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Pre-Natal Influences Will Have MPart In Shaping The Life Of the Child And the Fact That He Flew Thousands Of Miles Many persons believe that Mrs. Lindbergh's transcontinental flight just prior to her son's birth was an influence which will tend to make the child air-minded, but Dr. Payne states that the determining characteristics in the child's make-up will be his inheritance. Dr. Arthur Frank Payne, famous psychologist, who believes that Baby Lind' bergh will not make flying his vocation.

Before He Was Born Will Not Exercise Any Bearing Upon Him, Although His Environment Will Cut a Figure yi like His Bawl Chances Are Ten-to-Qne Against It, According to the New York Psychologist Dr. A. Payne, Who, After a Scientific Study of Inheritances and. the Other Factors Likely to Psychologists, especially clinic psychologists, think that inheritance plays 70 per cent and environment 30 per cent. "Now, undoubtedly, if this is the only child that the Lindbergh's have, he will take on the characteristics of an only child, which are all bad character istics.

"lie is also the' only grandchild in the family, both of which facta offer a great handicap to a young man who is taking his first look at this complicated world of ours. Muoh will depend upon the wisdom of the grandparents and the parents. "Rest assured that Lindbergh will make a good father. He will let thai diild alone. The danger eomes in the doling grandparents and in the adulation that ho will receive because he happens to be Lindbergh's boy.

"If he is brought up alone, without brothers or sisters, he will be a marked child. Everywhere he goes, on the streets, to play games, in school, he will not be, say, Lindbergh, an individual in his own right. He will be 'Lindbergh's "It is a great misfortune to be born the son of a groat man. A sense of strangeness and a sense of being different- from his fellows is bound to develop. In this case we feel that the sterling inheritance and the untainted blood lino that has brought forth this child will overcome 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 Inter other brothers and sisters. "Every one, of course, is interested in whether or not young Lindbergh is to be an aviator. The chances are ten to one that he will not be one. He will consider aviation as a sideline." (Copjrifhtfd, 1830, (or Th TKIBUKE) feata was performed at the time when he made a crash landing with his wife, then his fiuucee, during their courtship in Mexico City. "While taking off from the open field where they had just finished their picnic luncheon, the right binding 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 cruoiul time Lindbergh soared over the field, lenn-ing out through the window of jibe cockpit and waving his arm to inform Mexican aviators on the ground of the missing wheel and to give them a chance to prepare for a smash-up. "Hut first he padded Buitcases and all the cushions available about his future wife in the cabin to protect her when the crash came, and he told her precisely what to do. "Then, with all the skill of which he was master, he guided the plane cautiously and made tbo best landing possible.

The plane rolled more than 100 feet along tbo ground, bumping on its one wheel and the tip of a wing, coming to a stop and tipping over. "Colonel Lindbergh sustained a dislocated shoulder, hut his finnceo came out' uninjured. lie had thought first of her safety, he had protected her in so far as possible, covered her up, warned her. "And it was at this time also that the true ciinrncteristics of the Man and Woiunn, parents of this baby boy, showed up clearly, for the very next Lindbergh, with his arm bound to hi side, and bis fiancee, Anne look a flight in the same plane in which they had had the accident beforp and which had since been repaired. "All of these things show the inheritance of this baby.

"CNVIRONMENT does play a part, -sometimes large, sometimes small. I "111' The "Flying ColoneT' at 14 months of age, a likeness which Charles Jr. in his waking moments quite markedly resembles. in thirty-three hours and twenty-nine minutes, has already adopted into its affections "Baby they are toasting him in homes, restaurants and other -public places. i Son of the world's renowned flier-hero, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, and of Anne Morrow, poet, fiicr, daughter of a millionaire statesman, and only grandcliild of Dwight V.

Morrow, United States Ambassador to Mexico and Republican nominee for United States Senator from Xew Jersey, the Lindbergh's first baby was hound to be in the limejight 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 Colonel Lindbergh's flying history i and the fact that even before the birth of Baby Lindbergh, who has been named Charles Augustus Lindbergh, his parents flew nearly 30,000 miles, in-eluding 7000 miles over the jungles of South America, it was the generally accepted hunch that the Lindbergh son and heir would be eertain to follow in liiisL 1 Charles bergh, meets of the World the footsteps, or rather the airwavs. of his illustrious dad. Now eomes an eminent psychologist with the opinion that Lindbergh, wiH not be a flier, but a college pro-t fessor! Dr.

Payne makes no hasty prophecy, hut arrives 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-Morrow bipod strain hi his veins; the personalities, characteristics and conduct of hit parents and a study of the background of hi ancestors. Dr. Payne is personnel officer, assistant professor and director of the personnel bureau of the 'College of the City of New York and a clinical psychologist, registered under the New York state law. lie was formerly an executive in the Labor and Employment Division, t'nitnd States Army Ordance Department, and consulting psychologist, United States Veteranis Djirean. JVith such a background of knowledge, Dr.

Payne's prediction ot prophecy regarding the future of "LindyV son carries the weight of authoritative analysis. It is not guesswork, a seer's magic forecast nor yet a peering into the stars, hut 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-op will be its inheritance." Babv Lindbergh, who is not to be a professional aviator, according to Dr. Payne, has nevertheless, an interesting future before him, marked by good (CONSTERNATION seizes this girl because the widower to whom is engaged incessantly dins in her ears his praises of his first wife, as told in Control Says 1 Young Man A -Afoc lp 7o Become a College Professor By CAROL BIRD "pIIANCES re ton to one that Lindbergh, will not be an viator. "Aviation most certainly will not be his vocation," though it can be nid with equal certainty will be his avocation.

"The chances are very pi-eat that he will be. a renter man than his father, even though he may never perform the. dramatic deeds of his purent. The jjre atest men of the world today are known only to a small circle. Lindbergh's ion will be of that type.

"It is quite likely that Lindbergh, will be a professor in the Aviation Research Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "If he is an only child he will take on the characteristics of an only child, which are all bad characteristics, and he will Ite a marked boy, 'Lindbergh's not in individual in own right." Fiising his deductions on knowledge of he heritage of the small new son ff thi-! Nation's most illunlrious flier, I)r. Arthur Fraok Payne, well-known pyhoIogit, made, among others roually interesting, thei predictions on the future of the world's "spotlight roi Sii I.lXUKERGmS ailveut A this muddled world on his mother's 21th birthday, Sunday afternoon, June 2'-, at the home of his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Y.

Morrow, in Englewood, N. where his famous parents were married on May 27, 1929, was an event of international interest Throughout the world people are now conjecturing about the possible future of the seven-and-thre-quarters-pound boy, whose father performed one of the most spectacular flying feats in the history of the age, winning world-wide acclaim. Paris, France, where on one never-to-be-frgotten day in the spring of the baby's father landed at Le Bourpet Field with the simple announcement, "I'm Charles Lindbergh," afVr ffignt aerrwg the Atlantic made Augustus Lindbergh son of Charles and his first news photographer with supreme drink his health. fortune and distinction. The only dark cloud on the horizon will appear if he remains an only child.

The psychologist remarks hi passing: "It is a great misfortune to be born the on of a great man," though he says in Baby Lindbergh's case this fact will be offset and mitigated by other happy circumstances. This is the way Dr." Payne outlines the baby's future: "J7IRST of ail, the public will think that the Lindbergh baby is to be a great flier. They will think of this little boy as Lindbergh's baby and not a Anne Morrow's. But we do not know yet whose baby it is: whether it will reflect its father'Sj or its mother's personality. We do not know yet what proportion he has inherited of the traits of tho father, mother or grandparents.

1 "Furthermore, the general public will think of the pre-natal influence. Many people, including physicians and mothers, will be of the opinion that just because that baby traveled a good many thousands of miles in a plane before he was born that ho almost ought to have wing. But we know today that pre-natal influence has nothing whatever to do with the qualities of mind of that child. 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.

"Ann Morrow, his mother, has shown all the stable qualities, the characteristics, the personality traits that we like to see in the woman, wife and mother of tot'ry. She hm( tnhrn an interest in hrr hinbend's job and ha participated in it with him. "And the character of Dwight W. Morrow, his mother's fatheT, a statrsnmn is well known. Further, yon get exactly the qualities in the grand his one has for be 'if A tii 1 Arm Morrow Lind indifference as nations father and In the mother that we would like to cc in all children.

"As regards the Lindlicrgh Btinin, there is good quality and equal fine liens there, although it is of a different type. Lindbergh's mother has exhibited fxcellentqnalities in her modesty, her loyalty and in the fact that she is, at her age, self-supporting. It is in teresting enough to one who believer in the dominance of inheritance 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 considering him for the time being without the halo of romance which the enthusiastic American publifl immediately cast over bira for- hh undeniably great flying feat, we findthat in his manner and behavior ho was just as great and just as fine before he crossed the Atlantic and landed on Field. "His flight from St.

Louis, hia quiet determination which made it possible for him to get the backing of hard-headed business men in that romantic gamble of bis, were all admirable accomplishments and qualities. flew across the Atlantic, it i true, and there was a very great element of luck in it, but by taking into account every possible eleinent in the situation Lindbergh minced that element of luck. His behavior immediately after his flight and his arrival in Paris was controlled, some of us thought, by Ambassador Ilerrirk, but conduct since that time, when no has bad the chance to control him, been equally great "Lindbergh cares nothing whatever front-pngp publicity. He does not want to have1 his picfure trken. He i'oos not cure to pose for the has nothing to say and he wants to let alone to do his work.

From the standpoint of the psychologist, one of Lindberjh's greatest "Ghost of a First Wife Roams" ON THE GERALDINB1PAGE OF THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR Next Sundayt September 7.