AMERICA'S QUEST

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 27, 20 January 1928, Page 15

AMERICA'S QUEST

YOUTHFUL GENIUS. There has just arrived in Europe an emissary from the American League for Fostering Genius. ! The object of the League is to give a good education to children who show unusual signs of talent at an early age and whose parents are very poor. The League, is already playing fairy godmother to 800 American children, and now means to include other nationalities. For this reason it has sent Miss Winifred Stoner to investigate the claims of L'rench and English infant prodigies. She ought to be a good judge, for she wrote verses when she was five. , The greater part of the children’s time is spent in cultivating their talents: budding Handels bave music lessons and young Michael Angelos study painting But all the children are taught to type before they learn to write, and they are all taught Esperantoa ° ‘The League for Fostering Genius has a noble aim, and the people who give their money to it are much to be ads mired Yet we cannot help wondering whether they will produce a genius of the purest water, for it is a remarkable fact that nearlv all geniuses have had to make their own way. We must wait twenty vears for the results of the League’s fostering care,