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...twelve years old, but I always have, and always will, detest any being (or fiend, as Subscriber Marlborough put the German, Schwarz) who would, for the sake of anything, make life miserable for any dumb beast or animal. When I read the article on "Horses" [TIME, May 31, GERMANY] where the German moving picture producer, Schwarz, sprung a trap under two horses to make them tumble down the cliff onto the rocks below for the sake of making moving pictures of their agony, I felt as one would if someone would suddenly tell you that a certain man had tortured...
Music. All psychiatrists who attended the 82nd convention of the American Psychiatric Association in Manhattan last week knew that music which "soothes the savage beast," is also a sedative to the insane. Perhaps it is memory echoing up through a file of sea-rocked protoplasm. Certainly music, as well as rhythmic, beating surf, is calming...
...Eastern Guatemala, Dr. Samuel J. Record discovered a tree never before known to science, named it the cow tree. From its bark, when slit, issues a creamy white latex, delicate in taste, nourishing to man and beast...
...Field, near Kansas City, a puppydog appeared, seeking friends. Some pilots did not reject his overtures, but one, taking a dislike to his shy looks and gentle manners, took him away in an automobile, deserted him on a lonely highroad. The puppy made his way back. Finding that the beast survived even his own natural inclination to sniff at whirling propellers and perform in the path of descending planes, this flyer, one Waldo Robey, pilot of the Porterfield Flying School, took him 800 feet up in a plane, dropped him overboard. The diminutive body, smashed to pulp, buried itself...
Acting Governor Butte of Porto Rico last week denied an application by one Manuel Garcia. Señor Garcia wished to arena a bull fight. The acting governor held: 1) That a fight between man and beast was likely to be cruel; 2) That it was likely to have a deleterious effect on public morals. The bulls of Porto Rico will continue to be slaughtered only to increase the world's food supply...