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Show THE CITIZEN PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRASTS York faninent New the Habitual Reformer in brutes that he must every stray cat or dog around? Watch him, lest poor kittens whis-gr- s kick a crippled dog down the trying to reform everybody else look out! Not only is it almost perfect home- - little animal-love- r one who is so sympathetic over-muc- h poor dumb 2rse and feed comes some pull out A or hick stairs! acquainted with a man so .jAre Jsessed viih honesty that he is positmeter regis-- t ively unhappy if the gas should? If a less than he thinks it 'u are, keP your silverware locked around! up when lies 0r do you know some one so intensel- a y religious that he is almost fanatic; Jho measures eyery little act by his is personally pained by he sees in the every evil and near-evi- l world? He may be all right, but there i at least a possibility that he is the Original Sinner, driven to his abnormal goodness in order to counteract the hidden impulse to evil that tor- conscience, and him. ment paradoxes have become commonplaces to the new psychology, which has discovered that each of us These iW a creature, with the extraordinary thoughts and decrawling about below the surface Jekyll-Hyd- e most sires The psychological principles that underlie the paradoxes explain much that is puzzling Americans nowadays, according to Dr. A. A. Brill, Ijew York psychiatrist, one of the leaders in his specialty of mind analysis. of his soul. basis of these principles, says Dr. Brill, is the association of abnormal t contrasts. A man who is always The painfully good is likely to be ted. One who is abnormally at heart kind to uiimals may be revealing in his exaggerated kindness a repressed desire to torture them. One who is forever look-inafter the moral welfare of others, i id trying to make sure they commit no sins, is himself likely to have a toind which would not bear public ing fection. This psychology crowd psychology, of contrasts, plus Dr. Brill believes, the explanation of prohibition, blue laws and reform waves. He disapproves all these from the standpoint of a psychologist and physician. He supports his views by citing cases from his own medical experiences, and to Sis knowledge he has added a formidable collection of news items, clipped from day to day, containing dramatic exemplifications of liis befirst-han- d liefs. It can be set down as almost a cer-.kintaid Dr. Brill, a few days ago, that th. the abnormally ) y,' -- good person, Perpon, is pursuing vir- e 80 l!,adly because, instinctively or Pnconscinusly, he js the reverse of od. ir,. js constantly imbued with e feeling 0f pjn amj jn geif.protec ln he brows his tendencies to evil the path, which is all very if ' does not Jell go too far with it. I Co,l,i"dled to look with suspicion n ! I:-- nn of Psycho-Patholog- y for some definite religious calling, who devotes study to religion. It is an indication that he is conscious of great sin in himself. "And as to the man or woman who is ave you a Q Scientist Discuses the ene, other, than those training proof that he is unhealthyily anxious to do the same things that he seeks to prevent others from doing it shows traces of other ugly traits as well. The man who sees evil in pictures of nudes, who is distressed by every reference to sex in books and on the stage, and who rails at short skirts and scanty bathing suits, is showing a decided trend toward ponophilia the love of the libidinous. The man who is constantly finding indeceny in people and things about him is convicting himself of perversion. If he, were not strongly attracted by the unclean, for the very sake of uncleanline3s itself, he would notice little of the things that now shock him. I have been much interested to learn tht conspicuous professional reformers have large collections of obscene pictures, to which they are adding constantly, and which they exhibit occasionally to those they think sufficiently pure in heart not to be harmed. That seems to me strikingly significant. An audience listening breathlessly to a reformer describing the iniquities of the outside world is a valuable study. The fascinated hearers are deriving vicariously the same pleasures that an audience at a crook play gets when it applauds the exploits of the lawbreaker instead of those of the detective who represents law and order, thus expressing its repressed nature. There is a marked trace, too, of pathological aggression in the make-uanti-soci- al p i nose who apparently have been ruined by it. Prohibition is not likely ever to be enforced, said Dr. Brill, because alcoholic drinks answer too deep a need in human beings. But if it should be enforced, people would be driven to substitutes, and in general these substitutes would be worse than alcohol. My familiarity with the cases of hundreds of alcoholics, both in hospitals and in private practice, has convinced me that practically all individuals who chronically drink to excess are defective they are emotionally and mentally more or less diseased. I do not mean that a psychopathic examination would reveal them all to be mentally deficient, though many of them are but, judged by the standard of continuous effort, they are below normal. When you turn to the case of the average man or woman who found pleasure in moderate alcoholic indulgence and now is denied it, you face a serious situation of a different sort. It is more than a coincidence that every civilized people in history has made and drunk alcoholic liquors and that races have always been overcome by drinking races. Alcohol does supply a genuine and healthy want in people. It is an admirable counterpoise to the stress of civilization. Life modern life in the cities particularly is difficult. We live under a constant strain in our efforts to make a livelihood and in our relations with other members of society. It is necessary to break this strain sometimes, to allow our inhibitions to relax, to be ourselves. Alcohol in moderate amounts, provides this relaxation. Nerves which are kept taut too long will snap. Already, imperfect as is the enforcement of prohibition, you see one result of these unrelieved nerves in the increase of suicides. barrier of against everything tli&y find pleasant to people not like themselves. On the other hand, their own unconscious guilt stimulates them to do penance and compel others to do penance likewise. This is illustrated clearly in a certain thou-shalt-no- type of super-virtuou- ts person s who This type is analogous to the holy men of the Middle Ages who flagellated themselves and were revered for their godliness. They were not godly at all. Thy were simply perverted, victims of masochism. Dr. Brill has devoted much attention in the past few years before prohibition and since to alcoholism. Although he is almost a teetotaler himself, his conclusions are far away from those professed by the prohibitionists. He says his opinion is that alcohol is not nearly the demon it has been painted, but, on the contrary, is actually a good thing even for most of gloats over his own 1 self-denia- l. visitors can see just what the united effort of the young people can accomplish. The fall term at Gooding College commences September 6. This is right after the annual Methodist conference, which convenes at Twin Falls, August 31st, so Dr. A. W. Harris, secretary of the Methodist Board of Education of New York City, who is a most ardent booster for Gooding College, will be on hand to see for himself the good wrork that is being done. DEBTOR. So long as my spirit still Is glad of breath And lifts its plumes of pride In the dark face of death; While 1 am curious still Of love and fame. Keeping my heart too high For the years to tame, How can I quarrel with fate Since I can see I am a debtor to life Not life to me? ; non-drinkin- Sara Teasdale. g IN THE BEST OF FAMILIES. SEPT. maam. They mostly washed themselves before they came to the table. Life. Maid No, 1 L Everybody s Playground 6. Besides planning for their own work, the Epworth League In. titute just held at Ketchum, Payette Lakes and Walto lowa Lake voted unanimously finance the laboratory of the science department of Gooding College this coming year. The money will be raised by observing Gooding College day, at which time the attention of the young people will be called to this popular young college of the Empire. Each chapter will provide its own plan and program for raising its quota, and a healthy competition has already arisen as to which League will be the first to Inter-Mounta- in report. Professor Edward F. Hodenbaugh, state chemist of Idaho, who was recently elected as head of the department of science, Is already at work compiling a list of the equipment most needed, so the respective articles can be purchased as fast as the money comes in. Then the entire collection will be assembled and a suitable name plate provided so both students and - Mistress You dont seem to know about finger bowls, Norah. Didnt they have them at the last place you worked? GOODING COLLEGE TERM BEGINS of many professional reformers. They actually obtain morbid pleasure in dominating others, in making others do their bidding and in building up a 9 Is ready to show you the tjme of your life. The season will soon be over and bathing and are simply dancing great! DONT MISS A CHANCE! Give the kiddies treat promised that next its family day Everything during the afternoon , half price and a program free. Twice as much fun for the same money. Monday Make Family Day a good time they will never forgetl SALTAIR Fare 35c Children, under 6 6 to 11t 20c; carried free. |