The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-05-16

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Gazes on World an old Amer
Without Binders !can custom.
Henry Nor
gonthau Sr., just turned IS, has been
an exception. We haven't seen his
customary chat with the reporters
this year, but when and if it is re-
corded we may be sure he sees what
he sees and isn't trying to slick
things up. Not that he's pessimist
or defeatist I remember meeting
him on Mt Desert Island, Maine, q
few years ago and was tremendous
ly impressed with his faith, ardor
and fighting spirit.
He knows a lot about wars
and trouble. 1t was our Civil
war that brought him here from
his native Mannheim, Germany.
His father was a prosperous
cigar manufacturer. Civil war
tariffs put him out of business
and the family came to this
country when Henry Morgen-
thau was nine years old. He
was a lawyer at %, turned to
real estate and finance, and had
his money-making over at IS,
with time, means and mental
equipment to turn to the human
tiles, to philanthropy and good
works In general. Now he has
q son In the cabinet, children,
grandchildren and great-grand-
children and the unfiagging en-
ergies which arc the reward of
an abstemious life.
II there's a dark side, he isn't
afraid to look at it. He was back
from Europe in 1888 with the simple
conclusion that the world was head
ing into another war. There is,
in Europe" he said, mo honest,
moral desire for peace" In 1918,
his friend Woodrow Wilson made
him ambassador to Turkey, which
post he held until 1916. Thereafter,
he helped pick up the pieces, in
the ruin and chaos of the middle
east. He has been both observing
and studious and unhappily for
easy-going optimists, singularly clear
sighted in his prophetic look ahead.
THERE'S a tale of a professor
who grew old writing a history
Of civilization. Late one night he fin
ished it. Then, after a brief survey
Thorndike Now Of i bis l aTdul
Holds Intelligence Gus labors,
Can't Be Tested he heaved a
great sigh
and threw the history in the fire.
What's the matter?" asked his
wife.
There isn't any civilization" he
replied.
DR.. Edward l.. Thorndike,
author of the famous Thorndike
intelligence test, probably
wouldn't say there isn't any in
telligence, but he does say in
telligence can't be tested, &C
cording to news reports of his
address before the American
Philosophical society at Phila-
delphia. DIR. Thorndike's apos-
tasy no doubt will set up some
new measuring standards.
If we don't learn much, about
keeping out of wars and such, il
isn't DR.. Thorndike's fault. A pro-
fessor at Columbia for 81 years, he
is the author of shelf of books ir
the general field of the psychology
Of learning. He has just about sur.
rounded the subject of How We
Learn" The question of what we
learn seems to be still wide open.
From Williamsburg, Mass, he
went to Wesleyan university, Har
ward and Columbia and taught al
Western Reserve before joining the
Teachers college faculty in 1897
He is 81 years old.
THE word is getting around thai
4 the founding fathers coulC
fight well because they were super
charged with vitamin b.. They ate
Get Courage in bandv am
Bottles, Baskets got the thia
In These Days min OF the B
which is t
be found mainly in roughage.
Prof. Russell M. Wilder of tn,
Mayo foundation is alarmed over ou
shortcomings in this regard H,
says, Continued deficiency of tn,
thiamin content of American diet
may have led to a certain degree o
irremediable deterioration of tn
national will"
His conclusion is one Of many il
which 1t is insisted that we mus
look to the drug store and the gro
Gerry for the real fighting urge
Courage comes in bottles or basket
in these fantastic days.
DR.. Wilder is one of the country
leading specialists on nutrition ant
diseases Of metabolism. Born ant
reared in Cincinnati, he was educat
ed at the University of Chicago. ant
Rush Medical college; practiced il
Chicago and has been with IN,
Mayo foundation since 1922. He wa,
q medical gas officer in the Worlc
war.