Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-06-03

WHO'S NEWS
THIS We

By Lemuel F. Parton
Prophet Who Predicted U. s..
Trailer Craze.

NEW YORK.-The reporters
~ 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 1928, he quite
definitely predicted the trailer
craze
He has an uncanny way of putting
two and two t0gether-not necessar-
lily a 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 60
about quietly, and the fact is it would
take a man like the late William
James to report their mission prop
erly. After a 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 p~rophesying. He
is rated in England as one of the
most important liaisOns between
science and psychology, and it is
with the reserve of the scientist that
he has examined psychic phenom-
ena
In his nero books, he has
traced a continuing pattern of psy-
Geological, not physiological, evolu-
ton. There vas 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 a
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, a 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 Elmhirst, 1172 Park
! avenue. They will start collabOra.
ton on a book on their western
l trip.
. Scientific War Curve.
QUT, when it comes to prophesy.
II ing, here's Professor Pitirim A
Sorokin of Harvard, also in the
news, who has maintained tina
neither a man nor a nation a lf
the veil beyond today or tomorrow
AS the head of the Harvard de
partment of sociology, he says
great deal of sociology is hokum o.
just a "clerical exercise"
+ Currently, he catches national at
= tention with his report on wars. Thu
s first quarter of this century, HI
. finds, was the "bloodiest period il
all history" Supplementing re
= searches which he conducted in 1913
= with General N. N. Golovin, he of
fers the first scientific war curve
covering 902 wars from the yea
500 B. C. The World war was eigh
times bigger than all the rest rollet
into one.
o Professor Sorokin is no merel.
" boOkish student of wars. In tn
kick-back of war, he was Jailed
sentenced, and awaiting the firm
squad. That was in Russia, wher
he had opposed the BOlsheviks
Previously he had been ~arreste'
once for being too conservative an
once for being too radical. Lenil
saved his life on condition that h
leave the country. He came here i
1923, joined the Harvard faculty
and in 1880 became an America
If citizen.
le Looking over the Marian bo
le score, he says to believe in peac
y is to believe in miracles. While h
" is much gloomier about the futur
II than Mr.. Heard, he has written on
e sentence which seems to put them
u for the moment at least, on CON
&c &c mon ground. He demands, "a Liz
y. Grafton of imagination, intuition an
speculation from the prison chain
8 of the fact finders"