Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-04
JOHN d. DAUGHTER
AND HUSBAND PART
The Harold Mccormicks, Chi
cago Millionaires, Not Living
Under Same Roof.

Chicago. Oct. s.-Harold r McCor-
mick. president of the International
Harvester Company. and his wife,
Edith. daughter OF John ID. Rockefeller,
are living apart and under separate
roofs. This information was made
public In statement issued by MIR.
Mccormick yesterday at his country
home In Lake Forest. Ill.,. where he is
living with his son. Fowler. Mrs. Nc
tormick. who has Just returned from
sojourn of eight years in Switzer-
land, is occupying the town house at
1000 Lake Shore Drive, with her
daughter Muriel.
MIR. Mccormick confirmed the re-
port that he and Mrs. Mccormick We're
living i'm different homes. They will
have, he intimated. distinct fields of
activity in art and business, she in
developing her doctrine of synthetic
psychology, treating neurotics in her
home. The formal statement given
out at Lake Forest read:
MIR. Harold Mccormick presents his
compliments and begs TO announce
that the report that he and his wife
are living apart is true"
yesterday 10 seeing "the new Chicago .
as she said. With DR.. Joseph Hart
mann OF Zurich. Switzerland. who is
her personal physician, and his COM
panion. Edward Krenn. she set out
for tour of the boulevards. Later
Mrs. Mccormick talked enthusiastical-
~ OF her new theories. To illustrate,
she said:
Let us compare the mind to a
house. and its thoughts to the furni-
ture II contains. Some of the furni-
ture is unsightly, covered with dust.
broken or ugly. We clear it all out
throw ii away, and the mind is
clear. But we must replace this fur
niture or the house is useless. So we
place a beautiful piece here and there.
until the house is habitable again.
"Of course. the furniture we throw
out are the old worries, understood in
psychoanalysis as repressions. The
more difficult work is the introduction
OF new ideals. The extent 10 which
patient suffers depends entirely on
how much Of the furniture cluttering
up his brain is ugly and broken
down.
You would be surprised to discover
how delightful some persons can be
when they have had their brains reno
waited in this way-an the gold that
lses beneath the heavy dust and CRIME,
the beautiful things that suddenly
appear"
Does your school, then, Introduce
new ideas in place Of the old?" Mrs
Mccormick was asked.
THAT question is not scientifically
put" responded Mrs. Mccormick
"and is difficult to answer. OF course
the character of different individuals
remain essentially the same in re-
spect 10 fundamentals.
"lAfe is more or less like a flower
garden. / may be a rose, another
person may be a lily, you may bt
another kind of flower. Life would
not be interesting if this were not
true. And, Of course, after a course
In synthetic psychology, a figurative
rose or lily would not lose its iden.
tity. Instead, it would be more per-
feet. The blotches and faded petals
would go"
Mrs. McCormick's attitude toward
her husbands action in coming on
separate train apparently was tha
their relations We're unchanged nov
from what they had been during tn,
eight years she has resided abroad
Her attitude is that it has beel
known that she and her husband wer
separated for extended periods o
time and that there is nothing un
usual in the present situation.
Harold EFoxt-lor- MrfSav-,oSclr se 90,
Of Cyrus Mccormick, inventor of tn
reaping machine, and was born i
Chicago May 2, 1872. He won a de
gree Of a. b. at Princeton in 1895
and on Nov. 20. 1895, he Marie
Edith. the daughter Of John I
Rockefeller. The young people ha