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New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

"The child's demands are very
simple; it subsists entirely On it's
mothers milk and wants nothing
else. Weaning has always been a
tragedy for the child as we'll as the
parents. The child .resists every
new article Of food and has to be
more or less forced to partake of it.
AS he grows older his taste becomes
correspo spondingly broader and he
gradually shows a versatile attitude
toward nourishment, which is more
or less determined by his environ
ment. A cosmopolitan can eat clans
and Holsters in New York and snails
and frogs IN Paris. Indeed, it has
been said that the civilization of a
nation Tan readily be measured by
its manner of preparing food.
Compare, for example, the mani
fold varieties of foods offered on the
menu cards in any first class restau-
rant in Paris or New Y orlS to the
food consumed by the average Rus
sian peasant. If one goes down still
further in the line Of civilization the
differences become even more
marked. The Esquimau lives on the
simplest kind Of food and the South
American poems, according to Mil
Ter, 'subsist everlastingly on boiled
corn and penella. Here, as in other
respects, the child Of nature, the
savage, behaves like the real child {;
his consumption Of food is of the
simplest variety, and as he advances
in civilization his tastes become cor
respondingly broadcned."
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Earoy With Vodka!

Thus, as DR.. Brill submits, vodka,
so eagerly imbibed by the Russian
peasant, would be rejected by the
average Anglo Saxon who Graves
his whiskey or brandy. Almost
every nation has its own national
alcoholic beverage, which is not
relished by foreigner, though he
may quickly develop a taste for O.
foreign concoction and later crave
1t. AS matter Of fact, almost all
alcoholic tastes are cultivated.
though many begin drinking at diff
ferent ages.
On this matter DR. Brill said: 81
tried to find out at what age it be-
came a habit, i. e., when the indi-
vidual could say 4 take drink be-
cause / like it, and found that
whereas the non-alcoholics did not
experience this feeling before the
age Of nineteen to twenty the al
coholic manifested a strong craving
for even the hard stuff at the age
Of fifteen, sixteen or seventeen.
With very few exceptions l can say
that all OF my chronic alcoholic pa
tients were paychopaths, many were
siightly subnormal, some we're manic
cs9ressive types and some epilep-
ticz.
In other words, years of cxpc-
rienee with alcoholics both in hos
pitais and in private practice leads
me to state that practically all IN
div'duals who chronically indulge
ezcesxively IN alcohol arc emotion
aiiy moro or less diseased. do not
WISH 10 imply that psychiatrjcal
examination will aha ~ them all to
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
DR.. Leonard keene Hir5h-
berg. 4. 8. ". A.. NJ. D.

pWQHERE is potentially as much Of
81 e devil III every berry of the
IL grape and each fruit Of cereal
as there is in the cunning
wrestler wine itself.
Good wine needs no bush. You can
brew it in a teakettle or a soup boiler
beyond the madding revenue and Sc
cret service officers. Wine may take
away reason, engender insanity, lead
thousands to extravaganza, and, at the
last. it biteth like serpent and sting
eth like an adder, yet human nature
is falible and will continue to fall
for it,
concoction popularity known as
home brew is probably the most
common cf the locally brcwed drinks.
and persons who have tried this bsv
erage claim that when properly pre-
pared it compares very favorably with
the best of aies. The method of man
ufacturing ''home brew" is very simple
and no expensive equipment is neces-
sacy. the chief thing needed being a
washboiler or large kettle that win
hold from eight to sixteen gallons Of
liquid. In this receptacle are placed
the required number Of gallons Of
water, the malt and the hops.
This mixture is allowed to stcep for
hours, or until the goodness of the
malt and hops sleeps out, after which
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

which reality denies him and which
his organism demands. 1t must be
borne in mind shat the individual
vocation is only sublimaton of his
most primitive impulses, which mod
ern society holds in constant re-
preston and suppression, and that
his pleasure principle as such has
to be constantly checked.
"The tired laborer, like the tired
business man and the tired profess
sional man, must find some means of
making life easier for himself, and,
whereas the latter are helped to it
by their occupations, the laborer is
not, for almost all of his primitive
impulses are fettered, and the only
emotional outlet offered him is
through companionship with his
family and friends. Mild alcoholic
beverages are the most potent fac
tors in the promotion of such pleas
ures. do not wish to be misunder-
stood | am not at all in favor Of
the American bar, with all that goes
with it, but study Of the Individual
shows it is better to give him some
substitute for his primitive impulses
than let him live through them. By
depriving a man of all stimuli, such
AS alcohol, smoking and prizc6ghts,
he is pushed back to the primitive
state and, 1aolsns volens, he will
have to live through those impulses.
Il am opposed to the absolute pro-
hibition of alcoholic beverages be-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

same conditions prevailed in all the
other alcoholics who stopped drink
ing. They always resorted to some
thing vicious, something that in his
opinion was worse for society than
the original vice.
ut is my opinion" said DR.. Brill,
that the alcoholic flight is in itself
an adjustment to some that are
mentally and emotionally below par,
and that taking away the alcohol
only unloosens the other primitive
impulses. And he continued:
when one studies a number of
such cases and compares them with
peculiar cravings in so-called nor
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
" hen q Saloon Is Nc,: q
Saloon

a GREGORY HARTSWICK re-
Gently declared that the Sal
vation Army had opened several
"Temperance Bars" in which are
preserved all features of the saloon
Except alcoholic drinks), even to
the traditional brass rail. These
bars have been a success with the
returning soldiers and sailors, he
AYERS, and have been commercially
successful. In the hope that moro
Of the same will be instituted
tho writer observes that they
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08


many of them are that, too, but
judging by a standard Of adjust
ment Of continuous effort, in some
directions they are all deficient. I
have treated them in all sorts of
ways; have given them the So
called specifics, have hypnotized and
analyzed them, but the results were
very disappointing"
If person is not extremely sub
normal he can be helped to give up
alcohol for while, but he usually
returns to it. In treating sixteen
cases of psycho-analysis DR.. Brill
obtained some interesting results.
Intellectually, he says, his subjects
would be considered normal, though
emotionally one would. call them
psychopathic. The ages range from
nineteen to thirty-nine years. Nine
Of the patients returned to their for
mer habits, while two drink mod
erately but are considered cured by
their relatives, because for over two
years they have not been intoxicated
in public.
The remaining five have not in
dulged in alcohol since their dis
charge, but, rs Dr.. Brill emphasized,
+boir hoho,y;c,. ;~ c,,ob il,o \ l,a+L ~..1.
tives and physicians regret that they
are not alcoholics.
One, woman, became addicted to
heroin and daily consumes enormous
amounts of bromo seltzer. She also
has fits of depression, during which
she talks of suicide.
The case of another, man of
thirty-two years of age, DR.. Brill
explains thus:
"He came to me eight years ago
and was under my care for about
six months and I saw him occa-
sionally until about eighteen months
ago. Before coming to me he was
treated for alcoholism for many
years. Although he was brought
up in cultured surroundings he was
often sent to the workhouse as a
common drunkard. incidentally he
was somewhat precocious and emo
tionally he was very unstable. For
over a year prior to his coming to
me he was in sanitarium, where he
was considered incurable. He be-
came drunk on the day he left the
sanitarium, but he gradually yielded
to treatment, and after about six
months | considered him cured of
his alcoholism. About eight months
later he came to me in an excited
condition. TO allay my apprehen-
sions he started by saying: Don't
worry, doctor, didn't touch any
thing That was quite true, but he
had forged a check and asked me
to intercede with his father, for
otherwise he was liable to be i'm
prisoned.
ga few months later he reap
peared and again assured me that
he hadn't touched anything,' which
was true This time he had en-
hezzled some money from the firm
who employed him. Again his pa
rents helped him. Very soon there
after he was again in trouble and
again implored my help. This time
he had married a girl of question:
able reputation.
I'm brief he continued to come
to me every few months, always
prefaclng his story with Don't
worry, doctor, I didn't touch any,
thing until one day I involuntarilv
exclaimed 4 wish you would have
touched something and gone back
to the sanitarium.' This man COM
mitted about half a dozen crimes
any one Of which would have landed
nm IN prison and all these after he
was cured of his alcoholism"
The specialist observes that the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

will fill a shortly-to -be-felt want
But Don Marquis, the incorrigi-
bic humorist on an afternoon con-
temporary, does not agree.
1T is a noble attempt, this one.
to denaturize the saloon," he has
written. but when Saul became
Paul he was Saul no longer; he
was something else again. The
thing that made the saloon what il
was was the good old jazz juice
they sold there, and there is no sub
stitute. Away with this mock.
cry Of our grief"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

cause the average normal person
will be hurt by it, the abnormal
types will be made more abnormal
through it, and society will undoubt.
edly lose by it, as it will put a pre.
MUM on dishonesty and hypocrisy
of which we have quite enough"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

do people, both normal and abnor-
NAL, indulge in some sort of bever-
age besides pure water? To DR..
Brill the answer seems simple The
wish is the motive force Of life.
The human being begins to wish
with birth, and never stops wishing
That is what makes progress fer it
result in constant improvement Of
things. Our wishing is done
through our senses, and there is
the human tendency toward over
indulgence.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Many Who Give Up Alcohol Take
to Heroin, Embezzlement,
Etc., Says DIR. Brill

"HAT the excessive use OF al
cohol is a matter Of devel-
oped appetite on the part of
those who might be classed
as emotionally defective, which, if
repressed or forbidden, will lead
to its equivalent in other abnor-
malities is the belief Of DR.. A. A.
Brill, New York nerve specialist,
eminent psychologist and translator
of Freud. His views are given in
an article in "The New York Medl-
cal Journal"
Man, after all, is dominated by
hunger and love, and the civilization
of the individual, like that Of the
race, is therefore Judged best by
his attitude toward the impulses Of
hunger and love, and it is automatic
that the most advanced races are
those who have exercised the great
est control in their behavior toward
those impulses.
DIR. Brill points out:
"Our civilization is held together
nv the rn1verf,,1 fabric Of snlf-ren1ln-
ciation. The individual is taught
from the beginning to give up or
control his natural tendencies and,
depending on his capacity to adjust,
he either becomes a so-called social
being or he remains eXtrasocial or
even contrasocial. Studies made Of
the highest types Of individuals
show that natural impulses can only
be controlled, never annihilated; /;
that there is always constant
struggle between them and the
forces of civilization; and that So
ciety must often assist the individ
ual> if he IS not to succumb to this
STRUGGLE,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
AS DR.. Brill said:

"Everything in moderation has
been preached from time i'm
memorial, and it was not addressed
to detectives either. Usually, how
ever, the average normal person
learns to curb his wishes, but allows
himself a certain amount of indul-
Gence which is not altogether harm
ful to him. No one can ever abso-
lutely renounce any pleasure once
experienced. 1t is as indestructi5le
as physical matter, it's form only can
be changed. Anything that is as
universally craved as fermented
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

NAL and primitive people, one be-
comes convinced that chronic alco-
holism is a psychoneurotic symptom
usually found in emotionally de-
fective persons, which in the nor
NAL is nothing but a craving or
habit confined to the oral and gas
tric regions.
ut is usually induced by environ
ment, but when that particular
craving is removed by treatment or
force from the defective person
something is bound to take its place,
either in the physical or in the
Psychic spheres. 1t is a we'll known
fact that with the removal Of al
cohol there is a greater demand for
candy and chewing gum, and in the
states where prohibition exists
many substitutes are already in use
which have nothing OF the original
taste, but which stimulate the taste
buds. Detectives, children and
primitives, readily form habit and
can easily become a slave to it,"
Why Won't Water Do?
The question might be asked, Why
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
TRANCE Things May Happen When Fellow Swears Off
A Food Jag That Took Half an Hour

HR. BRILL observed that of his patients
alternated between attacks of eating and
drinking having periods during which he 'gorged
himself with food" Then he cites remarkable in-
stances OF food iags':
acish TO mention The fact that attacks Of operin-
duIsence are not only confined 20 alcoholism hare
qise number Of psychoneurottcs seko hare reg
ular eating attacks ,chch the n,echansn,s
as drinking.
1he amount Of food consumed during such
oc} is icyedibe Here is list OF foods consumed BY
tro young lady, ,csiging ninety pounds during
Of her attacks, giuen by her mother:
Three pieces Of toast scith scracberrs :e.:
One egg,
{Scyj-pound almonds,
E1vo cratlers,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

Sir pieces Of pastry,
Ts0o ras0 frankturters,
Il plate Of sls,irps a Ia Nesoburg,
Three pieces of toast and butter,
One roast beef sondscich,
Three cup cakes,
'~" Tsco zeal chops 10Th sauce.
One dish Of cucunebers,
Nine nut cakes,
Ttoo apples,
Half pound pecans,
Six bananas.
One pound bo1 Of candy.
Au Of this consumed scithin half an hour
'Anotter young ,comdn Of twenty-five sUould hare
regular attacks during ohich she ,couId consume
fe~ pounds Of roast beef and became so stimulated
BY it that for time The family suspected she ;ndulced
IN ALCOHOL She had scat the family called s-oos, beef
jagsr''
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Vhy Won't Water Do?

The question might be asked, WHY
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The Child

struggle.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-11
AMERICANS
MAKING GOOD
AT SIXTY-FIVE

Don't worry about old age. A sound
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as hale and hearty and able to do your
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Affections Of the kidneys and bladder
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the other organs in working condition,
and you will have nothing to fear.
Drive the poisonous wastes from the
system and avoid uric acid accumula.
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hnd that you are as good as the next
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mind keen enough for any task.
GOLD MEDAL Harlem Oil Capsules
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the original imported GOLD MEDAL
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three sizes
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-11
EXPECT BIG CLASS TO
TAKE BAR EXAMINATION

tory of the TENNESSEE bar ,s srnan,na
TO be on hand early in July when tbe
semiannual bar examinations are held
p Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville and
Chattanooga. INV
Robert ]. Moore, of Memphis. secre.
tary oil the examining board, will cx.
anime applicants in Nashville and some
one VIII be named to preside in Mem
hold the examinations In, Chattanooga
and Judge +. T. Fancher, former an.
preme court Judge, will ne In charge in
Knoxville. 0 ~
In January, 1890, all examinations win
be held In Nashville, vac
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Principle in Fight.

But thee ontents Of the document
were not AS important az the principle
involved In the fight. The senate has
from the beginning OF last December
insisted that II had an extra constl-
t%utional right to be Va party to the
making of treaties. Fortified by ar
guments made by the president him.
self for open diplomacy, the senators
have kept up constant bombardment
OF the Paris conference, where MIR. Will
son was unable to Apply his own ideas
Of opening the conference wide, but was
compelled to yield in procedure to Great
Britain, France and Italy, under PEN
atty of breaking up the whole confer
enCe.
Mr., Wilson himself IL unquestionably
in sympathy with the desire Of the SEN
ate to keep treaties always in the pub
Tic view, but continental statesmen,
more experienced In dealing with Ger.
many and her propaganda than is Mi,
Wilson, won the presidents assent to
their own course.
But now that the treaty Is public,
or that version Of II which was sub.
united to the Germans at Versailles,
what will the senate do about Il?
The Republicans admit they haven't
nm official document before them for
consideration and that they only wanted
1t public for the Information" Of the
people Of the United States.
OF course, It may he commended that
no president of the United States ought
to have the right TO make such agree
ments or give such pledges OF secrecy,
but until the rules of the diplomatic
game are changed by consent of ali
the powers, the senate does not m
barrass the president, Mr.. Wilson un.
douhtedly will have to explain to his
associates in Paris how tho treaty was
made public by the senate, and his
cahlegram of yesterday will demon
strate clearly to Great Britain and
France that he was still faithful to his
promise.
Today the senat turned to wire con.
trol legislation as II II had no further
interest In the peace treaty Nobody
Is planning to make any suggestions
Tor change in the treaty, though It's
flaws are numerous and its capacity
for breeding trouble between nations
Is recognized by disinterested observers
N almost all of the entente countries,
The Sasr basin settlement and the in
ability Of Germany 10 be protected
against the abuses Of the victors nv
being admitted into the league of ma.
tons awakened no interest. The sen
ate Republicans beat the president.
and seemed satisfied to let It 60 at
hat.
Copyright, 1919, by the New Yorl
Evening Post, lnc.)
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Had Nothing to Hide.

In defense OF the presidents course,
those who are in a position to speak
with knowledge Of his dilemma in Paris
disclosed today that Mr.. Wilson him
self had nothing to conceal when the
decision was made TO keep the treaty
temporarily from the public but that
Great Britain and France had insisted
and Mr. Wilson gave his assent, SEN
ator Hitchcock, Democrat, who has
been leading the administrations fight
on the floor Of the senate. revealed in
his speech that England and France did
not want certain portions Of the treaty
made public until a final agreement
with the Germans was reached. He in
sisted that America had no interest in
those sections OF the treaty and no rea-
son to want them suppressed, but that
the president had deferred as a matter
Of courtesy to his colleagues who had
represented to him that II was I'M
portant for them to follow such a
course.
Mr.. Hitchcock limited that lawless-
ness and Bolshevism were at the bot
tom of the approximations because rad
lcals and socialists were stirring up
trouble for existing governments Of
Great Britain and France.
lnasmuch as America has a deep in
terest in keeping the governments OF
the entente from being overthrown by
physical force and all Europe thrown
into a maelstrom of disorder, the presi-
dent felt II incumbent upon him to
yield to the persuasion Of Premier
Clemenceau and Prime Minister Lloyd
George. He entered into a gentlemen's
agreement not to make the treaty pub
lie, He has kept his word, as the SEN
ate investigating committee probably
will find
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-11

YEAR after year this list grows. It'll something more than list of well
i known concerns owning ten Orm Ore White Trucks 1t reppSentSa yearly
progress in ADDED trucks per owne-the most extensive growth of individual
fleets ever published by a truck maker
The buyer of me or many trucks canh have no better guide than the expe-
rence of those whose trucking volume affords a comparative knowledge of
results.
There aen now 2774 fleets in active service totaing 33139 White Trucks,
exclusive of all Snae truck installations.
reMH column includes myt @m# three months aMs
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Hard to Keep It Secret.

but lne lOlly OF II all is that any
body from Clemenceau to Lloyd George
TO President Wilson down supposed for
a minute that with modern newspaper
methods and hundreds Of copies of the
peace treaty printed and distributed
among the hundreds Of experts OF the
various nations represented at Paris
that somebody would not give a CODY
away or that some correspondent would
not find a copy on his desk, without
knowing who put 1t there or that the
Germans themselves, anxious to have
the treaty given wide publicity as a
basis for their campaign OF modifica-
tlon, would not see to 1t that some of
their agents In Paris stole a copy OF the
famous document and mailed It II not
delivered 1t to various newspapf
bureaus abroad.
Germany showed clearly II
wanted the treaty published b.
by having 1t printed quickly a..,. &C..
tributed in the Scandlna Wan countries
IN the hope Of having 1t reach entente
peoples,
Senator Hitchcock dramatically
charged the Republicans with desert
Ing Great Britain and France and
acting In conflict with the president
and In concurrence at least, with Ger
many"
Senator Johnson, OF California, ar
gued that inasmuch as an official sum
mary had been published, this really
released any II from the obligation
to withhold the whole text. Mr.. Hitch
cock declared the official summary was
all that the associated powers thought
wise to give out and that they were
the best judges of the situation.
II Is an interesting commentary on
the situation In congress that when
senator Borah began reading the peace
treaty, senators filed out one by me.
They weren't even interested In hear
Ing read the document they had fought
to get published-and most Of them
had not seen or read II before.
matter Of fact, 1t In admitted q
sides, too, that the official sum-,
given out to the world doesn't dlller
from the text published by the senate.