“MONARCH OF MIND”

Hawera Star, Volume L, 5 February 1931, Page 10

“MONARCH OF MIND”

EINSTEIN VISITS NEW YORK REMARKABLE TRIBUTES PAID. Professor Einstein, on visiting New York last month, was interviewed, photographed and feted on a scale hard.v approached by an other world celebrity in recent years. Every hour was occupied either' by visiting or receptions, and everywhere he went the great scientist was warmly greeted, more especially, perhaps, by the Zionist sections of New York’s Hebrew population. The latter are estimated at little than a million. Professor Einstein was escorted to the City Hall by a reception committee headed by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, and was introduced to the Mayor Mr. Walker. The City Hall was crowded. and has seldom witnessed sucth an enthusiastic reception. The police band played the Berman National Anthem as Professor and Mrs. Einstein advanced to shake. hands with the city’s chief (executive, to whom he was presented by Dr. Butler as “a visiting monarch, a monarch of the mind who reigns in the realm of ideas; a man who. has taken jus place in that great succession which bewail with Archimedes and came down from Copernicus to Newton to Kepler: one of those mortals gifted with almost superhuman power, who is able his genius to take our universe more completely to pieces, to explore its greatest distances and to peer into its remotest depths.” Mr. Walker spoke the welcome of cosmopolitan New York. He said that the keys of the city were promised to Professor Einstein undoubtedly possessnever actually delivered but Professor Einstein with his subtle knowledge ot things. got the keys relatively, fLaughter). In these days of prohibition there were really no keys to New York, but there were keys to the minds •mcl hearts of its citizens, and these Porfossor Einstein undoubtedly possessed-