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Show BEN CASEY AMS/ Tell Me Why I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO A BRAWL OVER MARCY, PAUL TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1964 Why CanParrots Talk Better? THEN FORGET IT! SHE'S \ A LIVELY, HEALTHY KID. WHO CAN F But SHE /S JUST A KID AND WILL YOU PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS BOTTLE! Win The 15-Volume Britannica;can) parrots and these other your granny and your granary? |ination count. Use this draw- . Answers jing, or copy it any size. Im Junior Encyclopedia for school| birds say words while thous-| and home. Send your questions,|#"4s of other kinds can not? | 1. A cabinet maker. 2. Take portant: entries must be adname, age, address to “Tell Some people believe it is due out the “‘r” and makeit vanish.| dressed “Drawing,” Tell Me Me Why!” care of this paper.|'0 the kind of tongue a parrot 3. Your granny is your born! Why, and give your name, age, In case of duplicate questions, has. It’s a large, thick tongue. oe and your granary is a corn|and address. “ * « i decide j j,.| VeirdsWiibeuthalinswkwon But the peculiar thing is Medsle that in. the author will the win Extra Prize! You Finish It Answer to yesterday’s Puzzle |; ner. Today’s winneris: hoes, also have large thick tongues— Box: If the chemical dissolved Clarence Brady, Ui, Cones and they can’t say a word. And Cc & y anything it touched, it would N.Y, | mynas, who are amongthe best ™ r\ have dissolved the bottle it was Everybody loves to hear alientaene oan parrot ‘‘talk’’. Sometimes we ; , get the feeling that the bird bieae Reiger NO NEWS YET ON THE MUSEUM MYSTERY, JILL? lin! | i aa | the Britannica World Atlas ; ‘or Yearbook of Events. Send You may win a Britannica! your riddles, jokes to: Riddles, World Atlas plus a Britannica Jokes, “Tell Me Why!” Today’s course parrots are only will help them to talk, are all Yearbook for finishing this winner is: Vada Watson, drawing, Originality and imag-| Lorain, Ohio. ood at all, and of course i few words. The other birds ot much fun for the bird. ee understands exactly what! people who split the tongues of eee Sa +28 , ry bitds with the idea that: this guy can beChem Giaa\Cen uhdoreae who can “talk” include mynas,| Js jt intelligence in a bird| crows, ravens, jackdaws, and/that enables it to talk? The certain kinds of jays. Now why) answer is no. Parrots are no more intelligent than many other birds. As you can see, there don’t seem to be any clearly established, proven reasons to explain this talking.| But here is what may be the simplest and best explanation ‘of all, Human speech is slower Today is Tuesday, April 28,/than the vocal speed of most} the 119th day of 1964 with 247| birds. But the parrot happens to follow. lto have a rather slow vocal| The moon is approaching its; Mechanism. It can therefore last quarter. make sounds like human speech LITTLE PEOPLE'S PUZZLE {2SDOuN Today In History The morning star is Saturn. |More easily than other birds The evening star is Venus. |can. It may also be due to La James Monroe, the fifth pres- fact that the parrot’s natura z of ks” it ident of the United States, was sounds, the Sou born on this day in 1758. lmnakes’ are closer to human ; day in fn history: hi On this ||sounds than fi the natural ; sounds : Union as the seventh state. |up to the ability to do a bit) | of “talking” by the parrot! | In 1788, Maryland entered the|°! other birds. All of this adds | In MY TUITION AT DRAMATIC SCHOOL RUNS OUT IN TWO L DON'T WANT TO THROW/ ic we NEED MORE, ICE-WATER, MY CHILD /r11 GET A SECOND --- BUT $85 AWEEK JOB, MRS. WORTH!.+ ISN’T REALLY ENOUGH “DAYLIGHTING; I GUESS +-FOR TWO PEOPLE! 4 YOU'D CALL THAT! WITH DANE. JUST GETTING A START--+ WEEKS!-.-I. WOULDN'T EXPECT/ WOULDN'T YOU BE. YOU TO KEEP THAT UP, WISE TO WAIT UNTIL OF COURSE! YOU HAVE A UTTLE MORE SECURITY 7 : —| GEE, .MR5. WORTH !--- IF KIDS WAITED TILL THEY WERE RICH, THERE'D BE NOTHING IN THE WORLD BUT OLD BACHELORS / AND OLD MAIDS! 1942, the government or Does the bird understand dered a World War II “dim-|hat it’s saying? Most authorout”? in all communities along! ities think they don’t, but | the Atlantic Coast after dusk ‘may form an association be- In 1952, the war with Japan|tween certain sounds and officially ended as a treaty|actions, and this is a kind of signed in 1951 by the United] “understanding.” States and 47 other nations ca went into effect. | > FUN TIME | The Riddle Box In 1963, Haitian police broke | +28 into the embassy of the Domin-| 1. What is the trade of the ican Republic at Port-au-Prince,| President? 2. What’s the best ‘OV1 “8 ‘ONA “Z ‘UVNOVE 9 ‘TivaaSva “y ‘44ND “€ ‘CAVAO and seized Haitians seeking ref-| way to remove varnish? 3. “10D “Z ‘INODS AOT “L—UMCd “"ZOVINAVD 6 ‘YALSA “9 ,|uge there. 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