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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. January J, 1918 0 On The Side By'E. V. Durling (Distributed by tCini SyndieaH, Im.) A reference to a type of oscu-J years later, you will find that 42 Iat:on called a "Hollywood kiss describes it as "lasting 15 sec onds, no more, no less." No de tails were provided as to the in tensity of the osculation or the type of embrace accompanying it. Both, as I believe you will ad mit, are important factors in a properly administered kiss. However, 15 seconds devoted to one kiss may be longer than you imagine it to be. To get an idea as to that give your wife a kiss lasting that long. Sidelight! What shape are you in to hit the jackpot on a quiz program with geography as to category? I will give you a try out with a series of simple questions. What is the second largest city in New York state? In Michigan? In Pennsylvania? . . . Am asked what are the odds of making a seven or an 11 on the first roll of the dice. Answer is 17 to one agafest an 11 on the first roll. Fivs to one against a seven on the first roll. Passing By Gus Van. Veteran vaudevil lian. Once of the great and much beloved team of Van Schenck. Gus, whose real name is August von Glahm, was born in Brook lyn. Before he became an en tertainer he was a trolley car motorman. Incidentally, Joe Schenck died in 1930. Believing At what age did you cease to believe -in Santa Claus? Hdw about your youngsters? It is said that nowadays the average child stops believing in Santa Claus when six years of age. I stopped at eight. I once heard from a Californian who said she be lieved in Santa Claus until she was 13V2 years old. That may be the world's record for youth ful innocence. Checking Give a thought to your rela tixes, friends and acquaintances who are 65 years of age or old er. How are they doing. An in surance expert claims if you take 100 average men at the age of 25 and check on them 40 have died. Fifty will be com pletely dependent on their own earnings or upon pensions or their relatives. Only one of the 100 will be wealthy. Two will be fairly prosperous. Only five will have saved enough money to live on their own savings. Please Note As for long time between blessed events I know of a worn an who was 24 when she had her first child and 44 when she had her second. So, mister, just be cause you haven't had a blessed event at your house for 15 or 20 years, don't get the idea you are never again going to pace the floor of that hospital waiting room as an expectant papa. Busy Corner On what corner of what city are the most newspapers sold daily? A veteran newsboy claims that "one 'day in seven hours he sold 5,500 newspapers at the corner of State and Madi son sts., Chicago. Can you top it? Getting Siarted Feminine subscriber says she is 58 and has just embarked on a literary career. "Is it too late?" she asks. Certainly not. William de Morgan was 66 when he wrote his first novel. That was the one titled "Joseph Vance," which was a best seller. After that de Morgan wrote nine oth er novels! Asides The patron saint of psycho analysts is St. Thomas of Aqui nas. He argued that a doctor should have the right to probe a patient's mind as much as his body. That was nearly 700 years ago. . . . Mike Todd's first stage production, presented in Chica go, was titled "Bring on the Dames." However, the hit of the show was not a dame. It was a penguin billed as "Pete the Personality Penguin." Asking Queries from clients. Q. How old was Charles Dickens when he wrote the tale titled "A Christmas Carol"? A. Thirty one. . . . Q. What was the name Cupid Transformation Thought Voiced by Boston Psychiatrist jry3 WINTER TERM j nuary 3 NEW CLASSES ARE NOW BEING ORGANIZED For People Who Wont to Make o Fresh Start in the New Year Modern Facilities Are Available DAY SCHOOL 9:00 to 4:00 Mon. thru Fri. NIGHT SCHOOL 7:00 to 10:00 Mon. and Thurs. Robertson School of Business 40 N. Riverside Medford, Oregon Ph. 3-4264 DECIDE NOW, TO KNOW HOW By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York CU.P.) A scientific thought with which to start the new year is that the Greek god of love, Eros, who became Cupid, has had a further transforma tion in the minds of Americans and now is Mickey Mouse. The thought belongs to Dr. Merrill Moore, Boston psychia trist who also has a reputation as a poet. He voiced the thought in estimating the state of mod ern psychiatry as 1955 ended and a new year began. Its state made him think of Cupid and Mickey Mouse. "But With all their newfan gled pictures and images, Ameri cans have not wholly rid their minds of the fat, mischievous urchin with his bows and ar rows," he said. "And so it is with many ideas in psychiatry today. In name and in form they have changed from the shape of an unwrought stone to a fat boy and thence to a highly mechan- SCIENCE AT WORK By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) If you wish, you may accept the word of Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, a fa mous British scientist, for the following: human beings are "in all things one with animals racehorses, for instance, dos, and perhaps performing fleas." He was laughing, in mellow tones, at a central idea embod ied in the Declaration of Inde pendence, which is that "all men are created equal." The idea was so absurd, he said in a recent lecture that "no man will hold that ill men are born equal in anything but impotence." A hundred years ago, or long er, most people had no doubt of the "perfectability of man, nor would they have questioned his limitless pokers of absorbing information." But now every one knows these powers are "ver;, unevenly distributed." A 'Colossal Stew" "Even more striking when you come to think of its is man's enormous powers of rejecting information," he said. "For al though our nervous systems have great ability to select, some are so selective or so unabsorbent that they reject almost every thing." 1 He was sure that with most persons it would come as a re pulsive idea "that everything that goes on in our minds is nothing better than the sort of of the quartet of fat fellows who used the slogan "A Thousand Pounds of Harmony"? A. That was the "Primrose Four," mem bers of which, and their weight were as follows: Tenor, Earl Wright, 175: second tenor, Bill Cantwell, 225: baritone, Tim Murphy, 285, and bass, Bob Gib ner, 290. Five Dollar Day When did Henry Ford put the "five dollar day" into effect at his plant? That's what two Chi cagoans are arguing about. An swer is that the policy of paying S5 a day was started by Henry Ford on Jan. 1, 1914. Before that, workers at the Ford fac tory were being paid $2.34 a day for a nine-hour day. ' fermentation, the simmering or boiling of a colossal stew com posed of the odds and ends of all that we ever saw, read, felt, smelt, heard or touched from our cradles on to the present." The question is how minds make use of the "colossal stew" and some minds make much more use of it than others. . "Evidently there are the greatest differences between in dividuals, and lucky are we that it should be so, for uniformity breeds dullness," he said. But to explain why men are not and cannot be born equal, he asked some questions: "Do brains differ from one an other in the numbers of their cells? Almost certainly, 'yes' . . . Do some kinds fatigue more easily than others? Is there, per haps, a quantitative difference in th proportions of the differ ent sorts of cells of the cortex and subcortical grey masses? Very likely there is . . . "Given such differences there should be personal or familial variables in the internal work ings of our nervous systems, var iables in the speed of synaptic transmission, differences from man to man in the facilitations of his association pathways, dif ferences from man to man in the facilitations of association path ways, differences also in inhi bition. Something like this must be the foundation of the great differences in powers of mem ory." Not only in minds are men unequal, he said they're un equal "of hand and .body skills at which the few so greatly out match the many. There seems to -be a sort of 'wisdom of the body,' in a coordination of tim ing of eye and hand and foot a perfection of balance and rhythm, of faultless movement that is as uneven in its distribu tion amongst human beings as is wit or beauty of face and form." The American Revolutionary war brought on a cost to the tax payer of about $144,000,000, the 1 records show. . : ' . 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The "schools" are giving up their "self-imposed isolation," and so "numerous different but not necessarily, opposing schools of psychiatric thought at last have ' consented to join hands with the rest of humanity and come' to life again." . , He made a "single example" of the Rorschach ink-blot psycho logical test. -It "alone has forced one to "see the primitive parts of expressions of the mind ' not as sociologist or economists re- car- garded mental phenomena but' rather "as Jung and Freud saw them. - "' . Associations in Religions "It is realized, for example, that erotic associations not only cling around sexual objects, where they undoubtedly belong, but may also be connected with percepts of color and motion and with other, concepts of worship and adoration, and that they are crystallized in the formal relig ion to which many persons ad here. 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