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EVERYMAN'S PSYCHOLOGY

REVEALED IN MY VALUES

(BY FATHER G. BYRNE S.J.)

BAN ON RUSSIAN

GOODS

PRIVY COUNCIL ISSUES

PROCLAMATION.

ITBROUGH RKUTER'S AGENUT.)

LONDON, Apr. 18.

to know how they can be brought about. If character be a quality of the will, the 'method. would neoen- sarily be some exercises to stimu- late the will in the desired direc-T was officially announced at 12.30 tion, but if character can be traced .m. this morning that a meet- ing of the Privy Council has been summoned for later in the day at Windsor Castle for the purpose of the Russian Gonde Import Pro- authorising a Proclamation under hibition Act.

Everyday nations seem very clear, until we begin to think about them. Thus, when somebody asks us what time it is, we glibly reply 3.00 pm, quite satisfied that time is amongst the simplest of notions. If, how-to the intellect, reform of character becomes a mental reform; it lies ever, we full into the grips of the in the world of ideas and ideals, expert, in a trine he has our poor ad, it would appear that a man can think himself into a newness brain reeling: we start wondering!

of life. In one of his works Kant whether the past is in the pocket of the present, and whether theys: "to have character is to future is not a kind of sailor's knot possess that property of will by which the subject clings to certain binding them fast.

practical principles that he has Of course we all understand what selected once for all to govern his "character" means until a psycho- conduct": It will be noticed that logist suggests that it is our moral the definition seems to make char physiognomy or the quality of salt. acter a property of the will, though Then we begin to ask what, in the it admits the all importance of a wide world, he means

He might cepted intellectual ideals of con turn on us and say: "of course, duct. Now which of the two is you realise that you, in your every-really the most fundamental! We day conversation, attach two mean ask our readers to tay quietly to, ings to the word. And we do. answer this question themselves. When we say "he is a man of Psychology, like all branches of character" we

something science, becomes everyman's only quite different from the statement when everyman is willing to ex that he has such and such n

plore. character." Of two of our acquaint- ances we might say that they are men of character; but their in- dividual characters differ very much: one might be a man of kind charac ter, the other cruel. It is with character in the second sense that we are occupying ourselves, at pre-

The men or women of whom

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Words and Conduct.

A Brief Meeting.

A meeting was heid at Windsor Castle at 9.30 a.m. to-day and was attended by Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Sir John Simon who motored frem London. Upon arrival they were immediately ushered to the ceedings were very brief and ber- King's presence. The Council pró-, minated after about 15 minutes. Mr. Baldwin and Sir John Simon later returned to Landon by car,

London, Later.

IT IS LEARNT THAT A PROCLAMATION PROHIBITING THE IMPORTATION OF RUS- SIAN GOODS HAS BEEN SIGN- ED AND WILL. BE ISSUED IN A SUPPLEMENT OF SPECIAL

THE SOVIET TRADE DELEGATION:

NO LONGER TO ENJOY PROTECTION-

We know, at any rate, how we judge in parson's character. We THE LONDON GAZETTE TO judge it by what he does. If all NIGHT." politicians pulled the strings of their declared principles, pence government in accordance with

their friends say that they are conferences would be peaceful; or men or womb of character if all doctors who har sove of seem, unfortunately, to be comparamoking never smoked, patients

might be more Lively few, but not one of us can medical wisdom. No! it is not the amenable to escape having a character, and it

enunciation appears that to large numbers.

of principles that neither the hall mirror nor

counts in establishing Lu· man's the dainty pocket glass fully reveal it.Our idea of conduct must be a character, it is his daily conduct. We have no difficulty in recognising that St. James drew an accurate comprehensive one: it includes not picture of our friends when he only deeds in the ordinary seTISE wrote: he shall be compared to a man beholding his own counten- "ance in a glass. For he beheld himself, and went his way, and pre- sently forget what manner of an he was," Yet we ought to be more interested in the colour of our character than in the colour of our hat.

Change at Character.

The proclamation dealing with portation of about 83 per cent. Russian imports prohibits the im of imports from Russia including butter, grain, raw cotton, petro- leum and timber, and comes into spite for shipments in transit. The effect ca April 26, thus giving re-

reason for the chloce of specifto important imports is that the em bargo thereon is definitely more embargo on all imports. simple to operate than a complete

It is learnt that the diplomatic immunity granted to the three chlef members of the Soviet Trade Dele gation as definitely lapsed. They and their office will no longer enjoy this protection.

look, expression, bodily movement, of the term, but also every gesture, which are classed under the general term "behaviour." At this stage the Expert warns us that every action implies the taking up by the non-ego. This means that if the ego of a position in relation to the

ego (I) be presented with a gloss of non-ngo (for instance whiskey), I stretch out my hand for it or For the psychologist the first in turn up the whites of my eyes teresting question is whether char at it, according to the fluidity or neter is a quality of the intellect or dry solidity of my character. In inet of the will, or whether it is a blend when I penetrate beneath the visible of the activities of both intellect gesture, I find that the gesture is and will. The question is not the result of a mental evaluation. merely speculative one; it is pre- I ask what is the use of this to me. tical. The asauription that a min or to the cause which I serve. I morning. enrot change his character could have a scale of values, a code of lead only to a gloomy pessimism: choice. This seale, thin code have. all endeavours to make the mean been so woven into the texture of man more generous, to strengthen my being that they are "charse-cordance with which an individual' the weakling, to soften, the over-teristic of my way of acting, in bearing, would be futile. Yet we deed so characteristic that a pro- khow that this is not the case. tagonist of the Individual Psycho History can supply us with many logy feels justified in stating that illustrations of radical changes of every law of preference in a character. The practical point is (Continued on pert column j'

The

Mr.

Soviet Ambassador, Maisky, conferred with Sir John Simon at the Foreign Office this

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determines his course of action is nothing else than what we call his character." Character, then, would he something in the nature of a guiding rule. Are we prepared to accept such a summary?

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