The Washington times., 1931-10-23
True to Type
CREATE DULL PEOPLE
THE SECRET A I'M
OF SCIENCE
BV ~RERT SELDES.

- Dy OAA-BEA IL SNAADCSD
do not suppose that the scientists of the world have
formed gigantic conspiracy to discourage human beings,
but they making headway if they had object
in life whatever except to produce dull people. The
latest terror they have discovered is the baefu effect
of the emotions. 1t is not with minds alone that
we are afraid says Dr. George w. Grille, but with all
our organs and dozen vulgar phrases bear witness
that knew it all along. But Dr. Grille goes farther
and that emotions set up infections in
bodies The heart and the kidneys and the
pay for of fear and hate and worry. AS
for the profound emotion of love- the ravages of Eros
we'll known and feared that DR.. Grille does not
mention it.
Those Glands Again
The glands you may be at the bottom of it,
the little monsters have become imps of all work in
current medical mythology We get mad; the adrenal
thyroid glands go into high; and, the first thing
know, have permanent high blood pressure heart
disease, and diabetes. I incompetent to question
the accuracy of this seifatal series of events; all
question is Dr. Criles implied intention to prevent it
from occurring He believes that in a few years the
profession of medicine will become preventive rather
than curative will to his doctor and say, I
am as I am. Keep thou from all ILL.," And the
doctor will say, Don't worry Don't hate. Don't be
afraid"
And Freud Again
Another system of has, for the past 20 years.
be sure told that complex may be subimated they
have suggested that genius is pretty to be tangled
and in the brars of fe full of suppressions which
find devious outlets in sculpture and poem and song.
Yet obviously the ideal situation is which creates
no conpexes whatever the happy has hair-shirt
All of the systems of modern education which stem from
Freud attempt to keep children from developing fix
atons; the Adlerans would avoid the despairng
of inferOrity.
What, No Completes?
Many years ago, when the name of Freud was just
beginning to be heard in the land who said
she was the first American analyzed-and that's
as notable swimming the Channel-looked into my
adolescent eye and said, with bewilderment and
thought reproach "You know, you have compexes."
If she had said had eyebrows, should have been
no surprised. Since then the memory of that
curt dismissal has given pain, has become clear
that without few good cOmpleXeS you socially and
intellectually nowhere.
The way to avoid nervous entanglements is to lead
the dull life of animal It s according to another
popular prophet of the tme the way Oswald
Spenger may bring the whole of history to bear his
theories; in the end he is telling young of today
that they must not try to be anything but mechanics
because this is mechanical age And somewhere be-
hind the facade of DR.. John B. Watsons behaviorism
lies the notion that it is not particularly desirable to
be the exception, that can be perfectly adjusted to
the life around you.
Tad Against the Lot
The late T. A. Dorgan (Tad of Indoor Sports,'O
not scientist but he knew, and liked and disiked
human beings. One of his recently reprinted pictures
is of political candidate who sis he'd spoil
the works. with his demands to "take the bull out of
government economy, take the blarney out of farm
lief take the blah out of political promises From
the wings voice cries, "Thats sly-say, thered be
nothing eft and another answers 1--WE need bunk-the
world thrives on it."
I match Tad against the men Of science. The
of science have discovered that emotions dan
gerous to the Tads of the world have always known
it and decided they'd take the risk.
The Bourgeois Rises
Privately it pleases me to think that the psyche
analysts and the scientists and the philosophers have
been the pets of the bourgeoshaters, and that de-
fense of the bourgeois been thorough the
which the philosophers and scientists and psyche
analysts erecting The a-toosolid middle
class has been scorned because it refused to be mad
and wanton and artistic because it lived placid we'll
regulated lives And all we learn now is that if
calm, and do not fly off the emotional handle and
stick to the middle of the road, shall fulfill the
ideal of severest critics There better
argument for moderation and conservatism than the