Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-14 | Page 4 | Freaks and Oddities in Science News

F FREAKS REA K Sand and O. O ODDITIES D D I TIE S S1 1 IN N S SCIENCE C I ENe ENE NEWS NEWS- W S- S There Thera were giants In the earth in the Coal H U age but they were all trees weird growths like the modern modem horsetail rushes but fifty feet high and a a. foot thick others just as strange with sword like leaves that have left no living But all the land animals in those days before the dinosaurs were comparatively puny things small creatures very much like ilke modem modem modern mod mod- em ern salamanders not over a a. foot or two long though some by virtue of interminable tapering tails attained a a. length of nine feet And there like the so called were a a. few shaped eel ones worms blindworms worms of or the present day Their bones are not at all well preserved Most of or the little we know about them comes from impressions of their bodies in coal beds and from more abundant abundant abundant dant tracks of their feet in that subsequently subsequently subsequently hardened into Psychological tests Indicate that the leader of ofU H J U gangland may owe his supremacy to the very same traits that make another man an officer In Inthe Inthe inthe the army or a leader in student activities at a university Tests were given to 20 criminal leaders leaders lead lead- ers to 20 criminal followers to 20 noncommissioned officers and 20 privates and 16 student leaders and 16 student followers Certain traits as revealed by the tests were found to be held by all three groups of leaders and not by their followers These are self-confidence self finality of judgment drive or lack Jack of inhibition and speed of decision