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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Have You a Good Brain? The Elephants and Big Boy Real Divorce News 12 Billions? Not Much Have you an unusually good brain, or even a fair to middling brain? Johns Hopkins University would like it. for examination, after aft-er you finish it. Doctor Meyer, chief psychiatrist of Johns Hopkins, says science should study brains of all kinds, "of bishops, wrestlers, eena-tors, eena-tors, criminals." Those that advocate sterilization, to wipe out "criminal strains," will learn, amazed, that ther) is no "such thing as i criminal brain." Alcoholism Al-coholism 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 sober but never wiser." As he spoke, Dr. Meyer had just finished dissecting the brain of Giuseppe Giu-seppe Zangara who missed President Presi-dent Roo.'evelt 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 ihem. Onem an who thought he might as well make his body useful, brain included, after death, told a Johns Hopkins doctor: "You can have it" But when the doctor showed him Icng rows of dead bodies, hanging 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 ben-efactor of science lost enthusiasm. .He did net mind letting the doctors doc-tors 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. Man is a queer animal, two-thirds two-thirds imagination. You never can tell how human beings will respond under given circumstances. cir-cumstances. Ferrero, in his thick volume on Caesar, 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 Fe-rrero remarks that the same crowd drew exquisite delight tiom the dying dy-ing agonies of a human gladiator. The sight and sound of huge elephants, ele-phants, trumpeting, whimpering and groaning in agony were new and the brutal crowd almost shed tears. Bob Brady, nicknamed "Big Boy" deperado, 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, arm-ed, "Big Boy" shouted: "Come on, boys, let's fight!" drew a sa wed-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, Germ-ans, crying: "Let's fight!" he would be one of a million minor heroes. It all depends on the motive. This unhappy marriage incldem is mentioned only because It Is entirely en-tirely out of the ordinary run, and therefore, news. Steve Peris makes his living with the help of a trained train-ed bear, and tells Judge Desort of Chicago this story: "My wife got mad because I had the bear sleep in ther com with us on cold nights. He earns her living liv-ing as much as he does mine. She went off and married the manager of a bea circus." Mr. Peris believes that his wife Anna will wish herself back with him and te bear, if herh new husband hus-band lets the zea circus sleep In their room. Those that criticize the President's Presi-dent's program in regard to spending spend-ing of twelve thousand million dollars dol-lars in 1934, providing employment and starting up industry, do not know all the interesting figures, or they would not criticize the amount. In 1933 American workers received receiv-ed in wages thirty-two thousand million dollars LESS than thej received in 1929, when conditions were good. And those most severely severe-ly affected are men working for low wages. The government proposes to spend only one-third of the drop in wages. The total national incmoe dropped from eighty-one thousand millions in 1929 to forty-nine thousand thou-sand millions in 1932. As one dictator to another, Mussolini Mus-solini warns Hitler, "Don't step on the toes cf Ita!y," referring to the rumor that Hitler intends to absorb ab-sorb what was left of Austria, after af-ter the Versailles treaty got through with the Hapsburg empire. Mussolini's Mus-solini's newspaper moutiiplece, II Lavcra, warns Hitler that Itaiy wl'.! 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 should stand together in their little amotions. |