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Therefore, he decided to make a
sacrifice bid of five diamonds.
West now felt certain that North
and South were trying to keep
him from making a game, so he
bid five spades, which North
promptly doubled
Most pre-emptive bidders fail to
give their partners credit for hold
ing much. South felt that he had
forced his side into hot water, and
that East and West could make
five spades; so he bid six dia-
monds, which bought the contract.
Vests opening lead of the king
of spades was trumped by South
with the three of diamonds. De-
clarer played the king of dia-
monds, and West showed out.
The ace and king of clubs were
cashed and small club ruffed in
dummy. A spade was returned
and ruffed, and then a club was
ruffed with the ace of diamonds.
Another spade was ruffed by de-
clarer and then the diamonds were
played out.
At trick eleven, West was
squeezed. He could not hold the
queen of spades and also protect
the king of hearts. The squeeze
play gave declarer seven odd.
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ers falling to the earth, or there
will be here upon the American
scene new economic order, to
play a growing part in the social
and economic development of
America.
One thing about the co-ops
needs to be clearly borne in mind.
There is nothing of Communism
in the movement. It is, as the
Swedes have said, democracy in
business.
Communism would swallow up
the movement. In fact, this has
already happened in Russia, where
a strong coop movement was
taken away from the people and
controlled by the state, thus wip-
ing out the democratic character.
The coop movement is pushing
ahead in America, in Great
Britain, and in Scandinavia main
ly because these are the countries
of the world that understand de-
mocracy and find it easy to trans
fer it into economic terms.
1t is this, more than anything
else, that gives cooperation it's
Importance and marks it as
movement that may go far.
THE END
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

XX7ASHINGTON, April IL
w Managers of Gov. ALI Lam
don ere so confident he will win
the presidential nomination that
they have begun to lay the
groundwork for a G. o. P. Labor
Committee for the campaign. At
a secret meeting in Washington
last week, a Landon spokesman
told IA union officials that the
Kansan had the nomination Gin
the bag" and that the Repub-
lican Party would have plenty OF
money to wage an aggressive fight
against Roosevelt. The last
two days of March saw more new
stock issues registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion than during all Of it's first
year. Reason for the sudden rush
was that until the April l dead
line corporations could use their
year-end balance sheets as the
basis of stock issues. After April
/ a new audit of accounts was
required. The Standing
Room Only" sign will be out when
Andy Melons $3,000,000 tax eva
sion case is argued before the
Board of Tax Appeals in June.
Already more requests for seats
have been received from lawyers
and thrill-seekers than there are
places in the boards hearing room.
Facing one another in the dramatic
debate will be Robert jackson,
young Assistant Attorney General,
and Frank Hogan, council for AL
bert B. Fall and others in the ia
nous Teapot Dome Scandal. !.
Serge Uget, for many years Gus
todian of all Russian government
property in the United States, in
Guiding the handsome 16th-st en-
bassy, is now an assistant to the
United States District Attorney in
New York.
Said Senator Cotton Ed" Smith
during a hearing of the Agricul-
ture Committee, of which he is
chairman: Some of these days
some of our people will get to
thinking, and ! am afraid they
will all die of apoplexy."
q y
THOUSANDS of thin copper
l. plates, about the size of
postcard, have been sold to Ital-
ian-Americans. They are in
scribed with Easter war messages
and instructions to turn the cop
per over to Mussolini'S depleted
war stocks. Copper is one scarce
war material Mussolini needs
most. Charley Nicholson,
publicity sage Of the Democratic
National Committee, is making
the most of a letter which the
C. o. P. committee sent out to
all Republican editors offering to
supply them with any material,
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which could not be retraced and would end forever
the prospect of clearing up the case in decisive
fashion.
If some one had desired further to enlighten our
Marian visitor on Jersey justice" he might have
learned OF the killing, some months back of a New
Jersey wife and mother by public officials.
He would have been told how the slayers of this
woman were cleared in a jury trial and how the
former sheriff leaped chairs in the courtroom to
congratulate his ex-deputies with tears in his eyes,
He would have been amazed to find that these
deputies were reinstated in public Office to continue
their work Of protecting" womanhood, law and
order. No protests, believe, from Princeton.
TURNING back to the newspapers, the traveller
i from Mars would have read of the Vera Stretz
case. Here was a woman who admitted shooting
seemed to indicate generalization. But she was
acquitted
Moving to crimes against property, our celestial
caller might have discovered the fact that Col Luke
Lea had been released, after serving one year and
eleven months out Of sentence of six ten years
for conspiracy to defraud bank In Asheville N G.
The crime for which he was convicted was the
key incident in the failure of the Central Bank and
Trust Co. Of Asheville, with loss to depostors Of
S17O00000. This led to the closing Of several other
North Carolina banks with greater losses
II the visitor from Mars could have drawn from
these news notes any basic principles relative to
standards Of judgment of crime zeal for justice,
our penalties and sense of fair play he would
have done better than any realistic criminologst in
our midst could have been done.
Barely has weekend provided more colorful
examples 81 cockeyed justice
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Noble has become model coop
county. Mr.. Hutchinson recently
went to the Ohio Farm Bureau
to set UP statewide educational
system based on his Noble County
experience.
A MOTHER important phase Of
4 a cooperation has recently ap-
peared. Churches, long in revolt
over social and economic con-
ditions, have begun to see in the
cooperative movement chance
for pastors to take a leading part
in formation of a new economic
system.
All over the United States the
churches are embracing the move
ment, playing a growing part in
coop education.
Coop youth leagues are spring.
ing up. In universities and COL
leges all over the country, stu
dents are forming societies TO feed
and house themselves. AS they
learn to do this, they absorb the
coop technique and begin to
think about working into the coop
movement when they leave school.
Naturally, as the movement
grows, the problem of efficient
management becomes increasingly
important. The co-ops have been
fortunate in drawing to them
shrewd and capable business men.
Now, facing the problem as the
big one of the future, they are
planning training courses for flu
ture Coop leaders.
In Kansas City the Consumers
Cooperative Association is lay
ing the plans for a cooperative
college. Here, it is hoped, will
come the best of the young CO.
operators from all over America to
be trained for technical and ex-
pert positions within the move
ment.
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the politicians are naturally at
tracted to the co-ops as a source
of political support. Such men as
Gov. Philip La Toilette of Wis
consin and Gov. Floyd Olson of
Minnesota have come out into
the open to declare their belief
that consumer cooperation is the
coming economic order.
In the last Wisconsin Legislature
a bill was passed making compul-
sorry the teaching of cooperation
in all high schools, state univer-
stiles, colleges and normal schools.
Here, say the co-operators, is the
answer to the legislative problem
in the future.
n ~ asasz
A ND THEY are shrewdly build
"A ing on this platform. just as
shrewdly they have refused to ally
themselves with any political
party, but plan to use directly
those politicians who show friend
illness to the co-ops.
The cooperative movement will
bear watching during the next few
years. For there will either he
a grand collapse, with the hopes
of millions of farmers and labor
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ditions there are unsatisfactory
and hard boiled executive is
needed to clean them up.
During Townsend investigation
hearings Rep. Joe Gavagan, Tam
manyite member of the commit
tee, toyed with a pair of dice.
-. Senate Republican Floor
Leader Charley McNary was paid
an unusual tribute by the press
of his state. Out of 21S Oregon
newspapers, 213 announced they
would support his reelection this
year. Among them were the five
leading Democratic papers. I.
Rep. Hatton Summers, Texas
chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee and chief prosecutor
in the impeachment trial of Judge
Ritter, has participated in three
such proceedings. This is one
fourth of the total number of i'm
parchment trials conducted by the
Senate. :. Despite extensive ad-
vertiSing, the Treasury's baby bond
drive is tagging. The bonds are
moving steadily but not in the
volume hoped for.
Correction of news release
sent out by the Republican Ma
tional Committee: Mrs. Wolf,
director of the women's division
of the Democratic National Com
mittee, will speak first on a given
subject and Mrs. George A. Wyeth
will speak last on the same sub
ject. However, this is not a de-
bate"
ERIENDS of R. E. Clements
Il say the ex-co-founder of the
Townsend movement is consider
ing running for Congress in the
San Pedro (Cal.) district. :.
With the Ohio primaries just a
month off, more than half of the
states delegation in Congress have
gone home to repair their political
fences. One of the most orig
inal pieces of campaign literature
to crop out in this years cleo
pioneering is a creation by Lewey
Robinson, young city official of
Birmingham, Ala, who is after
the scalp of Rep. George Huddles-
ton, bitter anti-New Deal Dem
ocrat. The document consists of
an INIT a tion $40 Confederate
banknote, on one side of which are
these words: This piece of
paper is worthless. Worthless as
it may be, it represents the full
value of George Huddleston as
member of Congress"
4 e
Canvassers for Secretary Dan
Roper's business census get this
comeback from business men:
1.-The President promised us a
breathing spell, so why doesn't
Roper leave us alone?"
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POSSIBILITIES in the manu-

POSSIBILITIES in the manu-
l. featuring fields have hardly
been touched. But in their ferti-
lizer and farm machinery pro-
grams, the co-ops have discovered
some significant things. They have
found that some big manufacture
ers already in the fields see in the
coop method of distribution a
step forward.
These manufacturers, as in the
case of the Tennessee Corporation,
have shown their willingness to
play ball with the co-ops. Here
may be one solution of the manu-
featuring problem.
Another important factor will be
that of legal and legislative action.
Lobbies of vested interests will
naturally enough move to get
Gripping and cramping legisla-
tion passed to stop the Corpora
tives in the easiest way.
Already the answer to this prob
lem is appearing. AS the mem
bership of the movement grows,
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pum with a government badge
that they might have in their
possession as little as a dram of
some miserable counterfeit liquor,
and that Mr.. Hoover never had
the pity, let alone the decency,
to say AYE" yes" or mo" about
1t. If he had had the gumption
to say that he believed in pro-
hibition, that would have been
something. But you can go
through his entire record and
never find sentence in which
Hoover the President or Hoover
the Cabinet member affirmed
belief in the Eighteenth Amend
ment except to call il a "nohle
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AKIAb4II UN OA4 MY WUJ 20 A14A4C cEAANA
fortune, but that was while was
still playing lunches. Later on
was ruined through the use of
scientific system. For instance,
there was Idle Midget, a couple of
weeks ago. Idle Midget just
didn't figure, but all morning I
had been talking with a man
about the munitions hearing. A
coincidence like that could hardly
be passed up by any one of in
telligence. Morgan's lap, Idle
Midget-how could one miss? The
horse paid the nice price of 46
to /.
~ a.. IL
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people to whom it makes it's
appeal must be taught the
philosophy of cooperation.
Most of the big wholesalers are
already facing this problem. There
is in action now system of edu-
cation within the movement. The
big coop wholesale houses have
not been turning all their profits
back to their individual members.
In most cases half the profit has
been set aside to make up a fund
for expansion and education.
INDIANA is an outstanding ex-
l. ample of just how the sue
cessful coop will work in the flu
ture. The Indiana Farm Bureau
Coop Association has set up an
educational department, which
works in two ways.
During the summer, it runs a
series of one-week courses at
camps and colleges rented for
that purpose. At these courses,
classes of about 30 young people
are gathered from the various
counties and are given an inten-
sive course in cooperative philos-
ophy and technique.
These students return to their
counties imbued with the coop
idea, to become local leaders in
organization of study clubs to
carry on through the winter.
The summer of 1894 saw 1000
of these students trained in coop
schools. In 1885 this number was
jumped to 1900. Plans for 1886
call for an even greater number.
In Noble County, Ind, under
direction of the Rev. Carl Hutch
inson, the study club idea was
linked with system of co-opera-
tive recreation. Folk games and
dances of European countries
proved popular with these typical
young Americans. AS a result,
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One of His Daring Moments

by the time Mr.. Hoover became President proh-
btion longer an experiment. although
he went so far as 20 call it in one of his more
daring moments. BY that time prohibition had ma
tured into the an-American outrage
There is no way of reckoning the number of
people who were fined or sent to prison for being
just little bit guilty, as in the case of man who
likes his toddy and keeps flask on hand. There is
no computing the total of people who died of poison
or lost their eyes or the number of ginger araytics
who became unstrung from drinking jake
When Mr.. Hoover became President prohibition
was an established system of corruption in which
agents of the United States government rode the
booteggers trucks to provide safe conduct or helped
one gang of bootleggers hijack another gangs load
Certainly not even Mr.. Hoover himself could have
been dumb enough to believe that enormous brewer
les operating openly in New York and Chicago could
produce and sell their beer without the protection
and partnership of government agents and prose-
cutors. But the Anti-Saloon League seemed strong
and Bishop Cannon was tough politician, so Mr..
Hoover showed what sort of President he was by
repudatng the report of his own commission which
investigated prohibition and found it rotten.
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ShdW Shocks Miami

CPEAKINo of Old Comrade Bernard Shaw found
~ Miami just his meat when he dropped in for a
. day during the height of the season. He shocked
the citizens and also the newspaper men. re-
porter for wire service told me, of course,
couldn't send out most of what he said"
For instance?" inquired.
"Well" he explained, "the old gentleman said
that Roosevelt was all right for an amateur, but
that the United States really ought to import
couple of commissars Imagine my turning in a
story like that to my ofdce"
Wild legends went around about Shaw in Miami
It was rumored that he had drunk two cocktails
I investigated that rumor, and it turned out merely
that Shaw had split a bottle of buttermik with
Bernarr Macfadden
And speaking of vegetarians, I did not learn
until it was too late the way of beating the dog
races. The more intelligent greyhounds, which is no
great compliment grow little bored with the
mechanical rabbit They know it is fake, and
their racing becomes a little perfunctory At such
times shrewd trainers will take the blase hound out
in the morning, put muzze on him and let him
have dash after a real rabbit.
That night when the dog gets on the track he
Is full of patriotism, and he banks and prances He
is good bet for show.
1t was Jack Bell, of the Miami News who told
me about the dogs and the rabbit and by a transi-
ton which did not seem to me at all abrupt he
began to talk about war.
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Tor tenants or Other partleS, or
whether they were due him per-
sonally.
1t has been said frequently
that the real purpose of AAA was
to buy the Republican farm vote
but nobody dreamed that Sec
rotary Wallace would aim so
high.
nNE touching little Easter
~ story is the way loyal Fas-
cist Italians in this country have
been buying Easter greetings en-
graved on almost paper-thin
ronnef- sheets which slim intn an
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IN 1914. Reading further, he
would have found that a man,
whose guilt was regarded by
many as not fully proved, was
being electrocuted with almost
mobilize frenzy while his case
was still under official investi-
cation.
Our visitor from Mars would
have read how the distinguished
and solemn faculty of the great
Princeton University demanded
a searching investigation of a
Governor who claimed that he
was determined TO gather all
thu factr tnnfnrn tn1ri. TO-.
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EhZnouNh'
by
WESTBRO0K PEGLER

OF course, prohibition is no issue in the
current presidential campaign. But
think of prohibition every time Mr.. Hoover
makes speech, because the very word
recalls what sort of President he was when
he had his chance.
1t is hard to remember. so easily are pains for
gotten that during Mr. Hoover's time in Washington
many people shot on the mere suspicion of some
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Solution to Precious
Contract Problem
BY w. E. M'KENNEY

American Bridge League Secretary
DRE-EMPTIvE bidding pro-
l. duces strange results, at times.
Certain players can not permit a
pre-emptive bid to be made
against them. 1t is like waving a
red flag at a bull. They are
bound to bid something.
When playing against this type
of player, strengthen your pre-
emptive bids.
Then again, there are players
who do not know just what to do
against pre-emptive bid. Against
this type you can use a light pre-
emptive bid. Odd results, however,
were produced with today's hand.
When South elected to open
with four diamond bid, West, of
course, knew that South was try
ing to shut him out and promptly
bid four spades, which could be
made. Even though North held
three aces, he felt certain that he
would not take diamond trick.
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Allen Hoover Cot
$4,000 From AAA
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

VXTASHINGTON, April 11-Who started these
w disclosures of AAA benefit payments anyway?
Now it leaks out that Allan Hoover, son of former
President Hoover, is the books having re-
ceved $4,000 in AAA sugar benefit payments from the
New Deal against which his father is pitting wit and
wisdom. The payment made 1884 sugar
contract and went to ia SanSome- st, San Fran
cisco. 1t is not known here whether Mr. Hoover was
only the nominal recipient for payments intended
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Liberal Viewpoint
; BY HARRY ELMER RARNES-

A VISITOR from Mars. even from Europe,
would have been rather dazed by the news last
weekend with respect to our criminal procedure,
He would have scratched his head in vain to dis
cover some strain of logic
He would have noted the news of the Hauptmann
execution, played up in headlines as large as those
which proclaimed the declaration of war in Eurona
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experiment, or expressed the natural loathng Of
honest men for regime as brutal and dctatorial as
Hitler and Mussolini at their worst.
After all, if a government kills innocent men and
then profess the killers from punishment If a gov
eminent freaks into private homes the suspicion
of malicious neighbors to slug the occupants and
drag their off to jail for protesting that is Nazism
and FaSc,sm
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hEYWOODBR0UN

MIAMI, April 1.-THE President is head
ing north and so am I, but think we
are both making a mistake, for this is the
finest time of year in Florida. The Presi-
dent probably spent the wiser vacation, for
he followed the fish while / pursued the
horses. His was the heavier catch. have no doubt
and besides. if you loss on mackerel it doesn't cost
anything. In the beginning it seemed to me as if
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second time, and there have been De Valera, Mixed
Party, Flying Arab, Old Comrade and others too
numerous to mention Old Comrade was distinctly
a disappointment. The racing colors under which
he black with large red &C." Certainly
there horse TO fill the eye of any radical But
he finished last for all that although the chart did
say, "Old Comrade closed fast"
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Hoover Should Yell

THERE has been some complaint that Mr. Roose-
- velt's Administration is slightly dictatoriai
around the edges and that can't be denied with any
sincerity, for the boys have made free use of the
whip these last four years. particularly in the Treas
ury Department. This business of using the income
tax to beat people into line is out of the book of
Hitler and Mussolini and Huey P. Long. But Mr..
Hoover is hardly the to holler dictator at any,
body. considering the dry dictatorship which had his
sanction under prohibition
In the last campaign Mr.. Hoover represented pro-
hibition because he lacked the honesty and courage
to say word which would have annoyed the Anti
Saloon League and the Methodist Board of Prohibi-
ton, Temperance and Public Morals. Roosevelt de-
nounced prohibition and that was the great popular
issue of the election.
Not only hedger, but bit of a wilmer it is
natural that Mr.. Hoover has struck the pose of
martyr with the paintive slogan Smear Hoover" as
blanket reply to every criticism brought against
him. There is no denying that Hoover was smeared.
He ought to know, because ne did the job himself.