Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1951 — Page 26
SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1951
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Dr. Visher of IU Learns Geography BLOOMINGTON, June 10
—If you want to be successful start out by getting your-
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self born in the right place. That “first things first”
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45 times as many as skilled laborefs and 1000 times the rate of unskilled laborers. Don’t Make a Move
Prospective parents can't go reading. up on the birthplace of
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theory stems from 32 years
of study by Indiana University's nationally recognized professor of geography, Dr. Stephen Sargent Visher. \ Sinee 1919 Dr. Visher has been tracking down and correlating birthplaces of Indiana's most successful leaders,, as part of a scientific study ‘to determine where successful men come from and why. ’ On the Map
In 1819, when he was putting marks on a map studying what areas produce the best hogs, silver and gold, Dr. Visher decided to do some similar plotting to learn conditions conducive to production of “ecivilization’s most valuable resource,” great leaders.
Since then Dr. Visher has been relating success with birthplace both for Indiana and the nation. Here are a few of his conclusions:
® The small town boy has more chance for success than his big eity cousin. ® Towns outproduce farms in erops of leaders. ® Indiana’s level land has been unproductive of leaders, while the hilly country has - contributed greatly to the state's “Who's Who.”
Dr. Stephen S. Visher . . . He tracks down success.
i “I'm no snob,” says Professor; Here are a few findings of his {Visher, “but in order to produce studies in special fields: notables, the parents have to be, e Indiana's greatest scientists above average.” |were born predominately in coun- . ity seats, local centers of greatest They Go Away {opportunity for talent, or in colFarms have a small crop of jege towns. This is because no sci leaders because,of the same mi- entist is “self-made” but requires |gration theory, the persons with the stimulation and encourage- . " BfO" ambition tend to leave the farmi{ment of educationally-favored graphic magic connected with his conquer larger fields, hence communities. findings. Physical and geographi- tneir children are born elsewhere.! © The state’s best businessmen eal influences affect the yield of were born in small towns. Thee leaders indirectly by concentrat- _ 10 the period studied by Dr. their talents were noted and en- : Visher, the average Indiana coun- : : 2 ing certain types of people in an couraged, whereas in big cities area, he believes, rather than di- ty seat yielded at more than three 4 8} ’ Fo a ied they would have been cogs in a rectly by affecting diet, occupa-(!imes the rate for the state. Col-| 0, ©, "to “nothing succeeds like tion, health and energy. lege towns did twice as well “as success” theory is backed up b Small towns produce big men the average town, New York's famed Gimbel family because the most mentally alert,| Dr. Visher holds the distinction (birthplace Vincennes, Ind.) and ambitious, persistent and ener- of being the only man who ever retired New York Stock Exchange getic people tend to migrate to got “Who's Who” to send out a president Emil Schram (birthdesirable towns, choice residential special questionnaire. The $10,000 place Peru) to name a few. districts or suburbs in search of project resulted in a more accurz;. o In an occupational study Dr. opportunities to use their abilities ate reporting of birthplaces andl Visher found professional men and congenial associates. These in “Who's Who" editors’ publish- fathered more than twice as many people, in turn, produce the chil- ing a special summary of findings notables as did businessmen, near-
dren who grow up to be leaders. Iby the IU professor. ly 20 times as many as farmers,
It's Not Magie There's no climactic or geo-
past Hoosier greats there as a “sure” success formula for their offsprings, the professor warns. Areas change and as they do so does the character of their inhabitants, the real key to production of notables. When southeastern Indiana was relatively favored it produced many leaders. But depletion of soil and forest wealth and greater opportunities
elsewhere drew off its most ambi-|
tious peopie and as a result southeastern Indiana's leader yield has suffered. No honored scientist has been born since 1880 jn Crawford, Jefferson, Switzerland or Union counties, areas which formerly were especially productive,
There are, of course, exceptions to all these findings. Dr. Visher once found in a special survey that clergymen ranked low in production of leaders, And small towns make a better showing than big cities.
But Dr. Visher himself, long
listed in “Who's Who" and plas-
tered with honors from his own
{Star medal and Purple Heart | during Armed Forces Day cere-| {monies at Karlsruhe Military | | Sub-Post in the U. 8. Zone of Ger-| many. i
| Sgt. Everroad, a radio team {chief with the 17th Signal Opera- | tions Battalion, was honored for (valor and wounds suffered in ac-| ition in Europe during World War | II, i | His commanding officer, {Col, Alexander the presentation.
{ A 1940 graduate of Columbus High School, Sgt. Everroad was | {employed by the Reeves Pulley Co. when he first entered military | service In October, 1042, He served with the 21st Infantry! Battalion, 11th Armored Division, | (overseas from September, 1944, {to November, 1945. ! | He resumed employment with Reeves in 1945 and re-enlisted in| the Army in December, 1947, go-| ing overseas again in February,! 1948, from Ft. Knox, Ky. » = LJ
CPL. BILL ROBBINS, husband
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RADIO MOSCOW'S LITTLE JOKE--Joseph Kritzman, Chicago, shows some of the mail he receives regularly from Radio Moscow to Esther Louise Bohn, The letters invite Kritzman and other short wave radio fans to tune in to the Kremlin's program which sup. posedly tells the truth about life in the Soviet Union.
field, was born in the nation's of Mrs. Mickey Robbins, 201¢ KE. ment, 11th Airborne Division, resecond largest city, Chicago, and 18th St, is serving as a music in- cently at Ft. Campbell, Ky.
was the son of a minister.
Women Call a Spade Too Darned Heavy
NEWCASTLE, Australia, June 9—Should lady Ironworkers be issued smaller shovels to make théir work easier? This "weighty question is being thrashed out in Australia before an industrial commission which is
considering demands that women 1125 N. Hamilton Ave., was named | Southern
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they are packed into e trains bound fer the River region or to farm areas he smal} town al Sa y are quartered ant homes or hastily cor barracks, :
Why Is It Done? Observers
Workers to End Strike
The 23-year-old soldier served for Wm. H. Block Co. he eitered TERRE HAUTE, June 9 (UP)
twice previously in the Army, both times seeing service in Germany. A member of the Reserves, he was active in the ROTC at Technical High School. His grandmother, Mrs. Lillie Robbins, lives at 1555 Sheldon St.
{| PVT, JOHN T. BRADBURN, son of Mrs. Annabella Bradburn, |
the Army last Feb. 7.
- o o TWO INDIANA men are In field training with the 40th Infantry Division engineers near Matsushima, Japan, about miles north of Tokyo. They are Pfc. Edward Wolverton, Bridge port, and Pfc. Gerald Smith, Roselawn, The former National
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|~-Some 5560 CIO Brewery workers agreed today to end their four-day strike against the Terre {Haute Brewing Co. They voted in a special meeting to return to work Immediately, but full plant production {will not get under way before | Monday. The workers struck to {protest the firing of an employee who claimed his seniority was
ironworkers be paid 90 per cent of Dest soldier at guard mount of Guard outfit, was sent to Japan violated. He was dismissed but the 503d Airborne Infantry Regi- last April
male wage rates.
The ladies, now getting 75 per cent of male rates, explain that one of‘ their man-sized jobs is heaving 32-pound shovel-loads of iron sockets’ into bins six feet high. This, they argue, entitles them to man-sized pay.
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