1955-02-21 — Page 4

WHY

PEOPLE

THE CHINA -MAIL, MONDAY,

FEBRUARY 21, 1955.

IS A LIAR BORN-or does

he GROW that

T

E persistent llar who uses lies aggressively

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of dealing with his problems suffers from what psycholo- call a "personality

disorder."

In many

vidence of ap

By CHAPMAN

PINCHER

way?

psychologist was able we are who chested and also led when he WEB Jater asked he had cheated.

if

Hs found that a small number always chealed and always lied In ovary test given.

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Provicusly, on the bests of short interview with all the Cases there is Psychologists therefore belleve pouple taking part in the tost,

the underlying that

persistent ior is the vychologist had listed those person who was he expected to cheat and lio. Ho d's feet in the working of the scrolly

normal at birth, but whose brein was right in 70 percent of them, brain, which shows up

act mina bove remained the patterns recorded by childish in some respects. brain-wave" machines.

in

such a defert be in- muy hter ao that I person be born Har? Possibly, the pychologists tell me,

Study of twins

COME evidence from the study

SOME wins we that per

lil disorders may be partly Inherited. Thus identies twins who have been separated fur years often become neurotie

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ut the same time and with the same type of symptoms,

Fut mest psychologists are sisted that for every person who iney be born with a lying tongue thousands indre acquire

e during childhood,

The brain-wave abnormality which is typical of many path Igten Hars is almost certainly faut iny structural ro dur in the brain mechanism which

mieru could be revealed by

scope.

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Like children THIS theory its in with com-

LAY

mun observation and withi The psychiatrists core-records, tall tales of the braggart seem childish to the muier mind. The behaviour of the person who assumes fole titles. brash way, which makes his exposure inevitable is infantile

8 wall £ irresponsible.

Like children persistent liars dreamers involorate day Their minds drift in and out of contnet with reality

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thus proving that the mental quirk which mikos peoplo lle khows up in other features of perionality.

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Psychologists

uncertain about the processes which make the brain and mind mature. But they are convinced that low children can mature mentally without proper guidance from the.r

whatever parents, brain endowment at birth.

Lack of love

their

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FTER a four-year study

British problem children lerding child D. H. Stott,

concluded psychojog st The normal person linds this chronic lying is n symptom of hard to undargland, yet it is "deprivation of affection."

Unwanted children, neglected typical of the child mind. Young

no1 distinguish ehüdren and those brought up children do tharply between fact and fancy, tos strictly or with no discipline They

bewildered at often

at all are the futurs patholo- when they are in trouble for gical liars. lying when make-believe

a strong a

In one test more than 11,000 there are not more persistent

when society

most young children were given the liars

children see some deception opportunity to cheat nad le a way which they thought could practised in their homes. not be found out but was really detectable.

are

part in their livey •

in

One paychologist I questioned pointed out that it is surprising

He quated, at λ dangerous example, the mother who tends to be out when the unwanted

itor calls, visitor calls

I strongly disagreed with him.

The brain-wave recordings of

llam

The test showed that while a pathological almost identical with those of a few children were always honest and a few were always dis- child.

honest, most of then were Surely teaching children the pometimes honest, sometimes value of the "white lie" is an not, depending on circumstances, essential part of their training

for social life

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Liars show up

THE person who lies his way

through life

usually has begun by the time he is seven.

Studies of problem children have shown that once the lying habit is firmly established il cannot be costly eradicated convective training.

The over-frank child who is no1 corrected for telling his hostess the truth about the party he did not enjoy becomes the tactless man who tells his bass exactly what he thalaks rbout him.

Manners

A paychologist gave nearly WHAT we call Good Manners 100 adults difficult problema are largely based on the to solve while each was sitting ability to distort the truth con- Inleue in £ run, They were vincingly when this device will

human 11.30 the answers

the friction of casually told that

on the desk relations. in a book beside them. but they

Every day in everybody's life forbilden ts kak at the book, there is some need of the well-

Wetching through

window meant, well-timed lie to avold comouflaged

a the honesty that hurts.

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STRASSER RETURNS FROM PARADISE

T

dise.

London.

HE old beer-hall politicians of Bonn are talking about the man from Para-

!

By ALLAN KAVANAGH

Throughout their history the German people have rallied readily around the political strong man who appeals to their nat-

For once, the hard-voiced, ional pride. Hitler was the classic example. During a moderate

who fought younger men with the Wehrmacht in Africa and Russia are silent. To them the man from Paradise is only a name; and until the fall of Hitler, a name to be spoken in whis- pers.

of them were

The youngest toddlers; the oldest, strutting Herr Jugend, when Hitler Doktor

sild

Olto

Strreser silently from German polities. silently For it was in 1933, as H ther that Strasser swept to power, fled from Germany to Austria.

to From Austria

to Prague Paris, Strasser kipt ene jump

Gestapa ahead of the

ne the Nazi tentacles slithered prose the frontiers of Europe. Last scuttle from Hitler's killers Was to Paradise - Paradise, Nova Scotia.

HATED

The

fought

war,

mans doubted his assurance that they were the master race.

In 1933 Hier took over the running of Germany,

Although be had

during gallantly

the Strasser had learned that there is little comfort in being a dead hero. Now he know of Hitler's regime coinciding with a state of national bewilderment, he took

savagery to his opponents, and over and gave the Germans what they needed a sense of he escaped through the moun- talne into Austria, with the Gestapo in pursuit. purpose and direction. Conditions are again ripe for such

he had been was How right another. He could be the man Hitler feared-Dr Otto Strasser

proved within twelve months, when on Hitler's orders Gregor From the on their ways His deepest desire was to get Strasser was murdered as he lay parted Hitler played an in- the two men he loved best in' helpless in a Gestapo cell in

Berlin. conspicuous part in the war the world to Join forces. o fect his propaganda exports in later years hurriedly glossed

Strong Man Strassor

TOW Otto Strasser has been old he is free to quit Para- dies

and a green-backed Federal Gerthen passport has been flown across the Atlantie for him. But hla la no return of porsecuted liberal. Nor will moderatu West Germans wel was los ambitious about his own come the come-back of this un- part in shaping Nazism and the from their new Reich. predictable

man

hated

Herr Dokter, in Hitler's eyes.

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on

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farsighted- the

Germany outside new that has saved his life time Strasser fought back with pro- and again, Otto Strasser feared ptganda, constantly moving his decorated Strusser,

and for his own future as rival to headquarters the Gestapo bim. But, as wounded, endod the war with Hitler. Anyway, the Tuchrer's moved in on

of the humble origins

HIST the reputation of

and indifferent

from swept ruthlessty Fatherland'a

gallant war record sat ill on the prophet success to success, this was little

of artillery officers.

sabre-rattling Nordic more than pinprick. Yet, even when the flood of war swept Out of the army, their ways

him to Paradise, Nova Scotia, stayed 'apart,

So It was until 1923. In that he carried оть his, anti-Hitler year Hitler made his first compaign.... fated putech which landed him in the prison cell where he wrote the framework of "Mein Kampf.”

SATANIC

THE

(HE ex-corporal, his sinister power increasing with overy street-corner brewi, between his

supremacy.

With what seemed surprising Strasser suddenly

strong arm men and the Ger- naivote, man Reds, was soon undisputed changed his Ideas about Hitler. leader of the little gang who The man might have all the belleved *Germany's salvation hallmarks of a lay in National Socialism.

The stocky, full-lipped ittle min with the satanje eyebroNS thought the answer was National Bolshevism.

•

Note well, that it was anti- Hitler, not anti-Nazi: or enti... Germany. For this was a blood dud between the de freto Fuehrer and the might-have- been Fuehrer, a reversion...to the days of warring factions and quick executions.

charlatan, he thought, but at beast he was

The officials of Konrad prepared to suffer, for his beliefs.

Adenauer's Bonn Government Strasser joified the Nazis. were largely inspired by that knowledge, when they repeated- Brother Gregor was delighted. ly fought any bid by Strasser But Hitler gedw increasingly to re-enter Germany after the Violent past.

The Straaser-Hitler story be Yot there was one link bo- suspicious of his latest disciple. war. Certainly, Hitler

no blindly faithful This was Otto's Here-was of 1014, tween them..

*APPEAL Strusser Was even frightened gan

recruits joined a brother Gregor, a devout, un lieutenant, hanging of him-and Wes hated by when

Hitler was questioning Nazi who had be- Fuehrer's every word.-- Strasser In turn, That, how Bavarian regiment.

come Hitler's chiet lieutenant,

Olto ever, Was because the stocky one, Strasser the other.

dynamic ideas for

puffy and balding, salvation and seeking to share bears Intle resemblance to the the porty leadership with Gregor, young ex-officer who risked 'bis

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he sot “about putting them into lite against Hitler. To the practice.

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he might pass casual observer

successful fer an ifferently But If Hier was suspicious of OKO Stamaser,

No Strasse travelling salesman for Geme

bonds. But inside he is still though with inside Party infor-cel-hard, and his long-distance tervals drank a

of lemon mation at his disposal, under etoris have won him, followers Juloe.

estinated Hitler's hypnotic who think with nostalgia on the WHAT a day for Lorraine power over his followers and what-might-have-been. They in-

Rodgers 20-year-old misjudged his ruthless elimina- clude" - many 13.0

extreme right

that. waltres of Pittsburgh, the ton of Party deviators.

Wingers who believe steel city!

Hitler's oris fault was Yadure. To this hard core there is kaya suble appeal in Bramer's regeneration.”

An admirer, Russel Winter- bottom, waving a gun, draga

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Against a Background of uncer- on a 90-degree are until 6 pm real champagne to put hair-dos. dead; stops the car art, phones movement, For Strasser allowed His retum Then a standstill until 2 a.. It tells women. It gives your they rolle to come and get him only a few of his followers to fainty, about West Germany's

with openly. For Lorraine, the day. From two to ten it awings locks that sparkling, effervescent back to the, original position. look.!!

by counting the story on V. They were complaining only place in an armed Euere, hit

They propose to lose if in EBBIE REYNOLDS, the nu..." "A BOUT 450,000 tonnes The indijuontial - Front strong-mma policy la bound. to".

were at

wire warned to keep appeal to bewildered Germana, May where they were within the of his triumph 200,000 Naal nganjak.ion. Total employed: and water will be supplied te bolian actor their wedding unemployed) 3,560,000.

But Strasser soul rarough pivotal connections et col June 17,

and: fire- || himself."Alots ef

water to distribute the weight twost and golden voiced A work last month, than in their allegiance serstand to Jung Hitler's did on the eve

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