New Britain herald., 1922-05-19
|A BOOB AS 4 BOY,
 NOW MEMORY CHAMP
Charles ". Hanley, Indian, Has
 Great Mind

Loa Angeles. May 13.--An Indian 50 dense during his youth that 1t took him ntne years to clcear the fourth grade Is today at 35 the nations memory champion!
 Charles w, Hamley's mental feats astound scientific examiners. Ham ley maintains, and demonstrates at the University Of Southern California and his own ciassrooms here. that any normal being can duplicate his as- founding performances. l Three weeks after learning to think" he had qualified as tho only memory expert with the United States army in France.
 He carried code messages that could not be entrusted to writing. He acted as the memory for his division.
 He mentally inventoried . great railway supply yard in seven hours, without taking note, and corps of army clerks were week in inscrib- ing his information. What He Can Do.
 He can repeat lectures and books verbatim. He can rattle off the iihuice ol IOu iAcH Hc was iHtTouuCeu to last month.
 Professors of the University of Washington, Stanford and U. S. C., say he imbibes in few weeks infor- nation 1t takes the average college student four years to acquire.
 "The secret of my capacity" Ham, ley says. "is to insert mentatl action into whatever I wish to remember,
 q treat names, dates, figures and other distractions as If they were physical objects. fix them by linking them up with fantastic imag- mary adventures. as a child spins a fairy tale, so that I can see them wildly with my minds eye.
 When I want to retain in sequence 100 names, for instance, I see a HEN wearing big plug HAT and turning | to peck at juicy HAM on which | sits a ludicrous RABBIT who pro- ceeds to chase a green COW up the ! HILL over bee HIVE. By this process anyone can remember surpris- ingly we'll.
 Things you yourself have done are easiest to recall. Things you have | seen are next easiest.
 Things read, or acquired second hand, are not 80 intimate or vivid. Hence they must be translated into personal experience by imaginary pie lures and mental action.
 T have literally thousands of long picture chains, embracing a wide range of knowledge, securely tied to my mental htching post, to be re- leased at will."
 He Gives Advice.
 Hamleys own memory hints follow:
 If you want to remember an &C., curate description of a building, men, tally climb 1t like a human spider, each cornice, peering in at the windows, tearing your f1ngernails on the bricks. If you fel the exploit and thrill to it, you'll remember that building in detail always.
 If the name of person isn't inn pressive, substitute familiar and similar name, concentrating for 10 to 20 seconds on the difference and similarly. Mentally file MT. Futile .way as MT. TURTLE, which links Jim to a familiar image. Convert Mrs. Peake into Mrs. MOUNTAIN-a snow-capped like her silver lair
 Try acting out poem with appro- ,riate and exaggerated gestures, and ee how that helps fix and fit the words together.
 Mentally enlarge what you wish to ecall-make it huge; a mouse as big s a moose.
 Every memory expert uses a code 0 recall flgures-a code in which onsonants represent digits. Num- ers are thus translated into words. 'hese codes can be learned In a few avs.