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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-12-15, Page 7
■W. 4* ■f t •4 > •» Soviet Dreads War Traveler Asserts But Russia 13 More Com munistic Than 4 Yearly Ago, Says J. G. McDonald “No Danger of Party Split” Russia in some respects is communistic than it was four ago, and the Communists ^are masters in their own (house,” James G, McDonald, of New <7= There is Only One Time- Tested Batteryless A-C Radio —and that set is the In either i. NO MEDICINE LIKE I BABY’S OWN TABLETS «. £ U/ v fS Al MunS lPplK*C’n' 9<0 Mount-Royal Bast For Either the Newborn Babe or the Growing Child. | There is no other medicine to equal • Baby's Own Tablets for little ones— whether it be for the new born babe or the growing child the Tablets al ways do good. They are absolutely free from opiates or other harmful drugs and the mother can always feel safe in using them. Concerning the Tablets, Mtb. John Armour, R.R, 1, South Monaghan, Ont., says:—"We have three fine, healthy children, to whom, when a medicine is needed, we have given only Baby’s Own Tablets. The Tablets arer tho best medicine you can keep in any home where there are young child- j ren.” , | Baby’s Own Tablets are a mild but I thorough laxativo which regulate the stomach pation and indigestion; colds and simple fever and make teething' easy. They are sold by medicine dealers or direct by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co:, Brockville, Ont, ’ we hold a lynching at a ladies’ sowing case we are satudy- dltot suffering. re are other grati- ,j Most of U3 like . t< H a bit of news. But the same whetlic party or sit in circle, ing a desire to “Of course, fleations in go. to. be the first The gossip enjoys that feeling, more especially ho enjoys the sense of tearing dov/n some one else. If he can lower th standing of some one more important than himsolf he thus tends to elevate his own relative im portance. So-and-so is no better than he is. "That ‘No man is a hero to his valet* is very true, but little understood psychologically. It is not because the man is not a hero but because the ^)' valet Is a valet. In other words, the ; valet projects his own failings into his master and thus persuades him- I self that he is as good a man as master. “The same thing that accounts the popularity of gossip may also plain the popularity of the so-called German Proposal to Exile Tale-Bearers Is Not Satisfactory to new biography, namely,, the sense of TRADE MARK REG. -more years "still said _ York, chairman of the National Executive Board c C the Foreign Policy lion, recently. "The Communist Party is religious sect, danger of a which is being grossly exaggerated abroad,” said Mr. McDonald. "I had thought the ruling classes in Russia talked only politics. I found them concerned much more about the ra tionalization and expansion of indus try. The Most Promising Result "The most promising result of the _____ _ ____ revolution in Rv.-31a is that which is walks of old Now Amsterdam one Grietje Van Saleen — for reasons known only to herself—spread the re port that in crossing the street on a muddy day Mistress Anneke had a way of lifting her skirts in “an un seemly and extreme fashion.” In court the charges were "proved to be false,” though by just what process of law is not made plain. Anneke Jan’s name was duly cleared, and Mis tress Grietje Van Saleen went forth disgraced as "the worst woman in New Netherland.” But whether or not the gossip she set; going thereafter ceased is a point which the historians overlook. < •That perennial thorn in the flesh of all small communities, the town gossip, has been dealt with in vari ous ways in all ages, but it has re mained for the present Republic of Germany to place him (or her) in the criminal class. Among the reforms Associa- really a split in Bwy a Rogers-and Be Sure Ask Your Radio Dealer For Free Demonstration In Your Home Easy Payments Arranged Q.R.S. MUSIC CO. CANADA LTD., Toronto 2, Ont. A CURE FOR GOSSIP raivh noticed and almost never re ported—the rebirth of Individualism. "The fo:'‘gn policy of the Soviet G-ovemnr nt is dominated by the de sire to maintain peace. The Soviet authorities know that nothing would so effectively wreck their program of indij'-’tri-l.zrtion, on which they pin their dearest hopes, as would an in ternal'nn I war. It is because they pr: - > tuc’’ dire evils from a con flict of arms that they are convinced th.. L;l?,dn is determined to precip it: just «uch a conflict. “Put the emb avors of the Russian Government to convince the world of its peaceful intentions are hamp er- <'i.i-*nlly bv the activities of the Russian Communist Party and ' ’uternational, neither of which the Government .has power to c.- - > Third International has not g’v a up its program of world ro ve p1’ . The IS T YET FOUND Psychologists—The Inferiority Complex as the Root of the Evil It Is written that in the days when Mistress Anneke Jans trod the side- (one may assume) in which life would be duller than it is were it not forTdle tattle. And though all gossip, so the psychologists hold, is enjoyment that comes to the inferior in tearing down and belittling the great one. I do not suggest that the ; modern biographer is insincere in his . attempts to present a true picture of • his subject, but the many who read necessarily! these new lives* of great men must Level Headed The King of Basket-Carriers, "Jim,” the champion basket-carrier of Co- hlrmfuHo'’someone, it doeTnoTfol- j find therG the same sort o£ g^tifica-' vent Garden, England, practising for 1 tion that comes to the gossip. . In : the forthcoming basket-carrying com- . Russian Communist ymt the Reichstag Judiciary Commit- Party has not and will not disavow tee jias prepared for submission this lts p’:'' :5rt ^x'at program.” Winter is one that would make gossip- •Dospito Trotsky’s'.recent expulsion from 1 nommunist Party, said Mr, MclT’mpi ibevtj is "no real'danger of any serious split—tlie party is strong er than any leader or group of lead ers, an ’ its cohesive force is so great ' ”” '■’uv set of men who seri- ou°br threatened the unity of organization.” •masses Mot Influenced ‘Terror’ is very real,” Mr. .r r the ing an offense punishable, in extreme cases, by banishment from, the com munity. The tale-bearing German wo man who hereafter cannot hold her tongue runs the risk of being perempt orily invited to Heave town. Ono of the framers of the new German code, Judge Schaiffer, is quoted as saying that just as there are prisons for criminals and asylums for the insane, so there should be institutions or col onies to which sordiy tried communi ties could commit their offending gos sips. Hard to Stop Gossip, Though the efficacy of this treat- ‘ment has yet to bo tested, the plan finds now supporters on this side of the water, least of all among the Mc- Dom •’ combined" yet its -depress- ing t'f.r t on the life of Russia easily can b • Bi<»-*gerated. It influences lit tle- or nb( at all the great mass of the people4— the peasants It does not no- 'f ‘ ' Ip-ress the workers. The - only classes upon which it boars down n ■ •- -'nil appalling weight are , ___ __ __ ____o „„„ those of the old regime, most of whom psychologists. . It would.appear that1 nesses into other arc > tou in this room-; "T • most depressing phenomenon in Rus'to is not the terror—it is the / yawniec. chasm between the old and the "cung. 0 old ate hopeless, they ta-f" , hr"-’ pirn' mon T" wir - ’ time an '"h j ra.fl.” M” !'TcDonnl>d expressed doubt wb'-' v political recognition of Rus sia • >’’ •*’i‘’ng of substantial credits » to R”«-i?n industry would result n ® ?«• ■ ’ ■'i*!ng of th© radicalism of Bo!shovtom. 4 low that the harm done is seriojis or permanent or that the originator of a false rumor deserves to be treated as as enemy of society. Everybody, it would seem, enjoys gossip in varying degrees and strengths. When a practice is admit tedly so prevalent it-may be regarded as doubtful wisdom to pass laws against it. This at least is the psychologist’s view. As Dr. Bernard Glueck described the proposed Ger man law, it is ’like shooting- at a spar row with a cannon.” '-Dr. Glueck,‘who is a psychiatrist, recently spent some time in Germany. He says he was unable to discover any signs of an epidemic of gossiping there. The thing that makes us all like to gossip is our old new friend, tho In- , feriority Complex. Psychologists may differ among themselves as to the appropriateness of that term—some use it sparingly—but in any considera tion of the psychology of gossip the inferiority complex seems to be ad mitted by acclamation, persons pos sessing a good inferiority complex make the best gossipers. By spread ing reports disparaging to others they somehow lessen the sense of their own inferiority. i A Case of "Projection.” I Dr. Goodwin B. Watson, an educa tional psychologist of Teachers Col- 1 lege, explains it as a case of “projec tion.” "People who gossip,” he said, “read into others their own particular weak- is a characteristic not in found among reformers. nesses. It frequently , People of this type often ‘project’ their own The prevailing viewpoint '■hose in power is: "The cannot be '-nly the young are willing to • ’ b the -past.’ Hence the em- the schools, in popular de- rliens and in countrywide pro- the theories and ideas rhniienging the young, make ’ Teir parents are linked to -nrantist and superstitious shortcomings and weak- ,_____ groups of people, those who make a study of human ' and then set out to reform them, frailties are by no means convinced that you can stop gossiping, in Ger many or anywhere else—by threaten ing the offender with prison. Indeed, a reasonably strong case might even be made out in favor of not stopping gossip at all. There are communities Then, too, there is the almost univer sal tendency toward sadism, to be cruel. The instinct to torture exists in nearly all of us. Gossip by giving pain to some other individual gratifies this’°instinct. "Psychologically, the situation is Winter Short Courses for. 1928 == Cb" in Physical Test Told He Can’t Judge Distance Clarence Chamberlin, transatlantic pilot, almost failed in his physical ex amination for a pilot’s licence recent ly. He was examind by Dr. Conrad Berens of 30 East Fortieth Street, ex aminer for the Department of Com merce, which issues licenses for in terstate flying. He gave Cramberlin a rating- of 25 bad points. Thirty point.- would have disqualified him. Ono point against the veteran pilot, noted for his control of airplanes and his landings, was that he had no judg ment of distance. This amused Cham berlin and his friends. A card with a single line on it was handed to him and he was told to hold, it at arm's length and draw it toward his eyes until he could see two lines. Doing this twenty times a day will correct his faulty estimate of distance, he was told. ’Live Stock—Field Crops—-Dairying—Apiculture—Drainage —Farm Power—Farm Mechanics—Baking—Horticulture- Poultry Keeping. s Send for circular descriptive of Courses. J. B. REYNOLDS, L.L.D., A. M. PORTER, B.S.A President. ' Registrar. O.A.C., Guelph, Ont. ALWAYS GOT LEFT Health Fiend: You should al ways.lie on the right side* Politician: Dahl Whenever I do t teft. „ r . /-SDDYS Xavy Toilet Tissue NAVY TISSUE is soft and absofbent and, like all Eddy tissues, is manufactured under the most exacting sanitary conditions. Each roll of 'NAVY” Tis sue is guar anteed to con- tainYOOsheets. Quality and Economy combined. ‘ pondering the frailties of the great they feel that their own status in the community is raised,” How Gossip Evolves, Gossip, as. the psychologists view it, is so mb what short of a simple matter j for the' law to handle. At Teachers ■ College, for instance, in a favorite ex periment tried on the children in a history class, the teacher will take one pupil aside and tel him a simple story of some historical import. The child will then be invited to tell the story to his. nearest classmate, who in’ turn repeats it to his neighbor. The story thus goes the round of the class. Its resemblance to the original, of course ,is extremely remote. A good deal of gossip, the psychol ogists believe, thus evolves. Its origin is often doubtful. It is assumed that all gossip is harmful; there seems to be no evidence that people indulge- in any other kind. But this oftentimes may be due to the natural human ten dency to make a good, story better. Professor Robert S.^Woodworth, head 0 fthe department of psychology at Columbia University, lays consider able, emphasis on this point. He has observed a small town "dress up” a mere rumor until it began to be pass ed along as an amazing fact. All of jvhicli comes under the heading of gossip, and often very harmful gossip, yet it cannot exactly be labeled a crime and laid at the door of a single individual. As to. why—aS lu commonly Held— ' women are more prone to gossip than men, there may be more than one answer. But it is Professor Wood worth’s observation that women more often than men do offend in this way. Practice Among Women. "It Is probably because of their status,” he said, ’which is more apt to be decided for them than by them. Especially in small groups, such as the country town, or among the wives of army officers or college Faculties, you will find that the women are in clined to accept less willingly the rank or position in which they are j placed than are their husbands. The i husbands may get along well enough, but as often as not there is resent ment and dissatisfaction among the women. Gossip is one result. Of course, too, women have more time than men to gossip, as a rule.” Probably if a vote were to bo taken among the psychologists, the pro- [ posed law in Germany would lose by a large majority. . From their point of view gossiping is not a thing that can be stamped out by sending the offender to jail. The threat of a jail sentence or banishment might act as a deterrent, but to what extent re mains to be seen. Viewed as an ex pression of Inferiority, gossiping seems likely to endure so long as we have a sense of inferiority o ra dition exists in which numbers of pie feel themselves" inferior to group. There case of is most being held in contempt by the rest of the class—and the teacher, too. This method, crude as it may be, seems to bear tho stamp of the best psychology' cal' approval. Gossiping and tale-bear- > Ing lose their zest When tho bearer actually loses caste. I 'Old New England tried the ducking chair and even the bridle, this last a sort of halter with an iron pin which pressed against the offender’s tongue when he (or she) opened her mouth. But it did /not stop gossiping. j After reading that all over what about the ’’listenors-in” .on tho Party lines in Rural Ontario and the way they spread the scandal? , petition. 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LIMITED HU LUCAN ADA con- peo- the theis, by way of parallel, the tattle-tale in .school who often cured of Ills failing by America, too, has- her traffic prob lems, and one of the solutions adopted Is "one-way streets,” in which only traffic going in one direction 18 al lowed, In one town, the story goes, a policeman stopped^ a girl who was driving a car 11 he said, This- is a girl com- I 'Madam, “you are breaking the law. one-way street.” The ■menced to cry. “Well,” she said, (was only going one way, wasn’t I I j It might be remarked, too, that the Imiddle-of-the-road politician kicks up 1 a lot of dust. | I Keep Minard's Liniment in the house, Earthworms Detect Light And Colors, Says Scientist Though unable to jgep, earthiTprms (?ap. still detect light, ttmi cap guish between colors. They do not seem to mind red light particularly, but a streak of blup light is like jt streak of Are to them, I In Science, Professor G, H, BretnaU I of Baker University describesr a test , which he made on the color-,sensitive- ness of worms: “For the experiment I used a box about two and a half feet long, two fept and eighteen inches high. This I thoroughly blackened in side, For light T used g#s with a man tle and a reflector, The light was j passed through a carbon, disulphide j prism and fell on the box. Into this array of spectral colors I dropped an- , u i gieworms. As they moved to getand bowels, banish co 8 away from th light they always went out the red end. They would pull back from the blue as if ft hurt them and turn toward the red,” ■. --------- -------- Two friends mat in the street one day. "I hear, you've broken off your engagement to Miss Jones,” said one to the other, "did she take it much to heart?” "No,” replied bib friend, sad ly. 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