Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1930, Page 81

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 3, 1930. - Will Baby "Lindy ™ Be an Eagle Like His Famous Dad: The Chances Are Ten to One Against 1It, Says Dr. Arthur Frank Payne, Noted Psvchologist, Who Thinks the “‘Flying Colonel’s’” Son Is More Apt to Be a College Professor. BY CAROL BIRD. £€ HANCES are ten to one that Lind- bergs, Jr., will not be an aviator. “Aviation most certainly will not be his vocation, though it can be said with equal certainty that # will be his avocation. “The chances are very great that he will be & greater man than his father, even though he may never perform the dramatic deeds of his parent. The greatest men of the world today are known only to & small circle. Lind- bergh’s son will be of that type. “It is quite likely that Lindbergh, Jr., will be & professor in the Aviation Research Depart- ment of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology. “If he is an only child he will take on the eharacteristics of an only child, which are all bad characteristics, and he will be a marked boy, ‘Lindbergh’s boy,’ not an individual in his ewn right.” Basing his deductions on knowledge of the heritage of the small new son of this nation’s most illustrious fiyer, Dr. Arthur Prank Payne, well known psychologist, made, among others equally interesting, these predictions on the future of thé world’s “spotlight baby.” 'OUNG LINDBERGH’S advent into this muddled world on his mother’s 24th birth- day, Sunday afternoon, June 22, af' the home of his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, in Englewood, N. J., where his famous parenfs were married on May 27, 1929, was an event of international interest. Throughout the world people are now con- fecturing about the possible future of the seven-and-three-quarters-pound baby boy, whose father performed one of the most spec- Sacular flying feats in the history of the age, winning world-wide acclaim. Paris, France, where on one never-to-be-for- gotten day in the Spring of 1927 the baby’s father landed at Le Bourget Field with the simple announcement, ‘I'm Charles Lindbergh,’ after a flight across the Atlantic made in 33 hours and 29 minutes, has already adopted into its affections “Baby Lindbergh,” as they are toasting him in homes, restaurants and other public places. Son of the world’s renowned fiyer-hero, Col. Oharles Lindbergh, and of Anne Morrow, poet, fiyer, daughter of a millionaire statesman, and enly grandchild of Dwight W. Morrow, United States Ambassador to Mexico and Republican nominee for United States Senator from New Jersey, the Lindberghs’ first baby was bound $0 be in the limelight from the moment of his birth. Fame, great wealth and family distinction are his by heritage, and this triple combination assures for him a place in the sun or, at any rate, one in the spotlight of public interest, where both his parents have, though more or less reluctantly, held a prominent place for several years. Ever since, because of Col. Lindbergh's flying history and the fact that even before the birth of Baby Lindbergh, who has been named Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., his parents flew nearly 30,000 miles, including 7,000 miles over the jungles of South America, it was the generally accepted hunch that the Lindbergh son and heir would be certain to follow in the footsteps, or rather the airways, of his illus- trious dad. Now comes an eminent psychologist with the opinion that Lindbergh, Jr., will not be a fiyer, but a college “professor! Dr. Payne makes no hasty prophecy, but ar- rives at his conclusions after a careful study of the environmental and inheritance factors— chiefly inheritance—which figure in the future of the world-famous baby; the Lindbergh-Mor- row blood strain in his veins; the personalities, characteristics and conduct of his parents and & study of the background of his ancestors. Dr. Payne is personnel officer, assistant pro- fessor and director of the personnel bureau of the College of the City of New York and a elinical psychologist, registered under the New York State law. He was formerly an executive in the labor and employment division, United States Army Ordnance Department, and con- sulting psychologist, United States Veterans’ Bureau With such a background of knowledge, Dr. Payne’s prediction or prophecy regarding the future of “Lindy’s” son carries thg weight of authoritative analysis. It is not guesswork, a seer's magic forecast nor yet a peering into the stars, but a scientific study of the combined factors which might be expected to determine the babe’s destiny. He declares that “the determining factor in the child’s make-up will be its inheritance.” Baby Lindbergh, who is not to be a profes- slonal aviator, according to Dr. Payne, has, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr., son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, meets his first news photographer with supreme indifference as nations of the world drink his health. nevertheless, an interesting future before him, marked by good fortune and distinction. The only dark cloud on the horizon will appear if he remains an only child. The psychologist remarks in passing: “I¢t is & great misfortune to be born the son of a great man,” though he says in Baby Lind- bergh's case this fact will be offset and miti- gated by other happy circumstances. m’l‘hh is the way Dr. Payne outlines the baby’s ture: “Fma'r of all, the public will think that the Lindbergh baby is to be a great fiyer. ‘They will think of this little boy as Lindbergh’s The “Flying Colonel,” at 14 months of age, o likeness which Charles, jr., in his waking moments, quite markedly re- sembles. baby and not as Anne Morrow's. But we do not know yet whose baby it is: whether it will reflect it%s father's or its mother’s personality. We do not know yet what proportion he has inherited of the trails of the father, mother or grandparents, “Furthermore, the general public will think of the pre-natal influence. Many people, in- cluding physicians and mothers, will be of the opinion that just hecause that baby traveled a good many thousands of miles in a plane before he was born that he almost ought to have wings. But we know today that pre-natal in- fluence has nothing whatever to do with the qualities of mind of that child. “THE determining factor in the child’s make-up will be its inheritance. Of course, there is no denying that he has a very fine inheritance. “Anne Morrow, his mother, has shown all the stable qualities, the characteristics, the per- sonality traits that we like to see in the woman, wife and mother of today. She has taken an interest in her husband’'s job and has parti- cipated in it with him. “And the character of Dwight W. Morrow, his mother's father, as a statesman is well known. Further, you get exactly the qualities in the grandfather and in the mother that we would like to see in all children. “As regards the Lindbergh strain, there is good quality and equal fineness there, although it is of a different type. Lindbergh’'s mother has exhibited excellent qualities in her modesty, her loyalty and in the fact that she is, at her age, self-supporting. It is interesting enough to one who believes in the dominance of in- heritance to know that Lindbergh’s mother is teaching chemistry and physics in a technical high school—one with a very good reputation. “Regarding Lindbergh, the father, and con- sidering him for the time being without the halo of romance which the enthusiastic Amer- ican public immediately cast over him for his undeniably great flying feat, we find that in his manner and behavior he was just as great and just as fine before he crossed the Atlantic and landed on Le Bourget Field. “His flight from St. Louis, his quiet deter- mination which made it possible for him to get the backing of hard-headed business men in that romantic gamble of his, were all admir- able accomplishments and qualities. “He flew across the Atlantic, it is true, and there was a very great element of luck in it, but by taking into account every possible ele- mer t in the situation Lindbergh reduced that element of luck. His behavior immediately after his flight and his arrival in Paris was controlled, some of us thought, Ly Ambassador Herrick, but his conduct since that time, when no one has had the chance to control him, has been equally great. “Lindbergh cares nothing whatever for front- page publicity. He does not want to have his picture taken. He does not care to pose for the ‘talkies’ He has nothing to say and he wants to be let alone to do his work. “From the standpoint of a psychologist, one of Lindbergh’'s greatest feats was performed at the time when he made a crash landing with his wife, then his flancee, during their court- ship in Mexico City. “While taking off from the open field where they had just finished their picnic luncheon, the right landing wheel of the plane dropped off. As neither had a parachute, there was no alternative but to return to the flying field and face the risk of landing on one wheel. “During this crucial time Col. Lindbergh soared over the fleld, leaning out through the window of the cockpit and waving his arm to inform Mexican aviators on the ground of the missing wheel and to giye them a chance to prepare for a smash-up. But first he padded suitcases and all the cushions available about his future wife in the cabin to protect her when the crash came, and he told her pre- cisely what to do. “Then, with all the skill of which he was master, he guided the plane cautivusly and made the best landing possible. The pilane rolled more than 100 feet along the ground, bumping on its one wheel and tip of a wing, coming to a stop and tipping over. “Col. Lindbergh sustained a dislocated shoul- der, but his fiancee came out uninjured. He had thought first of her safety, he had pro- tected her in so far as possible, covered her up, warned her. And it was at this time also that the true characteristics of the man and woman, parents of this baby boy, showed up clearly, for the very next day Lindbergh, with his arm bound to his side, and his fiancee, Anne Mor- row, took a flight in the same plane in which they had had the accident before and which had since been repaired. “All of these things show the inheritance of this baby. “ENVIRONMENT does play a part, some= times large, sometimes small, Psycholo- gists, especially clinic psychologists, think tha¢ inheritance plays 70 per cent and environment 30 per cent. “Now, undoubtedly,.if this is the only child that the Lindberghs have, he will take on the characteristics of an only child, which are all bad characteristics. He is also the only grand- child in the family, both of which facts offer a great handicap to & young man who is taking his first Jook at this complicated world of ours. Much will depend upon the wisdom of the grandparents and the parents. “Rest assured that Lindbergh will make a good father. He will let that child alone. The danger comes in the doting grandparents and in the adulation that he will receive because he happens to be Lindbergh's boy. “It is a great misfortune to be born the som of a great man. A sense of strangeness and a sense of being different from his fellows is bound to develop. In this ca:> we feel that the sterling inheritance and the untainted blood line that has brought forth this child will over- come any of these environmental factors. “Psychologists congratulate the Lindberghs, but offer the devout wish, for the sake of the boy, that within two years he will have & brother or a sister, and that a few years later other brothers and sisters. “Every one, of course, is interested iIn whether or not young Lindbergh is going to be an aviator. The chance are 10 to 1 that he’ will not be one, He will consider aviation as a sideline.” (Copyright, 1980.)