The Washington times., 1933-01-19

arLBERT sELDEs I have heard that Jack johnson
once knocked muchtoued opponent into the lap of the
writer who had shouted too loudly that johnson would
be defeated but in most the athlete and the critic
do not interact closely The hockey player is ndif-
to f e by he Hsrvard Fs Aec
sociation which only sensitive about the language OF
radio announcers.
lust a Racket
they treat it with kind of ndugent contempt. 1t must
be 20 years since baseball players held up for the
veneraon of the multitude as giants OF brain power ana
masters of psychology since then they have been either
good baseball players paookas Instead OF Pulitzer
or Nobel prize they get award for being the most
useful member of a team, without any moral flubdub
about promoting the wholesomeness of American life
the spirit of international solidarity And the writers
attack ther problems in the spirit They give you
technical analysis OF the strokes OF Iden not lec-
ture on his art.
have been told that there is deep moral overtone
in game of hockey and very little aesthetic significance
in baseball. My experience suggests that morality and
art also lacking in 90 out of 100 books issued per
month Only the habits of literary criticism are hard
to overcome and it isn't polite say that John Author
has written another book out of which he hopes to make
$4,000 although the book isn't worth 10 cents That
would be against union rules and not at all chubby.
In 2O33A, = <-<
Of the ten contributors to the Cosmopoitan picture
of life hundred years from now only one H. G. Wells
is openly discouraged, and, not being able to contem-
hope. Mr.. Wells is the oldest and most successful
professional prophet now in business when ne says
that the chances there will be little educa
ton in the world in generation so" he commands
respect; when he goes to describe what education
may and should be like hundred years on, he dis
closes of the for the persistence of civza
tion-that people cannot bear to believe their own
worst forebodngs. s'
. think that most of the Cosmopoitans contributors
are not as sad Bertrand Russell, who, foreseeing
the persistence of the family tie says that he is fore
telling not what he hopes but what he expects
adding, 81 have passed the age where expect the
world to develop according to my own wishes"
Chase and Huxley
Chase and Julian Huxley, writing economics and
science clearly and compactly they always write
Both Of them give an alternative to the prophecy
Chase says that hundred years from may be
living the level of ancestors three hundred years
ago, or-and with Maynard Keynes he bets this
may have solved the whole economic problem en-
tirely, living without the fear of poverty illness,
hunger obessness and all the other economic pleasures
of the present.
Similarly Huxley believes that SCIENCE including the
great science of biology, will become either the
shackled slave of political and economic masters
he hopes for thishe controlling factor in lives
relieving of burdens suffer now because we
haven't begun to discover how to live. If Wells black
fears justified both Chase and Huxley will lose
their betsand will not be any too pleased to collect
admire the editor of the Cosmopolitan for gather
ing a symposium on life century from at time
months or grocers bill next Friday The idea that
our chldren Children in the third and fourth genera
tons will exist in sort of orderly society is one
tnat seldom occurs to us. We a little too busy
Wrlnglng our hands over disasters.