Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1931, Page 16

A_16 =% CLASH 1S SPIRITED AS ALTHORS ARGUE Hamilton Rhetoric Bows to Chesterton Wit by Vote of Audience. Verbal raplers of Gilbert K. Chester- ton clashed with rhetoric bludgeons of Cosmo Hamilton last night at Consti- tution lfllll uct‘:n ;uthun debated “Is Psychology a Curse?” No formal decision was rendered last night, but a count this morning of vol- untary ballots cast by 790 persons of the spproximate 3,000 who attended gave Mr, Chesterton (affirmative) 496 votes and Mr. Hamilton (negative) 294 votes. Students, still burdened with books, mingled with fashionable women in the satins and silks of evening dress to al- most fill the huge auditorium to hear Mr. Chesterton thrust pointed phrases at what he termed the “curse of psy- chology,” but which Mr. Hamilton de- scribed ‘s a boon. Judge Wendell P. Stafford, associate justice of the Su- reme Court of the District of Colum- ia, presided. Both debaters, spoke twice, with no time limit set for argu- ments, Darzling Epigrams Flung. Mr. Chesterton's style resembled the dazsling repartee of the eighteenth century French salon. He pinioned on epigram points, to the expressed delight of the audience, not only Freud, psycho- analysis, behaviorism and the Oedipus complex, but also every-day public gul- libility, stupidity and rationalization. “People accept Einstein’s suggestion | that space is curved without giving it | & thought, but what if you gave them & | curved golf club or billiard cue?” He jabbed merrily at' his prey, like a magiclan, happy but none the less sur- | prised at the rabbits he pulls from an opera hat. Mr. Hamilton felt the occasion a | #erious one, termed the verbal acrobat- ics of his opponent “somersaults through the dictionary” and “meanderings of & brook” and turned to pages of manu- script for defense of psychology’s bleed- ing brow. “Psychol observes and analyzes he mind,” he said, “but Mr. Chester- ton would make it, ‘What is mind?" *No n’l:fler.' ‘What s matter?’ ‘Never Opening the debate, Mr. Chesterton [ CLAFLIN Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. N.W. Established 1889 Subscribe Today It costs only about 115 cents day and 5 cents Sundays to ve Washington's best newspa- per delivered to you regularly u:":q evening and Sunday morn- Telephone National 5000 and the delivery will start immedi- ately. The Route Agent will col- lect at the end of each month. 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