The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-14
Getting What We Want"

eSTHRouGH neglect ignorance,
and econimic pressure time
after time the blond, hook
ed-nose man In forced into q seden-
tary, contemplative occupation, and
the brunei with shallow nose Is
obliged to win his livelihood by
bodily sweat. The tractor is used
as pleasure car, the touring car
is pressed into service for blowing.
Eventually, under such circum-
stances, a break must come in the
human and material mechanisms
Man revolts, unconsciously or con-
sciously, against uncomfortable con-
ditions- He becomes Ill, or he
throws over his Job and quits, or
he continues to labor while mutter-
ing the doctrine OF the /. w. w.
and the Bolsheviki."
DR.. David Orr Edison, eminent
practicing physician in New York
city and noted psychoanalyst, makes
Getting What We Want" HIar-
pers). which tells the reader in
simple language how to apply
psychoanalysis to his or her own
problems. DIR. Edison places great
emphasis upon the fact that the
blond or "doer," with a sloping
forehead and light eyes, should
choose career which nalls for
physical action, such as travelling
salesman or factory superintendent.
and. that the brunei or thinker"
with prominent forehead and DARK
eyes, should have a mental job at
a desk.
DR.. Edison tells the reader how to
choose the right environment or how
TO triumph over the wrong one.
He explains why there are now so
many dissatisfied workmen; why
there are so many Knockers" why
some are successes and others are
failures; why a husband and wife
suddenly become estransed for no
apparent reason: and even how to
manage ones cook. y
Thomas Dwight GodeiI. author OF
"Commemoration and Other Verses"
yale University PresO was late
professor of Greek in Yale Uni
versity. The volume contains
twenty short poems, which are the
work OF a serious and sincere
thinker embodied in the form Of
verse, rather than the product OF
one touched by the divine fire OF
poetic genius.
Some OF these poems originally
appeared In the Yale Review, the
Alumni Weekly, and the London
Spectator. The book contains an
Introduction by William Lyon
Phelps.
Six Years OF Letters.
Under the title. Letters to No
body, 190S.10l8," Sir Guy Fleetwood
Wilson gives many entertaining and
informative slimpses Of his services
as director of finances of India dur
ing those years. The letters cover
a variety of subjects, including
much big game shooting, travelling
about the country, study of the un-
rest In India and its causes. and OF
the relation between the Indian and
English races. his policies and their
results and his work in general as
director Of the finances. The book
is published by q. p, Dutton a Co.
Akin TO Ben Hur."
Bernie Babcock's The Coming Of
the King" Enthusiastically is a no.
nance which follows the life Of
Christ as told in the Bible narratives,
with the addition Of some few i'm
aeinary characters, One OF these,
zador Ben Anon. Figures through
out as Judas, but the principal
characters are Mary. Martha, and
Lazarus.
Mrs. Babcock has invested with
romantic settings many OF the ages.
old incidents in the life Of Jesus, and
has drawn a sharp contrast between
Jew and Roman. which inclines at
times somewhat more 20 the I'm
ssinative than TO the strictly his