Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-28

VIII, president OF the university, ana M
lied the sociopath as one who has not
passed safely through the stages of
normal childhood and retains into adult
life the infantile viewpoint dominated
by feeling of omnipotence. The child
gets what 1t wants by temper tantrums,
crying or running away. The sociopath
tries to do the same thing and finds
himself in conflict with an unyielding
world.
So he develops hate reactions, always
blames others for his failures, ration
aliZes his own shortcomings into virtues
and demands constant affection and at
tention without being about to fix his
own affections in return. Often the
hate reactions and rationalizations of
persecution lead to crimes. But, DR..
Partridge said, while the group frowns on
the sociopath, it acts itself in the same
infantile way toward other groups.
THE study of 5000 wars" he says,
shows clearly the child sociology. Every
nation seems to think the world owes
1t a living and seeks ACKNOWLEDGMENT by
taking without giving. The process Of
the public mind is like that of a child"
Even decadent peoples" he said, be
lieve in their great destiny and assume
their essential greatness and right to
dominate. And nowhere is there such
perfection in deception as in diplomacy"
Religion in the United States is a
$13 100000 900 business, c. Luther Fry
of the Institute of Social and Religious
Research, New York, told the Society
Analysis of census reports for 1926, he
said, show that there are 222, 900 local
churches divided among 212 deuomina-
tons, valued at $4,000, 100000 and with
parsonageS valued at $500, 600 900, to
say nothing of school and mission prop
erty. The expenditure for 1925 was
$817 100000, representing interest on
nearly $4,000, 100000. The church
membership is about 55,000,Ooo. The
investment in churches represents about
SAB for every American over IA years
old.
The Sunday school has increased in
membership only about per cent in
10 years compared with SO per cent for
the population at large This is partly
due, he said, to Roman Catholic
churches giving up Sunday schools in
favor of parochiai schools, where re-
ligion is taught as part of the curric-
ulum. But the decline is also notable
and unexplained in Protestant denomi-
nations.
City More Religious.
City folks, the figures showed. are
slightly more religious than country
folks, while the greatest percentage of
the total population are church mem
bers in the Southern States and the
smallest in the Far West. White men
are slightly more religious than colored
so far as church membership is con-
cerned, but colored women are far
more religious than their white sisters.
Divorce is highest in States where
church membership is lowest.
The men who led the Communist
revolution, which overthrow the Russian
government in 1917, were from the
white collar" class, said DR.. Jerome
Davis of Yale University, from a study
of the biographies of 1853 revolutionary
leaders. The great majority of them,
he showed, were from cities and less
than 10 per cent had peasant fathers.
The biographies show, Prof. Davis said,
that the Communist revolt was youth
movement. One-half the leaders were
under 81 and nearly all of them had
been engaged in radical activities Of
some sort since they were IT. Most
or them were members CT secret student
circles which, DR.. Davis pointed out,
may have been counterparts of the
gangs" among American boys.
It is all very we'll for learned pSy-
chiatrists to tell the police the cause
of criminal behavior and what to do
about it, but the police have the law
to consider and, in Washington, hard
boiled Congressman, who don't think
much Of psychiatry.
Thus Lieut.. Van Wrinkle, head Of the
Wcman's Bureau of the Police Depart
ment. replied to suggestions for the hos
pltaI treatment OF certain types of anti
social behavior at the group meeting
yesterday.
Mrs. Van Wrinkle agreed that the
psychiatrists' method might be the best,
but pointed out that the police have
sworn to enforce the law and are in
no position to try any experiments with
Congress watching them with an eagle
eye.
I'm Washington" she said, there is
no psychlatriSt to whom the police have
q legal right to go. If we arrest a per-
son, we nave got to apply the law-not
social service"
Mems Group Behavior.
Mans group behavior cannot be ex-
planned entirely on a physical basis.
DR.. Charles A. Ellwood of the Univer-
ity Of Missouri told the society. The
school OF psychology known as be
hsviorism," which would deny man
mind, soul or consciousness, and
which is quite popular in the United
ONel-Co CIV pACSNAlbs was CIldTdCJeTlZGQ DIV
DR.. Ellwood as possibly victims OF
traditional orthodoxy in science as the
fundementalists are vic inns of tradi-
tional orthodoxy in religion" Insist
ence on "the non-eXistence of the nom
physical is sheer dogmatism," he de-
clared.
Social progress he continued, con
sists of adjustment by means of ex-
change of conscious experience. Indi-
viduals forming a group must share
certain subjective states"
The behaviorist, he said, holds that
culture consists Of series of condi-
toned refieXes, but "the whole of civil
lization followed backward can be re-
solved without residue into bits of in
dividual experience. The behaviorysts
fail to show the real nature of human
institutions, because these always in
Volve values
Should punishment At the crime or
At the offender? The conflict between
the psychiatrist and the lsgalist has
been prominent in American criminal
legislation in the past 10 years. Mabel
A. Elliott of the University of Kansas
told the society. The pSychiatric point
of view, which would treat every criminal
| differently according to his own per-
sonality, she said, had made great
Roadway with the establishment of