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Most of the attacks were made at dusk or on moonlight nights. Several correspondents wrote that the birds had swooped close to their heads, had only snapped their beaks before darting away. The majority of victims, however, had actually been struck with beak or claws. Frequently the skin was painfully lacerated. One correspondent wrote that he knew a lumberjack who had suffered from a clawed neck for several months. In Louisiana, a Negro complained that an owl had gouged his eye out. The birds in one U. S. town developed a peculiar antipathy for policemen, made frequent passes at their...
...Frequent rest periods and a sympathetic audience for one's woes make the worker more efficient and productive according to Business School investigators in psychology. It is a welcome change for the efficiency expert to attempt for once to moderate the wheels of industry instead of everlastingly increasing their tempo and it must be a still more welcome change for the poor office workers to have a human interest shown in their affairs. Sympathetic listeners are all too few in any sphere of life...
...must be true in other walks of life. The first of these principles has long been known in the laboring classes. The building trades are especially enlightened on this subject and it is the exception to find a bricklayer or mason who does not religiously observe the practice of frequent rest periods. As for the sympathetic audience perhaps the foreman could be drafted into the service and occasionally hold a confidential little tete-a-tete with the more forlorn workers under him. If Tony smashes his thumb under a sledge hammer the foreman could get him to talk about...
...parent's may plead, they never discipline. But with marriage a hard life begins. The married couple have never seen each other till their wedding, rarely like each other. They have no house of their own, must work hard to pay back the marriage expenses. Divorce or separation is frequent. Mrs. Mead is reminded...
...Arnold needs came before the National Association of Police & Fire Surgeons and the Medical Directors of Civil Service Commissions when they convened in Manhattan last week. Dr. Samuel B. Hadden, associate neurologist of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety, reminded his associates that inflammation of the brain is a frequent cause of children's misdemeanors, that they often develop anti-social tendencies and lose their sense of responsibility, with little or no impairment of their other mental faculties. Such children may develop into "master criminals." Dr. Hadden advised that they be sent to special training schools...