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Gamble
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RITCHIE CALDER
*Y Dear Stanley-You
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question the other night, when we were playing cards. But you never got an answer because everybody laughed and you went off in a huff.
While you were looking on, someone made a remark that Aunt Prue was "a regular genius at cards."
And you asked "Why do people Stubbs Rd. worship geniuses?'
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Then Aunt Prue cald, Stanley, you make me blush! " Which everybody except you thought was funny,
Later, after, the game, your father found me shuffing and dealing out hand after hand al cards.
"I'm trying to answer Stanley's question," I said. But he did not see the polit. Perhaps it did sound a bit crazy. but I shall try to explain to you now.
Shumic full pack of cards and, dealing fairly, try to deal thirteen cards of the same suit, and the Joker, into one hand,
If you have a "genius" for maths (which I certainly have not you might calculate the odds
against it happening; it must be
millions-to-one.
Now, that "Grand slam." plus the joker, is not a bad description of "genius."
Do you remember mo telling you how the characteristics of one generation are handed on to the next, so that you have your mother's brown eyes and your father's curly hair, and so on? How you "take'after your mother" in liking literature and the theatre. while you are going to be tall like your father?
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ELL, the way in which these "characteristics" are dealt out from one generation to another rather like cards.
has Your father blue eyes, but your mother "trumped that card because brown eyes are a "dominant" characteristic.
in another letter to his godson Stanley
13 are dealt to the "hand" of their son-plus a joker which no' one can account for.
That son has all the qualities of a brilliant artist (thirteen cards of the one suit, a rare enough chance) plus "something." But just as the joker would be out of place in bridge, it would be out of place in conventional art-liko Epstein's treatment of "Rima,"
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UT-and is not this the
answer to your question? -must we worship a "genius" becauso Nature has dealt him a whole suit, has handed him every trick?
Or do you agree with ma in ad- miring the person who with a poor hand takes as many tricks possible?
DS
That, in the Game of Lite, Is using your talents to the utmost.
Anyway, getting away from cards, it seems to me that this "genius" business is overdone.
Just as there are a lot of faked "Old Masters" there is a lot of faked "genius" about, We are always being told that So-and-so'
Made
conscious," or because he turns a cine-camera or the history-books upside down.
People do not understand what they are after, so they apologise for their own "Ignorance" by think- ́ing them geniuses.
Let us assume there is a Alm- Ģenlus, we are told, can- genius." not be suppressed. It will find ex- pression. Suppose that "flm- genius" had been born two hun- dred years ago, when there were no cameras, no studio-carpenters to make his sots, no nothing.
Would he have invented cameras, mado his own studio sets, played his own historic characters in the
through absenco,
Nature's aluggardness, of Charles Laughton and George Arllas?
So that genius, surely, demands not only the thirteen cards and the Joker, but the additional good luck of being born at the right time and in the right circumstances.
The thirteen cards. I suggested, should be in the same sult. Genius invariably develops in one direc- tion, and in one sphere only.
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THE only exception I can call to mind was Leon- ardo da Vinci, a univer-
sal genius.
He painted "The Last Supper" and the "Mona Lisa,” two of the world's greatest pictures. But he was also a sculptor, a brilliant mualetan, a great mathematician,
Suppose we assume that to be a brilliant artist needs thirteen char- acteristics-being able to draw, being able to mix colours, having a - sense-of-light-and-shade and-10~~la à-"Ilterary genius "er-an,"artis-architect and angineer.
on-and that these are cards all of one suit.
The mother has been "deal" (by her parents) the Aco, Queen, Knave, 8, 7, 6 and "deuce," while the father holds the King, 10, 0, 6, 4 and 3. And by lucky chance those,
tic genius" or a "Alm-genius," just because he (or she) writen in a style which looks as though a chimpanzee had sat down at a typewriter and thumped the keys, or paints a poached egg on toast and calls it "Sunrise in the Sub-
He evolved a flying-maching; he. built fortifications; "he wrote pro- linically; he organised pageants; he was a chemist who invented his own pigments.
Maybe the chemists would not. call him a genius because." Tho
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DEFORE a young man takes up an
occupation or
Faradays
"if you take all thiroon tricks, you are a bottor man than gonius."
Last Supper." on which he experi- monted began to decay within 50 years and is only preserved with difficulty to-day. But he was more. He was a fine agure of a man, handsome enough to be a film-star to-day (one of the Clark Gable type of "geniuses "). His fingers, which had such a gentle touch on musical instruments, could break a horse-shoe.
The very "Ace" of geniuses! Yet he was the son of an obscure notary and a servant giri. And in his descendants the cards were well shuffled.
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•HICH bringa me to an- Pick out other point.
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anyone whom time has confirmed as a genius-Leonardo, hakespeare, Faraday, Edison- and with very rare exceptions they came from obscure parentage and humble stock.
"One can never tell where the lightning will strike," says Prom: fessor Furmas, of Yale University, warning those who say that the poor are poor because of their low intelligence and should not be al- lowed to have children.
The Americans, who like to put a yard-measure to everything, have given "genius" the "Intelligence Quotient" (the paychologist's unit of measurement) equal to what we should call exceptionally high in- telligence.
And Groy and Moshinsky, -British-investigators, have shown. that in this country "Two-thirds of those gifted. Individuals como from clementary schools and no less than 70 per cent, are of wake- earning parentage."
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B, however, we are not 50 ilteral minded as the Americans, we should not call that "genius." It leaves out that "something "-my "foker."'
Dr. Alexia Carrel, one of the world's greatest scientists, de- scribes that "something" 1.9 D "sort of clairvoyance,' which has its first real opportunities of means "second-sight."
profession he gives The Right Sport for getting rusty if left to look after
the matter very careful consideration.
clding
the Right Age
By PROFESSOR WILLIAM G. ANDERSON, M.D.
There is no scientific explana-
He also found that geniuses were...
situation, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been able to pre- sent_n_Budget which does not involve a single penny in addi- tional indirect taxation. Income Tax is increased in accordance with expectations, whilst I somewhat complicated but seem- ingly well-justified source of re- venue has been found in the Growth of Profits Tax, which is regarded as a temporary mea- sure whereby businesses which are making large profits will contribute to the national de- fence expenditure. This will be based on actual profits or on a He is interested in his work, of
Swimming is perhaps the one sport on how they are dealt the joker,. percentage of capital employed course, but he must go further and
that may be indulged in at all how they acquire that clairvoy.. periods of life. Every child should ance. There is certainly no proof by these concerns. It is obvious consider whether he is mentally and physically suited to it. A man with
be taught to swim. At Yale. they that "genius" is passed on to that Mr. Chamberlain has been
a tendency to varicose veins, for in-
have a rule that a man cannot their descendants. graduate until he has learned to Havelock Ellis traced the history at pains to avoid placing any stance, would be foolish to attempt police work, and a man with no head
swim. The
annual loss of life and familles of 975 eminent men additional burden on the masses; for figures would be advised to leave
through inability to swim is appall and showed that it was not. bookkeeping his methods of financing.
alone,
But the amount of swimming ing. But before we take up a sport or
Parents who discourage climbing and the style will vary with the age. In most cases, social misaits. One: based on the sound economic a new game, do we give it the same should consider this aspect of the You may not shine as a fancy hundred and sixty of them were principle that the broadest factors As
consideration?
a rule, the de- maiter. Of course, dangerous feats diver unless and, overdoing it will time and many more escaped im- start young, but, imprisoned for various lengths of with regard to any should be discouraged, but odd on the other shoulders should bear the hea- game are expense and pleasure. The torn pair of trousers is not much in result in weakened heart. Swimining prisonment by seeing the country. viest burdens. An analysis of most important aspect, physical and comparison with your buy's well-races should be confined to the period. In 67 cases he found that the mental well-being, is rarely consl-being: and the more skilful he be between 16 and 40, according to your fathers were wastrels, shiftless. the expectations on which the dered. That is why some men dig comes the less he will tear.
physical development. After 40, Chancellor has drawn up his thers, although they spend many up boxing, If his sight is good and tuning up every muscle in the body,
graves with golf clubs, and From 21 to 30 a man should tako swimming la stil an Ident exercise idle, brutal or otherwise neglected, plans for meeting the unpreced-hours playing, never feel any better he enjoys it. Boxing is a magnif- but it must be done in moderation. ented situation
cent sport for hardening the body. You can still enjoy a swim at 70, if demonstrates for It.
The commonest mistake is to play and this is the ideal age, not only
ARDS would be un- the amazing flexibility of Bri- the wrong game at the wrong age, because the body matures, but also you go about it the right way.
Water pole, which is the sporting tish finance, and the whole Bud-Each one of the popular sports is because it is now capable of taking development of swimming, is losing
interesting -ir Bvery. player were dealt a full get provides yet another demon- especially suited to a particular age, hard knocka with impunity. Amateur its popularity in the United States,
Cricket for instance, Is in many boxery
any boxers do not get "punished" in the owing to the roughness that seems eult. The world would be a terrible stration of Mr. Chamberlain's ways the ideal game for boys be same way 08 professionals, but inevitable. In some colleges It is pince if it were made up entirely of
veen the ages of 14 and 21. during nevertheless tween
competitive boxing banned altogether.
poets, prima donnas; päinters, and skill and ability as a Chancellor the years the body develops tre- should not be indulged in between Football is another game that is professors. They would drive each of the Exchequer who can point mendously, and it is essential that youths whose ages and physical de- losing its popularity in the United other into the madhouse over there should be a plentiful blood-velopment are widely separated. States owing to the danger. All a proud record. He has
supply, atimulated by a mind that Because two young men both weigh lovers of sport regret the terrible that invisible line between genius.
and, madness. coped with an unusual situation is intensely interested. Cricket calls nine stone that does not mean they accidents which acem inevitable
No, it
in more,, fun playing-a under the American code, and by sound methods and without for concentration, provides exclte- are well-matched.
ment. It teaches sportsmanship, and
think that in two or three years the mixed hand, doing the best you can resort to dangerous experiments. It is the ideal game for turning the No Tennis Widows
place of football will have been with the talents you have got.
"And, if you take all thirteen: taken by basket-ball or the Rugby There is nothing in the Budget boy Into the man.
After thirty, tennis becomes the code. I consider Rugby bootball on tricks, you are a better man than proposals which seems likely to The Urge To Climb. ··· ideal game for a period, for several excellent game for men between 18
reasons, perhaps the most important
and 30,
Your affectionate godfather, interfere with the process of There is, unfortunately, no ideal is that the majority of men are
RITCHIE CALDER. and reassuring to feel that the 14. I recommend climbing for boys with their domestic arrangements
After 40 o man may begin to think nation is so well able to bear the and girls between these ages. Rock- than other games. You hear of golf Sanitary, Hoating &
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climbing and rope-climbing streng- widows, cricket widows, and football about golf, and he can go on play- unusual drain caused by the re-thens the muscles of the torso, legs, widows, but there are no tennis ing it as long as he likes, provided From another point of his heart is sound and he realises NIGHT, WEEK-END No. 28028 armament programme without hips, and arms, and I think that the widows.
which view, tennis provides all the exercise that 36 holes a day, which is nothing in any wise jeopardising its passion for tree-climbing
often develops during these years is that a man needs, and it gives mental to a middle-aged man, may be financial stability,
stimulation at an age when the brain
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