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7 CURRENT EVENTS AS DRAWN BY CARTOONIST DARLING Bq Annie Blanche Shelbq T--ERE ls a hand which embodies J I several useful lessons both as regards bidding and play. The bidding started wrong, but after a series of bids finally came round to the correct declaration, and the hand was played at this declaration: 62 9 7 6 4 3 2 Q 10 9 6 4 A Q 8 7 5 K Q 10 2 7 S 5 3 . Y A B Z J 10 9 6 5 AKQ 10 6 5 4 3 K) J TTIE SUNDAY OREGON! AX. rORTLA'XD, AUGUST 21, 1921 I I ' THE TRAFFIC UP AHEAD IS BEGINNING TO MOVe! " OXEIANJN THE WORLD. MHO CANT COMPLAIN OF UNEMPLOYMENT, j MAYBE IT WOULDN'T LOOK SO BIG IF THEY'D QUIT BLOWING ON IT. ' i . "3 i Lit.- ilf : ; n : il , A J J 9 8 A K J 7 2 Z. the dealer, bid no trumps! Un deniably his hand is a no-trump hand, since it contains protection in three suits with values up to 14. 'It Is ateo, however, a spade hand, and when one's hand conforms to both a no trump and a major suit bid the pref erence should be given the suit, save perhaps in the rare cases where four aces are held. Then, for the high honor score, no trumps generally should be bid. In. this case, however, Z bid no trumps and A. incorrectly, went "two hearts." In a recent paper I pointed out that as seccnd bidder the expert players of the day rarely bid even a good major suit over an adverse no trump, as they have- found it pays better in the end to apply their strength rather toward saving game If they do not set the contract. A's better policy in this case would be a pass, the more so as his hand is but slightly above the average Justifying a free bid, and over a no trump the bid would be a forced one. However, he bid "two hearts," and T without rhmye or reason bid "two spades." His bid is not an overcall, since an overcall, strictly speaking:, means to take one's partner out of a bid, and the adversary has already done this, so any bid which he might make should be on genuine strength, which is not the case. . He should have passed. ' B came to bis partner's assistance and bid "throe hearts." This, also, is a mistake, as he should have taken advantage of the opportunity to show bis diamonds, it looking as though game could be more easily attained with diamonds (though a minor suit) the trump, 'using the hearts as the side suit, than with hearts the trump, ufting the diamonds as the side suit. Though he has three hearts to grive his partner, he should be able to read that the hearts were not as strong' in the two bands as the diamonds. His partner, clearly, has not ace, king and queen of the suit, since Z by his bid of no trumps has shown protection in three suits, of which hearts must be one. Reasoning from every standpoint, therefore, B should have substituted diamonds for his partner's hearts. Upon B's bid of "three h-earts" Z should have passed. His partner's bid should not have deceived him, as from his own hand he could see it was not a conventional bid and mor likely than not was on length alone. This being try case, the prospect of making more than a two-trick con tract, if that, was not promising:. As matter of fact, he went "three spades." and A, encouraged by his partner's raise, went "four hearts," at which the hand was played. To go back to the first round of bidding, Z should have started with a spade, and A undoubtedly should bid "two hearts." Y should pass, as he has nothing but spades, trumps, and one should never raise on trump strength alone. The initial bidder of a suit shows strength in the suit bid and what he wants from his partner is what he generally lacks, side suit strength, though, of course, with a sufficient number of trumps as to insure the side holding the majority. Should Y pass, B, notwithstanding his strong diamond suit, wxjuld likely also pass in the belief that with at least eight trumps to the side and his ex cellent diamond suit, game should be fully assured at hearts. (Note the diference in B's inferences according to whether Z starts with no trumps or spades. If with no trumps, she infers Z to have ace or guarded king or queen of hearts; if with spadeB, it is possible Z is without protection in the suit, and A unusually strong.) ' Played at hearts the hand would go as follows: Trick. A Y B .'4 " "177777777" i Ti 2 q IT 2 ... 6 2 J 3 8 7 6 10 4 4 3 3 A 9 5 5 4 K J 6 A 6 104 K 7 . . . . J. ... 8 7 9 2 - 8........ 2 4 6 7 9 10 6 5 J 10 Q 9 44 Ja 11 K 9 3 K 12 8 10 5 A 13........ Q Qa 8 A' Denotes winner of trick. A-B make a grand slam, or a total score of 313 56 for tricks, 32 for honors, 10O for slam and 125 for game. Trick 1 Y leads his singleton dia mond, which dummy wins with queen, and at Trick 2 leads the Jack of hearts, trumps. Now if Z covers with king, as would often be the correct thing to do, declarer's play would be very simple. He would win the trick with ace and have two other rounds of trumps, leaving the lead with the dummy on the third round that, he might make his diamonds. As dummy has no re-entry except in trumps and as declarer's one diamond was played to the first round unless dummy" can secure the lead in such manner his diamonds will never make. This Z realizes and so plays small heart rather than king to the first round of trumps. (This furnishes- another important lesson in regard to cover ing, a subject to which I have lately devoted considerable attention.) By counting the number of diamonds in his own and the dummy's hands Z rrad that both his partner and de clarer had originally one diamond only, and his refusal to play king until compelled to do so is based on the hope that declarer will continue trumps until he. Z. is led out. This would exhaust dummy as well as him self and would leavt declarer , in the lead, and so, dummy being without re-entry, his diamonds would fail to make. Ieclarer refuses to be so trapped. however, and so, as the king of trumps does not fall after two trump rounds and while dummy is still in the lead, he shifts the lead and comes out with the ace and king and then the 10 of diamonds Z realizes the hopelesness of the situation, and so at Trick 6 puts up the king of trumps, though knowing it will fall to de clarer's ace and that dummy will re gain the lead with his remaining trump. At Trick 7 declarer, who has discarded two spades on the two diamond rounds, leads his remaining spade, dummy gets in the lead with his trump, and at Tricks 8. 9. 10 and 11 makes his four remaining diamonds. On these tricks declarer gets rid of his clubs and thus makes a grand slam. Should declarer have mad,e the mis take of having three trump rounds while king still remained with the THE SURGEON AND THE NERVE SPECIALIST. OUR GOVERNMENT. "VENTURE WITH THE MERCHANT MARINE. OF"90UB$B'RliGHBOR WONT mTJD6"CR""RROWIN-iryW"GT76U6VR r : ' m . .. r n I the cse demands ) ' . ' fc . ' 1 ; , L ( "'J ' ;J V, ill i i i i ill v -n-x t uirj i i in - f i t i it n' adversary, dummy's re-entry would have been taken and the side would fall down by several tricks.. Played at no trumps, with Z the declarantthe side would have lost by one trick. A would have led the king of clubs clubs rather than hearts because of a tenace in hearts and whether Z had won the first or second round he would at once make his five spades, on the first two rounds of which B, having no spades, would make the reverse discard in diamonds. This would point to the J tact that he was strong in diamonds, and A upon recovering the lead would I . .1 Wt . bin n.1 .)'.., 1 UTnlllll I V till ID HI 1' . I. II VI All, J IIUi . . win the trick and come down the! line with hi f.ve remaining diamonds. For the benefit of such players as J may not be familiar with the re- j verse discard I would explain that) it is the discard first of a higher and then of a lower card of a suit, and that it reverses the usual mean ing attaching to a discard. In this case It would be made 'by the dis card first of the 4 and then of the 3 of diamonds, and it would say that diamonds was a strong rather than a weak suit and would, request the partner, as soon as securing the lead, to lead that suit. Had the hand been played at spades two by cards only could have been made if the adversaries had put up good defense. At a three-trick spade contract, therefore, the eide would have gone down one trick. 4 j mni.. d hatnir tha declarer. , l. uiniiiuM -----r , a little slam could easily have been made. The following have been submitted: Z, the dealer, bids no trumis, A and Y pass, and B bids "two spades," which Z doubles. A again passes. Y holds the following:, Six diamonds to the ace, king and 10, a singleton spade,, three small hearts and three small hearts and threj mall clubs. Should he allow his partner's double to stand, snould he, inferring from the double that. his partner was pro tected in spades, bid "two no trumps," or should he bid "three diamonds"? J This is a point on which there l would probably be a difference of opinion. in my judgment n: best policy would be the bid of "three diamonds." If Z, his partner (and the original no-trump holder) thinks that with the help of Y's diamonds he can go game at no trumps he will doubtless announce "three no trumps." This be can do without increase of contract. If Z has the strength to j defeat the spade bid, as his double would seem to (indicate, witih his partner's diamonds to assist him, he certainly should be able to go game at no trumps. The dealer bids no trumps, which holds the bid. A has five diamonds to the Jack and 10, three small spades, three hearts to the ace and two small clubs. Feeling that his long suit, diamonds, is hopeless, as his partner has not bid and third bidder has not overcalled his partner's no trumps and so likely has no-trump help, A led . his short heart suit rather than his diamonds. B, his partner, claims he should have led his diamond suit. Advice i asked on the subject. A undoubtedly drew his inferences too rigidly. The fact of B's passing did not necessarily imply that he held no good cards, but that he had no V. i -J - V. .. I ...Ai.l-a T... a o-ama . ' i 1IIM II.. II I L TT -1 I. 1 1, SAallT-'A Neither did Y's pass say absolutely mat jie naa neip tor no trumps. There 1b such a thing as being too weak to overcall. Certainlv A should have led his diamond suit. As it turned out B held ! king, queen and one small diamond. , and even though the declarer naa held up the ace until the third round, B would have been led out of the suit. A would later have recovered the lead through the ace of hearts and made his remaining diamonds. Porto Rico Had Early Ride. Christian Science Monitor. Ethnologists have reason for think ing that Porto Rico and the adjoin ing islands may have been peopled from the valley of the Orinoco instead of from Yucatan. When first occu pied by man Porto Rico may have been a part or a peninsula connected with South America.- Its fauna and flora are of the South American type, andi it contains relics of a for gotten race which show evidence of a high grade of culture. Few traces of these aborigians are now to be found except in the interior of the island. Among the curious remains are stone-inclosed plazas, on which ceremonial dances were performed. The" remains of carved idols and pot tery show no small degree of skill and taste. No trace of stone build ings resembling thoee of the Mayas are found, but the houses are of the South American type. LACK OF HOSPITALS HERE MENAGE TO CITY WELFARE Tuberculosis Patients Endangered by Scarcity of Remedial Facilities in Oregon, Says Writer in Warning on Dangers of Dread Disease. BY SHEBA CHILDS HARGREAVES. I UBERCULOSIS kills about one in ten of all people who die at any age; it causes every third death that occurs in those between the ages of 15 and 60, and every fourth death between 20 and 50. But this is only the toll in lives. There are countless thousands hopelessly crippled, help less, incompetent, through its rav ages. Time was when little or nothing was. done for the "consumptive." The disease took off wnoie families and they were buried with solemn wag gings of pious heads. But modern Medical science has shown that God has made his laws, and that disease is nothing more than the penalty which follows infraction of these laws. Once man learns the law, the remedy is in his own hands. And thanks to. medical science, man has learned the law regarding tuberculosis. It is a germ disease. This germ generates and throws off poisons which kill the structures surrounding it. It multiplies by di vision and spreads, slowly or rapidly, according to the resistance which it meets, unCil it destioys the whole lung or other portion of the body where it finds lodgment. Germ Forms In Iiunga. . The first manifestation of - this germ in the body is the formation, usually in the lungs, of a small mass of dead tissue about the size of the head of a pin. This is called tuber cle. Upon examination with a mi croscope this will be found t con tain germs. But the body has. a unique way of protecting itself from invasion of this kind. Surrounding this tubercle will be found a double layer of- cells which have been thrown out to protect the body, from the invader. If the person attacked is in a weakened condition the cells i will not be sufficiently strong to resist the attack of the germ and the tissue is destroyed. When the mass of dead tissue reaches an air tube it is coughed up, leaving a small cavity behind. The whole secret of cure is in strengthening the cells of the body so that the nelsons will not kill but ! only irritate. This irritation causes the round cells to change shape they piongate" and gradually turn into tough scar tissue, wnich grows thicker and thicker until it entirely surrounds the trouble, thus erecting a barrier which prevents the spread of the germ. Thus the battle -goes en in the body. If the cells are sup plied with nourishment 'through the persons having proper food and liv ing according to the laws of nature, the disease is defeated. If not, the victim dies. . , Evidence is at hand which strengthens the conviction that fift infections from tuberculosis often occur during infancy and early childhood. It is generally believed the first seat of disease is in the lymphatic glands, where the bacilli lies quiet for many years. It is now known that it is not hereditary it is iot handed from parent to child before birth. The Infection really comes from tubercular parents or associates, who infect the healthy child soon after birth. So when a whole family dies from this disease it does not mean that it was in herited. Home Chief Duger, While adults may be infected, the chief danger is. to the children in tle home. For, this reason small children should not be kissed or fondled by any one suffering from coughs or cold, in fact, the habit of allowing children to be kissed indis criminately is a bad one. In families who have a tubercular history too much attention'cannot be given to sanitation sunlight is- the greatest foe of tuberculosis, it should be freely admitted to all homes let the carpets fade if they will. Care lessrress in not covering the mouth when coughing and sneezing is the greatest source of infection, but the germ may be taken into the body in uncooked cow's milk. The tuber lar cow is a terrible menace to young children. Tuberculosis of the glands of the neck is often seen in young children. The glands enlarge and finally break down and have to be removed. Many times in a child who has tubercular glands of the neck no other part of the body will be involved. Tuberculosis also attacks the Joints. This trouble is most fre quently encountered in children, though adults sometimes suffer from it. It appears most frequently in the hip or the knee joint. Taken in the early stages, there is hope of saving the joint without deformity, but there should be no delay in seek ing medical attention, if there is the least suspicion that a child is suf fering from tuberculosis of the joint. Parents should be able to recognize the early symptoms of this trouble in order to be on their guard against it. Constant vigilance should be maintained especially if the family has a tubercular history. A limp without pain is always suspicious. Night cries of a child apparently well are suspicious movements in the sleep cause pain in the joint, s'tiff ness of the joint is a common symptom. Blows Start Diaease. Injuries to the joints through falls or blows frequently bring on this disease. A bruise on the knee is sometimes followed by tuberculosis. Of course it Is impossible to prevent an active child from falling and most bruises are merely passing affairs of the moment, still it is well to keep an eye on the skinned knee without appearing to do so. If- there is. the least cause to suspect trouble, ex amination by a competent physician and the X-ray will set the mind at rest. We are seriously handicapped here in Oregon by our lack of hospital facilities. Thoughtful parents, how ever, are awaking to the needs of children. In case a child develops disease of a joint, he will not have the chance for recovery that is his by right until Oregon has a hospital especially for children. The over crowded condition of our hospitals is a menace to every child in Oregon, but most especially to the child who may have to make a fight against tuberculosis of a joint. Rest in bed is absolutely necessary to effect a cure; sometimes a case requires as long as three years' treatment. Hospital care is of course necessary home treatment Is prac tically out of the question. Special care in diet, fresh air and sunshine is Just es essential as in the treat ment of tuberculosis of the lungs. For this reason a general hospital cannot meet the needs of children even if there were enough room, which there is not at present. There is still arfother angle from which the hospital situation must be viewed. Young physicians while in training must have opportunity to study the most advanced methods of treating cases 5f this kind; the pub lic health rests largely in their hands. - If Portland is to be a great medical center, a hospital especially equipped for the treatment of casei of this type is an absolute essential, and the affiliation ot such a hospital with the University of Oregon medi cal school would assure a competent staff, proper educational facilities and the most modern administration in all respects. Austria to Practice Economy, i VIENNA. The retrenchment and economy commission of business men appointed by the government some months ago has submitted its first report. Its most interesting feature is a plan for decreasing the number of government employes. It pro poses gradually to select men in groups from various' departments and give them full pay for a certain period to enable them to find new positions or make themselves self supporting. The government also is urged to establish an employment bureau. Hudson's Company In Siberia: EDMOXTOX. Alberta. According to advices received by local offices of the Hudson's Bay company, it is the intention of the company to invade northern Siberia this summer, estab lishing posts in the most remote dis tricts. A steamer is now loading at Vancouver with supplies, and included in the cargo will be an order for wall paper for $12,0W. Colorado River Threatens Irrigation District. Delta Similar to Tbat of IWle Makea Control Difficult; 1.1 u ili l ku, jat., Aug. ZO. Th JJ Colorad river must be put back' where it belongs and kept there ,'ifj ' the Imperial irrigation district is to" thrive in the future, according V F. N. Cronholm, chief 'engineer and general manager for the district. At present the southern portion ot the" Colorado, from a few miles below, Yuma to where the waters enter the. Gulf of California, forms a deltaT similar in character to that of the Nile. When the river rises, it leaves, the small cuts and channels that seam the delta land, and wanders all' over Lower California, sometimes threatening to break back along the irrigation system into the Imperial valley, and always causing the land' owners anxious hours and large ex penditures for protection. Mr. Cronholm told a recent meet ing of the irrigation district direc tors that it would cost about I2.S00,'-' 000 to stop this trouble. His plans contemplate straightening the river channel, defining it so clearly that -it' will stop the river waters, and mak ing assurance doubly cure by con-T structing additional protective levees. At a cost of $275,000 he would also divert the river intosPescadero basin",' strengthen the three existing levees, which lie between the principal, streams and the valley lands, and would make a complete land and aerial survey of the whole Colorado river system for the future guidance of flood fighters. ... The total cost of these changes would be about S.0O0.000, Mr. Cron-r holm estimated. That is a lot of money, he said, but as the annuHl bill for preventing the river ravages and repairing flood damages is closv; to 10 per cent of that figure, it would pay eventually and in the meantime would end uncertainty about flood' losses.
