The Washington times., 1932-10-22

tered because their candidates have given them nara
crusts to chew; they have thrown economies INTO the
air. for political scramble, instead of penny candy
Wet Issue Lost
Nine men out of ten imagined four months ago that
the campaign would be fought the Eighteenth
Amendment; actually the whole question OF prohibition
has been thrown away. We have lost lot of enter
tainment because that issue the Republican party
would have had to do plain and fancy straddlng
not but every day; the embarrassment OF recelV-
ing support from the drys while hedging for the votes
of the vets would have been good comedy Instead OF
that we have to think about the Rec0nstrueton Finance
Corporation, which is not funny think we are en-
titled to be little SNUG over our progress;
The newspapers carried few days ago, the announce
ment of the death of Miss Fowler editor of the
Journal of Phrenology; brief note Less than cen
tury ago many people would have said that the death
of great phrenologist would be noted with pomp
and regret than the death of Charles Darwin today
phrenology is faint memory traces remaining when
people say they have mo bump of locality In its time
it seemed as good as psychoanalysls does to u.s. And
used in much the same way.
Looking through old New York papers found an
advertisements can apprentice waned-a stout boy not
fifteen years of of German Scotch parents
to learn good but difficult trade N.B.-It will be
necessary to bring recommenoa1on as 10 ms aotles
adays have experts who anayze all and tell us
what jobs fit for all we lack experts to find
the jobs.
Not only the ignorant fell under the sway of phreno
ogy it accepted first by the civilized minority and
then drained down to the The sophistcates of
the 1840s were the believers in bumps not the boobs
alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke OF SpurZheim, the
founder of the Science in the breath with Locke
to the chronological depot and the Boardwalk
at Atlantic City you still Henry Ward Beechers
statement, "Al my life l have been in the habit of
using phrenoogy that which solves the practical
phenomena of life And to the day of his death Alfred
Russell Wallace codiscoverer with Darwin of the theory
of evolution believed that phrenology the master
science of all sciences and that century would be
disgraced for neglecting it.
- The RunaWays
I was impressed in reading the literature of this
amazing fad to find that people went to the phrenoogst
+hoxyu cfioH with fhnir
couldn't get along with their wives wanted to
away from home-in short, for the very people
travel to Vienna to waste the time of the great DR..
Freud. For phrenology not only read the bumps on
your head and told you what you good for, but
it told you how to develop the faculties you wanted,
and, in sense you could go home and raise bump
in the right place the head of husband that
his philoprogenitivty his amatveness they called
such things would become agreeable It better than
breaking your head against the stone wall of hard
fact
The great blessing of human beings is that every
nvens it's ways of escaping from itself. The pres
ent most superior age has invented at least three
machinery, psychoanalyss and communism. Any time
the three combined in for merry life,