The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-31

There's no such thing as small
doses In science" the psychologist
retorted. You're an example.
You're so full Of thermodynamics
and mad theories about undernour.
ished electrons that I doubt whether
you ever heard, or can remember
that you ever heard, of the emo
tional correlates of autonomic an
tagonisms, a subject upon which
our Mr.. Marston is without q peer"
Whats 'em guys tall1in' about?"
drawled Fanny Flapper, addressing
her sister man,hunter.
BOzos Just Coo Coo.
Jaw. them bozos are coo-coo.
They're tied up here with this here
American ISOLATION fer the Ad-
vantages Of SoHethin' Funny"
For the Advancement of Science,
little girl-allow us to supply the
word. They don't talk your Ian
guage, and they don't talk mine,
when they speak of their beloved
work.
Some of them have strange ap-
pearances. They don't care IL
the daughters of the sun, preening
alley chairs, do not deem them
worthy to rival the matinee Idol OF
the day.
They don't care IL their hair re-
mains unclipped for weeks at Q
time, or If their facial characters
tics are out Of the ordinary. Nor
do they give more than a passing
thought to their clothes. Clothes
were made to cover ones body, to
keep one warm, they say-and
that's that.
One may see a most pronounced
breed of this sort today in the
corridors and a large classroom in
Corcoran Hall, the splendid new ad.
dition to George Washington Uni
versity.
Here the American Psychological
Association is holding its annual
meeting.
You may wonder what The
Need of an Organismic Conception
of the Insanities," the subject of
a paper read by Trigant Burrow,
has to do with the new truths OF
progress. Or you may be pleased
to smoker kindly and murmur
something about splitting hairs"
at the topic Of Arnold Gesell-
Monthly Increments Of Develop
ment in Infancy"
Yet, behind this maze Of words,
unintelligible to the psychologically
illiterate, these funny-loolxing men
and women are welding a chain Of
invaluable fact, to hand down to
posterity for what 1t may be
worth.
Every new meeting finds new
ideas, new discoveries in the vast,
mysterious realm Of the human
midland the members Of the
American Psychological Association
are responsible for these develop
ments.
What II, occasionally. one Of them
arises, excitable, eager, to present
as hts own finding some trite
knowledge found and perfected in
another school of thought? This
little nugget is of worth in the
study of psychology.
For instance, Professor X. Koff-
ka arose in the meeting the other
day and demonstrated, with the aid
of a chart, a simple case of color
values, such as any. art student
learns in his second or third year.
Well, what OF it? What If Mr..
Koffka should spend the rest Of
his life in the study of visual con-
cepts? Sometime. somewhere. a
great scientist of the future will
take in his hands this learning and
will make use Of 1t in a way that
none of us know.
And so 1t doesn't make any diff
ference, after all, IL the psycholo-
gists are strange to see, unless
some are charlatans who make up,
as an actor does, to play their
particular parts for unearned gain.
Such men are soon found out and
driven from the halls of science.
Only the real ones remain-funny.
looking or not.