Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By Lemuel F. F Parton Pt w i v v rv r v r T Prophet Who Predicted U U. U S S. S Trailer Craze Crate NEW The YORI-The reporters report- report ers gave due attention to Aldous Huxley when he came in from England recently recently recently re re- re- re but they overlooked his interesting companion Gerald Heard British author author author au au- thor critic and broadcaster Mr Heard Beard is a prophet and philosopher philosopher phil phil- which isn't hot news perhaps perhaps perhaps per- per haps but the ship news men probably probably ably would have run him down had they recalled that in 1923 1023 he quite definitely predicted the trailer craze lie He hB has an uncanny way nay of putting pulling two and two together together not not necessarily ily lIy a house and an automobile which has made him a star of both the tho British broadcasting and forecasting forecasting fore fore- casting east companies so 50 to speak Ills fortnightly radio program This Surprising World has long been an important feature The Huxley-Heard Huxley team in step here on an important enterprise is not Impelled by the European propaganda propaganda propaganda prop prop- surge They expect to go about quietly and the fact is it would take a man like the late Wlliam Wiliam James to report their mission prop prop- erly After a trip west they will check at Duke university on those startling experiments and findings in telepathy which have been the sensation of the year among This writer has read the Duke data and conclusions They cinch up the fact of telepathy to a degree which makes a correspondent hope he will soon be able Just to think his stuff with nobody paying wire tolls and no wear and tear on the typewriter Mr Heard Is not Identified with fuzzy science pseudo and It U is as asan asan an aa intellectual and not as a mystic that he lie does his prophesying prophesying- lie He HeIs lieIs lieis Is rated In England as one of 01 the most Important liaisons between science and psychology and It U Is with the thc reserve of 01 the thc scientist that he has examined psychic phenomena ena In his numerous books he has traced a continuing pattern of psychological psychological not physiological tion There was the pre pre individual individual the Individual intellectually effective effective tive but morally monstrous and now there is emerging a super con within some or life rubric of growth which gives hope for the attainment of a areal areal areal real civilization That seems to be Mr Hoards Beards main idea advanced through his Narcissus The Ascent Ascent As As- cent of Humanity The Social Substance of Religion Science In Inthe Inthe inthe the Making and other books bookS' lie He Is forty forty eight years old CambridGe Cambridge Cam Cam- bridge bred a small alert man with eager blue eyes and blonde hair At Al the risk of 01 being too flippant flippant flip flip- pant It may be observed that beIs heis lie he lieIs Is one of the thc main Intellectual spark plugs of England today Illand He lie and Mr Huxley were the guests of Mrs Leonard Elmhirst 1172 Park avenue They will w start collaboration tion lion on a book on their western trip Scientific War Cur Curn Curve e. e BUT when It comes to prophesy prophesy- prophesying ing heres here's Professor PHI Pitirim rim A. A of Harvard also in the news who has maintained that neither a man nor a nation can lift the veil ven beyond today or tomorrow As the head of the Harvard department department de de- de of sociology he says a great deal of sociology is hokum or just a clerical exercise I Currently he catches national attention attention at at- with his report on wars The first quarter of this century he finds was the bloodiest period in all history Supplementing researches researches researches re re- searches which he conducted in 1933 with General N. N N. N Golovin he offers offers of of- I fers the first scientific war curve covering wars from the he year B B. B C C. C The World war was eight times bigger than all oil the rest rolled into one Professor Is 15 no merll merely bookish b student of wars nars In the thc kick-back kick of 01 war he was Jailed sentenced and awaiting the firing squad That was In Russia where he had bad opposed the Bolsheviks Previously Pre he had been arrested once for being too conservative and once for being too radical Lenin saved land his bis life Ute on condition that he leave the country lie He came here in 1923 joined the Harvard faculty and In 1930 became an American citizen Looking over the Martian box score he says to believe in peace is to believe in miracles While he heIs heis heis is much gloomier about the future than Mr Heard he has written one sentence which seems to put them for the moment at least on common common com com- mon man ground He lie demands a liberation liberation lib lib lib- of imagination Intuition and speculation from the prison chains of the fact finders C O Consolidated New Ne Feature Service |