The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-12-26

powers them to sway entire popula-
tons from the norm.
These leaders don't for a minute fool
the psychiatrists. who say:
"Our science is sufficiently advanced
for US to distinguish between real, pre-
tended and unconscious motives, even in
statesmen. The desire to disguise ma
tional militarism by continual talk
about peace will not protect leaders
from the judgment of history. The Sc
cret promoters of militarism are re-
sponsible for the misery a new war is
sure to bring
Need Control of Instinct.
All of US have the warlike instinct.
1t is only when we are swayed into
losing control of it that we make war.
Professor James says:
I'VE inherit the war-like type =.
Our ancestors have bred pugnacity into
our bone and marrow, and thousands
Of years of peace won't breed it out
of US. The public Imagination fairly
fattens on the thought of wars. Let
public opinion once reach a certain
fighting pitch and no ruler can with
stand it,
You can test yourself on your in
herited love for fighting. Get a pencil
right now and write the names of the
10 men you consider outstanding in
the worlds history. Now look them
over. How many of them are-or were
fighters?
The Unborn instinct for war is not
impossible of control, however, says
science. DR.. John N. Fletcher, pro-
fessOr of psychology at Tulane uni
versity, was given some light on this
subject in the answers TO a question
he put to members of the American
Psychological association. This was
the question:
do you as a psychologist hold that
there are present in human nature in
eradicable, instructive factors that
make war between nations inevitable?"
OF the 52S members of the associa-
ton, 37S answered. Three hundred
and forty-six responded with an IN
qualified NO. Only 10 said YES. There
were % indefinite answers. Most of the
negative replies were emphatic, under
scored and elaborated with argument
and reiteration.
Cooperation Called Solution.
Primitive man fought over roots
and berries; We over markets." said
DR.. S. N. Ritter, whose teachings in
psychology are known in America and
China. Cooperation, founded on equal
ly innate sympathy and gregariousness,
seems a possible solution-when lead
ers are sane"
Positively not" said DR.. A. S. Otis.
ANY one who thinks so is densely ig-
nOrant of political affairs. Wars are
artificial, commercial, strategic, po-
utical, trumped-up and forced upon u.s."
And DR.. Adolf Meyer, Johns Hop
kins university psychiatrist, said:
THE abolition of duels in Anglo
Saxon society is a striking and sug-
gestive fact worth remembering"
The only solution to the problem
of how to end war is to restrain the
warlike spirit, not TO stir it I'D by
propaganda. And how a clever propa-
gandist can stir it up, say the psychia-
trists. Why cannot it be used to de-
stroy war?
Publicity is replacing powder in set
Ting international difficulties" said
DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of
Stanford university and former secre-
tary of the interior "And publicity
means attacks through and upon the
mind.
"More Fatal Than Bullets"
"War is an old, well-established and
emotional state. often artificially Gre
ated, which will carry individuals and
groups of people through degradation
and misery almost without limit, and
yet in war we have found that propa-
ganda IL more fatal than bullets.
Propaganda. organized. played a
large part in the last great war. and
organized propaganda is now on its
way in case there should be another
great war.
"World control mCst come. not
through the mass soldering of men.
but through the minds of men. so that
mental hygiene. sound thinking. the
control of the emotions, becomes the