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Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12
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NOT ONE player in 1000 has SUI
ficient definite information to state
the relative values of games and
penalties, at different stages OF the
rubber, yet the subject is most inn
portant. Where I play most often
an average rubber is worth about
900 points. 1t is a mathematical
fact that the side winning the first
game has three in four chances to
win the rubber. The side winning
the first game may win the rubber
either by also winning the second
game in case opponents win the
second game. There is only one
chance in four for the side losing
the first game to win two straight
games. and rubber.
Where ar average rubber runs
about 900 points, out of eight rub
bers played there are five rubberS
averaging 800 points and three rub
bers averaging about 1,100 points
For convenience we will take 7,3O0
points for eight rubbers, to avoid
using odd figures.
Take eight cases where South has
game in hand, unless West oVerolds
to save game. How much can west
afford to overbid to save the first
game of the rubber?
If West does nothing South will
win six out of eight rubbers and
West will win the two remaining
rubbers, by being fortunate enough
to win the second and third games
straight. South will win three rub
bers at LOO points each. The other
three rubbers will net him 300
points each, as West will win the
second game for a minimum score
of 100 game points and the rubber
premium will be only 500 points,
instead of being 700 points for a
love rubber, thus saving total OF
300 points. West also will win Two
80O-point rubbers of the eight
played. Thus the eight rubbers
when South wins the first game will
Weld his side a total of 5.700 points,
against 1000 points total won by
west. or a net total of 4,100 points
on the eight rubbers in favor OF
South. because he won the first
game of the rubber, and because
West refused to bid high enough
to take away the contract from
South.
If West will win four rubpers OF
the eight, by preventing South from
winning the first game in each case,
it should be evident that anything
less than 4,100 points which over
bidding costs will be gain in the
end for West. Therefore West can
afford to overbid up to 500 points
penalty to save the first game of a
rubber, which South surely will win
unless West interferes. This as
sumes that West and South Will
have equal chances to win the rub
ber if the first game can be saved,
and that rubbers will average about
900 points in the circle where the
overbidding takes place.
Figures so bore the majority OF
readers that we will not go further
into them on cases where opponents
are a game-in or game-out, or on
rubber game, beyond giving the fol-
lowing facts. Prefer winning the
first game to collecting 500 points
penalty from opponents. Prefer 60
ing down not more than 500 points
to allowing opponents to win the
first game. Prefer going down not
more than 500 points to giving OPP
ponents a love rubber. Prefer a love
rubber to penalizing opponents only
500 points. Lose 500 points rather
than surrender the rubber game to
opponents.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Publishing Company, 625 State
street, El Centro California. Telephone 800. Full
leased wire United Press Association. Entered at
FL Centro, California, post office as second-cass
matter. Member California Newspaper Publish
ers' Association. NJ. c. Mogensen, national ad-
vertising representatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

Three thousand more acres are plant
ed to lettuce this year than last in I'M
perial Valley, the county agricultural
commissioner estimates. Acreage or
spring and fall peas exceeds that of last
year, with prospects bright for good
prices. 1t would be hard now to con-
vince Imperial Valley farmers that low
dam would be proper on the Colorado
river.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

Italian troops are pushing deeper into
Ethiopia, toward the Lake Tana region
where Great Britain had planned to con-
struct a dam at the head of the Blue
Nile. While London and Rome wrangie,
Italy's field forces are getting to the real
heart of the trouble
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

At a dog carnival it was shown
that the Whippet-a cross between
the greyhound and the terrier-is
the fastest dog in existence. The
worlds record for speed made by
whippet is 200 yards in 119I sec
onds.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

Great Britain is studying methods of
eliminating noisy automobiles and motor
cyles. They might start on the motorists
themselves, working down through the
horn-tooting kind to the early-morning-
under-the-window type.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

An organized gang is intent on wreck
ing Americas military aviation, Los An
geles police believe, refusing to say more.
Sometimes the silence in which federal
agents work is more than welcome. At
least it is apparent they are not trying to
make the headlines.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

At a meeting here last night, a
plan was pushed through to consol-
idate all the business mems organ
iZations Of the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12
Answers TO Foregoing Questions

l. The founder Of Rhode Island,
whose friendship with the Indians
more than once averted a massacre.
2. Napoleon Bonaparte.
g. Four.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12
Leicester Wagner
StrOlls Thru HOLLYWOOD

song hits) which actually loves
water. The maid has to give it'three
shower baths a day or else the kit
ten drives everyone crazy with its
mournful plea for dunking water.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

1t would be hard to imagine the United
States, tuned to peace as it is now, again
falling blindly into such a propaganda
trap as brought about American entry
into the World War.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12
LO o kin g
B a C k W a r d
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
November IL, 1915

Imperial Valley turkeys at the
rate of one carload daily are being
expressed to Los Angeles for the
Thanksgiving market.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

The future of the Imperial VAL
ley Growers association will be set
tied at a meeting to be held at the
associations offices this afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

BE pacifistic in purpose but armed
to the teeth for Defense" advises Sen. w.
G. McAdoo. And that hardly before the
honeymoon is overi
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12
Boston Square Has
Cemetery Center

BOSTON, Nov. IL. Wp)-Copley
Square, one of Boston's busiest sec
tions, has a cemetery in the center
of it.
Few persons have noticed them,
but there are three tombstones un-
der the pictured portico of the New
Old South Church.
Inc inscription, commemorating
persons long associated with the old
parish, reads; John Alden, Sr., who
DIED IN l7Ol; Joshua Scottow, who
dled IN 1897, and Ann Quinsey. who
passed away at 13 years"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

Gang war has claimed the life of the
18th hoodlum is less than two months in
New York. If this keeps up, the G-men
won't be necessary.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

NEW YORK, Nov. IL. - Ernest
Hemingway became the white-hal
bov of the cafes and night clubs on
his recent metropolitan visit. Broad
vav usually lavisheS its lionlzlng on
a radio, movie or stage star. But,
with the exception of Michael Arlen,
seldom an author
Press agents who could entice
Hemingway to front row table and
then have his presence noised about
were certain of a tilt in receipts for
the evening. That's a branch OF the
pas art these days-landing a celeb
rity and tipping it off to the fawn-
erS.
Hemingway was symbolic of the
great outdoors TO the pallid pat
rons of the stuffy night mosques.
The stalker of lions, the deep sea
battler with the barricuda and fire.
ouenter of the Spanish bull rings.
What is more, he gave the impress
sion of being unconscious OF his
celebrity.
He engaged in florid arguments at
the bars with casual toSs-potS, SEEM
ed to enjoy the floor shows and
walked out sober at dawn. Somewhat
a phenomenon in the usual blurr. He
gave cafe society chance to boast:
"As I said to Hemingway last night
at -"
I like to watch a cafe torch singer
bob into the room with animation a
short while before she puts on her
act and then watch her drift back
to her special table in melancholy
| haze after her lament is finished
She seems unable to shake off her
sadness-gazing upon the surround
ing gaiety as one thoroughly disillu-
stoned. When she danceS-a waiting
boy friend is always about.She
moves in trance-like shuffleS, lost in
a morass of unrequited hopes. It's
art casting a spell, or grand acting
One guess to each customer.
Mrs. Grace Coolidge came TO towr
recently do discuss a magazine as
Signment and Arthur McKeogh at
tempted to aid in making her visit as
pleasant as possible. He selected 6
Sedate Guild show for the evening
and after the play escorted the for.
mer presidents widow to the high.
handshake Rainbow Room. Mrs
Coolidge thought she would like {
chocolate sundae. The waiter wa!
doubtful, but scurried away and re.
turned to announce it could not bt
secured. So McKeogh archly inquir.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12
TEN YEARS AGO
November IL, 1925.

Plans for the formation of two
pools, one in the north en1 and one
near Holtyille. for the purpose of
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
November IL, 1920

A new heating system is being
installed at Central.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

selling turkeys, were made at ar
enthusiastic meeting last night.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Cravath and
son, Dale, have returned to their
ranch home in Meloland after liv-
ing in Holtyille the past three
years.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

Melungeons are a distinct race of
people living in the mountains of
eastern Tennessee. They are about
the color of mulattoes, but have
straight hair.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12
TOday's Horoscope

Persons born on this day are eco
nomical, prudent, and fond OF
money.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12

Correctly Speaking
Bank on, or take stock in" Is
obiectional slang in the sense OF
rely on, receive as Trustworthy" =
or confidently expect.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12
GRAB BAG
Who was Roger Williams?

Who was Roger WilliamsP
What world famous French flgure
revised his country's constitution
and legal system?
How many pecks are there IN a
bushel?
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-12
Words of Wisdom

I trust no rich man who is off,
ciousIy kind to a poor man.-Plau-
tus.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-24
TO RELIEVE INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Infantie paralysis, that malady which so few know about and which has often ruined the lives of young Am ercans just beginning their span of years has again been brought before the attention of the American people
 President Roosevelt has agreed again this year to lend his birthday in this cause effort to raise funds for lief from such disease Himself afflicted he readily reeog nzes the wonderful work which has been carried by the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in carrying for many others so afflicted.
 In 1884 the funds raised throughout the nation were turned this organization to carry its work This year more general program has been made whereby enty percent of the funds will remain in the community section in which it subscribed and only thirty percent will be away and this to be used in further research by competent research laboratories.
 Nome, in 1884, contributed along with other Alaskan cities and welcomed the opportunity to assist in such good
 This year the public of Nome again to be asked contribute We have been very fortunate here in being isolated from nante paralysis but perhaps there few section who suffering from the disease and there may be- time when many will be on the list of victims
 Whether it is possible to give Presidents Birthday Ball January 30th is being considered by special mtee this evening Other cities in Alaska according to the reports planning such ball. But due to the desruc ton of public halls here in the re do not have suitable place in which to give dance.
 As worthy cause contributions made for the purpose of studying and relieving the effects of nfante will the past Nome always through of emergency and in the daily of doing good for the other person we'll as for itself. It will not fall down
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-24
NEWSPAPER ACCURACY

Speaking recently at William and Mary College, Frank R Kent of The Baltimore Sun made shrewd defense of the accuracy of most newspapers He not foolish contend that even the best newspaper did not fall into indeed he admitted the possibility that every newspap ermakes mistakes every day But in business and in
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-24

profession that of the pure scientists the premium accuracy high the penalty for naccacy prompt and the proportion of accuracy great This sounds sweeping but Mr. Kent defends the ground not that newspaper men are congenally accurate than other men, but that newspaper mistakes go unnoced When misa made other business profession they o up and rarely known to than few but the newspaperman makes his mistakes right out in the open and they spread before the keen eyes of many hous ands of people:
 There isn't newspaper man anywhere who does not know that, trivial though his may be- one will catch it. Even when 1t escapes the watchful editorial gaze when he, himself of it, there still the old subscribers of them-vigan alert a gressve resentu eager to put their finger the brake communicate with the editor and show up the writer and the paper These old Subscribers my judgment by far the most valuable asset newspaper have Their m ant microscopic scrutiny is the finest possible corrective n 1uence.
 It is seldom that the ponterouer gets such gen. praise all of it, of course deserved Incidentally MT Rents remarks direct attention service performed by the critic of mistakes that often overlooked Lord Halifax used to say that Were not hanged for stealing horses but that horses might not be stolen On the principle the subscriber who calls attention does not merely help to get that particular coeced he helps to keep alive the newspaper that eternal vigilance which is the price of accuracy well as of berty-NeW York Times.
 We'll just for variety still waiting for Weddng where they sing the ballad w Be Faithful instead of the good old standbys I Love You Truly and "Oh, Promise Me-.
 One feature in favor the old style photograph over the radio is that it doesn't take time out to tell about tooth paste auto tires and stomach medicine.
 headline referring the coming marriage of happy couple says the wedding lends romance How cynical papernen decentralization Globe.
 We can't explain exactly the nature of the change that has the blue eagle of late but he doesn't o be in the pink, anyway-Boston Herald
 numismatst says that in 200 years present-dayH coins will be and much sought after How about now Dayton Ohio News
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
Thrills, ShudderS and Laughs

ID Arrest of all rare birds is the author who
IN can write a detective story which is both
puzzling and funny. Georgette Heyer has &C
complished the trick perfectly in Merely Muir
der" Crime Club; so, and it is one of the best
mystif1ers of the season.
rich man is found stabbed to DEATH seated
in the stocks on the green of an English village.
He is survived by two stepbrothers and STEP
sister, all of whom hated him violently and all
Of who profit financially by his death.
They are, accordingly all suspects; and when
they find that role amusing, and gleefully point
out that they lack even the shadow of an alibi
the Scotland Yard man on the job is sorey
puzzled.
1t makes an excellent tale, genuinely battling
as to plot and exceedingly funny as to the man
ner of telling. Don't miss it.
This seems to be good week for detective
stories. "A Most Immoral Murder" by H. Ash
brook (CoWard-McCann; So, is another good
yarn. 1t has to do with profane and ribald
Spike Tracy, brother of New Yorks district at
torney, who opens his door on a stormy night
and gives shelter to a young woman who turns
out to be the key figure in a murder case. Miss
AShbrook tells her story with fine guSto and
good spirits, and displays good knack for puz-
Reconstruction as well.
A third murder story worth reading is The
Three Collins" by John Dickson Carr (Harpers;
so. Here we have the man who is killed in
locked room from which no one could possibly
have escaped; and the solution of this mystery
is one of the most ingenious and intricate you
have ever read. The book has a nice shuddery
sort OF atmosphere, as well. (By B. c.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
LIKE SON, LIKE FATHER

A GRANT of $500 to preserve the modest
y farm home at Little Falls, Mimi, where
Col Charles A. Lindbergh spent his boyhood,
has been proposed by the WPA adminiStra-
ton for Minnesota. If the grant is approved
in Washington, the Lndbergh home will be
restored and saved as national shrine.
1t is an excellent idea; and if and when it
is done it would be fine thing if the shrine
should serve also to keep alive the memory Of
the fier's father, the late Congressman
Charles A. Lindbergh.
Here was a man who fought desperately for
the rights of the plain people. He saw and
opposed the growing domination of Wall Street
over American life. He fought like tiger to
keep us out of the war.
He paid for it with ostracism and bitter
criticism, but he kept the faith to the end. He
was a man worth remembering; may the
preservation of his home keep his memory
greenl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
FORGETFUL CONvALEsCENTs

president R. S. HEIGHT of the Ameri-
l. can Bankers Association tells the National
Business Conference that the banking business
today is in fair shape. He feels confident
about the future.
ut is true that old man business has been
i'll for several years." he says. Many financial
and economic doctors were called into consul
tation and prescribed a great variety of hitherto
untried remedies. The patient faithfully tried
them all Whether because Of or in spite Of
these remedies, he is now convalescent.
Talk like this coming from banker, stirs
odd memories One Of the hitherto untried
remedies for sick banks, as you may recall, was
a nationwide banking holiday; and when the
financial and economic doctors rallied around,
the bankers greeted them with pitiful eager
ness ard tried the remedies handed out, be-
cause they faced certain death if they went it
alone any longer.
The bankers may fnd'it pleasant to forget
that period, now; the people are apt to have
better memories.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18

tured the dire prophecy about grass growing in
the streets.
She quotes some Of the things George
Washington said about the Constitution, but
in no account Of her speech which we have
read do we find any reference to the following
interesting appraisal of that document. made
by Washington in a letter TO friend:
The Constitution that is submitted is not
free from imperfections; but there are as few
radical defects in it as could well be expected,
considering the heterogeneous mass Of which
\ the convention was composed and the diversity
Of interests which we're to be reconciled"
Nor does she seem to have recalled that her
famous husband, whose name makes her utter
ance news. campaigned for the presidency in
1912 on a platfCrm-which he wrote himself
advocating such restrictions of the power of
the courts as shall leave to the people the ulti-
mate authority 70 determine fundamental
questions of social welfare and public policy"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
Lansing and His War Game

TIME education OF the innocent American as
L to the causes of his country's declaration Of
war on Germany in 1917 continues apace The
latest item is the war Memoirs Of the late
Robert Lansing Secretary of State before and
during our entrance into the war. (Bobbs-M
rill; Indianapolis; $3.50.
Mr.. Lansings memoirs are nothing If not
frank.
He took Office in the middle of 1915 when the
Lusitania controversy was at its height He ad-
mits plainly that at that time he was con-
WINGED that America must join the Allies. He
wanted to see war declared then, but was re-
strained by the thought that the country
wouldn't stand for it.
So he resigned himself to a passive game,
anxously waiting for propaganda to bring his
fellow citizens to his own point of view.
He admits that when he wrote notes to the
British government, protesting against the high
handed British interference with American COM
merce, his one aim was to string things out and
avoid III chance Of a break in relations when
he wrote notes to Germany, his aim was just
the opposite.
1t makes rather dismal reading Our Secre-
tary of State 20 months before we declared war,
was firmly convinced that it was our moral duty
to get into it. What chance, after all, did we
have of remaining neutral?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
SWORDS AND PLOWSHARES

"THEY shall beat their swords into plow-
l. shares and their spears into pruning
hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any
more" Isaiah ia.
This prophecy has come true in at least
one country. Paraguay, according to a dis
patch from Asuncion, is turning her army and
navy arsenals into factories for the making Of
plows Her farmers need 10000 plows, and
these will be distributed at cost to the farm
ers.
The irony of it is that Paraguay has learned
peaces lessons only after savage and fruit
less three years war with her neighbor Bolivia
over possession of strip OF jungle often called
Green He'll" This little republic, with only
a million souls, sacrificed her finest sons and
gained nothing.
Mussolini, about to repeat this scene OF
carnage in Ethiopias tropical jungles. eventu-
ally must beat his swords into plowshares and
return to the arts of peace. The world is
praying that the League will succeed in show
ing him a peaceful way and that it will sur
vive to bring the fulhllment of Isaiahs proph-
ecy all over the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
INDIANA'S SOCIAL SECURITY

IF Gov. NIca1utt goes through with his plan
l. for a special session of the Legislature late
this year the states chief executive will de-
serve the commentator of every Indiana
citizen.
The Governor is understood to be ready to
toss all political considerations overheard and
call the Legislature into session to pass the
laws needed to bring Indiana into line with
the Federal social security program.
There are always indictments in the ranks
of any political organization, rebels plotting to
upset the machines apple wagon. Gov McNutt
has some of these in his organization and he
has been reported loath to summon the Legis-
1ature because of the possibility that the off
the-reservation' assembiymen could undo much
Of the good coming from the session.
A decision to defy the political footballers
and call the Legislature into session to adjust
the social security law would be a courageous
and humane move.