The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-25
ACHIEVING NEUTRALITY.
How Dr. wilson's Patients May succeed
In Following Ills Advice.

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In Following Ills Advice.
Ever since DR.. Wilson prescribed a
course OF unquestioning neutrality for
his numerous patients difficulties have
been experienced by not a few Of them
In following his advice. Despite their
best efforts. racial social or educational
predisposltions and influences have
tended to unbalance their sympathies
and render impossible that intellectual
detachment and impartiality so highly
urged by the great psychologist.
To all who have suffered from in
ability to suppress their desires in the
manner advocated by DR.. Wilson the
announcement that Professor b. L. Gull
has devised "A treatment guaranteed to
render sympathy with any contestant
/ impossible will be welcome. Moreover.
Professor Gull. animated by high
sense OF duty. has dedicated his dis
/ covery to the nation. and az 1t may be
administered in secret its blessings are
at the command OF all without price
and without the necessity Of undergoing
humiliating publicity. Professor Gull
writes to THE SUN:
! You have my permission 10 publish the
subjoined description Of the neutrality
treatment discovered by me and presented
to my fellow Americans in the hope that
1t may enable them to comply with the
orders OF DR.. Wilson.
tGuWs Proneutrdiitv Tveafmenfl
/ The patient should watch carefully
FOR the first symptoms OF an anti-neu-
trail condition. These usually manifest
! themselves In easy and unauestioning
acceptance OF official bulletins az truth
! full. 1t Is desirable that the treatment
should begin at once. II II Is not the
disease will make rapid progress until
the patient Will unhesitatnEly believe
stories Of atrocities. Of the superiority
, in courage OF the combatants under one
flag over those under another and even
give credit to the promises Of better
moral and material conditions TO be es-
, tablished on the achievement OF success
/ by the nation to whose side his weak
ness impels him to decline. But even
when the disease has reached this final
and most terrible stage my treatment
will definitely cure II and restore the pa
tient to health in some cases.
on the appearance OF the symptoms
! OF weakness generally outlined above
the patient must Immediately stop talk
ing and with the utmost despatch sup
ply himself with a quantity OF the lit
erature OF the war from German and
English sources. The most efficacious
literature for the purposes Of the treat
ment Is that which cones from eminent
scholars; the product of professional
literary persons may be substituted for
this however. Formal, official docu-
ments are also useful.
Having prepared this matter the pa
tent should compose himself in COM
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from behind and the left. Let the pa
tent then begin to read slowly the de-
fences, explanations and Qualifications
for its conduct put forward by the
agents of the nation with which he IL
inclined to sympathize.
Before the reading has progressed
far the patient will observe a marked
change in his disposition. The defences,
explanations and Qualifications he IS
ass,milating will work a complete revo-
Tuition in his mental attitude and he will
find his Partially diminishing with In
creasing rap!dlty. II he uses good
judgment he will soon be In state Of
perfect intellectual balance. his fac
tlonal bias entirely eliminated and hts
mind In exactly the suspense that Or.
Wilson recommends.
II the patient docs not exercise
great care his course Of reading will
not only destroy his existing prejudice
but will create a sentiment favorable
TO the opposing contestant. Should
this occur the patient must at once
begin the consumption Of the defensive
and explanatory publications favorable
TO that side. The correction of the un-
desirable partially will be Immediate.
Each patient VIII learn to adtus, the
amount OF corrective literature TO his
personal needs. which naturally vary
with the individual In my laboratory
experiments | have seen cho,eric pro-
Br!;on transformed into perfect neu-
trial by three sentences Of A. Rennctt
on the contrary Germanophlle Of
mora sluggish habit has required $50
words OF Won Harnack for his cure
The immediate good results TO he oh
tanned from this treatmen; are in no
way complicated by bad after effects
No habit is formed Nobody able Il
hold an opinion can possibly form the
habit of reading the matter available
for the treatment.
Those who avail themselves of this
method for maintaining intellectual
neutrality should be warned Of two
dangers; II they skip. a. they will un.
) questionahly he inclined 70 do. they vii
} be compelled to peruse greater guam
titles 81 the matter suitable for their
cases than II they read faithfully: and
the possibility OF falling into hopeless.
, msanthropy must be constantly guarded
against.
The Administration md the (ountrx'