Brain Trust

Social workers should include fiction in their homework. Novelists know more about life and are better observers than the serious "workers." So said Miss Lorine Pruette, writer, psychologist, at the meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies--17 scientific bodies specializing in history, economics, sociology.

Some two thousand learned men assembled in Washington, discussed the family, advertising, religion, voting, marketing, business--at various sessions, many held simultaneously; listened to President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley, of Yale, explain that "the only way to get low railroad rates is to attract new capital"; heard Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, of Princeton, Poland's financial savior, warn that it is time to face the probability of currency chaos caused by discovery of synthetic gold; heard Professor William Bennett Munro, of Harvard, urge science in politics, denounce "bawling at the voter"; chuckled when Professor Thomas Sewall Adams, of Yale, described the income tax as a "misplaced ideal"; learned from Dr. Allen Johnson, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, that baseball players and fisticuffers have as good a right in his Dictionary as Congressmen; elected Professor James Henry Breasted, Chicago Orientalist, president of the American Historical Association, James Harvey Robinson, humanizer of knowledge, first vice president; heard various professors explain that the business man must study economics.