Judge — January 1937 — page 40: what you’re looking at

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Clocking the Watch Mr. Caruise, who, you will remember, has always taken a keen interest in clocks and watches, noticed that his watch did not seem to be keeping accu- rate time. Upon comparing it with his electric clock, he noticed that the hands of his watch came exactly together every sixty-five minutes. From these facts he was able to determine how much his watch was losing or gaining per hour. Can you? Half and Half HuGu Girrorp, President of the Gif- ford Investment Company, sent for Briggs, the head bookkeeper, just after the Christmas holidays. “Briggs,” said Mr. Gifford, have been with us for some time and your work has been most satisfactory. We were considering a Christ- mas bonus for you but we have decided instead that we will divide your salary by one-half.” Briggs, who was becoming quite excited, had a sudden sinking spell. “Why, Mr. Gifford,” he said, “I get only $30 a week now and if you re- duce me to $15—" “You don’t seem to understand,” cut in Mr. Gifford. “Let me give you an example. Suppose you divide half a dol- lar by one-half, what do you get?” “Twenty-five cents,” said Briggs. “If you divide half a dollar by 2 what do you get?” asked Mr. Gifford. “Twenty-five cents,” said Briggs. “Well, well,” said Mr. Gifford, “doesn’t it seem queer to you that when you divide by one-half and divide by 2 you get the same result? There must be some difference.” Can you tell Briggs what salary Mr. Gifford was proposing to pay “you WIT-NITS BY PETER POTTER Digit Crypt THE FOLLOWING depicts a sum in long division. Letters have been substituted for the digits from 0 to 9, inclusive. Each letter always represents the same digit. When you have found the digits represented by each letter arrange the letters in numerical order and they will spell a word. Twenty minutes is good solving time for this crypt. IMA)TCTTCL(CEL TTPG LTEC LMAI HTHL Cut Up and Reform ANOTHER PROBLEM in linoleum con- fronted Mrs. Cadwallader. She had a strip, as illustrated above, which she wished to make into a square. She wanted to do this by cutting the lino- leum into only two pieces which would fit together to form a square and keep the pattern intact. Can you show Mrs. Cadwallader how this should be done? Digital Arithmetic PROFESSOR THORNDYKE has arranged another test for his class in mathematics. “Now students,” said the Professor, “you see here on the blackboard an equation: [3(523+-A) ]’=2A99561. The letter A has been substituted for a certain digit. Who can tell me what digit the letter A represents? This prob- lem is to be solved by inspection and can anyone give me the answer in less than 15 seconds?” In just 12 seconds Jerry Mabon, Professor Thorndyke’s brightest pupil, signified that she had found the solu- tion. Can you do as well? Words in Music INSPECTOR WEBBER had been devoting much of his time to a mysterious Euro- pean spy case. His assistance had been requested because it was believed that information was being transmitted by cipher although no messages had been intercepted. The inspector had conclud- ed, after considerable inves- tigation, that, if the spy theory were correct, the spy was Sonya Katzenellenbo- gen. He, therefore, presented himself at her father's house one afternoon and asked to see Miss Sonya. Her father, Hans Katzenel- lenbogen, was a great musi- cian, conductor of a Phil- harmonic orchestra, and highly esteemed in the musical world, and it so happened that the Inspector was a great lover of music and some- thing of a pianist. While awaiting Sonya’s appearance he seated himself at the piano and looked through the scores. He came across the piece at the bottom of this page which arrested his attention. To him it seemed strange. And when he tried ‘to play it, it seemed stranger still. He put the manuscript in his pocket and when he had returned to his apartment he studied it at some length, and found that it was indeed a simple substitution cipher, and the mes- sage convinced him that he had discov. ered the much sought spy. comicbooks.com