Says Einstein, the Man, Not a Myth

Under the headline, “Einstein the Man,” the New York Evening Post writes:

“Albert Einstein lives most humbly over a grocery store in Berlin. On a spindle on his desk are impaled dozens of unanswered appeals for articles from newspapers and magazines all over the world. For this strange, wistful little man is a world figure for reasons so mathematically abstruse that the world makes no pretense of understanding them. Yet he sees himself clearly and keeps unimpaired his fine humility. “You meet to celebrate a myth bearing my name,” he cabled to New York’s mass meeting on his birthday. “This proves, however, that in our time, amidst all the ill-omened striving after power and luxury, there still lives an appreciation for the eternal aims of the human spirit. That makes me happy.” It is difficult for little men to view themselves so whimsically and their aims so magnificently. This birthday message makes us feel that the “Einstein theory” may be a myth but that Einstein the man emphatically is not.”

A men’s group to participate in the work of the New York Educational Guild for Social Guidance was formed Wednesday night at a meeting held at the home of Mrs. Harold Spielberg, president of the Guild. Harold Spielberg presided.

A description was given by Dr. Dudley D. Shoenfeld, member of the Advisory Board, of the activities in the field of mental hygiene being carried out by the Guild in psychiatry clinics at several New York public schools.