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years individual tournament
turned in a spectacular record in
1885.
Here's an example of the quick
thinking of which this star is
capable. He sat in the South and
defeated four hearts in the fol-
lowing manner:
Against four hearts, North
opened the deuce of clubs. A small
club was played from dummy and
Jacoby reasoned that his partner
held four clubs, probably headed
by an honor. He needed that
honor in his partners hand as an
lin" card, SO instead of going up
with his ace of clubs, he played
the queen, which permitted West
to win the trick with the king.
Declarer picked up the out
standing trump, and then led a
diamond, hoping to establish
diamond on which he could dis
card a losing spade. Jacoby won
the trick with the queen and
quickly underled his ace of clubs,
throwing his partner into the lead
with the jack.
North played a spade, giving
Jacoby two spade tricks. This
fine defensive play set the con-
tract one trick.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
by DREW PEARSON and ROBE

III HUBERT -. ALLEN--------
The Signal Corps of the War
Department gets part of its
tanning in Hollywood. 1t makes
pictures of projectiles leaving big
guns in the same manner Walt
Disney pictures are made-by
pasting stills" together.
THE day Adolf Hitler marched
Il troops into the Rhineland
and thereby tore up the Locarno
pact, German Ambassador Hans
Luther held press conference
and acclaimed the move as a
great achievement" He voiced
this view while standing under a
picture of himself, as chancellor
OF Germany, signing the Locarno
Treaty. Senator Lester j. Dick
lnSon, clark horse" Republican
presidential candidate, never rides
backward in a train or street car.
Doing so makes him i'll. Feb
ruary dividend declarations were
the highest for the month since
1882. F'ifty-four companies de-
clared extra dividends and 81
voted increases. This compares
with Al and % in February last
year. Roosevelt has been
checking up on all unspent gov
eminent funds, in preparation for
the submission to Congress of his
rellef budget. :. Bonus payment
applications are now pouring into
the Veterans Bureau at the rate
OF $4,000 a day. A night shift has
been established to keep up with
the food.
Rep. Keller, Illinois Democrat:
Mr.. Chairman, ask for five min
uteS more time" Rep. Rich. Penn
sylvania Republican,: Go ahead.
give him some more time. Maybe
he will say something. He hasn't
done so yet"
4 NALlFORNIA Republican lead
~ ers close to Senator Hiram
Johnson are urging Senator b.
rah to enter the presidential pri-
mary in that state. They are
telling him that he can beat both
eX-President Hoover and Gov.
Merriam. Senator johnson him
self is keeping hands off. but he
is not unfriendly to Borah.
The government has sold. 100000
bales of its cotton holdings since
Feb, II without disturbing prices.
In fact, the price of cotton has
advanced slightly. Word that
Home Owners Loan Corp. was
planning to lop off some $500 of
its field personnel has stirred up
a storm of protest on Capitol Hill.
congressman are rushing to Big
Jim Farley demanding that he
save the jobs of their henchmen.
The let-up in the cold weather
had sportive effect on Rep. Hook
and Rep. Lesinski. both from
Michigan. They exchanged blows,
and Hook accumulated a particu-
larly Respondent black eye.
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Syndicate Inc
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Neat Explanation

THOSE were not soldiers but policemen and labor
a ers. all except the Black Guards whose nsme
has one significance in Berlin but quite another in
the English language. The Black Guards were
neither policemen laborers but the personal at
tendants of Adolf Hitler assigned to protect him with
their lives And the dazzle-painted army orries
were not military transports but Just some motor
trucks which happened to be passing through
That was the explanation which was given AZ
Garmlsch- Partenkirchen when the foreign tourists
were stretching their necks and dancing on their
toes trying to see past the uniformed ranks and
catch an occasional Squint at an athlete
And now it turns out that the Nazi government
was PLAYING joke on Mr. Brundage and the athletic
ambassadors OF other nations For the aborers and
ponce and doubtless many personal bodyguards of
Adolf Hitler and the uniformed poultry raisers with
wings on their tunics have swung over the Rhine in
the same trucks which carried them through the
StreetS OF GarmlSch Partenkirchen less than month
ago. If they aren't soldiers at least they are what
Inc NaMs Will use for fighting purposes when the
war comes
Your correspondent was victim of the same
deception that took in the believing Brundape ex-
cepC IN one particular The exception was the corps
OF Black Guards about 1000 strong The Nazis ex-
planned time and again they were not soldiers bit
personal hodyguards and the explanations ALWAYS left
a lingering doubt
NOW 1t appears that when a Black Guard has
Su1ncently proven those qualities which in English
WOULD be called blackguardism he is considered
qualmed Tor a commission as an Nazi army officer
Ihasmuch as most OF them possessed these uualif-
caConS IN high degree, it is logical to assume that
many corps members are on the Rhine now
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seller or recipient of the payment
for services, with the exception
that the part of the tax which
falls on wages and salaries is to
be taken out of the pay check in
each pay roll period.
The McGroarty bill is very spe-
cific that no payment of pensions
is to be made to any one until
the beginning of the fifth month
after the Townsend tax becomes
payable.
In the fifth month, the amount
collected in the first month, less
costs of collection, is to be dis
tributed pro rata among all per-
sons over so years of age qualified
for pensions; in the sixth month
proceeds of the tax received, al
ways less cost of collection, in the
second month; and so on.
Two hundred dollars a month
is mentioned in the bill, not as
the amount of the pension to be
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NTASHINGTON, March IA
w President Roosevelt will re-
peat his 1882 transcontinental
trip in his reelection campaign
ing this year. He will make the
Journey in a special train, plans
to be ION the road" several weeks.
Secretary Dan Roper's dismiS-
sal of two officials of the Steam
boat Inspection Bureau, because
they let news leak to correspond
entS, seems about to be repeated
by the Labor Department. Sew
eral employees in the consumers
division are being threatened with
loss of their jobs for giving GER
tain information to reporters.
Twenty years ago Paul Greever
rode the rods" from his home in
Missouri to Wyoming in search of
fame and fortune Today he has
both. He is Wyomings sole con-
gresham and is the wealthy head
of one of the states largest law
firms. . . Administration foes are
critical of the bill introduced by
Senator Cotton ~Ed' Smith. It
would require the government to
dispose of its cotton holdings
within a specified time. They al
lege that traders have already
bought up thousands of cotton
certificates at Is and so cents
apiece, on the chance of being
able to sell them at three and four
times that value if the measure
passes. . Being presidential
candidate is agreeing with Sena-
tor Bill Borah's health. He has
put on a little weight in the last
month and is the picture of fit
physical condition.
Gen. Hugh Johnson, returning
to Washington after a three
months nation wide lecture tour,
told friends: 81 want to be for
Roosevelt but I haven't made up
my mind yet"
& n
THOUGH no official announce
Il ment has been made, DR..
Thomas Parran Jr. will come to
Washington early next month to
become Surgeon General of the
United States. heading the Pub
lie Health Service. Ever since
the retirement of Hugh S. Cum
ming, the post has been mysteri-
ously vacant. Reason for delay
in naming DR.. Parran is that he
wanted to hold his present post
State Health Officer for New
York-to which Roosevelt, as
Governor. appointed him.
The reason for Mrs. Huey Longs
vote of AYE" on the farm bill is
perhaps very remote from agri-
culture. She was more docile tran
Huey would have been, because
she does not want to bring a CLUB
down on the head of Seymour
Weiss. Weiss is the Long machine
in Louisiana, and is now threat
ened with indictment for income
tax evasion. For his sake, Mrs.
Long treaos lightly in Washing
ton.
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the estimates of DR.. Townsend,
there would be collected S4,500,-
100000 in the United States in
payment of the transactions tax.
GO long as no one received a
~ cent in pensions, no one now
working could be expected to re-
tire; and collection of a tax twice
as heavy as all present taxes
combined while no one got any
thing in return could not fail to
have a most depressing effect
upon business.
No country or state has ever
levied a transactions tax as in
elusive or at as high rates as the
proposed Townsend tax. The
nearest parallel to such tax has
been the gross income tax, with
which a few states have expert
mented.
Indiana now has a gross. in
come tax, but with more exemp-
lions than in the Townsend tax
and with rate of but l per cent
on retail sales and wages and of
a per cent on manufacturers and
jobbers. The Indiana tax yields
a little more than $1,00O,0Oo a
month.
Certain types of transactions
would not be difficult to reach if
the Townsend tax plan should be
adopted. The per cent tax on
wages and salaries is to be paid by
the employer and deducted from
each pay check, so whoever else
escapes, the wage earners would
have to pay their share.
AS Congressman Boileau has so
clearly pointed out, chain stores
and mail order houses would have
a very great advantage under the
Townsend tax plan over indie
pendent merchants, as they avoid
tax duplication, buying directly
from manufacturers 'and often
manufacturing some of the
products they sell; while indie
pendent merchants must buy
through jobbers and wholesalers,
each of whom would add 2 per
cent to his price on each transac-
ton.
TN the Townsend literature the
Il picture is presented that
large part of the tax would be col
lected from sales of stocks and
bonds and other speculative
transactions on the security and
grain exchanges.
But it is certain that little reve-
nue. would ever be collected for
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persons over so years of age.
1hls tax levy embraces three
new and additional taxes, of which
by far the most important is a 2
per cent transactions tax-to be
collected on the gross dollar value
OF every transfer or exchange of
property of any kind. and also on
ever payment for services of any
kind.
The only transactions" not
taxed are bank loans, inter bank
transactions. and occasional non
recurring sales of less than $50
by people who have no fixed place
of business.
n
THIS 2 per cent tax on all
Il transactions is payable at
the end of each month by the
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Probe May Include
Lobbyists Parties
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

VXTASHINGTON March 14.-SoclaI lobbying
w which goes on after dark in Washington, in
homes apartments and hotel rooms. may come under
the eye of the Senate Lobby Investigating Commit
tee.
Lobbyists, knowing that almost any Senator or
Representative after hard days work likes good
dinner and a good drink long have made it prac
tice to minister generously to these noble wants.
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HeIlC6 lew ItBISIdIUTS III WdSII-
ington starve or die of thirst. Ii
by chance during these pleas
ant occasions the legislative mat
ter in which the lobbyist is inter-
ested happens to come up in the
conversation, so much the bet
ter. If it doesn't come up by
chance, the lobbyist is apt to
bring it up, although some of
the more skillful practitioners
regard this as clumsy tech
niuue and believe that in such
situations the best rule is TO
skip it.
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duced in the
last session of
Congress.
The NEGRO
arty bill does
not provide for
old-age pen
sions of 5000 a
month or any
o t h er xe d
amount. What
IL really pro-
vides for is a
tax levy, pro-
ceeds of which,
a t t er four
months, are to
be distributed
NrO rofa opao1~
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didbc ltOptc.
And yet am less gloomy than
those who say that no progress
has been made since 1914 and
that the same blood and horror
must be endured again. Things
have happened in the decade
which provide at least glimmer
OF chance for permanent peace.
Russia, which was the ignition
spark in 1914, is now stabilizing
influence. BY curious twist of
the wheel if war is to be averted
now Russia and England must
turn the trick.
Any efforts for peace which
ENGLAND makes will be in the WaV
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gambling and speculative transac-
tions, because they are so easily
covered up.
1t is well-known fact that
sales taxes fall with peculiar
weight upon people of low in
comes. Wage earners, farmers,
and others with small or moder-
ate incomes must spend nearly all
they take in and under any sales
tax are taxed on practically all
their income.
The Townsend transactions tax
is multiple sales tax, plus tax
on wages, salaries, and profess
sional earnings. Every sales tax
tends to be shifted to consumers
in the form of higher prices.
TINE seller usually adds some
Il thing more than the tax, to
cover interest on money he must
advance and payment for extra
work which the tax causes him.
The Townsend tax would be
levied on every turnover, and
each time the tax, plus, very prob
ably, an additional charge, would
be added to the purchase price.
There is no way of estimating
how much the Townsend tax
would raise prices. Congressman
Werner Main of Michigan esti-
mated an average of from 10 per
cent to IL per cent. For many
commodities this increase, would
be much greater.
Labor unions and farmers or
CARNATIONS have always fought
sales taxes and the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor has strongly con-
demned the Townsend tax plan.
On this attitude the labor
unions and the farmers organi-
cations are certainly correct, be-
cause there is no doubt that this
is the most burdensome and in
equitable tax ever proposed.
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1t may be remembered that
Mr.. Brundage was pretty thor
oughly deceived during his pleas
ant days and nights in Garmisch.
Mr.. Brundage. as athletic ambas-
sador, so to speak, of the nation
which just barely declined to ap-
ply sanctions against the games.
was a distinguished and honored
guest of the Germans, but they
took an unkind advantage Of his
believing nature.
The Nazis had promised him
that they would do nothing to
foul the fine sporting spirit of
the games, and when thousands
OF men in uniform appeared on
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Solution to Previous
Contract Problem
BY VIM. E. M'KENNEY
Secrefarv American pr;d,a


Secretary American Bridge League
TINE American Bridge League
Il tentatively has set the dates
for the masters individual and
the masters team of four tourna-
ments for The week of April 13.
This tournament in the past
has been held in September or
October, but as winners of the
team of four are the recognized
representative of the United
States, which now holds the
worlds championship team of
four title, it was thought best to
select representation earlier in
the year, rather than at the end.
In this tournament, fine play is
the rule and not the exception.
Oswald Jacoby, a member of the
famous -Four Aces" team, which
now holds the worlds champion
ship title, and winner of last
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FAR Znou1h
by
W'ESIBRO0K PEGLER

Darts March 14.-DoubtlesS it will be a great
surprise to Mr.. Avery Brundage, president of the
American Amateur Athletic Union, to learn that
those uniformed men whose swarning numbers OBJ
scured the sporting aspect of the Olympic games at
Garmisch- Partenkirchen were soldiers, after all.
and that they are now up on the Rhine waiting for
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of atonement for that nation must shoulder its
share of the blame for the Versailles Treaty 1t is
true that no perfect settlement possible at the
end of the war; but the conditions finally set down
we're almost ingeniously diabolical in their complete
Illustration of any hope of amity
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II Seems hM
BY
Haywood BR0UN

NEW YORK, March IA do not think there will
/ y be a European this year and if it be
STAYED off now the truce may be prolonged. 1t is
idle not TO admit that actual peace is all but i'm
possible under the present setup Watchful waiting
and armed neutrality the limits of mans mme-
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BY EDWIN E. WHITE
Professor Of Economics, University 0
Wisconsin.

THE majority of the people
L who support the Townsend
Plan look upon it as an olG-age
pension proposal. DR.. Townsend,
himself, however, has repeatedly
stated that it is in its essence a
recovery plan, and only incident
ally an old-age plan.
This view is borne out by the
official Townsend Plan bill-the
McGroatry bill, H. R. 1854, intro
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% men IN uniform appeared on the scene most OF
them wearing tin hats and almost all carving
bayonets, an explanation given readily
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Leaders accept Challenge of Foes
OF Investigation by Congress

Townsends National Weekly circulating
breaches the doctrine OARP
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An economist of nationwide fame,
DR.. Edwin z. witte, professor of eco
Monies at Wisconsin University, here
presents an analysis of the Townsend
plan, taking up every phase of the pro-
gram which its originator contends will
bring national recovery and security to
the aged. Prof. Witte was co-author
of WisconsA's job insurance law, first
state act of its kind put in operation in
the United States, and was called to
Washington by President Roosevelt to
draft the national job insurance plan.
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City UphoIds
Use OF Schools
For Meetings.

lnLwsUHEE WIS In a. err
hszs;ns legal szsiysiS the riEh,
81 Tsraen1 Clubs 10 us pshile
1900, ssi.elHF, iar their nrstinrs
hss s-<n upnssd By City Attorney !
tisz EsIkih Ths deeinon enhelss !;
eiery rsairntion 81 he cIaea ihs,
,...;..s,s Mosrmsni does not srEsfs In
&siisa 81 political posps-
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Any eIIOTUS LOT ptdCe WIIICl
England makes will be in the wa,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-21

unless the American Constitution is
strapped completely.
UNFAIR
That the existing system is liable to
work unfairly, nationally speaking, is
obvious.
For example:
New York, with nearly 100000
population, has As presidential cleo
tors. Nevada, with $1,000 population,
has electors. Suppose that New
York's As win by LOGO majority and
Nevada's three win by 10000 majority
on the opposite side.
This would mean that the joint New
York-Nevada majority would be a
popular majority, but an enormous
electoral majority for New York
HOW 1T WORKS
AS between New York and Nevada
such figures are preposterous. They
are only illustrative
But it is possible for the populos
states, with small popular maiorities,
to outvote the less populated ones
reckoning in the electoral college. Not
only is it possible. 1t has occurred a
time or two.
Nationalist, who believe the presi-
dent should be picked by the whole
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MARRIAGES, PARTIES
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
VERNACULAR.

no" have come trotting along some
day
an aninable mule,
va 10 have overtaken Horace,
.no+.iro along on his aniinable mule,
the lovely road from Rome
y, his sabine farm.
,,,r nleasant to have paid,
IN substance:
"cood morning, Horace
nav trot along beside you
little way
nr this lovely road
between Rome and your Sabine
farm"
with my little Yatln
and less Greek,
cannot imagine
snvone saying SO natural a thing
bnt il would have been most plea
SAINT.
no,har: he would have told me
about leaving his buckler behind
him
at Philippi,-
he was % very young
at Philppi.
what he could have told me,
trottiNg along just like that,
ahort Caesar and Brutus and An
tony.
should surely have remembered
easily.
perhaps he would have chatted
Of the glorious arching shade
the white poplar and the. pine made.
tIe might even have told me
cut the Sabine farm,
or about Virgil and Maccenas.
Quite possibly
he might have gone trotting away
rapidly
on his aminable mule,
before | had a chance
10 say even: Good morning,
Horace"
Myrtle Sutherland.
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ner was Wilma Thompson with J. c.
Hicks getting honorable mention. In
the preparatory department, part one
Agnes Patterson won, with honorable
mention going to Ann Nichols and in
preparatory part two, Dorothy Pat
terson won. In preparatory three and
,, four Miss Rowena Daniel won with
honorable mention going to Frances
Daniel.
After the program each pupils
name was called from the Christmas
tree by Peggy Parker and presented
with Christmas greetings of Santa
Claus with candy from Mrs. Parker,
after which refreshments were served
consisting of chocolate fudge and salt
ed peanuts.
Those appearing on the program in
order were Peggy Parker, Mary Wind
ley, Louise Teiser, Agnes Patterson
Ann Nichols, Wilma Thompson, Mary
Harrison, Ann Register, Marion Cal
loway, j. G. Hicks, Jr., Elvira Cheat
ham, Dorothy Patterson, Helen Roy
ster, Mollie Bugg Ellis, Rowens
| Daniel, Elizabeth Jenkins, Frances
Daniel and Jane Thompson.
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The Nativity Given
At Epson School

The p. T. A. of the Epson high
school held it's regular meeting Thurs
day evening, at eight o'clock. The
meeting was called to order by the
president, Mrs. T. H.1Weldon. During
the business session letter from the
County Welfare department was read
which asked that the local P. T. A.
cponsor the bringing of Christmas
cheer to several needed families in
the community. Since the churches
in the community had already decid-
ed to do this, the letter was turned
over to them.
At the conclusion of the business
session, the children throughout the
various departments of the school I'M
der the direction of the local school
faculty presented the pageant. The
Nativity. The pageant was very eff
fective and impressive in portraying
the birth Of the Christ Child, and was
well received by the audience
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Pupils Have Piano
Recitals Saturday

The annual Christmas recital pro-
gram by the piano class of Mrs Ada
S. Parker was given Saturday even
ing at her home on Chestnut street.
With the beautifully lighted Christ
mass tree and other yuletide decora-
tions throughout the home, the Christ
mas spirit prevailed and made this
perhaps the most enjoyable program
of the year.
Because Of sickness and other I'M
avoidable hindrances there were six
members absent Those who appeared
on the program gave a splendid per-
Torrance, the judges, Mrs. Carter
Williams, Miss Halle Frank Mills,
and Mrs. S. r. Chavasse, declaring it
was very difficult to decide Prizes
were offered in four groups. In the
beginners and primary group the win