The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
-Dietz on Science
DISPELS THEORY
ON MEANING OF
HIGH FOREHEAD
NO Sign Of intelligence,
Expert Says After
Long Study.
BY DAVID DIETZ
Scripps-HoWard Science Editor

PHILADELPHIA, April 27.-A
high brow, contrary to popular be-
lief, does not always indicate high
intelligence
The cavemen of Europe were i'm
migrants from Palestine, where the
human race has an unbroken rec
ord of more than 100000 years.
Modern man, by worry, fear and
too much speed, literally burns up
and destroys some of his brain cells
and shortens his life accordingly.
These were the new and impor-
tant findings Of scientists delivered
at today's session of the American
Philosophical Society, Americas
oldest scientific society, founded by
Benjamin Franklin.
The scientists devoted a session
to a discussion Of man himself. 1t
was held in the room in which the
society has met for more than a
century.
From the walls, portraits Of
George Washington, Benjamin
Franklin, and other pioneer men,
bers of the society looked down
upon the world-famous scientists
gathered there.
Measured Three Groups
The subject of high brows" was
discussed by DR.. Ales Hrdlicha, IA
nous anthropoligist of the Smith
sonian Institution of Washington
For more than twenty years DR..
Hrdlicha has been measuring the
sizes and shapes Of heads as part
of his studies of various racial
groups.
Now, after thirty years, he be-
lieves he has amassed evidence to
prove that the height Of the fore
head has nothing to do with the
individuals intelligence.
DR.. Hrdlicha measured three
groups. A group of "old Ameri-
cans" men whose ancestors for
three generations on both sides had
lived in America.
The second consisted Of north
eastern Tennessee mountaineers,
among the most backward groups
in the nation.
Height Averages Same
The third included members Of
the National Academy of Science,
all world-famous scientists. He
found the average height of fore
heads for all three groups to be the
same.
He found that in general white
women averaged higher foreheads
than white men.
How ancient man migrated into
Europe from the Near East, per-
hapS from Palestine, was described
by DR.. George Grant MacCurdy of
Yale university, who, for forty-two
years, has been director of the
American School of Prehistoric Re-
search in Europe. Recently the
school extended its Investigations
to Palestine.
DR.. McCurdy said ten Neandertal
skeletons have already been found
in Palestine and that the work has
just begun.
Warns Against Worry
THE Neandertal culture in Pal
estine was superior to that of Eu-
rope" he said. This would lead
to the conclusion that the center of
the culture was in Palestine.
THE use of bronze came faster in
the Near East" he said.
There, man jumped directly from
the end of the old stone age, the
So-called Mesolithic Period, in the
bronze age. The so-called new
stone age, such as is found in Eu-
rope, did not occur"
The warning against the terrific
effect of worry and undue haste
upon the human brain was de-
livered by DR.. George w. Grille,
world-famous surgeon of Cleveland.
DIR. Grille, discussed the Develop
ment of the frontal area of the
brain and the thyroid gland which
are greater in man than in any
other animal. The growth of these
organs, he said. increased mans
emotional capacities but also in
creased the potential damage pos
sible by too much emotional ac-
tivity.