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u An explanatory response. Mr..
Burnstine's hand Is too strong for one
notrump and too weak for forcing
two-notrump
(2) The correct rebid
90 Although Mr.. Burnstine has q
high card value of but 61a, his hand
includes seven honors.
~ The sign off in q new suit. BY
means of this bid Mr.. Jacoby conveys
the following information: First, that
he thinks three notrump will be q
very doubtful contract; second, that
he cannot support diamonds; third
that his spade suit is not strong
enough to rebid twice. At the same
time he does give MIR. BurnStine q
chance to continue if he has some
thing in reserve.
80 Mr.. Burnstine has no addi-
tional values and realizes that clubs
are undoubtedly the best denomina-
ton for the final contract.
In the play of the hand Mr.. Jacoby
was actually able to make five clubs,
due to considerable help by East and
West, the play being as follows: The
five Of hearts was opened and won by
the jack in the closed hand. Mr.. Ja-
coby entered dummy with the ace of
diamonds, led the jack of spades, and
when East, for some reason best
known to himself, failed to cover, It
was allowed to ride. A second spade
was led and the queen finessed, West
rufing. Now West led another heart.
Mr.. Jacoby played the queen in
dummy and led the jack of clubs.
East played low and Mr.. Jacoby went
right up with the king. The second
club lead dropped the ace and queen
together, whereupon Mr.. Jacoby was
able to ruff his two low spades.
AS mentioned before, East and West
had been very helpful, but it made no
difference whether Mr.. Jacoby made
three clubs or five. Every other North
and South team had bid three no
trump with their cards and all went
down.
(Copyright. 1885,
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STICK.

WAS ATTACHED TO THAT
STICK.
certain to be in all kinds of trouble
most of the time. Little Miss Swiftly
had found the man smell around her
house. She had noticed that the sand
on her doorstep had been smoothed
so that no footprints showed. She
had associated these two facts. AS
she went up little path which she
was accustomed to using she had sud-
denly grown uneasy and suspicious
and promptly had stopped. There,
too, she had discovered the man smell.
Later a Dog had come along that
path, and at that very place had
stepped in q steel trap which had
been hidden. Little Miss Swiftly had
watched that Dog as he lay there
suffering. The next morning she had
seen his master come and take that
trap from his foot and carry him
home. She had thought all these
things over and the feeling had grown
and grown that these things had
something to do with her.
II wonder" said Little Miss Swiftly
TO herself. IF there is another one
OF those dreadful things around, wait
ing to jump up and catch me by a
paw" OF course, she meant steel
trap.
The mere thought of such thing
was very disturbing. 1t worried her
She thought of that smoothed-over
doorstep. She went up to the door
way and looked out. It was a sandy
doorstep. The sand lay smooth and
harmless looking. 1t shouldn't have
been smooth. 1t should have been
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- ONE people are smart enough
- to learn and profit from what
they see and hear. Those are
- the ones who get on best in the
Great World. Little Miss Swiftly,
smart young daughter of Reddy Fox,
was one of this kind. She had been
that way ever since she had poked
her nose outside the home den to play
with her brothers and sisters. The
result was that when she had started
out into the Great World to make a
place for herself she had managed to
keep from being harmed, and this was
more than could be said for some Of
her brothers and sisters.
There are people, many of them.
who see things and hear things, yet
do not profit by them They do not
think about them. They promptly
forget them. Such people are not
likely to live long, or if they do. are
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tree. has called them to come out.
Without much hesitation, the baby
drops from the doorway. II he lands
on the ground, he is so light and
fluffy that he receives q mere shock.
If the water Is below. one by one they
follow each other with splash, not
greater than q ball of cotton would
make. Eagerly the bill Is dipped
into the water, feathers are fluffed
out, and away goes the duckling 70
hunt under some lily pad.
Use your camera, when possible, on
your trips to illustrate the actual
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things you can write about in your
own book Of true nature stories.
copyright. 1885,
Doctors to Wear Uniforms.

All medical men summoned to the
national camp in Thuringia, Ger.
many, will be compelled to wear uni
forms. The outfit will consist Of dark
blue loose trousers with elastic at the
ankles, double breasted black jacket
with white tennis shirt open at the
neck and q black beret.
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Natures Children
Wood Ducks.

home for the rest Of the year, for the
good reason that there are too many
prowling enemies eagerly searching
the ground for food.
During March wood ducks are to
be seen hunting nursery sites. The
drake is a gallant fellow, insisting
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appear Sunday.
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NY THORNTON w. BURGESS.

Do not forget this. and beware
There's danger lurking eyerywnere:
old Mother Nature.
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Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.
A Sign.0f.

BY THE FOUR ACES.
A Sign-0ff.
n n OST players think the bid of q
M new suit Is always o strong
vI constructive bid. Actually
4 there are many instances
when 1t should be read by partner as
a mere attempt to sign of in the most
favorable declaration. The following
hand. played by Oswald Jacoby and
David Burnstine In the qualifying
round Of the mems pair champion
ships Of the American Bridge League,
Is q good example.
South, dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
MIR. Burnstine.
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Mr.. Jacoby.
The bidding:
South. West. North. East
IA Pass % O Pass
~ (2) Pass 2 Mt CD Pass
= (4) Pass Pass s. Pass
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final appearance in the role. Between
the two dates-l835 and 1874-she had
applied her genius to the most exacting
of shakespeare's characters. Her Queen
Katherine was famous. but she likewise
was celebrated for her reading of Romeo.
played to her sisters Juliet, as well as
her Hamlet and Wolsey-male imper-
sonations for which her energy, her COM
manding stature and her deep and reso-
nant voice suited her. She interpreted
Meg Merrilies from Scott and Nancy
Sykes from Dickens with passion
"dreadfully intense. horribly real"
1t was the skill with which she man.
aged her own life, however, that
achieved for Miss Cushman the high
respect she enjoyed at the hands of an
international public. Her name was un-
blemished always. Indeed, it was her
privilege to set style for irreproachable
bearing in the theater. She reigned as
q sovereign and left a royal tradition to
inspire q legion of followers in the path
she blazed.
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"What.Nots."

Governor Landon, speaking in Chi
cago, revived for current use a word
which ought never to have been neg
lected. He accused the New Deal of
setting up "what-nots," and his coun-
trymen owe him debt of gratitude for
thus reminding them Of an institution of
the not-too-distant past in which they
once took delight and which they may
be interested to resurrect for the edifi-
cation of a generation which, theoret-
ically, holds nothing sacred.
"What-nots" were ornamental cabinets
or shelves set up in parlor corners to
receive the souvenirs and minor house.
hold gods which family might wish
to preserve. In such shrine three or
four decades ago there could be found
the sharks tooth that Uncle Bob sent
back from Tahiti, the bisque statuette
of William Tell that Aunt Liz purchased
In Zurich to keep green her memories of
Mont Blanc, the shells that the twins
picked up on the beach at Old Point
Comfort, the Egyptian scarab Of Nurem-
burg vintage that Parson Hines was per-
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Cushman Relics.

1t was the hope of Henry and Emily
Folger that many Americans would
enrich their Shakespeare Library, and
it would please them if they could know
Of the recent gift of a collection of relics
of Charlotte Cushman, presented by Mrs.
Victor N. Cushman. Surely, it is evi-
dent that there could not be a more
appropriate place for the preservation of
such souvenirs, but the donor is entitled
to generous credit for her recognition
of that fact. She has earned the graft
tude Of all lovers of the classic stage BY
her contribution to the central shrine
of their devotion.
But the occasion also is important be-
cause 1t furnishes opportunity for re-
membrance Of "the most powerful actress
America has produced" Her efagy in
the Hall of Fame at New York Univer-
Sity perhaps was In some peril of be-
coming a meaningless monument in the
judgment of generation whose taste
has been affected by decline in the arts
of the theater. Yet Miss Cushman should
be immortal as personality transcend
ing the boundaries of her own time and
circumstance. She was q New England
spinster of Pilgrim descent who, having
attempted opera without satisfaction,
turned to the works Of the Bard of Avon
for the materials Of thespian career
successful beyond comparison. Only
nineteen when she essayed Lady Mac
beth initially, she was ffty-eight ct her
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The Postal Inspectors.

From two widely separated sections OF
the country this week came news stories,
the importance of which was shadowed
by the world series, politics and Euro
pean warfare.
Down on the Eastern Shore of Vir-
ginia two arrests were made in connec-
ton with the death of a man and Sc
rious injury Of his wife, to whom a bomb
was sent through the mail.
Up in the anthracite region of Penn
sylvania a jury decreed death for a
veteran OF the German Army, adjudged
guilty of mailing bomb that took the
lives of two persons.
In each instance, the evidence was
built up by small Federal agency of
which not a great deal is heard-the
postal inspection service. Time will tell
whether that in Virginia was conclusive:
obviously. that in Pennsylvania was.
In both cases, the inspectors started
out from scratch. A few splinters of
wood. scraps of torn and burned paper
and twisted nails were the clues. Grim
determination and dogged persistence
were the weapons.
once again. this little group of men
has served notice that the mails must
not be used for lawless ventures.
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fair, and to see through the mists of
conflicting ideas and ideals the outwork-
ing OF a wise plan. It is this kind of
comprehensive thinking that this Christ
like judgment of men and things that
is sorely needed in our modern world
To sit in the midst Of the present world
confusion, to hear the many and diverse
voices and judgments that are horne to
us, to weigh and evsluate the variety OF
systems and plans that are persistently
crying for recognition and to assimilate
all these and, with discriminating judg-
ment, separate the wheat from the chaff,
Is supreme accomplishment. Better
still, to believe that despite the confu-
sions and disorders we are on an ascend
ing scale, that conditions cannot become
worse but better, and that even the
fallible children Of earth are contrib
uting to the sure and certain things of
wisdom is condition Of mind that we
tragically need today.
The generosity Of Christ and His un-
failing confidence in the outworking of
a wise course, and of a salvation He
came to teach and exemplify, is one of
the most compelling aspects of His min
1stry. He refused to see q no-hope case.
He took disordered and diSorderly
world as He found it. and with a COM
pelling winsomeness called men and
women away from lives of shame, dis
illusionment and disappointment to the
fulfillment Of forgotten ideals and pur-
poses. The only harsh word He had to
utter was to those who were superficial.
unreal and hypocritical. He found wis
dom in unexpected places and in lives
that seemed bruised and broken on the
wheel Of fortune. There is a quality of
optimism in His whole message that we
need today. Hope and expectancy we're
outstanding notes in His ministry. A
reading OF comparative history and q
penetrating study of the motives and
ideals OF men affirms His statement that,
sooner or later, wisdom is justified of
her children" II He could be patient
with world that rejected and crucified
Him, surely we can emulate His example
and believe that. despite our failures
and misgivings. plans are going forward
that shall issue in better world where
justice, equity and fair-play shall be
manifested, and human society with all
its faults and weaknesses shall ulti-
mately be redeemed.
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Evolution of Ideas.

Mr.. Roberts, the peoples counsel feels
that the Office he fills should either be
abolished or provided with adequate per-
sonnel for investigating utilities matters.
If abolished, the Public Utilities Com
mission, according to Mr.. Roberts. would
be the sole protector of the public in
terest in utility matters.
Whether the alternatives thus pre-
sented are logical is not as interesting
as the process of evolution that produced
the suggestion. Up to 1908 all utility
regulation in the District was exercised
by Congress- which established the rates
and reserved the power of authorizing
the laying of street car tracks, etc. In
1908 the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion was given authority to regulate
street railways and in 1918 the Public
Utilities Commission of the District was
created, the District Commissioners
serving as the utilities commissioners.
AL this regulation was, of course. exer-
cised theoretically in the public interest.
In 1925 the Public Utilities Commission
was created as separate agency and the
corporation counsel of the District was
assigned as its general counsel. all of
this being an effort more effectively to
protect the public interest AS the utility
corporations were usually well repre-
sented BY skilled and able counsel at
hearings before the utilities commission,
and the public" was represented by
occasional volunteer spokesmen, the
office Of peoples counsel was created in
1926. The duties of the Office were de-
fined as appearing "for the people of the
District Of Columbia" in judicial pro-
ceedings involving the interests of the
public utility users, to appear before the
commission at hearings and to investi-
gate. If necessary, the service and rates
of utilities and their valuation.
One effect of creating the office has
been to emphasize the judicial nature of
the Public Utilities Commission, placing
it in the position of deciding cases not
interests or the peoples interests as
championed by the peoples counsel. If
petition Of a utility corporation, op-
posed by the peoples counsel. is granted
by the commission, the case is repre-
sented as having been won by the utili-
ties and lost by the people, or vice versa.
AS matter of fact, the utilities COM
mission in theory decides all cases In
the public interest. Its position in the
public eye has been subject to some dis
tortion.
The Public Utilities Commission has
more than once demanded an increase
in its own staff, claiming its present staff
is inadequate to its responsibilities. Now
Mr.. Roberts wants staff enabling him
to fulfill his responsibilities under the
law in checking up not only on the
utilities, but on the utilities commission.
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"WISDOM JUSTIFIED"
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES FREEMAN D. d, L. D, D. c. L.
BISHOP WASHINGTON,

wisdom is justified Of her children" !"
This is the concluding statement fol-
lowing one Of the most striking passages
recorded in the eleventh chapter Of st..
Matthew. Jesus had been commencing
in glowing terms the ministry of His
forerunner, st. John. He had followed
1t by asking the momentous question,
"Whereunto shall I liken this genera
tion?" and reminded those to whom He
was speaking that their judgment con-
cerning His message and that OF the
forerunner had been variable and with
out definitenesS of conviction. The null
titude had heard Him and John the
Baptist and, Tor while. had applauded
and received their messages with glad
ness. Their conclusion, as Jesus ap-
praised it, He expressed In the following
words: John came neither eating nor
drinking, and they say, He hath devil.
The Son Of man came eating and drink
ing, and they say, Behold man glut-
tonous, and winebibber, friend OF
publicans and sinners" The word that
follows Is q significant one: But wis
dom is justified of her children"
It is an expression of the finely gen.
erous and comprehending spirit of
Christ. He would seem to say that, de-
spite the misjudgments and the wrong
judgments of men, wisdom and right
Judgment must ultimately prevail. Even
confusion of mind, misinterpretation
of purpose and ungenerosity of criti-
cism work out to this end. Nothing is
more amazing in the ministry of the
Master than the utter generosity with
which He dealt with human frailties
and human weaknesses. In His COM
prehensive vision He saw amidst all the
confused and confusing ideals and pur-
poses of life the outworking of great
and divine plan.
It is this kind of comprehensiveness
of vision, this finer appreciation of
human judgments and this greater gen.
erosity in appraising human life in gen.
eral that are sorely needed, especially in
times of confusion and lack of clear
understanding. 1t Is a fine art to be
able to take all the expressions of human
weakness, all the judgments bad
and indifferent-that a given age dis
closes, yes, all the varied forms of evil
to which it witnesses, and to resolve
them into judgment that is just and
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suaded to buy in Cairo, the fragment of
stone that Harry Featherbedder Clipped

suaded to buy in Cairo, the fragment Of
stone that Harry Featherbedder Clipped
of the Bunker Hill Monument. picture
post cards from Paris and Monte Carlo
inscribed with the familiar sentiment.
wish you were here: tiny birchbark
canoes of undetermined origin: q mini
ature dictionary and an equally diminu-
tive edition of the New Testament; Q
Mexican opal" which bore curious
resemblance to Stag from jenkins glass
factory; buttons from numerous cam
paigns; badge that Grandpa wore at
a convention and a dried rose that
treasured.
Also, the "what-nots" on occasion had
a moralistic significance. On one of the
shelves of representative example a
peanut might repose to symbolic the
momentary lapse of virtue which
prompted small Allen, aged four or five,
to trespass on the property rights of an
Italian vender who frequented the
neighborhood. The dried husk, un-
broken, was kept where the child could
see it. whenever he stood in need of a
lesson in the sinfulness of pilfering. Had
he stolen railroad, it probably would
have been similarly accommodated in
the interest of his reformed behavior.
But the "what-nots" of the New Deal
have been of a different genus. An
odor of disrepute attaches to most of
them, as Governor Landon implied.
Owen r. Washburn does not greatly
exaggerate when, in Uncle Sans Farm
yard" he lists among prevailing abomi-
nations the Bureau for the Regulation
of the Number of Chickens to Be
Hatched by Each Hen"
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confronted In the first years OF MS re.
gime with highly practical problems OF
finance, and just as practical problems
Of administration.
There will be need to shed some OF
the political character taken on oy tne
presidency in any campaign year ana TO
assume the characteristics OF skilled
administrator, If trouble is to be avoided
in the start of the social security pro-
gram, the application OF the new TAX pro-
gram and the readjustment OF tne HoV-
ernments farm aid program.
THE next president is unlikely to face
the need for mysterious changes, OF
course, such as those charted by MI.
Roosevelt in the last four years, as ne
shifted from dependence on neay
thinkers to dependence on practical po.
lttcal manipulators.
(oopsrtshA 1eseJ
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Europe on TenterhOOks.

To what a grave extent the passions
inherent in the Spanish civil war have
endangered the peace of Europe Is glar-
ingly demonstrated by the stormy events
In the Neutrality Committee at London.
At a session convened to consider Rus
sian charges of Portuguese, Italian and
German violations of the non-interven-
ton pact delegates all but came to
blows. Dino Grandi, Mussolinis am
bassador, is reported to have hurled the
epithet of "liar" at MoiSeyevich Kagan,
the Soviet representative, while Fran
cisco Colheiros, Portugals spokesman.
outraged by aspersions that his country
was used as a supply base for the Span
lsh rebels, stalked spectacularly out OF
the committee, indicating that he had
bolted proceedings permanently.
For more than seven hours charges
end counter-charges few back and forth
among the score or more OF nations rep
resented at the meeting. as various dele
gates, sympathetic either with the
Madrid government or its insurgent foes,
trotted out more or less circumstantial
and conflicting evidence of foreign aid
to the belligerents in defiance of the
neutrality agreement. The whole day
was ominously symbolical of the state
of tenterhooks into which the Spanish
crisis has plunged all Europe.
On the constructive side, such as il IS,
the turmoil appears to have ended in
truce. Having at first threatened to
withdraw from the international hands
off" arrangement and exercise the right
to aid the Madrid loyalists Russia de-
cided, for the present at least, to main
tain cooperation with the other powers.
6gnor Grandi had previously charged
concretely that the Soviet itself has
assisted the Spanish government. There
upon Moscow's emisSary demanded dis
patch of commission to Portugal, to
investigate on the spot whether and
how the Fascist rebels have been get
ting foreign support. The Portuguese
delegate branded this proposal as an
insult and left the room. The Neu-
trality Committee finally decided to
address written requests to Germany,
Italy and Portugal so that the facts can
be formally established. This recourse
vas taken after general denial of guilt
by all concerned, voiced with special
vehemence by Italy.
There, for the moment, Europes latest
war scare rests. 1t would be indulging in
unjustified optimism to imagine that the
neutrality incident is thus ended. BY
hook or by crook, it may be taken for
granted that Communist and Fascist
sympathizers in one section of the Con-
tinent or the other will continue to
afford Succor to the rival forces still
locked in fratricidal combat in blood
soaked Spain. Their struggle long since
putgrew the dimensions of local strife.
Vt has come to be a far-f1ung grapple
between the two political PHILOSOPHERS
which have divided the Old World into
irreconcilably hostile camps. Whatever
diplomacy may contrive in the form of |
treaties, it is too much |
to expect. amid the embittered contro-
versy now rampant from the Mediter-
ranean to the Baltic. that ways and |
means for circumventing such agree
ments will not be found and invoked. |
Therein are the ingredients of explosion |
and of war.
Evening star., 1936-10-11

On campaign tour of eleven States to
be made in ten days Mrs. Franklin Roose-
welt will accompany her distinguished
husband. A woman's place is not neces-
sarily in the home, even when the home
is so comfortable and charming a spot
as the White House.
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"A genial Photographic expression has
been cultivated by Mr.. Farley with such
success that in case Of a Landonslide
he may consider following the example
OF Mr.. Will Hays and going into pictures.
Evening star., 1936-10-11

Back in "horse and buggy days" a
frequent news line was Europe is an
armed camp" The world had right to
hope that by this time 1t would be
obsolete.
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improvements.

We've better ships to sail the sea
Or speed across the sky:
With better bombs we may make free
If we should care to try.
There's better gas with odor vile
There must remain some doubt
If war anew would be worth while
Made just to try them out.