The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-25
Menace TO RACE
IS FEAR, ALLEN
TELLS audience
Lions Club Lecturer Dwells
on Theory of Love, Con-
fidence and Goodwin
Remedy for Evil

Love, Confidence and Good Will are
the keynotes of success declared Frank
Waller Allen. author and lecturer in
o0alng his address Tuesday night, TO
members of the Lions Club and addi-
tienal friends at Ardmore high school
auditorium.
The science of Psychology as applied
10 everyday life was the thought
brought out in the lecture, the speak
er opening his address by explaining
the source of his subject, Interviewing
some OF his own lifes experience in
dealing with Fear--mans greatest en-
emy.
THE greatest menace to the human
race today Is just plain everyday, old
fashioned fear" the speaker declared,
Fear destroys happiness, defeats sue
cess, impairs the health. The mani
festations Of fear in every day life,
masquerade under the name of worry,
self-depreciation. jealousy, Fremont
lion, resentment and timidity."
Dreams of Youth Gone.
That he, like others, discovered at
the age Of about 35 that all Of his
dreams Of early youth were gone. and
how he went about discovering why
and the determination to recall them,
brought out an intensely interesting
story.
There were three things | desired.
he said, three things requisite -
money. health and happiness.
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money. 1t is nothing to be ashamed
Of but l realized too, that it was the
thing that money purchased that l
desired most-I wanted books, travel,
freedom, all symbolized by money;
then / wanted health. Health is
right. it is the sense Of fitness and
10y, it too Is symbolic of life; then
! wanted happiness-an unhappy man
oant produce good work, he must
have harmony in his life and so with
this thought l begun to analyze the
reasons why / did not have them.
Look Into the Inner oMan.
What had become of those things
which / had? then looked into
the inner man. II is n good thing 10
look AT ourselves.
II discovered first that it was fear,
mans greatest enemy. Fear destroys
happiness, business, and finally
health"
At this point the speaker gave
graphic description Of the scene at
the sinking of the Lusitana. He told
what some would do under stress OF
fear. how terror drives out the ability
to think, how 1t sweeps away all in
telligence. He then told how Charles
Frohman and others met death.
Origin Of Fear.
The speaker then gave the origin
OF the word fear, and its attendants,
worry. anxiety. repression and tim
ldity and resentment. the latter he
said was the most disastrous.
Fear is the cause of many dis
cases." he declared, quoting from
many noted physicians. These men
state that fear causes all nervous
diseases and that If they can get at
the cause of the fear and can substi'
tute hope. their chance of effectng
q cure is a hundred fold"
Having analysed all the manifesto
tons OF fear and disastrous results
including ludicrous description OF
"Old Man Gloom" and the fatality OF
listening and coinciding with him. the
speaker told how to overcome these
enemies.
THE first way out is to realize that
YOU have an enemy" he said. but
do not nurse II. When you are deal
ing with fear you are dealing with
an attitude of mind.
Gain Control Of Self.
"You must realize that II is your
mind. No one else. You must first
master yourself. gain control of your
own thoughts, you must think the
opposite of fear"
Some, he said, might think II selfish
10 think first of self. but the speaker
declared. until one can control his
own thoughts, he can not be leader
ct men.
Love j. Answer.
Love Is the answer TO fear-it II
the opposite or fear"
The speaker then told OF how one