Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-13
SAY ART IS INFLUENCED
BY SUBDIVISIONS MINDS
Virginia Writers Club Hears Ills.
cu>Sion Of Mental Traits by
Rrain Specialists.
sURCoNSCloUS MIND FACTOR
DR.. James II. Hall Sa, Mankind
Can Best Sr Judge Wien In-
tnNiCatcd ~ His Attic" Is Thea
Open for Inspection.

What or James X HSll, specialist
n diseases OF The brain II WcSth-ook
Sanatoriuw. called mental inpe6i-
mentia" was hung on; 70 sun and air
IN = talk before the Virginia Writers
club last night At 2le East Grace
Street.
pr. Hall stated his firm convieiion
;hat human beings ACQUIRED mental I'M
pcdlmentia III the same way that they
acquired material impcdimentia. and
that they kept both out Of sight in
Easements. att!cs. closets and similar
places OF conceaiment from the public
i|igf,nraitveiE., he declared, PEOPLE Isl, 81
ments when conscious, and it was only
cotics. delirious or crazy that the con
tents OF their mental Storeroons were
revealed. For which reason. Dr. Hail
went on 10 say. he always hcsitated
10 form an estimate OF a fellow man
until he saw him intoxicated.
Art Is Influenced.
DIT. Halls talk followed the reading
of paper on The Role OF the Sub
Beverley K. Tucker, head of the Tucker
Sanatorium. Or. Tucker is also a spe-
ciaIis; in diseases of the brain, and
a. member OF the Virginia Writers
nr. Tucker declared all literature
and art to be enhanced by subcouscious
influence, and that there was no limit;
TO the breadth and depth OF suhcon-
seriousness.
The subconscious mind. nc said. ones
mental attic. as it were. is the abiding
tancieS. Intuition. imagination. uneH-
pressed desires. uncorrelatcd thought
unrcaliHed emotion, tho instinct of sex.
the prcmonition OF prophecy. the long
ing Of love and OF other moro or less
intangible things. including the exalted
unrestricted literary sense and tho soul
OF poetry.
May Sec Many Things.
He further declared tina; the genius
in art. music and in literature dips
deep in the subconscious, either vol
unfairly or involuutarily, and records
perceptions.
SO he said. zone may wear boots
that step seven leagues or be trans
ported by magic hundreds of miles
through S The air on prayer rug, or see
improba hility.
Every color may be endowed. as
ice, or the air made blue with curses.
Or the opposite may be true and COW
ardice panied yellow and envy painted
green.
Newspaper Writer Talks.
Flowers and trees and lower ami
mails may speak, leaves and winds may
whisper. waves may roar the uufath-
omed depths OF the ocean may be
populated with mcrmaids and the
forests with satyrs, ghosts may walk
abroad. the dead may rise, fairies ano
giants may spring into being. the devil
a aI;,w = "a: a horned and booted person
material earth and cities be built in
Heaven with streets of gold. pcopled
WIN narpers harpinE on their harps' "
Preston Lecky. son of Robert =
l,ecky. Jr.. OF Richmond. n newspaper
writer and student in psychological /
research; also spoke briefly in the
more or less personal discussion which
followed DR.. fuckers talk
Virginia writer's OF distinctio who
were present related for the bencht
OF the club mcmbcrship as a whole
their own individual experiences and
convictions concerning the role or the
NS,lnconscious mind in rclatio to their
;, heading by tho secretary. Mrs. John
r. mlEhtioot, Of the published work
S 81 members n or the Virginia Writers
meeting last night