Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER ? 193L B science is ' m Cili First Details of Berlin’s -- rrrrr f Amazing Institution Where the “Minds of the Dead Tit n f t J I lij n k "i I I t f r ' t I r f r fj HtitiiiE UtjVuiiiinilljl c i a b Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brein Research Financed Partly by the Rockefeller Foundation Are Studied C T & Wt! w YT p— — f Jwrw S£ 1 EJfc CLiSast-f- r? 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ditch Out of the studies and exdiggers periments going on in this institution are coming some remarkable discoveries Perhaps one of the most interesting brains in the collection is that of Russia’s great Communist leader the late Nikolai Lenin And it is possible that science will now be able to learn the secret of his greatness for his abnormal brain is being subjected to a Study which may reveal him either as a great idealist or as a ruthless conqueror 1 had the privilege of seeing the brain of Lenin and others during a special trip through the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research as the institution here is called It was established by the former German emperor twenty years ago on the hundreth anniversary of the University of Berlin’s founding It originally was supported by the State but later received y financial aid from the A two or ago the year family Krupp Rockefeller Foundation contributed a considerable amount toward the erection of the present elaborate building The founder and director of the in- super-wealth- physiologists genealo- gists chemists psychologists and others who are devoting themselves entirely to the All of study of the brain these scientists and even the professor’s wife and daughter have bequeathed their brains to their successors for continued experimentation The institute as a matter of fact can’t get enough brains of prominent persons to satisfy it A Section of Lenin’s brain is perhaps the most cherished possession of Professor Vogt He spent two months in Moscow trying to get it and finally succeeded Hermann Sudermann the celebrated German dramatist willed his brain to Dr Vogt on his deathbed Another “elite” brain as the professor calls it was inherited when his lifeDr Ilenchen famous long friend brain specialist died Professor Vogt showed me four pictures of brain cells one of an idiot one of a normal person one of a simple-mindemurderess and that of Lenin From the appearance of the third stratum of nerve centers the professor concluded that Lenin’s brain was an That it shows Lenin amazing puzzle was a man of tremendous intellect there fs no doubt but the question Professor Vogt hopes to answer soon is one which has been a matter of violent controversy throughout the world: d I1E pages of fiction seldom offer more dramatic stuff than the school j j ' killing of boy near a a lonely lake high In the mountainous country outside of Colorado Springs The case recently reached Its astonishing climax after a senes of events uiat mystified the authorities involved several innocent individuals and caused the most extensive manhunt in the history of that State On the nirht of July 20th Iewis J (Rul y) Palmer popular high school boy called at the home of Glenda King daughter of Mr end Mrs Roy G King of Colorado Springs Buddy and Glenda went out driving Shortly after 11 p m that night Glenda drove Into town with 'the body of her youthful sweetheart beside her She told police that Palmer had been murdered by a convict who attacked her after he had kicked the boy's body into a gully She said young Palmer bullet-r- iddled Ait lntertingGirlStudfWhoof Glend Kinf Boy-Frien- d We Killed While They Were on Her Contradictory “Petting” Ride Stories Baffled Police A Enlarged Photo Show a Section of Lenin' Brain Scienca Hope by Studying It to Answer tho Vexing Question Whether He Wa Great Idcaliat or a Ruthles Conqueror At Right On of the Last Photo of Lenin orders to several couriers who constantly appeared on his left “An unusual brain indeed It has given us many proofs that our theory of a close stitute is Professor Dr Oscar Vogt who probably knows more about human and animal brains than any other man in the world Associated with him are noted anatomists mentally responsible for her act But the construction of her brain later led even these experts to admit that the poor woman had been an imbecile and wholly irresponsible before the law 1 relationship MENTAL COMPARISON Although This Drawing Resembles Rows of Tiny Pine Trees It Reelly Show the Brain Cells of an Unusual and an Average Person At Left Are the Cell of a Normal Man and at Right the Abnormal Brain Cell of Nikolai Lenin Once Russia’s Dictator Iron-Hand- Was Lenin an Idealist who sought to bring glory to his country and happiness to his people? Or was he the ruthless selfish conqueror who sought personal gain and power at the expense of his country? “Like Ceasar the man could do four things at the same time" said Dr Vogt “It was at a meeting of political delegates when I saw him do this extraordinary thing that I first hoped for a chance tp see his brain He was dictating to a stenographer on his right listening attentively to a Speech opening some pressing messages and giving be- tween the outer man and the construction of his brain has greater potentialities than so far admitted in scientific circles Within less than fifty years we should be able to ‘see’ the construction of a living man’s brain by observing certain of his facial or bodily" or jharacteristics by noting his particular idiosyncrasies “Let us take the case of this simple-minde- d murderess who killed a man to get a few marks he had in his pocket and who afterward walked right into the hands of the police Experts swore in court that the woman was J told a new story naming a Colqrado Springs youth as the guilty man Hut not only did the latter deny the charge STRIPES AND but friends and acquaintances testified “ROD” that he had been with them ou the Tbl Combination night of the tragedy On Account Suggt The boy was released and again Gland King Gar of Hr Young Glenda wag arrested and questioned Sh Companion’ Doth Said until she told another story naming Strang Convict 5hot Him Whil another young man He was arrested War Parkad in h Cr Which They and denied tne crime convincing aula Shown in th Photo on th Spot ' thorities he had had nothing to do Whr th Tragedy Occurred with it But police and sheriff were still unhad died trying to defend her from the satisfied They kept questioning Glenda stranger who later disappeared right and day until she finally told Posses of men were dispatched them that the man who had slain over the countryside to bring In the Palmer was her own father I ConThe community was murderer fronted by King she wept on his aroused and sympathy Was poured out shoulder and cried aloud: “I had to unon the families of Palmer and tell them Daddy I couldn’t think of Glenda King But two persons doubted any more lies” her story One was the chief of police In her confession she said her father of Denver and the other Sheriff Jack-so- n had been watching her for some time of El Paso County where the because of her friendship with a boy denth had occurred L)nl4)? night of Buddy’s death while The case was about to be relegated she and Plmer were sitting in the to the list of unsolved mysteriek when car parked by the lake someone came the sheriff to the amazement of the up and said: “Stand still I’m not going to hurt you” But Palmer began community arrested Glenda and placed her In solitary confinement After a swinging a club The other man grapgrilling she broke down and pled wiih him Then there was a shot CacrrKht till UiKulKmtl Iwuu Swik In Oiut OllUl SllliU SMtrnO Photo-Drawin- r (‘Future generations in looking back upon our time will be as-- i tonished to find what a small place the study of the brain took in the field of scientific research They will the from know study of pathological cases such as the one here men- tioned that the woman was mad even though every psych ological and analysis pointed pathological the other way They will know this because they will SEE the unmistakable sign which la written upon her features or which may even be determined by the functioning of her inner organs “It may come within our own time that the curse of malignant heredity will be checked by this reading of signs and by the proper ‘feeding’ of the affected nerve centers We shall be able to create higher mentalities and prolong life itself by rightly analyzing individual faculties Children marked by bad parental traits will positively be made happy and useful members of society" Professor Vogt ushered me into a room where half a dozen girls in white aprons were carefully preparing hitman brains for dissection One girl at a fcdt -- y machine was placing parts of the braia between celluloid plates for filing pur poses “We now have more than 50000 of these plates” said Dr Vogt “representing brains from all over Europe Our best supply comes from Russia In Moscow our own Pantheon of Elite Brains is stocked with brains of great thinkers great military men aristoecclesiastical people cratic women All these specimens are on exhibit in glass jars properly labeled with the names of the owners and the stones of their life characteristics” The professor pointed to a very busy young girl who was cutting up a part of a Drain He said it was that of a noted German Councilor of Legation who had been interpreter at the Foreign Office and spoke seventy We visited Dr N W languages TimofeelT-Ressovskfamous contributor to the Journal of Heredity who in another room was expenmenting on flies In the movie hall of the institution we witnessed talkies of lunatics They were the most terrifying movies I ever saw Twenty scientists were present to study them “Of course” explained Professor Vogt “our work and the eventual diagnosis of intellectual faculties in its practical application may do some social harm if it discriminates in the selection of friends but the general good which will come from the elmina-tio- n of the bad undoubtedly will be a benefit to mankind “The origin of the human brain? That is all hypothesis It map go back 600000 years I mean the Deginmng Millions of of the thinking brain years before that our ancestor probbeing a creaably was some shrew-lik- e half-fisn ture that gradually took to a mode of existence entirely on land rather than stay half the time in the marshy seas The evolving of a limb for use as a tool as well as for locomotion created the opportunity for this tool (arm) and brain to interact Physical work like picking coconuts or fighting tree animals began to create mental opportunities" Even as 1 left the institution I knew that in spite of what I had seen or heard there were many secrets there yet untold by science y half-drago- h g Handsome Yeang Lwi J (“Buddy”) Palmar Popular Colorado Spring High School Boy tho Victim fired and Palmer fell dead on the ground King insisted the shooting of the He nad been boy had been accidental frantic with worry over his daughter and he had followed her and Palmer with the intention of protecting the girl The gun went off he said dur Ing a struggle with Buddy Sheriff Jackson said he was con vlnced that King had not gone to the lake intending to kill young Palmer Nevertheless the father of Glenda was arrested and charged with murder His case at the time this was written was still a matter of debate among the people of Colorado Springs SAD GAZE Accd ter’ 9 of th Murdar of Hi Daughwaatheart Roy C King Wa Impriaond Police Say Ha Confessed tb Shooting but “It wa accidental” |