Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-12-26
SCIENCE In
SIZINC-UP.
JOBSEEKERS
Hoover Co m m ittee
Uses High brow Stuff.
Low Brows Throw
Monkey Wrench
By Leo T. Heatley.

NeW YORK, Dec. 26.-YOu re-
member Freud, OF course-he OF
the hash complex and other mys.
teries. Well, here is bobbing ur
again, pairing with old man Psy-
cho-Analysis as committee of one
to find the complete solution of the
unemployment problem. The COM
mittee got along fine while deal
ing with Inner Consciousness and
the Urge To Do, but suddenly a
lot of lowbrows threw a wrench
into the machine by asking for
jobs.
The Hoover employment plan
being worked out in detail by the
industrial aid bureau here follows
a system of psycho-analysis which
determines the amount of ekoistic
self-consciousness in each applic-
ant for a job. Louis H. Sullivan,
a dollar year" vocational ex-
pert, devotes his energies to the
development of the system. Men
tai tests and facial angles were
used at first, but now Sullivan
picks his men through scientific
psycho-analysis Of the applicants
penmanship.
Plan of Operations.
Sullivan explained that his sys-
fem wac ac cirpnIa nc or ;on1,,o
tax blank, a mere matter of SYM
metry and curves and vibrations.
Through working out his plans
along Freudian lines Sullivan
landed retired army colonel in
a $4,000 year job as manager
of western ranch. Here is
Freud simplified:
There was time when | did
not know why kicking horse al
ways holds his ears back, which
gives him the intelligent express
sion such as horses have" Sulli-
van explained. We had often no.
ticed this intelligent expression on
the faces of animals, particularly
the COW, and told him so. But l
don't wonder any more" he went
on, because I found out. The
kicking horse holds his ears back
to get them out of the way of his
eyes, so that it can see where to
kick. And that's discovery on
which | pride myself Just as much
as on anything I've found out in
human psychology. There you
have the principle. And it works
out in the study of handwriting.
Carter from Writing.
Here's a letter from a man
hat looks like woman's shop
ping letter. You can see at
glance that it hasn't much char !
lcter. And notice the unneces-
'ary and fitful attempts at orna-
nentatiOn. Here is the final r.
II. the little word per prolonged
n a thick stroke of an inch and a
lalf, proving that the writer
makes a lot of fuss over nothing.
Here are letters of the same word
lot connected, showing that he is
lot careful in many things, in
money matters.
"See the absence of differenti-
ltion in that H. e. and H. Why,
hey're all alike. This is a man
Who has got to nave everything
lis own way or else he can't work.
1ook at the blank space he left at
he end of that line, although
here was room for the next word.
lie can't adapt himself. The more
money a man owes the more paper
Ie covers in writing letter. Here,
n the other hand, he has crowded
n word at the end of a line
Vhen he should have carried it'll
yer to the next line. You see,I
here is no consistency in that
haracter
II don't know why long,
anky, red-faced man, with big
ands and feet and head that is
)ng vertically and a triangular
ace-why such a man is always
mployed out of doors in one of
wo lines, either shipping or con-
truction engineering don'tI
now why, but I know it is always
D."
He has studied men as types,
18th an eye to physiology CO.
rdinated with the. psychology of
he animal" and sees them first 4
types-before diving into them
; individuals.
Sullivan explained how psychol-
sical variations exerted a direct
Id potent influence upon indfv-
ual ego, but you'll have to write
him to find that out.