SIGNIFICANT SILENCE

A certain American doctor believes that he has discovered a means of ascertaining the weight of the brains of living human beings by taking certain measurements of the heads. He is now asking the government to establish him in a laboratory at Washington where he may do further research work. Part of his program would include an examination of the heads of Senators and Representatives, after which he might send a record of their brainweights to their constituents.

This proposal has not taken the House or the Senate by storm. Instead, the representatives of the people, usually so eager to ally themselves with progress, have maintained strict silence. A few solons, it is true, have booed the idea as foolish. It seems that there is a suspicion current among the majority of these men that light-headedness scientifically obtained and tabublated, would be interested too literally in non-scientific circles, and out of sheer group loyalty they feel they must ignore the issue.