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Show TOE JOURNAL Page. 6 fSl THE READER'S COURTROOM Does Forgetting Names and Faces The judge said that, rather than Should You Wait Until the scare the geese away, a whistle Indicate Mental Weakness? Before Last Moment Jumping would more probably have caused The children of a wealthy widow right them to huddle together were dismayed to find that they From a Burning Building? I defense for were where they had been left out of her will ena A careless Janitor dropped tirely. They determined to contest match in the basement of an old the will, on the ground that their hotel, and fire soon enveloped the May a Pupil Collect Damages After School? mother had been mentally In- building. A guest on the third For, Being Kept A schoolgirl made so much noise competent. To prove it, they re- floor, seeing flames in the corridor, called that she would often start quickly decided to take the only during class that her teacher kept A other exit the window. He Jumped, her after school for 15 minutes. was the teacher breaking both legs In his fall. few daysto later, himself named defind startled Later he sued the hotel for damages. At the trial, the hotel at- fendant in a false imprisonment The fire in the torney argued: corridor wasnt very bad at the time this man jumped out the window. If he had gone through the corridor, he probably wouldnt have been injured at all. But the court still held, the hotel liable. The Judge said that a person cant be expected to make a discriminating at such a choice of exits telling a joke, get half way through, and then forget the punch line. Moreover, they said she would Introduce herself to a stranger at a party, shake hands, and then a few minutes later do the same thing with the same person. But the court found this evidence inadequate to prove incompetency, and held the will valid. The judge figured that a woman should not be considered. mentally unbalanced-just because she lacked a few social graces I , An express train ran through a covey of geese sitting on therack, leaving five of them dead. The farmer who owned the birds sued for damages, saying: I dont expect the engineer to. stop his train for a few geese, but I do think he should at least have given them a However, the warning whistle! court held the railroad not liable. action. The girl claimed: 1 hadnt committed any crime, and therefore my teacher had no legal right to detain me against my will. However, the court turned down the girls demand. The judge said that a teacher must have some kind of disciplinary powers, to keep his students under controL Mil PH Harvard Birds LAST WEEK'S ANSWER DOWN Smart, Naturally Smart MASS. CAMBRIDGE, Harvard ' educated pigeons. They are able to play a tune on a piano, play table tennis, tell time, press push buttons and understand changing colors like traffic lights. The piano players can rattle off such simple tunes as Over the Fence Is Out, Boys, and 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game. And all the brains are not In the heads of the fancy homing varieties. The common park pigeon is just as birds; these , f. smart v F. Skinner, professor of psychology at Harvard, has drawn these conclusions after a series of B. experiments. The tests ,are designed to determine whether a child can be trained more effectively by encouraging good behavior or punishing bad actions. How doyou do it with pigeons? The professor explains that pigeons are ideal subjects because they have a reaction " time -humans. ' comparable to 4 They are paid off with food if their? responses to various tests bring the desired results. The modified table tennis without nets is played on a table two feet square. One pigeon, using its beak, tries to bat the ball past its opponent. Rallies sometimes run to three or four shots though most are J'aces. Each successful shot brings a reward of food. In another experiment, the birds are placed on either side of, a glass partition. A panel has three buttons , 1. 15. Balance Wetness 2. Beards of (Abbr.) 17. Type measures rye 3. Encountered 18 Sheltered 4. Fuss side 20. Temperate 12. Pied animal 5. Lively 13. Soviet leader 22. Divides pro dance 6. Of a British (d. 1924) portionally 14. protectorate 23. Per. to worm medicine (SW Arab.) 7. Meditated 25. Resort . 15. Secured under bond 8. One of the 26. Dancer's 16. Close to Great Lakes cymbals 9. Presiding 17 Slip away, 28. Little girl as time officer of 30. Localities 19. Anise- - Houie flavored cordial .21. Male sheep 24. Appearing as if eaten 11. , Conclude 31. Equals 33. Bovine animal . GUIDE naaDDDB GQIDQDMI Alfred went on spectacles Thompsons a 1,000 mile journey, but came back, much to his relief. The glasses started their Journey when he placed them in their case and set the case down on a halted conveyor belt at a colliery in Ashtagton, England. No sooner had he put the case on the belt than the conveyor started to move. The belt dropped the glasses into a tub, which in turn was emptied into a railway car, which was moved to Blytb to be unloaded into a collier. Then the ship set sail tor the Isle of Wright. Dock workers there found the case with the Mr. glasses unbroken and inside. Thompsons address They sent them back to him. name 38. Keel-bille- d cuckoo . 25. Mans . nibkname 27 Color of the spectrum 28. Worked with a spade 29. Action of a W 22. Small state of U S. (abbf.) 33. Cavities in teeth mans shoe Egg-shap- 010,0, BBii c5 Y' 11,915 Persons i . rl 'M Have Over Million Dollars , Report WASHINGTON t" , vf to According y - mm wv government sources and compilers 4 "A of mailing lists, there are 11,915 millionaires in the United States, and American business in 1949 paid at least 51 executives $200,000 or more a year. Many argue that , it is getting more difficult all the tifne to make sr a fortune, but the fact remains that each year since the end of World War II at least 75 more YES. in just 7 days , . . (none short Americans amassed that universal- a group of people who changed host V J old dentifrices to Calox Tooth Powdsr There are, according to avail38 brighter teeth by sciestihct able figures, 306 more millionaires aged Why not change to Calox youndf? I today than there were in 1946. Calox today ... so your Which means that one American out of every 12,500 or so has a cool teeth can start looking gjgf brighter million. According to one of the largest list compiling agencies, there are now 22,307 persons in this country worth between $500,000 and a million; 52,113 have between $250,000 and half a million; 130,439 have between $100,000 and a quarter of 1 a million, and, all told, some Americans could rustle up $50, 000 or more. American business paid 160 executives between $100,000 and $200,-00- 0 last year in addition to those who received $200,000 or more. The highest was $586,000 in salary, bonus and stock paid to the president of General Motors. The president of GM was taxed $430,350 of his $586,000 by. the federal government. But getting .'back to the wealthy persons in the United States, ac cording to reports there are 2,566 millionaires in New York. Pennsylvania Is second with 1,129. Ohio boasts 802 and Massachusetts 775. Illinois comes fifth with 715, ahead of the 610 officially residing in I I ("Ar tomorrow I McKesson A Robbins IncBniysi, 37. Sheeplike DALLAS, Tex. antelope (Sib.) Tom Bradley, newspaper carrier, is credited with saving 20 lives. While making his morning paper 40. Theatrical route he heard the noise of leaking backer gas in an apartment house. He 41. Minus notified Bremen who roused 20 42. Fall to hit sleeping tenants. All were evacuated. A fire captain said the gas was Yield strong enough in eight of the buildi CHICAGO Dr. Theron G. told of treating 10 asthmatics and ings 12 apartments to explode at and P. John Randolph Rollins, of three' hay feverites falling into the turn of a light switch. Northwestern university, have an- that category. nounced that . the most stubborn One, a man, had Court Meets on Yrong Day cases of asthma are yielding to asthma so severely he once fasted For 35 Admits Error wonder-workin- to ACTH Years, MAYSVILLE, X-ra- y, Ky.-- For the past years the Mason fiscal court has been meeting on the second Tuesday after the first .Monday, excepting during April and October, when it met on the first Tuesday after the first Monday . Now the county Judge has learned the court has been meeting on the wrong day for the past 35 years The correct date is first Tuesday after the first Monday. 35 I New ft bmIJ f movie cawr plies, ote. bi New Ansco earners k $4.54 postpaid. Est. 4 J Bsltlww 1920 Dent- - WH. NO k STEAD bo!' pounding. usrtttt No hard Satisfaction tijf Noiseless. fillei I SI 99 value for 21-- 16-year-- 39. Irrigate for 21 days to get relief. He had undergone rasurgery, dium and other forms of treatment with no success. Twenty-fou- r hours after starting on ACTH he had complete relief. After being taken off ACTH he had recurrences, but each treatment was successful.succeeding Protection after using ACTH is not permanent. It must be repeated at intervals of a few weeks. BARGAIN Tended cuts. SeventeenCutshron Steel Blades. Dallas llewsboy Credited Yith Saving Twenty People ed Stubborn Asthma Cases si--n , 35 Frontiers36 BUSINESS & ivVr 589,-14- 34. Ancestral 35. Swine 37. Mans nick- No. 59 on either side of the glass. To re- ACTH, the g hormust both strike mone. ceive food, pigeons certain simultaneously matching The doctors reported the wheezbuttons in the separated cages. ing patients, so severely afflicted When they turn the trick, food pops they are unable to walk, to talk in out. . , complete .sentences, or to walk up f. Other birds have learned to peck a flight of stairs, are finding complete or partial relief. green, signs labeled yellow, always picking The doctors report ACTH will blue, and red a of the when light be used in the tough, advanced the proper sign same color is flashed on. That also cases those for which the cause remains hidden. The scientists brings a reward of grata. . 1,000 Mile Journey LONDON, Eng. ly coveted first million. r Pigeons Can Play Piano, Tell Time, Push Buttons Classified D(. Miners Glasses Take Natural? Names Children's Forgetting Is 1 Mail J. L. Saylor. 0 & 7610 Fortl.nl 6. Ort lit |