Show WHO S NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton i prophet who predicted U S trailer craze IN NEW EW 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 wm him down had they recalled that in 1923 he quite definitely predicted the trailer craze ile he has an uncanny way of putting M 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 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 wh which ic h have been the sensation of the year among ps psychologists y 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 pseudo science and it is as an intellectual and not as a mystic that he does his prophesying ile he is rated in england as one of the most important liaisons between science and psychology and it is i s with the he reserve of the he scientist that hat he be has examined psychic phenomena in his numerous books he ha has traced a continuing pattern of psychological ch not physiological evolution there was the pre individual the individual intellectually effective 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 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 alert man with eager blue eyes and blonde hair wt at the risk of being to too flippant it may be observed that h he 11 is one of the main intellectual intellects a ll spark plugs of england today he and mr huxley were the guests of mrs leonard elmhirst 1172 park avenue they will start collaboration on a book on their heir western trip scientific tic I 1 war vl curve B OUT UT when it comes to prophesy ing heres professor pitirim A of harvard also in the news P who has maintained that I 1 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 clerical exercise currently he be 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 wi with th general N N golovin he offers the first scientific war curve e covering wars from the year 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 sentenced and awaiting the firing squad that was in russia where he had opposed the bolsheviks previously he had been arrested once for being too conservative and once tor for being too radical lenin saved his life on condition that he leave the country he came here in 1323 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 Is fa much gloomier about the future than mr heard he has written one sentence which seems to put them tor 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 0 consolidated news new features service |