. Some
increases are included, however.
Towns affected and the average re-
duction for each were Moore's Hill,
10 per cent; West Lebanon, Is per
cent, and Whitewater, 1872 per cent
Marion county rural subscribers
are included in the group with Ben
ton, Boone, Clinton, Carroll, Ham
ilton, Howard. Tippecanoe, Mont
gomery and Warren counties.
Reductions for the group averaged
1873 per cent, making a total net
saving to patrons of $8948.22
annually. More than 300 residential
and commercial users will receive
reductions averaging 1920 per cent
while 168 will be increased.
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ORDER SEEDS FOR
JOBLESS GARDENS
Unemployed Signing for
Land, Must Keep 1t Clean.

Seed requests sufficient to plant
600 backyard gardens have been
made by the Family Welfare So
ciety to the Community Garden
Center.
The requests will be handled by
the Center township trustees Office,
which is providing the seeds for the
unemployed.
The garden center has numerous
plots of land, so by 100 feet. for
families of the jobless who desire to
raise garden truck to augment table
food. Persons desiring the land may
register on the second floor at Tom
inson hall, says Mrs. Perry E.
O'Neal, chairman of the center.
Gardeners signing up for land
agree to keep the plot free of weeds
and rubbish, not to trespass on any
other garden lot and not to sell any
produce raised.
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1t would be possible to pick up our
little earth or the planet Mercury
upon which our rocket ship is now
resting and drop it into the center
Of one of those sun spots. And
since the temperature is about TO-
600 degrees Fahrenheit, it would
last about as long as SNOWFALL
would, if you dropped it into red
hot furnace.
We note that the edge of the sun
is trimmed in red. This is the upper
portion of the solar atmosphere,
consisting of red-hot gases, chiefly
hydrogen and helium. Scientists
call this rim Of red the chrome
sphere" 1t can be seen from earth
only during a total eclipse.
Fire Tongues Measured
Rising from the chromosphere We
note long, red tongues of fiery gases.
We are fascinated by their fantastic
shapes.
With the aid Of astronomical in
strumentS which We have in our
rocket ship, we measure the height
of some of these tongues Of fire,
these solar prominences" as the as
trOnomer calls them, and find that
they are 10000 miles high. ten times
the diameter of our own earth.
We watch these gigantic flames
as they rise and flicker. Occasion
ally one breaks loose, and floats
away into space, Pickering cloud
of flaming gases. We wonder what
would happen if ever a flame SC
gigantic flashed out of the sun that
it would reach our own earth.
Rockets Perch Too Close
Beyond the rim of fire and the
rising flames, we note a great sill
very halo surrounding the sun. This
is the corona, thin cloud of gas
eouS material made luminous by
the suns rays.
The sun is majestic sight as we
see it. For the first time we be-
gin to appreciate the true grandeur
of the universe. But our perch on
Mercury is too close for comfort.
Despite the fact that we have the
rocket ships cooling system going
full speed, it is getting extremely
hot. And so, let US sail away, re-
signing Mercury to its fate, an arid
and scorched-up world, baking in
the heat of the suns direct rays.
NEXT: We visit the other
planets.
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INVESTORS TO
Be GUARDED BY
PROPOSED LAW
Roosevelt Aids Rush Work
on Bill to Ban Blue Sky
Stocks, Bonds.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press STAFF Correspondent

Copyright. 1888, by United Press
WASHINGTON, March 22.-Ad-
ministration advisers are rushing
work on a securities control bill to
protect the investing public against
blue sky" stocks and bonds.
AS soon as the details are COM
pleted, possibly next week, Presi-
dent Roosevelt will send a message
to congress asking immediate pass
age. This federal protective meas
ure will cover both foreign and
domestic securities.
1t is expected to:
l. Require full publication of the
names of promoters, the amount of
their bonuses and commission, and
the full extent of their financial
interests.
Forbid ConceaIment
2. Forbid any concealment by
promoters of material facts or cir
cumstances surrounding the securi-
ties offered.
3. Place responsibility for full dis
O4OoI4C VI l4lC AoSLS QpOu t14G p1O-
mOters.
4. Require refunds with interest
Or cancellation of contracts where
misrepresentation is disclosed, with
out requiring fraud to be proved.
s. Make those issuing false or
misleading information liable to
criminal prosecution for obtaining
money under false pretense and
likewise liable under conspiracy
statutes.
Thompson Works Out Plan
The draft is being perfected for
the President by Huston Thomp-
son, former chairman of the federal
trade commission. In that capacity
he gained intimate knowledge of
the methods used by INSCRIPTIONS
stock and bond promoters.
Daniel Roper, secretary of COM
merce, and some of his assistants
have been associated with Thomp-
son in working out the proposal,
The purpose of this measure is
to save American investors from a
repetition of the losses, running
probably into billions which they
suffered through worthless foreign
bonds and pyramided stocks.
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BY w. E. M'KENNEY
secretary American Bridge League

american DEluge League
Defensive bids are bids made aft
er the opponents have opened the
contracting, and usually have one
of the following purposes:
l. To convey information to part
ner which will assist him in defend
ing the hand should the opponents
secure the final contract.
2. To interfere with the oppon-
ents communication, and render it
difficult for them to reach their best
declaration.
8. TO force them, if possible, into
a declaration they can not make.
4. To incur a small penalty in
tentionally to prevent the opponents
from scoring a valuable game or
slam.
Bidding Defensive
Defensive bids are not generally
based on any hope of game or slam,
and the best the defensive bidder
can look for is to make a partial
score, or to escape with a small
penalty.
And bid made after the oppon-
entS have opened the bidding
should be construed as defensive IN
less it is definitely proved other
wise by aggressive rebids. A play
er holding a strong hand with pos
sibilities of game, when the OPP
ponentS have opened the bidding,
should either:
l. Make an informatory double.
Example: South one spade, West
double. or:
?. Make a jump overcall in his
own suit. Example: South one dia-
mond, West two spades, South one
heart, West three clubs.
Defensive bids should be slight
ly stronger when vulnerable, and
the suit named must contain five
cards because of the danger that
weak bid may be doubled and
penalized heavily.
Partner Forced
The informatory double forces
partner to name his best suit, how
ever weak. aHis only excuse for