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The New York herald., 1922-06-04
1CE IS DOING TO COMBAT WASTE OF PREMATURE DEATH

sake OF the mere mechanical eouiva-
lents, money and money power.
The present age of mechanical in
terest, technical education, mechanical
psychology and mechanical charity
viii not pass through being dis
counted. controlled and eliminated as
piracy has been eliminated. but by
being fulfilled to the utmost, There
VIII thus be endowments for every
thing worthy of endowment as well as
plenty OF men of the best possible
mentality and equipment ready and
eager to take up any new work IL its
worthiness is shown. But it's worthi-
ness will be measured not by eco
nomic standards. The world will have
passed that phase: II will have ad-
vanced 70 quality of thought and of
consciousness superior to thought. in
conceivable to us now.
Two Lines Now Followed
Open Up Great Opportunity
The two lines that we are follow
ing now are endocrinoIogy and oste-
opathy. They will help very much to
bring about these resu1ts. both di-
rectly and indirectly. In the first
place they will help in the elimination
Of waste. What are the greatest
wastes of to-day? They are wastes Of
illness and premature death, wastes
OF criminality, wastes Of inefficiency.
wastes Of false education. These, you
observe, are not only economic wastes.
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cause they are human wastes that
they are economic wastes. And 1t is
also just because they are human
wastes that they must wait on the
sciences of human efficiency to be
eliminated. In each case osteopathy
and endocrinology will play major
role in the correction. Disease will be
prevented. not cured, and 1t will be
prevented not by sanitation alone but
by attention to the. at present. all but
neglected matter Of the efficiency of
the human organism.
AS to efficiency in sports and in in
dustry and in the more subtle matters
of mental training and consciousness
we do not begin to know what the
word means yet. Indeed. the word It
self Is comparatively new so far as
the popular vocabulary is concerned.
Man has barely begun to discover his
body and himself. As to the waste OF
criminality and criminal administra-
tion. II is even now just dawning on
our consciousness that that Is mat
ter Of health and vital motivation and
education rather than a matter re-
quiring punitive handling. and al
ready our prisons are showing a de-
cided tendency to the Transformation
that must Inevitably take place into
sanitaria and educational institutions.
And there is another form of waste
In the elimination of which the
sciences Of the body are destined to
take large place. and that is the
waste OF civic experiment. II is not
known to many that the living body
Itself presents an almost perfect model
Of the form Of econqmic communal
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banks, mills and mines. the result
being something very American in
idea and very impressive in most cases
as art.
One of the first artists to receive
many commissions of this kind is A. H.
Gorson. formerly Of Pittsburgh, but
now resident in New York city. For
several years Mr.. Gorson has been
painting portraits of the steel mills
and blast furnaces owned by the world
famous firms Of Pittsburgh. Among
the men for whom he has painted such
portraits" are w. l.. Mellon. B. r.
Jones. c. D. Armstrong and w. S.
Stimmel, and Andrew Carnegie had
one of Mr.. Gorson pictures of his fa-
nous mills. In fact, there Is scarcely
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firm in the steel business in Pitts
burgh that has not at least one of this
artists portraits of tteir plants.
A recent commission received by
M. Paul Roche. New York etcher. was
for set of etchings Of the twelve silk
mills in New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut owned by a prominent
New York firm. Under ordinary CIR
cumstances silk mill would not be
considered a very artistic subject, but
Mr.. Roche's "Silk Mill Set" made a
great success with the firm for which
he made it. and the number of orders
he received for prints made the COM
mission decidedly worth while. He also
made an etching of the Strauss bank
ing house on Fifth avenue.
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Fears Intellect Has Given
Way to Cubic Art, Jazz
and Ragtime Poetry

tention, and perhaps require less at<
tention. than has the fact Of the need
Of attention been emphasized. Re.
Gently asked the dean Of q college
what share OF his time and thought
he gave to the lowest tenth Of his
students. His reply was "Nine-tenths."
1t might not be wise to reverse, and
to devote nine-tenths Of his time to
the upper one-tenth Of his students.
For the one lost sheep, whatever the
nature, is to be sought for and found.
But it is happy augury that the
colleges are giving more heed to the
worthiest. The remnant that saves Is
often the worthiest element-the tops
most. >
Comprehensively, and in conclusion,
let me add that, as nurses of scholar
ship and as ministers to completes
mindedness, not only for the individual
student. but also for the whole college
body and for the entire general COM
munity, the American colleges and
universities can hardly do better than
to adopt in spirit at least, the recon-
mendations recently made by the
Royal Commission on Oxford and
Cambridge. Among these recom-
mendations select the following:
Better salaries and pensions for
staffs--the first charge"
Increased STATS"
Endowment of research and ads
vanced teaching"
More research scholarships for
young graduates"
more entrance scholarships to
widen the door for the poor student~
Maintenance and Improvement Of
laboratories, libraries and museums"
ITO extend extra a-mural work."
The adoption and patient application
OF these principles would in a generas
ton create the complete mind as the
intellectual type of the college gradu>
ate
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Paintings of Business Places Now Becoming Fad

mas long been custom for men
owning fine horses and dogs to>
have their portraits painted by
artists who specialize in those fields
Portraits" of gardens is compare
lively recent fad among Americans
with beautiful country estates. follow
Ing an English custom. and Mary Car
Isle and Florence Robinson have
painted portraits" Of most OF the
famed gardens at Tuxedo. Newport,
on, the north shore of Long Island and
around Boston.
But It is only within the last year or
two that business men, bankers. man.
ufacturers and miners have adopted
this idea by having well known artists
and etchers make portraits" OF their
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The biggest portrait" Of this kind
ever painted by an American artist. or
rather series Of portraits" was the
work Of Jonas Lie. his subjects being
in and around the mountain high cop
per mine Of Daniel c. Jackling at
Bingham, Utah Mr.. Jackling was
anxious to have a painting OF his mine,
although he didn't know whether an
artist would consider doing such a
thing. When he approached Jonas
Lie as to doing the portrait" Mr.. Lie
took a sporting chance on the proposal
and said he would go out and look at
the mine, and IL the subject appealed
to him he would paint 1t. and then
Mr.. Jackling could buy the result II he
liked it.
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actual pain; no, but far beyond that
to- the actual limit of his strength to
so drive His adventurous intellect
and curiosity, not to mention his greed,
make grist of ris body. The grinding
point of contact between his purposes
and the inertia of nature is his physi-
cal mechanism.
At that grinding point stands the
science of osteopathy. Civilization
must discover the body. For one rea-
son the limits to its possibilities in
one way are the limits ofsthe physical
machinery of life. and consequently
are the limits to which the science of
osteopathy can bring that machinery
and preserve its integrity.
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tect. the engineer, the certified public
accountant"
But this prevailing tendency toward
business is not good for the scholarly
or professional world. 1t is not good
for the profession of the ministry.
Only seven men OF the graduating
class Of that New England stronghold
OF Metkodism. Wesleyan University
at Middietown. plan to become minis
ters. only five of the class at Dart
mouth. From Dartmouth, too, that
college OF Daniel Webster and Rufus
Choate. it is reported that only two
members Of this years class plan to
enter the law. Ninety-two of Dart
mouths class plan to go into business
or manufacturing. Last year Amherst
sent fifty-four into business and of
this years class forty-four purpose to
enter industrial callings
Family Traditions Have
Lost Former influence
1t would seem that family traditions
and personal heritages do not have
the influence of the former time in
causing sons to select the profession
OF their fathers or OF their families.
The Cleveland Commercial has lately
said. in reporting statements made at
a fraternity banquet Of college mem
The son Of a famous jurist was
planning to take course with a view
to learning the business of managing
department stores. Another, son of
brilliant writeS Of national reputa-
tion, had already made plans to 20
direct to South America to study at
first hand the business opportunities
OF Argentina. A third, son of a lead
Ing publicist and statesman, lad in
sight job in Wall street brokers'
ONCE. Despite what might seem to be
! the hereditary trend toward the
learned professions, none Of tie boys,
sons Of jurists. literary men and edu-
Gators, had the slightest apparent in
clination to follow in the footsteps of
their illustrious fathers."s
Yet. Notwithstanding the difficulties
OF getting what have called tie COM
plete mind. the duty of getting it is
as imperative as any, duty can be
made. For. with it rises and without
1t, falls civilization. With it or with
out 1t rises or falls much or all of the
Hellenic part which, forms the most
delicate and highly wrought elements
OF our civilization. Without snch q
mind either in possession or in po-
tentialtty. barbarism. rules, the Philis-
tine desecrates our shrines. Jewish
plaques ahiict the chosen people.
Macaulay's New Zeaiander," indeed.
sits on London Bridge. musing over
our fallen greatness. Even Schopen-
,oas phe Cleveland Commercial of April Is.
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Gladstone. a devoted student OF the
great Bishop. came to desire it in the
second half of his career at Oxford.
The search for such mind should be
like tie patriots zeal and the lovers
passion.
The second of the methods of get
ting the complete mind lies in asso-
citation with men who also desire that
great gift or achievement. Such as
sociation determined to a large de-
gree the unique. intellectual. ethical
power of John Stuart Mill. For Mills
father had. gathered about himself the
ablest ,men, like Grote and John Aus
tin. Young Mill, even as a boy, found
stimulus in such association. Writ
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kauer says, speaking of another and
narrower cause, that "A new litera-
ture will arise, of such barbarous,
shallow and worthless stuff as never
was seen before."f
For securing complete mindedness
1 want to suggest few methods
methods which are patent enough.
though, not at all patented.
The first thing in securing COM
plete mindedness is the realization of
the need. The college student and
every other man is to feel the want of
such mind. He Is to desire it as
Bishop Butler desired truth or as
tEssay on the Study of Latin, by schopen-
hauer.
The New York herald., 1922-06-04
A New Meaning Given to
Waste of Premature Death

The waste of premature death will
have new meaning when the ex-
pectancy Of life has been more or less
uoubled-and not the expectancy of
life alone. but the tenure of faculty
and aggressive vigor. There are many
things in Shaw's Back to Methu-
selah" with which the biologist will
sympathize. but g. B. S.. has perhaps
not appreciated the fact that man al
ready outlives his teeth and eyes by
score Of years, and the longer he
lives the more organs will he tend TO
outIive; that il his expectancy of life
based on external factors is prolonged
indefinitely there still remains the
ternal mechanism. But that this prob
lem will be mastered there need be
little doubt.
/ All this and more will come about
through mans discovery of his body.
Man will be compelled to make that
discovery. The burden Of his civiliza-
tion will compel him to do 80. Already
II has become a Frankenstein mon
ster to the bodies of civilized man.
Every occupation has it's typical
warping effect. it's characteristic de-
formity or disease. Housemaid's knee
has now a whole brood Of blood
brothers. We all know of the golfers
knee. the chauffeur's back and the
policeman's foot. To this osteopathy
adds the schoolboy's spine, probably
the most devastating Of all of the de-
formities of civilization. Young boys
and girls were not intended to spend
long hours immoyabIe on hard benches
and with eyes following print with all
of the continuousness Of pendulum.
In order to get the picture, think
first. II you please, Of the animal
kingdom from which we inherit the
mechanisms of our bodies. Animals
avoid violent contact with the en-
vironment. rarely touching anything
except with the feet and Jaws. except
in the rare occasions of their fights,
when the one that is smaller or weaker
and therefore subject to the effects of
the violent contacts as a rule does not
survive them. Think. then, of man,
who not only does not avoid violent
contact with Ills environment but
courts 1t. makes sport of 1t, harnesses
the forces of nature, concentrates
them, whips them up to the highest
fury and then makes lbs body the
buffer for their contendings. Man
drives himself violently against his
environment, not TO the point OF
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But man harnesses not alone the
great physical forces. he harnesses tho
great chemical forces as well; distills
them, concentrates them and again
makes the physical body the filter for
their accidents and surpluses, not to
mention that fe deliberately makes it
the crucible for experiments with,
them. l say the physical body. it is
specifically the endocrine mechanism
that is the buffer in this matter. Again
the limits of civilization are those Of
the endocrine mechanism of life, the
limit to which endocrinology will be
able to carry and preserve the mechan-
ism of life.
so man will be compelled to dis
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with such study must go along think
ing. reflection. contemplation.
With the desire and the association,
hard reading and best reflection. is to
be joined careful writing. Mr.. Mill is
also an example. For he says: -
From this. point I began to carry
on my intellectual cultivation by writ
ing still more than by reading. In
the summer Of 1922 wrote my first
argumentative essay. remember
very little about it, except that it was
an attack on what / regarded as the
aristocratic prejudice that the rich
were, or were likely to be, superior In
moral qualities to the poor. My per-
formance was entirely argumentative,
without any of the defamation which
the subject would admit of and might
be expected to suggest to young
writer. In that department. however.
/ was, and remained. very inapt. Dry
argument was the only thing ] could
manage. or willingly attempted.
though passiyely--I was very suscep-
tibie to the effect of all composition,
whether in the form of poetry or ora
tory. which appealed to the feelings
on any basis Of reason. MY father.
who knew nothing of this essay until
it was finished, was well satisfied, and
as learnt from others, even pleased
with It: bat, perhaps from a desire to
promote the exercise of other mental
faculties than the purely logical, he
advised me to make my next exercise
in composition one of the oratorical
kind: on which suggestion, availing
myself Of my familiarity with Greek
history ganI ideas and with the Athe-
nian orators wrote two speeches
one on accusation. the other defense
of Pericles, on supposed impeach-
ment for not marching out to fight the
LAcedemonians on their invasion of
Attica. After this Icontinued to write
papers on subjects often very much
beyond my capacity. but with great
benefit both from the exercise itself
and from the discussions which it led
to with my father"
Such are some Of the methods and
means which the colleges use in max
ing complete mindedness. In aiming
to secure this result at the present
time, two or three remarks should be
suggested: First. the colleges, in their
numberless numbers, are taking to
themselves a vast material of unde-
yeloped intellectual power, and also a
still vaster amount of intellectual
mediocrity. The net Of the higher edu-
cation has gathered fish Of every kind.
It is hard for the colleges to deal
properly with such collections, and, so
far, they have not dealt we'll with
this miscellaneous mass. Second, the
colleges. facing this vast and COM
plex problem. are yet coming to deal
with keener appreciation and with
more adequate wisdom with the op-
posite problem. the students of great
natural brilliancy and of richest
promise.
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organization such as is best fitted to
survive In the mechanical environ
ment OF the earth and to give the best
results in consciousness. but such is
the fact nevertheless. And the dis
covery Of this fact and its general
use VIII save civilization many an age
OF warfare and internal friction. Our
blind unguided experimental evolution
is leading us closer to this model with
every decade.
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It is superluous to say that reading
is the richest tool for the securing Of
the type Of mind desired. But reading
in these days Of ours is in peril Of
neglect. Charles Francis Adams, the
historian, wrote me years ago. fnquir-
ing IL college men were reading as
they read in his undergraduate days
at Harvard. The negative reply wax
inevitable. To-day's reading is sup
planted BY doing as means of intel
lectual completeness. The ideal Of
efficiency has taken the place Of the
ideal of culture. Mr.. Edison is more
often heard in his interrogations than
Is Mr.. Arnold in his interpretations.
By reading Is not meant following
down a page, or a series Of pages. with
a somewhat careless. eye and a more
llstless mind. Rather reading is to be
in the Oxford and Cam-
bridge sense Of hard intellectual work,
and hard intellectual work not for two
hours a day, but for four, six or eight,
or even ten.
Carlyle's gospel Of work is to be
preached and practiced. One Is not
to adopt-given, Of course. in half
irony-the description Of life at Cam
bridge, that sound mind can only be
produced by studious and deliberate
inactivity."s On the contrary, the ex-
amples are not lacking as evidences
that the laborious student. with a pas
sion for reading and self-improvement.
comes into a more complete minded
ness than the dwelier at, either Oxford
or Cambridge can secure. OF course,
+ Autobiography by John Stuart MIL.
%, II
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There Are Difficulties in
Reading the Complete Mind

For dif1culties in the quest OF get
ting the complete mind abound OF
at least two kinds are these difficulties
--personal and exterior.
r The personal difiiculties are summed
up in the conclusion that man is not
primarily intellectual. He is not pri-
nfarily mind. He is first body. The
physical is to him more constantly i'm
portant and more dominantly present
than the mind. Man is rather feelings
and will than thinking. Though the
three functions are usually united at
times. the thinking. though made so
important and SO constructive in aim
and method and means IN the college.
seems to play a part Insignificant.
The progress of civilization is far less
intellectual than many thoughtful
people at times are inclined to be-
iieve. In character. both individual
and communal, the feelings are pretty
dominant and the will is supreme.
The exterior difficulty is found
largely in~the fact that intellect has
in, these times Of ours gone out OF
/. fashion. The emotional has sup
planted the intellectual Cubic pic
fures. jazz music. unrhythmicai poetry
prose which gets large share of
IT'S poetical symbol from the capital
letter Of each line-are dominant The
executive faculty, the will, or the
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Activities of the Mind
Depend on Motivation

But endocrinology is showing us
that the activities OF the mind depend
on motivation, and motivation depends
on the endocrine glands--of technique
and ideas. And the study OF the body
such as the osteopathic physician
makes leads to the discovery that It
is these mechanisms from which the
mind learns its axioms and other prin-
ciples that lie at the basis of the very
capacity to think. The body is a
sounding board for the eternal prin-
ciples Ghat operate in the universe,
rejecting them onto the consciousness
and into the thought. The gap be-
tween the mind and the body is
bridged, the gap between feeling and
life Is bridged, the gap between con-
sciousness and the world in which 1t
moves Is at last crossed with logic
and at least the beginning of UNDER
standing.
Just as ever since it's discovery the
doctrine OF evolution has dominated
the thought of civilized man and sup
troversies. until II has at last ,pene-
trated to the very bottom of the popu-
lar mind, so will this subject of the ex-
pansion OF human capacities and
faculties through understanding of
them spread. The demand for such
training will become right. and will
take its place beside the inalienable
right to life. liberty and tho pursuit
of happiness; IL indeed 1t wEI not take
it's place as the great means to those
ends, the chiefcst right OF all.
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cover the body, and in that discovery
osteopathy and endocrinology will play
prime parts. That these twin sciences
will undergo vast development on the
road to the complete science Of human
efficiency there need be no doubt. AL
ready the osteopathic physician finds
his work appreciated, not for the cure
and prevention of disease only but for
the attaining of the highest degree Of
physical and mental efficiency. This
will doubtless go on until every least
function Of tie body is studied with a
view to getting the most and best out
of 1t. The study OF the body's ills
leads to an exploration Of its excel
lencies.
But out of that discovery will come
another thing. greater than the elimi-
nation of waste, greater than the pro-
motion OF tie highest possible EN-
cheney Of all human functions. physical
ton Of the motives of civilization.
This new orientation will lead Us. in
fact. back to the Greek ideal of mems
sanG In corporc sdno. but with diff
ference. 1t will lead to great advance
IN physical beauty. but again with a
difference; tie difference in this case
being that we will recognize in the
physical body the distilled summary
Of the wisdom and experience OF life
on this planet for all its hundred odd
millions Of years. or centuries 1t rDay
be; and we will recognize in that dis
titled wisdom the origin OF many II not
most Of our mental faculties. as en-
docrinology reveals to us the origin Of
tie motivation Of our thought in the
same organs that supply vital motiva-
tion to the body.
For that reason we will try to un-
derstand 1t and to realize to the full
all Of its potentialities. We will go
not back to Methuselah but back to
monkeys and beyond: we will pro-
grcss by denying and rising SUI
perior to them but by carrying their
strivings to the fullest realization in
ourselves.
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To the Success of the Brilliant
Z. Colleges Devote Too Much

To this somewhat new problem
many colleges are devoting attention
far more commensurate with its need.
New methods have received less at