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Apropos your amusing discussion of the World-Telegram's "Arpad" (TIME, Jan. 3) I should like to make a suggestion as to his probable origin, which seems to be in doubt...
...will find the case of Arpad discussed by Professor Sigmund Freud under "The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism...
...Little Arpad" had a "poultry perversion," and was interested in nothing but the various activities of the chicken yard. He thought he was a chicken himself, crowed and cackled and talked of nothing but the poultry. At the age of five he said, "Now I am small, now I am a chicken. When I get bigger, I shall be a fowl. When I am bigger still, I shall be a cock." Heimer's words fit him to a startling degree: "[Arpad's] a chiseler, a no-good with the mental ability of a weather vane...
Heimer and Artist Pause make Arpad a highly contemporary character. He Victory-gardened feverishly last spring. During the current wastepaper drive he has been pictured swooping patriotically. Except for allowing him an annual New Year's Eve binge, Heimer and Pause keep Arpad continent despite many protests from other staffers that he should enjoy the society of a hen now & then...
...popularity of Arpad and his little nephew, Gabe (who was added a year or so ago as a stooge), has reached beyond the city limits. Last March Arpad was invited to the annual luncheon of the Men of '88 Club, an affair at which survivors swap tall tales about New York's famed Blizzard of 1888. An amateur meteorologist asked (and got) permission to use a cast-iron replica of Arpad atop his New Jersey weather station. At least one Army flyer has a mascot Arpad painted on his plane. Arpad even gets Christmas presents (last week...