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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Role of the Brain

XXTE can best understand what
w has been going ON in psy-
chology,' Professor Boring contin-
ues, IF we return to the dualistic
tradition and see that in it there
were, roughly speaking, three prin-
cipal locations for psychological
events:
I'D The sense-organs (2), the
central nervous system and CD con-
seriousness.
"The three are casually related:
stimulation of the Sense-organ gives
rise to central neural process,
which in turn may be said to cause
a conscious process. In the less ex-
act parlance of the laboratory, we
always are thinking about stimulus,
brain and consciousness.
THE events in the brain, the
middle term of this dependent Sc
rieS, have been largely inaccessible
to observation.
There has been clinical observa-
ton. The rest Of what we know
about the brain is at a higher in
IerenClal level.
THE psychologist holds to the
faith that the brain, made up of
neuronS, is capable only of that ex-
citation which is the sum of the ex-
citations of many neurons, and that
these central neurons obey the same
laws and are excited under the same
limitations as apply to the peri
pheral neurons which have been ex-
perimentally studied.
ITO this article of faith the psy-
chologist sometimes opposes an
other belief, that the organization
Of cerebral excitation corresponds
to the organization of phenomenal
experience. These two hypotheseS
are not necessarily consistent, and
often we have to choose between
them"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Bartender or Gangster?

Senator Arthur Robinson the particular pet OF the
Anti-saloon League once more announces his idel-
itv TO that organization and dramatically suggests that
uncle Sam will never become bartender"
Aside from the fact that prohibition has not only
made Uncle Sam bartender but a gangster as We'll
no one viii seriously quarrel with the declaration OF
the senator.
The oratory Of Robinson will only serve to call at
tention OF minded citizens to the pure bunk
behind most of the dry propaganda, especially VEat
of a professional nature which is intended for the
consumption Of those who pay their money under
misguided belief that there is such thing as prohi-
bition.
The testimony of educators doctors, lawyers.
manufacturers leaders in every walk Of life, given
before congressional committees is that prohibition
has produced more evils than it cured.
The law has broken down. Prohibition is re-
sponsible for rapidly increasing dsrespect for all
law It has maze drinking popular with youth and
in circles where it taboo before the amendment
It has failed utterly to reduce crime or poverty
Three wears ago prohibitionists Boosting that
all the savings Of working men were due TO the pro-
hibton era Today no such boast is made. AT least
some of the plight of working men can be traced to
the law because Of its contribution to unemployment
and the decrease in revenues for government.
Now Uncle Sam. from whom Senator Robinson
will keep the white apron openly admits his gang
ster attitude if it be admitted that government con-
troll of liquor sales would make bartender of the
government.
1t will be recalled that Uncle Sam is sending Al
Capone to prison for only one reason.
1t is not sending him there for selling liquor al
though he reputed to have controlled the sale Of
liquor through many states.
1t is not sending him there for murder, although
he is reputed to have been master assassin, ruler of
his own army Of killers
What Uncle Sam is sending him to jail for is fall
ure to split his profits of murder liquor and vice with
the government.
If the government control makes Uncle Sam
bartender, prohibition has made him gangster.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE =

is one of the reasons why physi-
clans prescribe them. Scientifically,
they have the ability to induce a
state of euphoria, or a feeling of
well being, which particularly in
the aged is of great Importance.
One of the British psychologists
expresses this particular virtue in
alcohol in the following manner:
I'm the terrific conflict between
what he has been taught to desire
and what he is allowed to get,
man has found the alcohol sim
lister but effective peacemaker e.
a way out of the prison house of
reality
Another British observer, DR.. D.
YellowleeS, points out that certain
cases of alcoholism represent an en-
deavor to relieve an unconscious
mental tension.
In a case of those who are peri
odic drunkards, that is those who
only occasionally indulge in Excess
Sive drinking, but who are usually
temperate or who may even obstain
entirely from alcoholic liquors in
the intervals, it is found that the
outbreaks occur when some I'M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Beer and the Fathers

Let appeal to the people according to the
methods of our fathers" urges communicate today
from the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition
and public morals.
The methods of the fathers, we learn also today
from letter of Senator Harry Halves to Senator
Hiram Bingham, we're to drink and let drink-plen-
tifully of beer and wine, sparingly of the ardent
spirits
George Washington says the senator of Missouri
to the senator of Connecticut, toted not one silver
mask, but three, for his hip, for his saddle
bag, one for his coach. Also, in his immortal
handwriting, he penned home brew recipe, which
for fear Of running afou of the law refrain from
committing to paper. Senator Hawes however, rec
ommends it for the 100000 contemporary home
brewers Ito improve the quality
Patrick Henry Governor of Virginia. also dallied
with home brew serving it at state functions at Rich
mond He imported from Scotland consignment
of barley, personally conducted by a Scotch brewer
and his wife, to make small beer" as an example
to the colonists.
Thomas Jefferson also entertained a Scotch
brewer, whom he called IAN honest and useful man.
HE is about to settle in country and to estab
sh brewery, in which art think him as skillful
a man as ever come to America jefferson wrote to
a friend. Il wish to see this beverage become COM
mon instead of the whisky which kills one-third Of
our citizens and ruins their families"
And another President, James Madison, urged an
impost on imported beer to encourage home manu-
facture He stated he hoped to introduce brewing
into every state not only to increase its consump-
ton, but as a source of local revenue.
In view of Senator Halves useful researches per-
haps the drys will be less ready to invoke the
methods of our fathers"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
TT SEEMS TO ME BY HE FES4%

aspiration Is merely to free one
group and enslave another, then
we are fated to live in squirrels
cage from now on until eternity.
1 never have been to Bermuda,
either above deck or below, but
don't think that precise accuracy
should be allowed TO interfere with
parable. It is Jorge's notion that
on the next voyage he is to drink
the gin and I am to shovel the
coal.
I will agree to that only if he is
willing to change positions on the
way back. And I mean a voluntary
change, and not an upheaval
brought about through a violent
revolution led by Hairy Ape Hey
wood.
Under the dispenSation suggested
by the Daily Worker, the hard and
dirty work is to be done by the
forced labor of the fake, Social
lists" When Debs ran for President
the last time, that meant almost
million persons. And I think it
is fair TO assume that certain
number OF the bourgeoisie would
qualify for that same helot caste.
After all, even thoroughgoing rev.
olution can't quite manage to kill
everybody on the other side.
At any rate, you start the Com
munist Utopia with sufficient
number of downtrodden and dispos-
Sessed to insure yourself another
revolution under this see-saw the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
ITALIAN SUCCESS
Jan. 19.

an Jan. 10, 1918, Italians on
~ the Lower Piave repulsed an
attack on the Capo Sile bridge
head and carried forth the move
ment which caused the Austrians
to yield the whole salient, moving
their defense line north from
Monte Monfenera to the shelter
of the Calcina Torrent and Monte
Spinoncia.
This eliminated two earlier
movements. The first had been
made on Dec. 81. 1917, by the
French, who recaptlred the
northern summit of Monte Tomba,
which the Austrians had held since
November, 1917, inflicted numerous
casualties and captured 1.400 pris-
onerS.
Then, in the middle of Janu-
airy, 1913, the French made a drive
four miles east up the Pave in the
direction of Quero.
These two movements, and the
repulse by the Italians on this date,
led to capture of control of the
salient. and the closing Of the east
Isrn cate To the snelngs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-Does the legisla-
ture make law, or does it just form
system for law2 If what is writ
ten as a system for law does not
give justice, can it be a system of
law?
We have one law, the foundation
of which is justice. We have our
courts and judges to preside over
them for the purpose of giving JUS
tice to the best of their ability. If
judges rulings are not based on
the foundation of law which is JUS
tice, should he not be removed and
some one else put in who has the
ability to do so?
Are there not too many systems
for law made without due conSid-
Grafton and knowledge of facts in
regard to them? What chance has
a legislature to figure out a system
for law that is just, when so many
people want a system for law that
is for their special benefit, SEEM
ingly with no regard for the basic
principles of law which is justice?
Should not the legislature be linn
tied to the forming of system for
governmental work so that they
could have time to figure out and
simplify a system for government
that could be effectively and eco
nomically handled, giving protec-
ton to the innocent, from the un-
scrupulous acts of others?
Could we not get a more perfect
system for law by doing away with
the legislature, and hire two or
three men by the year, and let them
make a study of the situation in
regard to system for law, so they
could have a sufficient knowledge
of facts TO form a system of law
that is as near just to all as they
with their knowledge see it, then
put it before the people SO they can
voice their objections if any, and
thus arrive at a solution that is as
near just for all as it is possible TO
make it, then put it to a vote of
the people if it is thought necessary
before it becomes a system of law.
Try this and see if it is possible
to have peace and goodwill among
all the people.
Il. D. ROBINSON,
n Richmond Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
follow the Leader

CAFETY has become our passion
~ not only in physical, but in
every other sense. We demand pro-
lection above all else, protection
against danger, disease, hard work
and even discomfort. and we want
it for our minds, as well as our
bodies.
Unconsciously, we have fallen into
the habit of letting others do our
thinking for us and they are grow
ing fewer and fewer as the scope of
our organized activities increases.
When STRAW hat" day is an
nounced, most of us put on that
form of head gear even though it
may be raining.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Within the Brain

IF the scientific mind could be
IL satisfied with correlationS, ply
Biological psychology might have ig-
nored the brain as inaccessible to
its methods and have remained con-
tent with correlations between slim
illus and sensory process in the old
days and between stimulus and re-
Spouse later on" Professor Boring
continues.
The scientist, however, Professor
Boring, tells us, wants something
more.
"He wants insight into the rela-
tionships,' he goes on, "a complete
and immediate understanding which
seems to leave no further question
to be asked.
'It is this need for insight that
has forced the brain upon psych-
ologists. The gross psychophysicaI
correlation must be made more in
innate. We want, in Fechner's
phrase, an inner psychophysics.'
Nevertheless, even if we had this
knowledge of the brain and the re-
sultant correlations, we should still
be wanting insight in both parts of
the picture.
1--WE should, on the one hand,
want more intimate knowledge of
the relation of stimulus to brain,
and this sort Of knowledge we are
now actually beginning to get.
"On the other hand, the correla-
ton between consciousness and the
events in the brain show no signs
Of yielding to insight because there
is no conceivable way in which in
sight can transcend the dualistie
gap between mind and body"
Professor Behring'S interesting
views of events in the brain" will
be discussed in our next article.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Local Boy Makes Good

a ND, to show my good will to-
L n ward Jorge, as well as the rest
of mankind, I will endeavor to hu-
NOR him in his contention that I
am actually the tool and the con-
script of the capitalist regime.
1t has been said that America no
longer is the land of opportunity,
and that advancement from the bot
tom to the very top now is denied
to young America. A brief dispatch
from Donora, Pa, gives the lie to
this. 1t reads as follows:
Paul Melons rise in the bank
ing business is rapid. The only son
of Secretary Andrew Mellon went to
work in the Mellon bank, at Pitts
burgh, on Dec. l. Today he is a
director Of two banks"
Copyright. 1882. BY United Pressl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Harvard Professor Would
Combine Methods of Intro
spectionists and BehGUior-
lists IN PSycbolO gicGl
Studies.
A NEW field Of psychological in
IN vestigation is proposed BY
Professor Edwin G.. Boring. famous
psychologist of Harvard university.
First, the introspectioniSts held
the field in the realm of psychology.
They sought to explore their own
mental processes and put their dis
cusSions in terms of mental con-
cepts.
A few years ago, the behaviorists
took the center of the stage. Led
by Watson, they sought to ignore
introspection. Psychology for them
was only a branch of physiology.
Watson denies the existence of
such a process as thinking and
seeks to reduce the whole realm of
psychology TO a mass Of physical
concepts.
Professor Boring would fuse the
two. The introspectioniSts we're
chiefly concerned with what they
called consciousness. The behavior
lists would do away entirely with the
use of that word.
Now Professor Boring suggests
that psychologists study what he
calls the physiology of conscious
ness"
MY thesis" says Professor Bor-
ing, 'is that introspection is meth
cd for the observation of certain
events in the BRAIN"
The reader who is in doubt as to
just what the psychologist means
by introspection may be helped by
Webster's definition. -1ntrospection
"a looking inward; especially self
examination or inspection of ones
own mind"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19

Health Magazine
THE question as to why some
i people indulge excessively in
alcoholic liquors, whereas others do
not, has been one which long has
given concern to the experts in
pharmacology, physiology, psychol-
ogy, nervous an mental diseases.
In general, all are agreed that
chronic alcoholics are the result of
some inadequacy to face the prob
lens of life, and in most cases have
some defect of heredity.
The defect in heredity does not
indicate, as most novelistS pre-
sumo, some alcoholic ancestry, but
rather the occurrence in previous
generations of some mental weak
ness.
The chronic alcoholic, before sue
cumbing to his habit, usually has
suffered some nervous symptoms of
one kind or another, quite frequent
ly a state of depression which alco-
hol for the time being relieves.
This virtue in alcoholic liquors
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Afraid of Everything

THE whole set-up has tended to
Il make us afraid-afraid to in
vest our own money; afraid to at
tempt independent careers; afraid
to enter a house where there was
measles, or whooping cough; afraid
to go in swimming, unless life
guard was handy; afraid to buy
anything, unless we had been talked
into it by some high-power sales
man.
Who can survey what has oc-
Cured in these United States dur
ing the last half century and
honestly believe that the people
have done their own thinking, ex-
cept with regard to few minor
details?
They have permitted themselves
to be victimized by experiences,
craftsmanship and ritualism, until
they had no choice but to play the
part of sheep.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Daily Thought

A man that hath friends must
show himself friendly; and there
is friend that sticketh closer than
a brother.-Proverbs 1924.
Friendship is love without its
flowers or WELFARE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Independence ShriveIS

independence OnfIV6IS
OUR boys and girls have been
~ trained to look for jobs while
the boss did all the worrying, and
we older folks have been told that
we mustn't think of doing this, or
that, withou consulting some special
list.
The general result has been a
Shriveling of independence, initia-
tive and courage.
You can see it in the mismanage-
ment of our cities, the crazy Sc
quence of styles and fads, the I'M
willingness to accept bold meas
ures when they are obviously
needed,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19

Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
eStinE writers and are pre-
Sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Not Precisely Perfect

OF course, it may be said that
~ turn about is fair play. 1t is
fair, but it isn't perfect. You see,
there is an additional adage which
says that one good turn deserves
enotheh e tia Epal d human
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
M. E. Tracy
Says:

We Americans Haze Been
Scared for q Long Time
Scared Not Only of Each
Other, but of Ourselves,
and Risk and Work.
NEW YORK, Jan. ia great
~ deal is being said about fear
these days, and in such a way as
to create the impression that it ar
rived with the stock market crash,
that it was unknown in this coun-
try before the fall of 1929 and that
it should be treated as temporary
affection calling for a quick cure.
AS. minority of one, disagree
with that viewpoint. I think we
have been scared for long time
scared not only of each other, but
ourselves, and not only of risks, but
work.
How else can you explain the
Juror over red tracts and pamphlets,
the stampede in favor of prohibit
ton, the growing popularity of mass
regulation, the herding and crowd
ing, the blind faith in bigness and
many other queer characteristics of
modern life in America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19

A GENTLEMAN named Jorge,
IN writing in the Daily Worker,
brings up moot question which
has been much on my mind. In
discussing the problem of whether
it would be a good idea to expose
me to a firing squad, he said:
Shooting may be deserved-and
we do not exclude that from the
possibilities-but how about taking
his gin away from him and putting
him to work as a stoker in a steamer
carrying workers to the Bermudas
for their vacations? He knows that
route-above decks
This method ought to settle that
old stupid question that hops up now
and then: Who will do the dirty
work under Socialism. Who, II not
the fake Socialists
In this good-natured raillery, it is
not the matter of execution which
commands my interest. That is an
old story by now. I've had lots OF
offers. Within two years bids Of
assassinations have been received
from Defender Of Southern Wom-
anhood,' "Klans1nan" and zone
Hundred Per Cent American" And
if it is true that America must
shortly choose between Fascism and
Communism. I'm out Of luck. I'd
get shot just as quickly under one
regime as the other.
1t is the Communist conception
which attracts my attention. can
state my case in a little rhyme not
quite like the original:
IF Mellon delved and Haywood span
Who would then be the proletarian?"
Il II
The Last Shall Be First
IN other words, Jorge sees revo-
L luton in terms of single turn
of the wheel. He would not create
a new community but merely re-
verse the conditions under which
we live.
After the last bayonet had been
thrust and the last bullet fired, Bob
Minor would be commissar of the
treasury. Andrew Mellon would be
making speeches IN Union square
for industrial equality and editing
radical newspaper.
Mr.. Jorge is an ardent atheist,
and so I think it is fair to assume
that he had strict religious train
ing as boy. He has not been able
to escape from the Biblical doctrine
of original sin and atonement. He
would divide the sheep from the
goats and separate the lost and the
elect.
It has been said that the lowly
shall inherit the earth. In that
glorious day their feet will be on
the necks of the naughty. But
when you get your feet on some
body's neck, you aren't lowly any
more. A new group of potential
inheritorS has been created.
q
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medica
Association and Of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-09-22
Meet Monday

Somewhat cheered by the pre-
ponderance of republican votes
cast in the recent primaries, mem
bers of the party all over the
state are now laying plans for the
remainder of the campaign. Ben
ton county republicans viii call a
meeting of the newly elected pre-
cinct committeeman for Monday,
September &c at the Chamber of
Commerce rooms in Kennewick,
for the purpose of perfecting the
county organization.
The local organization will join
with the state and national groups
to further the candidates. of the
republican nominees. The battle
cry will be Vote FER Straight
1t is also quite likely that a
younger voters organization will
be fostered by the organization.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-09-22
THE HOUSE THAT ADyER,
Using BUILT

You've seen it. It's not very
large. Nor is it small. It's
just comfortable. Every line of
its architecture shows the hand
of a master. 1t is built of
splendid, la ting materials.
From cellar to attic it is per-
feet. 1t is completely equipped
with modern labor and time
saving devices - oil burner,
washing machine, electric fans,
vacuum cleaner, etc. Every
thing needed to make living a
pleasure is there.
It's the. house that advertis-
ing makes possible. Every
thing in it from the asbestos
shingles on the roof to the con-
crete foundation blocks is adj
yertised-even the plan itself.
made by famous architect,
can be bought for a nominal
sum. And because so many
people read the advertisements
for the different things going
INTO this house, because so many
buy them-the price of this
house is well within your reach.
The advertisements make it
possible for you to live better.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-09-22
THE HIGHWAYS OF
BUYING

Follow the highway mark
ings and You can't 60 wrong"
That's the advice the Au-
tornobile Club gives you before
starting on motor trip. You
follow the weIl-knOwn, well
marked roads. And you reach
your destination the surest,
most comfortable way.
Why not follow the same
rule in your shopping? Why
not stick to the highways Of
buying?" They have been just
as carefully plotted, and are
lust as carefully marked as the
great motor roads you've come
TO depend upon. Marked by the
trademark Of reliable, adver-
tised products
The next time you 60 shop
ping follow these Highways"
Before you start. look through
the advertisements in these
columns. Pick out the products
YOU want. Notice the names
and trademarks that identify
them And ask for them by
name.
The advertisements are sign
posts TO guide you 20 the best
and most reliable merchandise.