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Sees 'Invisible Government’ Holding coax TEE BLY, frre itt so Sola 000 | an : "Pa \Jhesaguir/ F 21 le | © The British-J Mudd| Sway in the U. S. on the Part | AT ANY PRICES/ = EE Wn | The British-Japanese Muddle Is Of Various Labor Organizations.| ~~ — a Ele uy FF : So Haywire Because Everybody EW YORK, July 28.—Labor unions maintain of Insists on Keeping Their Eyes Shut. courts within themselves which have authority { X7ASHINGTON, July 28—What the British | to try charges against individual members and, in : have done at Tokyo in recognizing a “special : certain cases, to expel them from. membership. In the | situation” in parts of China occupied by the Japcase of a trade having a nation-wide closed shop, this ‘| anese troops is very obscure, but it is hard to see expulsion would amount to an economic death pen- how it could be otherwise, = ©. alty. The condemned man would be forever barred Where war has been declared, international law from employment at his occupation and, even. it he provides many unusual “rights” for belligerents. In were to learn another trade and apply for member-| occupied areas “military” (not “martial”) law of the | ship in the union governing that one, he ‘might be occupier takes the place of the old civil law of the 1 rejected and thus again excluded from employment. : : : Si : former ocgupant. This is something like the common. Such decisions may be appealed to the. public | hy Yo : a hin f i law of self-defense in a murder trial. The new law : hat inf d courts but that is an expensive process and one which | - fe os ‘AR : : ws Taps y i is Supposed io supplant we old only Io thes Stient ] it - he clos roach influenced | the individual victim would be unlikely to resort fo. : ound absolutely necessary by a soldier MAYBE 3 was the close approach of Mars ¥ 2 : b. nit He would be deterred from ay the public of his command. While such military law is nothing : John L. Lewis to! forsake his customary Urbanity | .,..ts until he had first-exhausted all the appeals ‘more or less than the will of the commander, ordinarily an effort is made not to interfere with the

i resi the United States as— | provided by the union constitution, a method which. and denounce the Vice President of the / A Oo Be a

“ 33 SRR EET 3 -:1 | makes for delay and distress, and, on his appeal, he H : . “A labor-baiting, whisky-drinking, poker-play ng, evil would be opposed by the most expert counsel and the sary to the safety of the troopstand success of the oS : ‘military operation. But where there is any clash

od JUsH, Whose Nam ig Garner in ha ahs et of th oo ibiliti thi iridividy 1 between the two systems of law, the “military” kind 1 tl tnenITG iohi- e effect o ese possibilities on the ua Ww : law, | we Or maybe Mr. Lew 18, inspired by the example of Michi member. amounts to impairment of his right of free prevails and it governs mot only citizens living there: gan’s Governor Dickinson, is prepared to lead the C. I. O. | speech, for open criticism of his union might be con- | but neutraisalso. = °° : in a new crusade, the object of which will be to regulate | strued as hostility to the labor movement which is a Slate OF Af 2 si ht Lod ee Pa 8 = . 1 : i grave oflense. Ji oy : ei : . EE ay A : CN other people’s morals and fight sin as well as the A. F. of L. a ws a ; i : ! ) | ay MIAT ls ressansble yi J is necessary. Nos eomfr with : : it | : : : er res e lives ~ *Anyway, the man with the black eyebrows. made it | //\HEORETICALLY, under tlie American laws and PE os ros RT De iter, fairly clear that he has no fellow feeling for the man with Constitution, a man’s right to express his opin- |. perm

: suppliers or in any other way internationally or otherth hite eyebrows John Lis agai t John N. “officially jon or to work at his trade is subject to no curtaile ) EA . - LL . ns . v ?

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kinds of interference with freedom of speech and action have to be enforced. Citizens of neutral nations who resist them are apt to be hurt or killed and none of this is regarded as cause for war by a neutral government, although it may raise a claim for damages. a : Now there is no declared war in China. Neither the Japanese, nor the Chinese have declared war and no important neutral nation has announced a state of war by proferring belligerent rights to Japan and China. ' Each nation, including qur own, and for its own reasons has neglected to recognize that a flaming, explosive thing exists at all—notwithstanding that its existence Is just about the most conspicuous and ob-

: ' wise. Orders of blockade, curfew, censorship and all a meént by any private organization, and theoretically indifidually, personally, politically, concretely and ‘in the

no courts but the public courts may try him: for ; ke ; : offenses. As long as he obeys the laws he is supposed abstract.” And, if the Vice President chose riot to reply g 3 Ippo Fi 1 in similarly graceful terms, but to chuckle ‘and ‘withhold

to be protected in all his rights. But unions, like some organizations of business- : 8 | ©. comment, perhaps) there’s a reason. od \ All the voters who see no evil in a game of draw or oliseh mses ans Sot ih pug ‘| ¥ : : i.) . y ness organizations have been closely exam and |. stud or an occasional snort of red likker, plus all the voters | Fo Ea ows to be operating in restraint: of . who have a distaste for John L. Lewis, would make a pretty ade or to the detriment of a member's legal rights, |. : : 1 + 3 aesi they may be enjoined or punished. The practice of Impressive group. ‘Mr. Garner may just possibly figure that ganging up on an independent operator to put him his 1940 hopes got their. biggest boost yesterday—that this out. of business is severely condemned, and, rather | 3 ls TE ; is best friend. y, the most scornful condemnation comes from vious object on the face of the earth. : Be another case of his severest critic being his 2 persons who not only approve but apply equivalent 3 : : : . ly : * 8 8”. or “a means of coercion to individual workmen - 4 Z ane 2 : : Pian & Se 1 + : A : i ; : : ? : ef j no BEER O what? It actually is war. Japanese commandPROFITS FOR WHOM? : : - 2 8&8 = ; 20 . S ers have exactly the same need for these measures WO things ead) happen to the Indianapolis Water Com- | JT Is doubtful that it ever was intended by the nation of security and defense that they would need in a .

“ . ' : . that private organizations. whatever their de- | declared war. . Naturally they are going to exercise pany if, as now seems quite likely, the City finds itself | ciared purposes, should assume over their members them. That leaves it up to other countries either fa 3 ; Nitv overnmental power hich th bli ; to say: “You have no such need”—which is absurd— unable to purchase this important utility: governmental powers which the public government op H Ys . very pointedly waives. If it had been intended that |: or to declare that a state of war exists and accord ~~ 1 Executors of the C. H. Geist Estate may decide t0 {a man must believe in unionism and that he could full belligerent rights—or to take the fuzzy stand that retain the property. | be penalized for refusing. to believe in it, that thought England has taken in a situation that is just as fuzzy a : .. | would have been enacted into some plain law. | from bottom to top. 5 Si 2. The company may be sold to a private buyer or a | similarly, if it had been intended that he might _ As-I understand it, the British have said: “We sY dicate. te 4 be required to obtain a license to work, at an initial don’t accord belligerent rights. Neither do we demand If the first happens, it will mean that the City has cost rising, in one spectacular instance, to $3000, that the rights of peace. We will accommodate ourselves passed up what seems to us the finest opportunity it has ever had to acquire a highly prefitable and essential utility. And if the second comes to pass it will be a tragedy for

restriction on his rights as a free American also would to your necessities as far as we thik ‘we can.” It the City and stand as a shameful Eos to those who,

men, “have created subgovernments or supergovernments to discipline their members, govern their practices and collect taxes and assessments. Such busi- |:

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have been legally enacted.. And, also, in that case, settles nothing and is only a little less absurd than the government doubtless would have claimed the li- the refusal of all interested nations to proclaim a for reasons of their own, will have rived the City of protection against future rate increases and have en-

cense ‘fees for itself, not permitting them to go to state of war. Tine a private, collective organizations which might then use The haywire side of the whole situation 1s neither couraged out-of-town owners to continue taking millions out ‘of this community that will never return.

great masses of money to place themselves in a posi- z Japanese high-handedness, or British compromise. It © | It may be too late to rescue this proposal from ‘the

tion to govern the Government from a detached, ir- |. ts : is the existencs Of a War of conquest of fhe very ANOTHER CASTS HIS LOT 2] 2 fog in which opponents have enveloped this issue. But we Bu SINess

responsible position. first magnitude with no recognition of it by anybody. * “Invisible government” has not.been abolished, it | WITH DRY WORKERS - : fh , repeat—it will be a civic tragedy if this vital utility falls Bv John T. H into outside hands. * | | : y John [. Flynn

to overlook is: the inability of men ‘without collateral to borrow money. Forty years ago I was able to bor-

row, not hundreds, but thousands Relief ‘Boomera ng

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has merely shifted from one field of operations to |gy An-Ex-wet | -

another, When we had Prohibition I de- ;| nounced the Drys with all my strength. I thought they were aj bunch of straight-backed, straightlaced, foggy-thinking old fossils. I whooped and hollered when we got repeal. I gulped my beer with] gasps of glee. : But after this much repeal I'm

of dollars on my personal note—my character, my good standing. . . . ia eid Today collateral of the most un- By Bruce Catton : : questioned value is required to cover| go iwan ia Ee es any amount borrowed. ... © | Results of Strike Will Prove Hard

Opportunities are here’ and will] ° Eka i ikl : Blow to Workers, WPA's Opinion.

be with us always. . . . But they are not as numerous, for the poor

.L, HISTORY REPEAT? VENTY-FIVE years ago today, Au Next day the first shots of the World War ‘Within a week all Europe was aflame. ‘Belgrade today, William Philip Simms, itor, cables: “Every Jugoslav’s ears are first’ shots of another Armageddon.” ‘repeat? ‘The continent is seething with : s; fears and ambitions. : ctors that make for peace. .The

: fell on Belgrad

Times foreign listening for th 2 ‘Will histo at? grievances and animositie ~~ And yet, there are fa unquestioned ‘resolutions - The adhererice bloc. The. possibil headlong rearming the air. The unrest i

war (and the. ' The evident distaste of the Itali _ler’s battles: An i Those are .p

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of the Poles to fight if pushed. “of strategic Turkey to the anti-aggression ‘Soviet Russia's inclusion. The of England and France, especially in n subject Bohemia. The raw material nd fiscal difficulties that would harass Germany in a long vossibility of a short war is fading fast). an people for fighting Hit-

: political considerations which may have a cumulative and restraining effect on Hitler. o Sa :

JAPAN IS WARNED - HE Japanese have been pushing us arou violating our treaties, freezing out our traders; abus-| ing American citizens, bombing American property, sinking an American gunboat, and so on. > > To our Government's protests, with foreign office apologies for war office offenses—and more shoving around. Our Government at last has taken a step which will clear. the way for dealing’ with. the Japanese in terms they seem fo understand. ° A legal barrier to retaliatory (United States-fapanese trade treaty, pledging Japan the ‘same commercial ‘treatment: we give other nations. ‘We _ have not wanted to disregard this treaty in the manner that Japan - ignored the nine-power pact ‘guaranteeing China’s territorial integri et | But now our G

Japan has responded

‘action has been the

nent, acting under terms of the

stria declared war

Misfortune That Could Happen. EW YORK, July 28.—The world is very much in

self about 1917, just as we were going into the War. It is in a war boom. : That such a boom was imminent and inevitable was quite plain several years ago. Germany and Italy and Japan having begun it, it was as obvious as anything in this uncertain world can be; that they could not possibly stop it, any more than they can stop it now. It was also obvious that France and England would inevitably have to begin it. It has now come to pass and every counfry in Europe ‘is now “enjoying,” if we may put it so, the “blessings” of this war boom, financed precisely as

horrowed funds. That boom has not yet developed in America, but it has begun. Already certain of our

«Industries are enjoying the benefits of the orders

which come from abroad—the scrap iron industry, the airplane industry, the munitions industry and several others related to these. :

One Step at a Time

Also “we see opportunities for unloading our wheat and cotton surpluses. Also we have begun to go in on.a large scale for. armaments of our own. These things move a step at a time, cumulatively, progressively and unless int some way we are checked we, too, will: have a war boom. A boom may be a pleasant thing while it lasts, ‘but it is a dreadful thing when it explodes, particularly a boom founded on public spending. And of course. war booms must explode. There never has been one and never will be one which can last.

to drive this country toward lowering the barriers for the entry of this boom. It could develop here in a year upon a gigantic scale. It* would perhaps be the greatest misfortune’ that could overtake this country. It could develop because too many people are sick and tired of the hard. times. They are prepared to look tolerantly en anything which will have the effect of ending em. >¥ It would be easy to get people ‘all steamed up about our high destiny to bring peace to the world —and, pending that, guns and shot and shell at good: prices,” ° - : © We would be. satisfying a high destiny and bringing back good times—put the very worst kind “of. good times, times which would be succeeded by a worse depression than any we have seen. But to any

a the forces are apparently here which tend

1 observer with half an eye; all the signs for relaxing

.our- vigilance: in our appetite for trade are as visible as the clouds in the sky before a_thunder shower.

War Boom Would Be Greatest |tyming into a

the 1917 war boom in America was financed—with |;

straight-laced old fossil. I'm leaving out the foggy thinking. The liquor

\ ] : A , interests have all that cornered. ° N\." the ‘tongdition now. {n'which America found her- |. 2

2 s 2 _ COMMUNISM TARGET IN NEXT WAR, HE SAYS By Edward F. Maddox

I wonder how many of our war scare peddlers have noticed a decided change in the attitude toward war in Europe since our: so-called neutrality bill was passed. Our present Administration is not neutral in the European and Asiatic troubles, and Congress knows it. And since a policy of taking sides in war is almost certain to draw us into it, it behooves every patriotic American who wishes to see our nation steer clear of foreign entanglements and foreign wars, to save our men, money and materials, to restore our own economic system to a prosperous and stable basis to “pray as never before” that no foreign war will start while the New Dealers are in power. They are all set to drag us in if a war starts in Europe or Asia. ... . . England, France, Germany and Italy have nothing to gain by fighting each other and everything to lose. My opinion is they won't fight. But the next big war will be between Russia, Germany and Japan in a

democracies are not involved. There has been a lot of bluff and bluster but after all the battle is directed at the citadels of communism. : 2 #2 =a A THINKS V. I C..OUT OF | TOUCH WITH MASSES By Old Timer ; For some time I have been tempted .to express my opinion of some of the contradictory and inconsistent ‘letters: written by Voice in the Crowd. Everything he writes

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battle to erush communism. The,

| _An interesting. picture of Americans as’ they appear to a French

adjust himself to the new order of things or face the economic situa-

tion as it exists today. ‘ It is obvious . .. that he does not come into direct contact with the masses, and is not afforded the opportunity to witness the distress of many who are not “waiting for George to do it,” but who are conscientiously, prayerfully eager to give proof of their willingness to earn every dollar that is given them. To all such men, V. I. Cs letters must seem like a slap in the face. ...I say V.1 C. is wrong—that men of today have a far more difficult time getting started in business than we had 40 years ago. In those days it: was possible for any .industrious man with ordinary busi-

per, become an . .-. asset to his community. I know of a number of such cases among my own friends— and have to add, with deep regret . .. that I have also seen several of them driven to the wall<with a loss of their all—by chain stores who did not believe in V. I. C.’s absurd “unrestrained but fair competition,” but instead believed in a cut-throat competition of the most vicious and detestable kind. ... - Another angle that V. I. C. seems

ness ability, to_start a small business on a { undred dollars; pros- t

straight-backed | jeads me to believe .. . he ¢annot oh The inte

'niable reason that big business controls the field. ... Youth’s best course today is to sell its brains: and brawn to those who have the money, and hore and strive for the best. Under our present system there seems no other course. I ‘do not deny that the reward is often worthwhile. . . .

: # x 8 | SOAK THE RICH” ROARS

MAKE HIM GIGGLE By K. L. P. .

the rich” make me laugh. Don't they know that every time you soak the rich it means ‘higher taxes all down’ the line? - In the end, it’s the ultignate: cofisumer who pays all the axes. - 2 #2. 8 PAVING JOLTS PROTEST FROM VISITOR TO CITY By a Traveler I have been in a lot of cities in ‘my life. I've bumped over a lot of highways. But I've never ridden on anything to equal the stretch of N. Illinois: St., between 34th St. and 38th St. Brothers, your Indianapolis takes the cake. : Cae

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woman ‘is given by Odette Keun in her book “I Think Aloud in America” (Longmans). After traveling and living in many European countries and studying the characteris-

tics of their people, she came to

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

.Ihorror-stricken

America. Bored and depressed by conditions which she found in these older countries, she hoped to find here a wholly different and somewhat ideal world. The world which she found was different, indeed, but far from ideal. In this volume she discusses our politics, family relationships, hospitality, extravagances,

| religion, educational system, and the

possibilities of the rise of Fascism,

/|Communism, or Naziism in the

United States. Most amusing is her description of a

These guys that scream, “Soak|

ASHINGTON, July 28.—The ‘private opinion of W WPA officials here is that the abortive pre-vailing-wage strike was just about the worst thing | that could possibly have been served to the ordinary - man on relief. iy i 7 i : As they see it, it discredited—for the time being, at least—any and all protests against the new WPA law by recipients of relief. ‘Coming when and how it did, and failing as it did, it not only removed all chance of getting the prevailing-wage change amended; it made it extremely hard for relief clients to get a hearing on any other protest. And the clients are going to find reason. to protest in the near future. ~ By the end of this month, some 300,000 will have . been laid off under the provision that 30-day ‘payless furloughs must be -given all who have been on the - rolls for 18 months or more. An additional 350,000 ° will be dropped during August. And on the first of . September, the majority of all WPA workers will get a wage cut—under the provision which bars wage dif- - ferentials between different sections of -the country. "The WPA Administration itself doesn't like this a bit, and while it believes in rotating the jobs, it. wants some more flexible system than the straight 18 months rile provided by Congress. : But it doesn’t see a chance of that happening now. It figures the prevailing-wage Strike fiasco has confirmed Congress in a hostile frame of mind. And it does expect some real trouble when the wage cuts come. Eo : fhe

-Gagster Uses Mr. Catton :

OME of the country’s most accomplished drop-of-S the-hat ribbers are members of Congress. One’ of them is Dudley White, Republican from Ohio. - This reporter was talking with White in the ‘House cloakroom recently, when anuther Ohio Republican strolled up. White thought of a gag on the spur of the moment, and proceeded to execute it. “Congressman Blank,” he said, pulling the reporter forward; “I want you to meet Bruce Townsend. He’s the son ‘of old Doc Townsend, and he's checking on the way we fellows voted on his dad’s pension bill.” ‘ Congressman Blank had had an active flirtation with the ‘Townsendites, but had finally voted against. . the Townsend bill. He enjoved meeting the supposed | son of Dr. Townsend about as much as Trotsky would enjoy running into a band of Stalin’s Ogpu on a dark might. But he rallied manfully, and spent a good 15 minutes explaining himself, 3 White sat back and erijoyed it. .In the end, White ‘rang down the curtain by turning to the reporter ‘solemnly and saying: “Well, Bruce, I can't blame you ° for working for your dad on this—I'd probably do the - same thing—but honest, now, don’t’ you agree that your father is the cheapest blank-blank-blank un-

hung?”

2 football game, : -} Written primarily for the French : people, this book will be ou Interest sn . . : | to. Americans as an outsider’s view| \. J . rr. |of eur whole situation. J Watching Your INHERITANCE: | ©n. 1 7 es i : : | By Jane Stafford Se ‘|By CHRISTINE GRANT CURLESS oho ala i op i No purse of gold, nor coveted estate| A GREAT many people who are otherwise up-to-Were left by those who have pre- A date in their knowledge and attitude toward ceded me; re "| human problems have still some very old-fashioned But this I own: (it may have been | notions about mental disorders. . An, attitude of hopea trait : lessness, is not warranted, says Dr. fred OverAmong my predecessors) eyes to see| holser, superintendent of ‘St. Elizbeth’s Hospital in {The beauty of the hills; ‘a certain Washington, D. C., the Government hospital for the

sense of Kno where the| care of mentally sick patients.. . an . violets retreat Wine Wh © It is true that the outlook is not so favorable for .:

document itself, has notified Japan that we are abrogating the trade treaty. six months hence.! Thus, when Congress reconvenes next January it can take whatever steps it may then deem advisable to enforce respect for American rights. What Congress does next January depends largely up-

on what Japan does in the meantime. There is today in this country strong sentiment in support of an’ embargo on shipments of scrap iron, oil and other war essentials to

Japan, and for restrictions on imports that have helped to

bolster Japan's financial pte o t between the small boy and the old Wl NT Ta a ide Rar : : men en the small boy and the old professor. Such A step would be a ve > Serious blow to the Japa- I am sure, as the words are spoken, every vi ‘pernese. It would also:be a very grim undertaking for this | son in the vast audiences now seeing the picture. is

(Heywood Broun is on vacation.) ”

A Woman's Viewpoint Health

By Mrs, Walter Ferguson ih «X70UD like my mother; she makes quite good: * jokes.” ni “I'm sure I should. It’s fine to have a mother

who makes jokes.”

Those who have seen the moving picture, “Goodby, Mr. Chips,” will recognize the conversational frag-

Orient to such

THE ROOSEVELT LIBRARY signing of the deed transferring 12 acres of cend Roosevelt land at Hyde Park to the Federal the beginning of the Franklin D. Roose- ; which; in all likelihood, w well as tourists for many, many years. . 0,000 library. building will be erected by pri-. gifts. “The millions of letters, documents, ‘books and | venirs to go into it Will be:given'by the President. The vernment, after some flurries of partisan objections, has bound itself to maintain ard preserve it. ‘And the public, ve believe, will approve the

od, will be a magnet for {| humor.

ngement intréasingly in’

vountrys It is to be hoped therefore that this plain warn. | Pierced by a sweet memory. ing will cause Tokyo to modify its “new order” in the a degree that American resentment will

jokes is a scarce article and, therefore, doubly precious. As a class; we women take our children too

A good deal has been said and written about “a mother’s smile,” but the fegend-makers never allowed good women to break out into a hearty ha-ha, or to see in infant mischievousness only a child prank. Instead, all ‘mothers ‘wore halos. They possessed angelic qualities, but ‘generally lacked. a sense of .; And when we finally got out from under their influence we came under another, equally evil. For at .once ' we ‘were transformed into teeth-gritting reformers, bringing up our children according to the rules and standing no nonsensé from anyone about it. ‘. And, after they are brought up, then what? If you ask me, I don’t think we've done anything to brag about unless they can remember some family fun. | £2 Long after the memory of ouf ‘tears leaves them

We frequently encounter fathers who are addicted |. to the excellent habit, but the mother whu makes] |

seriously. We cry often and at the wrong times; we fidget, we hover, we become bundles of sclicitude | 1 —yet we laugh rarely. 5 eK Perhaps it’s the weight of tradition that sobers us.

unmoved, - they, will remember the sound of our| ‘296.

~ Exodus 20:12.

ence : For him who made the rosebud red and sweet. My name is 80 inconsequential, yet

. In. its obscurity I am content, {Far they who hear it spoken only let 1 |Me live my inconspicuous descent. _|M¥ heresy is but the simple rank In which I live, in which I, too,

shall die, ; Yet I have them who left me this to thank: 21380

A heart of warmth, a beauty loving eyel rg

DAILY THOUGHT

Honour thy father and thy ‘mother: that thy days may be long upon the. land the Lord - thy ' God giveth t —

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Should be; a soul so full of rever-| some: types of mental sickness as for othefs, Dr.

Overholser points out. Also,.it generally takes somewhat longer for the cure of a mental disorder than for the cure of disorders which take patients to general hospitals. 3 he 5 ths The figures on cures of mental disease, which Dr. Overholser cited in a recent report, are Spring) : hopeful. For every 100 patients admitted to mental disease hospitals in the year 1933, there were 46 discharged, of whom 39 were considered recovered or: improved, More than half of the discharged patients had been in hospitals less than six months. Only a few had been in as long as two years, and about one-fifth had been in the hospital for treatment two months or:less. © Cf iiftpsuitt Liao Another ‘mistaken notion ° y people have is that mentally sick patienjs are “raving maniacs,” disturbed, noisy, dishevelel, disturbing others, possibly. even making . homicidal = attacks. Patients of this - type, Dr. Overholser says, constitute perhaps not over 2 5 per'cent of the population of a mental hospital. The idea that patients are hustled off to hospitals. for menial disease Be It the “ralitoed mistaken = notion. Dr. Overholser calls it the “railroading myth” . x th ¢ : t all x uch Hi spit als ‘dre - 2 ! 4 AY are und eon