Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1928 — Page 14

DOG'S ABILITY TO THINK STILL IS QUESTIONED ,I'nitcd Press Staff Correspondent) Detroit, Dee. 22 tU.R>—The question of whether a dog reaponda to commands because of an Innate Intellgence or sensory capacity or Just because, like an automaton, certain commands expressions or gestures have become associated with certain reflex actions, has been raised here. The average owner will probably answer that he is certain his dog has something approaching human intelligence. but Jacob Herbert of this city who owns and what is more Important has the complete affection of •tf'ellow” isn't so sure. •'Fellow.' i beautiful German police dog almost six years old is probably the most "intelligent" dog in the world according to the common use of that term in dogdom, hut Herbert who pro- : fesses to be a layman in psAhological | lines despite his ability to (Dbcuss pay-1 chology has an open mind on the subject of brain capacities of dogs or their aocalled “intelligence.' “Fellow" has been trained by Herbert to distinguish almost 400 words and can go through his paces obeying only Herberts verbal commands. The word knowledge of :: Fellow" is exactly that — Herbert can go behind a screen or in another room and his commands will be followed implicitly by the dog to show there is not the slightest gesture or ether hints help the | animal. Obeys Many Commands Herbert can tell Fellow to look out | the window, sit down, turn around, stand still, place his head in one's guard a prisoner, go to another room i to get any object and the dog will obey ! without an error. > “Mary Jane" is the mother of a late brood of Fellow's puppies. "Lets go see Mary Jane,” Herbert will say and Fellow's pleasure seems almost human. "Nice dog,’ Herbert will approve,

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Killed for Slap I ■ S|| jfci/' L Oik Wm f Miss Flossie Carter (above), 27, Detroit, Mich., schoolteacher, whom I "Jimmy” Deacons, 15, confessed killing because she slapped him three I years ago. The juvenile killer who says he "never forgave the insult” was to be sentenced after pleading guilty to murder in tl\e first degree. i and Fellow will come near to smiling "Shame” or "That’s no good and Fellow will act dispirited. Herbert believes Fellow knows as many words as the average eight-year old child, but he is careful to explain that he does not c'aim Fellow has the

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Intelligence of the same child or of nnv c.,'id. "And yet, pu!mp“. he does think," Herbert says. "Sometimes in Ills sleep be stirs and growls just like other dogs and if he dreams, he must think.”

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Os coursp, Fellow may bo growling at some Htomach complaint, but Herbert doesn’t think much of that theory. o 104-Year-Old Woman Dies Kokomo, Ind., Dec. 22 — tU.R) 1 - Mrs.

Mary Walker, 104, oldest Howard county resident, Is deud at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joephlne Waits. Mrs. Walker was born in thff hill region of Kentucky in 1824 and spent 102 years of her life there.

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