Judge — August 25, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Editor, Norman Antbony Fatigue and Recovery XPERT comment on two quite unrelated human activities lately showed a strange parallel. At the dance marathon in Pittsburgh, three doc tors made claborate been tests of nine couples who had tit for seventeen days. They found that most of neers had actually ned weight and were in lent condition. Their obser ug to ty, “upsets the ¢ exe the president of the county medi every known theory as to fatigue in human beings. At about the same time ames ‘T. Shot well reported on his resesrehes into the effects of the World War. “The ceonomic recovery from the World War,” he said, “is a more surprising historical f than the World Wa and is in many w of recovery cord Professor . truction far beyond what anyone had thought pos- sible in 1914 or even in 9. . All of which shows that there are forces at work in modern indus- try which are revolutionizing the basis of living.” Out of such follies as war and mg hon dancing This time it is confirmation of y, long cherished but commonly doubted, d has potentialities undreamed of. With our own eyes we are secing the swift betterment of the human body, the human int and the environment center. By the same token the ancient wail that “you can’t change human nature” will be od must come. that man ious. Haldane has said, with a neat blend of and pessimism, “In the rather improbable nd... I optimism event of m: n taking his own evolution in can see no bounds at all to his progress.” The Great Formula [sour highly integrated and cooperative times, al- most everything import: of many minds. nt is the composite work Seldom can we give one individual the credit for anything. That is one reason w hail with delight the feat of a Lindbergh, larly in scientific res Particu- ch and invention, honors us- ually have to be shared among a dozen workers in dozen different pl It fits our sense of the dr: matic to learn that one man single-handed devised the new kodacolor film, with which amateurs can take motion pictures in natural colors. Asked who did it, the dircetor of the Eastman laboratories said flatly, Capstaff. He is responsible for the whole thing.” For sixteen y Capstaff kept John Awociate Editors, Richard J, Walsh, Phil ftoma, Jack Shuttleworth Lramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan pounding away at this and similar photographic prob lems. His achieveme: was no accidental discovery. It was due, he says himself, to “knowledge, experi Luck } spheres, among them com But i ny other place where ence and trying in uvs its big part in success many finance, e 1 nuinely all for- pugilism, sport, fishing and love. ora tory, the studio or : creative work is to be miuhe is “knowlec lone, the experience Tite repated bone-headedneys of athletes has been made the a thorough study at Cornell, Scholastic 1 class of eight hundred and cnty-cight were analyzed, for the entire ge period of four years, It showed that hundred and twelve men who had been on fresh and varsity teams had a higher intelligence averag than the rest of the class, by eleven per cent. A er proportion of the athletes elected the harder courses; they had a higher average record in scholar- ship and a greater percents In just one respect: the istics seem to us copk eyed; they show that the highest scholarship were made by the wrestlers. We had always thought that wrestling was the dullest, dumbest and generally most stultifying of all sports. men ‘ tained degrees. average grades in Younger Generation Notes. No. 33 A the Olympic Games the 100-meter dash for women was won by Elizabeth Robinson, who is fifteen years old and who was once ruled out of school athletics in Chi wuse she was too skinny, The coxswain of the pair-oared shell of the Penn sylvania A.C. was ‘Tommy Mack, fourteen years old, He went over with the team just like the grown-ups, without any member of his family to look after him. On the girls’ swimming team there were several notably Dorothy Poynton, a mpion who is only thirteen years old. pungsters, diving cl And the new sprinting champion of the world. Perey Williams, who won both the 100-meter and the 200-meter, thus scoring the first double victory in the sprints since 1912, is a Canadian aged ninete Well, the sour critics have never denied that the Gener: What they have to learn is ion has speed. that it also has stamina. comicbooks.com