The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-05
PLANNING TO HELP.
 NAT ION OVERCOME. PHYSICAL DEFECTS.
Day by Day" Phrase to Be Made Familiar to All
 CIasses-May ES-
 tabIish Clinic
By Annociatsd rresr

NEW YORK, Jan. Emile Coue, a smiling, active little man with white hair and beard and sparkling blue eyes, once an ob- scure pharmacist who toyed with the mysteries of hypnotism in his tiny shop in Nancy, today arrived in America on the Majestic, an in- ternationally famous figure, the apostle of the doctrine of self-mas- tery through conscious auto-sugges- ton.
 The little pharmacist whose for mula, Day by day, in every way, l am getting better and better" has been repeated by disciples ali over the world, hastened to announce that he did not want any sensation alism to attach to his methods and that he did not want it believed that he claimed to be able to effect cures of diseases.
 Has Not Cured Anyone
 T have never cured anybody of any ailment in my life" he said, and 1 have never made such a claim. If 1 can succeed here, as I have many times in the past in helping others so to understand themselves and ex ereise their minds that they can inn prove their physical condition and achieve better health and happiness. then I shall have succeeded.
 "It is so very easy to pass over the invisible line into sensationalism and to bring discredit to an otherwise sound and unassuming theory, that 1 would like to make a special appeal at the very beginning that my aims be not misunderstood"
 M. Coue declared the purpose of his visit was to spread the knowledge and use of his doctrine in the United States. He hoped, he added, soon to establish an authorized clinic in New York.
 Successful combating defects of characters and of vicious habits such as drunkenness, NJ. Coue said. was one of the primary utilities of his method.
 My fondest desire' he asserted. "is to cause the introduction of my pro- gram of auto -sug gestion into the medical schools of the United States. I want to see it introduced in all 'maisons de correction and prisons where I believe it vii help greatly to cure criminal tendencies"
 Addition to drink" M. Coue ..vehemently stated. "ean surely be cured by my method, but the drunk ard must want to be cured first"
 NJ Coue greeted questions launched at him in rapid succession by several score newspapermen with smiling eagerness to state his case. He looked more like the provincial phar- macist than a worldly preacher.
 No, no,' he cried do not call me doctor. I am Monsieur Coue. l am no miracle man. l bring humble mes sage to teach and help mankind in a practical way.
 Methods Not New
 T am not the bearer of new message, because for many years 1t has been known that the subcon- scious mind is able, through an ex- ercise of the imagination to over come the conscious mind in the ex- fplishment of betterments.
 q bring no challenge to medicine or surgery and make no claims In contravention to the basic ideas or religion"
 M. Coue said that he probably would hold several clinics in the Uaited States, but that he would have to confine most of his work to lec- lures and collective sittings.
 He made it clear that he did not accept any money for his work, as serting that everything received would be used for the Paris clinic and the proposed New York clinic.