Judge — December 1936 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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WIT-NITS BY PETER POTTER Time to Retire ONE HALE the time from noon until now, plus one third the time from now until noon tomorrow, plus one sixth the time from now until our bedtime equals. four times the time from our bedtime until midnight. At exactly what time does the editor of this page stop this sort of thing and go to bed? To the Rescue UPON answering the telephone, Mr. Kelsey Cook, star manager of the Punc- tuality Plus Bus Line, Inc., was greatly surprised to hear the distressed voice of Tony Allen, the trusty driver of Bus Number One. For at that particular moment Tony, according to schedule, should definitely be piloting his bus to. wards the Edenville Railroad Station. In anguished tones Tony described to Mr. Cook how Bus Number One with twenty passengers aboard had, at a point far from the Railroad Station, collided with a large vegetable wagon driven by one Guiseppe Rosano. The accident had not only scattered Mr. Rosano and a great many vegetables over the countryside but had badly dam. aged the steering gear of Bus Number One, the flagship of the Company, Leaping into his five passen Kelsey Cook sped to the scene of the disaster where he found the bus able to proceed to the station, but only at a dishearteningly slow speed. Cool in the face of this emergency and being a born mathematician Cook soon figured that he could take all the issengers to the station in his Ford by King just five trips. He ordered the bus to proceed towards the station with passengers while he Cook bus, the 16 remaining rushed four to station. Mr. then retui et the wounded and took four more passengers; the bus, of course, proceeded with twelve. Mr Cook continued this shuttling until he took off the last four passengers at a int 1% mile from the station. If Mr Cook's Ford times the speed of the damaged bus, always averaged three how far from the station was the scene of the accident? A Brick Bat PAT MALONE, the proprietor of an exceedingly neat and orderly brickyard, had one idiosyncrasy. His orders were to the effect that the bricks should be put into piles containing the same num- ber of bricks. During Pat's absence one day a load of bricks arrived at the yard which gave the men considerable trou- ble. They found that when the bricks were divided into two piles there was 1 brick left over; divided into three piles there were 2 bricks left over; when divided into four piles, 3 bricks over; into five, 4 over; into six, 5 over; when into seven, 6 over; into eight, 7 over; into nine, 8 over; into ten, 9 over. When they finally divided the bricks into eleven everything came out even, and piles, the men were greatly relieved. There were than 3,000 bricks in the ship- ment, and from the above data Pat was able to discover the exact number. less Cut Up and Reform MRS. Cadwallader had remaining, after having covered the kitchen floor, a piece of linoleum of the shape illustrated on the left. She also wanted to cover part of the pantry floor. The cutter, who was expert at this sort of thing, told her that he could make a perfect square of the piece by cutting it into only two pieces that would fit to- gether, and that the pattern would re- main intact. Can you cut the piece into two parts that will fit together and form a square keeping the pattern intact? Magic Crypt THE CHART below is a coded magic square, and should be solved by the same methods as those used for solving Crypts Digit The magic square is made up of the numbers 21 to 45, in- clusive. Each row, column and diagonal adds to the same total, namely, 165. This information is sufficient to en. able you to decipher the code and re. construct the square. The letters will not form a word so that the problem can- not be solved by the anagram method. Murder Will Out THE STRONG ARM squad working on a gangland murder case had proved it to be a one man job. The suspects were down characters to four under- named Abe, Babe, Cokey and Dopey. One was a gambler, another a panhandler, another a ganj ster and the other a con-man. Taken in. to custody and questioned they testified as follows narrowed world Abe said that he was neither a gam- bler nor a gangster and that neither Babe nor Cokey was a gangster. Babe said he was neither a panhand. ler nor a con-man and that neither Cokey nor Dopey was a gambler Cokey said he was neither a gambler nor a panhandler and that neither Abe nor Dopey was a panhandler Dopey said he was neither a con-man nor a panhandler and that neither Babe nor Cokey was a con.man Only the guilty man told a lie. Who was the murderer? (Solutions Next Month) 36 comicbooks.com