Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-30
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL y. COLLINS.

and evade and play the role Of Ban
did it?"
Yet when society encourages ire
spectacle folks to scoff at law enforce
! ment, concerning one law or two or
| three, what right has society to "segre-
gate" the man. boy or woman whose
inherent weakness may be cultivated
in such poisonous atmospheric Why
not segregate "society"2 Such Is the
fetaliatory theory OF the layman not
yet expert in the science Of picking out
the other fellow for segregation.
While we Judge others, and sentence
infants to life doom, Is there not re-
Sponsibility to be put on society itself,
and its educational and moral inStitu-
tons, which responsibility it must bear,
without attempting to shunt that duty?
The unfair part Of the new science
of psychiatry Is its precocious presump-
ton that it has solved the intricate
problems Of character and has shut the
door to life, with few superficial years
ogy and crystal gazing are not yet be-
yond questioning. -
Now comes another scientist with the
conclusion that we are what we eat.
We are chemical compounds, made up
on the prescription combining carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phos-
phorus, sulphur, silicon, huorin, sodium,
chlorin, magnesium, manganese, cal
cium, potassium, iron and iodine.
For the sake OF clearness 1t will be
to remind you that the bulk of mans
weight is due to hydrogen, carbon, oxy-
gen, nitrogen and phosphorus. These,
with the remaining IL elements, are di-
rectly responsible for each and every
individual having his particular likes
and dislikes, emotions and reactions,
talents, abilities and vocations. People
differ in mind, will, emotions and pro-
pensities-all because of the difference
in their chemical makeups." Not
heredity, not environment-just chem
icals.
Somehow that sounds like a recipe for
making biscuits. Maybe the paranoiac
got too much soda into his batch or
was baked too fast. The soft of char
acter has been overkneaded.
The author tells us that 1.-THE carbon
type of man Is successful in executive
positions because he has the faculty Of
getting other people to work." Maybe
he "roasts" his victims with his supply
of carbon. The oxygen type has large
nose and consumes lot of oxygen from
the air as we'll as aSsimulating 1t from
foods: he Is blustery. like an invigor-
ating breeze-enthusiastic and pro-
greSSive.
Excess of nitrogen makes artistic dec
orators; excess OF sulphur causes grace
and beauty, but temperamental dispo-
sitions. But-here Is where we hunger
and manifest chemical afinity--phos-
phorus builds the brain. But 1t Is not
wise to diet too exclusively on matches
for the sake of their phosphorus-ex-
cept such matches as are surely made in
heaven. A few tons day should make
a balanced ration.
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Robert Sidney Ellis. Phi. D., professor
of psychology of Colorado University,
comments on these phenomena in his
book, THE Psychology Of Individual
Differences" and he says:
"One Of the greatest difficulties in
the way OF acceptance Of the principles
of mental inheritance lies in the gen.
eral ignorance among professional psy-
biologists Of the mechanism Of inheri-
tance."
In discussing the comparative impor-
lance Of hered1ty and environment, DR..
Ellis says:
I'VE have already pointed out the
fact that eminent men and women are
from superior families. It might, of
course, be urged that this is proof that
environment, rather than heredity, Is
the determining factor in the causation
of greatness. Evidence against this Is
offered by Cation in the fact that the
adopted sons Of the Popes have not
compared at all with the true sons of
eminent men. Presumably they have
had excellent opportunities, ct least for
eminence In the church, but they have
not shown themselves able to profit by
them"
That brings upt the question Is to
what Is the environment of adopted
sons Of the ?epes that ahplld tend 70