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Vast Increase in Femi-
nine Offenders Days
News Shows, and
Acting District At
torney Is Shocked at
Facts Noted Detec-
tive Disagrees

clude the subject for people who are con-
stant readers Of the newspapers. The peo-
pie in general are in the habit of forming
conclusions from the criminal fats diners OF
every day. In spite of their inherited belief
they to think when they read Of girls being
arrested for burglaries TO which men were
not admitted either before after the
crimes. of women used as-"lookouts' by male
desperadoes, of other women who serve not
as mere accomplices of criminals but actu-
ate crimes and very often carry their evil
plans to what they call a successful end?
In murder the women have proceeded
along cold blooded ways that sometimes put
i'm shadow those of men. Dark and intri-
cate. hidden by tricks that may fairly be
called feminine. the working of women in
this horrid art gives some reason to a cele-
brated authors elevation of it among the
fine arts. The Kaber case. now being elab-
otately unveiled in the public prints is
notorious feminine example. Others which
preceded il in time have brought to justice
several women instigators of murder.
In "stickup" games so boldly carried out
in broad daylight women have been active
dressed who accompanied her pal" to a jew
eller's shop in Sixth avenue recently did not
confine her efforts to the ensemble. but took
an active part. biting and scratching, giving
and receiving punishment equally. and when
the game failed walking out calmly and los
ing herself in the crowd. She has not been
caught but her pal" who was may yet
"saueal" on her
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sible to derive the temper of the association
1t was divided and this is, ! think, the
judgment to date of the medical profession,
summed up in the words not proven
For myself. believe in psychoanalysis
but not in Freud"
The reliance being placed dreams and
the way the practising psychoanaysts who
are that or nothing lean on symbolism was
working, DR.. Mills thought, in way detri-
mental to this psychiatric aid. And the alb
soute cutting away of the unconscious man
from the same man in his waking life
seemed to be taking what might be scientific
data into the realm of the mystic and super
natural
"Subconsciousness, by which they explain,
or seek to everything, Is a greater marvel
in itself than any it explains. What may not
this unweighed force, thing that uses its
own muscular force for its own ends, inn
pinge on US poor mortals?" asked DIR. Mills,
and he added: "ConsideS the phenomena of
dreams, what things we do what sights we
see in them. No mortal is safe from being
exposed TO the ridicue, the indignity of
dreams
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in an enfeebled state of mind, state that
can't be directed by himself. He can't get
away from the mesh. But it is the analyst
himself who is actually the victim of a pow
erful auto-suggeston. This compels the
analyst in spite of his desire to be honest,
to search for sexual reactions and to read
these into his analytic processes.
"In one of the very recent accounts of
psycheanalyst of case he had treated the
doctor first used the method of word asso-
citation, then supplemented this with sug-
gestion, persuasion and bulldoZng, and thus
he was able to get the data he wanted. The
method employed in direct psychoanalysis
and in that of dreams Is a stimulus not only
to the Imagination of the patient but it also
teaches him to lie."
Is subconsciousness more than the psy-
chical side of the molecular changes that
are going on in the nervous system? DR..
Mills in reply to this question said that the
search for truth must be made in the light
of the constant factors of human life, and
not in its alterations. Double conscious
ness and double identity are we'll known
forms of insanity, and divinity or truth is
no more to be sought for in them than in
the excited states of dream or wakefulness
when all sorts of extraordinary things are
seen by the walker or the dreamer, who,
nevertheless, is aware that he is all the
time observing his own hallucinations.
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r. MILLS, NEUROLOGIST, FINDS MUCH IN DREAMS
YOUNG persons who have taken up
the fad of psychoanalysis and older

X/OUNG persons who have taken up
the fad of psychoanalysis and older
ones too will be keenly interested
in the accompanying interview with the
noted neurologist, DR.. Charles X. Mills of
Philadelphia. His views on this absorbing
topic round out series of articles dis
cussing this subject from many angles and
printed from time to time in the Magazine
Section of THE NEW YORK HERALD.
His findings that some good may be had
from the study of dreams will delight the
Freudians, but they will receive a severe
shock when his analysis of the Freudan
theory as to the origin Of those dreams is
read
As an important and valuable addition
to the many books, booklets and articles
printed about psychoanalysis, DR.. Mills's
interview doubtless will go down in the
records as one of the most illuminating,
fairest and most comprehensive yet pre-
Sented.
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DIR. Charles Karsner Mills, famous
Philadelphia physician, who says he is
a true psychoanalyst, though not ac-
cepting Sigmund Freud's theories
about dreams.
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in Freud Theories
of Mitchell Famous Ph1a
Met Diagnosis Study Common
sense yandSesG GeatBen in

"It Is my belief therefore, that the propa-
ganda for psychoanalysis has been of con-
siderable benefit to physicians and psychoo-
gists in that it has directed their attention
70 the more minute and profound study of
sex and to other energic phenomena, al
though the study of sex problems has never
been neglected entirely by the really able
exponents Of neuropsychiatry.
Some neurologists and alienists have per-
haps shown a tendency to push aside or to
dodge sexual investigation, but I do not
believe that this is true of the best practi-
toners of this department of medicine. They
have steered a middle course between the
tendency to include and to avoid sex prob
lems occasionally perhaps because of their
peculiarites of temperament and social de-
velopment tending to neglect the difficulties
of the sexual situation.
Liken the Evils of Psychoanalysis
To Those of the Mysticism Craze
with regard TO the evils and dangers of
psychoanalysis, they are the same as those
which are inflicted on the profession and
) the community by the too intense concen-
tration on mystic and semi-mystic subjects
such as spritism, divine healing, &C., and
the therapy of shrnes. l do not hesitate to
say that great evils have come to pass from
the propaganda favoring these so-called
forms 6f cure.
ITO my mind it is the same evil which
may come and which has come from the
active propaganda of psychoanalytic teach
ing | don't refer to what is so often eX-
pressed as the moral injury to the COM
munity, but my belief is simply that which
think every rational physician is likely
to hold. that much of evil and danger may
come from the advocacy and practice of any
rational form of treatment.
1.-The danger / dread then is both general
and particular. Either way persistence in
pushing to the extreme the sexual theories
of the ardent psychoanalyst the firm be-
lever in Freud, threatens the moral tone
and impairs the moral fibre of a country"
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WOmen's Part in Crime Wave

William ]. Burns, noted detective,
who says women are not natural GRIM
inals and seldom initiate offences
against the law.
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BY WILLIS STEEL.

w THY is the unconscious" uncon-
w ~elous' is not question. as light
minds may think. to be listed for
patent absurdity with these others we have
asked since childhood: When is a door not
a door? Why does the hen cross the road?
No, it is a serious scientific question that
served famous British physician. Ernest
Jones, a close follower of Sigmund Freud,
as the subject of article published in
1919 in the British Journal OF Psychology,
and it occupied considerable space in paper
devoted to a comparison of practical and
theoretical aspects of psychoanalysis read
by Charles r. Mills, M. d., LID, before
the American Neurological Association at
Atlantic City on June 15
Analysis of the soul in an attempt to
diagnose more intimately the diseases the
delicate human brain is heir to is no new
thing Scarce a philosopher before and
since the time of Plato but has sought to
cross the mystic border between what man
thinks he is and what he really is. With
Freud as protagonist with new theories
of dreams and symbols for the interpreta-
ton of dreams, a great discussion was held
by the most accredited neurologists of
Great Britain fifteen years ago. Freud him
self presented a paper, and a score of doc
tors, all eminent, argued for and AGAINST
the new theories, and each one offered tes-
timony ,culled from his own practice The
subject then threshed out seemed about to
become popular, butt the Briton is slow to
admit new ideas, and it died out For fif-
teen years there was indifference and the
name Of Freud was by general consent
added 10 the list headed in the popular mind
by Paracelsus.
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Joab H. Banton, Acting District At
torney of New York county, who is
shocked by the extent of crime among
women.
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criminal than men, because when woman
wants crime committed she can generally
find man to do 1t for her.
Women seldom show initiative in evil
doing except when they yield to certain base
passions A curious fact in female crime is
that one-seventeenth of the women COM
mtted to prison have already been con-
vcted from eleven to twenty times"
Mr.. Burns has kept a degree of faith i'm
feminine human nature that may seem sur
prising in man of his experience. and his
candid discussion Of this phase of crim-
nology was significant. Said he:
Crime in its very nature is abhorrent to
women and / say this in face OF the various
modern instances where they have practised
II. Ny statement is a general one. but II
grows out of what have myself seen and
learned. When woman is mixed up in
bad thing, something she knows she will he
imprisoned otherwise punished for IL dis
covered. she breads II for itself but is car
ried into II by her affection for some man.
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Grimes Evolved by Women
Are the Hardest to Solve

There have been. It is true. wonderfully
clever women criminals, and when women
of their own votion adopt a life OF crime.
rare occurrence as I have found they take
immense precautions against discovery.
Woman crimes are the hardest to solve be-
cause of the numerous leads they have
opened up TO cast suspicion anywhere but on
themselves. Their intuition helps them to
ways Of conceament that men seldom think
Of A smart woman thief calls into play
twice as many aptitudes on the part of the
thief catcher as a man does.
You see the old adage. Chcrchcs Ia femme.
applies TO most men criminals They will
confde i'm woman. and that often leads TO
their undoing. Few woman criminals take
man into their confidence. for several
reasons. One is that the basest woman or the
most hardened will still put up buff TO the
man she cares for and she will hide her
depravity from him as long as she can This
takes away one OF the simplest methods of
catching a criminal
Crime and the methods of criminals
change with the times of course. but It
remains a fact to-day. as IL always has been,
that the most successful crimes are carried
off with the aid OF women. Their aid in
burglaries is a feature Of the present day
Women visit house either in the guise
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Only Another and Poor Way
OF Putting the Heredity Question

After all, this is only another and not
very satisfactory way of putting the great
question of heredity One may inherit traits.
trends, tendencies. capacities or incapacities
but never an isolated memory or thought
wv. II. II. Rivers disagreed with Nicoll
and with his other fellow analyst, Ernest
Jones. He believes that what is repressed
within the unconscious is chiefly that part
of the instructive which is not useful to the
developing personality of the individual.
Ernest Jones assailed the point of view
of both Nicoll and Rivers. He considers
neither of them tenable and attacks jung s
idea Of the unconscious. Jones is a hedonist
and accepts the pleasure pain theory in ex-
planning sexual repression in the 'uncon-
scious.'
Confusion worse than these varying theo-
ries among the psychoanalysts themselves
grows out of the interminable termnol-
ogy adopted by the practitioners of the cult,
and many of these terms. DIR. Mills thinks
are far from being either descriptive ex-
planatory.
I'm psychoanalysls." said he. this ten
dency to division and subdivision to the in
vention of new terms or the application of
old terms to new uses has been carried to
excess. Each new investigator is not happy,
il would seem. until he has invented few
of his own.
Starting with the terms relating to con-
iixation, repression, sublimation. repression
compensation and even constellation. DIFF
ferent psychoanalysts use these terms diff
ferently. In the case of ibido Freud gave
IL meaning associating IT with sexual in
stinct or desire >Jung tells us 1t has more
general, energic significance. 'Narcissism
is word introduced by Havelock Ellis. and
at once IT was speedily adopted by Freud. It
derives its meaning from the myth Of the
youth Narcissus, who admired himself alto
gether too much, since II led to his destruc-
tion.
but of all the new vocabulary the word
complex has had the greatest success. This
word was originally invented by psyche
analysts to extricate themselves from the
difficulties which arise in the consideration
of ideas In the unconscious supposed to have
emotional or instructive associations. Freud
ever on the alert for new pathological weap
ons, adopted the term complex until now
the Freudians. in common with those Of
other psychoanalytcal schools, fairly revel
in complexes Lastly came the root com
plex best exemplihed in the Oedipus com
plex This has grown 10 be n sort Of psychic
measuring unit or foot rule. Ernest Jones
found II in the character Of Hamlet The
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Many Miracles to Be Found
If HaHucinations Are Counted

No more is discovered by these methods of
probing suggesting than the soothsayers
of ancient Rome discovered in the entrais
of a bird or an animal. Then eccentric-vari
ationS from type were so frequently found
that miracles became commonplace. In the
celebrated novel THE Closter and the
Hearth person asked why the market
place was so black with groups of people,
and a bystander explained in these words:
'Ye born fool! 1t is only a miracle"
In some such phrase DR.. Mills would be-
little the so-called great truths that by di-
rect analysis and by suggestion the soul
searchers for erotic things draw up out Of
the depths of their patients unconscious or
subconscous mind
'Is it true" asks DIR. Mills. that the cor
relations which have been established dur
ing the last fifty years between structural
alteration and brain functions are so trifiing
after all. in the light of what we have
learned through anatomy, physiology and
clinico- o-pathology, regarding the cerebral rep
resentation of motion. sensation toncity
and speech, and even Of emotion and con-
crete and abstract thinking? Are these not
worth more than all the purely psychic spec
ulatons regarding mental phenomena? A
medical theory which cannot bring to its
support the data and principles of such
sciences anatomy. physiology chemistry
ness which must throw doubt upon its val
idity
ITO define or explain consciousness is by
no means easy. Even so great psycholo-
gist William James declines to define the
term and confines himself to the descriptive
or analytic level At the recent joint meet
ing of three British societies concerned with
psychological questions, a symposium was
held during which was discussed the rather
cryptic question, Why is the unconscious"
unconscious?'
Maurice Nicoll presented the common
psychoanaytical view and concerned him
self with what he termed collective uncon-
scious.' by which he means the 'accumu-
lated ancestral unconscious Of an individual
not simply for few generations but the
unconscious of thousands and hundreds of
thousands of ancestors during million
years. To him the unconscious is not
personal but an impersona matter
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A BY JULY 4

I, Is said TO be the aim OF Republican
leaders In congress 10 have the nation
technically at peace by July T. Since
peace resolutions have been passed by
both the house and senate and contain
no vital points Of difference, there Is
no insuperable obstacle to the accom-
plishment OF this purpose.
The senate has passed the Knox reso-
luton, which repeats the resolution CO.
claring a state OF war. passed April 8.
1917. Tho house has passed tho Porter
resolution. declaring the state OF war at
an md. The reason the house did NOT
concur In the Knox resolution was that
70 repeal the declaration OF war was
held TO be a population by this country
Of it's part in the conflict. That IS mere
~ q technical point. but there Is no
reason why the senate should not agree
to Il. On the other hand. the claus in
tho Knox resolution reserving the rights
Of this country pending the conclusion
of q treaty OF peace Is considered sumo
what better than the similar one IN the
Porter resolution. so the house may
properly concede a part 20 the senate.
Tho country Is growing tired 81 wait
lns on q step that may as well be taken
one time as another. Our lawmakers
should develop a l'ttle energy and ct
this matter settled.
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RIPPING RHYMES
DAYS.
By WALT MASON.

Some days the luck is all against
us. misfortune with barbed wire has
fenced US. AT early morn We leave
our couchcs. and feel possessed or
g~rievous SrourheS: We step upon a
tack on rising. and hand out language
most surprising. such adJect'res as
start pink bliStcrs upOn the c2rdrums
OF our sisters. We do no smiling and
no Joking; the breakfasts late. the
stove is smoking: the soft boiled eggs
are hard as thunder. the biscuits are
an asphalt wonder. And when y"
leave our homes. proceeding To daily
tasks. our hOSomS bleeding, our hild
nld bcaStly iucli continues; We fall n
block and Spiain some sinewS: an auto
hits us with it's fender and leaves us
bruised and sore and tender: and all
the borrs we have been stunning
come round US now. and come a-run-
ming: and soon we note with Ire and
loathinG thai rain has spoiled our nr"
spring clothing: and bill collectors
stcrnly trail us, and threaten they viii
sue and Jail us. We meet all accidents
that bore most. and everything Is
hind end foremost. You've known such
DAYS, and did your weaken m !et
the hr!ny tears start leakin'? or did
YOU rear on end serenely. with grace
and dignity most queenly. and say
Though fate b" raw and clanmy III
show that l am Sunny Sammy
by George Matthew Adams')
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DIR PACIFIC ALLIES

II there were 10 British domtmus on the Pacific then America ""Uo NeN
20 n. umch mora deeply concerned over the renewal of the AnGtoHJapaneSe "'
ans than is nov the case. As matters stand, thsn nation would Do" N"r P'"''
20 .,.n. ns-s No such agreement. 1t has in the past made Japan much Uo"'e'
.,d ro,. aggressive in carrying out her lmperahSrr policies IN the ar r""
and alhough modified will retain onethtns Of this erect
r. .ut,,oo os =, uI nr,hablv be renewed will make II clear that Eng
land will not on japan In my possible war against the tniHd states ms i"
something that has never etoreb eens tateds specifically. II VIII De ">'"'' "S
t-a mainly because Of thu insistencc OF The British anaNH sou "
Africa, Australia, New Zealanda and India.
Fortunately fr the Engushspeakns countries, the Pacific interests OF 's
I-,naa sn.s md the British donations are Identical In addition tn people
y, uos, Of, those doninions are more nearly like Americans than EnFhSh"""N
M have the American vrcwpon, So strongly d. the do"ln'oHs '"' '""' P'
,u pousc, questions that any action ~ England with Japan against the lnNu
States would split the British empire
Naturally. England will run no such risk as that and does not wish " De
.uo. nth 1apana against the United States anyhow. Such n unnAt"rM partner
chin voud only be the result OF very unusualci rcumstance even II there" we're
M dorintons Wha, England really van is to continue her agreement WIZ"
ron,r berapss OF certain questions of policy in the Far East IA without COM
hitting herself TO take up arms against America and her \" donin'"S'
When disposed to conjureu up a yellow peril" We should keep these facts IN
mind, ant sleep peacefully.
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THEY GET THEIRS ANYHOW

Professors Dempsey and Carpenter
viii not oe dependent upon the whims
Of a nckls public for their enumeration
when they give their scientific demon
stration at Jersey City Saturday. No
mattAr whether anybody attends their
little soirse or not Professor Jack Is
To receive s3o1.ono WIN or lose. AID
Professor Georges 100000 regardless
OF thu outcome
with this nifty Arrangement in effect,
Tex Packard. who II the angel" OF the
event. Is the only one who rug any
chancea- That Is. financially speaking.
And Il Is not probable that the gifted
Tex will have any deficits 10 meet on
July 5. Despite the fact that most
people think the American gladiator will
send Georges TO dreamland. tout dc
suite" there will be several on hand TO
see Just how 1t happens.
so Tar as a possible 'Traneup" Is con-
cerned, il may BE- taken for granted that
IN this event there Amt no such ami
NAL" Dempsey will not let go OF the
championship II he can avoid Il. and
Carpenter Will take L away from his
antagonist II he possibly al Neither
has anything to gaia by a crooked deal
so there win be n
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LEON, THE

Mr.. Leon Trotz&y, who. used 20 press
pants n New York. and has recently
been tattenInE out Russia. has gone
into the prophet business. In 1924. says
Leon, there will be L naval war between
America and Great Britain. as n result
% maritime rivalry. Incidentally. he
refers to Uncle sam as "a swollen gour-
mand."
Leon is nothing Il not Specific. We
have TO hand It to him sor that. He does
not say at some t!mH in the not dis
tant future two great nations Will en-
gaze in war" Not at all. He says tAst
America and Britain VIII night IN 1924.
That gives US valuable advance :nfor-
nation. Now all We have 10 do IS To
construct a huge fleet, with plenty OF
airplanes and subs. so that when John
Bull comes around with a chip on his
shoulder three years hence he will get
the surprise OF his life. After hat. this
country will OF course give Mr.. Trotzky
a place in the Hall OF Fame as assistant;
%Ianltor.
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so far. IS not paying its way, as x Is
now producing about $l@.o"o.ee' a year.
Where does the balance of the ST.
300, 900 come from? Naturally. from the
pockets % tn" taxNayerS-EoVr pocket
and your neighbours pocket. Now, II we
relieve our coaSrw:S" SnirplHE from
tolls. II IS clear that the annual income
OF the canal will be much less. Who
will make UP the difference? obviously
the national treasury, or. in other
words. the American taxpayer.
All OF the people would thus BE- max
sng a gift 70 the shipowuerS. Tolls are
OF course included IN the price OF the
goods which the ships carry. and pad
ultimately by the consumers OF those
good. II the Shipowu"rS rav" their
shippers the benefit Of tn" tolls eN"mp-
ton. and It were ultimately passed on
10 the consumers of goods carried Nr
thcS. <aipS. then those consumers would
b. favored at the expense Of the rcsl
OF the people. II We wish to confer
special favors on a few at the expense
Il all the taxpayers. we can do It by
exenpt.ng these cuastwise ships from
Panama canal tolls.