The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-06-03
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WHO'S NEWS
THIS WEEK..
Bvlemuel F. Parton
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Prophet Who Predicted u. s.
Trailer Craze.

Prophet Who Predicted u. s.
Trailer Craze.
NEW YORK.-The reporters
1 gave due attention to AL
dous Huxley when he came in
from England recently, but
they overlooked his interesting
companion, Gerald Heard, Brit
ish author, critic and broad
caster.
Mr.. Heard is a prophet and phil
osopher, which isn't hot news per-
haps, but the ship news men prob
ably would have run him down had
they recalled that, in 1923, he quite
definitely predicted the trailer
craze.
He has an uncanny way of putting
two and two t0gether-nOt necessar-
lily house and an automobile
which has made him a star of both
the British brOadcasting and fore
casting 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 prop
uganda surge. They expect to go
about quietly, and the fact is it would
take man like the late William
James to report their mission prop
erly. After trip west, they will
check at Duke university on those
startling experiments and findings
in telepathy which have been the
sensation of the year among psy-
biologists.
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. He
is rated in England as one of the
most important iaisons between
science and psychology, and it is
with the reserve of the scientist that
he has examined psychic phenOm-
ena.
In his numerous books, he has
traced continuing pattern of psy-
Geological, not physiological, evolu-
ton. There was the pre-individual,
the individual, Intellectually effec-
tive but morally monstrous," and
now there is emerging a super-con-
seriousness, within some life-or-
dained rubric of growth, which
gives hope for the attainment of
real civilization. That seems to be
Mr.. Heard's main idea, advanced
through his ''Narcissus," ''The As
cent of Humanity" 'The Social
Substance of Religion" Science in
the Making" and other books.
He is forty-eight years old, Cam
bridge bred, small, alert man
with eager blue eyes and blonde
hair. AT the risk of being too flip
pant, it may be observed that he
is one of the main intellectual
spark plugs of England today. He
and Mr.. Huxley were the guests of
Mrs. Leonard EImhirst, 1I72 Park
avenue. They will start collabOra-
ton on book on their western
trip.
Scientific War Curve.
PUT, when it comes to prophecy
- ing, here's Professor Pitiy;n A.
Sorokin of Harvard, also in the
news, who has maintained that
neither a man nor a nation can lift
the veil beyond today or tomorrow.
AS the head of the Harvard de-
partment of sociology, he says a
great deal of sociology is hokum or
just clerical exercise"
Currently, he catches national at
tention with his report on wars. The
first quarter of this century, he
finds, was the ''bloodiest period in
all history" Supplementing re-
searches which he conducted in 1888
with General NJ N. Golovin, he of
fers the first scientific war curve,
covering 902 wars from the year
500 B. c. The World war was eight
times bigger than all the rest rolled
into one.
Professor Sorokin is no merely
b00kish student of wars. In the
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 for being too radical. Lenin
saved his life on condition that he
leave the country. He came here in
1928, joined the Harvard faculty,
and in 1880 became an American
citizen.
Looking over the Marian box
score, he says to believe in peace
is to believe in miracles. While he
is much gloomier about the future
than Mr.. Heard, he has written one
sentence which seems to put them,
for the moment at least, on COM
mon ground. He demands, ga lib
Grafton of imagination, intuition and
speculation from the prison chains
of the fact finders"
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