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Flaws in Your Bidding.
Y IAVING recently concluded q
series Of articles on modern
bidding, We intend to present
u L q few articles on the more
common types of bidding errors. Some
Of our readers will find that they
don't make any of these mistakes;
none will make all of them. Further
more, in many instances, when we do
hit on q mistake that certain reader. .
makes, he will say, Perhaps that is a
mistake, but have to bid that way
with the partners have" In some
instances that will be true. but even
then it is important for him to know
that he Is doing something which, in
general, Is wrong, so that when he
plays with other partners he can leave
the mistakes Cor adjustments) out of
his bidding.
As q starter in fundamental bidding
errors We have the indiscriminate use
OF the one no-trump response We
will not bother with the so-called mega
tive one no-trump, in which, holding
spades K K K xxx
Hearts
Diamonds K Xxx
Clubs xxx
you respond with one no-trump to
partners bid Of suit. Practically
no one uses that terrible bid any
more.
Spades xxx
Hearts K Jxx
Diamonds Xxx
Clubs xxx
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Clubs x X

Your partner responds with one
no trump. incidentally, while we are
dead set against one no trump re-
sponses to one club openings except
in rare instances, with great many
hands you can make no response but
one no trump to your partners OPEN
ing one spade, the reason being that
your hand is not strong enough to
warrant bidding a suit at the level
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Days of Tragedy
Continued From Second Paee.)

about 1888, very nice church for
that period. Late in 1861, after the
congregation had moved elsewhere,
the building was operated as an
amusement place, and here, on No.
vember 10, 1851, Carlotta Patti, ap-
peared in concert. On August %,
1852, John T. Ford opened the build
Ing as theater, and the structure
was entirely destroyed by fire on De-
cember 81, 1852 The present build
ing was erected on the site by Mr..
Ford and opened in August, 1868, with
the "Naiad Queen"
EATE seems to have lowered over
this building, for on June 8, 1893,
little over % years after the death
OF Lincoln, when the building was
being used by the Record and Pension
Office of the War Department., another
calamity took place. At this time,
according to statement in the press:
On the three floors of the building
used by the pension records division,
| upward of half thousand men were
at work. Without a sign of warning,
the third floor of the building gave
way and fell with a deafening crash.
The men on the floor went through
with it. The second floor offered no
resistance and the two went through
to the basement, filling it up to the
level of the ground with an mex
tricable mass. In that mass were men,
Some of them came forth alive. No
man came out uninjured.'
Although more than hundred Fed
eral employees were caught In the trap
when the floors gave way, about 26
OF whom were crushed to death or
who subsequently died of injuries.
The accident was undoubtedly due
to carelessness, and, as the press put
it at the time, ct cost the United
States 1854 300 to settle the claims of
the Ford Theater victims If 500
had been spent In repairs at the
proper time, all the rest of the money,
as we'll as lives and limbs, would have
been saved"
While the visitors to Washington
are feasting their eyes on the cherry
blossoms, it might be profitable and
interesting to visit this old building,
which was opened by the Government
in 1882 as the Lincoln Museum, and
here will be seen-free of charge
many interesting relics and reminders
of the great Civil War President.
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260 Libraries in d. C..

WASHINGTON stands eminent
in the library field, with 269
public and semi-public collections of
books available for reference and
study. It is estimated that fully
10000 900 books are in the collections
One of the most interesting, the
Folger shakeepearean Library, has
95, 900 books, $4,000 manuscripts, ioo.-
900 prints and 25o 900 'playbtlls.
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Building

fContinued From First Page.)
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erect one 2-story brick dwelling. 1903
Crittenden street; to cost $4,000.

erect one 2-story brick dwelling, 1903
Crittenden street; to cost $4,000.
Thomas F. Maddox, 5521 Colorado
avenue. owner: E. Burton Corning,
architect; owner is builder: to erect
one 2-story brick and cinder block
dwelling, 329s Arcadia place; to cost
$4,000.
Paul H. Johansen, Mills Building.
owner; E. Cappleman, designer; O. T.
and w. A. Carr. Mills Building, build
ers; to erect one 2-story brick and tile
dwelling, 5000 Lowell street; to cost
$4,000.
Donald D. Shepard. owner: James
L. Stuart, architect and builder: to
make alterations, 716 jackson place;
to cost $4,000.
Isabel j. Almond. 1887 Fairmont
street, owner; Ernest T. Davis, 1904
Rhode Island avenue. Mount Rainier,
Md, designer and builder; to erect
one 2-story brick dwelling, 1905 Crit
tenden street; to cost $4,000.
Brick and Frame Dwelling.
Richard c. Danell, 1896 HighvieW
Terrace southeast, owner. designer and
builder; to erect one ll2-story brick
and frame dwelling, 1884 Alabama ave-
nue. southeast; to cost $1,000.
Miss May L. Sperber. 1926 Seventh
street southwest. owner; w. E. Gore
designer; The Gore Co.. 247 Ethan
Allan avenue, Takoma Park. Md.
builder; to erect one 2-story brick anc
cinder block dwelling, 1921 Thirty
third street southeast; to cost $7,700.
S. Kravitz, 2713 Nichols avenue
southeast, owner: r. c. Archer, jr.
architect; W. c. Plumlee. 212 F street
builder: to erect one 2-story brick
store and apartment addition, 27l;
Nichols avenue southeast; to cost
| $500.
Garlon Short, 2140 P street. owner
and builder: Maurice May. architect;
to erect one 2-story brick dwelling
1908 King pl; to cost $1,000
Lord & Stone. 40l9 South Dakots
avenue northeast, owners and build
ers; Clifton B. White, designer; tt
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81 STATES SHOW
BUILDING GAINS
Those East of Rockies Have
II Per Cent Increase in
4 May Over 1896.

Construction In the 81 States east
OF the Rocky Mountains during May
showed gain OF about II per cent
over the figure for May, 1896, &C
cording to F. w. Dodge Corp. Last
months total amounted to $244,1l2,-
800 and contrasts with $2l6,o7O, TOO
for May, 1895. and with 1868, 1884 200
for April, 1887
Residential building during May Of
this year amounted to s83,937 900;
this was an increase Of 20 per cent
over the figure of s70,253 400 reported
In the 81 States for May, 1896, but
was sharply lower than the volume
Of sl08,0l3,4 registered during April
Of this year. Gains in residential
building over last year were general
over the country except for the South
ern Michigan area. At the same
time declines from the April, 1887,
figures were rather universal, with
upstate New York exhibiting the only
exception.
Non residential building undertaken
In May in the 81 States east OF the
Rocky Mountains amounted to $685.
432,700 and compares with s82,25l 200
for May, 1886, and $96,179,30O for
April of this year. Public works and
utilities showed total of $66, ,743 100
during May, 1887; this was moder-
ately better than the figure reported
for either the preceding month or
May, 1886
Total construction of all types
started in the 81 States since the
beginning of 1887 has amounted to
$1,l76,377,200, as contrasted with only
,0O4,676100 for the corresponding
five months Of 1886.
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NScIlG]IlueO flISG thRe,J
1919 K street, obtained the right to
build four apartments in the 1900
block of Second street northeast, to
cost $4,000.
More important permits of the
week are as follows:
Gelman Construction Co., 3206
Wisconsin avenue, owners and build
ers George T. Santmyers, architect;
to erect one 5-story brick apartment,
S725 Macomb street; to cost 5000, 900.
William Crusemire, 1901 Fulton
street. owner. designer and builder;
to erect two 2-story brick and cinder
block apartments, 4577 and 45S1
Conduit road; to cost $55,000.
Washington United Builders, Inc,
1919 K street. owners and builders;
George T. Santmyers, architect; to
erect four 2-story brick apartments,
1929, 1888. 1887 and l94l Second
street northeast; to cost $4,000
Two-Story Brick Flats.
Paul Maisel. owner; George T.
Santmyers. architect; Lenkins Con-
struction Co., 635 F. street. builders; to
erect three 2-story brick fats, 1911 and
1913 Montello avenue northeast and
1904 Neal street northeast; to cost
$4,000.
Harry Poretsky, 52l Irving street,
owner and builder: George T. SAINT
myers, architect: to erect four 2-story
brick, cinder block and frame dwell
ings, 444o. 4444, 444S and 4452 Bur-
lington place; to cost $4,000.
w. w. and Ruth B. Fisher, owners:
Joseph G. Herbert, 1914 Dendrike
Building, architect and builder; to
erect two 2-story brick and cinder
block flats, 1900 and 1904 U street
southeast; to cost $4,000.
Lansburgh IL Bro, Seventh and E
streets, owners: B. E. Freund, de-
signer James L. Parsons, jr., Homer
Building. builder; to make repairs,
7l0 E street; to cost $4,000.
Harry R. Jaffe. gil Thirteenth
street. owner and builder; Jarrett c.
White, architect; to erect one 2-story
brick dwelling, 1886 Cleveland ave-
nue.; to cost $4,000.
George Hyman Properties, Inc,
Seventh and T streets northeast
owners and builders; B. T. Rome, de-
signer; to erect one 1-story brick and
frame storage shed, Seventh and 7
streets northeast; to cost $4,000.
Louis A. Pincus, 429 Seventh
street southwest, owner and builder:
L. w. Giles, builder; to erect one Q
story brick fiat, 401 Douglas street
northeast; to cost $4,000.
Two-Story Dwelling.
Maurice w. Fillius, 5000 Nichols
avenue southeast, owner; Elmer Cap
pelman, architect; Bowling & Gar
diner. 52l1 Wisconsin avenue, build
ers; to erect one 2-story brick dwell
ing, 5040 Lowell street; to cost S11,-
600.
Mabel v. Simpkins, 1914 Denrike
Building, owner and builder; Joseph
G. Herbert. architect; to erect one q
story brick and stone dwelling, 30l4
Pennsylvania avenue southeast; tt
cost $4,000
Louis E. Bradford, 1896 Girare
street, owner; Ernest T. Davis, $780,
Rhole Island avenue northeast, Noun
Rainier, Md, designer and builder; t.
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erect one 2-story brick and cinder
block dwelling, 1926 Erie street south
east; to cost $8,500
Joseph Temin. 1901 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast. owner; G. A. Half
pap, architect; c. A. Sullivan Con-
struction Co., $50 Thirteenth street
southeast, builders; to erect one 2
story brick fiat, 1890 Ives street south
east; to cost $5,800
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Poindexter, 2Ol7
First street. owner: J. M. Hallett, de-
signer; Wesmond Building a. Invest
ment Co., 9l8 Fifteenth street, build
ers, to erect one 2-story brick and
cinder block dwelling. 65l7 Thirty
first street; to cost $4,000.
H. H. SaXton. 1921 Kearney street
northeast, owner; A. B. Lawstutter
designer: Morrison Bros, Bethesda,
Md, builders; to erect one 1l2-story
brick and cinder block dwelling, 1884
Newton street northeast: to cost
$500.
$4,000 Structure.
Mrs. Mamie Bellows, 1905 New
Jersey avenue. owner; John j. Co.
lumbus, designer: w. N. Christmas
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street, owner and builder; Evan J..
Conner. designer: to erect one 2-story
brick, cinder block and frame dwell
ing, 1898 Legation street; to cost
$4,000.
M. x. Stone, 400s Forty-seventh
street, owner and builder; Evan j.
Conner, designer; to erect two 2-story
brick, cinder block and frame dwell
ings, 2931 and 2935 Legation street;
to cost $4,000 each.
Martha j. M. Blau, Rhode Island
avenue. owner; Warren Spencer. 1850
Jonquil street, designer and builder; to
erect one 1-story brick addition. 1882
North Capitol street; to cost $1,000.
Chabbott's. Inc, 94l F street, own
ers; Lloyd c. Mayors, designer; M.
Cladny Construction Co.. Barrister
Building, builders; to make repairs,
941 F. street; to cost $3.50.
l.. E. Breuninger & Sons, Inc, 1880
K street, owners and builders: install
new front and partitions, 1882 X
street; to cost $4,000.
George B. Williams. Southern Build
ing, owner; James F. Hogan, architect;
Kass Realty Co., Inc, Southern Build
ing, builders; to erect one 1-story brick
gas station, 915 Franklin street north
east: to cost $4,000.
Miss Virginia w. Sargent, 322 E
street northeast, owner; Rossel E
Mitchell, architect; Lacy H. Smith
Bethesda. Nd, builder; to erect one
l12-story frame dwelling, 5000 Wheel
er road southeast; to cost $500.
New Heating Unit.
Liggett Drug Co.. owners; William
P. Lipscomb Co., 1406 G. street. build.
ers: install new heating and ventilat.
ing, 443 Seventh street; to cost $4,000
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lines specified by the Committee for
Economic and Social Progress.

The apartments are being built for
persons with incomes below $4,000.
The sponsoring Arm is headed by
Allie S. Freed Of New York, whose
ideas on housing were presented last
year to President Roosevelt. The
Federal Housing Administration in
sured the mortgage on the first group
Of Buckingham apartments.
All buildings In the new develop
ment will be Of Georgian architec-
ture. These Will be surrounded on
all sides by spacious lawns. All units
will have cross ventilation. while
some OF the apartments will have
three exposures.
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Hill Building, builder; to erect one
2-story brick dwelling, 654 E street
southeast; to cost $4,000.
NJ X Stone, 4O08 Forty-seventh
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BUCKINGHAM UNITS
SOON TO BE READY
Low-Cost Housing Apartments in
Arlington County Being Rush
ed to Completion.

Construction work on Buckingham
communities, in Arlington County, Va,
Is progressing rapidly and 1t is antici>
pated that the first apartment units
will be available for occupancy by
Midsummer. Buckingham is the new
low-cost housing apartments which
are being built by Paramount Com
munities, Inc, Of New York along
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Open Sunday and Daily
J. Wesley Buchanan, Inc.
Realtov
9l6 18th Street. Metro. ll43
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-29
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
DEFYING THE LAW

Dispatches from Lansing. Mich, Indicated TO-DAY
that the tie-up of the Chrysler automobile organ
ization may be settled promptly, now that the S''-
down strikers have evacuated the plants winch 'ney
had illegally held since March s.
However the Asheville citizen comments tha'
whatever agreement Mr.. Lewis the ClO labor DoSS'
and Mr. Chrysler, automobile manu1aeturer' ma!
reach is of only incidental Importance as compared
with the larger fact that Mr.. Lewis mas proved
that in Michigan at least he is more powerful imam
the constituted authorities of the state.
That is a pretty serious indictment, but most Oh
rs will be forced to admit the truth OF the state
ment. ~,
There is one thought though that The Record
would like to suggest at this pont-and that Is 'he
fact that when it comes to flouting the law We
Tar Heel people are about as adept as slt-down
strikers
Take for instance the burlington act when mas
been on our statute books so many years. ana Ger
tainlv was entitled to as much respect as laws oe-
fining property rights.
But the unanimity with which the officers ana
citizens in about every community throughout
North Carolina sat down on all pretense at en-
forcement strikes us as afrording very good ex-
ample of open defiance of constituted authority
In other words our idea of constituted author
'tv" in America seems to be the enforcement OF
certain laws which please our particular purpose
~ whim, and the ignoring of such laws as cramp
our style.
What we need in America is recognition of the
fact that all laws are entitled to strict enforce
ment and respect, until repeaed.-Hickory Record
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SCIENCE SPEAKS OF ALCOHOL

Some people who use alcohol are genuinely con-
WINGED that it has value as medicine What does
science say about this? DR.. Grant L. Connolly Oh
the medical school of the University of North Caro-
lima, asks and answers the following question:
care the effects of alcohol on the brain and
body good or bad?
"For our answer, we are directed to the scientist
! who is neither for nor against alcohol. What DO
we learn? We learn that many of our old-fash'
toned remedies were not based on fact. For IN
stance, alcohol in fainting cases was not hep
but actually dangerous for the person was already
depressed, his blood pressure was low, and very
little blood was carried to the brain, Strong am
monia would revive the patient without danger.
Another exploded theory is the oft-quoted one
Alcohol for snake bite. Science teaches US that
alcohol added to snake poison may be enough to
kill the patient.
''And, thanks to science, we know alcohoi IS not
good for heat stroke, that it will not make the
body strong and robust, that it will not prevent
infectious colds and pneumonia, but that it &C
tually breaks down the natural defenses Of the
body and leaves it an easy prey to disease
"To science we owe our information that beer
does not make one gain weight, but feer fat is
fabby, shapeless fat and those who habtually
drink large quantities of beer will not only lose
their graceful figures but will develop weak hearts
"Outmoded also are such alcohol treatments as
the rock and rye treatment for tuberculosis. -
Morganton News-Herald.
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SAVED?

1.-THE President, in his Victory Dinner speech,
said the shouting against him had broken forth
again. as it did in the early days of the New Deal,
and from substantially the same elements of OPP
position This is balderdash The opposition to his
plan to bring the judiciary into line is from people
who care not about their property, their profits,
and their old Lincoln limousines, but who care
about their freedom from authority-which was
what started the first big doings in this country
and may well start the last. We ourselves APP
plauded Mr.. Roosevelts program four years ago,
but we decline to follow leader however high
minded, who proposes to take charge of affairs
because he thinks he knows all the answers. Mr..
Roosevelt is not ambitious generally, but he has
turned into an Eagle Scout whose passion for do
ing the country good turn every day has at last
got out of hand. His Now remarks were give.
away-the utterances of a petulant saviour Amer
lea doesn't need to be saved today; it wait till
tomorrow. Meanwhile, Mister, Wen sleep on it. -
New Yorker.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-29
NOT ALL BEER & SKITTLES

Bob Reynolds is generally credited with having
a mortal lock on his U. S. Senate seat when he
comes up for reelection in 1888. Nobody attributes
to Robert any of the qualities of statesmen, nor
are his most enthusiastic supporters accustomed to
backing him up with the record of his senatorial
career. In the final analysis, the reasons for re-
turning Robert to the senate come down to these
facts: that he is a delightful fellow, which he is;
that he means WE'LL which ne does; that he is with
Roosevelt, and aren't we all? and that he is having
such good time, which is evident.
But the rumors that both Representative Frank
Hancock of the Fifth North Carolina and Repre-
sentative Bob Doughton of the Ninth have eyes on
Roberts place serve advance notice on Roberts
partisans that they had best be finding better rea-
sons for sending him back to Washington. These
two have all of Roberts qualifications and many
more. Either could give him fight. Both are re-
ported laundering to.-Charlotte News.
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ture after the southern states De-
gan substantially to get indus
tries.
But after Franklin d. Roosc-
welt was elected president the pc
sition of the Democratic party
changed. Mr.. Roosevelt is decid-
edly a liberal. In some respects,
by some persons, ne is considered
q radical. So the conservative
Democratic party had to do a
face-about-and it did it. In a
surprisingly short time virtually
the entire party became liberal
probably not because most Of its
members felt that way but that
It's chief leader was going that
way. The members of the party
we're faced with the choice Of go
ing along or not going along. So,
as is the custom in parties, they
went along. Many Of them nut,
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AN INTERESTING STUDY
BY WICKES WAMBOLDT

tered and sworc under their
breaths but they went along.
Right now in the supreme court
problem we are seeing, another
amazing test of party regularity.
] could name a dozen big Demo-
cratic leaders who are so cOnser-
vative that they look askance at
any kind of innovation and whose
very souls probably did flip
flap when the president proposed
to tinker with the supreme court;
vet without the slightest outward
manifestation Of their inward
conservation, without the flicker
Of an eyelaSh, they are out front
jumping up and down, waving
their arms and shouting at the
tops of their voices for anything
and everything the president
wants to do to the supreme
court.
This supreme court proposal
has been such a shock to the con-
scrvativcs in the party that it has
placed severe strain on party
loyalty; a considerable percentage
Of the party cannot yet swallow
it: but it is interesting to see how
large a number of those whose
records show how much they must
be constitutionally against it, are
going right alone with it.
This article is not an argument
for or against President Roose-
velU'S supreme court plan. 1t is
merely a study of the power that
party regularity eXerts on the
minds, the consciences, and the
actions of intelligent, strong,
willed men and women.
! And how does party regularity
get its enormous power? Party
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Spirit is a combination of the
urges which make church people
stick to their denominations;
workmen to their unions; employ
ees to their Jobs: wives to their
husbands; husbands to their
wives; parents to their children;
children to their parents; the clan
to its members, and the members
to the clan. The party spirit is
as George Washington declared,
rooted in the strongest passions
of the human mind and the hu-
man nature.