The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 212, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 9, 1932 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
U. S. BUILDING PLANS SUPPLY JOBS
Treasury Department Ready,
to Begin 142 Structures.
Washington.—Using funds from the
$100,000,000 granted by the emergency
relief and construction act passed by
the last session of congress, a federal
public building program that will ulti-
mately give employment to hundreds
of thousands of men is under way
throughout the country.
That 400,000 persons are at present
employed in connection with some
phrase of the construction of 41 post
offices, custom houses, and other build-
ings was pointed out in Washington
by Ferry K. Heath, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, who is director
of the building program. A total of
100,000 are actually engaged in work-
ing on the buildings and 300,000 others
in fabricating and material plants, he
said.
Meanwhile, plans are being made to
launch work on 142 more such con-
struction projects, in 35 states involv-
ing an outlay of $20,810,000. This list
includes new federal buildings that
will cost between $300,000 and $100,-
000 each. The 41 projects now being
erected each will cost more than $300,-
000. ,
Workmen in the West have also been
encouraged by the act of the Recon-
struction Finance corporation in grant-
ing a $40,000,000 loan to the Los An-
geles metropolitan water district,
which covers more than a dozen south-
ern California cities.
This loan is to aid in piping water
from the Colorado river above Hoover
dam at a final cost of about $220,000,-
000. The loan will be made through
the purchase of $40,000,000 of 5 per
cent bonds of the water district.
Huge Sum Not Allocated.
In announcing the loan, officials in
Washington said that 1,000 men prob-
ably would be employed by the end of
this year and about 4,500 by next
July.
Besides creation of employment di-
rectly on construction work, much in-
direct employment will be created, for
a vast amount of materials and sup-
plies will be required. The aqueduct
Itself will be 239 miles long. Eighty-
live miles of 16-foot tunnel must be
driven through the mountains and
lined with concrete.
Of the $100,000,060 set aside by the
last congress through the emergency
relief and construction act as a means
of providing employment through a
public building program, $74,500,000
has thus far been allocated, leaving
$25,500,000 yet to be assigned. It iS'
expected that the greater part of this
balance will be distributed for the con-
Ancient Indian Guards
Ritual of Ponca Tribe
Ponca City, Okla.—Only one mem-
ber of the Ponca Indian tribe is left
who knows the secret ceremonies of
the medicine men of the Poncas.
Little Dance, who does not know
the exact date of his birth, but does
know he was a small child when the
meteor group of 1833 passed over the
United States, lives on the reserva-
tion south of here, with his sons and
daughters, and will not talk to white
men.
From historical records, which ver-
ify his story of the comets, telling of
a meteor showed on November 12 and
13, 1833, the ancient Ponca must be
well over one hundred.
Among the secrets of his tribe,
which he alone could reveal and
which will probably die with, him, are
the clan secrets of.the Poncas. The
seven clans of the Poncas—the Medi-
cine band, Buffalo band, Ice band,
Deer band, Snake band—all have lost
their rituals. They are known only
by the medicine man.
Little Dance takes as active a part
as possible in the sacred dances, and
always helps with the arrangements.
Alone, he holds hundreds of secrets,
from the mixing of paint to the cere-
monies of the forbidden sun dance.
struction of federal buildings that a‘re
to cost less than $100,000 each.
This third list of construction jobs
will be forthcoming soon, according to
announcement made at the time the
second list, was made public.
In the list of 142 projects costing
between $300,000 and $100,000 each.
New York state receives the largest
number of projects, 24. California is
second, with 17. Of the 35 states re-
ceiving such buildings, only 12 re-
ceived but one structure.
Another federal agency, the War de-
partment, is also planning to provide
wrork through a vast construction, pro-
gram. This program calls for the ex-
penditure of $41,577,260 on flood con-
trol and rivers and harbors projects.
By this program War department offi-
cials expect 25,000 persons to be re-
moved from the ranks of the jobless.
Work to Begin Now.
No delay in getting the program un-
der way is expected by army engi-
neers. Many of. the projects already
have been started, and plans have
been drawn up for the rest.
Under authorization of the last con-
gress, the War department also ex-
pects to spend $15,164,000 on construc-
tion work at military posts/ This is
expected to begin soon, and officials
believe it will give work to 10,000
persons.
In announcing the fact that 400,000
persons are now at work on federal
construction projects under the emer-
gency relief and construction act, Di-
rector Heath said that by June 30,
1933, the government will have under
contract virtually 90 per cent of the
public works necessary for the next
25 years.
It is expected that milions of dollars
will be saved the government when
the construction of large working
post offices is completed. Among the
large post offices now under construc-
tion are those at New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago, Kansas City, Atlanta, and
Albany, N. Y.
Through the use of private archi-
tects for many of the projects, prog-
ress in carrying out the building pro-
gram has been speeded up more than
10O per cent. Since the program -was
begun, contracts have been 'made with
264 architectural firms fGr plans on
buildings representing a cost of more
than $200,000,000.
During the last ten months 105 fed-
eral buildings have been completed at
a total cost of about $310,000,000, ac-
cording to Mr. Heatlu
LEGION’S COMMANDER
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Louis A. Johnson, an attorney of
Clarksburg, W. Va., who was elected
national commander of the American
Legion at the convention in Portland,
Ore. He is forty-two years old and
was in active combat service during
the Meuse-Argonne offensive, after-
ward going to Germany with the Army
of Occupation.
Nebraska Yields Bones of Camels
Roamed That Section About
3,000,000 Years Ago.
Denver, Colo.—The skeletons of a
herd of eleven camels, found in Ne-
braska, 3,000,000 years old, will soon
adorn the halls of the Colorado Mu-
seum of Natural History here.
The camels, although built almost
the same as the modern camel com-
mon to the Sahara desert, are much
smaller. The Nebraska prehistoric
creature stood only three feet high.
Proof that the camels lived in Ne-
braska when that country was a
desert of fine, blowing sand, comes
from the strata of sand in which the
fossils were found. They were na-
tive of the miocene age, according to
Director J. D. Figgins of the museum.
For many years the camels roamed
the sands. They did not travel fast.
Large herds of them, thousands per-
haps, would return for weeks to the
same bed of sand at night. They
would gather close together for rest
and protection from night prowlers.
Ban Bobbed Hair v-
for Choir Singers
Wichita, Kan.—The girls and
women who sing in the choir at
the annual old-fashioned camp
meeting of the Kansas State Holi-
ness association must not have
bobbed hair and they must be
dressed modestly.
Women were requested not to
appear on the platform with bobbed
hair. They were asked to dress
modestly. The religious services
outlined were simple—prayer meet-
ing at 7 RT m., followed by song
service and preaching. The after-
noon session followed the same
routine.
Officer Blackwell Makes Out Ticket
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During this period that a herd slept
on the same spot, some of them were
bound to dre. And in such a place
were the skeletons found which were
brought to Denver for the education
of the wrnrld.
Archie, the skeleton of archidis-
koden meridonalis Nebraskensis, a
mammoth elephant, which occupies
an exhibition stall adjoining the
small camels, also came from Nebras-
ka. But the two animals never met.
They could not have lived in the
same type of country. Archie is only
20,000 years old, as compared with
the 3,000,000 years of his neighbors.
Uses Window in Chest to
Study Internal Diseases
Arnold’s Park, Iowa.—Use of a win-
dow placed in the chest to observe the
action of the heart, lungs and di-
aphragm of animals In the study of
internal diseases has been perfected
by Dr. Waiter L. Mendenhall, former
head of the Drake university physics
department.
Mendenhall is head of the depart-
ment of pharmacology at the Boston
university school of medicine.
The device is expected to prove val-
uable in the treatment of tuberculosis,
heart disease and lung disorders. The
window is made of photographic film
and is placed in the chest opening, in-
serted between the muscles.
Physicians believe it is possible that
the window could be used for treat-
ment of disease by ultraviolet light by
substituting a quartz window for the
photographic film window. Doctor
Mendenhall demonstrated his experi-
ment in April before the Federated
Societies for Experimental Biology iq
Philadelphia.
Veteran Regains Memory
and Kin After 14 Years
Rome, N. Y.—Separated from his
wife and children for 14 years by a
lapse of memory, Lewis N. Greeney,
thirty-nine-year-old World war vet-
eran, has just been reunited with his
family here.
Greeney was injured at Camp Wads-
worth, S. D., in 1918, when he saved a
child from being run down by a truck.
His memory was gone, and he knew
nothing of his former life. Recently
Greeney recalled .he had once lived at
Blossvale, N. Y., and through the
American Legion his family was lo-
cated.
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Detective’s Daughter
Proves Self Good Sleuth
Seattle.—Rita Callahan, ten, daugh-
ter of Detective H. S. Callahan, is a
sleuth in her own right and has $5
reward to prove it.
Rita found a wallet containing $21.
She returned to the “scene of the
crime,” as all good detectives do.
When a man came along, apparently
seeking a lost article, Rita questioned
him. Satisfied he was looking for the
wallet and also satisfied he was the
owner, she returned it to him.
He gave her $5 for her sleuthing.
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Even tne toughest gangster couldn’t resist arrest by this “cop,” recently
designated by Chief of Police T. O. Sturdivant as Atlanta’s youngest police
officer. Ills name is Bernard Blackwell and this photograph shows him mak-
ing out his first ticker
SYinind Stockholm
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Scene on Stockholm’s Quays.
Motorists Get Free Gas
as Tank Truck Is Struck
Seattle, Wash.—When a large gaso-
line truck overturned in a ditch, pass-
ing motorists became the recipients
of hundreds of gallons of free fuel.
The truck had to empty its 3,000 gal-
lon container, nefore it could be
towed out. Scores )f motorists stood
by to dip up the gasoline as It
formed a miniature lake.
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
/'■’VrOCKHOLM is celebrating, this
year, the one hundredth ahni-
^ j versary of the opening of the
Gota canal which connects the
Swedish capital with Goteborg on the
North sea, 246 miles across the king-
dom.
Even without its party adornment,
which it has donned for the celebra-
tion, Stockholm is a city that fairly
shines. Its quays are'the city’s front
doors, with steps always freshly
scrubbed. Under brilliant summer
sun, even the cargoes of many of the
harbor’s sailing craft, moored in front
of royal palace, town hall, and house
of parliament, glisten, for they are la-
den with countless cords of silver
birch, the city’s fuel.
Every year, in gorgeous midsummer
floral regalia, Stockholm stands fault-
lessly groomed to receive only a few
score American visitors, while other
continental capitals, included in cus-
tomary tourist itineraries, are athrong
with thousands from western shores.
The average traveler does not de-
cide casually upon a trip to Stock-
holm, nor, unless he comes directly
from New York by ocean route, does
the American always arrive In the
most amiable frame of mind. It Is a
long, hard journey from western or
southern Europe to the historic city
founded seven centuri.es ago as a for-
tress to resist the forays of Baltic
pirates.
From Paris, for example, unless one
selects the speedy and exhilarating
airplane mode of travel, the major
part of one day must be spent on the
train to Amsterdam; thence there is
an all-night journey to Hamburg, then
another full day on the train to Co-
penhagen, and finally, by train, ferry,
and train again, a second night is re-
quired to reach one’s destination.
Stockholm’s prosperity, like that of
the entire country, is founded in large
measure on forests—the city’s name,
Isle of the Log, suggests it—but there
is no evidence of this in external ap-
pearances. There was a time when
the metropolis was built of wood, and
it required six disastrous conflagra-
tions, recurring over a period of two
and a half centuries, to convince its
citizens that their safest insurance
against flames lay beneath their feet.
City Built of and on Granite.
Stockholm today is built of granite,
upon granite foundations. A land-
owner blasts his building material
from the site of his proposed struc-
ture, and by the same operation makes
his cellar. The result is a city of som-
ber, unadorned gray-stone apartments
and business buildings, conveying the
impression of havings been erected for
eternity.
Acliitecturally one enters a new
world on reaching Stockholm. No
slightest suggestion is to be found of
that classical Greek influence so con-
spicuous in most of the capitals and
chief cities of southern, central and
western Europe.
For twelve years Stockholqa labored
on its town hall. It was finished, as
planned, for formal dedication in 1923,
the four hundredth anniversary of the
beginning of the reign of Gustavus
Vasa, Sweden’s first hereditary ruler.
The hall, in contrast to the custom-
ary granite, is built of exceptionally
large red bricks. Its interior is as im-
pressive as its exterior. On one side
of a great inner court is the famous
blue room, rising from the ground
to the full height of the building. This
is used for official banquets and sim-
ilar civic affairs.
Here, each year on a Sunday in Au-
gust, a picturesque event is staged,
when awards are made to Stockholm’s
great army of workmen farmers, one
of the most interesting groups to be
found in Europe.
The Swedes are noted for their love
of the soil and all that it produces,
and this passion for growing things
cannot be stifled by the circumstance
of metropolitan existence; so the city
has set aside countless acres of sub-
urban territory for conversion into
garden plots, and these are rented to
workingmen for the equivalent of $5
for a summer season.
Here the laborer builds a tiny cot-
tage—one room and porch, usually.
He can buy a complete house ready-
made for $100 and set it up like a
jig-saw puzzle! All summer he and
his wife and children live on their
“little farm.” lie continues his work
In shipyard or factory, but early in
the morning, before he goes to his
job in the city, and when he returns
in the afternoon, he joins his wife in
hoeing the vegetables, training the
roses over the doorway, cultivating
the dahlias, pansies, violets, and sweet
peas.
Garden Prizes Awarded,
Toward the end of the summer the
housewife is kept busy canning and
preserving the produce of her doll-
house garden, while the husband con-
centrates his efforts upon the flowers.
On the appointed Sunday in August
each family takes its prize products—
blossoms, fresh and canned vegetables,
and fruit—to the blue room. Here
the tvomen, arrayed in the peasant
attire of their native provinces, dis-
play the results of their summer rec-
reation and diversion.
These workingman gardens were in-
troduced during the pinching years of
the World tvar, when Sweden was
more or less isolated and when all
food products commanded fabulous
prices.
Although the emergency no longer
exists, the gardens are continued, not
only because they are financially suc-
cessful—the vegetables raised each
year are valued at more than half a
million dollars—but because they have
promoted the health and happiness of
the working classes and have contrib-
uted materially to the attractiveness
of the capital’s environs.
~The “little farms” are a special
boon to the children of the working
classes, who must store up energy for
those long, dark hours of fall, winter,
and spring schooling. Judged by Amer-
ican standards, the lot of the school-
boy or girl in Stockholm is one of the
most unenviable in the whole world
of education.
School life begins at the age of six.
The hours are trying and Saturday is
like every other week day. In winter,
of course, the pupil must get up and
dress by artificial light, and he starts
for school while the street lamps are
still burning. He begins his day’s
task at 7:45; at 10:35 he goes home
for breakfast, returns to the class-
room at noon, and is dismissed at 2:35
or 3:30 according to his age. In mid-
winter it is dark at the later hour.
After the first snowfall, children liv-
ing in the environs of Stockholm make
their way to school on skis.
Fond of Study and Sports.
Under such circumstances, it is nat-
ural that the children of Stockholm
should take their studies somewhat
more seriously than children in Amer-
ican cities; yet, when the summer va-
cation season arrives, no youngsters
in the world enter upon their outdoor
frolics with greater joy. The children
of the wealthier classes accompany
their parents to summer homes out-
side the city, many of them situated
on the countless islands which dot
Sweden’s Baltic shore line; yet even
here they pursue their studies in nat-
ural history with the zest of a sport.
One of the distinguishing character-
istics^ of the Stockholm youth is his
fondness for sports, with a special
predilection for that most graceful of
all exhibitions of skill, javelin-throw-
ing. Association ball (played with a
round football), in which the head is
used very largely as the propulsive
force, is the national sport of the
country, while bicycle endurance races,
skiing and skating, and boating in
summer are also extremely popular.
Social Life in the Winter.
When the long days begin to grow
short, when the well-to-do middle class
and the aristocracy return from their
country estates, when the autumn
rains set in, and the lights begin to
twinkle in apartment windows in the
early afternoon (only the very wealthy
can afford to live in private homes in
Stockholm), the social life of the city
awakens from its summer sleep.
Then comes a long succession of
dinners, musicales, theater parties,
opera parties, and suppers. At least
one feature of this Stockholm social
life would meet with the hearty ap
proval of the average American man
of affairs: there is no such obligation
as a dinner call. Swedes do not visit
informally, nor would it ever occur
to a Stockholm woman to telephone a
friend and say that she expected to
call. One goes to a friend’s home
only when he or she has been espe-
cially invited; but, having accepted
such an invitation, he obligates him-
self to reciprocal entertainment. Thus
the—to many—weary winter round
begins.
The most distinctive feature of a
Swedish repast is the smorgas-bord
(sandwich table), variously described
as a “super-super hors d’oeuvres” a
concentrated delicatessen store, and a
general assault on all the rules of diet
To count calories while feasting at
a smorgasbord would require the
services of an expert accountant
equipped with several adding ms
chines.
Modern Contract
Bridge
By Lelia Hattersley
No. 23
Redoubling
\X7HEN an opponent has doubled
’ * your bid or your partner’s, it is
never advisable to change the declar-
ation unless a really advantageous
switch can be made. If your partner
is a sound bidder, do not worry about
flying to his rescue. More than likely
he has no desire to be rescued. He
might even be prepared to redouble,
in which caSe he would most bitterly
resent your needless attempt to “save”
him.
Many players are entirely unaware
of the highly advantageous odds in
favor of a redouble at contract. These
favorable odds are produced by the
huge increase of trick values in a
successful 'doubled and redoubled con-
tract.
The following table is computed on
the assumption that the declarer will
never fail to make his contract by
more than one trick. This assumption
may be considered arbitrary, but be-
tween partners who thoroughly under-
stand each other's bidding only an
abnormal distribution should result
in the loss of more than
one
trick
when
one or the
other
has redou-
bled.
gSLS1
BONUS INCREASE ON SUC-
CESSFUL REDOUBLE
wag
WHEN NOT VULNERABLE
tf|y
No Trumps Majors Minors
.
1....
110
90
100
2....
170
130
100
3....
230
170
100
4....
290
210
100
5....
350
250
100
6....
410
290
100
7. ...
540
470
330
100
WHEN VULNERABLE
No Trumps Majors Minors
i. ...
170
160
140
200
2____
220
180
200
3....
280
220
200
4....
340
260
200
5. ...
____ 450
400
300
200
6. ...
460
340
200
7....
520
380
200
To
illustrate how
these
odds
work
out,
let us assume
that a
player not
vulnerable has bid six
hearts
and
been doubled by the opponents.
If he
fails
to make his
contract by
one
trick he would pay a penalty of 100
points. Had he redoubled his penalty
would have been increased only by 100
additional points. Now, assuming that
the. declaration was successful, dou-
bled and redoubled, the winning play-
er would score 720 below the line and
100 above for his successful contract.
In short, the redouble would have in-
creased his score by 410 points. Sup-
posing that the contract would .hinge
on the failure or success of one fi-
nesse or one drop, the odds favor-
ing success in a redouble are 4.1
against 1.
Should the bidding indicate, how-
ever, that there might be a wide
swing, either above or below contract,
it should be borne in mind that the
bonus for over tricks is generally
only one-half as great as the penalty
for additional under tricks. Therefore,
if the information has not been more
or less exact, it would tend to di-
minish the advantage of a redouble.
Slams
When contract was a very young
game, players new to its strategy and
somewhat overawed by the unheard-of
necessity of having to bid for a con-
tra ec to score it, grasped at every
straw that might help them in the
novel and hazardous enterprise of
bidding for a slam. “Slam cues” of
every sort and description were in-
vented. Spectacular methods some of
these were, by which slams could be
arrived at only after an intricate arrd
horribly confusing series of bids,
which purported to show the location
of all the aces and (in some sys-
tems) even kings.
Fortunately, for the good of the
game of contract, it was not long
before more thoughtful types of play-
ers came to recognize the inherent
weaknesses of this supposedly tech-
nical “slam bidding." It soon be-
came apparent that by the time part-
ners succeeded in locating all the aces
in the pack, they had usually managed
to push each other up to a slam bid
which failed because of the lack of
additional honor-cards and distribu-
tional values to back up their aces.
Modern contract has discarded all
the outworn methods of “slam bid-
ding,” and recognized the fact that
the only way to arrive at a- sound
slam contract is just as one arrives
at a sound game contract—by part-
nership information, trick valuation
and deduction.
A few basic rules which must al-
ways be adhered to for successful
slam bidding are:
From your first declaration to your
last, concentrate on showing depend-
able honor-trick values.
Be sure that every bid you make
has some sound reason for its exist-
ence. .
’ Never give a direct inference for a
slam unless you have some slight
doubt as to its favorable outcome
and wish to invite your partner’s co-
operation in deciding the matter; be-
cause the most important rule of all
is this: When you are sure of a slam,
bid it, do not ask your oartner to bid
it for you.
<£ t J32. by Leila Hattersdey/—WNU Service.
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