The Washington times., 1923-03-11
FEAR IS WORST
MENACE, VIEW
OF SCIENTISTS
determination of Morbid Men,
tai State Sure to Result in
Strengthening Of Mankind
BRAVE MEN ARE WcToRs
Being Afraid Is "Most Devas-
tating Monster" Asserts
Authority on Psychology

NEW YORK, March 10.-Oc-
cultists tell US that our per1na-
nent mental states create definite
color aufas around US. Theolo-
gians tell US ''that as a man
thinketh" continually so he be-
comes.
Biologists declare that a sensa-
ton, or q thought passing through
certain channels and centers call
ed nerves and ganglia, makes for
itself a sort of creased race track
over which ii passes with increas-
ing ease and rapidity with each
succeeding recurrence.
FEAR WEAKENS BODY.
Mrs. Katherine M. Ray. president
Of the Scribblers' League and
teacher OF psychology, says:
1--WE begin life with the burden
Ct fear. We get so weak carrying
It we have no strength left for any
thing else. And IL we ourselves do
not have the fear, our parents,
guardians and teachers have the
fear for US.
I'VE fear to give our children the
Intensive training and education we
should lest their minds become
overloaded and their bodies dwaHfed.
I'VE fear to tell them the things
they ought to know about their own
souls and bodies, lest they put
wrong constructions on what we
Will say. We fear for their per-
Oonal safety the moment they are
out of our sight; we try so hard to
live their lives for them that we
do not live our own and entirely
prevent any individual growth of
theirs.
II believe that the most dew
astating monster of the modern
world is fear, and that when it is
repulsed humanity will make
great strides toward progress"
JOY IN PRECISION.
II try to bring the thought of
perfection into whatever ! am at
tempting to do, whether 1t Is to
bake a pie or to construct q flower"
declared Mrs. Harry Blackstone. II
get much joy out Of the artificial
flowers I create from silk, gauze
and wire and there is not a single
detail from the tiniest stamen and
pistil to the exact shade for a petal
that does not afford and demand
judgment and discrimination in
selecting.
''I find that the genuine effort
TO secure perfection in these
seemingly inconsequential details
reacts on other phases Of the mind.
and that precision. care, accuracy
become a habit and JOY in many
things"
~FEAR IS DISEASE"
81 try to bring the bought of
love into my every day life" said
Mrs. Julia M. Rhodes, mother of
Eugent Manlove Rhodes, because
one can get bad results from hating
even inaniHnate objects"
II believe" said Prof: Bernard
Mercer, with William James, the
great psychologist, that speaking
IN the major key, cutting out the
whines and signs will improve health
and bring to us, in time, the friends
and fortunes we desire.
''Napoleon's maxim that Paradise
lies in the shadow of swords was
but another way OF putting a pre-
MUM on courage. The man who Is
courageous will do what every nor
NAL human being should do, he will
breathe properly and speak cheer
fully. These two things will have an
enormous reaction on his physical
being.
"A courageous man will inspire
courage in others and their conf
deHce In him will incite him to new
efforts. Cheerfulness and courage
are positive, dynamic forces that act
and react in perpetual motion. Fear
- a disease germ that brings decay
and death in its wake"