Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1932, Page 12

A-12 WEGHTCHANGES INPROVENINDS Children in Group of 40 “Measured” in Experiments | With Averdupois. By 1he Associated Press. SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 24 —Science has a new lure for reducing—more mental efficiency. | Likewise, it has discovered the same | rainbow for the overly thin—better | mental performance by putting on | weight | Both “miracles” actually happened | to & group of 40 New York children. | The fat youngsters jumped their men- | tal scores by getting thinner, the thin | ones by getting fatter and the degree| of improvement was surprising. { These measurements were reported to the American Association for the | Advancement of Science by John Levy.| william M. Mann, director of the Zoo, | gent of all animals. M. D., of Columbis. University, in |5 to lift the baby on a rock overlook- | paper on the relation between change | of weight and mental and physical ef-| ficiency in children. | 1t is well established that intelli- | gence is not affected by weight. But| mental efficiency is the application of | intelligence and this is what Dr. Levy measured Made Normal by Diet. Half the children were too fat, half thin and afl around 10 or 11 years old. They were brought to normal—the| commonly sccepted weights for age and height—by diet alone. | All increased physical efficiency with | approach . to proper weight, but the| mental improvement was greater still. | The mental qualities tested were mem- | ory, learning, recognition (of familiar | objects) and alertness. A boy of 12 coming up from 10 per cent underweight improved his learning | ability 24 per cent and alertness 1 per cent. His mental average went up 8 per cent. An overweight boy of 11 re- duced 36 per cent and gained 30 per cent in learning ability, 7 in recognition and 2 in alertness. His average rose 13 per_cent. The thin children were brought up to standard by living in a country outdoor camp. Dr. Levy is now studying whether & similar increase in mental efficiency can be produced by bringing children up to weight in the city. He said the studies may throw some light on whether city or country is better for child mental development. 3-Piece Sea Lion Can’t Swim at Birth Afraid Taking BY THOMAS R. HENRY. It's a hard job teaching a sea lion to swim. Although this animal for many thou- sands of generations has spent its life in the water and appears as much at home there as a fish, it comes into the world helpless and afraid of water, and acquires its ability to swim awkwardly and with great difficulty. Such is the case at least with the baby sea lion at the National Zoological Park. He was born two weeks ago in the rock shelter high and dry above the | pool in the sea lion inclosure. When it was three days old the mother began its swimming Jessons, to the great dis- comfort of the infant. She has been keeping them wup ever since, but the baby has not made much progress. The practice, as described by Dr. ing the pool and then push it off. It struggles desperately in the water, cries in fright, and starts to sink. The mother leaps in right behind it, grabs it with her teeth by the scruff of the | neck, and holds it up so that its nose | is just out of water. After a few min- utes she helos it back on the rocks. Apparently the baby has no natural ability to ge! along in the water, al- though it might be easier in the more bouyant sea water, which is the natural environment of the animal. Originally a Land Animal Within & few days, Dr. Mann believes, the baby will start swimming “sud- denly,” just as the ability comes to a | human being. The er's practice seems to be samething like the old | custom of throwing a boy out of a boat in deep water. But she has been care- ful not to frighten him too badly or destroy his confidence in her. The sea lion. Dr. Mann explains, is a Jand snimal which has gone back to City children are sometimes considered “brighter.” But he said this experi- ment suggests that in the country chil- | dren learn to “mobilize” gence better their intelli- These 40 children, he said, were off | weight due to faulty environment, so that the findings do not necessarily ap- ply to those off standard weight for other reasons. of Water When Born and Acquires Ability With Difficulty—One at Zoo Now VING STAR, WASHINGTON, IDEATH OF CAPONE Lessons. | the water, just like a whale or por-! | poise, but probably much later. It is & | carnivere, believed to come from the | same general ancestral stock ss the | bears, from which it diverged millions | of years ago. The sea environment | has produced great physical changes, | | Teplacing the legs with flippers and | adapting the creature specifically as a | | fish eater, so that it could not survive | very long outside the water. | Sea Lion Intelligent. But the millions of years in the sea | apparently have not affected markedly | | the creature’s innate mental qualities. | | It is far from being able to swim at | birth, like a fish. or even a whale, and | | requires a safe nursery on land. Like | its distant relative, the bear, however, | | the sea lion is one’ of the most intelli- The coming of the baby, Dr. Mann | says, has caused the disruption of the | sea lion family at the Zoo. This con- sisted previously of the father, mother and an “old maid aunt.” The three got along very well together. The male was a model of rectitude, entirely de- voted to his mate and treating the other female with polite indifference. With the arrival of the baby, however, both father and mother were so - voted to it, rushing toward it at the | slightest whimper, that Zoo attendants feared for the safety of the odd female, who showed a clumsy aptitude for get- ting in the way of the parents. It was necessary to place her in another pool. The Zoo is a real nursery this week. The largest family is Mamma Scorpion with her’ 25 newly-born offs] 8. which she carries riding in a cluster on her back. The latest birth is that of a mule deer, a rare event with theso animals in ceptivity Makes You Forget You Have FALSE TEETH No longer does any wearer of false teeth need to be annoved or feel fll at ease. Pasteeth. & new improved powder, sprinkled on your plates will hold them firm and comfortable. No gummy. gooey taste or feeling. Gums and mouth wifl || not et sore.” Avoid embarrassment Get Fasteeth from Peoples Drug Stores {Civil b €5 NRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1932. SYNDICATE IS SEEN Warfare Gangland May Bring End to Reign of Terror. . By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 24 —The next rattle | of gangland's deadly machine guns may also be the death rattle of the gigantic crime syndicate built by “Scarface” Al Capone. That civil warfare may wreck the syndicate and free the city from its en- circling talons was the theory advanced today by a high enforcement official. On his desk lay a diagram of all branches of the vast Capone empire from which the jailed gangster derived his princely income. They spread, talon-like, from the heart of the Loop’ to the outermost limits and suburbs. May Be Imminent. ‘The underworld, he said, at this very minute might be sitting on a powder magasine of gang strife unequaled in intensity since the bloodshed that ac- companied Capone's Tise to power. And the gangster whose followers Ca- pone men were believed by investigators to have decimated in the St. Valentin day “massacre” of 1928—George (Bug: Moran, mortal enemy of Capone—may in Chicago Iast week. His funeral was typioal of | gangland. Seventeen auto loads of flow- ers followed him to the grave. Capone lieutenants—his friends—carried the ca sket. Who killed Barker? Gangland or hard-ridden racket victims? Time to Teil ‘The official, who declined to be named to preserve the efficiency of his en- forcement unit, says: “Only. the men who pulled the trigger and the men who hired them. But the next killing | will tell.” Barker's ambition was to control everything in' Chicago that moved on wheels. Barker was author of 28 sep- arate rackets and exacted tribute with an ifron hand from truck and milk wagon drivers aiike. men in as many lines of endeavor breathed with relief at his assassination, Barker, the official said, apparently wasn't killed because he aspired to the throne of Capone. “arm” of the Capone syndicate, one of its “enforcers” along with the “West Side” O'Donnells, ree Fingered™ Jack White and “Dago” Dan Tagnotti. War Is Seen. “Dago” Dan was slain just a few days before Barker dropped under 18 bullets. Tagnotti belonged to the Capone “loy alists”; Barker, the O'Donnells and White reputedly to the faction of rebels allied with Moran. 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