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SATURDAY, AUGUST 29,

Give IAght and the People Will Find Their Own Way

1936.

THE BAR STANDS FIRM

HE American Bar Association in its Boston convention again planted itself firmly against change. It not only voted down a resolution to in-

. dorse the pending child labor amendment, but

continued a special committee charged with

~ fighting ratification. President Roosevelt in a personal letter urged support of the amend-

ment, and Gov. Landon’s sécretary wrote that his chief had twice récommended ratification to the Kansas Legislature, .It turned down resolutions to investigate

the Mooney-Billings cases, activities of the

Black Legion and violations of civil liberties in |

labor disputes. It refused to indorse a con-

stitutional amendment broadening Congress’ | - powers to enact: social and economic laws.

speci i ned the Supreme Court | _. a special report it dor e Sup | minority

robes to declare the Social Security Act un-

the ground that such action might imply approval of WPA.

Against this wall of standpattism the liberal voices of Supreme Court Justice Stone, Chief

Judge Crane of the New York Court of Appeals, Baron Wright of London and others beat in vain. The function of law, in the association's apparent view, is not, as Judge Crane says, to “meet new sithations and conditions

"with new remedies,” but to wrap society in the ~

parchment of the past.

BROWN COUNTY CENTENNIAL "HE dude ranch and other commercial concessions have come to Brown County with the great influx of tourists, but the rugged,

"hilly region still is one of the most picturesque

‘ bees,

spots in the Midwest. i In celebration of its historic past, ‘Brown County today opens its centennial celebration with a “Field Day” in which every, township holds its own show and reunion, Sunday there will be sermons in the churches on the glories of the caunty, followed by basket dinners. And for a full week there will be spelling old fiddlers’ contests, plays, minstrel shows, amateur programs, an Old Settlers’ Day parade and pageants. Visitors unfamiliar with Brown County will marvel at such colorful community nanies as Bean Blossom, Needmore; Gnawbone, Shakerag Hollow, Milksick Bottoms, Bear Wallow, Youno, Scarce o’ Fat Ridge, Trevlac, Deadfail and Stony Lonesome. : The Brown County art colony is taking a leading part in the celebration, and rightly so, for the artists have .made the county famous. Free exhibits daily will attract art lovers to the Brown County Art Gallery on Main-st. Studios will be opened for inspection. Since Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the gallery three years ago and bought some of the paintings to take back to Washington, the

- fame of this distinctive art group has spread

rapidly. Many of these painters have built their homes in and around Nashville. They. live

and work among the people of the soil. Hoosier ° _-hilifolk are their friends and neighbors. The

hospitality of the small communities has become a legend, and this friendliness will be a centennial keynote. % Nashville, the county seat, originally known as Jacksonburg, was laid out just 100 years ago. The town was named for the Tennessee state capital, the county for Maj. Jacob Brown, a Revolutionary War hero. Secluded, sparsely populated, it was only 30 years ago that Brown County was entered by a railroad. This is a good time to visit Brown County

Teo Asin.

- safely program have been made.

ANOTHER RECORD?

N the face of the most intensive traffic safety drive yet attempted, the National Safety Council warns that the nation is headed for another all-time death record on the

. highways.

July's 3180 traffic deaths brought the total for the first seven months of the year to 18,560. ‘July was the third consecutive month and the fourth in 1936 in which auto deaths exceeded the number in the corresponding months of 1935. : “The trend is alarming because we :have yet to pass through those months which usually produce the largest - number of - traffic deaths,” said Managing Director Ww. -H. Cam_eron of the Safety Council. 7 Indianapolis and Indiana were not ariong

“+the cities and states showing an accident re-

duction. Eastern states with strong drivers’ license laws have led in safety progress. ‘The National Safety Council's figures are

“alarming, but they do not mean the safety

campaign has been in vain, Increased traffic voluune “this year helps offset some of the accident increase. The beginnings of an “%ssential The huge death toll only emphasizes the need of carrying through the campaign along those lines that have I successful.

: "THE FALL GUY

FEeRE are plenty of people now ' tarrying in ‘this vale of tears for whom we're sorry. That dust-bowl of roses for the drought-ridden farmers of the West. Spain is a bull pen. Pity the politicians now sitting on their anxious seats, babies with

prickly heat, the ice man, Sailor Jack Shar-

‘key, and the man with hay fever. But save

. one tear for that lad whose name is legion

who soon will hear the first hard summons of the school bell E School days wouldn't be so bad if they did mean that awful thing described by an ‘awful Latin word, which even grownup boys and girs abominate—regimentation. But » and whistle, it’s only four months

President

outside of Indiana, 65 |

It even tabled a proposal that | the government give needy lawyers relief on

_ surance laws.

IN PITY’S NAME! ROM floods, droughts, famines and overzealous political press agents, good'Lord, deliver us! Undaunted over the reception of their stories about pie-eating Quoddy pigs and dog-food-eating relief families, they continue ad nauseam to pour their fancies and inventions

into news columns and to sell cheap stunts to

guileless candidates.

Col. Knox was taken in by one of these embroidered tales when he told about “marble shower baths” in the WPA-built dog pound at Memphis, a story easily refuted by pictures now being broadcast by irate Tennessee folks. Another sour one, staged by the Republican National Committee, has stirred the people of Arcadia, Mo. Following a rumor that WPA

“has spent $20,000. for a sidewalk used only by

cows, movie cameramen were ‘dispatched to the scene. - Finding the sidewalk in human use they hired Farmer George Mayes to drive his six cows over the walk, paying him $25 for the cows’ services, and Farmer John New was paid $1 a minute to do a speaking part. Finally the marshal ran them out of town. The exploitation of Gov, Landon’s birth in West Middlesex was to be expected. Gov, Landon is having a hard enough time getting his program, if any, across ta the people without the handicaps of ballyhoo. Well might he exclaim, as did Marechal Villars as he took leave of Louis XIV: “Defend me from my friends!”

LAW AND DEMOCRACY HE people of many lands have seen their courts, even in peacetime, bend to the decrees of dictators and the manifestos of gangs. future in democracies like ours and England’s? Warnings that our law must be kept as a pliant instrument of the collective human will,

| and not turned into a social straitjacket, is

found in the words of two great jurists, speaking this week at a Harvard conference on the future ‘of the common law. One was America’s Supreme Justice Stone, liberal member of

_our highest court, the other a Briton, Lord

Wright, member of the Privy Council. “We are coming to realize,” said Justice Stone, “that law is not an end, but a means to an end—the adequate control and protection of those interests soeial and economic, which are the special concern of the govern=ment and, hence, of law; that that end is to

~ be attained through reasonable accommodation

of law to changing economic and social ends.” Lord Wright believes that the future of the common law “will lie in a truer humanity and more conscious adherence to practical emergencies. § “It will guard rights of property,” he said,

. “put it will reconcile those rights with the

rights of human beings. It will seek to abolish technicalities and rules, which have no claim to exist on the grounds of antiquity.” * Judges who look only backward, who misuse their powers in behalf of a class, who arrogantly assume the functions of law-makers and who deny society’s right to make “reasonable accommodations of law to changing economic and social ends”’—these judges endanger the democracy they are shown to defend.

BUT IT IS WORKING T= plan of Gov. Landon to make the Social Security Act.of 1¢35 a campaign issue is not likely to succeed ffor two reasons. First, it was widely supported in Congress by Republicans as well as Democrats. And, next, it is a going concern that is likely to prove highly popular among the toilers of America. In the ‘Senate, ‘14 Republicans voted for the Wagner-Lewis Act, and only five againsi— a ratio of nearly 3 to 1. In the House, 77 Republicans voted for, only. 18 against, a Support

of more than 4 to 1. Gov. Landon proposes, if elected, to amend

this act to make it “workable.” Opinion as 0 its workability’ may differ. But that it is working now no one can deny. This act has been in effect for less than a year. Yet today millions of the needy aged, the blind, the sick, the underprivileged mothers and their infants, and dependent and crippled children already have felt the healing effects of its nine provisions. The aged poor have not been given adequate security, it is true, But whereas in

1934 state old-age assistance was being given to

only 236,000 in 30 states, today 202,000 people past 65 are receiving Federal-state’ pensions in 36 states. The average monthly pension for these old people is only $18.39, but every state that has approved Federal grants-in-aid on the 50-50 Federal-state basis pays more than it did. In some cases the pensions have been increased fourfold. Approved Federal-state pension systems now cover 72 per cent of the

. nation’s population.

r 2 #1 : \HE system of retirement benefits from earned annuities, intended eventually to supplant the old-age pensions method, does not go into full effect until 1942. But plans for enumerating between 26 and 30 million workers for taxes and retirement benefits are under way. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of these eligible workers retiring before 1942 at 65, or the heirs, of those who die, will get small benefits beginning next year from the pay roll and wage-and- -salary taxes.

. Before the Social Security Act went into. effect only two states had unemployment in-<f

surance laws. Under spur of the Federal offset tax plan now 13 states and the District of Columbia have approved unemployment inThese laws cover 7,500,000 workers, or 40 per cent of those eligible, in all the states. Appréved blind-aid laws, providing aver-

age Federal-state pension for the blind poor, :

are now operating: in 21 states. Under this provision 25,476 indigent blind are receiving average pensions of $22.75 a month. Approved state laws for mothers’ pensions now cover 230,543 dependent children in 20 states, with monthly benefits averaging $11.63 per child. All the states but one—Oregon—are co= operating under one or more of the act's child welfare services. ~Eventually these benefits will reach 250,000 children in institutions and foster homes, 200,000 delinquents, more than 300,000 crippled children and an tmestimated number of mothers and infants now lacking proper care. It is, of course, too early for the voters to give a just and intelligent verdict either on this measure’s adequacy or its workability. But in view of its substantial

What of the law and its |

Our Town

BY ANTON SCHERRER.

that Mr. Landon is going to be our next President pecause the first and last letters of his name happen to be those of Lincoln. “Huh,” snorted Miss Zilch, “as if you couldn't do that with any “lemon!”

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T'S all of 10 years ago that Anita Loos discovered that “Gentlemen Prefer Blonds” and, if that surprises you, allow me to say that they still do. At any rate, Mr. J. H. Armington, head of the Indianapolis Weather Bureau, still does. The fact of the matter is that Mr. Armington wouldn’t know what to do without blonds because he uses them in his business. He measures humidity with them. Sure, he used a lot of them this summer, but no more than was necessary. Seems that Sian hair-—especially blond human hair—is extremely sensitive to moisture. You probably suspected as much, but it's nice to know why the ladies can’t do a thing with their hair this kind of weather. They really can't and because they can’t is why the Weather Bureau cashes in on their dilemma, The Weather Bureau strings a hank of blond hair netween two poles with a little lever resting on it which starts acting up (and down) as soon as the humidity does. On dry days the hair

tightens, moving the lever up; on wet days, it

sags, letting it down. After that, there's nothing left to do but record the result and get it in the paper. It’s the most primitive thing you ever saw but it’s good enough to show the hlond’s contribution to civilization. Anyway, I thought you ought to know.

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HANKS are due the Lyman ‘Gallery on the Circle for bringing together a representative collection of Vincent Van Gogh's ‘work, ‘I'o be sure, the pictures are reproductions, but that doesn’t make them any fess exciting. The prints are, for the most part, those put out by Hanfstaengl and by Bruckman, which is assurance enough that they are reasonably -true and reliable. . Anyway, it’s the next best thing to seeing real Van Goghs. Probably the best way to start seeing t show is to begin with the “Night Cafe” on the south wall near the entrance. It's a ghastly picture done in blood reds, poisonous greens, bilious yellows and reeling lemon halos spinning around the ceiling lamps. ‘ “It’s a good place to begin because of the autobiographical data left by Van Gogh. *I have tried,” he explained, “tp express the idea that the cafe is a plac¢ where one can ruin oneself, run mad or commit crime.” . Other painters hawe played with the same idea, but they never got beyond hahding us a moral—such as it was. Van Gogh didn’t fool

4 with morals; he dealt with messages—vehement,

passionate, articulate messages that penetrated life itself and proved it the terrible and beautiful thing it is. “His passion,” Lewis Mumford once said, “his frustration, as well as his faith, went.into his subjects, created a veritable dance of brush strokes, like the tatto0 of a martyr’s feet, dancing on coals. The higher the flames danced about the stake, the more bravely he sang.” You will be the better for seeing his “Blooming Pear Tree” (Epoch of Arles); his “Boats at Sainte-Maries” (1888); his “Drawbridge at Arles”; his “Dr. Gachet” “with the heartbroken expression of our time” and, of course, “Sunflowers” (1888). Nobody ever got to the heart of a sunflower until Van Gogh came along.

August 29th

IN INDIANA HISTORY

By J. H. J.

N the summer of 1834 the Wabash and Erie Canal was under construction from Fort Wayne to the mouth of the Tippecanoe River. Purpose of the canal was to connect the waters of the Wabash and Maumee Rivers. This was the era of “canal madness” in Indiana when the high cost of land transportation had inspired the citizenry to build a network of artificial waterways. Long lines of workers’ huts stretched along the Wabash and Erie route, resembling barracks of a fortified camp. And fortified camp was just about what the huts were, for the diggers were all Irish and’ about equally divided between “Corkers” and “Way Downers” from Kerry. Members of the two contingents never met without a fight. On one occasion 400 militiamen were required to stop an impending battle near Lagro. Four hundred Corkers had armed themselves for battle and were proceeding up the line to wipe out their enemies once and for all. In spite of the Irish feuds, the canal finally was finished July 4, 1843, at a cost of $800,000. When completed, it ran from Lafayette to Toledo, O. By the next year it was falling into disrepair because tolls were not sufficient for its upkeep.

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A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

NE thing is certain,” said the red-haired one among the three girls lounging in my | sitting room one hot afternoon, “no matter how wild I might have been, if I ever had a child I'd change my ways. "I guess it doesn’t make so much difference about morals when you are on your o¥n, but mothers ought to behave.” .. The two others agreed with this Philosophy and so, in part, did I. But the girls were much too young and naive to understand the problem they . discussed ‘so cocksurely. ‘They. had never experienced the difficulties of self-reform. No doubt there are millions of mothers who want more than anything else in life the respect, admiration and love of their children, and yet who will never have them because they can not change their way of living overnight. The girl who has spent five, seven or ten years on her own, doing as she pleases, exusing moral lapses in her companions and herself, and who. has definitely identified herself with a “wild crowd;” won't find it easy to turn into a home- | body when she bears a child. No matter how she may fone to live up tothe maternal ideal, unless she has a will of iron she will find herself being drawn back into the old way. This is why the “first false step” is dangerous. It Is so natural for the second step to follow the Habit is the strongest force in our lives. The direction in which we set our faces is nearly always the direction we proceed during our whole existence. Any girl will find it easier to be a good mother if she has been a good girl.

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morrow, how cold would it be?

“THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

T didn’t faze Sophie Zilch in the least to learn |

Q-If it is zero today and twice-as cold to-

DES MOINES—SEPT. 3

+ SATURDAY, AUG. 29,

Vagabond from 5 Indiana

EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporters for The Times goes wheres ke pleases, when he pleases, in search for odd stories about this and that.

INNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug. 20: —Charlie Gray has seen & mutinous sailor pull a knife on his captain, and seen the captain crush

his skull with a bucket of sand and ' |

then throw the man overboard.

He has seen his ship go out from under him in a howling winter

storm in the North Atlantic, and

has ridden a small boat for 24 hours before being picked up. He has slept on the docks of Sydney’ without a bean in his pocket, as he says. He has sailed on copra schooners in the South Seas, the only white man aboard. He has ridden the main royal yard above the mountainous seas of the Horn,

He has fought in Singapore. He

1 | has lived with the Yogis in India.

| | New York and Toronto.

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chdnce. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) ” » n

DECRIES LACK OF COURTESY By Mrs. A. C. Lantz

Encountering a friend the other day who seemed very much -perturbed, I inquired the reason and received the following indignant inquiry: “Why is it that when you pay a utility bill the cashier acts as though he is doing you a favor by accepting your money?”

There - is nothing cheaper and nothing less trouble than a “Thank you!” It ends any business transaction with a sense of fitness. “Thank you!” carries ‘with it the good will of the world and the sincere thought of courtesy. Another friend complains that in withdrawing some money from one of our hanks the teller told her he wished she would draw it out—all of it—as it was a constant bother and worry to him. Now, after all, if every one feels as this teller, that their money would be better off at home, then that same teller would be sadly in need of a position. Courtesy is the keynote to a happy business world and let us all bear this in mind in whatever business we deal in, os ” 2 » “OLD AMERICAN WAY?” IS CRITICISED

By XYZ, Martinsville

The “Good Old American Way” desired by Mr. Landon has consistently brought depressions, unem-

ployment, poverty, want, bank fail-

ures, liquidation of farms, factories, railroads, etc. A classical description of a typical American depression is recorded in a much-quoted editorial from 1846 Harper's Weekly. Political orators quote this editorial as certain proof, that the “American Way” inevitably produces periodical collapse. The “Old American Way” as a force to preserve stability and pro~ mote permanent prosperity means exactly nothing in the light of history. Unfortunately the “New Deal” policy of President Roosevelt is both superficial and expedient, although without doubt it has relieved much personal distress and furnished the purchasing power that has restored normal profits "to industry and should be continued in full force

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor of the Journal eof the American Medical Association. HE skin of the face ordinarily T is adapted, by years of exposure to sunlight, fresh air and the elements, to get along quite satisJactarlly merely with simple cleans-

Th is customary to wash the face two or three times a day either with water alone or with soap and water. In some instances, however, the skin®™may be sensitive to soaps and reack with irritation. In other instances it may be unnaturally dry, so that too frequent washings will result in chapping of the skin. Any one with ordinary intelligence can tell for himself whether the skin of his face is being damaged by ordinary washing either with water or with soap and water, Probably the best method is‘ to wash the face freely with plain water during the day, and then to give it a thorough washing with warm water and soap before going to bed at night. After the face has been washed or bathed with warm or hot water, it is good for the skin to apply cool or cold water immedately after. When the skin of the face is unusually greasy or dirty, it may be helped in many cases by steaming or by covering it with hot towels. In case the skin of the face is not

A—The question involves many angles, and is

greasy, Ii may bo Kept an occasional mas- |,

until:Mr, Landon or some one destroys. monopoly and special privilege —just how this will be done is not specified, although Mr. Landon appears to rely on “the Old American Way,” which to a thinking person is a “gilttering generality.” Our existing capital economy periodically destroys by useless liquidation: the men of enterprise and vision able to employ and direct the many millions who need .supervision and who want to follow leaders, To avoid depressions and liquidations for debt; we should destroy debt by abolishing interest and compel capital to take profits on a participating basis. This is perfectly fair to capital, which would receive income if and when earned, and would insure co-operation on a friendly basis between working producers of wealth and the owners of capifal. Investment banks and vankers should take the place of deposit and discount banks. The latter, as Dr. Irving recommends, should carry 100 per cent of deposits in cash reserves—making no loans, ? 8» z= OLD ECONOMIC SYSTEM DEAD, READER CLAIMS

By the Horn Book, Union City

There is an old saying, “What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.” In the hey-day of Sunny Jim Watson this theory was lauded to the skies. Republicans who did not beileve it were in grave danger of beihg excommunicated as heretics. It was a theory under which the government should shield, protect, coddle; and play nurse-maid to the special capitalistic pets in order that they might reap great profits and in a position to let some of the properity trickle through their finers to the great mass of impoverished, unread, and almost illerate common laboring people. In other words this is the great rugged indivitiualism doctrine—what is good for tHe big employer is good for the employe. Haye you noticed that this system worketl rather well until the last decade? It had one great weakness which: has made the American people impatient about the whole theory upon which it was founded. It depended upon the conscience of big business. With great masses of unemployed thrown out of work by new machinery and new methods of prdduction, the prosperity which trickled through the fingers of the big Ys diminished constantly

until the masses found themselves in economic slavery.

Some people would reason that the whole capitalistic system should be abolished. This is neither necessary nor advisable. It must become a government of people rather than a government of a few moneyed men. If the government does belong to people, then it is better to control those who have the wealth.

Let them keep their wealth and see that they use it for the common good of all, and let’s do it under the Constitution. Let's not return to the banditry of high finance by granting liberties which will turn loose upon the common people of America the organized greed with which the laborer and the small business man can not compete. In other words, we must make the Constitution protect all alike and grant special privileges to none. This is what thre New Deal means to me. It is my conception of what President Roosevelt is trying to do. If he succeeds, he will not only save our form of government but he also will save capitalism. The pity of it all is that the capitalists must be saved, like a stubborn boy, in spite of themselves.

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BELIEVES LANDON IS “HOARDER” By Hiram Lackey “The Lord loves a hilarious giver.”

The translator who toned down the original meaning, “hilarious,” making it to read, “cheerful,” may have been a sort of “horse and buggy man.” He may have been a Landonistic hoarder who urges that people who spend freely cause depressions. Such people seem to be unable to understand the fact that when money is spent, people are given employment and real wealth is produced. They are inferested chiefly, not in the production of new wealth, but in keeping securities or “government paper” in the hands of a few. : If we are to have peace and prosperity, we must elect men with modern ideals.

¢ POPLAR TREES

BARBARA G. GRIFFITH

The poplar trees Nod in the breeze, Like stately sentinels, they wait; In helmets tall, To guard the wall, On either side the Barden ‘gate.

: SIDE GLANCES By Gongs Clarke

He has tramped the Hudson Bay * country. He has been in jail in South America. He has been as long as five months without a sight of land. And on the other hand ..,

= = un E has been an engineer for 30 years. He has built big power developments. He has represented great electrical firms- in London, He has twice been Mayor of Winnipeg. Hs has raised a family, and has chat«

ted with the King of England. He | has done all this, and he isn't an old man either, You can sit in Charlie Gray'd back yard, with your feet on the wire fence, and look straight down into the Winnipeg River. The river is wide and deep, and great green . trees line either bank. And in his den on the second floor, you step back into Charlie Gray's old sailing days. It was really a short period in his life, but what a great and full period. At 13 he ran away from his na=tive Wales, and went to sea. He had lived a lifetime by the time he was 20. He had sailed on dozens of ships, and he knew the ports of the world. One cold day he showed up in British Columbia, after crossing the Pacific. He fell in with a contrac~

4 tor, who gave him some work and

urged him to use his native talents’ and become an engineer. He did. In 1912 he came to Winnipeg, and set up an office. This has been home base for him ever since, But he has never settled down.

= ” ® INCE his sailing days he has twice to India, to Australia, to China, South America, Alaska, across the Atlantic countless times. The walls of his den are lined with drawings and photographs of the wind-jammers he has served.

And pictures of his sea-faring father, and odd bits of stuff picked up here and there. Along one wall are some 400 books,’ Every one is a sea story. He has read them all. He has written a book himself, And he writes ‘well, for he has a. sense of drama and a streak ‘of sentiment that sets off so well a story of the sea. «The book is.the story of his sailing day experiences: He hasn’t tried to publish it, but I hope he does. Charlie Gray is about 55. He is built like a bull, and I'm sure he ‘ could still hold his own. in a Shang~ hai barroom brawl. And would, probably enjoy it. He goes about his ydrd in his undershirt, and his arms and shoul= ders are covered with curly white hair, = as an old sailor’s should be.- A pale tattoo is on his right. arm. When he talks, you know he is British. He is a modern man today, anda successful one. And as you sit ahd talk with him, you think what a pity it is that all men can’t have had their characters formed before the mast. .

Today’s Science | 1

BY SCIENCE SERVICE ! YIcIDE as a means of selfe preservation sounds like a para=. dox. Yet self-preservation is the drive behind suicide in the case of primitive man and even, perhaps, of civilized man when mentally sick, Dr. Gregory Zilboorg of New York City points out in a report te the American Journal of Psychiatry, Actually, suicide appears as a pers, version of the instinct for self« preservation, Dr. Zilboorg explains, Primitive -man, wan'ing above all to preserve himself, and having the idea that by dying he entered eters nal life, killed himself in order..tolive forever. “This is quite cbviously a non--realistic and purely infantile way of achieving a seemingly adult goal —a fact justifying the use of the term perversion,” Dr. Zilboorg says. “We can see now why it is that the suicidal drive appears to be ens dowed with such an ziemental force; it has such a force because it springs from the most vital drive man possesses, the instinct of selfpreservation. It is this instinct shifted into the psvchological field. that drives the human ego to theassertion of immortality, and thus to fantasied preservation of the ego through death. “One might even say that what man today attempts to achieve by means of books, monuments and works of art was achieved by primi= suicide.

| tive man

“Let us recall the almost universal