Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-15 | Page 4 | "Stop Taht!"

who dislikes cats easily could be Induced 1o join a league for killing all cats.. Many a person is an ardent prohibition! , simply because, when he once sampled whisky, he disapproved of the 'taste.. Not liking; it himself, ha unconsciously formed a "complex" "com-plex" (or obsession) against others who really enjoy 4heir liquor. , The rule works similarly with the red nose gent, who wants everybody to have booze because be likes It himself. The Society-Ajainst believes at -the bottom of its heart 4hat the members of the Society-For are crazy and that there should be some way of abolishm' them. . . , .. It Is primitive instinct. Dr. Adler contends, con-tends, for us to like those who are like ourselves our-selves and to dislike those who are unlike us. Here you have the explanation of race prejudice preju-dice and also the cause of many wars. These dislikes short circuit a lot of careers that might otherwise be successful. ' The chronic busybody busy-body devotes so much time to prying Into and regulating the affairs of others that his own affairs suffer by neglect When a busybody's Poll Pry instinct becomes sufficiently diseased to be a phobia, he is apt to run for public office or become a reformer. . Democracy ideally Is a condition in which the individual's conduct Is Interfered with as little as possible by outside forces, interference being derated -wly-wheiMhe -ee-nduet-of -the individual affects the welfare of others. Democracy De-mocracy dies at the roots when' personal dislikes or Individual prejudices 'are compul-sorily compul-sorily "gnfteul onto the public at large.- : "Stop Thatr, I 0 a J THE more intense you are about the things you believe or the way you behave, th; . more you will be prompted to abolish those ho differ with you. So claims Felix Adler,' writing in the World Tomorrow, While his psychological theory may not hold true for all of us, H unquestionably explains the Poll Pry attitude of many prohibitonists and blue lav advocates in general. For instance, a person