THE PRESS Size Although a work of history was once condemned to go readerless because of a reviewer's remark-it was the only remark, in fact, that he made on the volume that it weighed 14 lbs.; although the publishers of the last edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica did not, by way of advertisement, call attention to the enormous bulk and displacement of the publication; although few pianos are sold simply on the strength of the fact that it takes eight men to move them, The New York Times, in its issue for Thursday, Oct. 16, issued the following gasconade: A 52-PAGE TIMES To-day's NEW YORK TIMES contains 52 pages-416 columns-and is the largest daily issue produced by THE TIMES. The boast is legitimate, as no other paper on Thursday, Oct. 16, more than approached The Times in solidity. The Chicago Daily News, however, with 48 pages was large enough to be a considerable burden to a newsboy;. The Chicago Tribune had 36 with which to swell a business man's pocket; The New York World and The New York Herald-Tribune each provided 32 for the littering of breakfast tables, Pullmans or wherenot. Other papers whose bulk did not forbid their being folded by an active man in any conveniently clear space were The Kansas City Star with 30 and The Boston Transcript with 20. Practical Mencken For some years a gadfly, H. L. Mencken by name, editor of the American Mercury, has buzzed and stung at the flanks of U. S. journalists. But Gadfly Mencken does not sting solely to infuriate. Gadfly Mencken is an idealist. He stings, he maddens, he browbeats only that working newspaper men may be awakened to the shame of their "cowardice, stupidity and Philistinism." Idealist Mencken has magnificent ideals for U. S. journalism. In the past, the Mencken idealism has seemed sometimes over-bitter, over-scornful. Emanating from the studious atmosphere of a secluded Baltimore library, it has seemed far removed from the ugly realities it so resents. Now all this is to be changed. Idealist Mencken has shown himself to be a practical as well as an inspired reformer. Last week the Chicago Tribune Syndicate advertised that Idealist Mencken had offered his service to any and all papers in the land that were desirous of employing "a great literary critic perhaps the fore most in America." Hereafter there will be no excuse for any U. S. newspaper to be without at least one redeeming feature. For a moderate consideration, any city editor can now have a model of sincere, constructive, idealistic thought and writing against which to contrast the "blowsy," "slipshod" language of the news columns, the "drivel" he lets "slide under his nose," the "transparent absurdities," the "trivialities and puerilities." To his vulgar, ignorant cub reporter, a city editor may now say: "Go thou and read our column by Mr. Mencken and be a better boy." Mergers Taking a page in a rival or brother sheet, The New York Herald-Tribune last week published an advertisement as big as a banner which was headed "The Most Successful of Newspaper Mergers." It went on to state that "the first six months, the critical period in every merger," are now passed. "The circulation statement of The New York Herald-Tribune shows a net paid circulation of more than 92% of The New York Herald and The New York Tribune as filed separately for the same six months of 1923." It furnished the figures. THE NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE Present Daily Circulation....270,159 Before Merger (Sept. 30, 1923): Herald 163,864 .132,729 Tribune TIME, The Weekly News-Magazine. Editors-Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce. Associates Manfred Gottfried (National Affairs), John S. Martin, Thomas J. C. Martyn (Foreign News), Jack A. Thomas (Books). Weekly Contributors-Ernest Brennecke, John Farrar, Willard T. Ingalls, Alexander Klemin, Peter Mathews, Wells Root. Preston Lockwood, Niven Busch. Published by TIME, Inc., H. R. Luce, Pres.; J. S. Martin, VicePres.; B. Hadden, Secy-Treas.; 236 E. 39th St., New York City. Subscription rate, one year, postpaid: In the United States and Mexico, $5.00; in Canada, $5.50; elsewhere, $6.00. For advertising rates address: Robert L. Johnson, Advertising Manager, TIME, 236 E. 39th St., New York City; New England representatives, Sweeney & Price, 127 Federal St., Boston, Mass.; Western representatives, Powers & Stone, 38 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill.; Circulation Manager, Roy E. Larsen. Vol. IV, No. 17. MEDICINE Rickets President Clarence C. Little of the University of Maine and Dr. W. 1. Bovie, Professor of Biophysics at Harvard Medical School, have discovere a cure for rickets. The cure consist of a violet ray treatment, wherein the subject is exposed to ultra-violet rav projected by a Cooper-Hewitt lamp through a fused quartz window Chickens a kind of fowl peculiarly susceptible to rickets-have been experimented upon with a success which definitely establishes the cure. Said Dr. Bovie: "The importance of these experiments would be very great even if they applied only to the raising of chickens. Applicable to this, they are also applicable to the raising of children. Rickets, a disease of calcium metabolism, is found in marked or minor form in 97 out of every 100 city babies-babies who are kept indoors in the winter. In the spring. they are thin, lumpy, febrile. They have rickets." Rickets is a medical term for poverty-poverty of the bones. When the virtuous salts, retrieved by the body's chemistry from fruits and greens, course more slowly through the blood because of the languor of the heart in winter and the lack of sunlight, or are not present at all because fruits and greens have not been eaten, the bones are pinched with poverty. To make up for this, they swagger and falsely swell, while the sufferer falls off in flesh. The head becomes bulky; the barrel of the ribs warped; the sternum projects. Fever, sweating, temper, sensitiveness that is rickets. In former days, a famed antidote, a preventative, was known. That stood and stands still on many a pantry shelf, is administered in a great spoon after every meal, a green-glooming fluid in a sticky bottle-Cod-liver Oil. This ob noxious tonic possesses many of the vitamins necessary discourage rickets, gives strength to rickety chil dren. to Chickens. Subjected to ordinary sunlight, chickens prospered; left in the dark, they developed rickets and died. Exposed to rays from the quartz window, they grew faster than normally; their bones became very stout, sometimes so stout that their growth was a positive menace. In a few weeks, by continued use of the rays, it was found possible to develop fabulously succulent small fowls-"superbroilers." When the milk and celery which fed them had been treated with the rays, they thrived better than those whose food had not been so treated. The Significance. The treatment has not as yet been used on rickety (Continued on Page 20) children; but preparations have been made for so doing. In the solarium at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, a large window of fused quartz has been installed for use in child cases; and similar work is going on elsewhere. This quartz is, however, expensive. Until facilities are greatly expanded, the treatment must remain what it is-a cure for a limited number, not a widespread means of promoting the general health of children, stimulating growth and obviating the bone-troubles of the race. So used, it might be possible to develop a race of supermen, immune to rickets, rheumatism and bowlegs. At the present time, the most practical application of the discovery is the production of superbroilers. Elsewhere. Scientific investigators elsewhere, dealing with the problem of rickets, have made further discoveries as to the value of various curative oils. At the University of Wisconsin, it was found that fats other than codliver oil, which are ordinarily of no avail in affecting the disease, possess curative properties after they have been subjected to ultra-violet rays. In Manhattan, one Alfred F. Hess and other researchers noted that the potency of cod-liver oil to prevent rickets is greatly increased after the oil has undergone radiation. Freud and Freudism During the past month two new translations of Sigmund Freud made their appearance on U. S. bookstalls. BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLESigmund Freud-Boni & Liveright ($1.50). GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO-Sigmund FreudBoni & Liveright ($2.00). In the first of these, a translation of Ienseits des Lust princips, the great apostle of psychoanalysis* explores a new realm in psychology. He is comparatively unconcerned with sexual problems; the subject matter may be summed up in the following syllogism: The ultimate goal of all organic striving is its beginning; All organic matter progresses in a cycle, absorbing external factors on its way without fundamental deviation from its course; Therefore, "the goal of all life is death," or, "the inanimate was there before the animate." Philosophically, it would seem that Montaigne were again speaking to the world in the modern language of psychology. The second book, a translation of Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse, discusses the relations of the individual (ego) to the group or crowd; shows how the ego is absorbed by a mass ego, which then acts independently and often in violent opposition to the individual. *Psychoanalysis, according to the psychoanalyst, Ernest Jones, means "the study of unconscious mentation." The chapter on Being in Love and Hypnosis, is a masterly exposition of the transfer of the ego to the object or person loved (distinguished from purely sensual love or, in psychoanalytical parlance, the libido). This transfer is due to mutual influences; absence of personal criticism; supreme evaluation of characteristics, usually to the detriment of outside persons; quasi-repression of the sexual passions. Two people in love, therefore, have absorbed each other's ego. The author then parallels love and hypnosis or, in other words, he calls hypnosis love minus the sexual appetite. The science of psychoanalysis, as Freud explains it, is so logical in appearance that the gravest error may be made in accepting its conclusions as great and devastating truths. One and one, the world is convinced, make two; but add one bad man to one good woman and the critics will argue forever on the sum. The fact is that psychoanalysis is a scientific method which, before it can be more generally accepted, will have to wait until much more water has flowed under London Bridge. Career. Sigmund Freud was born of Jewish parents, at Freiburg, in Moravia, 68 years ago. At the Sperl Gymnasium in Vienna he was always the head of his class. His preliminary education over, he vacillated for some time between a career in law and one in natural science, decided much against his will to become a medical student and, after a journey to England, entered the University of Vienna, where he did brilliantly. After leaving the university, he worked for a time in a children's clinic, then went to Paris and studied under Dr. Charcot, the famed neurologist. It was here, to use a paradox, that he became conscious of the unconscious mind and proceeded to make it the sole subject of his studies. Not long after his return to Vienna, he married a Hamburg girl and had by her six children, three boys and three girls. Freud is said to "owe some of his success to his wife," but in what way is not known. Character. Fritz Wittels, a student of Freud, writes: "For a long time the Freuds lived in Kaiser Josef Strasse. . . . Since 1848, Joseph II has been regarded by the liberal bourgeoisie as the finest flower of the Hapsburg dynasty; as an exemplar of wisdom, benevolence, progress, and devotion to duty. . "Long residence, during the impressionable years of boyhood, in a street whose name carries such associations, cannot fail to have an influence! Freud has become an emperor, one around whom legends begin to accrete, who holds enlightened but absolute sway in his realm and is animated by a rigid *SIGMUND FREUD Fritz Wittels-Dodd. Mead ($3.50). sense of duty. He has become a despa who will not tolerate the slightest deviation from his doctrine; holds counc behind closed doors; and tries to ensure by a sort of pragmatic sanction, that th body of psychoanalytical teaching shal remain an indivisible whole." Freud once referred to himself "the only rogue in a company of im maculate rascals." Pupils. Among Freud's pupils are It such men as Adler, Jung, Stekel is important to note that Freud quarreled with each. Perhaps the most interesting is Carl Gustave Jung, a Swiss, who became a sort of official expounder of all Freud's ideas; Freud's devotion to him was said to be "altogether exceptional." This state of affairs was not to last long "for Jung has a proud stomach" and he parted company with Freud, to become, like his master, a luminary of the psychoanalytical world. Doctrine. It is difficult to analyse Freud's doctrine of psychoanalysis. Is it a science or a philosophy? As there can be no science with a philosophy, it is both. Freud says that injuries are caused to the body by the mind (neurosis); not the conscious mind, for no one is so foolish, but by the unconscious mind. The psychoanalyst's job is, therefore, 'to bring into the conscious mind those factors which are disturbing the unconscious mind and so cause them to disappear. The study of the problems of the unconscious mind led Freud to dream interpretation, which was to become the principal method of phychoanalysis. It was the quickest route of reaching a patient's unconscious mind. Freud, in his Interpretation of Dreams, goes deeply into the whole subject and, as he almost always uses his own dreams as examples, the book is also an autobiography. In theory, psychoanalysis is the philosophy of the unconscious mind; in practice it is a means by which mental disorders can be cured. Writings. Freud is an indefatigable worker. Up at 8 a. m. he receives patients until 7 p. m. and from eight or nine o'clock in the evening until one in the morning he does his literary work. His chief books which have been translated into English are: The Interpretation of Dreams. Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious. Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex. Delusion and Dream. Leonardo da Vinci, a Psychosexual One of the most important works, which has not yet been entirely translated, is Sammlung Kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehrs, five volumes. River By Edgar Lee Masters against environment are to SPOON RIVER. Mr. Masters can impress on his readers a better-knit work, a series of epitaphs that delve deeper into the emotions. THE NEW SPOON RIVER is a better book as a work of art than its predecessor." Herbert S. Gorman in the New York Evening Post Literary Review. Limited, signed edition, $10.00. Regular edition, $2.50. The Collected Works of Eugene O'Neill will be published early in November in a definitive edition. Mr. O'Neill has made many important revisions. This edition will be enhanced by the first publication of a new play "Desire Under the Elms." Two beautiful volumes, boxed, signed by the author and limited to 1,200 sets. $12.50 per set. CONVERSATIONS IN By George Moore HIS is the first book for general trade THIS distribution by George Moore in a THE INHERITANCE OF By Dr. Paul Kammerer The most important work in roads for social control, child MOSES 9Good Novels I By Lawrence Langner 3 English England by and large is taking America, however, still holds her own in the work of Konrad Bercovici. ILIANA, his latest work, contains eleven stories, all of which were given three-star ranking by Edward J. O'Brien in his latest summary. $2.00. BONI & LIVERIGHT A Best Seller $2.00 $2.00 VILLON The Famous John Heron Lepper Translation together with the complete John Payne version and others by Rossetti, Swin burne, Symons and Ezra Pound. The publication of this book in England has been met by the critics with declarations that it is the finest rendering yet of the great French vagabond poeta real monument to Villon. The additional material makes it a definitive, complete edition of Villon in English, the only one obtainable. Beautifully made. $6.00. An Anthology of Pure Poetry Edited with an Introduction By George Moore One of the most delightfully individual anthologies ever made. The bias is an artistic one and the introduction raises some interesting literary issues. Limited edition, signed by the author. $5.00. Sailors' Wives THAIS By Warner Fabian $2.00 A Memory Test Carry your memory back over a By Anatole France The Modern Another modern masterpiece 61 WEST 48TH STREET NEW YORK, NY. SPORT National Horse Show To the Squadron A Armory, Manhattan, last week resorted horsemen, steelmen, chewing-gum men, débutantes, Keystone MISS SCOTT "The finest driver." dowagers, adventurers, grooms - they went there because it was the scene of the 39th annual show of the Horse Association of America, they went there to look upon some thoroughbreds. At one end of the Armory had been erected an exact imitation, in lath, of the imperious porticos of George Washington's house in Virginia. In front of it, as the week went on, a thousand horses paraded, galloped, caracoled-black and grey, hunter and hackney, carriage-horse and teamster. There were innumerable classes; many times the judges clipped a blue rosette to a moist cheek-strap, many times a red, but only a few of the thousand that put their hoofs down so neatly into the tanbark ever came to wear one of those rosettes, and those few often. Notable in that thin company were: Knight Commander. A ten-year-old chestnut gelding, bred by Robert Scott in Carluke, Scotland, sold when a yearling for "one of the highest prices ever paid for a harness horse in Europe." Purchased last spring by Miss Jean Browne Scott, of Manhattan, he lately beat Charm, famed hackney, at the Olympia show in England, thus becoming the champion English hackney horse. At the recent Bryn Mawr show, he was awarded 21 blue ribbons, an unprecedented performance. In the present exhibition, he won the Balmanno Challenge Cup, defeating his ancient rival, Field Marshal, and a blue in the class for harness horses over 15.2 hands. Blooded, debonair and sleek, Knight Commander is like the horse of a legend: flawless in line; in action, the incarnation of scrupulous dandyism. His performance in this show makes him the most valuable hackney in the world. Field Marshal. A tall bay, four years ago grand champion of the Olympia, owned by O. W. Lehmann. Successful campaigner of uncountable shows, Field Marshal returned to the ring this spring at the South Shore Country Club, Chicago, where he was victorious, though later beaten at Brockton, Mass. Proud as a falcon and dauntless still, his defeat by Knight Commander shadows the end of his show days. Newton Victor. Another harnesshorse owned by Miss Scott, which beat J. R. Thompson's mare, Clyde Iris, for the Coxe Prize. Miss Scott drove in this event, with a scarlet flower brave in the black lapel of her habit, as she drove once in the past when the Earl of Derby was watching. "There," said that old nobleman, "there-God bless my soul-goes the finest driver I have ever seen!" Golden Twilight. A five-gaited saddle horse, owned by Hugh B. Wick, of Cleveland. This type of horse, common in the South and West, was first seen at the national show three years ago. Other Horses. Biddy and Mike, Ajax Trucking Team, captured the challenge cup for commercial teams. There were many entries in this class; the Sheffield Farms' team took second the Knickerbocker Ice third. Bunny won the class for horses of the New York traffic police force, defeating Morgan, the winner last year, and Captain, the horse General Pershing sat when he rode up Fifth Avenue with the First Division. Tango Dance, with Captain Padgett up, won the Bowman Challenge Cup for jumpers without tipping a bar. Football An agile quarterback (one Mickey Dooley) hard to hold as a peeled potato, a giant blond halfback (Swede Oberlander) did well for Dartmouth against Yale, but they made one fumble apiece. That was why the scoreboard bore the deadlock legend: "....14, ....14." To Yale went the moral victory, always the property of the weaker team when a tie occurs; to the spectators went the impression that the Blue was a team alert rather than capable-a team that had played gallantly rather than well. Had it not been for the toe of a Sophomore substitute, the PrincetonNavy game would have tied. Up and down the field the teams had maneuvered, Princeton light and speedy, the Navy ponderous and smooth. The Navy had taken an early lead; Dinsmore, slender Tiger quarter, had fought up hill; in the last period a kick was blocked, the score stood 14 all. Wi Princeton in striking distance, Ewing substitute, was called in. Deftly he kicked a field goal, making the final score Princeton 17, Navy 14. ... Two huge men, each a captain, each a center, met on New York's Pola Grounds, shook hands, tossed up penny-Garbisch of the Army, Walsh of Notre Dame. For the rest of the afternoon they battered each other bloody; at the end, Walsh was the bloodiest, but his team had won-13 to 7. With a backfield-Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden-who ran "like the Four Horsemen"; a line whose defense was adamant, whose assault was clockwork-they undid those Army men, while many notables looked on. Coach Rockne had taught them tricks. |