Skulls

Last week the members of Congress were made to realize that by the happy circumstance of their several elections they had been set apart as members of a specially evolved division of the human family. They were told that they represented "legislative man." Two New York Democrats--Senator Copeland and Representative Kindred--introduced resolutions in their respective chambers proposing the appointment of a Dr. Arthur MacDonald to measure all congressional skulls annually, estimate the average brain weight within and make illuminating deductions in a report to the Vice President-- without mentioning any names--as to the "inner activities of Congress." Dr. Copeland has long fattened his income by writing on popular medical subjects for the newspapers and so was an ideal sponsor for the ingenious new plan. Dr. MacDonald, who had already measured scores of Representatives and Senators in the 62nd Congress, explained that he would like to examine legislators of other countries too, for comparison, "but our country is first and should continue to lead in this comparative anthropology of legislative man. . . . The acts of Congress as a whole are not accidental but work according to laws yet unknown. . . ."