Charles Milton Newcomb

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CHARLES MILTON NEWCOMB
Psychologist—Writer—Humorist


CHARLES MILTON NEWCOMB
CHARLES MILTON NEWCOMB, M. A., resigned his position on the faculty of a leading university to become Executive Secretary of the Industrial Association of Cleveland.  Here as a trained psychologist he had an unusually fine opportunity to study the mental processes of business men and to view industrial problems from the inside.

A recognized authority on the new psychology, he is now special feature writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.  His column headed Ol' Doc Braney Says— appears on the editorial page.

Mr. Newcomb has been on the lecture platform for seventeen years and is an entertaining and forceful speaker.  To quote from a press comment: His manner of speech and his pleasing easy style are delightful and at once place all in perfect harmony with the speaker.  His lecture on The Psychology of Laughter is a classic and has given him wide reputation as a humorist as well as a scientist.  Among the organizations before whom he has appeared recently are:

Chicago Executives' Club
Cleveland Advertising Club
Buffalo Advertising Club
Cincinnati Advertisers' Club
Pittsburgh Advertising Club
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Rochester Chamber of Commerce
Huntington Chamber of Commerce
Chautauqua Lake Assembly
Detroit Open Forum
Cleveland Real Estate Board
Middletown Civic Association
New York Lumber Dealers' Ass'n.
Ice Cream Supply Men's Association
State Dental Society of New Jersey
Nat'l-Amer. Wholesale Lumber Ass'n.
American Institute of Banking
University Club of Buffalo
University Club of Akron
Woman's Club of Cleveland
College Club of Cleveland
Harvard University
Babson Institute
Oberlin College
University of Toledo
University of Pittsburgh
Ohio Wesleyan University
National Educational Association
Michigan Teachers' Association
Northern Ohio Teachers' Association


Rotary Clubs in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Youngstown, Lima, Rochester, Syracuse, Schenectady, Niagara Falls, Indianapolis, Huntington, Fort Wayne, Lansing, Grand Rapids, and other cities.

Kiwanis Clubs in Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, Detroit and other cities.




A Student of Human Behavior

What makes human beings do the things they do?
Seeking answers to this question Mr. Newcomb presents in his newspaper articles and in his lectures many new and striking ideas regarding human behavior.



SUBJECTS
The Psychology of Laughter

Why Does a Man Laugh?

Why, you say, at things that are funny.  All right, what makes a thing funny, and why when it is funny does he laugh at it instead of swearing or weeping?  In his analysis of this subject Mr. Newcomb uses his skill as a humorist to make his audiences laugh uproariously and then in the role of a scientist he analyzes their mirth and tells them why they laughed.  A unique and interesting lecture.



Comment
A sure cure for the blues.

—Fort Wayne Rotary Club.

The best talk we ever had.

—Lansing Lodge, No. 33, F. & A. M.

Worthwhile, instructive and refreshingly different.

—Marietta Advertising Club.

Your talk caught on instantaneously and went over with a bang!  We want you again next year.

—Appalachian Logging Congress.

We have never had at any other one meeting so many good clean humorous stories.

—Cleveland Rotary Club.


One of the most interesting and entertaining addresses ever heard in Huntington.—
Huntington (W. Va.) Herald-Dispatch.


Laughter is experimented on scientifically and joyously in this tremendously successful lecture.—
The Detroit News.

Anyone who can produce laughter in such quantities as you did yesterday by good clean humor is a distinct benefactor to the race.  More power to you.

—Syracuse Rotary Club.


There was not a dull minute.  We have used many humorists in our time, but you will always stand at the top of the list so far as our Association is concerned.—
National-American Wholesale Lumber Ass'n.




What Are You Afraid Of?
An inspirational lecture based on a study of the psychology of fear.

There are, says Mr. Newcomb, five things of which men are afraid.  Do you know what they are?

What is courage?  This lecture presents a new and striking definition.

What are the antidotes for fear?  There are three—do you know them?

This lecture was first given for the Cleveland Advertising Club.  Charles W. Mears, Dean of the Cleveland Advertising School, wrote Mr. Newcomb the next day, Your lecture is a triumph, deserving to be heard from coast to coast.

The advertising manager of one of Cleveland's largest banks wrote, I was one of your attentive listeners yesterday.  Your address was one of the most interesting and constructive I have heard in a long while.  May we print a part of it in the Cleveland Trust Monthly Magazine?

Ray Warren of the Executives' Club of Chicago, hearing of the lecture, wired asking for the same talk for his club.  Following this engagement the International News Service carried a column article about the lecture.  Mr. Warren's comment was: It was apparent from the frequent and strong applause that you made a decided hit and any one who goes over with our Club as you did deserves to be told about it.  It is a real art to deliver a speech wherein the various ideas are woven together with a thread of continuity, at the same time lighted up with sparkles of humor to relieve the tension.



New Light on Mental Mechanisms
A clear and interesting discussion of what the science of psychology has to say to the man in the street.  An explanation of human behavior from the standpoint of mental science.

Some of the subjects considered are: Getting Adjusted to Life, The Mind and the Body, Ideals and Inner Conflicts, Psychoanalysis, Fear—the Destroyer, Handicaps to Success, Creative Imagination, The Psychology of Relaxation, Worry and What It Does to Us, Building a Personality.



Comment

Enlightening and thought provoking.—
Chautauqua Daily, Chautauqua, N. Y.

The ladies of our club were more than pleased with your lecture.  Hope we may have you back some time.

—Woman's Club of Cleveland.


Mr. Newcomb is a man of charming personality.  He gave one of the most interesting lectures of the year.—
Springfield (O.) Daily News.

For Terms and Date, Address
CHARLES MILTON NEWCOMB
1265 Hall Avenue, Lakewood
CLEVELAND, OHIO