Girls Late for Dates Not Fit for Mates, Dr. Adler Asseverates
CHICAGO, Nov. 5.—(AP)—The girl who keeps her beaux waiting on the corner in the rain isn't the girl to marry, Dr. Alfred Adler, famed Viennese psychologist, advised modern youth today.
Even when it isn't raining, a boy should beware of the maid who "stands him up" or is late for a "date," the former associate of Dr. Sigmund Freud declared.
For, he warned, such tricks are sure signs the girl is more interested in herself than in her escort, and that would ruin any wedding.
It's just as bad, the psychologist said, for a girl to wed a youth "to save him."
It would make no difference whether she saved him from being "sick, a gambler, a loafer, or from a lower level," Doctor Adler said—her motive would be the same: a desire for adoration.
"She thinks he would always be grateful; would always look up to her," he said. "And no human can bear to look up always."
Marriage failures are due, the Vienna savant said, to the fact that "both (parties) are expecting, and nobody giving."
Successful marriages he described as unions where "each is more interested in the other than in himself."
He scoffed at Freud's insistence that sex "suppression" is responsible for neurosis.
"This is the picture of the pampered child," he said, "if I cannot get what I want, I am sick!"
As for love at first sight, he said: "Love is always at first sight. Only sometimes we don't know it."
Fuente: «Girls Late for Dates Not Fit for Mates, Dr. Adler Asseverates», Oakland Tribune, Oakland (California), 5 de noviembre de 1935, p. 13; despacho de Associated Press desde Chicago, sin firma. Transcripción hecha sobre la imagen de la página en la California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC, OT19351105.1.13), cotejada con el OCR de la plataforma (que lee «trifles» donde el impreso dice «tricks»). Otra versión, más breve, de United Press: Hanford Sentinel, 5-11-1935, p. 6 (HS19351105.1.6). Una reelaboración del mismo despacho, sin la crítica a Freud, apareció en la columna «People and Things», firmada «C. N. S.», de The Pony Express, periódico estudiantil del Sacramento Junior College, 11 de diciembre de 1935, p. 4 (CDNC EXP19351211.1.4; id. del inventario AA1935-30): empieza «Beware of the girl who keeps you waiting on the corner in the rain. This was the sage advice given to young men of the world this week by Dr. Alfred Ogler [sic], famous Viennese psychologist, who advised them that the kind of a girl who would stand them up on a date just would not make a good wife», y sigue casi literalmente el texto de la AP («should be careful of», «both parties are expecting and nobody giving», «Successful marriage he described…»); el resto de la columna son chismes estudiantiles ajenos a Adler. Por ser el mismo texto, no se publica aparte.