South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-06
By Betty Van Benthuysen

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w meningitis destroy the divorce germ? Can
the dollars which are buying for mankind
immunity from a dozen ravages of the body.
buy off the enemies Of the mind2 Can the mill
ions Of John D. Rockefeller find that elusive
bacillus which has wrecked the happiness Of his
daughter, Mrs. Harold Fowler Mccormick
The answer is best found in the activities Of
Mrs. Mccormick herself. After an eight years
absence in Europe, Mrs. Mccormick has returned
TO The United States, an avowed disciple Of Jung
and Freud, world-famed psychologists. She brings
with her two representatives of Dr. Carl lungs
Acade.ny Of the Mind at Zurich Switzerland, and
determination to set up a similar institute in
the United ates. Whether she believes that she
can win back the husband who has been estranged
from her for many years, through the medium
of psyche analysis, none but Mrs. Mccormick can
say. But that she intends to rise superior to her
troubles, ard incidentally to help others far as
possible through the same medium, is evident from
what she has said and has done
That the wealth Of the worlds richest man
has been diverted to such a purpose is an odd
trick of fate. The John D. Rockefeller who kept
the first dollar he ever made and firmly believes
that immersion is necessary to salvation would
hardly have dreamed it But stranger still are
two circumstances which brought it about
Why She Turned to Psychology.
The latest Of these-the arrangement of the
MeCormicks. the amours Of Gamma Walska, after
her break with Mary Garden. the alleged strong
arm tactics Of Walska's husband, Alexander
Smith Cochrsn-is generally conceded to be the
motive behind Mrs. McCormick's excursions into
the realm Of psyche analysis. In the first affair,
however-the Stllman divorce suit-dscerning
persons profess 10 see another reason for the ap-
pneation here of DR.. lungs psychic teachings
James A. stilman is brother of Mrs. Percy
A Rockefeller and the families are further tied
up by the reported engagement of young Fowler
Mccormick TO Ann Stlllmah daughter or James
A But Mrs Stillman Is close friend Of Mrs.
Mccormick and visited her in Switzerland just
before the court proceedings against her were
brougk. BY her husband
Ms Stillman is through with her husband.
Mrs Mccormick, though, still wants her hus-
bands love. Whether psycho-analysis will sue
ceed where other agencies have failed, remains 20
be seen Whether she succeeds or fails Mrs Nc
Cormick will undoubtedly make psycho-analysis an
even more familiar word in our language than it
IS.
The word is on the tongues Of many people.
Briefly explained il is an analysis of those hidden
irpulses and suppressions Of the mind which
never reach the final stages of thoughts and acts.
Taking the study IL has progressed in this
startling new venture il is necessary to go briefly
into the story OF Mrs. Mccormick. She found
herself eight years ago, the wife of a millionaire
Of artistic tastes vast wealth and views divergent
from, her own The anchor of three children
climbing toward maturity, did not serve to pause
the break that had come slowly at first, and then
widened.
Mr. and Mrs Mccormick separated The
spark that brought them together as younger PEG
ME no longer existed. His mind saw in one drec-
ton. and her personality had no place between
the mind and its horizon. Her own mind was not
so divorced from the masculine part Of the sketch
Divorce was always abhorrent to the Rockefeller
rlan. It was one nightmare that the master OF
millions did not wish 70 have
But the separation was an accomplished fact.
Mccormick became q patron Of opera Opera