Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Daily ShOrf Story
Mary Ann, Psychiatrist'
BY 6TMA and PAUL ELLERBE


~ competent. but he lacked self
confidence. There were reasons
for that. and Mary Ann Frazier
knew them.
As the GIRL next door She had
made study Of him. She knew
more about him than has mother
did. or his father, or Norman HIM
self. She was the only one Of the
four who liked hlm and Il makes
all the difference.
His mother loved him. but dldn I
like him because he wasn't ro-
mantle. She had been bitterly dis
appointed when she found OUT that
his father wasn't ronlanllc--and she
wanted Norman 10 make II up 10
her.
His father didn't like him be-
cause he thought he wasn't able
Norman was able, but not DOM
inant.
The elder BrowrfIeld had DOM
mated everything he had ever had
any connection with and didn't
know the difference.
Norman didn't like himself be-
cause his parents hadn't LEI him.
They had done him a great harm
BY striving 20 change him into
something else and SO 10 do hun
good.
So that Mary AIMS liking for
him was important
She had liked him when their
communications were Ugh. and
Goo" and she went on liking hun
until she fell M love with him
And then she married him and
took him to a house Of their own,
where he was free from both cod
ding and bullying
Except dow town Unfortu-
nstely. Norman Brnwntield worked
for his father.
"Why don't YOU quit" she
said on the fourth morning IN
their new home, land get a job
that You really like"
Dads going 10 make me
rich" he said. Don't you want
me 10 succeed ."
PAY THOUSANDS
"Not the way he has. He's 80
busy succeeding he-nexer-
time to live. Besides, he's likely
20 fire you.
"His idea Of the way To bring
you out Ia 10 give YOU footing
little job YOU have no aptitude
for, out of some forlorn hope
that. being his son, you'll climb
straight 10 the top.
Hes itching tn he proud Of
YOU, and when he can't, he
makes YOU suffer for IT,"
"I've known people to pay
psychoanalysts thousands" he
said. 'for half that much truth,
but"
look, he'd have biudgeoned
you out Of taking chemistry ut
college II he could. His plat
form for his son and heir is, Big
Business or Bust.
"He's really n very primitive
old tyrant, and he'll end by firing
YOU. Now n Job I'm your own
field--Be haven't got any money
to speak Of, but then, we don't
particularly need money, and"
what need Is chemistry"
Norman said, like an ant-eater
needs ants"
And went off and got himself a
Job that dealt with nothing else
but. Resigned from his fathers
company. after row that made
him happy and miserable all at
the same time.
The new work paid $50 week.
II was with the company Billy
Cunter-who had gone 10 school
with Norman--was building up
into great business.
II was a NeSearch Job. and Billy
told him IL had A future
-Jf you knew the difference"
Norman said. coming home after
longer day than he had ever
put IN before.
NOW I'm irving TO stretch up
TO. something little beyond
myself. Tomorrow, honey, j
think I'm going to get IT."
And tomorrow. whenever he said
that, almost always he did get 1t
the chemical quarry he was
tracking back 10 the infiniteSimal
lair IN which IT had lurked, as like
as not, for centuries.
"Most exciting chase In the
world. Makes war look like one
eyed cat In the back alley"
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