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Show . .. Ihis Week by RrHUR BRISBANE Have You a Good Brain? The Elephants and Big Boy Real Divorce News 12 Billions? Not Much Have yc i an unusually kok. brnln. or evu: a fair to middling brain7 Johns Hopkins University would like It, for examination, after you finish It. Doctor .l-yw, chief psychiatrist of Johns Hopkins, says science shonlil study bruins of all kind -, "of bishops, wresi h-rs, senators, criminals." Those that advocate sterilization, to wipe out "criminal strains," will learn, amazed, that there la "no such thing t as a criminal brain." Alcoholism and Home diseases may weaken inhibition, and predispose to crime through men la) weakness and poverty. But there Js no born criminal. Some men, ac cording to the professor, are "kinder when drunk than when sober but never wiser." As lie spoke, Dr Meyer bad Just finished dissecting the brain of Giuseppe Giu-seppe Zaiifara who rnlssed I'resident Uoosevell and killed Mayor Cermak of Chicago. It discourages scientists to have only criminal and pauper brains to study. They want to know what mental machinery successful men carry around with them. One man who thought be might as well make his body useful, brain included, in-cluded, alter death, told a Johns Hop kins doctor: "You can have it." But when the doctor showed him long i-ort'a of dead bodies, banging in a refiigei atlng room, each one suspended sus-pended from an iron hook, in the back, awaiting his turn on the dissecting table, the would-be Denefactor of sci ence lost enthusiasm. He did not mind letting the doctors putter around inside his skull, but being hanged up on a hook for several months under refrigeration, as are the carcasses in a slaughter house, seemed unpleasant Mau Is a queer animal, two-thirds Imagination. You never can tell how human beings will respond under given circumstances. cir-cumstances. Ferrero, in his thick vol ume on Caesar, tells of a great new "circus," for gladiator and wild beast fights, opeued in Home. Unhappy ele phants hunted to their death horridly wounded, uttered such piteous cries that the crowd of then degenrate Romans deeply touched would have stopped the brutality, could it have done so. Ferrero remarks that the same crowd drew exquisite delight from the dying agonies of a human gladiator. The sight and sound of huge elephants, trumpeting, whimper ing and groaning in agony were new and the brutal crowd almost shed tears. Bob Brady, nicknamed "Big Boy." desperado, and frequent jail breaker, escaped for the last time with three fellow-convicts. Cornered by the sheriff, sher-iff, with a posse of national guards men and others heavily armed, "Big Boy" shouted: "Come on, boys, let's fight!" drew a sawed-off shotgun from under his coat and went at the forty men while his three friends threw up their hands. "Big Boy" is dead, full of bullets. The public is glad, and that ends him. If in "No Man's Land," "Big Boy," with only three comrades, had dashed at forty well-armed Germans, crying: "Let's fight!" he would be one of a million minor heroes. It all depends on the motive. This unhappy marriage incident Is mentioned only because it Is entirely out of the ordinary run, and there fore, news. Steve Peris makes his living liv-ing with the help of a trained bear, and tells Judge Desort of Chicago this story: "My wife got mad because I had the bear sleep in the roorr with us on cold ; nights. He earns her living as much ' as he does mine. She went off and married the manager of a flea circus." j Mr. Peris belie es that his wife j Anna will wish herself back with him j and the bear, if her new husband lets the flea circus sleep in their room. Those that criticize the President's program in regard to spending of twelve thousand million dollars In 1934, providing employment and. starting start-ing up industry, do not know all the interesting figures, or they would not criticize the amount. In 1933 American workers received in wages thirty-two thousand million I ;lollars LKSS than they received In 1929, when conditions were good. And ( those most severely affected are men working for low- wages. The government govern-ment proposes to spend only one-third Df the drop in wages. The total national na-tional Income dropped from eighty-one thousand millions in 1329 to forty-nine thousand millions in 193Z' As one dictator to another. Musso ; lint warns Hitler, "Don't step on the ' toes of Italy," referring to the rumor that Hitler intends to absorb what was ' left of Austria, after the Versailles j treaty got through with the Hapsburg empire. Mussolini's newspaper mouth piece, "11 Lavora." warns Hitler that : Italy will stand shoulder to shoulder ! with France if it comes to Germany swallowing up Austria. This will shock Hitler, who must feel that all good dictators slicjuj'ijj stand together in their little ambitions. (.lyia, by King I titurti SyoJuaie Inc.) |