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GENIUS is just a Gamble

M

says

RITCHIE CALDER

Y Dear Stanley,-You' asked a question the other night, when we

playing wore

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 worship geniuses? ”

Then Aunt Prue said, "Stanley. you make me blush" Whalell everybody except you thought was funny.

Later, after the game, your father found me shuffling and * draing out hand after. hand at cards.

"I'm trying to answer Stanley's question." I said. But he did not see the point. Perhaps it did sound a bit crazy, but I shall try to explain to you now.

Shuffle n full pack of cards and, dealing fairly, try to deal thirteen eards of the same suit, and the Joker, into one hand,

If you have a "genius" for mulbs (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 ine 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 ilking iterature 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 is rather like cards. Your father has bluo cyes, but your mother "trumped" that card because brown eyes are dominant characteristic.

in another letter to his godson Stanley

13 are dealt into the "hand of their son-plus a joker which no one can account for.

That son has all the qualitles of a brilliant artist (thirteen cards of the one sult, 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-like Epstein's treatment of "Rima."

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UT-and is not this the answer to your question?

must we worship a

" genius " because Nature has dealt him a whole suit, has handed him every trick?

Or do you agree with me in ad- miring the person who with a poor hand takes as many tricks as possible?

That, in the Game of Life, is using your talents to the utmost.

Anyway, getting away from cards, it seems to me that this "genlus" business is overdone.

Suppose we assume that to be a Just as there are a lot of faked brilliant artist needs thirteen char- "Old Masters" there is a lot of ncteristles-being-able--to-draw-fuked-" genius”-about-We-are

being able to mix colours, having a always being told that So-and-so

sense of light and shade and so on-and that these are cards all of one sult,

The mother has been "dealt " (by her parents) the Ace, Queen, Knave, 8, 7, 5 and "deuce," while the father holds the King, 10, 1, 0, 4 and 3. And by lucky chance those,

is a "literary gentus" or an "arlis- tic genius or "film-genius." Just because he (or she) writes 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-

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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- genlus." Genius, we are told, can- not be suppressed. It will find ex- pression. Suppose that "Alm- genius" had been born two hun- dred years ago, when there were no cameras, no studio-carpenters to make his gets, no nothing.

Would he have invented cameras, made his own studio' nets, played his own historic characters in the absence. through Nature's sluggardness, of Charles Laughton and George Arliss?

So that gentus, 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 suit. Genius invariably develops in one direc- tion, and in one sphere only..

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THE only exception I enn 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- musician, a great mathematician, architect and engineer.

He evolved a flying-machine, ho bullt fortifications; he wrote pro- fcally; he organised pageants; he was a chemist who invented his own pigments,

Maybe the chemists would not call him a genius because "Tho

THE GAMES TO PLAY

BEFORE young man takes up an

Faraday's

*If you take all Ihirtoon tricks, you are a bottor than a genius."

man

Last Supper," on which he expert- mented began to decay within 50 years and is only preserved with difficulty to-day. But he was more. He was a flue figure of a man, Handsome enough to be a film-star·· to-day (one of the Clark Gabic type of "genluses "). His fingers. which had such a gentle touch on 'musical instruments, could break

horac-shoc.

The very "Ace" of geniusest Yet he was the son of an obscure notary and a servant girl. And in Jila descendants the cards were well shumed.

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HIGH brings me to an- Pick out other point.

anyone whom time has confirmed as a genius-Leonardo, Shakespeare, 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 Pro- 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 psychologist's unit of measurement) equal to what we should call exceptionally high in- -tolligence.

And Gray and Moshinsky. British Investigators, have shown that in this country "Two-thirds of those gifted individuals como from elementary schools and no less than 70 per cent. are of ward- carning parentage."

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9, however, we are not Go literal minded as the Americans, we should not call that "genius." It leaves out that "something "my Joker."

Dr. Alexis Carrel, onc of tho world's greatest scientists. de- scribes that something" As t of clairvoyance," has its first real opportunities of micans "second-sight."

sort

which

occupation or profession heave The Right Sport for et rusty if left to look after There is no scientific explana-

the matter very careful consideration. He is interested in his work, of course, but he must go further and consider whether he is mentally and physically sulted to it. A man with

tendency to varicose veins, for in- stance, would be foolish to attempt police work, and a man with no head for Ogures would be advised to leave

But But

alone.

This methods of financing are bookke take up a sport or

one of

the Right Age

By PROFESSOR WILLIAM G. ANDERSON, M.D.

Havelock Ellis traced the history and familles of 975 eminent men and showed that it was not.

a rule, the de-maller. Of course, dangerous feats i diver unless, you start young mic and many more escaped im-

From 21 to 20

He also found that genfuses were. In most cases, sociai misfits. One hundred and sixty of them were imprisoned for various lengths of

prisonment by fleeing the country. In 57 casca he found that the fathers were wastrels, shiftless. idle, brutal or otherwise neglected

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itscif.

Swimming is perhaps the one sport tion how they are dealt the joker, how they acquire that clairvoy- that may be Indulged in at all periods of life. Every child shouldance. There is certainly no proof be taught to swim. At Yale they that "genius" is passed on to have a rule that

cannot

their descendants. man has learned to graduate until he swim.

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annual loss of life through inability to swim is appall Insi Parents who discourage climbing and the style will vary

But the.

the amount of swimming with the Bgc. 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 fancy As the broadest consideration? principle that

but, eiding factors with regard to any should be discouraged, but an odd

on the other hand, overdoing it shoulders should bear the hea-kame are expense and pleasure. The torn pair of trousers is not much in resuit in wenkened heurt. Swimming

your boy's well- viest burdens. An analysis of must important aspect, physical and comparison with

races should be confined to the period the expectations on which the mental well-being, is rarely consi- being; and the more skilful he be-between 18 and 40, according to your

dered. That is why some men dig comes the less he will tear.

physical development. After 40, Chancellor has drawn up

his their graves with golf clubs, and

mun should take swimming is still an Ideal exercise,

their families. others, although they spend many up boxing. If his sight is good and tuning up every muscle in the body, plans for meeting the unpreced-hours playing, never feel any better he enjoys it. Boxing in a magnifi- but it must be done in moderation, enteri situation demonstrates for it.

cent sport for hardening the body. You can still enjoy a swim at 70, it The commonest mistake is to play and this is the ideal age, not only you go about 11 the right way. the amazing flexibility of Bri-the wrong game at the wrong age. because the body matures, but also Water pole, which is the sporting the popular sports is because it is now capable of taking development of swimming, is losing Amateur its popularity in the United States, get provides yet another demon-Cricket, for instance, is in many boxers do not get stration of Mr. Chamberlain's ways the Ideal game for boys be same as professionals, but inevitable. In some colleges it is

neverthelesE competitive

boxing banned altogether. during should not be indulged in between skill and ability as a Chancellor tween the ages of 14 and 21,

these years the body develops tre-

Football is

is another game that is of the Exchequer who can point mendously, and it is essential that youths whose ages and physical de- losing its popularity in the United widely separated States owing to the danger. All n plentiful Blood-velopment are a proud record. He has there should be a

supply, stimulated by a mind that Because two young men both weigh coped with an unusual situation is intensely interested. Cricket calls nine stone that does not mean they overs of sport regret the terrible

accide accidents which seem inevitable by sound methods and without for concentration, provides excite are well-matched.

under the American code, and ment. It teaches sportsmanship, and

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place

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taken by basket-ball or the Rugby After thirty, tennis becomes the code. I consider Rugby bootboll an proposals which seems likely to The Urge To Climb Ideal game for a period, for several excellent game for men between 18 interfere with the process of

reasons, perhaps the most important and 30. There is, unfortunately, no ideal is that the majority of men are recovery, and it is comforting game for children between seven and married and tennis fits in better Golf For Middle Age and reassuring to feel that the 14. I recommend climbing for boys with their domestle arrangements nation is so well able to bear the and girls between these ages, Rock-than other games. You hear of golf

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ofien develops during these years is that a man needs, and it gives mental to a middle-aged man, may be à financial stability.

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Itish finance, and the whole Budally suited to a particulur age, bard knocks with mshed" In the owing to the roughness that seems suit. The world would be a terrible

to

way

ARDS would be un- interesting 12 every player were dealt a full place if it were made up entirely of poets, prima donnas, painters, and

Professord. They would drive cach that invisible line between genlus her into the madhouse-over and madness.

No, it is more fun playing a

mixed hand, doing the best you can with the talents you have got.

And, if you take all thirteen tricks, you are a better man than a genius.

Your affectionate godfather,

RITCHIE CALDER,

-To-day's Thought..... GENIUS is ten per cent. aspiration and ninety per cert. exasperation.

Unknown Genius