Evening star., 1948-12-01
stors, Men and Atoms
Tyranny Of Dictotors
Laid to Family Lives
Stain, Hitler and Mussolini Callee
Immature in Bethesda Lecture
By Thomas r. Henry

By Thomas X. Henry
Stain, Hitler and M1ssolini had brutal 70.
theirs and loving mothers.
This accounts largely for the roles they have
played in history DR.. Edward A. Strecker,
University Of Pennsylvania psychiatrist, told
Navy medical officers the other night in a lee
ture at the Medical Research Center at Be-
thesda.
In the case OF Stain, Or. Strecker said, he
has verified this from a Russian brought up
in the same Georgian village, who knew the
family. All three boys happened to be strong
characters Otherwise the beatings and curs-
ings they got from their fathers probably would
have made them fearful Milquetoasts, defeated
In life ut the start. Instead there was built
up an enormous hatred which was bound to
find an outlet somewhere. Any of the three
might have become petty tyrant in his own
family or in the political life of small village.
Emotionally Immature.
Actually fate gave them nations as their
victims. 1t is quite likely DR.. Strecker pointed
out, that all Of them might have been quite
pleasant and generous with their immediate
associates or even with strangers whom they
met as individuals. They had sufhcient OUT
let for their pent-up hostility otherwise.
A further effect OF the brutality Of the IA
theirs, DR.. Strecker said, was that the three boys
were driven more and more to cling to their
mothers. AS result of this they remained
emotionally immature. When in trouble they
would symbolically run to their mothers and
use the same tactics which had gained them
their ends in childhood
This Is we'll illustrated, DR.. Stecker said, BY
the wild temper tantrums Of Hitler, his in
ordinate concern over health. and the like. He
still needed somebody to tell him not to get
his feet wet Probably a tantrum had once
gained him his ends with his weak mother,
and the pattern had become fixed in his per-
sonality.
The general pattern is less clear for Stain
than for either Hitler or Mussolini, DR.. strecker
said, but the testimony of his childhood init
mate, whose name must be kept secret. shows
that 1t had the same genesis
Direct irradiations Of germ cells Of higher
animals produce new varieties Of cattle, sheep
and hogs.
This is announced by Dr.. James H. Jensen,
chief of the biology branch Of the Atomic
Energy Commission
1t is made possible by two Developments
production of radioactive isotopes in the COM
missions plants and the progress Of artificial
dissemination in cattle.
The work, it was explained, undoubtedly
will produce many mutations" the minute
changes in heredity by which new species are
produced. The majority Of the changes will
be for the worse, but some may be expected
to bring definite improvements, DR.. Jensen
said.
Can't Be Made to Order.
Desired changes he said cannot be made to
order. The purpose Of the irradiations will be
to increase enormously the total number of
mutations. few Of which are taking place all
the time in all species, in the hope that some
will bring about more rapid growth disease
resistance, or suitability to definite environ
ment.
widespread improvements in animal breeds
won't happen tomorrow or even the next day"
DR.. Jensen told group of stock breeders" but
we soon will be -. investigating the possibili-
ties of breed improvement on practical basis"
Use Of radioactive isotopes, he said, Ii also
throwing much new light on the essentials of
animal nutrition. Within the past few years
1t has developed that presence or absence Of
extremely minute amounts Of rare elements
in the soil has enormous effects on animal
growth. An example is the supposed lack Of
cobalt in the diet of cattle with about i've
deficient areas in the United States.
In the past it has been almost impossible to
investigate such problems because OF the ex-
tremely small quantities involved. The isotope
technique DR.. Jensen said, makes it possible
to detect thousandth of the amount required
in any other method of chemical analysis.
There seems good evidence, he said, that the
number of elements essential for animal and
human nutrition may be doubled as q result
of Yorpsept invectioo ti0nw