Show A AAA NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton parlon F prophet who predicted V U S trailer craze NEW YORK the reporters gave due attention to aldous huxley when he came in from england recently but they overlooked his interesting companion gerald heard british author critic and broadcaster mr heard is a prophet and philosopher os which hot news perhaps but the ship news men probably would have run him down had they recalled that in 1923 he quite definitely predicted the trailer craze he has an uncanny way of putting two and two together not necessarily a house and an automobile which has made him a star of both the british broadcasting and forecasting companies so to speak his fortnightly radio program this surprising world has long been an important feature the huxley heard team in step here on an important enterprise is not impelled by the european propaganda surge they expect to go about quietly and the fact is it would take a man me like the late william james to report their mission properly 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 psychologists 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 wire tolls and no wear and tear on the typewriter mrs air heard is not identified with fuzzy pseudo science and it Is as an intellectual and not as a mystic that he does his prophesying he is rated in england as one of the most important liaisons between science and psychology and it is with w ith the reserve of the scientist that he has examined psychic phenomena in his numerous books he has traced a continuing pattern of psychological ch not physiological evolution there was the pre individual the individual intellectually effective I 1 but morally monstrous and now there is emerging a super con ness within some life or bained rubric of growth which gives hope for the attainment of a real civilization that seems to be mr hoards heards main idea advanced through his narcissus the ascent of humanity the social substance of religion science in the making and other books ile he is forty eight years old cambridge bred a small alecil alert man with eager blue eyes and blonde hair at the risk of being too lip pant it may be observed that he is one of the main intellectual spark plugs of eng england land today ile he and mr mi huxley were the guests of mrs leonard elmhirst hirst 1173 1172 park avenue they will start collaboration on a book on their western trip 0 0 0 scientific war curve B OUT UT when it comes to prophesy L heres professor ing pitirim A of harvard also in the news who has maintained that neither a man nor a nation can lift the veil beyond today or tomorrow As the head of the harvard department part ment of sociology he says a great deal of sociology is hokum or just a lie clerical cical exercise currently he catches national attention with his report on wars the first quarter of this century he finds was the bloodiest period in all history supplementing researches which he conducted in 1933 with general N N golovin he offers the first scientific war curve covering wars from the y year ear B C the world war was eight times bigger than all the rest rolled into one professor is no merely bookish student of wars in the kickback kick back of war he was jailed se sentenced and awaiting the firing bring squad that was in russia where he had opposed the bolsheviks previously he had been arrested once tor for being too conservative and once for or being too radical lenin saved his life on condition that he leave the country ile he came here in 1923 joined the harvard faculty and in 1930 became an american citizen looking over the martian box score lie he says to believe in peace is to believe in miracles while he is 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 ground he demands a liberation of imagination intuition and speculation from the prison chains of the fact finders a consolidated news rea feature tures WN U service |