THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1950.
Mice Scare These Neurotic Cats
By Alfred Looch
Dr Jules Masserman's cats are neurotic. Some of them even are afraid of mice. He demonstrated in his laboratory recently how he makes them that way, and told how he cures them. He has a cage full of mon- keys, and they are neurotic, too. They remind an observer of some people.
FAIR
EXCHANGE
FLIGHT Officer G. E. Campion takes a look at London before leaving England for the U.S. in an exchange of officers between the Women's Royal Air Force and the American Women's Air Force. The exchange in- volves five officers from cach country. Flight Officer Campion will go to Illinois.--(Acme).
Leaning Tower And Florence Cathedral May Tumble Down
BY NORMAN MONTELLIER
but at least Time seems endless in ancient Rome, two famous Italian monuments, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Great Cathedral of Florence, are giving today's acicntists headaches as they grow older.
of
the
was
That's Dr Masserman's goal. An Associate Pro- fessor of Nervous and Men- tal Discuses at Northwestern University in Illinois, he about hopes to learn more human behaviour from cats and monkeys.
Human beings are too complex in their behaviour to be placed under scientific scrutiny in A laboratory, Dr Masserman ex- plained. But he said much can be learned from the study of animais.
Dr Masserman's assistant, Curtis Fechtel, first tenches the animals that when a light s turned on, a morsel of food will be deposited for them in a feed box. When a bell rings, they can get the food from another bux.
Next, the animals are tought alter- to press switchen which
nately turn on the light and ring The bell, thus producing the food Best in one box and then the ulher.
To frustrate the animals, the feed boxes are then rigged no that when the switches ure pressed, no food is forthcoming, This does not produce neurosis, but when the ents learn that the switches do not work some of them try pressing other objects, such as slicers and even ather ent
To
PSYCHIC TRAUMA
neurosis, the produce animals are subjected to "psychte trauma," for instance, when a cat Jokes its bend into the feed box, a blast of ntr snacks it in the face. After about half a dozen times, this makes the animal neurotic.
Monkeys are made neurotic by dime-store rubber snakes which are made to wriggle out of the feed boxes and frighten the ani mala when they go to get food.
Masserman and his assistants strid that the neurotic animals exhibit symptoms similar to those found in human beings, in- cluding anxiety, rapid heartbeat, full pulse, higher blood pressure, trembling and
nsthuna. even
Some develop phobias, such as the cats' fear of nice.
The animals are then taken from the laboratory to receive a long rest in pleasant surround- ings to relieve their neurosis. Then, with rensstirances from the experimenter, they are re- turned to the laboratory and re- trained to press the switches and get their food without fear.
DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
Wing-Commander PAUL RICHEY gives a sneak preview
THE
world's first hover airliner will
BUS RIDE HOVERPLANE WILL CHEAT Room for ten or more on 110 m.p.h. 'hops'
TWO.4L AUTORA
SUPPLY TRE LIFT
TRANSPARENT KOJE
550k.. ALVI
FOR DOWNWARD. VISION
· LEONIDES · RADIRE. INGERE
10-12 SEATS
FOR PASSENGERS
THE CLOCK be ready to fly next summer. It
made in Britain and shows that we are still keeping the lend in plane design which we took with the Comet, the first all-jet airliner, I saw the scale model of the hover plane, known as the Bristol 178; nt Filton airfield recently. The impression of the plane you see on the left is drawn by an artist from a memory picture I was able to give him
$50 b.b. ALO1S LEDRIGES RADIAL. ENGINE
"I hardly looks like a Joverplane" the memory picture Paul Richey gave to an artist.
"BULL"
AND
BELLE
ADMIRAL William F. (Bull) Halsey visited a motion picture aludio in Hollywood and met actress June Haver. The retired wartime commander of the famed U.S. Third Fleet told her he hadn't seen a film in more than a year because of an eye operation. But he promised June she would be the first star he'd see in 1950-(Acme).
Juveniles Taught "Chicken" Perils
Gasps and white faces marked the newest ap- proach to safety education for some 80 students of Oberlin High School, near Elyria, Ohio. Trying a "shock" treatment where lectures had failed, the students were shown the shattered wreckage of a 1941 sedan, on the jagged metal of which two per. sons died. Six others want to the hospital,
Drugs indi alcohol relieve The Tower of Pisa has perceptible, movement
acurosis, Masterman gold, bul only until the effect wears off.. drawn workt attention in lower has not been stopped but
only reven-millimetre change and Pechtel made some catsi recent postwar years, with has been registered since 1937. alcoholic by spiking their milk.
The crash on a dry road and demands that the car be intermittent reports that it
ALSO PROBLEM
But when the cats were cured of
Food weather which Fulled over and the lights put on was leaning more all the The Cathedral of Florence pre- their neuroris, they quit imbib-¡ in
is called "chicken." delayed-actioning.
enused the deaths apparent- It's an easy game to play. It 19 time. Eventually, it seemed sents a similar
ly resulted from one of the a hard but almost certain way to clear, the tower would over-problem. The cathedral
raised from 1294 to 1462. The Occasionally, however, an ant- balance and fall down.
newer juvenile death-thrill die, last part of the projret was the final is not cured. Blackey, a ner-
Oberlin High School ofelnis The reports have been correct | 14-year construction of the vous black and white alley cat, road games. The youngsters hoped the abject lesson, dificult In one respect-the tower shute dume, which is 300
feet would overeat if permitted. The call it playing "chicken." leaning more. But the rate of Jalsave the ground.
neurotle symptom cat has
Sheriff Carl Finegan and incline, a fraction of an Inels in Completed in 1434, the dome known as "compulsive eating." Oberlin patrolman, Itay Warren, 12 years, makes it ertain that has no supports but is made of
did not disclose di their favesti- the tower will last out all the
intricate arrangement of Even elcetro-shock and ad-gation had shown. It is known, experts who todas fret about its balanced blocks. A topping vanced brain surgery by a spe- however, that one of the injured
cupola was
1402. finished in
cialist failed to relieve Blackie's parts in the car said the pupils The 170-foot towar started out adding 52 feet to the height of condition. But Pechtet said Blac- were playing "chicken" Just be- in He as just a clock tower back | th;_ dome.
kie probably is happier than he fore the crush.
the dome wat dogs chasing him.
fate.
In 1174. It rises in eight different Just 10 years ago, workmen would be out in the alley, with storeys, each surrounded by half-noticed that
TRAGEDY AT END
Whatever it
for teenagers, would
students from
the
As it was #nave other
same end.
STORY HAS EFFECT The lesson had its effect. Tho pupils shuddered as Fireman! Donald Simms told how he and helpers pried the victims from the wreckage and found young Bitiner's battered body hanging columns. The tower is about 13 cracking. Great alarm was felt
from an open door, was they werd feet out of the perpendicular. Tite and emergency measures were Pechtel said he was having
terrifle
"Bittner's feet were jammed in heaviest bells on top are hung on ordered to "save" the dome. New trouble with a monkey, n South playing it ended in a
and spilt blond, broken
brake the African Solymangabey called crash
the clutch and the side opposite the overhanging stones were inserted into
pedal," Strams said. "He was wall for Insurance.
crack and cemented. Years later Taboo. He said Taboo probably riass and deal for 17-year-old under
There was A ragged The tower Hot its list at the be the filing was elected when the is the world's most stupid mon- Marvin Diliner and Jean Mariedad.
Presnell, three-month-old daughslash where his throat had been stioning, and the upper half was dame contracted, and scientists key."
that the dome
ter of Donald and Viola Presnell. and the blood was sill dripping bullt in a curved line to string den
the decided that
The pupils from Oberlin, view-slowly out." then the side away from the merely "breathing" and that the In a year's time, he has not leaning one. In 1907 the first big contraction and expansion of the learned to press the
A young girl in the Oberlin fooded the heap of metal and glass alarm went up when it was noted stones would not lend to aswitches, something most mon- and winced when they learned group turned white and walked minutes. their schoolmates had been play- unsteadily to the garage door that the tower had tilted seven
catastrophic.
keys learn in a few
They know the | „nd was alek. No one laughed. (2.75 inches) in a centimetras
Desplit this reassurance, new Taboo is
hasing "chicken." He A moren. single year. It was
A pretty 17-your-old student estimated
concern now is felt for the dome buck teeth and he sits and stares rules of the game, that in 100 years, at that rate of because some of the base stones at a person.
The rules? A nervous driver surned up the pupils' reaction. would pass have been badly worn down by
turns out his lights and speeds) incline, the tower
"Jeepers," she said, "it was down the highway towards un terrible, but I'm glad I saw 1, spproaching car. The first person From now on I'm taking it easy in the car who loses his nerve with the car."--United Press.
was
the centre of gravity and follthe weight of the structure and But he may never become the centuries of "breathing" neurotic. is probably too movement-United Press,
stupid. United Press.
over.
COMMISSION SET UP
A parliamentary commission was sit up. Two years later it was able to deny the dire predic- long. It was decided that water seepage accounted for the con- tinued till. Concrete was pumped into the base and everything seemed all right.
the
Then, in 1937, the director of
Observatore Ximeniano
of Florence, Fadre Glullo Alfan, Installed the Instruments at the top of the tower which Lodny continue to check the increase in tilt.
During 1949, more doses of concrete, were shot into the base of the Leaning Tower, Each treatment was followed by re- ports that the tower was going to fall. Engineer Glovanni Girometu, director of pubile works for Tuscany, has now announced that the almost im
K. O. CANNON
WREAS THE DEVIL DOES JE PROFILS THINK HE'S GOING? THIS MUST LEAD}
TO THE TOP OF THE
TOWER
He
OSIS FIELP ME!
The Riddle of the Red Domino
YOU ASKED FOR IT, PROFILE! AT LEAST
RAM YOU'VE DODGED A LOT OF EXPLAINING,
WONDER WHERE HE THOUGHT THE STEPS LED?..AN,WELL........ WE MUST
GET WHISPER AND HER
· FATHER OUT OF HENE ...
after examining the seale model. No photographs are yet allowed.
This is the pland that Peter Masefield, British European Airways! chief executive, cald
"cannot arrive until the late 1950s."
But Bristol's tell me that if teats go well In the summer of 1951 it will be in service by the autumn two years later.
Anyway, when it comes it will revolu- tionise ir transport by linking city centres on internal routes-and by cutting out those long bus-rides between city and airport on foreign trips.
And I think you'll agree it is the nicest looking hoverplano yet designed.
-(London Express Service)
OF TONGA
QUEEN SALOTE
MARKS 50TH BIRTHDAY
Uncle Sam
NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga Islands.--Queen Salote, picturesque sovereign of Tongn and only woman in the British Empire except Britain's Elíza- beth entitled to call herself queen, has just celebrated her 50th birthday.
The regal, towering Poly-pean and Asiatic powers, Tonga Independent king- nesian, who stands six feet remains on
dom, under British protection. It three inches tall, has ruled has all the institutions and trap- this little independent king-pings of a vest-pocket kingdom. It is n limited constitutional dom under British protec-|
of 羅 consisting monarchy tion since April, 1918.
sovereign, п privy counell, The 44,000 inhabitants of the parliament, prime minister and kingdom, deep in the South Seas, cabinet. Ils link with Britain is observed the event with rejoicing through a British resident agent In on atmosphere of isolated and consul, who controls the peace and prosperlly,
kingdom's foreign relations, in- ancial policy and the criminal and elvit jurisdiction of Briush | and foreign residents.
The high postwar price of empra, Tonga's principal export, has given the kingdom a buoy unt economy. Banana shipments to New Zealand, s:cond leading expert, also are good.
PROTECTED BY TREATY
May Have To Cough Up
Houston, Texas, Apr. United States 13.-The
Government faces possible lawsuit damages of $200,- In 1900 Tonga signed a treaty | 000,000 following a Federal of friendship and protection with judge's ruling here today Jiritain, under which Tongthat it was at fault in the Britain 1917 Texas City disaster
รบ
Mr T. M. Kennèrly, the judge,
UNTOUCHED BY WAR Virtually untouched by two agreed not to make any treaties
other nations. world wars, the islanders pald with homage to their queen in thanks-agreed to protect Tonga against which took 512 lives.. Hiving church services through-attack, and established a small out Tonga the day before her subsidy for the local government. birthday, and at an offieint ser- In return Britain received ne-ruled that 8,495 parties which vice in the royal chapel on the cess to Tongn ports for her war-lud sued for this sum in dam- palace grounds.
ships at all times and the right ages are entitled to
As a The queen called her subjects to establish coaling stations or
result of the wate to a great fete on her paince forts, a point which gives the explosions which almost wreck- sigmined Texas City three years ago. grounds. The strains of the gov- Islands some strategic ernment band, tootling in the cance now for the United States Some 3,000 people were
in Washington,
were injured, public park near the palace, ear- and other Western nations.
B: H. Gra- ried all through the soft balmy Queen Salote gave the price of Allorney-General,
nighter
said that Zealand ham Morrison, plane to New night of Tonga's gentle semi-a
would at the outbreak of World War II Government
appeal tropical climate.
Tonga is an excuplats" paradise. and raised a small force of Ton-against the decision immediately. The litigation involves the Lying 2,000 miles northeast of gan troops. All members of the
including Salote, inrgest damages action Sydney, Australia, and 2,700 government, miles south of Pearl Harbour, it subscribed 10 percent of their brought against the
a war fund.-United ment has no newspaper to banner-palaries to line talk of the hydrogen bomb Press. or the hot flashes of the east- west cold war.
ONLY SMALL GUNS
Most of Its adults can read and write, however. Education for many years has been free and compulsory between the ages of
x und 11.
Couldn't Care Less Air Sheffield, Apr. 13.—A groun
the Assistant
the
ever Govern-
If the Government loses Anally, Congress will have to special appropriation to meet whatever claims and amounts are approved-Reuter,
ninko a
Confidence Vote In Majlis
Teheran, Apr. 13.-Persia's Prime Minister, All Man- sour, today received a unanim-.
confidence in the
of Bermudo youth leaders The only warke note that visiting Britain declared today Bounded during the great rejoic-that young people in Sheffield ing was the boom of 21-gun and Bermuda were strikingly salute to the queen at high noon similar-both had the "couldn't new at Nuku'alofa, capital of the is care leng" attitude.
J. G. Nichole, leader of the ous vote of land group which Cuptain Cook named the Friendly Isles in 1773. Bermuda youth group which left Majlis.
The guns were only smalt g-here today by air for Washing unl Kuns presented by the British ten, said: "the big problem in puttes were present, Ale Fre
95 in mier presented his Caul..et list Sheffield is the Government in 1945.
to the Shah, Mohammed Reza Inspire young
It was the third. Persian Cabinet in two months.-Reuter.
Same
Eighty-five out of 130 de-
While most of the other istands Termuda-how of the Pacife have been answered people to do something for Pahlevi, on April 3. in one way or another by Euro- others."--United Fress.
PROVING
CRIME
DOESN'T
PAY
MORGUE officials in Rochester, N.Y., examine the car which was found beneath the ice covering the Barge Canal, and which contained the body of Walter Terry, 21. The car, reported stolen, was apparently driven by Terry down á Idead end street where it went through a guard rail and over a 20-foot embank-
ment into the water—(Acme),
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