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MOUNTAINS OF MYSTERY. Ar
thur Friel. Harper & Bros.

This romance was inevitable. With
setting all provided out of Arthur
FrieTs Venezuelan adventure, with
motive and plot running out to meet
him, what else was there for him to
do except to turn the notion of lost
white race to account for the enter
tainment of those who delight in mys-
terry and hazardous adventure and a
web of the strangest of strange do
ings. With almost no departure from
the setting of his actual journey into
this region Friel sets up the discovery
of the lost race as objective and sup
port of the novel in hand. He does
more than this to sustain the realism
of the whole by transferring into this
field of fiction some of the compan-
ions OF his actual adventure. Con.
spicuous among these is Portonio,
good scout, waywise countryman, hon.
est man, fine friend and capable guide
to Arthur Friel in his Journey along
the rivers and, later, through the
jungle of farther Venezuela. We well
come Portonio as the best among those
of the earlier expedition. A good
touch of realism, this man, among
many others which the author uses
In a fine discretion of romantic in.
vention. A thrilling part of the story
lies in the curious lure that appears
to be set up before this group of ad.
venturers, lure leading toward the
mysterious and forbidding mountains
of the interior. After much of hazard
and no end of suspense the mountains
open to then-and there fies spread
out the mystery of the lost race Then
follows a most desperate encounter re-
vealing the sinister designs of the
"old man OF the mountains" the lead
er of the tribe. In his passionate desire
TO perpetuata the trickle OF white
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blood that still remains in his people
after untold years of black blood pre-.
dominance Another uncanny figure
comes out here in the person of an
other white man who has fallen into
the trap so ertfully set by this old ty-
rant of the tribe. A story packed with
thrills and expectations, based on a
perfectly good theory and projected
in the very setting and atmosphere of
the country that sustains 1T. Both of
these books are high entertainment,
the one as good fact, the other as
equally -goo& fictions
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Biology is an abstruse subject, but
more popularly interesting than specu-
lative mathematics. Col. Bryan need
never fear that his contentious against
evolution will be as easily forgotten as
were his arguments in favor of
40 to ~
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A students ball in Paris recently
ended in a riot. A Board of Education
has its troubles here, but they are
nothing compared TO the problems con-
fronting supervisors of instruction in
the gay capital
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Summer showers are uncertain. and
even though paraders banded in
mysterious secrecy may leave off their
masks they are advised to carry their
umbrellas.
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Has Check on immigration
Hampered Z. S. Industry?

work, and a very large number is
receiving government aid" impresses
the Santa Barbara News. 1T is an
fortunate that there could not be a.
better adjustment between the labor
supply and demand in the opinion
of the News, .sbut if we must choose
between too much labor and too lit
tie, unquestionably the latter must
be chosen. The situation in America
is preferable to that in England.
In reply TO the suggestions based
upon reported labor shortage, the
Newark News emphasizes the domes-
tic supply Though there is shown
an actual decrease in alien unskilled
manpower," declares the News. lit
does not follow that there has been
national decrease in such man pow
er. In fact, the opposite is almost
certainly the case. For there are ac-
cretions to the ranks of the hewers
of wood and drawers of water by the
coming TO working maturity of scores
of thousand of native born and the
children of aliens, who are equipped
| for no other work.
x **
One influence of the quota law
which is noted by the Indianapolis
News is in the National Industrial
! Conference Boards deduction that
the, purchasing power of American
labor has been improved 80 per cent
over 1920, which means that the con-
dition of the American industrial
worker is probably better than that
of workers at any period in the his
tory of the world The News en-
phasizes the poor distribution of la
Dor in this country, the gross figures
showing a national oversupply of la
bor." Another phase is noted by the
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times with the
statement: There is good reason 10
believe the prospective shortage win
not materialize in troublesome FORM
AS time passes the demand for com
mon labor will decline rather than in
crease. This because, more and more.
machinery is dispiacing the hand
worker"
The question of quality is paramount
to some observers. Those who have
been reading suggests the South
Bend Tribune, about the illegal dis
tilling, the violent criminality and the
menace of a large number of unassimi-
lated aliens who composed the mem
bership and directorates of some of
Chicagos gangs can see reasons why
some aliens already here should be
deported II they cannot become law
abiding citizens. We have passed the
point where immigration questions
can De decided solely on the basis OF
labor supply" Pointing also to the
aliens arrested for crimes, the Water
loo Tribune asserts: Our laws are
nothing to them. They are after easy
money. Easy money is in the liquor.
business just now. What we should
be doing is deporting the alien leeches
and criminals
y X
Canada-s flexible law designed to
meet labor emergencies is cited by the
Sioux City Tribune as worthy of con-
sideration." In spport of the Ameri-
can system, however, the Oakland
Tribune calls attention to "other i'm
migration rules" and tells the storN
of the American woman, a secretariaI
expert, who on going abroad was per
mitted to see Europe only through q
portfolio" because she announce0
that she~wished fes-worb~
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Mr. Doheny revived an interesting
line of philosophy in expounding the
ancient and rather unpopular idea
that patriotism is a virtue which
should be profitably rewarded.
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Predictions that President Coolidge
will be elected for another term should
be managed with friendly discretion.
There is nothing more precarious than
a presidential boom launched several
years in advance of the election.
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Splendid plans are being made for
the future of Santa Barbara. An
earthquake either puts town entirely
off the map or on the map bigger than
ever.
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The plain intimation in Europe that
a debt is a nuisance is neither states
manship nor finance, although it is
unquestionably human nature.
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Germany has enjoyed a great deal of
success in postponing action while al
lowing most Of the f1libustering to be
done by other nations.
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Europe could pay all kinds of debts
if a percentage Of the sums spent by
American tourists could be set aside
for this especial purpose.
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AS a man who prefers silences Presi-
dent Coolidge does not seek the tempta.
tons to sudden eloquence presented
by the golf course.
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shine irreparable damage can be done
to plants which have the right to live,
and to whose beauty the neighbor-
hood in which they live is entitled.
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The Lure of Private Life.

I'VE haven't as many fine speakers
in politics as formerly"
THE competition for talent is
strong" answered Senator Sorghum.
IF man is a really good talker he
can usually enjoy much bigger in
come selling something than he can
by soliciting votes"
Jud Tunkins says that there are so
many ways of getting arrested that
numerous persons would rather be re-
garded as lucky instead of law abid-
ing
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HzsKIN.

@. Is Earle Sande an American
o. c. w.
A The jockey Earle Fl. Sande was
born November 13, 1899, at Groton, S.
Oak.
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Q. How many civilian airplanes are
there in this country?-J. II.
A. The Manufacturers Aircraft AS
sociation Yearbook approximates the
number of civilian planes TO be 600.
This is not accurate, since there are a
great many planes in commercial use
of which no record is made.
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@. In playing horseshoes what is
the distance between pegs?-J. r.
A. The standard pitching distance
from peg TO peg or from peg line TO
peg fine is 40 feet.
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@. Are alligator pears grown in the
United States?-G. A. L.
A. Their culture is a thriving indus
try in southern California and Florida.
1t takes from six to eight years for an
avocado plant to bear fruit. The fla
vor depends upon the variety. The
variety grown in the United States is
very good and compares favorably in
flavor with the imported fruit.
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Q. How many kinds of snakes are
there?-A. r.
A. In 1896 there were 1,65s forms
of snakes in the world. The United
States has about 162 species.
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@. have had so much trouble
with my hose fading when washed.
How can ] prevent this?-D. G.
A Rinse them the first time IN
water in which a teaspoontul OF
vinegar has been put, and they will
not fade so readily.
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Q. How did the Macpherson Blues
originate?-M. d. B.
A. The Macpherson Blues was
company originally formed for the
whisky insurrection. 1t was raised IN
1894 in four or five days by Col. Qater
GEM Macpherson of the Revolution
airy Army. Originally it consisted Of
$50 men, but it was afterward extend
ed into a regiment. The members
were mostly Federalists.
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Q. How often does the balance
wheel of watch vibrate?-V. V. NJ.
A. The balance wheel vibrates 49,
600 times an hour and the staff to
which it is secured rotates more than
any other in the watch.
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Keith Theatre in Boston, Where
the Waterman INDUCED in
His Strange Indoor Sport.

of these Presidents, only revenge; in
Booths assassination of Lincoln, the re-
venge of an ardent Southerner upon the
man whom he believed to be the cause of
the South's downfall; in Guiteau's assas-
sination of Garfield, the revenge of dis
appointed office-seeker. But the psychol-
ogist of today, in his study of the mental
processes which lead to an act out of the
ordinary, goes back to infancy and child
hood. If he can get clear history he can
trace, step by step, through the conscious
thoughts and the subconscous ideas that
are brought out into the consciousness,
the mental processes which led to the I'M
natural act.
Every sensation we receive, either
through the sense of hearing, seeing,
feeling, smelling or tasting, and every
thought, whether created through reason
or imagination, is impressed upon the
mind. If it is important enough or re-
peated enough we remember it; it remains
in our consciousness. If 1t is not import
ant it is forgotten, that is, it falls into the
subconscious mind. 1t may produce very
little impression upon the mind and fall
into the subconscious mind Immediately.
We look out of the window of rail
way train and do not notice the details
of the scenery which is unnteresting.
The sight impressions are, however. re-
ceived and Immediately absorbed by the
unconscious mind. Sometimes we can
bring them into the consciousness through
our voluntary effort to recall them.
Sometimes there is a subconscious re-
sistance to the recall of some unpleasant
event, and it requires all the skill of the
psycho-analyst to drag the hidden thought
into the open.
1t is not possible to trace the source of
all morbid impulses as easily as in the
cases of Booth and Guiteau. In many
cases there are fears or secret desires and
in some there are most complicated men
tai processes in which the thing actually
desired is feared and the individual is
under the compulsior to do peculiar things
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fulfilment, and went to church to pray
for her mothers life.
There was recently brought before the
French courts the case of Mile. Letellier,
a young, pretty and very wealthy girl of
excellent family-caught in the act of
stealing trinkets from a dozen or more
Paris shops. Mademoiselle had plenty of
money and there was not the slightest
reason why she could not have bought and
paid for all of the things she stole and
really did not need or care for. In this
case the psychologists were able to find
that in her early childhood the spending
money given her was retained by her
nurse and the child's constant desire to
have the things she saw in the shop win
dows was thwarted by her dishonest gov
erness, and thus there grew up a sub
conscious urge to seize upon the things
she thought she wanted and this developed
into a mania for shoplifting.
A prominent alienist reports case of
"compulsion neurosis" which was appar
emily simple in its explanation, but psy
cho-analysis showed it to be extremely
complicated. A woman suffered from
mysophobia, a morbid dread of dirt, and
she washed her hands scores of times
every day This morbid impulse was APP
parently due to an exaggerated fear of
germs and dirt and she said she had been
contaminated by filth and could never get
clean. Through psycho-analysis the fact
was revealed that she had soiled her hands
in manner that, to her mind, was filthy
and degrading, that an unholy love was in
volved and an ever recurring sense of
gilt impelled her to wash away the con-
Eliminating stain.
Why should anyone want to hurt per-
sons whom he does not know or injure
harmless animals? Here is a man who
has a morbid impulse to kill cats. He
hates cats and has hated them as far back
as he can remember.
If he has a weapon he will go out of
his way to injure or kill a cat but if he
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Ivan in bar room. Although he knew
that he was no match for the big fellow
he could not resist the impulse to land one
blow upon Sullivans face. After he
picked himself up from the floor, he said
he had pictured himself for years in
genuine prize-fight with the champion,
although he knew how hopeless such an
encounter would be.
The morbid impulses arising from secret
or suppressed love desires are generally
of such a nature that no inkling of the
basis can be gotten from their operations.
The mind has the ability to substitute
agreeable ideas for disagreeable ones. As
the desires would be embarrassing or
Notifying if expressed, or even if retained
in the consciousness. new ideas take their
place while the disagreeablc desires fall
into the unconscious mind. The morbid
impulses are now referred to the new
ideas and it requires the skill of the
psycho-analyst to restore the original de-
sires to the consciousness. Psycho-ana-
lysts say over three-quarters of all OBJ
sessions, fears and compulsions can be
traced to love episodes and over ninety
per cent of the sufferers are women.
Now why don't we carry out all our
impulses? There are several factors act
ing separately or collectively which con.
troll our actions.
Reason and conscience dictate what is
right and rational and what is not. If the
lmpulSive act is right and rational there
Is no further bar to its performance. If
1t is not right and rational there are two
restraints, either of which may be strong
enough to halt the proposed act. There
Is the restraint of fear and of the will
The fear of disagreeable consequences
is the most powerful restraining influ-
ence, but if the act is performed and the
consequences do not follow, the fear ele-
ment loses its restraining power. Re
peated failure of evil consequences re-
suits in complete loss of the sense of
fear and the consequent carelessneSs
which often leads to disaster As fear
becomes weakened, the impulses, freed
from this restraint, become stronger.
There Is still the will, which is simply
an urge to act without restraint to CRAFTY
wish. This sounds complicated but it
is really simple. There is the desire to do
something. The mind furnishes the stimu-
luS or urge to have it done, and under this
urge the physical mechanism is set to work
for its accomplishment. If this urge is
weak the will is weak, though the desire
is strong and the body is strong.
Fear may restrain the impulse although
the will is weak and the will may restrain
the impulse even if there is no fear. That
is the reason the normal person whose
common sense, conscience, will and fear
mechanism are normal can control NOR
bid impulses although there may be hidden
causes for their development.
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has no weapon he will avoid the animal.
1t is easy to surmise that he was scared
or scratched by a cat during infancy, that
he thereafter feared and hated cats, and
as soon as he was old enough to under
stand that he could fight and kill them,
he began doing so.
But this explanation will not suffice for
the case of a person who wants to hurt
others whom he does not know. In the
case already mentioned of Matthews, the
theatre Waterman, he was the last to be
suspected, and as success in any undertake
ing stimulates the desire to repeat the
undertaking on a greater scale, he con-
tinued to throw missiles into the audience
As that which he feared, detection and
punishment, did not happen, the fear
gradually diminished, its restraining in
fluence upon the impulse became less, he
became bolder and less cautious and was
finally detected.
There is, however, a possible expana-
ton for this mans morbid impulse to hurt
persons whom he did not know. 1t may
y,
that is, the tendency to revert to the
traits of some remote ancestor-cave man
stuff brought up to date. Such tend
ency would show itself in early life in
cruelty to animals and to younger and
weaker children.
AS this is an inherent tendency and not
acquired, as is the tendency to revolt
against repression, it is less subject to
fear and consequently it shows itself in
many ways throughout life. 1t would
show itself in gruffness, harshnesS to wife
and children, disregard for the rights of
others, resort to force rather than to argu-
ment, etc. As this atavistic behavior
would be constant and not likely to appear
as intermittent, uncomfortable impulses,
it is probable that there is some acquired
misanthropic cause behind the watchmans
actions.
There are many morbid impulses that
can be traced to secret or represSed de-
. siIes. The most frequent desires that
arouse morbid impulse deal either with
the love element or with a sense of in
feriority.
Many persons feel that they are below
PAR in some respects and they make nor
NAL efforts to raise themselves. Occa-
sionally, however, a person will do some
thing abnormal to attract attention to
himself and it will be difficult to de-
termine if it was a sudden or uncontroll-
able impulse or a thought-out scheme for
self advertisement. 1t will not, however,
be difficult to get at the basis of the alb
normal act as the individual himself will
give the clue to his imagined inferiority
by Boosting of his superiority in that par
ticularly respect
A story is told of a third-rate prize
fighter out West, who met John L. Sui
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In one case a woman
rushed to a church on
every possible occa-
sion, often several
times a day, to pray
for the life of her
m o t h e r. Psycho-an-
alysis brought out the
fact that her mother
demanded her atten-
ton constantly, there
by pre- We n ii n g her
from marrying the
man of her choice. If
her mother died she
could marry and be
happy. But this was so
reprehensible a desire
that she dreaded its
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Both developed
the obsessiOn
that the tyrant,
t he ia t h e +
i'm ge trans
ferred to the
h e a d of the
State, must be
removed. | n
technical lam
= u Il = Z liieoe
men were OBJ
sessed with in
spirational COM
pulsions to re-
move the sup
pressive factor,
the fat h er
image" T h e
a Y m a n sees
in the murder
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retribution, of death or punishment. of
physical pain or mental distress, the fear
of ridicule or conscience. Many persons
have the impulse to jump down from high
places or when looking out of high win
dows but are deferred by the fear Of
death.
Another morbid impulse is to touch a
place marked paint" 1t is a peculiar
fact that some colors attract more
strongly that others, that more persons
will touch place painted green or white
than places painted purple, yellow, black
or gray and more will touch light green
than dark green. OF course we can say we
touch the spot to see if it is dry, but that
does not explain why we touch a bench
painted green and will not touch picket
fence painted black. 1t is probable that
we are instinctively attracted to green,
which is the symbolic color of living mat
ter, and repealed by black which is the
symbolic color of death.
This impulse may be ascribed to
curiosity, our curiosity being greater in
colors that attract US than in colors which
repel us. This explanation will, however,
not do for such morbid impulse as MUIR
der The three most notable murders in
this country were the murders of our
Presidents-Lincoln, Garfield and Mckin-
lev At the time when Mckinley was
shot by Czolgosz, in 1901, nothing was
known of modern psychology. Nothing
was known of nfantile and juvenile
represents, feelings and desires which are
forcibly suppressed or repressed, and the
efforts of the individual later to throw off
the influence causing the repression
Nothing was known then of the mental
images formed in early years which in
later years, when the originals disap-
peared, are made to fit others, who in APP
pearance or in some influence over the
individual resemble the originals.
The case of Czolgosz, the murderer of
Mckinley, was not studied as thoroughly
as Guiteau and Booth, and little Informal
ton about his early life was obtainable.
But Guiteau and Booth could be studied
infinitely and their mental processes ana.
lived. Both had harsh, intolerant fathers
Booths father, according to Professor
A. w. Hamilton, was eXcitable, licentious,
unbalanced and cruel. Guiteau's father
was an extremely religious bigot who
neglected and flogged his son by turns.
and dominated over him to such an extent
that the son ran away from home at the
age of thirteen. In both cases there de-
veloped an intense hatred of the parent
which later extended to all who appeared
to them as tyrants. In the mind of Booth,
Lincoln appeared as much tyrant to the
people of the South as his father was to
him.
In the mind of Guiteau, Garfield was as
much tyrant over the Republican party
as the elder Guiteau was over his son.
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foolish or illegal, but
most of us have the will
power to Withhold our
selves from doing so. 1t
may be something that
is harmful to some one
else, a crime; or an act
that is harmful to one
self, a vice; or an act
which harms no one, hut
is foolish or ridiculous.
In every case in which
we restrain ourselves
there is a fear which is