Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-16
WOMAN WRITER
GIVES VERSION
"Character" Was Lacking at
Party in Which Virginia
Rape Lost Life
BY Winona Wilcox
Author of Confessions of a War
Bride" Confessions of a Bride"
and Letters to Lovers"

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Bride" Confessions of u Bride"
and Letters to Lovers"
Arbuckle, famous movie m
dian, is locked in the "felon's row"
of a San Francisco jail-because a
girl is dead.
There had been a party in Ar
buckles hotel suite.
Wealth and youth, beauty and
genius had attended. Booze
eveyything-was there which a GER
tain class considers 1.-The life"
But something human was lack
ing from that party-for the gar
ments of the girl who is dead were
literally torn to tatters," a witness
testifies!
Just what was omitted from the
gls morous event?
Not brains. The master of the
revels can play excellent straight
drama as well as comedy. Nobody
who has laughed at "Fatty's" stunts
ever called him a fool.
Not education. A man who has
raised his salary from $50 to S500o
a week has acquired a liberal edu-
cation in the process
Then what was wanting?
The pitiful heap of tattered chit
fcns tells the tale :
Character was wanting. Charac-
ter which means restraint; re-
straint which originates in the will
and controls the human urges.
Whatever the evidence may prove
which connects Roscoe Arbuckle
with the most sensational crime of
the decade in America, there re-
mains those shreds of a girls gar
ments to stamp with shame a GER
tain kind of fast living.
The Wrong Theory
Pleasure of the smartest and lat
est variety is based on tho notion
that human beings are by the ma
tu7e they inherit entitled to seize
the hour; that nature justifies mar
in taking his fun where he finds l..
This is a theory of which the
race was once ashamed, but it has
spread wide since the war, and
those who hold it are no longer
ashamed of it..
Why?
Well the great war is not the
Germans.
A subtler way of manufacturing
misery was devised by Freud, whose
name is familiar to all who can
read.
Freud has reduced conduct to a
sex basis. Even our dreaems are
prompted by the sex urge, he says.
And We can't help ourselves, he
insists; and of course this idea
makes a tremendous appeal to
those who do not wish to help them
selves.
Freud's Position
To some one who objected to his
revolving theory. Freud said in a
lecture:
1.-The trouble is. you believe in the
illusion of psychic freedom and will
not give it up. l regret that on this
point I find myself in, complete OPP
position to your views
Now, it is astounding how quick
ly man can grasp a doctrine which
he finds agreeable. This accounts
for the rapidity with which Freud's
abominable theory has seized upon
the imaginations of persons of all
degrees of intelligence.
The youth of remote villages and
thinkers of university centers agree
that the repression of primitive in
stincts and the inhibition of ele-
mental impulses react to the injury
OIL the 1nulvAuudl!
Those who never heard Freud's
name snatch at his philosophy as a
law of nature which they must
obey!
And some who do not sin them
selves, laugh at, or condone, or
tolerate sin-as a sex necessity-in
others!
Absurdity of Theory
Absurd oil his fO those who he
lieve that man possesses a will
which distinguished him from the
animals; doubly absurd to decent
men and women who perceive that
our national life is infected with a
false philosophy of pleasure, prac-
ticed secretly by thousands and COW
eted by millions.
Now the tragedy which has
trapped Arbuckle would seem to
prove the worst in the Freudian
theory, but fortunately certain sane
persons neither prudes nor %censors,
have invented two short questions
which rob Freudian disciples of
their snug joy in their natural
right to eroticism.
Any just-average man and wo-
man can answer them. The great
need is that individuals shall put
the questions plainly and answer
honestly:
Is your soul your own-or is 1t
net?
docs your brain rule you-or
your body?"
Thanks to the eternal good which
abides in man somewhere, we have
ell passed the point where we will
admit that we are slaves to our
bodies.
When the most famous and in
sidious and destructive of all mod
ern philosophers is thus condensed,
nobody will own it for himself.
Psychic freedom-the freedom OF
the soul t o know and to chooses
not an illusion.
As we'll deny ones eyes as ones
cCnsciencet