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MODERN NERVOUS
DISORDERS
PRESENT-DAY MORALS
OF MANKIND
BREAKING OF TABOOS NECESSARY
FOR CULTURAL ADVANCE
(By Dr. J. C. Flugel)
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University, College, London
Here is a true story. “ In 1919 Prince Max of Baden. the Editor, and be accompanied by New York, is the mug from which
(Mutt of the deciding that some defect of the Writer's Name and Address George Endraft not necessarily for insertion, but firm) drank 90 glasses of beer education was responsible ļas a guarantee of good faith. each day for S solid years. Be Germany's defeat, established at
fore prohibition,
Mr. Rudra Salem, on the shore of Lake Con- tested beer in New York breweries stance, a "German" "school run os. and every day for the entire 8 English public school lines.
As beadmaster he chose KartTHE modern study of nervous, from existing general practice, years he was so employed, he con-
disorders has shown that some breaking of taboos. sumed 30 pitchers of beer, equd Halm, a German who had been
Hence mental development in-
nearly all great The school our pling 90 glasses a total of 224,640 ecinexted at Orford.
glasses, or 1,360 half barrels of began with four boys. In 1993 volves a series of conflicts be-advances in the sphere of cul- tween primitive egoistic i-ture have in the beginning been beer-all from the same mug.
Its fame spread over the world. pulses and moral controls or regarded as immoral, and those who have led these ádvances Old boys undertook a pledge di inhibitions. ing their university career (1) to
It has also been shown, how-have been persecuted as wick-
do four weeks - annmal
training ever, that our difficulties and ed beings, who were trying to without smoking and drinking, failures arise not so much from undermine the ethical founda (2) to work for three months in the weakness of our morals, as tions of society.
Primitive. Conscienc factory, and (3) to complete a popular opinion still so largely
Now, modern psychology has six weeks' course in a sailing, ty supposes, as from the fact that ing, or riding school.
many aspects of our moral revealed not only the strength character are of a crude and of this primitive conscience or GERMAÂNY IN SCOTLAND).
primitive kind, il adjusted to super-ego (which begins to the actual world about us.. manifest itself, the child Then came the Nazis.
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its deeper levels it is undis-at the same time given us a removed. criminating, inelastic, and it good deal of information CON- Disappointed Humorist: "You sit He went to England and with the tends to work on the "all or cerning its nature, origin and on every joke I send you." help of English friends, of whom none" principle, whereas a fully ways In the individual its Editor: "Let me assure you that Admiral Sir H. W. Richmond, developed "civilised" morality, actual nature is largely deter I should certainly not do that if there
Lard Tweedsmuir, and the present as we are beginning to undermined by the precepts of our was any point to them.”
headmaster of Eton, are a few, he stand it, is one which is fully parents," or QZEZ nurses and, [started "a" new school on Salem in touch with our knowledge later on, our teachers. A Scotsman, and an American were lines in the North of Scotland, on and our reason. The success It is not difficult to find
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sailing up the Firth of Forth. Corn-the site of the old seat of the Gur-ful treatment of individual examples, serious or trivial,
orth bridge, the American said to don-Cummings at Gordonstoum. his friend. "Say, Sandy, what's that funny Ettle bit of fretwork up there
Sandy replied: "Ab dinna ken, i washa there las nicht
The school is now full
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The first
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The German Scare
Mr. Boomer, who was very proud of his voice, wished to sing at the There is something more than village concert Two of the promo- suspicious about the moment ten of the affair were discussing his
application. chosen for the exposure of the "Boomer certainly has an 3 alleged subterranean aerodromes ing voice," said one of them along the whole of the German member that the last time he sang frontier. The League Council in public, his voice so completely fil- is on the point of coming to its
out to make room for it.” fateful decision on the question of the oil embargo. If ön any excuse the proposal is dropped the conclusion that will be drawn all over the world is that if the Duce can impose his will on the whole of Europe, any stronger Power would havé even less difficulty in doing the same, and for the practical purpose of preventing war on a large scale
cases of functional nervous dis-from our own personal experi- the League would henceforth be
ease always involves the mak- ence. I myself suffer from a utterly ignored. It is clearly
ing of concessions on the part certain moral discomfort every. expedient therefore to direct at-o?"
FIRST EDITIONS MORE VALU-of the more rigid, unconscious time I have breakfast in bed,
ABLE tention to the two reasons for
parts of the patient's morality because of early parental dis- hesitation:-first, that Italy can
as "super-ego, market isthe
the approval of this indulgence. I make herself very troublesome
are in the know of a woman who, although slowly recovering. Prices reached Psycho-analysts in many places to France and
favoured and in many ways fabulous heights in the American habit of calling f Great Britain; second, that if built in less than two years, boom years, and slumped corres
Morals Of Taboo
well qualified, has suffered all Italy should be prostrated by even with night and day hustle pondingly after the Wall Street Similarly, it would appear sorts of self-imposed difficulties defeat or bankruptcy the result methods, and the construction crashe
that progress in human morali-in her career, because of a would be to leave Germany with cannot be concealed. Aero- Now s. First edition of. "East ty in general must involve a guilty conscience owing to the her old hegemony restored. planes, on the other hand, canne" has been sold for £165, substitution of the morals of fact that her father did not
The former diversion has been be built for peaceful work, such
career for and-sue of "The Compleat Angler" reason for the morals of taboo. (approve of this secured by means of a threaten as carriage of mails, and can in for £510. The high price of the A taboo is essentially a pro-women. ed invasion of Egypt, and when two hours. be adapted to WALK-
Many "freethinkers" cannot that was not taken seriously fare. Mass production methods former was due to a new fashion hibition for which no good rea
for collecting first editions of son can be given Though it free themselves from a vague and was seen to be very difficult can be prepared for without any popular Victorian novelists whose may, of course, have had some but gnawing sense of guilt at even to plan, then recourse was apparent departure from COM-
justification in the past, it is having given up the religious had to the excitable elements of mercial enterprise, and the vogne has now gone
Long forgotten novels that once impossible to point to any pre-observances of their fathers. a the Egyptian population, par-planes themseves can be multi- sold in thousands fetch good sent henefit that we derive from guilt which they may ticularly the young and ignorant plied as quickly as Henry Ford students. They had no grie- can make cars. And boundaries Prices. First editions of Hardy's it, beyond the mere fact that deavour to assuage by attend novels that were selling freely in it makes us all think and acting ethical societies whose ser- vance, for if the British ships are no obstacle; even if they are 1928 at well over $100 are
vices (with hymns, lessons and now alike. were withdrawn from Alexand-fortified they can be evaded by worth less than first editions of But conformity, useful and the rest) are modelled on those ria, the Government would ask sufficiently high flight.
of the official churches. them to come back again. The There is nothing new in alves whose titles and authors even essential as it is in some
Half The Story most people have never heard of. degree, can be purchased at too demand was for the restoration this, and the Fuhrer was not. An established classic like "The high a price; advance in enlture
But this assimilation-or in- of the constitution of 1923, boasting when he said the other Compleat Angler is not subject always means some departure trojection. as it is technically which had proved
are impos-day: "We
already so
termed of our early moral to such variations as modern first sible to work. With a strong that we are not deper-editions. "The Adventures of Holmes" £15 in 1932, and to-day environment is only half the mere declaration that indent on any aid that the League Sherlock Holmes" fetched £23 in the two books would fetch about story. It does not account for the opinion of the British Gov-|could give us, or even on 203 1930. The Memoirs of Sherlock 10 apiece. ernment this was not in the best alliance." The Nazi programme interests of Egypt; the constitu- is to establish "equality", which tion was restored, and it is quite is simply a refusal to be bound certain that it will not make by any provisions of the Treaty the work of the new Govern- of Versailles that imposed any ment any easier if its first task restriction in the interests of is to deal with riots. The next peace. They would lose face at step was to organise a general once with their followers if they strike in Syria, which is under failed to tear up- the clapse a French mandate, and now the which forbids the fortification strikers are trying to incite the of the Rhineland. And how Arabs of Palestine to join them can that clause be enforced now The coastal cities of the Levant, that so much has been abandon- and even of East Africa; have ed the indemnities, the limita- many Italian residents, and tion of troops, the limitation of} this mischievous work has pre-ships, and of munitions? It is Isented no difficulty.
not even clear that “a preven--
The next move was to direct tive invasion" would be a misus attention to the menace of Ger-¡foederis that would require in- jman rearmament, more parti-tervention under the Locarno cularly in air force. It is well Treaty-it might even be argu- known that some of the Pari-jed that it would call for inter-j sian newspapers who have vention on the other side. In nothing or little of that revenue any case the experience of the) from advertisements that makes Ruhr invasion, does not make our own papers independent of that policy attractive. subsidies are not too parti- Does all this forêtell that icular where the money comes these powers of destruction will from, and during the last twelve be used? That consequence months have had generous sub-can only be escaped in two sidies of Italian money: Apart ways. Either the confidence in from the bearing of the asser-their security will blunt the tions about the aerodromes on edge of the German anxiety and the oil sanction question, there with it the craving for revenge. is no reason for the scare at This development can only be this particular moment - The encouraged by ending the TE- dangers of the quite possible petition of threats that cannot air attacks have been emphasis be enforced. The alternative, ed a year ago in the House of should the former policy seem Commons by the present Prime too optimistic, is the policy of Minister, and as far as the Gov-collective security through the ernment itself is concerned they League, which would mean have known all these secret pre making it clear that however parations step by step, and had disastrous aggressión might be they been ignorant the French to the enemy, it would be equal- Government would have kept ly disastrous to the aggressor them informed.
There is no reason why both The plain facts of the situs these policies should not be tion are that air force is adopted simultaneously. What different from all other forms would be fatal would be to con- of war. Infantry and artillery time the policy" of combined. are slow to move, and require provocation and disarmament an enormous catfit of subsidiary that has been followed – during service Battleships cannot be the last fifteen years.
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“BELIEVE IT
NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
ALEXANDRIACA
OLDEST FREES
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Capt. EDWARD GARBISCH
OF THE ARMY
BEAT THE NAVY 12~0. WITH 4 PLACE KICKS
(SCORING ALL THE POINTS)
Thanksgiving Day
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ME HAD PLACEDA
TELEGRAM
FROM HIS MOTHER IN
THE TOE OF
HIS RIGHT
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EDITOR OF
THE PIKE COUNTY TRIBUNE, Arkansa HAS NEVER TASTED FRUIT OR EATEN A BITE OF ANYTHING SWEET IN HIS D
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