Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1923, Page 4

COUE PAYS TRIBUTE, | | TOFIRST PATRIOT Autosuggestion Expert Visi- . bly Affected at Tomb of E George Washington. TALKS AT HALL TONIGHT Lecture at Continental Memorial Will Follow Address in Eno Home. One of the ambitions in the life of M. Emile Coue of Nancy, France, was fulfilled today when he bowed his head at the tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon and placed a wreath upon the shrine. Although the apostle of autosug- gestion does not pay much attention to politics, devoting his life entirely to spreading his methods of self- help and self-healing, he was visibly affected at Mount Vernon The visit to the shrine on the Poto- mac was the first important duty in @ very busy day which was ahead of the small, black-clad chemist of Nancy, whose “better-and-better” formuia is today on the lips of all Washington Visits Memorial Hall. The first thing he did after an early breakfast at the of Rev. and Mrs. Doug! Putnam Birnie, 19th street, where M. Coue is a gu: while in Washington, was to pose for photographers. He then paid a brief visit to Memo- rial Continental Hull, where he will lecture at & o'clock tonight, in order 10 test out the acoustic properties of the hall, as his voice is not ve This evening lecture. to standing room will v a lecture this at_the home Willia home 5 800 peopl 1 Phelps E ning to th AL Cou Carley northwes invited where Buests lected list e table with hi The I ontinent: al a se- sat at 00 people will 11 standing room ing béen sold win insistent See Pres b nd dem ue th given at o'clock on in the ballroom « W lurd Hotel. Tickets we he hotel st noon to agerly sought them. Pre Cou as be ickets to lectt tdent Harding is to reccive M. accompanied Ambassador mand, at the House at orelock tom The Presi- dent has been suffering with a cold this week but was reported much | beter tods M: Cou morrow f give FLOGGING MYSTERY NEARING SOLUTION Arrests in Texas Expected to . Bare Facts in Goose i Creek Case. Wy the Assoclated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., January 17.—Com.. plete solution of the Goose Creek flogging case was expected here to- day following the arrest late last night of a Goose Creek man. Sheriff T. Binford stated he had sufficient evidence against the man and ex- pected to gain from him the names of all persons involved. “The man will be brought before the grand jury this morning and will face Mrs. R. H. Harrison and R. A. Armand, who were beaten by a masked mob on the outskirts of Goose Creek the night of January 5. It became known here today that Goose Creek Klan, No. 4, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, over the signature of its exalted cyclops last night con- demned the flogging of Mrs. Harri- £on and Armand. The Klan denied re- sponsibility for the act and tendered jts fullest assistance to the court, the prosecuting attorney and the sheriff of Harris county in discovering and punishing the assailants. ¥or Legal Enforcement of Law. The official statement condemns the theory of men taking the law into their own hands, and advocates en- forcement of the law by the properly | 11 leave about 6 p.m. to- r Cleveland, where he is to . lecture. constituted authorities. That the arrest made last night is but the first of a series was the sher- §ff's statement on his return from Goose Creek. He let it bo known that at least three other parsons were wunder surveillance and probably would be taken into custody before another forty-eight hours. As soon s all 1inks in the evidence have been welded together, he said, it would be presented to the grand jurors. The grand jury investigation ot the flogiings will be continued today. fter adjournment yesterday it was earned that Armand, wko has been in Houston under medical treatment since Monday, probably would be called today Armand’s Condition Serlo Armand’s condition was said by physicians to be more serious than that of Mrs. Harrison. He signified his willingness, however, to go to the grand jury room to tell his story. Denial of some of the statements attributed to her in connection with the whipping was made by Mrs. Har- rison_in an interview published by the Houston Post today. She said she had not said men in “klan rega- lia’ were among the whipping party. She declared she “did not believe that the klan had a hand in it, although I belleve it possible that some mem- bers of the klan were included in the party.” : ‘ffELL OF FRANKLIN’S LIFE. Senator Ransdell and Representa tive Fairchild Speak at Dinner. The life of Benjamin Franklin was reviewed by Senator Josepa E. Ransdell of Louisiana and Representative Benja- min Fairchild of New York in ad- dresses at a_dinner given last night in the Ebbitt Hotel by the Washington Club of Printing House Craftsmen in commenmoration of the 217th birthday anniversary of the 'philosopher and statesman. Addresses also were made by Norman T. A. Munder of Baltimore and John W. Nash of San Francisco, a noted printer: International President John J. Deviny and President George L. Buckman of the Washington club. Long-legged birds have short talls. ‘A bird’s tail serves as a rudder durin, flight, When birds are provided witl Jong legs these are stretched directly behind when bird is fiying and %0} wct as a rudder, STAMMERING CHILD RECOVERS SPE:CH BY METHODS OF COUE (Continued from First Page.) child came as the climax to the in- formal lecture which M. Coue gave to a private gathering in the lux- urious drawing room of the Birney home. ~She was the only person treated by him at the “demonstra- tion,” theterm which the French ex- pert in autosuggestion prefers to “clinic,” for, as he says, he is not a doctor’ and does not cure anybody. Following an explanation of his methods, in a low tone, but in very good Inglish, considering that he only learned to speak it,six months ago, M. Coue began some experi- ments to show that when the imag- ination and the will are In contlict the imagination always wins. Clasped Hands Experiment. He tried the experiments with four different persons, including the stam- mering child. She was the first one to. step forward from ‘the audience and proved a fine subject. M. Coue asked her to clasp her hands, press them together tightly and then to think to herself, “I would like to open them, but I cannot.” “You cannot, you cannot open them,” he said, steadily, in the low, imperative tone which seems to be natural -with him when conducting this sort of experiment. ighter, tighter, you cannot open them,” continued M. Coue. The girl held her arms straight out, her hands clasped. She could not open them. It was plain to all that she could not. The harder she tried, the more she exerted her will, while holding the thought, “I cannot,” the more her hands stuck together. The writer, who has never been able o perform this experiment by himself, held out his own hands and was astonished to find tnat_he, too, could not loosen them. M. Coue has mastered the art of suggestion. When he says you cannot you cannot. ‘Now, “think-you ‘can open them,” he told the girl. Her hands re- mained clasped for a few seconds, then slowly dropped apart. “You see how it Is” triumphantly smiléd M..Coue. “Right here I want to tell you,” he continued, “never to say ‘I cannot’ to ourself, 'because what you think ds to become true for you, in the domain_of the possibl It was noticeable that M. Coue himself never 1sed the term “cannot” in relation to his own of English, but contented himself with declaring that he “did not speak English well.” Couldn’t Rrop Keys. He put the child through other simple experiments. He gave her his “bundle of keyvs,” as he called them, and told her she could not drop them ind she could not. Then he told her to think that she could drop them—and she did Two older girls and woman were made to ments, all of the Jeots: - a gray-haired lo similar experi- n proving perfect sub- older woman did hers sitting down, declaring that she had Il recently and preferred to sit “Can 1 do them seated?” she asked. Certainl, asserted M. Coue. It was while the medical men in the audience were leaning forward earnest- 1y, Xious as all there not to mi: a word or a motion, that M. Coue noticed the young girl, whose bobbed brown hair fell over cheeks of vivid health, sitting forward, anxiously in her seat. With 'that perfec. sympathy which has been commented upon by all who have ever come in contact with him, M. Coue motioned to the girl to stand up, ; Mademoiselle has something to ask,” he declared, stepping in front of her, while the whole room leaned forward. The girl stood up and stepped close to him. She seemed to be murmur something. He cocked an ear, with the quick, eager motion that has earned for some of his motions the term_“birdlike.” “Ah!" he exclaimed, stammer.” The child nodded her head, miserably, timidly, fearfully. @ Do not be afraid,” soothed the little man, whose head was no higher than the girl's own. “You must not be afraid. Say ‘I am glad.’ " “I am glad,” the child said, in clear, n tones, looking trustfully in his “I see you ev ey “See!” exclaimed M. Coue, sweeping the Patlent and the audience with a smile. Talks Without Stammer., “Now say, ‘I am glad that I do not stammer any more!" " She replied bravely in a louder tone: “I am glad that I do not stammer any more!” Good! Good!” beamed M. Coue. ow -say, ‘I am sure that I will never stammer again. The child looRed M. Coue happily in the eyes, “I am ‘sure !,hat I shall never stam- mer again,” she said as well - body could say it. _—_ “You may sit down,” M. Coue said gently. “You are cured.”” There was a_ finality in his tone that left no doubt in the mind of the child or in those of her fifty friends there. Tears filled the eyes of many in the audience as they sat and watched the child become “better and better” in minutes, not days. M. Coue says that stammering is one of the easiest afflictions for any one to cure in themselves. He seemed to have proved it yesterday. Although the small, happy man in the black suit aud black string tie answered many questions from doc- tors and others after that, the inter. est of the room was centered upon the happy young girl, who continued to shed tears until she left at 6 o'clock, taken away by a doctor who seemed as much delighted as she was, Not a ‘Miracle Man.” M. Coue was Introduced to the au- dlence by Oliver Smith Lyford of New York, who later first offered himself for the simple experiments, because M. Coue said that it was always best to start with some one with whom he knew the experiments worked. He was very frank about it, and his can- dor seemed to win his audience. M. Coue explained first that people were wrong when they spoke of him as a “miracle man,” that he per- formed no miracles, and did not cure any one. He said that it was the power within each person, that Las been given all, that enables people to cure themselves. He carefully ex. plained that when there is & confiict Detween the imagination and the will the former invariably wins, It is & rule that admits of no exception, he said. He instanced the person who does not want to laugh, but cannot help 1t, because he thinks he cannot help. It; he' told of the person who tosses in his bed, trying to go to sleep, and the harder he wills to sleep’ the more he stays awake, beo causo his imagination says, “I cannot sleep.” He sald that his mission is to teach people to use consciously the forces which they have always used uncon. sciously. ~He explained that every person in reality has two minds, the consclous . mind, and the so-called subconscious or ‘unconscious mind. ‘The unconscious mind, he continued, controls our physical 'being, serves us while we sfeep, and also while we are awake. When we learn to cone trol our unconscious mind, he said, we learn -to control our “physical being, and also our moral bein He then gave a brief r little talks which he gives at his “conferences,” or __demonstrations, calling up in the minds of those pres. ent general ideas of health and well being, telling them ,that all the or- gans of their bodies function well; that they will be hungry three. times d; eat with relish, digest well, sleep soundly at night, awake feeling rfectly happy, and full of confi- ence, and with ‘such words.as “can- not” and “lmpossible” lost out of their ume of the trying to ! The cartoonist depicts M. Coue {llustrating his preliminary experiments, wherein he tells the patient he ands, and he cannot; then he places hix hands on a table and say) cannot open his hem,” nnot, as lo; vocabularies the sentence, It is easy, and I can Coue’s Exact Formula. M. Coue then explained the use of his general formula, “Day by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.” It will be interesting to those using his method that the above is the exact form of the formula which he | used. He did not once use any other word- ing. He repeated it in a very monoto- nous tone, practically without accent. “You see, it is very simple,” he said. He shrugged his shoulders. “It is too simple,” he smiled. The woman who later did her ex- periments sitting down asked him why it was necessary to repeat the general formula aloud. M. Coue re- plied by telling her that the audible repetition was necessary in order to impre: it upon the unconscious mind, were would be turned into reality. “If you are listening fo a speech, and some hundred yards off hear a barrel organ at the same time, although you may not be aware of it, the tune will impress itself through your sense of hearing upon the unconsclous,” M. Coue said. “After the lecture, you will suddenly begin whistling or humming the tune, and declare: ‘I do not re- member that tune.’ But your uncon- cious remembers. So it is Wh.h the repetition of the general formuia.” He then gave instructions as to the use of his “ce passe” formula for uge in chasing away pains, either mental or physical. These words may be translated “It's going” but M. Coue sald that he believed the French was easier to say, since it must be said as rapldly as possible, at the same time the patient rubs his hand over his forehead, If making a mental discomfort disappear, or over the seat of pain If exorclsing a physical one. M. Coue repeated the phrase until 1t “fairly hummed. He said it with an accent on the fi ord, ‘“ca” which is pronounced so that ran ‘‘sa passe, sa Dasse, Sa passe, turning at last into a great drone, something like ‘“Sapassesapassesa- passe.” Patients Cure Selves. One woman sald that she had re- peated the phrase, “Day by day, In every way, I'm getting better and better,” but that some days she dld not feel better, and she wondered if it would be all right to say, “Day by nd in their stead only | % ax he thinks he cannot. day, in every way, I am going to get better and better.” dublous as to exactly what the lady meant, but agreed hat it might be, all right,” but that the original way of saying it was the best. One woman asked if he could cure cases of deafness. T cure nobody,” he replied very quickly. “Each one cures himself. 1 merely tell them how. I cannot say if 1t can be cured. What kind of deatness is it?” “It is caused by lack of good red blood,” the woman replied. “Madam,” M. Coue said, fairly ex- uding confidence, “if you will repeat the formula night and morning, you will get plenty of good red bloo A doctor asked about deafness caused by catarrh. & ‘Say the formula just the same, replied the Frenchman. i me doctor pointed out, leaning for- vard in_his seat, that “we know that physical ills have certain definite causes, and we attempt to treat the causes, feellng that then the patient will secure as good health as is pos- sible for him. So in mental diseases we feel that there is always a certain cause.” The questioner asked M. Coue if he did not think that in treating mental troubles effort should be made to get at the cause, rather than rely upon general autosuggestion. Advice for Medical Men. M. Coue replying in general terms, the local physician then used the French language, repeating his previ- ous discourse in that tongue. For several minutes he and M Coue had 2 rapid-fire exchange of words. Who won it was hard to tell. Certain it was that M. Coue came out smiling, and there was no particular skepti- cism on the face of the doctor, it seemed. At least, if there was, he kept it well hidden. When all was over. the audience, having been held enthralled for an hour and a half, the doctors and others crowded around M. Coue, ask- ing him specific questions. Two of the “biggest” physicians in the treat- ment of mental disorders in the Dis- trict asked advice as to the use of autosuggestion with their patients. They seemed to ask it almost humbly, jcertainly with the greatest courtesy, as if genuinely seeking ald. M. Coue replied modestly, saying there was M. Coue appeared to be somewhat | { Tom Wiiliams, Dr. Huron W. Lawson, 1 Cannor- I Cannor- I Cannor- o/zen my “Now you canmot raise little his method could do for the in- sane, but that it might be tried with such patients when they were asleep, | standing about a yard from thelr bed, and repeating in a whisper sentences setting forth the betterment which the doctor desired. ! “l am going to try it,” declared one | of the physicians. “I am certainly going to try it” Among those who attended the lec- ture_were Mme. Jusserand, wife of the French ambassador; Senator and Mrs. Culbertson, Col. and Mrs. Archi- | bald Hopkins, 'Dr. James Mitchell, | Licut. Col. Matthew Delaney, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Dr. B. L Hardin, Dr. J J. Richardson, Supt. | White of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Dr. Dr. J. Brown Miller, Dr. Harry Kauff- man, Dr. Loren_Johnson, Dr. Harry | Parker, Dr. B. R_Logle, Dr. Joseph Brown, Dr. Harry Kerr and Dr. Thomas Nefll. | tertainment for the ANTH-NARCOTIC WEEK FAVORED BY CITIZENS Kalorama Association Sees World Menace; Asks President to Call Parley. Declaring the drug trafilc to.be a menace to the world, the Kalorama Road Citizens' Assoclation last night passed a resolution to be sent to President Harding urging that a week be set aside to bo observed as anti- narcotic week and that the President call an international c(vnfv:rerlv:u of experts to try and put a stop to world traffic in drugs, at a meeting at the Highlands. A resolution was passed to send a letter of commendation to Commis- sloner Oyster, in charge of the police and fire departments, for the Increas ed efliciency of these two branches. The association indorsed movements of the trade and civic bodies in their efforts to persuade Congress to be liberal in regard to District appro- priations, particularly those pertain- ing to schools and education. A motion to ask Will Hays to use his influence to prevent the building of a new theater on the site of the old Knickerbocker was tabled. It was annpunced that the membership of each committee would be increased at the next meeting. It was also stated that a membership drive would be inaugurated with the hope of materfally increasing the member- ship of the association. There are now 464 member: A switchboard demonstration was glven by representatives of the Bell Telephone Company. Edwin S, Hege, president, presided. — EXPAND DEADLINE CLUB. Members Open Rolls to Newspaper ‘Workers Other Than Reporters. Membership eligibility in the Dead- line Club, youthful newspaper or- ganization, was made to include pub- lishers, managing editors, city edi- tors, assistant city editors and copy editors, following a vote of a major- ity of the members to that effect at the semi-monthly meeting last night at the New Ebbitt. It was made clear, however, that while the club sought the presence and support of the new eligibles, that no one was boss at the meetings of the Deadline Club, and that the new- est cub reporter or copy editor could “sass” the strictest managing editor, a8 all {s “fair in love and war and Deadline Club meetings.” As a “take-off” on various organ- izations, a_press committec was ap- pointed. The president, Vincent Cal- lahan, named Jim Chinn, chairman; Aubréy Taylor, Bob Prichard \ Ring, Ed. Folliard and Kirk Miller. The club also planned much winter, and se- lected Jerry Doyle, Frank Kirk Miller and Dan Ring for a mittee in charge. —_— WRECK DELAYS TRAINS. Freight Cars Block Washington- Atlanta Passenger Service. LYNCHBURG, Va., January Six passenger trains bound in both directions between Washington and Atlanta were considerably delaved by a wreck of twenty-five freight cars which blocked both tracks of the Southern railway near Svcamore carly today. The trains finally were detoured over the Norfolk and West- ern railway. The wreck oceurred shortly after midnight, and it was hoped to have the tracks cleared by late this afternoon. The accident is said to have been due to a broken car wheel. D. C. COAL DEFICIT ORDERED MADE UP Pennsylvania Anthracite Shippers Instructed to Hasten Deliveries. Shippers of anthracite coal Pennsylvania were instrucied tod: by Judge E. W. Parker, chairman of the Pennsylvgnla Fael Commission, to begin immediate shipment ¢f anthra- | cite coal in sufficient quantity to the| District of Columbia to make up the shortage of 5,000 tons in anthracite shipments here. The instructions to shippers issued by Judge Parker came as a result of a | letter from the Public Utilities Com- mission of the District to Federal Fuel Distributor Wadleigh, requesting the assistance of the fuel distributor in obtaining the anthracite shipments lacking and due the District. As- surance that Washington would be| amply taken care of was, given to the fuel distributor today in a letter from Lieut. Col. C. B. Hatch, U. S.M. C., who s the fuel distributor in Philadelphia. Price was not men- tioned in the communications between fuel distributor and the Pennsyl- vanla fuel authorities, it was under- stood. The District of Columbia w ported today to be nearly 550 short of its allotment of anthrs coal, which totals 60 per cent of the amount received last vear. But the current shortage of anthracite is con- siderably less than it was more than a month ago. Six week 20 the shortage totaled 000 tons, accord- | ing to the Public Utilities Lommis- sion,. but-has now been reduced to a little more than 5.000° tons. Mild weather has lessened the demand for anthraci while the present cold spell will probably. cause a jump in the demand for coal to domestic con- sumers. ECHO OF BUYERS’ STRIKE. In a report issued today on household furniture industry, the Federal Trade Commission for the first time traced a manufactured product from: producer to consumer through the “peace boom™ of 1920 and the “buyers’ strike” and depression which followed, Tie consume: re- tof the s dollar in 1920, the report showed, netted the dealer 13 cents und the manufacturer 8 cents, but in 1921 the retailer's profits de clined to 7 cents out of each dollar paid by the purchaser and the manu- facturer's dropped to 4 cents, Manu- facturers. in 1920, averaged per cent profit on their investment, in- cluding borrowed money, and retail- ers 22 per cent TO PROBE WORK OF KLAN. LANSING, Mich., January tnvestigation of alleged activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Michigan i demanded in ' resolution prepared for introduction in the lower house | of the state legislaturc today by Rep- resentative James A. Burns of De-| troit. The resolution declares the klan has organizations in many cities of the state and that its purpose is to | take part in the “alleged admini: tration of justice without official au- | thority.” Appointment of a legisla- | tive committee to inquire into the| 17—An klan's purposes and activities is asked. ‘The committee wouJd report | on or before April 1. | FEW ELECTRIC LIGHTS . IN SCHOOLS ALLEGED Ninety Per Cent of Buildings Without This Convenience, Mrs. Rafter Asserts. “Niriety per cent of the Washiug ton public schools are without elect light conveniences,” Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president of the Congri Mothers and Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation of the District, told delegates from local branches of the New Ebbitt Hotel yesterday. Mrs, tafter urged parents and teachers t co-operate in a campaign to secur: better conditions. Cite Handicaps Suffered. Delegates from several scribed conditions u the schools and told how the parents and teachers. in despair over ever procuring gov- ernment ald to right these conditions, had gone into their own pockets to better them. Some of the mothers living near the Conduit Roa have offered their homes to teachers to prepare hot lunches; pa ents of children s the land School have of sand to spre cinders that playgrounds re responsible for many bad cuts and bruises as we exceedingly hard on the childre clothes; another delcgate stated L a janitor at one of the schools lows the children to heat “hot d above the school furnace to supp their hot lunches. There were near 100 delegates present at the yesterday. Needs of the Stay-at-Homes. Mrs. George ¥ more old clothes and shoes the needs of sthool childrer otherwlse have to stay at home Mrs. Willlam Wolff Smith spoke ovie week for Parent-Teache ations,” which will be held eighborhood Crandall theat y 30 and 31.° Rafter announced a mass mee ing to be held in Central High Scho Auditorium Saturday evening, J. Senator Arthur C: preside, and Mrs. Mar will lecture on progressive adapted to the public schools. —_— Heated Leaving Faucet. From London Telegram. “McGinty is a foine felle: “Is DeT* “He is, indeed. Great fri Did yez notice how heartily hands wid m i did.” reat friend society i schools de- § meth; i of m he shook of m e grabbed both my hand feller—grabbed both my hands.’ “H'm! Oi know McGinty. He lookin’ to the safety av his watch. —foir wi “My Coffee” | | Good as Ever 4 | Pound Package 32c : | | MAGRUDER’S | Fine Groceries Conn. 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