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lSyCuOdLdly SlS
The most important aspect of Freud
for the average man is the therapeu-
tic-disease-c curing. He covers a vast
field of mental abnormalities, from
idiosyncrasy to stark madness; our
individual and social phobias, our de-
lusions, hallucinations, manias both
militant and peaceful, Mysteries, neu-
roses, etc. He has invented a method
-psychoanalysis-by which he and
other men of superior training, pa
tience, and intelligent sympathy, can
minister to mind diseased,
Pluck out of the memory rooted
sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the
brain,
And with sweet oblivion's antidote
Cleanse the bosom of that peri
lous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart.
The cure consists of a sort of
psychic catharsis. The method is
simple, in keeping with that pre-
scribed by Isaiah: "Come now, let
us reason together; though your sins
be as scarlet, they shall be as white
as snow" Though psychoanalysis
partakes somewhat of the confession
al, it has nothing in common with it
or any other esoteric cures, laying on
of hands, or the denial Of the exis-
tence of disease. It's chief aim is the
finding of the root of trouble. Often
this act itself is the cure. Take this
illustration from DR.. Tridon:
We are suddenly awakened in the
middle of the night by noise in the
room. A sweat breaks out from
every pore of our body. We shake
and tremble. Our hairs stand on
end. We pull our covers over our
head and try to sleep. But the sleep
is ftful at best, and we dream and
experience nightmares. Perhaps it
even results in sickness.
But if we are made to get out of
bed and turn on the light we may
find that the noise was occasioned
by a mouse. We are told to go to
sleep and buy a mouse-trap next
morning. And the whole episode is
over with.
This is what Psychoanalysis is try
ing to do: Tell you to get out of
bed, turn on the light, and buy a
mouse-trap. No drugs, no laying on
of hands. Now and then it employs
reasoning with patient. Often the
sway of authority inherent in superior
intelligence.
The last few words compel me to
hold out to the reader a warning
against quacks, pseudo psychoanal-
ysts, and, what is worse, incompe-
tency and ignorance. I feel especi-
ally qualified to do this, as I do not
happen to be psychoanalyst myself,
nor to count any among my friends.
Let the reader keep in mind that the
healing of a bruised soul requires
far more intelligence than the heal
ing of bruised limb. 1t requires
the technical training afforded by our
best medical colleges or it's equivalent,
plus a poets grasp of the profound
mystery of life and an artists intui-
ton for the trag1co-comic foibles at
the heart of our nature. A Psyche
analyst must be a man who does not
laud the "good" nor blames the 'fbad"
"a man who has grasped the fact
that life is beyond good and evil. In
addition, he must be a man who COM
mands confidence and respect-with-
out demanding either.
Triumphs of the Freudian Theory.
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tips of their noses? Why this so
often happens with folks that are far
from ugly? Have you ever wondered
why particular story you once read
was so. biting? Freud proves that it
is because the writer of it very likely
had nothing else to bite.
His theories lead to the conclusions
that individual and social sanity, like
justice, may be approximated but
never quite realized. He shows us
that we are never wholly good and
never wholly bad; rarely ever wholly
that the difference between stark
difference in degree, not in
kind. The thing on which the sanest
man might be crazy might be the
very thing on which the craziest man
might be sane. We think that slip
of the pen or the tongue is an acci-
dent. But take this as case in point
to prove that we are wrong:
At sumptuous party where five
course dinner was expected, the guests
were assembled in the dining room
and treated to ethereal sandwiches.
The company was famished. But
etiquette tabooed comment. At a
cheerless moment the conversation
turned on Roosevelt. The host dis
paraged. One of the guests extolled,
and snapped unwittingly: "Teddy
for me, every time! On him you can
at least depend for square meal"
(deaD.
Or ask a young man why he wants
to get married. Will he tell you the
truth? Not unless he is a peasant
or a philosopher. Otherwise he will
tell you that he wants to get married
because he is tired of boarding houses,
detests restaurants, and is hankering
for homecooking. But the truth is
that filth-heaping for a couple thou
sand years upon the most ancient
and most beautiful of human rela-
tions has educated in him a censor
that will not allow him to tell the
truth. In fact, he has no vocabulary
for it.
Or notice how beautifully we man
age to vindicate our poverty-stricken
brains and manage to maintain such
high level of ignorance by daubing
everybody 'bookworm" and "high-
brow" who happens to be more in
formed than we. The censor rightly
demands that we keep our heads as
high as possible. But the savage sur
vivals in us in the form of laziness,
swinish Indifference, and a thousand
other little things equally laudable,
devise a way by which to disparage
others so that we might be as good
as they and vast sight better.
Dreams
For over century the civilized
world took dreams to be the phan-
tasmagorias of disordered thought, in
cident to a sleeping brain. Freud,
on the other hand, shows that dreams
contain our most cherished wishes,
our most beautiful ambitions, our
most hidden thoughts. Goethe said:
"Tell me what man laughs at and
| will tell you what sort of man he
is" Freud says: "Tell us what man
dreams about and will tell you what
sort of man he is" He lays down the
dictum: "By their dreams shall ye
know them" According to him, every
dream is the fulfillment of consci-
Gus or subconscious desire. The rea-
son it is so difficult to recognize the
idea back of the dream is due to the
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CONTINUED from last week)

of Freud's theories in the last paper,
let us glance at few of the impor-
tant deductions:
Wit and Humor as Safety Valve
WHY do we make up jokes? And
why do we laugh at them? Up to
the advent of Freud most people
thought that this was "just for fur" !"
But Freud shows that there is moth
ing in the economy of nature with
out import. He has written scholar
ly book proving that wit and humor
are clever methods of circumventing
the censor-short-cuts to freedom
from various restraints, serving the
same purpose as dreams, which are
merely wishes deferred or denied.
Again, joke often tells truth which
would lead to the gallows, when told
in weekday language. Each indlvl-
dual has his particular type of joke
no less than each race. Thus Freud
shows that the Jewish joke is usual
ly of a defensive nature, while the
non-Jewish joke is of an aggressive
nature. He shows how that whole
multitudes of Shaken jokes have
arisen as result of the practice of
using an Intermediary between the
couples and how the joke was used
against the abuses of the practice.
He further points out how the trag-
edy of Jewish life in the Diaspora
has developed type of joke that
often makes tragedy endurable. He
shows in the case of individuals how
the neurotic is subject to punning,
the masocist to self-torturing jokes,
the exhibitionist to obscene ones, the
sadist to aggressive ones, the hedon-
ist to cynical ones. The cultured man
turns for help to the joke when the
rowdy turns to a battle ak. Freud
gives numerous examples of each type
Of Joke and explains the technique
of it which proves his thesis. The
use of joke instead Of battle ak
is perhaps illustrated hy the story
of the Great Abolitionist, Wendell
Phillips, when he was confronted by
a rude preacher from the South, with
the demand:
"Your business is to free the slaves
in the South? Is it not?"
EYES,"
"Then why don't you go South ?"
Phillips shot back: "Your bust
ness is to free the souls in hell, is it
not?"
"Yes!"
"Then why don't you go to hell
He shows how wit will often pass
the censor by the absurdity of its
logic:
A Greek and Jew were arguing
the relative merits of their respec-
tive ancient civilizations. The Greek
demanded: "Do you know that scien-
fists have recently excavated nine
yards under Athens and have found
piece of insulated copper wire?"
eyes, but what does that prove 2"
"Why, that proves that the Greeks
had telephones and telegraphs."
The Jew came back with the ques-
ton: "Do you know that scientists
have recently excavated nine rods un-
der Jerusalem and have found moth
ing?"
The Greek laughed: swell, what
does that prove?"
"That proves that the Jews had
wireless"
Freud in Everyday Life
Though the pathologic side of Freud
is most significant, the insight his
theories afford in matters of every
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THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

the principal task of the psychology
of the century which is opening. I
do not doubt that wonderful discover
les await us there, as important per-
haps as have been in the preceding
centuries the discoveries of the physi-
cal and natural sciences"
This prophesy is being materialized
in the work of Freud. His achieve
ments so far are ranked by his dis
ciples with those of Darwin. Just as
Darwin mapped out for us the evolu-
tion of our physical life, so has Freud
mapped out for us the evolution of
our psychic life. The fields his theo-
ries have affected are said by Have
lock Ellis to comprise medicine, So
ciology, philosophy, history, psychol-
ogy, ethics, myths and legends, the
fine arts, especially literature. With
respect to the value of his contribu-
tion to the worlds intelligence this
writer says:
'It must not be concluded that any
of the conceptions Freud has so art
fully woven will necessarily endure
permanently. He changes them so
often himself that it were foolish to
suppose that his successors will not
continue the same process. In this
respect we may compare him with
Lombroso, another Jew of genius, who
also began as a psychopathologist
His theories have been proven
to be often defective He
himself admits that of the structure
he had raised perhaps not one stone
would remain upon another. Yet he
enlarged the human horizon, he dis
covered new fields for fruitful re-
search and new methods for investi-
eating them. That was something
bigger than either sound theory or
a precise collection of facts, for we
do not demand of Columbus that he
be reliable surveyor of the new
worlds he discovers. Freud similar
ly and to a greater extent, has en-
larged our horizon. He has shown
the existence of a vast psychic field
of which before we had but scant
anticipation"
Freud's Life
DR.. Sigmund Freud was born in
Freiburg, Moravia, in 1856. He stud
led medicine at Vienna and took post
graduate work in France with some of
the greatest psychopathologis of the
day-Dr. Carcot who "possessed the
greatest collection of hystericals the
world has ever seen;" and Pierre Jan
ct, second only to Carcot. 1t was
while studying with these men he
discovered that hysteria did not have
it's origin in physical pathology but
in mental. This led to the discovery
that most other nervous ailments had
their origin in the mind. At first he
treated such cases with the old-fash-
ioned cures, diet and rest, the only
things known at the time. Then he
tried hypnotism, an adaptation from
his teacher DR.. Carcot. But he soon
found that he could not hypnotize
certain individuals (those who are
very strong physically or refuse to
be hypnotized, cannot be hypnotized),
and that the cure by hypnotism did
not last, the patient soon relapsing
into his former state. 1t was then
that he evolved the method of Psy-
choanalysis.
When he came back from France
be became nerve specialist at the vi
emma General Hospital and then Pro-
fessor of neuropathology at the uni
UorcitU of tho coyooo Coxo.o
The American Jewish world., 1922-07-28
By HERMAN JACOBSOFIN (Copyight)
l. SIGMUND FREUD, THE FATHER OF PSYCHO-ANAl

thing. For the censor, like the movie
censor, cuts out many parts, whole
reels sometimes, before it is submit
ted to the rational mind.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-02
SOUTH CAROLINA FOLKS
TO MEET FRIDAY NIGHT

Congressman Stephenson and Sen.
Rtor Ellison d. Smith OF South Caro-.
lima speak at the meeting of the
South Carolina Society of Washing.
ton. Friday evening, at Thomson
School, Twelfth and l. streets north
west.
Colonel Carmichael is chairman OF
the general program committee, and
is vice president of the society. Miss
Pearl Clark will head the commit.
tee on music.
The following members of the so.
Seiety will serve on the reception
committee. Mesdames Galloway,
Carmichael, Mitchell Boykin, Bull,
and the Misses Clark, Dial, Roper,
Carmichael, Patrick and Godfrey.
The men serving on the committee
are Colonel Carmichael, Captain
Newman, George II. Mitchell, StCph-
en- f. Tillman, L. L. Boykin, and
Alexander NJ. Bull.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-02
INToMCATloN CASES
RUN TO 11o IN 3 DAYS

In addition to the ninety cases OF
intoxication entered on the dockets
of the various precincts from 8
o'clock Saturday morning to s
a. m. Monday, twenty.nine more
cases were added for the twenty
four hour period ending at 8 o'clock
this morning, making total Of
1l9 cases for three days This
mornings report also shows that
two more were gathered in for
being intoxicated while operating
automobiles.
The warning OF Commissioner
James F. oyster that such offend
ers would lose their permits in
definitely. does not seem to deter
operators from imbibing. Saturday
night five intoxicated operators
were arrested and one Sunday.
Twelve other persons were arrested
during the twenty-four hour period
ending at o'clock this morning on
charges Of violating the prohibition
laws.
Neither have the Speeders dimin.
ished. A total OF twAnty-nine oper.
ators were halted for operating
their machines in excess of the
speed regulations, and ninety-one
others for various violations OF the
traffic laws.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-02
NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS
TO CONVENE WEDNESDAY

The National Race Congress OF
America, an organization incorpo.
rated in Washington in 1915, IS a
clearing house on all questions and
activities affecting the welfare and
progress of the negroes of the United
States, will open It's seventh annual
convention tomorrow. The sessions,
which will last for three days, will be
held at the Vermont Avenue Baptist
Church, Vermont avenue, between q
and r streets northwest.
Among. the speakers will be Con-
gresham Martin c. Ansorge Of New
York, the Rev. c. II. Parrish, Of
Louisville, KY; Eugene Kinkle Jones,
executive secretary of the National
Urban League; Saloman Plaatze, Of
South Africa, and Prof. Goonaso kara,
OF India. The Rev. w. II. Jornsgin,
pastor OF the Mt. Carmel Baptist
Church, is president OF the congress.
The Rev. Harvey Randolph, pastor
OF Mt. Morish Baptist Church, has
been organizing forces for the recep-
ton of foreign delegates.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-02
GENOA ISkEY Of
PEACE Or CHAOS,
BORAH ASSERTS
Senator Believes U. S. Should
Recognize SoViet-Hopes
Lloyd George Will Win.
BY WILLIAM K. BORAH,
L. :. senator from Idaho.

CWritten Exclusively for the InternR-
uonal News ServiceD
NEW YORK, May 1.-The sue.
cess OF the Genoa conference is a
think which. suppose, every think.
ing person now has in mind. 1t
would be discouraging and depress
ing to the last degree IL the con.
ference should fail.
Lloyd George is having the fight
OF his life. and II he succeeds he
will have rendered a service TO the
whole world second to the work OF
no statesman of the last century.
Lloyd George believes there ought
10 be a political recognition of the
Soviet government and he, undoubt
eddy, believes there ought TO be a
complete modification OF the repa.
treaty.
There can be no settlement OF
the European problem unless the
Russian problem is settled, and
there can be no settlement of the
European problem until the repara
tons problem is settled.
II Lloyd George can bring about
ultimately these two objects he will
have laid the foundation for the
recovery of Europe.
/ should like to see our Govern,
ment recognize the Soviet. Not
that / believe that the Soviet gov,
eminent as now exists will be per,
manent, but / do believe that IL is
the route over which the Russian
people are TO travel
1t is pretty hard to state the
real opposition to recognition of the
Soviet government. Some people
profess to be afraid that recog.
milton would strengthen bolsheviIS
propaganda in this country. In
my opinion, 1t will distinctly weaken
it,
The thing which is making Dol.
shevlsts throughout the world is
the continued economic chaos re.
sulting from the narrow, bigoted,
intolerant policies which >the allies
have pursued since the armistice.
see no solution of the economic
situation until Russia and Germany
are brought back into the family Of
nations and the Versailles treaty
greatly modified.
The break down of the Genoa
conference would result in chaos in
Europe again.
The apparent surface concord
which hitherto existed among the
European nations will disappear
France and England will be
estranged more than ever. Russia
and Germany will go off and do
business together. France may
move in and take possession of the
Ruhr valley--and then-heaven only
knows what will happen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-02
SAYS PHYSICIAN LEFT
PIN IN HIS RIB CAVITY

Alleging that safety pin was left
in his rib cavity when DR.. William
c. Gwynn May 4. 1919, performed
an operation on him for empyelna,
Samuel e. Pollard today filed suit in
the District Supreme Court against
the physician for $4,000 damages
for alleged injuries
Plaintiff, represented by Attorney
Albert ID. Esther alleges that April
10, 1919, he employed the physician
while he was sick with pneumonia
and that In performing the opera.
ton the doctor failed TO remove the
safety pin after treatment.
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BY international News Service.

BELFAST. May "A battle, in
which the Republicans were defeat
ed. was fought in County Tyrone
today,
A detachment of Republicans at.
tempted to ambush a motor lorry
bearing seventeen policemen, five
miles from Tyrone. Warned in I'D.
vance the police left their car and
erected a barricade. giving battle
TO their enemies. When the repub
leans withdraw they carried their
wounded. and their casualties are
not known.
A tense situation Is reported al
Cork. Anthony Carroll, one of the
most prominent barristers In the
city, was kidnapped and held for ran
som. After the money had been paid
band of armed men raided Car
rolls home, but he escaped, and Ii
said to be on his way to London.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-02
HINDU ARTS EXHIBITION
OPENED FREE TO PUBLIC

The Hindu exhibition Of arts and
crafts from India has been opened
In the Art Center, 11O6 Connecticut
avenue, for the inspection Of the
public. The exhibit will be open
daily for two weeks from 10 O'Clock
In the morning to 10 o'clock at night.
Admission is free
The exhibits include wood carvings,
antique furniture, Kashmere shawls
rugs, fine needle work, paintings,
and curios Of ancient and modern
design.
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BONUS PETITION WITH MIL ION NAMES GIVEN CONGRESS
AIRPLANE STANDS BY
ABANDONED SCHOONER

The airplane carrier Wright today
reported to the Navy Department
that she was standing by the sban-
doned four-masted schooner Joseph
inc about fifty miles off the Carolina
coast.
The dispatch stated that the lum-
ber-laden schooners decks were
awash. No crew was found aboard.
The dispatch urged that immediate
steps be taken to tow the derelict IN,
as she was very dangerous to navl-
CATION.
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tuberculosis Conference.

A conference OF the National Tu.
berculosis Association viii be held
in this city all day Thursday. At the
City Club. at 1;lb o'clock, there will
be an international hygiene lunch
con-" The conference will be open.
ed Thursday morning by Secretary
Hughes, Of the State Department,
when sessions viii he convened at
the First Congregational Church.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-02
International News Service.

GENOA, May 2.-The Genoa eco.
nomic conference has become the
Genoa political conference, and If
Premier Lloyd Georges plans go
through to their logical conclusion
the present meeting and it's sequel at
San Reno will overshadow the Paris
peace conference.
The United States, as signatory
to the treaty of Versailles, will lie
formally invited to attend the San
Reno meeting.
While the question OF submitting
a ten-year peace pact, similar to the
Pacific treaty, has not yet, been
brought before the conference, Douis
Barthou, head of the French dele.
cation, viii discuss this issue with
the French cabinet in Paris tomor,
row. Later he will return to Genoa
bringing the views of his colleagues.
Already one treaty has grown of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-02
Sim Fein Priest Here.

The Rev. Michael o'Flanagan,
vice president of the Sim Fem,
who has just come here from Ire
land, will be the speaker at a spe-
cial meeting OF Carroll Council,
knights OF Columbus, at the new
X. OF c. Hall, s1S Tenth street
northwest, at o'clock tonight.
Father O'Flanagan, who is one of
the most eloquent speakers in the
Sim Fein movement, will begin his
address at $40 o'clock. All mem
bers Of the knights are\ invited.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-02
WAR
CASES PUT UP
TQEAUGHERTY
Attorney General in cross-Fire
Between Freeing Pacifists and
failing Profiteers
By WI LI'FI uNsf
CosmOpOIlh p esEsR

Attorney Genoa .algny,Ev, az
the custodian of our leo ral o. 'ons,
now finds himself betw en- w. Ives.
On the one hand L. ere are al these
political prisoners who are rarness
candidates for getting cut. On the
other hand there are all these war
profiteers who have been earnestly
nominated for getting in. Attorney
General Daugherty is putting up a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-02
Band Concert.

At Potomac Park, Wednesday at S
y. m, by the United States Marine
Band, William ". Santelmann
leader; Taylor Branson, second
leader. The program:
March, Universal Freedom"
BlankenbuTg
Overture. "Rakoczy". 60. Keller Bella
Intermezzo. Spring zephyrs,"
Vessella
Grand scenes from THE Force OF
Destiny" ........A Verdi
full Spring. ............ Lincks
DANA Orientaie "Esotica."
Mascagni
"Torchlight Dance No. l." Meyerbeer
The stRr-sbangled Banner"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-02
MAN FOUND DEAD WITH
500, 900 WILL IN POCKET

CHICAGO, May 2.-With a will
disposing of 100000 estate in his
pocket, w. s. Russell, a wealthy
farmer at Dilsburg, Pa, was found
dead in Grant Park here today.
A bullet wound through the heart
was the cause of his death. Police
believe the wound was self-inflicted.
Identification was made through the
will and insurance policies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-02
Tax Sale Postponed.

Sale by auction OF the garage Of
William J. and Eddie Butler. 2OO9-
Is Eighth street northwest. for
non.payment of income taxes
amounting TO more than $4,000
has been postponed from Nav 1 TO
May IA. il was announced at local
tax headquarters today.