Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-07-12
THE CHICAGO POSTOFHCE SCORED
FOR ITS IGNORANCE ON ART

/ fire, did not make a practice OF re-
turning any money once they got it,
according to testimony in a court
here several months ago The mother
of five children called to get back
5000 she had' Invested and later test
flied; Il told him 1 was in hard
luck and he said If needed money
so badly should sell my furniture
l told him ! could not sleep on the
grass and could not feed nay children
on grass and he indicating Thomas
Rhodus) put his face right close 10
me as II he was going to hit me and
shouted: See. here, we have told
you enough. If You have any money,
you put it down on that desk and IL
you haven't any We are through with
you. Get out of here, II you don't
get out we will throw you out l
was so frightened / was going to
scream. Then he put both his hands
on the back OF my shoulders, and
pushed me out of his office and
slammed the door, The last two
years have seen a great clean up
of the get-rich-quick and wildcat con
Germs in Chicago. Many mahogany
fitted offices have suddenly been va
Gated, the employment sharks, bucket
shops and investment" swindlers
having gone to jail or to other pas
lures.
War on disorderly houses in Chi
cago, following successful warfare OF
the white slave traffic, has been
begun for the Chicago Law and Or
der League by Arthur Burrage Far
Well He has made public tAe results
of an investigation as to the number
of places holding government II
censes to sell Liquor. the total being
1886, he says. for the names fiji
256 pages of the internal revenue
collectors records, with 81 names to
the page. OF these 1,400 are outside
of Chicago or rectifyeFs. brewers or
duplicates, 1909 are saloons. LOO
are druggists nd the balance, 2,52T,
are charged TO disorderly houses.
The probabilities are" Mr.. Farwell
SAYS, that there are many disorderly
houses where intoxicating liquor is
sold that do not pay a government
tax. but this record shows $500
places where the government has is
sued an internal revenue license,
and probably in every case intOxicat
ing liquor is sold contrary to the state
law and tie ordinances of the city
.of Chicago. the time has come in
This city when a concerted effort
should be made against the .disorderly
house, against the Illegal sale of in
toxicating liquor in such houses and
against the replenishing of material
for this awful business for these
many places
The University of Chicago has lost
its head trainer of white rats. This
does not imply tht the education of
rodents is a, regular feature of the
.university's curriculum but neverthe-
less, Professor John B. Watson. OF
the department of psychology, owned
his Phi. d. degree and present posi-
ton TO his success in training these
animals. and he has just been called
to a higher position at the Johns
Hopkins University at Baltimore
The experiments that made DIR. Wat
sons fame We're highly unique and
may throw important light on the de-
yelOpment of human beings, scien-
fists declare The object of the inves-
litigation briefly was TO discover
whether the higher members of the
animal kingdom, including rodents
and babies. can be considered to pos
sess any real intelligence prior to
the full development of the nervous
system. The results indicated that
they can. and incidentally estab-
lished for all time the exact number
of minutes it viii take an average
hungry rat to find a way into a box
when there is cheese in the box.
The principal experiments consisted
in timing the successive attempts OF
a young rat TO get into cage, open
ing by a latch string which had been
moistened with. cheese. The first at
tempts took ten or twelve minutes but
after a number of trials a light be-
gan to dawn on the rat and there
after he made a bee line for the
string as soon as he was released.
The old rats took more time to solve
the puzzle but their memory proved
better than that of the youngsters.
One old one took 80 minutes to learn
complicated method of entering
the food box. but the second time he
was placed near it he did the trick
in exactly one minute and half. II
is said that John D. Rockefeller was
highly pleased at the ingenuity shown
in the oxnprimpnrS