Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1931, Page 5

43 CITIES INCREASE AID FUNDS 13 PET. Chest Drives Reveal Gains in Relief Totals for Com- ing Year. By the Associated P NEW YORK, November 16.—A jump ©of 13 per cent over last year in contri- butions to 49 ccramunity chests already completed was recorded in a report made public yesterday by the Associa- | total of 391, Below. VENUE CHANGE ASKED IN ‘BLUEBEARD’ CASE Prisoner Held as Murderer of Four | Shows Fright on Court Appearance. By the Associated Press. CLARKSBURG, W. Va., November 16—Counsel for Harry F. Powers, “mail order Romeo” accused of the Quict Dell killings, today asked for a change of venue. Judge John C. South- | ern took the petition under considera- | tion, Powers' trial for the slaying of Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke, Northboro, Mass., has been set for December 7 in Harrison County Court here. He is also | accused of killing Mrs. Asta Buick | Eicher, Park Ridge, 11, widow and her three children. 1 Hovering close to Sherif W. B.] Grimm and appearing highly nervous, | Powers appeared in court for the second time in a week. He pleaded not guilty | to the murder of Mrs. Lemke last Sat- | urday. The alleged “Bluebeard's” attorney, | J. Edward Law, filed a number of affi- | davits in support of his plea for a | change of venue. He likewise requested the court to set a date for introduction | of evidence in support of the affidavits and petition. ‘Will E. Morris, prosecuting attorney, resisted the motion to hear evidence at | the bar of the court, contending such | evidence could be had by affidavit and | deposition. RUM SLAYING SOLVED AS W0ODCOCK DEPARTS Omaha Police Claim Confession Names Killer—Enforcement Chief Finds Conditions Unsatisfactory. By the Associated Press OMAHA, Nebr, November 16.—Police last night announced solution of one recent liquor-war death here as Col. Amos W. W_Woodcock, prohibition di- rector, concluded an investigation of FPederal prohibition enforcement in Nebraska, Chief of Detectives Paul Sutton said police had obtained a confession from Clifford Hill of Omaha that he was present when Sam Villella, with Alky Cooker, was killed October 28 Hill, police said, implicated Mike Regan as the actual killer. ‘Woodcock, in a statement last night, expressed himself as dissatisfied with the work of the prohibition unit here, but added that no changes in personnel were contemplated at the present time. He left last night for Chicago, and from there will go to Mobile. Child Hurt Throwing Stones. RIA, Va., November 16 (Special) —Bouncing ks off 11 .—Bouncing rocks off a wal mear his home yesterday afternoon, | actually can see, as physical realities, THE EVENING Peale Miniature to Come Here LIKENESS OF WASHINGTON WILL BE IN MUSEUM EXHIBIT. | tion of Community Chest Councils. | The report, showing that 54 com-| Pleted chest cdmpaigns have raised 98 | per cent of the aggregate goals. or $19.- | 566,094, was submitted to Walter S.| Gifford, director of the President’s Or- ganization on Unemployment Relief, and | to Owen D. Young, chairman of the | Committee on Mobilization of Relief | Sources. | The basis for the 13 per cent increase | is the 49 chests which are comparable | with last year's figures. These chests! raised $18,976,615, as against $16,774,217 in 1930. The other five completed | chests have no basis on which they may be compared with 1930, The association has a chests throughout the country. Of these | 273 hold their campaigns between Sep- | temaber 1 and December 31, and the re- | m-inder in the Spring. The 54 ct totaled in the present report represent | only the earliest Fall drives thus far | completed. Detroit Falls Of six cities having budgets exceeding 41,000,000, Indianapolis, Kansas City (Mo.), Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minne- apolis succeeded. Detroit fell below Excluding the Detroit result, which | the association attributed to “an e traordinary combination of cireu stances,” the increase over last year's Tesults figured in 49 cities would have been 21 instead of 13 per cent. | Allen T. Burns, executive director of the association, emphasized that in the metter of direct relief the community chests and other private sources will give about 30 per cent, while 70 per | cent will come from city and county treasuries. | Forty-seven additional chest cam- | paigns were scheduled to begin tomor- | row. Of the 54 on which the commit- | tee's report is based. 28 have not been | previously announced. | 1932 Total Given. ‘The report of Community Chest eampaigns to November 13 shows the following totals raised for 1932: Al- bany, N. Y., $454,798; Aurora, IIl., $126,- 491; Batavia, N. Y, $30,500; Battle Creek, Mich. $161944; Bellingham, Wash., $44,000; Beloit, Wis., $102.500; Birmingham, Ala., $732,018; Brockton, Mass., $115,591. Cedar Rapids, Towa, $81,625; Corning, | N. Y., $53,054; Detroit, Mich, $3,100,- 000; Duluth, Minn., $318405; Elgin, | 11, $85,743; {Erie, Pa. $431,067; Fort | Wayne, Ind., $416,000; Cloversville, N. Y., $72233; Goshen, Ind., $21,000; Grand Rapids, Mich, $414,538; Green Bay, Wis,, $64,505; Great Falls, Mont., $65,000. Honolulu Raises $540,000. Honolulu, Hawaii, $540,000; Hudson, N. Y., $17,500; Indianapolis, Ind., $1,- 043,750; Joplin, Mo., $48,500; Kalama- 2oo, Mich., $135,858; *Kansas City, Mo., $1,500,000; Kenosha, Wis., $168,037; Lewiston, Idaho, $12,000; Lima, Ohio, $58,030; Lincoln, Nebr. $182,524; Ma- comb, IIl, $13,000; Madison, Wis., $122,126; Mason City, Iowa, $60,000; Milwaukee, Wis., $1,340,011; Minne- apolls, Minn., $2,250,400; Montreal, Quebec, $741,749; Muskegon, Mich,, $125,694. Nashua, N. H., $36,000; Richmond, Ind., $83,515; Sacramento, Calif., $235,- 000; Saginaw, Mich., $240,815; St. Paul, Minn, $1,002,500; San Diego, Calif., $234,211; Sandusky, Ohio, $50,000; San Jose, Calif., $155043; Seattle, Wash., $809,623; Sharon, Pa., $112,324; iSpringfield, 111, $266,000; Springfield, Mass., $480,133. ‘Tonowanda, N. Y., $65,156; Waynes- boro, Pa., $25,338; Wausau, Wis., $70,- ©65: *Whiting, Ind., $43,000; Wichita | Falls, Tex., $61,600. *Incomplete. fEmergency funds in- cluded. 7Included $33,000 for Catholic T ture, which is the property of Schoolboy Subjects of E BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The strange physico-psychic phe- | nomenon of the eidetic image may ex- | tend to other senses than sight. This possibility, with far-reaching educational and philosophical implica- tions, appears from preliminary experi- ments of Catholic University psycholo- gists among_the 750 boys at St. Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore, alma mater of “Babe” Ruth. There may be children who actually can taste candy eaten & long time ago or hear music long after the actual sounds have ceased. | Boy Subject Locates Taste. | At least this is what happened in the case of one bright-eyed youngster ex- amined the other day by Dr. J. Edward Rauth, assistant professor of psychology at_Catholic University: | Dr. Rauth: “Try to imagine you are | eating a big piece cf chocolate candy. | Try hard. Can you taste it?” Boy (after a moment of intense con- centration): “Yes.” | Dr. Rauth: “Now open your mouth | and put your finger on the spot that uctunfiy tasted sweet.” The boy placed his finger on the | middle of his tongue and the insides of both cheeks. | Points Out Exact Spots. Then the boy was asked to imagine that he was eating a sour pickle. The same procedure was followed, only, in | this case, he put his finger on the tip | of his tongue. Then he imagined in; turn that he was taking a dose of very | bitter medicine and that some salt was placed in his mouth. In each case he pointed to the exact spots where. he tasted these substances. ‘There was something queer about it all. Most persons probably could imag- | ine the tastes of sweet, sour, salt and bitter, but comparatively few know that these taste sensations do not come from the tongue and cheeks in general, but that each one is localized in a particu- lar place. Certainly this 10-year-old boy didn't know such an advanced bit of physiology. Yet in each instance he | put his finger on the place where theo- | retically that particular taste should | have been. | Hearing Test Carried Out. The implicaticn is that the child didn't imagine that he tasted the candy, but actually tasted it, just as if the sweet itself actually had been put in his mouth. It was as if some quality of his mind was able to create reall| candy out of memories. Perhaps it| would be a quality worth developing for parents whose children have an inordi- nate appetite for sweets. The hearing experiment was not quite 50 promising. A boy was asked to listen to a passing street car. After the noise had subsided completely, he was asked to imagine that the car was right under the window again. He said he | heard it. “Where do you hear it?” Dr. Rauth asked. “Is it in your heaq or is it out on the street?” “Some of it's in my head and some of it’s out the window,” replied the young- ster. Eidetic Sight Images Shown. ‘This, Dr. Rauth points out, may or may not indicate a real physical hear- ing of a remembered sound. The boy unconsciously may have been falsifying, giving the reply he thought the exam- iner wanted. There is no handy physi- cal test of the reality of hearing, such as was applied in the case of taste. Among the St. Mary's boys the eidetic image has been conclusively demonstrated for the sense of sight. About half the boys thus far examined previously witnessed scenes. They con't merely imagine that they see them. Now, Dr. Rauth points out, both sight and taste are chemical senses, operat- ing because of chemical reactions at the ends of the sensory nerves, which set up nerve impulses to the brain. Smell is another chemical sense. The chemical senses may act similarly, so far as the | eidetic image is concerned. On the | other hand, Dr. Rauth points out, hear- ing is a purely physical sense, the nerve impulses to the brain being set up by the impact of sound waves on the com- plicated mechanism of the ear. It is not so likely that the same laws would be effective. Boys Separated by Eye Sizes. The boys with big, bright, somewhat protruding eyes are being separated from those with dull, flattened, rather small eyes in these experiments because some notable differences have been found. While the eyes always have been supposed to reflect personality, nobody hitherto has hit upon any ob- Jjective basis for such a belief. But, Dr. TOMORROW'S THE DAY You will feel a_whole lot better tomor- row morning if you will ask your druk- gist this_evening for & 25¢ box of Dr. || | Boice's Prescription ‘Tablets ~ for Con- | stipation. They are safe and reliable.— Advertisement. Heating Equipment 4100 Georgia Ave. AD-0145 HE above miniature of George Washington, made by the artist James be used for relief in the District of Peale, will be brought to the District in 1932 in connection with the | Columbia. loan exhibit of Washingtonia to be staged under the auspices of the | United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission the Washington G ts , Philadelphia, will be shown in the National Museum. Eidetic Senses Are Studied xperiments May Imagine Tasting Sweet, Sour, Salty or Bitter Things and Hearing Music After Sounds Have Ceased. | Rauth finds, when a boy of the former type demonstrates the eidetic phenome- non he sees lots of color in his pictures. Moreover, he can recall a picture, phy- sically outside his head and not imagi- hours and even days inside seen the actual thing. , small-eyed boys are able natively after he ha: without much color imme- | It vanishes in a 50, and despite the utmost never can recall it again. them the eldetic image ap- proaches rather closely to the memory image that is experienced by everybody who tries to recall a face, landscape op picture. There is a vague, colorless pic- ture “inside the head.” But the eidetic child gets it “outside” for a moment— a physical reality, though by no means as much so as in the case of his big- eyed brother or sister. After-Image Seen. Some other curious experiments are being conducted with the boys, such as the “after-image” trick of the psycholo- gists. Almost without exception when a child is shown a bit of green paper against a grayish screen and then the paper is withdrawn, he will see some- thing on the screen—a little patch of red. Red is the complementary color to green, and various shades of red are complementary to various shades of green. This is a purely physiological and practically universal phenomenon. But it requires a physical reality to set it off —the object which gives the color stimulus. Now Dr. Rauth will merely ask one of the eidetic boys to close his eyes and “think” green—get the color inside his head. Most persons can do this with an effort of the imagination, although it is not so easy as it may seem. the boy indicates that he has success fully “thought” green, he is told to of)en his eyes. While his eyes were closed the neutral-colored screen has been placed in front of him. Mental “Green” Produces “Red.” +Do you see anything?” the examiner 5. The eidetic boy with the big, shining eyes replies I see red on the screen.” _ That word “red” is the almost infal- lible criterion that he isn't falsifying. The child doesn’t know anything about the highly complicated theory of the after image. , Wh: appens is that something in- brain gives the same physical effect, even to the exact shade of the complementary color to be expected, of something outside the brain. Imagined green” produces the physical reality of “red. Far and strange fields of philosophical speculation are opened by this simple experiment. Boy Sees Withdrawn Object. Then there is the form-board test, used by psychologists for children who as] n I Flowers are alway E send a “ray of the “quotation” ABOUT GIVING MOVING? Douglas Lindsey, 8, of No. 3 Wood- wn Terrace, a surprise when one the stones came straight back and him over the eye, cutting his fore- . He was carried to the Alexan- FHospital, where stitches were taken the laceration. of hit 616 Eye St. N.W., Dist. 2010 Alao ~ HOME FLOWER MARKET ‘The minia- : in Arlington County would find it diffi- s Artillery Corps, |cult to ccntribute both to the District deed with another Special Box of Flowers $2.5 HAVE YOU EVER REALLY THOUGHT STAR, WASHINGTON, COMMUNITIES SEEK 1. WORKERS' GIFTS Arlington and Fairfax Coun- ties and Alexandria Want Chest Donations Diverted. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., November 16.—A con- | certed effort’ to have money donated | | to unemployment reliet by Federal Gov- | ernment employes living in nearby Vir- ginia revert to the sections in which the donors reside is to be made by the Chambers of Commerce of Arlington and Fafrfax Counties and the city of Alex- | andria. Louis C. Carl, president of the Arling- ton County Chamber of Commerce, stated today that arrangements are being made for a meeting, at which officials of the three Chambers of Com- merce will discuss methods by which the matter can be brought to the at- tention of officials who are in charge of the relief fund drive. | Present plans of the Federal relief body, Carl said, are that each Govern- ment employe donate one day’s pay each | | month for three months, the money to | Many of the Federal employes living of Columbia fund and to relief in their own communities in Virginia, hence the local relief funds would be deprived of the assistarfce of the Government em- ployes unless arrangements are made to divert the money here. Arrangements for the meeting are in charge of Dan S. Hollenga, business manager of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce, Carl said. cannot read, or feeble-minded children. 1t is like a simple block puzzle. Blocks | shaped like squares, triangles and ob- longs are to be fitted into spaces cut out on a board. It is easy enough for any normal person who can see the board. But to the eidetic boy the strange object is shown for only a few seconds against the same neutral colored screen. Then the board is withdrawn and cov- | ered with a cloth. He is given the| | pleces to be fitted into the forms and | |he fits them under the cloth with | | hardly an instant’s hesitation. He does about as well as an ordinary person with the form board before his eyes. It is actually before his eyes—on the screen. He is not filling the formboard | s0 quickly and accurately as the result of the fleeting memories of shapes and positions he has gathered during the few seconds of exposure. He is filling it in accordance with the physically real picture on the screen before him— | but to everybody else that screen is just a blank space. Dr. Rauth now is working out com- plicated procedures for objective test- ing of the eidetic “image” in other senses. The unexpected discovery of the extreme prevalence of the phe- nomenon among the St. Mary’s boys— running something better than 50 per cent among those already examined— has set the Catholic University psy- chologists to working out a new system of education based on actual objects rather than abstract ideas. The boys Tepresent a fair cross section of American boyhood in general, so it is likely that much the same prevalence will be found in other schools. Hith- erto the phenomenon hardly has been known even to specialists in the United Stataes, but has been studied in Ger- many. It has been considered very rare. It almost always vanishes about the 15th year. The German investigators i believe, however, that some of the very great figures in history—a notable ex- ample is the poet Goethe—retained it through life. The ability to take images out of his mind and see them as realities was a notable factor in his genius. But with the great run of persons, Dr. Rauth believes, the faculty is ruth- lessly and perhaps ignorantly killed by the age of puberty by the intensive school drilling in abstractions—words. He is arranging with the school to nurse rather than destroy the eidetic faculty in the hope that it can be pre- served in some of the boys until their school days are over. This means a new kind of teaching for an experi- mental group while a control group of eidetic children continue to study their lessons in the same old way. The prog- ress of the two groups will be watched closely. Dr. Rauth emphasizes that the work to date has been purely exploratory and that a long program of intensive scien- tific work lies ahead before any posi- tive conclusions can be reported. 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