Lack of Facial Beauty Linked in Crime Traits

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (INS).—She was "beautiful and honest" may supplant the beautiful but dumb quip.

Anyway, Prof. Alfred Adler, psychoanalyst, today was authority for the statement that the beauty or ugliness of humans had a lot to do with their criminal tendencies.

Dr. Adler said the man born without pulchritude was not looked upon by anyone as a warm friend and developed an inferiority complex. Result: He preys upon society and eventually becomes a criminal. Most inmates of prisons are far from being Jack Gilberts, he pointed out.

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Fuente: "Lack of Facial Beauty Linked in Crime Traits", Albany Times-Union, 16 February 1930, p. 2-A; International News Service (INS) dispatch, New York, 15 February. Transcribed from the page image at fultonhistory.com (Albany NY Times Union 1930, 1348), enlarged at 220 dpi; the OCR is poor. "Jack Gilberts" is partly blotted in the print but legible. Not to be confused with "Psychology Boards in Schools Suggested by Dr. Alfred Adler", The New York Times, 17 February 1930 (separate item in this archive).