I have said that the hostility of the crowd is a sort of "defense mechanism." That this is so in certain cases, I think can be easily demonstrated. The following news item is an example of the manner in which such hostility may serve as a "defense mechanism" compensating the self-feeling for certain losses and serving to enhance the feeling of self-importance: CHARGES BAKER HAD 57 BRANDS OF ARMY OBJECTOR. ----, OF MINNESOTA, DEFENDING MARINES FATHERS' ASSOCIATION PROTEST; ASSAILS FREEING OF "SLACKERS." WASHINGTON, _July 23_.--A bitter partisan quarrel developed in the House today when Representative ----, of Minnesota, attacked Secretary Baker and the President for the government's policy toward conscientious objectors. The attack was the result of protests by the Marines Fathers' Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota, representing between 500 and 600 young marines now in France, all from the Minneapolis high schools and the University of Minnesota, and many in the famous 6th Regiment of Marines that took a big part in stopping the Germans at Chateau Thierry. Upon learning of the treatment accorded conscientious objectors in this country while their sons were dying in France, the association asked Representative ---- to fix the responsibility for the government's policy. Representative ---- fixed it today as that of Secretary Baker and President Wilson, charging that they extended the definition of those to be exempted from military service laid down by Congress in an act of May 17, 1917. "One variety of conscientious objector was not enough for Mr. Baker," declared Representative ----. "He had 57 kinds...." Representative ----, of Arizona, defended Secretary Baker, asserting that of 20,000 men who were certified as conscientious objectors, 16,000 ultimately went to war. The case of Sergt. Alvin C. York, the Tennessee hero, who had conscientious objections at first, but soon changed his mind, was cited in defense of the War Department's policy. Let us pass over the obviously partisan element in this Congressional debate--a crowd phenomenon in itself, by the way--and consider the mental state of this Fathers' Association.