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Show THE BULLETIN Keeping Up WiSkciene s l l Science Service. HeAdlIne lit hunter Von Neumann, Institute for Advanced Study mathematician, even applies his science to the By ROBERT MERRILL GffiD gambling table. He has warned Princeton students in a lecture that it is impossible to win at dice over long periods, whether the "ivpries" are loaded or not. com" The magic bination is by far the most frequent thrown, he said, but if it doesn't turn up on tbe first cast, the chances are reversed, and the stakes are as good as lost. "That leaves a .490 winning average, so the game is not fair." he declared. a form of gambling that originated among bored convicts and is as old as chess, is Prof. Von Neumann's spen game is won cialty. This same numthe each play by making ber of times, but at random, and your opponent will lose in the long "seven-eleven- "Stone-paper-scissor- well-know- run." He termed the intellectual pursuit of chess to be merely game of chance, and said that "white," which has the first move, can always win, although "if 'black' is wise to the theory, he can play defensively and tie 'white.' " Two Kinds of Games. Prof. Von Neumann divided "games of chance" into two categories: those like dice where explicit hazards are introduced by rules, and those like chess, poker, where and chance is introduced by what the opponent does. "In the latter type Intellectual reasoning is sometimes needed, while in the former no decision is required except whether to bet," he pointed out. In the case of dice, he showed that since 7 can be thrown in six ways and 11 in two, while 2, 3, and 12 result from only one or two combinations, the conditions are favorable to win on the first throw. But " is missed, repetiif tion of the first throw is unlikely, and the seven is now working against the player. The net effect is against the player. In poker, which he had to simplify considerably to be able to analyze. Prof. Von Neumann stated that chances are one out of 300,000,000 to obtain any certain combination of five cards. "stone-paper-scissor- "seven-eleven- Earthen Jugs Were Coffins for Women of Ancient Russia cof- fins sometimes in this far southern region of Russia, has been known. But the new discovery reveals what the ancient people and their burial rites were really like, reports Tass. It is now believed that the jug coffins were for women only, or almost entirely so. Men were simply buried in the ground with no shelter. The cemetery dates from the first to third centuries of the Christian era. One Girl's Fine Garb. One young girl found in a jug was wearing red leather shoes and belt, cloth trousers clasped at the ankle with bronze anklets, a skirt and blouse and a load of beads around her neck and bracelet on her wrists. Dishes for food were in the jug, and small clay cups and saucers believed to be toys for playing house were put in the jug with her. The jugs, over 40 inches high, were closed with a large stone stopper and laid horizontally in the ground. Ants Help to Build Roads in Algeria Algiers. On the French African motor road, one of the longest in the world, the ingenuity of construction engineers is being combined with Hie industrious nature of the ant. Ant hills 10 feet high and scat- tered freely through that region contain a hard gritty material which makes an excellent road surface. Only a part of each hill is dug away for the road, experience having shown that the ants will then quickly replace the used material tent with giving you just one sock in the jaw. I don't know how true that is, but it certainly worked out that way in the case of Hattie Rohr of Chicago. ks Curb Service for Banks Provided by New Invention ; j i j j Hattie's big bout with Old Lady Adventure came in the Winter of 1917. There was trouble enough in the world then, without having the old girl with the thrill bag on your neck. The war was on and the influenza epidemic was sweeping the country. Hattie, in those days, was just an d girl, living with her mother and dad and three sisters on a farm between Clare and Dodge City, Iowa. Her name then was Hattie McLaughlin. The flu epidemic struck the McLaughlin family in January. It brought down Hattie's dad and her three sisters, and that left Hattie and her mother to do all the chores around that big farm. It was one of those days when everything seemed to go wrong. Mother had just come from upstairs to call the doctor. Dad and the three sick girls were worse. While they were waiting for the doctor the party-lin- e phone rang. It was the school teacher, down with the flu herself, who wanted Hattie to go to the schoolhouse and post a notice saying there would be no school that day. eleven-year-ol- Strange Man Came to the Door. Already tired from her morning's work, Hattie struggled more than a mile through the snow to post that notice. She found two small children shivering in the cold, waiting for the school to open, and took them to her home and phoned their father to come and get them. And no sooner had he come and gone with his pair of kids than Hattie heard another knock on the door. A strange man was out front. He said he was a telephone lineman from Clare, and wanted to know If he could come In and .get warm. Hattie and her mother asked him in and gave him a cup of tea. While he was drinking his tea and eating a piece of corn bread, Hattie and her mother went on with their work. Nothing unusual happened until he had finished eating and drinking. Then the stranger got up and walked over to the stove. It was such an unusual movement that Hattie stopped to watch him. He backed up against the stove as if to warm himself, but Hattie saw one of his hands slide into his pocket and come out holding a tiny bottle. He Poured Something Into the Beans. There was a 'pot of beans boiling on tbe stove. Slowly, shielded by his body, the stranger's hand crept up and emptied the contents of the bottle Into the pot of beans! Her mother hadn't seen it, but Hattie was standing in such a position that she could see every move he made. She was startled frightened. An older person might have said nothing, for fear of precipitating trouble. That mother and child were defenseless, with dad ill in bed upstairs. But kids of Hattie's age don't stop to think of those things. She let out a scream and then, impulsively, she darted across the room and knocked the bottle from the man's hand. Her mother turned to see what was the matter. At the same time, the stranger reached inside his coat, pulled out a long, knife, and slashed Hattie across the legs. Blood began to flow from a long deep cut Dazed at the turn affairs had taken, Hattie backed away, staring at the man. The man stood, knife in hand, staring back at Hattie. Her mother was staring at both of them. For a minute there was a deathly silence. thin-blad-ed Washington. Curb service by Hattie Fought to Save Her Mother. department stores and The man made no other move said nothing. Hattie and her mother other places of business, whereby were too frightened to speak. They began to realize the fellow was customers would pull up in their stark mad. Hattie sat down, took off a stocking and tied it about her wound. cars, make their deposits or purThe man stood looking, first at her, then at her mother. He chases without taking a single step waited until she was finished tying up her bleeding leg, and then out of the car and without the athe walked across the room to where her mother was standing, tendant stepping out of the buildbreathless and paralysed with fright, AND RAISED THE KNIFE. in is described a And ing, patent again Hattie acted impulsively. In an instant she was out of. her chair and darting across the room. Reaching out quickly of E. W. to here Lindsay granted grabbed the knife I Denver, Colo. The man gave the knife a quick pull. It came out of Hattie's hand, It works this way: You pull up it clear to the bone at the base of the thumb. Crying out in pain, cutting side a along at her wrist with her other hand. The madman shoved she grabbed stand on the curb much as you her knocked her mother down. and away, would to get gas for the car. The For another moment Hattie stood dazed. The man fell on her stand is provided with a small door sat on her chest and began choking her. And at that, a sudden at car window level. There la also mother, came over Hattie. she had been frightened trembling. change a telephone, or a microphone and Now she became furious. ABefore, mist seemed to drop before her eyes. red loud speaker. Between the stand She grabbed up a piece of wood from the pile beside the stove, raised and the bank or store building, a it over her head and brought it down, as hard as she could, on the underor conduit extends tunnel madman's head. neath the sidewalk. The Beans Were Poisoned. Attendant's Peephole. over and lay stilt Hattie's wrist was still man rolled The From a special window inside the and her mother tied it op tightly to stop the flow. They bleeding can observe attendant the building got ropes and tied the maniac's hands behind his baek and then and identify the people pulling up then Hattie keeled over in a dead faint. well to the stand. By means of the teleWhen she came to, the doctor had been to the house. He had sewed cusphone, he can talk with the up Hattie's wounds and she had never known a thing about it The tomer. A conveyor runs from the doctor also took the madman back to town and turned him over to stand through this tunnel to the at- the They found out later that he had escaped from an institupolice. tendant's desk. banks, ke When you pull up, you pick up tion down in the South, where he had been put for murder. And when they analyzed that pot of beans into which he had emptied that bottle, it was found that they were poisoned I the phone and tell the attendant what you want. Suppose it is to WNU Service. make a deposit. When he identifies you, he presses a button and Annie Laurie Home Held the door of the stand opens up. Into Crocus Is From Kashmir; Bulb Traveler Purloined a box carried by the conveyor you by the Family Since 1611 now place your check, money, deThe dainty little crocus has been The home of the famous Annie posit slip or passbook. aptly called the "first gem of the Laurie, the heroine of the Scottish earth in spring," observes a writer ballad sung in every corner of the in the Montreal Star. world, is known as the estate of Road Magnets Reap It is said that the crocus was tak- Maxwelton, Dumfrieshire, Scotland. en to England in the reign of Ed- The ownership of this property goes Curious Metal Crop ward III from Kashmir. In that back more than 300 years, saya a country it was the monopoly of the writer in the "New York Herald Washington. Magnetic road rajah, but an English traveler, who Tribune. the country as a pilgrim, Maxwelton House, originally a sweepers or "nail pickers" used penetrated stole a bulb at the risk of his life. fortress of the Earls of Glencairn on gravel roads pick up a curi- He concealed it in his hollow staff, and known as Glencairn castle, has ous assortment of potential and managed to carry it all the way been in the hands of the Laurie back to his home at Walden, in Es- family since 1611. puncture makers, and save the sex. Seventy-on- e years later, in 1682, a considerable sum of motorist Such a harvest of saffron yellow Anna was born, the daughter of Sir tire expense. flowers came from that single bulb Robert Laurie. The first Baronet But in addition to saving money that the place came to be known as Douglas of Fingland, the author of and time, this type of maintenance Saffron Walden, the name which it the original words of the ballad, was is considered an important safety bears today. her first sweetheart, but the engagemeasure. These The plant was used as a dye in ment was broken off, and in 1709 will draw a nail through about three India, and for the same purpose in she married Alexander Fergusson, inches of dirt, and pick up as England and Ireland. Henry VIII of Craigdarroch, a neighboring esmuch as 12 pounds of metal per forbade the use of the crocus as a tate. Her picture and that of her mile. for linen by the Irish. The linen husband hang in the dining room dye Here is what one pound of metal had been dyed because it was at Maxwelton. is reported to have contained after There are 4.000 acres in the propthought that it would not be necesthe magnet had passed over a North sary to wash it so often as white lin- erty, which overlooks the Cairn Dakota highway: 102 large nails, en, as the dirt would not show. river. In the house there are four 187 small nails, 30 tacks, 23 to legend, the crocus reception rooms, two boudoirs, fifpieces According of tin, 8 brads, 11 bottle caps, 5 came from some drops of the elixir teen bed or dressing rooms, two washers, 38 pieces of wire, 2 of life that Medea was preparing for bathrooms and servants' screws, 5 garters, 1 needle, 1 hair- the aged Aeson. pin, 1 bolt and 1 razor blade. electro-magne- ts the important Household Questionr When Food Is Scorched. Place the pan containing the scorched food into a large pan of water and the food will lose its burned flavor. To Clean Varnished Floor.. Clean off well with steel wool and benzine and, when thoroughly dry, Topping for Sundaes. Extracted honeys make excellent toppings for ice cream sundaes. Like individuals, the 43 states in When Scaling Fish. A dull the Union do not always agree on matters which affect them in com- knife will be found best when 70U know, they say troubles never come singly which is just 1 another way of saying that Old Lady Adventure is never con- j of of the Supreme court States consists in United of the the people of one protecting state from being deprived of their rights by a neighboring By FLOYD GIBBONS es gasoline-pump-li- Baku, U. S. S. R. Finding a cemetery in which women, in all their finery, were thrust into huge jug coffins when they died almost two thousand years ago, is reported on the Kura river by workers building a dam. ONE state. "Strange Visitor " It is a science of big business in its earliest form, in the southern valley over 3,000 years before Christ. The growing problem of handling so much wealth has the temple staff dizzy remem- bering who paid, how much, what is promised, what is due Writing has to be invented. And mt it ib aw) ii Archaeologists have been able to trace writing back to its start in these cities of Sumerian people in because southern Mesopotamia, buried in the ruins are hard, baked clay bricks inscribed with temple accounts. The oldest writing preserved in the world is baked into the oldest and crudest of these tablets of clay. Other Early Systems Lost Whether these Sumerians were the world's first literate people may never be known. Other ancient peoples who had writing systems apparently began by using less durable writing materials, and therefore their early efforts have not survived. Writing was a city man's invention, in Sumeria. It was the development of city life that.brought so much complicated finance to the temples. That the invention of writing was probably inspired everywhere by the peculiar, practical needs of urban economy, is the view taken by Dr. V. Gordon Childe, professor of prehistoric archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. It is no accident, he explains, that the world's oldest writings turn out to be bookkeeping accounts and dictionaries. The accounts are office files. The dictionaries are school-booused in teaching young scribes to write. And if Egypt's earliest writing had been preserved, it would, he believes, be of some such severely practical nature. Tigris-Euphrat- AND HOW IT WORKS Disputes Between States no longer WHEN man could writing, he invented it. Imagine priests in a Mesopotamian city in a busy temple, taking in herds of sheep as offerings, buying lands for the temple estates, making loans to hard-u- p devotees who can't afford to pay just now. J. Prof. John That earthen Jugs served as : SUPREME COURT By EMILY C. DAMS WNU Service. Gambling Odds Figured Out by Mathematician Princeton, The Earliest Examples Are Office Files I Even if Dice Are Not Loaded, You'll Lose in the Long Run N. Writing Invented in Sumeria to Handle Priests' Business i mon. In many respects each state is independent of every other state. Each has its own government, constitution, and laws. Each surrenders to the federal government, under the Constitution, only enough of its independence to assure regulation for the common good in matters of national concern. Frequently one state believes that a neighboring state has deprived or is depriving it of certain rights. It may believe that some of its territory is wrongfully claimed by its neighbor. Or it may think that another state is polluting a river which runs through, or bounds both states. Perhaps the waters of an interstate river are being diverted by an upper state, so that the lower state is deprived of some of its benefits. A difference over financial matters may also demand a decision by an impartial umpire. Constitution Provides Umpire. Under such circumstances, the state which believes itself to be inthe jured will ask the other to repair disalleged damage, give up the puted land, or make payments of money claimed on loans, etc. Often the state on which such demands are made disputes the claims. What are the possible results? The disputing states could, in such a situation, have a difficult time. When similar disputes arise between independent nations, the choice lies between diplomatic conferences and war. But, here, under the Constitution, the Supreme court is prepared to meet such situations. What were some of these differences, amicably settled by submitting them for decision to our National Umpire? Here are a few: In 1832 Rhode Island asked the Supreme court to determine the correct boundary line between that Both state and Massachusetts. claimed title to the land under their respective charters from the British crown. Massachusetts Wins. After determining that the evidence showed the territory in dispute had been possessed and occupied by the people of Massachusetts lor over two hundred years, the court decided in favor of the Bay state. "It would be difficult," explained the opinion, "to disturb a claim thus sanctioned by time, however unfounded it might have been in its origin." In another case, Missouri and Kentucky could not agree as to the ownership of an island in the Mississippi the boundary between the two states. The main channel of the river had been fixed as the dividing line. From the evidence submitted the court decided that at that time the main channel had been cn the west side, and therefore the island was part of Kentucky. Numerous wars have been fought in the course of history because one country thought it should have part of another's territory. Many not dissimilar disputes between our states, however, have been settled so quietly by our National Umpire that few people were even aware that differences had arisen. Court Recalls Old Treaty. In 1921, for example, the Supreme court was asked to decide a dispute between Oklahoma and Texas, involving a strip of valuable oil land claimed by both. To avert possible armed conflicts between parties claiming title from the state of Texas and others claiming title from the state of Oklahoma, it became necessary for the Supreme court to assume charge of the territory through a receiver, until the dispute was decided. The case was settled in favor of Oklahoma, after the court found it necessary to consider a treaty between the United States and Spain, signed back in 1819. On another occasion the Supreme court ordered Colorado not to divert more than a small amount of the waters of a river within its boundaries, because such action would deprive the people of Wyoming of their right to have the river, on whose waters they depended, flow through their state. In these, and other cases, the Supreme court, by its decisions de- terrain ed the law for the whole peo ple, and fulfilled its pvtscse as of their rights. guardian ' C Western Newspaper Union. Boys Taught Gambling at Cobha school, Redcar, England, are receiving lessons in book making on races, football games and other sports. Demonstrations are given with cards and dice and in laying of odds. The school authorities state that pupils aie shown by mathematical proof the folly of gambling. scaling fish. When Cleaning Mirrors. Be very careful about using so much water that it trickles under the method of frame. A semi-drcleaning is preferable. y To Remove Lettering. W h e n making tea towels or the like from cotton sacks, soak the sacks for several hours in kerosene before washing, to remove lettering. WNU Service. Don't Irritate Gas Bloatingor If you want to really GET RIO and terrible bloating, dont expect to do it by Juit doctoring your atom ach with harsh, Irritating alkalies and Most OAS la lodgsd In "gas tablets." and upper Intestine and the stomach is due to old poisonous matter In the oonstipated bowels that oro leaded bacteria. with If your constipation Is of long stand. enormous Ing, quantities of dangerous bacteria accumulate. Then your digee. tien Is upset. OAS often presses hsarl and lungs, making life miserable. You cant eat or alecp. Your head aches. Your back achea. Vour com- sallow and pimply. Veur elexion laIsfoul. You are a aick, grouchy, YOUR, wretched, unhappy person. SYSTEM IS POISONED. Thousands of suffsrers have found III Adlerlka the quick, ecientifio way to rid their systems of harmful bacteria. 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