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Show This Week b AUTHOR BlUSDANB Have You a Good Brain? The Elephants and Big Boy Real Divorce News 12 Billions? Not Much Have you an unusually good train, or even a fair to middling brain? Johns Hopkins University would liko It, for examination, after you finish with It. Doctor Meyer chief psyehlut.ict of Johns Hon-' Ulns, says science should study brains of nil kinds, "of bishops, wrestlers, senators, criminals." Those that advocate sterilization, to wipe out "criminal strains," will loarn, amazed, that there is "no such thing as a criminal brain." Alcoholism and some diseases may weaken Inhibition, and predispose to crime through mental weakness and poverty. But there is no born criminal. Some men, according to the professor, are "kinder when drunk than when sober but never wiser." As he spoke, Dr. Meyer had just fiuished dissecting the brain of Giuseppe Z a n g a r a, who missed President Roosevelt and killed Mayor Cerniak of Chicago. It discourages dis-courages scientists to have only criminal and paupei brains to study. They want to know what mental machinery successful men carry around with them. One man who thought he might as well make bis body useful, brain included, after death, told a Johns Hopkins doctor: "You can have it." But when the doctor showed him long rows of dead bodies, hanging hang-ing in a refrigerating room, each one suspended from an iron hook, in the back, awaiting his turn on the dissecting table, the would-be benefactor of science lost enthusi asm. He did not mind letting doctors doc-tors putter around inside his skull, but being hanged up on a hook for several months under refrigeration, as are the carcassej in a slaughter house, seemed unpleasant. Man is a queer animal, two-thirds imagination. You never can tell how human beings will respond under given circumstances. Ferrero.in his thick volume on Caear, tells of a great new "circus," for gladiator and wild beast fights, opened In Rome. Unhappy Un-happy elephants, hunted to their death horridly wounded, uttered such piteous cries that the crowd of then degenerate 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, whimpering whim-pering and groaning in agony were new an 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, with a posse of national guardsmen and others heavily armed, "Big Boy" shouted: "Come on, boys, let's fight!" drew a sawed-off 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 en-tirely out of the ordinary run, and herefore, news. Steve Peris makes his living with the help of a tramed bear, and tells Judge Desort of Chicago Chi-cago this story: "My wife got mad because I had the bear sleep in tho room with us "cold nights. He earns her living as much as he doe. mine. She went off and married the manager of a flea circus." Those that criticize the President's Presi-dent's program in regard to spend-fng spend-fng or twelve thousand million dolors dol-ors in 1934, providing employment and starting up industry, do not Know all the interesting figures, or "would not criticize the amount. In 1933 American workers re-ce re-ce ved in wages thirty-two thousand SS dollars LESS than the, r Reived in 1929, vnen conditions were good. And those most severely Iffected are men working for low The eovernment pioposes thousand millions in 1932. S'JrarL in .un e ; Then - rif:- traSt 1 to the SllS.1933,b,Kin8FCaturMSynliicatc,lnc., |