Judge — November 2, 1929 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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Railway Thoughts Our station park is bright and fair With grass and foliage green Where our more prosperous wives repair To meet the 5:18. They wait in cars of various kind And various jobs of paint, And furnish to the studious mind Thoughts curious and quaint. Granting that weight and dignity Attend the married state, And rash is that suburban she Who puts it off too late. Yet tell me, O prosperity, Enthroned in a sedan, Is that the right look in your eye To wait your chosen —Tur Ses A golf ball which hums when it is lost has been invented, and all the world needs now is a collar button which, when it es- capes, will climb up on a piano and sing in the manner of Helen Morgan. vening Post Party Planks I hereby set forth my plat- form: List all bootleggers in the city directory. Fewer traffic lights. Chicken pie without bone A law against public necking. Compel women to light their own cigarettes. Twenty years to life imprison- ment for abitual auto horn tooters. Establish a standard measure- ment for the ham in a summer resort sandwich. A referendum vote to establish the status of coonskin coats and bare legs. ats for spectators watching building construction. Burn all beach pajamas before another season. Make spats optional — with brokers. Cut out all unnccessary travagance, such as wearing belt and suspenders. More pie for less money. Steam-heated bleacher seats for November football games. An affidavit with every plate of hash. —Dan Parmer in the Toledo Times een Ie Mr, Lenz ng. In the nest three issues of Junce the feo cach week. Over fire hundred prizes, including @ Re ar, will later be awarded, PROBLEM NO. 5 PROBLEM NO. 6 #4373 #)10754 9AW62 08 6 oK9OS kK Mr. Lenz’ Bidding Mr. Lenz’ Bidding SOUTH WEST NORTH — EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST | Pass | Pass | Pass | Pass 1 No Trump | Pass | Pass | Pass | (Mazimum score 4 points) (Maximum score 4 points) The South and North hands are The high quick-trick value of exactly avers containing one card — South's hand is too great to pass. As |of cach denomination, three-card suits are not recognized in modern tactics and the four-card suit is impossible, nothing is left but The East hand has a sound No to bid No Trump. Neither the quick- Trump bid, first or second-hand, a trick value nor the distribution of doubtful bid at third-hand and D North's hand favors a take-out and |slightly less than a fourth-hand tly 1 the deal turns out to be a dud—one opening bid. of the unfortunate deals that go wrong. If West had been one of those good souls who insist upon bid- Aside from its honors, it has no ding with a solid suit the enemy | pushers, nothing in the way of Jacks would have gotten into a Spade decla- and tens to help out a doubtful bid. ration and landed the game, instead | of being set for one trick. The obstacles to overcome on this deal were refraining to bid the West hand and probably drive the adver- saries into a game-going declaration, when a certain penalty was in sight and reverting to double-dummy by This deal produced the greatest | rescuing the No Trump with two percentage of correct solvers, al- | Spades by North. Of course, if the though a number of players just | Spades had been shown, West would could not bring themselves to pass | have bid up to four Hearts—if neces- the East hand, sary. 7