Happiest Of Men
Unable To Move
New York.—Dean Van Clute
considers himself the happiest man
in Greenwich Village.
And yet—
He started out to be a big-time
baseball player, and just when ne
was making his mark became para
lyzed.
He turned to reading and in
spite of a meagre education was
just beginning to enjoy real litera
ture when he became blind.
His wife and only child died on
the same day.
He wanted to end his own life,
but his inability to move a single
muscle except those of his face and
throat made it impossible.
He came to New York with
the expectation of being cured, and
ended up in a charity hospital on
Welfare Island, where he remained
seven years, labelled an incurable.
He did some writing on the is
land, earned enough to leave, and
opened a bookshop in Greenwich
Village, only to have a carload of
racketeers steal all his volumes,
while he sat, helpless, listening to
the pillage.
He found a comfortable room,
then had to move because the gas
with which it was heated affected
his lungs.
He prided himself on his free
dom from the usual diseases, but
recently contracted a severe case
of pneumonia.
During this career of misfortune,
Van Clute has developed a philoso
phy which accounts for the smile
that wreathes his face most of the
time.
“Pain,” he explained, “is not, as
most people think, something to be
avoided at all costs—a condition
wholly evil and never willingly
accepted.
"Pain is the impetus of most of
our progress. It refines our senses.
It challenges our mind. It helps
us to discover beauty.
"Out of suffering leap cath
edrals and symphonies. From the
grandeur of tragedy springs the
sublime poetry of the world.”
As he talked, Van Clute sat in
the wheelchair which has held him
prisoner for 18 years. A twinkle
played around the eyes which have
not seen for 14 years.
He lives, close to the roar of
elevated trains, in a basement
studio in Greenwich Village which
has become a rendezvous for liter
ary figures since H. L. Mencken,
magazine editor, hailed Van Clute
as a literary find.
He asks neither pity nor sym
pathy. He wants only to discuss
books, music and current history
like any other man. His smile
grows when critics drop in and
praise an autobiography he wrote
— by dictating to a brother—sev
eral months ago.
Gauge Happiness
Among Married
Cincinnati.—Sociologists were
told here of efforts to measure
whether Mr. and Mrs. John J.
Public are happy though married.
Jessie Bernard, of Washington
University, told the American So
ciological Society of a method she
has evolved of "sampling” the
complex behavior patterns which
make up the attitude of man to
wife, and wife to husband. j
The result is a score somewhere
between nothing and 100. Her
conclusion was that, unlike golf,1
shooting a score of $1 to 65 ls|
skirting marital disaster. j
She’s tried it. she said, on 115 j
men and 137 women in St. Louis,
Seattle and Los Angeles. Among |
her findings are:
That husbands are most satisfi
ed when they are as old as, or up
to 10 years older than their wives, j
That wives like their husbands j
as old, or up to five years older,
than themselves.
That family income has nothing
to do with material happiness.
Neither does education.
In another paper, Leonard S. Cot
trell, of the University of Chicago,
suggested the basis of happy mar
hiage is laid in childhood. His idea
is another demonstration of the
old saw that "the child is father
to the man.”
Oiow to play Bridge
AUCTION m
CONTRACT
!by Wynne Ferguson
Author of "PRACTICAL AUCTION BRIDGE*
Copyright, 1931, by Hoyle, Jr.
ARTICLE No. 22
There is still one point in Auction
and Contract that is undecided, one on
which the experts disagree, and that is:
When should the partner of the dealer
take out the latter’s no trump bid with
a bid of two hearts cr two spades? As
< ne of my fellow authors has said: “It
is the thorniest question of latter day
bidding.”
Every writer on the game seems to
have a different opinion so that it is
not surprising that the average player
has difficulty in deciding what to do in
this situation. The writer has frequent
ly stated that, in his opinion, partner
should take out freely with any five
card heart or spade suit, provided the
hand contains at least one quick trick.
Of course, with any greater strength,
the take-out is obligatory; for example,
with six or more hearts or spades, all
writers agree that a take-out is obliga
tory. If the original no trump bidder
cannot help the major suit bid, he
should either bid two no trump or
show his own suit, if he has one;
otherwise, he should pass and let his
partner struggle along with the major
suit bid.
The object of all bidding, both at
Auction and Contract, is to find a bid
that will go game, and the best way to
accomplish this purpose is to show a
five-card major suit whenever possible.
Experience has shown that a hand that
will go game at no trump will nearly
always go game if hearts or spades are
trumps and there is a five-card major
suit in either hand. On the other hand,
there are many hands that will score
game in hearts or spades that are not
game hands in no trump.
For these rather evident reasons, the
writer advocates free take-outs of part
ner's no trump with major suit bids.
From then on it is up to the original
no trump bidder to use his judgment
as to whether he should try for game
at the major suit or go on with his
no trump.
An English writer who doesn’t be
lieve in the American informatory
double, says that one way to settle the
question of a take-out of partner’s
no trump, is to adopt the following
convention: “When the take-out is
from weakness, say: ‘I bid two hearts’
and, when from strength, say: ‘I make
it two hearts.’ ” This is, of course, the
English idea of humor and a more or
less severe criticism of the informatory
double. In England they don’t entirely
approve of the double, nor dp they
consider it a fair convention. Needless
to say, we will continue to believe in
the informatory double and not adopt
the English suggestion as to the take
out.
The following is a good illustration
of the value of the take-out with a •
hand that most of the authorities
would pass:
Hearts — J, 8, 6, 3, 2
Clubs —J, 3, 2
Diamonds —■ K, 8, 4
Spades — K, 8
Hearts — 9,7 • Hearts — K, Q, 5
Clubs —9, 7,6 Clubs—K, Q, 8
Diamonds — J, 7, 6 Diamonds — A, 5, 2
Spades—• J, 6, 5, 3, 2 Spades— Q, 10, 9, 4
Hearts — A, 10, 4
Clubs —A, 10, 5, 4
Diamonds—Q, 10, 9, 3
Spades — A, 7
AUCTION BIDDING:
No score, first game. Z dealt and bid
one no trump and A passed. If Y bids
two hearts, Y Z will score game but, if
he passes, A will open his spades and
Y Z will only score one or two odd at
no trump. It is a good example of the
value of a free take-out.
CONTRACT BIDDING:
Y should bid two hearts and, if B
passes, Z should bid three hearts. Y’s
hand doesn’t justify a rebid, so the
hand will be played at three hearts.
There are many such hands at Con
tract where a fortunate distribution of
the cards enable the declarer to score
a game that cannot be contracted for
in the bidding.
Problem -
. Hearts — 9,8,3 : Y :
Clubs —A, Q, 7, 6 : A B :
Diamonds — Q, J, 9, 7, 6 : Z :
Spades — A ' --—
i
No score; Z dealt and bid one spade.
What should A now bid with the fore
going hand at either Auction or Con
tract?
A has the choice of one of three bids:
(1) an informatory double of one spade;
(2) a bid of two diamonds; (3) a bid of
one no trump. It seems to the writer
that an informatory double with this
hand is bad practice. It is too strong a
hand to play at a minor suit and not
strong enough to play at hearts. For
the same reason, the two-diamond bid
should not be made. It takes a great
deal of strength in partner’s hand to
make game in diamonds but very little
to make game possible in no trump.
The no trump bid seems the best bid
with this hand for it offers the best
chance for game at either Auction or
Contract.
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, APPLICATION FOR PARDON OR
PAROLE
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, Lizzie Campbell,
mother of Charles Campbell, will
ipply to the Pardon Commissioner
md the Governor of North Caro
ina, for the Parole or Pardon of
Charles Campbell, who is now serv
ing a term in the State Penitentiary
for an alleged assault with intent
to commit rape and sentenced by
judge J. H. Clement.
Any person desiring to oppose
said Pardon or Parole will file his
protest with the Pardon Commis
sioner.
Dated February 1st, 1933.
MRS. LIZZIE CAMPBELL
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NORTH CAROLINA, ROWAN COUNTY
In The Superior Court
J. O. Lee Inc., Plaintiff
vs.
The Hoosier Veneer Co., an In
diana Corporation, Defendant.
Notice of Service By Publication
The defendant, above named,
The Hoosier Veneer Company, an
Indiana corporation, will take not
ice that an action entitled as a
bove has been commenced against
it and is now pending in the Sup
erior Court of Rowan County,
North Carolina, the purpose where
of, is to recover for certain com-1
missions and advances due plain
tiff by defendant, which arose our
of plaintiff’s receipt, storage, and
sale of veneers for defendant by
plaintiff as defendant’s factor,
and for the further purpose of
foreclosing the factor’s lien which
the plaintiff has upon the veneers
of the defendant now in plaintiff’s
possession.
And the said defendant will
further take notice that it is re
quired to appear at the office of
the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Rowan County, North Carolina j
in the courthouse at Salisbury, i
North Carolina, on the 18 th day1
of February, 1933, and answer or
demur to the complaint in this
action, filed in the office of the
undersigned, on said date, or
within thirty days thereafter, or
the plaintiff will apply to the relief
demanded in said complaint.
This the 18 th day of January,
1933.
B. D. MCCUBBINS,
Clerk Superior Court, Rowan
County.
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