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The New York herald., 1922-05-28

q OMETHlNG OF ripple was
caused in collegiate waters by
the article published recently in
these pages wherein under the general
head OF The Empty College" criticism
was made Of the way a professor who
happened also TO be a genius was con-
sidered nut" by the students and
rather nuisance by the faculty. AS
the article used this instance merely
by way of illustration the common re-
sponse has been TO pay no attention
to the individual case but to treat
somewhat accidentally the question
whether or not extraordinary ability
in members of the teaching force re-
ceives sympathetic acknowledgment.
Two college presidents review the
article briefly, one from a middle
Western college, and the other is at
the head OF university of New York
city. Neither one cares TO enter upon
a controversy and both officials make
the condition that what they write is
not to be published with the mention
of their names.
From the New York college presi-
dent comes the following comment:
In response TO your request / take
pleasure in expressing an opinion on
the interesting article by Mr.. Ludwig
Lewisohn published in THE NEW YORK
HERALD of May IA.
''Mr. Lewisohn is in part right in
saying that the college ideal is regu-
larity and that it frowns on eccen-
tricity, but he exaggerates and mis-
understands the origin and the reason
for this ideal.
1t Is True the College
Frowns on Eccentricity
THE function of the college is, after
all, TO educate. intellectually, of course,
but also culturally, in manners and
morals; and the culture it inculcates
Is. naturally and inevitably, the cur
rent culture of its day and people
Moreover. this culture is instilled not
by authority, but after the American
fashion, almost wholly by public opin-
ion as voiced spontaneously by stu
dents and faculty, as, indeed, Mr.
Lewisohn's examples show.
| II wish with Mr.. Lewisohn that this
censorship We're more discriminating
and enlightened, but We shguld re-
member, in particular, that we are not
/ yet wholly free from war mentality
and, in general, that the college is .
| faithful copy in this respect Of its
model, the nation. Long ago James
Bryce told us, with Scotch sagacity
that the United States was ruled BY
public opinion. and it still is so ruled
down to the intimate lives of our in
dividual citizens. That is how the
melting pot has melted differences Of
culture into a national type, in SO faI
as such a type has come TO exist
Without this censorship by publ,
opinion the United States would be ;
discordant centuries OF races speak
ing babel Of tongues.
Meantime the unexcited observe
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
By DIR. JOSEPH COLLINS.

EREMIAH wrote that the Prophets
promised that no evil should
come upon any one that walketE
after the ina agination of his own heart.
NJ Emile Coue of Nancy has taken the
prophecy to his bosom and nurtured
it, and now makes propaganda for it.
He calls the method tLat he employs
conscious autosuggestion, and by 1t
the sick obtain healing and the healthy
prevent the coming of disease.
NJ. Coue had reached the sixty fifth
milestone on the roadway Of life with
out encountering great adventure.
Chemistry and drugs had absorbed
his time, though the frailties of the
flesh engaged his attention and eX-
cited his commiseration. With in
creasing years came heightened aware
ness of the potency of the spirit in
man, and of the countless ways that
disorder or disequilibrium of it made
him infirm, miserable or incapacitated.
Like the majority of those whose life
compels them to witness TIE combat
between drugs and disease. gradually
year by year, after he was 40 he lost
faith in pill and potion. The atmos-
phere of Nancy has long been favor
able to the development of medical
mysticism, for it was there that Bern
Eeim carried out the experiments on
hypnotism which made his name known
the world over, and it was from there
that his book on Suggestion was
launched more than thirty years ago.
Moreover, Liebaut, who did much to
popularize applied psychology has al
ways been identified with Nancy
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
By CHARLES PHILLIPS.

IN AISULI, the bandit scourge Of
Morocco, who has played tag
- - with nearly all of TIE Euro
pean nations for nearly a quarter of a
century, and unsuccessfully attempted
to bluff the United States in 1904,
when Re abducted Ion Fl. Pardicaris,
is again in the spotlight of interna-
tionai happenings, this time, almost
in the grip of Spain, who ever since
the close of the war las been trying
to get hold Of him.
The most pictur esque figure that
the Orient has produced since the
Malldi infiamed the Soudan. Raisuli
has taken refuge at the venerated
shrine of Mulai Abd-es-Salam. his
knsman at Wazan, due north OF
Mequinez, and about midway between
that place and Tangier.
Super-Bandit Is a Shereef,
Scion of Aristocratic Race
on a race whose ways are the same
to-day as they were 1000 years ago.
Mulai Ahmed Ben Mohammeder-
Raisuli. is to-day man of about 81.
He is by birth. sprung from one of the
most aristocratic families In Morocco
and is a Shereef, or direct descend
ant of the Prophet through Mulai
Idris. who founded the Mohammedan
empire of Morocco, and was the first
sovereign of the Idrsite dynasty.
Tie children of Mulai Idris were es-
tablished in various parts of the
t. MI af
Salam, whose tomb at Wazan, in the
habitat of the Benz Aros tribe. is now
the sanctuary of Raisuli. that the lat
ter is descended This tomb is place
OF great sanctty, and is surrounded
by many buildings in which TIE rene
gade can find concealment without
fear of Spanish interference for long
time. Any attempt by Christian to
violate it's sanctity would result in
an uprising that would be difficult to
control or put down.
A man OF education. writing clas-
sicsl Arabic in most beautiful hand
and conversing with the intonation OF
The Moorish aristocracy, Raisui is
the most magnetic personality that
northern Africa has produced since
All.
He started his career Of crime and
rapine after being trcacherously dealt
with by Adder -Rahman Add ell
Saduk. Basha OF Tangier. who upon
Raisuli's first attempt at an insur-
rection in 1900. made overtures Of
peace and invited Raisuli to visit him
at Tangicr with a view 10 arrive at a
friendly solution OF all difficulties. In
spite of warnings that the Basha was
treacherous, Raisuli went alone and
unarmed to Tangier He was received
at the official residence of the Bashs
with every encouragement OF friend
lness. but once within the building
he was seized. bound and hurried to
the Black Hole OF Mogador. the worst
prison in all Morocco, and where the
lowest criminals are confined. An iron
bar was riveted about his neck. hand
cuffs with intervening bars generously
spiked we're fastened on his wrists SO
that his hands could not come to-
gether. and heavy shackles were riv-
eted to his ankles, HN was also tor
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

forgery, and a disease that is an inn
poster may be as burdensome and in
capacitating as the true one that 1t
Stimulates. One should be as grateful
and appreciative for relief from the
the imposter disease has been out
witted by perpetrating another imposi-
ton that We have legitimate grounds
for protest or complaint.
This Revival Is But
Another Imposition
And at the present day l think it
may truthfully be said that the revival
of any phase of mysticism or Neo-
platonism in the practice of medicine
comes under the head of the perpetra-
ton of an imposition.
Repeat like a parrot" says NJ.
Coue, whatever you wish tie uncon-
scious mind to receive; do not even
think of the words you are saying,
but be as mechanical as possible
You are weather cock perched on
the steeple of your unconscious, and
the wind bloweth where it listeth The
weather cock does not take orders;
the ways of seduction do not lead TO
it's citadel; the only way to influence
il is by trickery. Get it off it's guard
and keep saying to it: II know you
are going to turn toward the east the
next time you turn, l know you are,
I know YOU are" Then when 1T turns
by chance or in conformity with
the rules that govern the winds-you
are oriented in the ways of righteous
ness. your feet are firmly set upon
the path that leads to happiness; you
are we'll, you have lost the disease
that is caused by billions of little AMI
mails that are hidden away somewhere
in your system, or by complex
chemical procedure that has been go
ing on for months or years.
1t strains ones credulity to the
breaking point to believe that there
are countless persons in the world, OF
adult mind and what is called educa-
ton, to whom this sort of thing Is ac-
ceptable. But such is the fact. 10
many, let us hope most, it will seem
TO be an affront to their intelligence,
an insult to their self-respect, studied
effort to convince them that though
made in the image of their Creator all
resemblance ends there.
Remember I cure no one NJ. Coue
frequently repeats in his conferences
and his seances IT teach you to cure
yourself" Each person carries within
himself the instrument of his own
well being" NJ Coues mission is to
teach us to recognize the instrument
and how to use it, thing that re-
quires no skill, particular effort, or
perspicacity. In fact, there is winning
ness about the line day by day. in
every way, I'm getting better and bet
ter" that will undoubtedly make ap-
peal to many as it has to me. and 1t
will come into his conscious mind from
time to time like the familiar words
of a poem or song. or the stray
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Pro-German During War
RaisuIi Acted as German Agent

For five years he levied taxes and
made the lives OF the tribes unbear-
able until he again ran foul OF the
Sultan. this time at the behest OF
Spain. whose Moroccan representa-
tiyes had made an Intellectual attempt
to kill him. Again Rsisuli became an
outlaw and took 10 the hills.
Just before the outbreak of the war
Raisuli made contracts with the ia
nous Mannessmsn nm Brothers OF Ber-
lin with reference TO mining in TIE
mountain districts. and at the begin
ming OF hostilities Raisuli became an
agent Of the Germans. He was
friendly with all the German agents
that the Spanish zone harbored. He
also became friendly with the Spanish
officials. and thereby hangs the tale Of
his present dilemma.
Under the guidance Of German and
Spanish Moroccan agents he gave
active assistance TO German criminal
intrigue and was in direct relations
with the German Embassy in Madrid.
For the last few years Ra1suli has
maintained a guerrilla warfare against
the Spanish and now that he has
sought refuge in the sanctuary OF his
kiusman's venerated tomb it may be
that he will starve 70 death in the odor
OF sanctity and his tomb. like that OF
his ancestor. become place Of pill
grimage Or may be his head will be
brought to Fez or Tsneier held high
on the hayonet of a soldier
To the Moor all things are written
IN the book OF Fate. and Raisuli is
probably awaiting his fate with un-
concern. Perhaps he took certain
measures 10 avoid Fastening it. for he
never permitted himself TO be photo
araphed and never gave n's autograph.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Says Economist, Is
Synonym for Bad Liver

"Mr. Lewisohn does not specifically
state, but he distinctly gives tie inn
preston that ro person with a soul
can possibly be at peace with the
world and, more monstrous still. that
being at war with the world is in
dubitable evidence OF the possession
OF soul. think more highly OF the
average human being than he does.
The world Is the reflection of the
average human being. While the
average human being is sometimes
stupid. backward and even vicious, he
is generally less sc than his critics He
has generally more of soul than
those who malign him.
Soul is too frequently a mere
euphemism for a bad liver or nasty
disposition. Once in a thousand years
a real prophet arises who is at war
with the world but for every such
prophet there are million criminals
whose enmity toward the world is a
sign Of their own depravity and not
Of the worlds Even the conventions
that so frequently rule the world. and
which Mr.. Lewisohn so much despiscs.
are sometimes the mere expression OF
the general common sense of the aver
age man. would rather trust the
destinies OF democracy to the un-
trained common sense of the average
man than TO the half baked conclusions
Of those half trained intellectuals who
have studied Just long enough 20 lose
their common sense and not lonS
enough 10 get it back again.
"Tte Prof Jenkins. as Mr. Lewisohr
describes him. is. TO the initiated.
merely one example OF that consider
able class OF persons who mistake
neurosis for mentality. Their bad
nerves make them 90 things that are
interesting because they are queer.
Such people furnish the mustard
rather than the bread and beef OF our
intellectual diet. We must never for
get, however. that while little mus
tard Is an appetizer. too much be-
comes an emctic. In my Judgment
the undergraduates appraisal OF Prof.
Jenkins was more accurate than Mr..
I,ewisotn's"
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

DR.. Joseph Collins is noted
neuroIogist of New York. grad
uate of University of Michigan
and postgraduate of Frankfort,
Germany. Until recently he
acted as physician to the Neu-
roIogicaI Institute in New York
and taught in the Post Graduate
Medical School. He served in
the Medical Corps in Italy dur
ing the war. He has been a
prolific writer on his subject,
Nervous Diseases.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
BY Means of Rosary Made
of Knitted Handkerchief

There is one feature of NJ. Coue's
method of cure that appeals strongly
to me. He makes his patients use a
kind of rosary--a handkerchief with
twenty knots in it they say will do
which they use to say their day by
day, in every way / never realized
how completely absorbed an individual
could be "in their beads until en-
oountered the pious Moslems. And,
naturally when one goes into a state
in which he feels en- rapport with his
Creator, not yet approaching exaltation
it is the unconscious (this wonderful
field that the Freudiaus and the Dis
senting Freudians talk Of as il it had
the definition and specificity of the
State of Texas) that is steering the
ship. Then the church in which it is
more than likely that M. Coue was
brought up has practiced what he is
now preaching for about 1000 CEN
turies. 1t has not stressed it as M.
Coue has done. 1t has not been the
whole thing with it. Indeed, it has
been a minor. disciplinary measure.
M. Coue says that every idea which
exclusively occupies the mind is trans
formed into an actual physical or
mental state. This is equivalent to
saying that every drop of water that
is in bucket Of water is in the
bucket. His second statement, upon
which he bases his doctrine, viz, that
efforts made to conquer an idea by
exerting the will only serve to make
that idea. more powerful is one that
will be universally denied or nearly so.
In the first, place it is contrary to
the best psychological teaching, in the
second place it Is subversive. of the
fundamental doctrines of Christianity,
indeed one might say OF all religion,
and in the third place IL is contrary
TO experience, that is, it is denied en-
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
A Young Jansenist Did the
Same Thing 400 Years Ago

It is astonishing how closely parellel
the cures and tho publicity of them is
with those wrought at the tomb of n
Paris, 200 years ago. The illustrations
that attest them in the volumes of
Carre de Mongeron. published in Paris
in 1897. side by side with those of the
Illustrated London NeiCs of March IS.
1922. have n strange resemblance.
They differ only in the costumes in
which the deliverer and the delivered
are clad. The .Tesuits rallied at those
cures and Dean Inge, one of the DOM
inant minds of the Anglican church,
calls NJ. Coue's "onc of the crazy rev.
clers in that orgy of irrationalism
which is devastating the civilized
world" The medical profession
shrugged it's shoulders and said poor,
hystericaI creatures" To-day 1t writes
letters to the Times explaining" why
the consulting rooms of Harley street
are SO empty and why fees cannot be
reduced. Meanwhile the gentle. bland
and smiling little man from Nancy
stands in the garden by the side OF a
one story cottage Of the iaborcr's dwell
ling type and says TO the score OF un-
fortunates and possessed that are
gathered there in his ''clin;c" from his
native land and abroad. Repeat after
me these words: Every day. in every
way, / grow better and better"
This simple formula represents the
epitomc OF his lifes study and he de-
sires that it shall be engraved upon
the unconscious minds OF all his fellow
creatures for their lasting benefit. that
suey may be cured of rheumatism,
epilepsy. neurasthenia, heart trouble.
paralysis, stammering, deafness. indi-
gestion and asthma" That he cures
them there is no doubt.
The doubt is that they are rheu-
matte. epileptic. have heart trouble,
&C. But counterfeit ten pound note
viii buy just as much as a genuine
one, and be as servlceable to the pos
SCISSOR until 1t is known that II is a
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Casenave a Candidate.

PAhIs. May % ASSOCIATED Pressl -
Maurice Casenave. minister plenipoten-
tiary and financial agent Tor france IN
New York city during tae greater part
of tho world war. successor 20 Andre
Tsrdieu as high commissioner in Wash
inRton and member OF the French dele
cation 10 the Washington conference, in
tends 20 enter French Parliamentary
iife and will be candidate for seat
Il, the Chamber OF Deputies in the next
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
SCIOUS USAUTOSUGGESTIONLA LATEST METHOD OF HEALING

Think a task is easy and it will
become So" says NJ. Coue. What a
pity Mr.. Lloyd George did not have
contact with lie Morchdnd de Bon-
hemr" as the grateful fellow-Nancians
called him before he went 10 Genoa. He
might have been received on the re-
turn to his native shores with louder
acclaim. Even now with the prospects
OF an election before him il might be
well for him to get a rosary and be-
gin repeating day by day, in every
way, I am becoming better and bet
ter" for surely the potency Of this
great discovery cannot be confined TO
the field OF therapeutics alone. The
election returns would testify TO the
value of the remedy.
Or NJ Coue might be induced to go
to Russia and try his method OH a
large scale. The only drawback is
that apparently the Russians do not
want to be cured but they might be
tricked into it. for all that is neces
sary is get them TO say. day by day,
in every way, we are getting better
and better" AS matter of fact that
is what they are saying. and they act
as if they believed il. Are they
cured? One does not get that i'm
preston en- reading Mr.. Lloyd George
when he said rirederci to his tenn
porary colleagues a few days ago.
But Coue Does Cure
As Mothers Do by Kisses
But, it will be said, does Coue not
la tn,~ita 3.
surcease of suffering to many who
have failed to get relief from doctors
and drugs. from prayer and psyche
analysis? Is the proof of the pudding
still not the eating? Indeed, cures
follow his minstrations, but they
followed the Kings touch by the
thousand: they resulted from the ad-
ministration OF Berkeley's tar water;
they followed the application Of Per-
kin's tractors; and from countless
other supernatural measures. 1t will
be long time before his admirers can
accumulate as many testimonials Of
cures as Munyon or Schlatter, or a
fraction of the number that attest the
proved cura tive value of magic
remedy which expired with the advent
of the XVIII. Constitutional Amend
ment. And mothers the world over
make the pain of their children's
hurts" disappear by kissing.
The extraordinary thing is that dis
ease displaying itself in the emotional
and intellectual fields does not dimin-
ish rs the result of the activities OF
NJ. Coue. his predecessors and fellow
workers. Other diseases are yielding.
tuberculosis has been throttled, syphi-
lis eviscerated. malaria bound and
gagged because we have discovered
their causes and prevent them, or
overcome them before they have
gained an ascendancy of the victim.
That is the way the neuropsychoses
will be overcome. Their cure" is in
the fields of mental hygiene. eugenics
and pedagogy, and until public opinion
is cast and nodded to accept this fact
and the combined effort of physician
pedagogue and potential neuropath
or their sponsors is enlisted just as II
was in the campaign against tubercu-
losis of a generation ago We shall not
make very much progress. Meanwhile
the more mystic mush the neuropatf
is fed the more pitiable will be hi.
plight and the more pusillanimous hi:
progeny.
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tured. For four years Raisuli was
chained to wall and could neither
lie down. nor bend his body until the
neck shacklcs were removed. He made
one attempt to escape. but was re-
captured. When he was finally lib
Grated through the intervention of in
fluential Moors he made a VOW that
scissors would never touch a hair Of
his head until he had revenged him
self on his treacherous enemy. Though
he shaves the top OF his head like all
Moslems. he wears a long scalp lock
that now reaches far below his waist
and which he tucks away under his
turban.
Immediately he was released he re-
turned to the fastnesses of tho hills
near Tangier and gave full play TO the
vindictive spirit that had been aroused
in prison.
He murdered the wife and mother
Of his brother-in-law. both relatives OF
the Basha who had imprisoned him.
The husband was a certain Shereef OF
Abrish who first married Raisulfs
sister and had taken another wife,
which is distinctly allowed by the
Mohammedan religion. Having cap
tured one OF the Bashas officers he
sold him to some tribesmen whom the
captive had wronged. Having paid
Raisuli the price demanded. the pur-
chasers calmly cut the prisoners
throat at the door OF the room in
which Raisul was seated and where
the whole monetary transaction had
taken place in the presence OF the
victim. who we'll knew his fate.
These two instances show the man
ner OF man Raisuli could be in spite
OF captivating manners attested by all
who have come in contact with the
cattle thief and brigand
Began Abducting Foreigners
to Coirce the Government
Raisuli began abducting foreigners,
not to piunder them, but merely as
means OF coercing the Moroccan Gov
ernment to render, howbeit unwill-
ingly. some measure of tardy justice.
His first victim in his capacity OF
kidnaper was Walter B. Harris. the
correspondent of the London 7tmcs,
who was confined at Zerat In 1901 for
several weeks in the bandits impreg-
.nable stronghold. two hours ride from
Tangier. Harris was treated with con-
sideration and was exchanged for SIN
teen tribesmen. followers OF Raisuii,
who had been imprisoned.
Raisuli associated himself with pow
erfu, Kabyles and united in q league
against the Government. sending mes
ssges frequently TO the Basha OF Tan
sier. detailing the plans Of the tor
ture chamber and prison he was build
ing TO accommodate him at Herat'
Reisuli did not at any time dispute tne
sultan's authority, nor refuse to pay
the tax prescribed by the koranic law
that IL. the tenth OF all crops--but
bevond that he resisted expressions
With force. AS Moslem, he returned
wrong for wrong. not good Tor evi''
and any injury done him he repaid
hundredfold.
The second victim was Ion H. FER
d,caris. an American born In Athens
in 1s40. Mr. Perdicaris was made cap
five at his summer home. Aidonia' IN
the Benz Arroze Hills, and with n's
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

son law. Cromwell Narley, was
taken to kabyle village where they
were kept captive for several weeks
President Roosevelt sent warships to
Tunis and John Hay demanded tho re-
lease of the captive in the tcrse cable
gram: "Perdicarfs alive or Raisuli
dead
Raisuli laughed at the display of
power and keptr the Sultan and his