Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1932, Page 12

A—_12 #»» FLYWEGHTFORE RUNSROBDTBRAN Experiments Suogest Amount | of Energy Behind Hu- man Thoughts. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March 10.—A new mechanical brain of steel alloys at | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ! furnishes a suggestive picture of the probable power consumption of the human brain in thinking. One flyweight of force controls the Tobot brain. This apparently may be | about the same amount of force that the human brain uses to initiate | thought. The robot also is suggestive of other well known human processes, such as the ofttimes excessive amount of work needed to carry a thought to com- pletion. The mechanical “thoughts” are only of one kind, the solution of differential | equations. Some of these take hours or even days for the human brain, but the mechanical thinker completes them in a few minutes. It is called the dif- ferential analyzer and is an improved THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 10 MISSING LINK NEVER EXISTED., SAYS INVENTOR OF TELEVISION Dr. C. Francis Jenkins, Famous Scientist, Reveals Hlmself BY REX COLLIER. Dr. C. Prancis Jenkins, noted scien- tist an dtelevision inventor, believes he | has never been found. | “It never existed,” he declared in an ! interesting interview, in which he went | on record as a caustic critic of the Darwinian theory of life. Dr. Jenkins, known the world over for his pioneering work on motion pictures | and on visual telegraphy and broad- casting and reciplent of numerous hon- ors for his researches, revealed himself for the first time in the role of a stu- | dent of evolution. While he does not arbitrarily discard the theory of & gradual development of the species, he objects to the single- cell theory of evolution, because he is convinced that man is not an evolution- ary animal product. | “We do not know how or whence life as Caustic Critic an Theory. study to “bleached bones of question- able origin.” Dr. Jenkins cited the following rea- sons for his conclusion that man's an- | knows why evolution's “missing link" | cestors were not animals: Man invents tools. Man alone uses fire. Man buries his dead. Man has commerce and trade. Man draws pictures, and can read and write. Man is a “spiritual being,” and be- lieves in a life after death. Man worships a power outside him- self, and builds temples and altars for such worship. No animal does any of these things Man is found in all parts of the earth, while every beast, bird, fish and reptile has its particular habitat Man is constantly increasing in num- bers, while no other living things are s0_increasing. Man has a civilization—a civilization developing in exact proportion to the development of his collection of fools. No Cleverer Today. INSTITUTE INVITES FAR EAST ENVOYS | | | i Chinese Situation to Be View- ed at Session in Wash- ington March 21-22. Envoys of the Japanese and Chinese | governments will be guests of honor and the Far Eastern situation will be viewed by experts representing all shades of | opinion during the new Institute of Far Eastern Affairs to be held here March 21 and 22, it was announced today. Founded by Chester D. Pugsley of Peekskill, N. Y., and sponsored by the Graduate School of American Univer- | sity, the institute will hold its sessions at ‘the Cosmos Club, the Brookings In- | stitution and at the Graduate School and College of Liberal Arts of American University. Speakers Selected. Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, chief of the division of Far Eastern affairs of the Department of State; Charles Steven- sor. Smith, chief of the foreign service of the Associated Press, and a number | of other distinguished speakers will par- ticipate. Coming at a time when the situation session Dr. Harold G. Moulton, presi- dent of the Brookings Institution, will discuss “Economic Relations in the Pa- cific.” Mr. Pugsley will preside. The first session will take place at the American University Graduate School Monday morning, March 21, with Dr. Hornbeck presiding. The status of foreigners in China will be discussed by Dr. Frederic A. Ogg, pro- fessor of political science of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, who is delivering lectures at the American University during sabbatical leave. Dr. Boyd Car- penter, professor of international rela- tions of the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, wl'l'l speak on “Siam Among the Nations. Newspaper Men to Speak. Distinguished representatives of the press will speak at the luncheon meet- ing at the Cosmos Club, including Mr. Smith, Ulric Bell, Washington cor- respondent of the Louisyille Courler- Journal, and Harry W. Pranz of the United Press . Other speakers of the institute in- clude Frederick W. Moore, formerly foreign councilor to the Japanese min- istry for foreign affairs; Dr. Willlam C. 'Johnstone of George Washington University. Dr. Stanwood Cobb, princi- pal of the Chevy Chase Country Day School: Dr. William C. Dennis. presi- dent of Earlham College, formerl: of the State Department, and Dr. Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of government of Harvard University. Officers of the institute are: Founder, Chester D. Pugsley; honorary chair- man, Dr. Lucius C. Clark, chancellor of American University; chairman, Dr. Walter M. W. Splawn, dean of the Graduate School of American Uni- versity, and Executive Committee, Dr 1932, § there any brand of coffee that gives good results Disputes Explanation. ‘ | edition of the original mathematical | Came upon this earth,” the veteran in- | «mere has been no evolution of Ellery C. Stowell, chairman: Dr. Irvin “brain” made at Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology a few years ago. Vannevar Bush, Eng. D, is the builder of both machines. Wheels and Shafts. The new analyzer is big and flat, cov- ering a space equal to the surfaces of two billiard tables, a network of turn- ing shafts and small wheels, seldom elevated more than a few inches above the table top. Its food is electric current” The slowly turning shafts are the “thought” paths. One shaft, for example, repre- sents X in an equation. By revolv- ing at precisely the correct speed, it carries out the relationship of X cor- ventor declared. all life began with a single cell in the | ooze of a pre-glacial sea does not seem sufficient explanation of observed phe- nomena. sulted in failure,” he said. line ends with the new offspring. The | product always is sterile. the mule, the carideer, the catelo, the | zebrule and the tigon are variants in | species, but not new species.” he continued, “The assumption that “If all the species came from the same cell, he argued, it should be easy | to propagate a new special by crosses between any two of them. “Such attempts invariably have re- ““The new For example, “If all life came fram a single cell,” “there remains the un- answered mystery of where the cell | man,” the inventor said, “but only an evolution of his tools, such as the al- phabet, the three R's, the hammer, | transit, and so on. | “Man is no more clever today than was earliest historic man. Beyond his- tory we can only guess, but we are guided in our guess of what happened before records were kept by what has happened since then. “Our earliest records are the tools |and picture writing of a time as far |away as 20,000 years. We know that the Sumerians of 10,000 years ago had a varied collection of tools showing sur- prising artistic merit. The Cretans, al- most as early, had many of our conveni- ences—cosets, flounces, festivals, writing, in the East is attracting world-wide concern, the institute is designed “to bring together those especially inter- ested in the Far East and, through ad- dresses and discussions, to aid in the reaching of a better understanding of the present problems in the Orient.” The Japanese Ambassador, Katsuji Debuchi, and the Chinese charge d'af- faires, have accepted invitations to be present as guests of honor at the eve- ning meeting of March 21, to be held | at_the Brookings Institution. At this Lot U e 0 e L and recreation, for civilization is di- rectly the product of the artisan. “Try to imagine a civilization with- out tools and workmen who know how Stewart and Dr. Charles C. Tansill of the faculty of the Graduate School, and Miss Helen Brabrook, secretary. FAVOR NAVAL ACADEMY House Committeemen Oppose Spe- cial Courses at California U. The House Naval Committee ex- pressed its conviction yesterday that Navy officers should not be sent to the University of California for post-grad- uate work, but such training should con- tinue to be given at the Annapolis Academy. every time? Some like coffee weak. Others like it strong. Whichever way you like it you can get it just right with the same amount every time if you use the new Maxwell House. The Vita-Fresh Process re- baths and bronze plumbing—the work of trained artisans who produced objects of beauty and symmetry, as well as utility. “Egyptian exploration has disclosed an organized civilization as early as 8,000 years ago, with toolmakers and tpol users of a cleverness unsurpassed | to this day H “Civilization several times has been built up and destroyed within recorded history. But always there has been a residue of tools and skill which has re- sulted in a greater advance by man before disaster again overtook him. to use them. Representative Gambrill, Democrat, “The evolution of our tools and their | Maryland, sponsored the resolution, use constitutes a direct index of our | which will be sent to the Navy Depart- civilization, and always will do so.” ment without action by the House. rectly with respect to the other fac- tors, Y, Z and son on. The flyweight energy control means that the weight of a single fly at a certain sensitive point is sufficient to retard or accelerate the entire series of gears and shafts. This is accom- plished by electrical and mechanical amplification. By a somewhat similar system of amplification the human brain is con- ceived to get its work done by myriad cells, which use moving blood, the energy foods glycogen and adrenalin, and electro-nerve impulses. Mark Represents Thought. ‘The robot brain consumes about one horsepower for 10 minutes to solve a problem. The result of all this, the “thought,” is simply a mark on a piece of paper, a graph which is the solution of the equation. Only one six-hundred-thousandth of the total horsepower is used to make this mark. All the rest of the power is used in tuming the mechanical parts of the robot brain. It is possible, Dr. Bush says, that an equally large proportion of human energy is used simply in op- erating the mechanical parts in brain wark. But just as human thought is the most valuable thing in the world, the ?gsle pencil mark may be almost price- . In solving an equation it is pos- sible that a mark represents a mil- lionth of a horsepower to some com- came from and what caused it to sepa- rate into millions of different species, extinct and living, from microbe to | mastodon.” Dr. Jenkins contended that to assume the evolution of the red rose, the honey bee, the eel and the giraffe on the single-cell hypothesis strains credulity, no matter how many millions of years are assigned to evolution. All life. he reminded, reproduces its species, lives its allotted span and dies, whether it be the minute cell of typhoid fever or the African elephant. To sustain the single-cell theory, he asserted, it is necessary also to intro- Man’s Lot Improves. duce migrations to populate the earth. | «ps the accumulation of tools en- Except for man, however, there has | larged, the lot of the common man has g:mpo llxi’u"elde or‘r;émtlon of living things, : improved. Whenever machines are used | the common man’s labor is lightened, Explained by Plurality. | his work time shortened and his stan- “It is far more logical and biological,” | 927d, of living raised. the inventor said, “if we assume mil- “The measure of our civilization is lions of life cells, each starting and the degree of tranqulllity and well-be- developing its particular species of ing of the whole people. This condi- plant, fish, reptile, bird and beast, each tion is attained in a constantly increas- with ‘its own cell beginning and not ing degree with the increase in the tools of production, tribution, com- necessarily simultaneous. A separate habitat for each in wWidely separateq | Junication, transportation. _education locations is not, then, illogical, and | proof of a world-wide migration is not | eeded. | “A plurality of widely scattered cells | also would explain the difference in the | staple grain food of the two hemispheres, namely, why wheat should be the na- tive grain of the Eastern Hemisphere moves Oxygen and keeps it out. That means you get all the flavor. CAPITAL, $250,000.00—SURPLUS, $500,000.00 GOOD TO THE LAST D Friendly Financial Counsel Whenever You Desire It 1As a “Columbia™ customer, you are entitled to every service that can legitimately be extended. CoLuMBIA N ATIONAL Bank 911 F Street {Talk the situation over with our officers—you'll find them ready to give you the full benefit of their knowledge and co-oper- fOver Forty Years of business experience underlie “Columbia” ENTIRE FARM LOANS DISTRIBUTING 0. 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