SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday. January J, 1918
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On The Side
By'E. V. Durling
(Distributed by tCini SyndieaH, Im.)
A reference to a type of oscu-J years later, you will find that 42
Iat:on called a "Hollywood kiss
describes it as "lasting 15 sec
onds, no more, no less." No de
tails were provided as to the in
tensity of the osculation or the
type of embrace accompanying
it. Both, as I believe you will ad
mit, are important factors in a
properly administered kiss.
However, 15 seconds devoted to
one kiss may be longer than you
imagine it to be. To get an idea
as to that give your wife a kiss
lasting that long.
Sidelight!
What shape are you in to hit
the jackpot on a quiz program
with geography as to category?
I will give you a try out with a
series of simple questions. What
is the second largest city in New
York state? In Michigan? In
Pennsylvania? . . . Am asked
what are the odds of making a
seven or an 11 on the first roll
of the dice. Answer is 17 to one
agafest an 11 on the first roll.
Fivs to one against a seven on
the first roll.
Passing By
Gus Van. Veteran vaudevil
lian. Once of the great and much
beloved team of Van Schenck.
Gus, whose real name is August
von Glahm, was born in Brook
lyn. Before he became an en
tertainer he was a trolley car
motorman. Incidentally, Joe
Schenck died in 1930.
Believing
At what age did you cease to
believe -in Santa Claus? Hdw
about your youngsters? It is said
that nowadays the average child
stops believing in Santa Claus
when six years of age. I stopped
at eight. I once heard from a
Californian who said she be
lieved in Santa Claus until she
was 13V2 years old. That may
be the world's record for youth
ful innocence.
Checking
Give a thought to your rela
tixes, friends and acquaintances
who are 65 years of age or old
er. How are they doing. An in
surance expert claims if you
take 100 average men at the age
of 25 and check on them 40
have died. Fifty will be com
pletely dependent on their own
earnings or upon pensions or
their relatives. Only one of the
100 will be wealthy. Two will
be fairly prosperous. Only five
will have saved enough money
to live on their own savings.
Please Note
As for long time between
blessed events I know of a worn
an who was 24 when she had her
first child and 44 when she had
her second. So, mister, just be
cause you haven't had a blessed
event at your house for 15 or 20
years, don't get the idea you are
never again going to pace the
floor of that hospital waiting
room as an expectant papa.
Busy Corner
On what corner of what city
are the most newspapers sold
daily? A veteran newsboy
claims that "one 'day in seven
hours he sold 5,500 newspapers
at the corner of State and Madi
son sts., Chicago. Can you top
it?
Getting Siarted
Feminine subscriber says she
is 58 and has just embarked on
a literary career. "Is it too late?"
she asks. Certainly not. William
de Morgan was 66 when he
wrote his first novel. That was
the one titled "Joseph Vance,"
which was a best seller. After
that de Morgan wrote nine oth
er novels!
Asides
The patron saint of psycho
analysts is St. Thomas of Aqui
nas. He argued that a doctor
should have the right to probe
a patient's mind as much as his
body. That was nearly 700 years
ago. . . . Mike Todd's first stage
production, presented in Chica
go, was titled "Bring on the
Dames." However, the hit of the
show was not a dame. It was a
penguin billed as "Pete the
Personality Penguin."
Asking
Queries from clients. Q. How
old was Charles Dickens when
he wrote the tale titled "A
Christmas Carol"? A. Thirty
one. . . . Q. What was the name
Cupid Transformation Thought Voiced by Boston Psychiatrist
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By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York CU.P.) A scientific
thought with which to start the
new year is that the Greek god
of love, Eros, who became Cupid,
has had a further transforma
tion in the minds of Americans
and now is Mickey Mouse.
The thought belongs to Dr.
Merrill Moore, Boston psychia
trist who also has a reputation
as a poet. He voiced the thought
in estimating the state of mod
ern psychiatry as 1955 ended
and a new year began. Its state
made him think of Cupid and
Mickey Mouse.
"But With all their newfan
gled pictures and images, Ameri
cans have not wholly rid their
minds of the fat, mischievous
urchin with his bows and ar
rows," he said. "And so it is
with many ideas in psychiatry
today. In name and in form they
have changed from the shape of
an unwrought stone to a fat boy
and thence to a highly mechan-
SCIENCE AT WORK
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.R) If you
wish, you may accept the word
of Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, a fa
mous British scientist, for the
following: human beings are "in
all things one with animals
racehorses, for instance, dos,
and perhaps performing fleas."
He was laughing, in mellow
tones, at a central idea embod
ied in the Declaration of Inde
pendence, which is that "all men
are created equal." The idea was
so absurd, he said in a recent
lecture that "no man will hold
that ill men are born equal in
anything but impotence."
A hundred years ago, or long
er, most people had no doubt
of the "perfectability of man,
nor would they have questioned
his limitless pokers of absorbing
information." But now every
one knows these powers are
"ver;, unevenly distributed."
A 'Colossal Stew"
"Even more striking when you
come to think of its is man's
enormous powers of rejecting
information," he said. "For al
though our nervous systems have
great ability to select, some are
so selective or so unabsorbent
that they reject almost every
thing." 1
He was sure that with most
persons it would come as a re
pulsive idea "that everything
that goes on in our minds is
nothing better than the sort of
of the quartet of fat fellows who
used the slogan "A Thousand
Pounds of Harmony"? A. That
was the "Primrose Four," mem
bers of which, and their weight
were as follows: Tenor, Earl
Wright, 175: second tenor, Bill
Cantwell, 225: baritone, Tim
Murphy, 285, and bass, Bob Gib
ner, 290.
Five Dollar Day
When did Henry Ford put the
"five dollar day" into effect at
his plant? That's what two Chi
cagoans are arguing about. An
swer is that the policy of paying
S5 a day was started by Henry
Ford on Jan. 1, 1914. Before
that, workers at the Ford fac
tory were being paid $2.34 a day
for a nine-hour day. '
fermentation, the simmering or
boiling of a colossal stew com
posed of the odds and ends of all
that we ever saw, read, felt,
smelt, heard or touched from
our cradles on to the present."
The question is how minds
make use of the "colossal stew"
and some minds make much
more use of it than others.
. "Evidently there are the
greatest differences between in
dividuals, and lucky are we that
it should be so, for uniformity
breeds dullness," he said.
But to explain why men are
not and cannot be born equal,
he asked some questions:
"Do brains differ from one an
other in the numbers of their
cells? Almost certainly, 'yes' . . .
Do some kinds fatigue more
easily than others? Is there, per
haps, a quantitative difference
in th proportions of the differ
ent sorts of cells of the cortex
and subcortical grey masses?
Very likely there is . . .
"Given such differences there
should be personal or familial
variables in the internal work
ings of our nervous systems, var
iables in the speed of synaptic
transmission, differences from
man to man in the facilitations
of his association pathways, dif
ferences from man to man in the
facilitations of association path
ways, differences also in inhi
bition. Something like this must
be the foundation of the great
differences in powers of mem
ory." Not only in minds are men
unequal, he said they're un
equal "of hand and .body skills
at which the few so greatly out
match the many. There seems
to -be a sort of 'wisdom of the
body,' in a coordination of tim
ing of eye and hand and foot
a perfection of balance and
rhythm, of faultless movement
that is as uneven in its distribu
tion amongst human beings as is
wit or beauty of face and form."
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payer of about $144,000,000, the
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Scientific metnods are elimi
nating opposing psychiatric
"schools" which once ; seemed,
to some scientists, to "stand; in
some' strange antagonism to gen
eral . psychiatry and to general
medicine, general science and
logic."
The "schools" are giving up
their "self-imposed isolation,"
and so "numerous different but
not necessarily, opposing schools
of psychiatric thought at last
have ' consented to join hands
with the rest of humanity and
come' to life again." . ,
He made a "single example"
of the Rorschach ink-blot psycho
logical test. -It "alone has forced
one to "see the primitive parts
of expressions of the mind ' not
as sociologist or economists re-
car- garded mental phenomena but'
rather "as Jung and Freud saw
them. - "' .
Associations in Religions
"It is realized, for example,
that erotic associations not only
cling around sexual objects,
where they undoubtedly belong,
but may also be connected with
percepts of color and motion and
with other, concepts of worship
and adoration, and that they are
crystallized in the formal relig
ion to which many persons ad
here. Modern psychiatry finds in
people, he said in the New Eng
land Journal of Medicine, '.'ghosts
and spirits and nature gods, an
aestor worship,' familiar pat
terns of thought and behavior,
tribal attitudes social and cul
tural, body worship, or anthro
pomorphism, the formation of a
regnant set of ideas of certain
individuals or groups, individual
psychologies, magical and obses
sive rites, purifications," and sac
rifices all the common stock
and the sucessive phases of emo
tional and superstitious human
ity." .-' " '
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