The Washington times., 1920-04-18
A Turtles Eyes Do Not See
Developing the Back Brain Counts in Human Progress
and Makes Life Worth While.

Developing the Back Brain Counts in Human Progress
and Makes Life Worth While.
Among hundred million human beings in the United
States and about fifteen hundred millions living and fight
ing on this earth many do you think need to be
minded Of these hines from the 115th Psalm:
They have mouths but they speak not eyes they
S.y they have they but they
wall. neither ;s s.1 s & s .Iss s.I; A: l 5 have they but they
We see partly with eyes, partly through tele
scopes, through books, all that Mr.. McCays
travelling turtle if he had BRAIN could from the top
Of his comet travelling the artists imagination shows
him here.
school child studying astronomy in fact with
the help of teachers and books million times more than
this travelling turtle could For his lookout the
head of comet he would be able to travel OUT OF
our solar system He might be gone for years. travelling
with hundred thousand times the speed Of an express
train but he would always remain within reach OF our sum-
held and pulled by its power of gravitation.
The turtle travels would be limited to our little group
OF planets this earth fiery Mars with the canals Venus with
her wonderful rings gigantic Jupiter with his many many
moons, distant Neptune and the rest.
Compared with the infinite space in which we live and
travel the journey of this turtle would really be little
see Your Own Nsghborhood First trip. After travelling
the head of coms for thousand he would know
about space and the things that nhab it not
much well-taught boy Of fourteen.
The travelling turtle would e> nothing and know moth
ing of the great nebulae that after billions of years.
condensed into clusters of the center of
system great as our own, or greater would know
nothing about the double and triple that rve around
each other each dragging It's family OF planets With suns
greater than own million times yet invisible the
distance of trion miles that separate us ffo
them.
No matter what he saw however, SEEING would
do this travelling turtle good The EYE is nothing
only the brain behind it that counts Helen Keller the
blind girl whose brain ray of light has entered
SEEN of the world and life and the mysteries Of
both than 80 per cent of all the people that live.
But this is not editorial about astronomy, about
suns million times big earth that look like spots
as small the point of needle in the biggest telescope
This is an editorial reminding the ten million human
beings that the Hearst newspapers each Sunday especial
ly the fathers and mothers that it not merely SEEING
things but developing the brain back of the eye that
COUNTS and makes life worth while.
That he who would bring back information from his
travels must take information with him is true saying
We cannot absorb information the food that makes
the mind grow either home abroad unless have
mind ready receive and understand the pictures that the
eye puts before it.
Many prosperous man sends his son on "the grand
tour SEE the world and finish his education In many
that might well be sent down into the cellar to
spend six months and his dollars. He would as
much in the cellar in Egypt, Paris, or Tmbuctoo
What IS intelligence how can it be developed? The
small picture of four monkey faces this page helps to
the question: by showing what NOT intelligence
For the first time in the history OF men you may see
together under the same roof in the Natural History
Museum in London the five earth animals that highest
in the mental scale
Of the fve the lowest the gbbon Look his face
Being weak, he has thought little monkeys think; he
had to use his feeble brain or die.
Next in intelligence is the orang outang Look at his
face not unlike British judge with wig Being power
full terrific fighter he has thought but little Brute force
and thinking do not travel the same road.
Third is the chmpanzee, most intelligent OF the monkey
tribe quarresome very strong He has thought