SggtA,;7-April 14. 1956 ThegGuardien. Page 7 (zoom: sroiuss t tan! . 5...-it moment. with. terror is fraught... . .. . .. -Old Mother Nature. PtJICl' Rabbit was running for his life to escape from Roddy Fox Find not knowing where to fhid I plat-r-, of safety had spied the .ii;iuly opened door of Farmer Bron nis sugar house over in the grate where the maple trees grow. The door had been left Iinr Just muugh for I person no bigger than peter Rabbit to slip inst a. Peter dm just that. ' it was nice and warm inside the suuur house. There was I fire un- 'tlcr the evaporator and the sap was being boiled to become the de- licious maple syrup that is so good an pancakes and also can be made into delicious maple sugar. There tare two bunks along one well IO that two people might sleep there. The lower one was quite low. Pet- er darted in under it nd crouched douil in I corner. e could look not and see that door. it was still . llllle way open. would Rcddy rm rome in? Would he dare do it" l'eter's heart was going pltier- pal. pitter-pat. with fright. llr had been in there only I moment or two when he saw I hlatk nose appear in the opening. or t'ilLIfS(! it was Rcddy's nose and Peter knew it. For a moment he thought. Reddy was going to push that door open enough to come in. But he didn't. He just stood there outside. Would he gain courage mough to come in? Peter even tried to hold his breath. Then that Mack nose disappeared. Hod Red- ilv given up and gone away? Pet- ri had no way of knowing. For I lnui; time he didn't move. He didn't tiara go over to the door and neck M it-um it was Roddy”: nose and Peter knew IL... t;r..rJually Peter's heart stopped going so fast. At long last he vent- ured to come out from under the bunk. Perhaps he could find Inoth- er nay out. He began to move about. but after every step he Mould listen. if ever there was I lriglitciicd Rabbit that one was Prior. He followed the wall all the way around. There wasn't Inother open- ing anywhere. If he was going to go out it would have to be by the Ii'a.V he had entered. There was no doubt about it. Peter had been I frightened Rab- bit when he had been running for his life. He was still I frightened rive out ACH ' . 1 -KWas Peter Trapped? By Thornton W. Burgess ,, nelpleaaneal the trapped In Rabbit. but now it was I different . - kind of fright. Peter was begin to wonder if he was trapped. Ifrai that he really was. To be sure. the door was still open I little. He could slip out the same way he had slipped in. He simply do it. Reddy Fox might be hiding outside waiting would be Just the sort of thing Redily would do. So it was that Peter felt trapped. it is I terribly helpless feeling. There is nothing one can do for one's self Ind I helpless . feeiin the worst feel gs that it is pos- sible for anyone to have. You see, with this sort of helplessness is always fear. "I wish I had stayed at home in the Old Briar-patch." Peter. But he didn't whimper out distillery. loud. Every little sound that came from outside he was sure was made by Reddy Fox. back to the dark corner under the bunk and crouched there. There didn't seem to be anything else to do. He was trapped in there. Yes. sir. Peter was trapped in there. At least, that is the way he felt about it. ti':B:nk:i:iiilk-ow lending Rates WASHINGTON, (AP)--The Fed- eral Reeerve Board Ipproved in- creases Thursday in the lending rates of ii of the 12 federal re- serve banks. lt put them at the highest since April. 1933. The move is broke against inflation. p The board approved I Jump in ”” the discount rate-the rate of in- terest It which lend to their member banks-in Minneapolis and the Francisco districts from 235 per cent to 3 per cent, effective Fri. day. April 13. In all other except Chicago. the the proved recommendations by dir. Ictors of the reserve banks to in- crease their lending rate from an to 2th per cent. It was the fifth increase in the cost of bank borrowing from the reserve bank in the last year, W.C.T.U. NOTES The purple haze of Indian sum. mer hung over the landscape and 1 extended like I great circle of' smoke around the horizon. Autumn' leaves had put on their gaudy paint making the landscape strangely beautiful. As I looked down upon the checkerboard pattern of farms and fields. watched the hills and valleys slip by. and marked the serpentine curves of the river be-; low. I suddenly saw I beautiful; outlay of splendid buildings and well-kept grounds. From the airi I could tell it was I good-sized, factory. ”What is made there?" The question popped into my mind. Then as I looked more closely. I realized that this plant was a large didn't dare for him. That like this is one of wimpered After that it did not take long to answer my own question. Made there Ire weak-willed. bleary-eyed. bloated-faced. foul-breathed men- who are no longer fit to be called "husband" or "daddy" nightmar- es that haunt their victims in the form of delirium tremens. broken hearts. divorces. and orphaned children: poverty. suffering. and sorrow; troubles. distress.-and dis- aster; murder. larceny. kidnapp- ings. adultry and rape: wrecked automobiles. broken bodice. sick- ness. disease and insanity. Surely never was there such an attractive plant that made its bus- iness the manufacture of so many diverse forms of human woe and He went DFOSDEF. intended to be . rnry. and I looked down upon the farm lands, with large. .1 thought: "These are the people who voted. the people who made reserve banks possible the legislation. to allow 5 8 n the people who must reap. because not offered upon the market for those who care to buy. but are forced upon those who are the lurkless victims of what is made there. Some of these people may have to suffer in the loss and de- struction of their children. Again it may be that they themselves will be maimed and scattered in wreckage along the highway of life." reserve districts. board an- A question to ponder: What is i made there"! . CYPRIOT :"fllAlTOB" KILLED NICOSIA. Cyprus (Reuters)- l'wo masked gunmen. one of them lrcssed in a priest's habit. Thurb- lay shot and killed I Greek-Cyp- riot as he stood in front of I coffee shop at Akauthoun village in north- east Cyprus. The victim. Georgios Prokopioun. was believed to be I marked man. suspected by terror- ists of being I traitor to their Union-with-Greece campaign. CONTRACT AB RVIDGE By Josephine Culbertseg this column that the opening lead has tremendous significance. quite aside from its possible trick-gain- "IE or trick-losing quality. Here's I case in point. from an inter- national tenm match, the U.S. against Sweden. this hand.since both the Swedish and the American North landed It more three-heart downtwo tricks and one trick re- spectively. close match those lllt)-point dii'fer- fed enrcs can be ('l'll('lal. lead the club king hcart contract, and that decision gave the (North) on easy chance to save ' . s 1 th I -t t '" zofledrymaklgesilichnowgrefandt :tli.I&i l I' m l The plane passed over the fact! r it houses and well-kept barns. U.S. such a factory to operate in 0", of Reprcseiitnliics rode rouglishod . country. the people who have How" over Republican protests Wodnes- midwestern Republicans deserting day to pass an adnnnistration-op- the president, voted against I Re- the products of this mcgo,-y an Dosed farm bill boosting price sup- publlcan motion to send the bill ports and provulint: nearly threel back to a Senate-House conference billion dollars of now farm aidsucommiitce The atiministrzttion suffered its i change it more to the administra- Wnrst leilislative (icfrat since Pres-1tion's liking. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE OPENING LEAD It has often been emphaszed in then then fnaneuver. West dealer. North-south vulnerable. QAH - v 0310". trick set. No great ”siviug" occurred on contracts. undoiiblrd. hilt in I The Su't-tiisli East elected to agaitist the American dcclarer belt WASHINGTON 'APt -Tim, House! with instructions a trick. He simply ducked the lead. East shifted in diamonds. and his partner collected two tricks there, switched to his singleton spade. but declarer could counter He put up the spade ace. cashed the heart Ice and led dummyla heart four. West. winning with the heart king. could not put his partner in for I spade lead and ruff. and so the Amoro- an declarer got off with I one- J3 At the other table the American .1 1 East opened a diamond to his part- ner's bid. and the play proceeded: 3 West cashed two diamond tricks 5: and shifted to the singleton spade. North went up with the spade ace and played two rounds of trumps. but the American West could and did get in the spade ruff. Upon winning with the heart king he re- 6 8 , turned a low club. and when East forced dummy's Ice. declarer could not get out of the dummy conveniently. A spade exit would give East two natural spade tricks and on the actual club exit. East got in. cashed the spade king and led another spade which West ruf- The moral would seem to be that when the leader hasn't I really good card-combination of his own, his best course is to lead partner's bid suit. The king from K-Q-9-7 is.not an ideal lead. by any means. idcnt Eisenhower took office as Re- publican ranks broke under elec- tion-year pressures from the farm The House action sent to the Sen- ate at bill scrapping the Eisenhower flexible price support program and substituting I year's support pro- gram at mandatory 90 per cent of .-parity on so-called basic crops. 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