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SEATTLE, Sept. 23.—Being a dour old pessimist from way back, there's nothing that gets under my
Skin like a Pollyanna brimming over with sunshine.
Yet now and then I find myself the victim of some disgusting Pollyannaish thought of my own. When that happens to me, I just have to scowl and bear it. For example. up in the forest the other day I sort of tore the end off the second finger of my right hand. Had to bandage it up, and it was pretty sore. And then, as soon as I got back to Seattle, I came down with a whopper of a cold, and was in bed for several days. During that time, I just had to let the columns slide. For{unately I had a few ahead, so that there wasn't any actual lapse in the paper. And it was along toward the end of the cold that a nauseating bit of cheerful philosophy came to me, to-wit: “Wasn't it fine that, since I had to have a cold, and since I had to tear the end off my finger, they came just at the same time? So that instead of losing eight days of productive labor, I really lost only four? Wasn't that fine?” For having such a silver lining in my cloudy soul I hang my head in shame,
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It was nice to be up in the forest on that horseback trip, but it was also nice to be out again. Whoever invented bathrooms and hotel beds sure was a genius. It is startling how quickly you can get from the heart of a big city into the utter silence and isolation of forest and mountain @At no time on our pack-trip were we more than one day's horseback ride, and a two-hour auto drive, from Seattle. And yet, so unknown and untouched is that country, that we might as well have been in the Himalayas.
It Seems to Me
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—A Jot of my young or
sprightly friends in the newspaper business are about
to go abroad as war correspondents, Those who have never seen service in this capacity betore regard their assignments with a great deal of excited anticipation, 1 think that many of them will find the job a good deal duller than they think. By the time the censor is done with a story its eves and ears and most of its other features will have been eliminated. The good story, with few exceptions, is the one that has small chance to get through, and, of course, the cable tolls play hob with all the stylists. If there are any authors at the front they will have small chance to do their stuff until later years in some hook of memoirs. Witlt the potential increase in bombing. the veporter may run more risk in the next war than he did in the last. But even during air raids the news gatherer is in no more acute danger than the civilian population, which may be cold comfort. Still, I think I gave good advice to one voung man who asked what he should take along. I told him to take a bunch of good books in pocket size. He seemed surprised when I suggested that there was an excellent chance of being bored to death without reading matter.
” 5 The Food Will Be Good Boredom as well as blood is one of the agonies of modern warfare. Under furious action, the soldier, or the correspondent on a casual visit, may find his nerves torn to shreds even though he never feels a wound. But in ihe quiet sectors there is another kind of purgatory. The dave and nights when nothing happens are pretty hard to take,
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Aviation
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. —Beneath the surface, where all good diseases belong, there are quite a few cases of mental indigestion in this aircraft industry. Some of the more aggressive spirits refuse to swallow the present types of engines available for our fighting airplanes. Others, equally aggressive but with ulterior objectives, such as dividends and earnings, are preseribing sedatives. [t's just about time for some of our energetic business execu= tives to take a lot of experimental streamlined engines away from the slide rule lads who are redesigning jobs that have never been given -an air test.
By Ernie Pyle
So far as I know there are less than half a dozen spots of any size in the United States which still might be called primitive and. practically uninhabited. Those spots are some of the Florida Everglades, the trackless desert of southeastern Utah, the mountainous forests of northern Idaho, possibly some of the forests in Maine—I'm not sure—and last, these upper Cascades of Washington State. Even on the road maps, some of this country (less than an hour airline from Seattle) is labeled “primitive area.” There are no roads into it; in some places not even trails. There are giaciers up there, and surprise lakes, and the land belongs to the bear and the deer and the cougar. $$ 4% # Sheep-Herder's Chaps Out in the mountains, some riders wear chaps made of canvas instead of leather. They are coated over with a waterproof preparation which makes them very stiff. | They're called ‘“sheep-herder’s chaps,” because they are so cheap. I wore a pair on our trip, and if it hadn’t been for them I believe my overalls would have been torn right off my legs by the scraping brush. The Wenatchee Forest, in which we rode, is only W : WN 2 avi = Y( a: N F one of the 147 National Forests in the United States. This large number was a surprise to me, | The majority of them, of course are in the West. The Wenatchee Forest is a typical one. It is roughly : 50 miles wide and 100 miles long, and covers about al million and a half acres. O= It takes a staff of 200 people to run it. And the Forest keeps about 45 horses for packing in supplies to trail camps and isolated fire lookout stations. Along toward the end of our fourth day, when we had already ridden about 40 miles of trail, and I felt we had pretty well covered the Forest, I asked the Forest Service men just how many miles of trail there were in this one forest. The answer was: “Oh, about 2000 miles!” It was at that point that I leaped from my horse | and fled madly, over hill and dale, through sleet and | snow and darkness of night—back to Seattle. |
1. Conferences held by mental hygiene clinic staff members after all patients have been examined are an essential part of the program. Discussing various cases are (left to right) William Hennessy, psychologist; Ralph Collins, supervisor of social work: George C. Stevens, M. D., director of the Division of Medical Care; Elmer W. Cole, Bartholomew County Welfare Department director, and Mrs. Dorothy Wallace, Bartholomew County senior visitor,
2. In order to test his ability to observe, Dr. Hennessy times this boy who is trying to fit a jig-saw puzzle together.
3. During the clinic, experts question those attending to learn all they can about the patient's background. Facing this group is Dr. Collins,
By Heywood Broun
By Reger Budrow 10-YEAR-OLD boy, walking hand in hand with a welIf the French live up to their previous war-time fare worker through the shaded lawn of an Indiana reputation the food will be pretty good right up in i : ; the front line. The army sels its wine ration with a| court house square one morning, entered a quiet, clean high degree of Yep, even though it must be| reception room in the court house basement. IHisg friend carried through a shambles. And no matter what b : : A . s {nels Kitid of flour ust be Utilized on Account of Shortage left him there, went on about het othe: tasks, and the boy in supplies, the French continue to make the best| leafed through the stack of magazines on a nearby table. bread whown among any Aghting foices. Give a ehel| In a few minutes a State Welfare Department psychiatrist, who had driven out from Indianapolis that morn=
no more than sawdust and he'll show up with pastry. Although I never mastered their curious and diffiing, came into the room, smiled and said, “Are you ready wy The boy 5 = “ ——
cult language, it seemed to me that the French were more amiable and hospitable with newspapermen | Jack than any of the allied armies. But. at that, officers| LO See me, Jack? and men all along the line were generally eager to) put down the magazine, and put on a show for journalistic visitors. went into an adjoining room to begin a morninglong series of tests and
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In just what point behind the lines the press will establish its base I don't pretend to know. But if there is any action in the neighborhood of Neufcha-| ode ; teau I would certainly recommend the Hotel Provi- hin) on N Blige In nin is dence. Perhaps it no longer stands, although it had ha ] re a hoy becoming been in business several centuries before its stairs Patients. in ren h ospitals or creaked under my tread. Be particularly careful of tuphing into delinquents and: so- | cial misfits. He was attending | one of the department's new
that last step. It's as loose as ashes, and in the twenty years which have gone by I doubt that the proprietor has had time to fix it. And I wouldn't) ° : . put too much faith in the community bathroom at mental hygiene clinics =the new- pefore they began. Parents, un(he end of the long hall on the second foor. | est part of ‘he state program of able to solve a complicated probPerhaps it might be well to take kindling as wel) | caring for the mentally ill. lem they couldn t understand, as books, The stoves in the room are ill-supplied with | After lagging behind other states brought their children. Others fuel. and the chimney has not been cleaned since the| for a number of years Indiana is Were referred by teachers, welfare days of Charlemagne. | forging ahead in an ambitious Workers, judges and others. A few Yet. if nothing has changed, the American news. Drogram that has three divisions. Came of vher SW} Stverd, Sixty papermen will be very fortunate in (wo respects. for| A fight against overcrowded hos PC! cei are children. oh Angele will serve the oeufs in the morning and Hen-| bitals, obsolete methods of treat- Fach alien is Blven a physieal riette bring on the vin oidinaire, either rouge or/ Ment, public indifference ignor- SSaminglion BY 5 [cal deci hee blanc, at night. My compliments to the young ladies, | 20¢e and prejudice is being waged C1 hia lear AE ll ee They taught me all the French I will ever know, On each front. J god Te ie 4 AER And so in my behalf be kind enough to say “Bon| The front-line trenches are the ood. the kind of relatives and soit” to both, | mental elinics. Since last Decem- playmates he has, how he works. ber, when they were first author lave and his school marks. Then ized, clinics have been established {he psychologist tries to deterat Columbus, Gary, South Bend, mine the intelligence, the type of Lafayette, Peru, Marion, Terre work the patient might do when
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reason and judge. Whitcomb Riley Hospital at Indianapolis These serve 3 counties > 8 1 The handwriting on the The next clinic is expected to be ATE in the afternoon, when opened soon at Muncie. all the patients have gone, the specialists pool their opinions in each case. They avoid text= book terms and discuss each prob=
psychologist and psyvehiatrie social worker comes from the State Wel= fare Department. When the idea was getting under way, it was feared that townsfolk would dub the department's experiments as some sort of “sanity commission.” It also was feared that those who visited the clinics would be thought inferior or fit targets for ridicule or that the town derelicts might be foisted upon the clinic staff. ¢ No such thing happened. People realized that the elinie idea was to stop any mental diseases
people know all about it. wall is almighty plain: New engines! And there's only one way to get new engines. charge of executive dynamite must be exploaed under REVENTION of mental upsets the inventors who are fiddling away valuable time! is their purpose. They are lem in plain, practical language. fussing with their toy ideas. Someone must soon| started only with the approval of The clinic staff has no authority, break into the experimental toyroom, take the experi-| the county welfare board and but can only recommend to mental engines away from the inventors and put said| county medical society. If one is parents and others interested in engines into the air. | wanted, the requirements are that what should be done. Findings Elementary familiarity with the history of me-| some suitable quarters be found, and discussion are kept confi= chanical development indicates clearly the necessity| perhaps in the city hall, library, dential, of course, from those not for stripping executive control from men who are not| school or welfare office, and that directly concerned. trained to handle it. | the county show it is really willing An attractive girl was brought | to do its share in helping clinical to one elinic by her foster parents | workers with the problems. who had intended to send her to Every two weeks a psychiatrist, college. Their plans were up-
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set when they learned she had reached her educative capacity at the fifth grade. She was falling behind in her school work. Had she kept on with her regular high school course and tried to go to college, it was apparent the whole thing would have been use= Jess. Such a situation, welfare workers say, i7 perfect for breeds ing mental sickness. So, after various vocational tests, the problem was solved by teaching the girl sewing, cooking and homemaking duties. With her looks and these abilities, she probably will get married, clinical workers believe, and have a home of her own in several years. A H=year-old girl with a serious speech defect refused to try to speak at all. Examination dis= closed she was intelligent, had no physical speech trouble and could hear well. But it was learned that her parents quarreled bitterly at home, sometimes fought, and the child was afraid even to speak.
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HE was placed in a foster home but still refused to speak. Then they discovered that she was keeping silent, having learned that through this device she attracted attention and sympathy. The clinic staff recommended that the foster parents be affectionate and sympathetic to her only when she spoke and ignore her when she remained silent. The method worked and now they are writing “case closed” on something that might have ended much dif« ferently. Indiana's mental hospitals have long been overcrowded but these conditions are being relieved by
Time and again, in the development of new air
the second part of the state program==building. Madison State Hospital can now take all persons on its waiting list and Evansville State Hospital is not crowded. By the end of this year additions are expected to be completed at Central State Hospital at Indianapolis and at Logansport State Hospital. There will be 8200 beds then. Methods «alsa are being changed. The present technics are a far ery from the day, centuries ago, when the insane were beaten “to chase put the Devil.” Rest is prescribed, by means of wet packs and continuous baths, for disturbed and excited patients. Depressed patients or those in poor physical condition are given salt glows or tonic baths, Drugs are used as a last resort. Paresis sufferers are given maslaria therapy, Central State Hospital has a Federally sponsored project in this work for the control of syphilis. It was there that part of the research was done which disproved the theory that heat killed the syphilis germs and it was established that the malaria bacteria, given the patient gtrong enough to stand it, killed the syphilis germs and cured the paresis, ” ” ” HE famous insulin or metrazol treatment, commonly called “shock treatment,” has passed the trial stage and treatment has been started in all five mental hospitals inthe state within the last year, speeding cures and discharges of patients. In addition to the regulation of eating, bathing and exercising,
patients now have music, art, drama, dancing and other enter= tainment in their daily programs in some of the more advanced state hospitals. The department has begun a training program to improve nursing care in state institutions. This is deemed necessary to keep hospital attendants in step with the numerous types of treatment coming into use of late. The third part of the program is the “furlough plan.” When it is found that the patient has im=proved enough to leave the hos= pital, he is placed in a home, his own or another, where he can be cared for properly and supervised occasionally by state specialists, By this plan, rooms are emptied in the hospitals and those needing care can be taken in, thus increasing the turnover, This brings up the next probe lem—a difficult one. It is the pub= lic's attitude toward mental pa= tients. Social workers who realize the importance of public opinion bemoan the fact that they have coined no new words to supplant “insane, crazy and feeble-minded.” To say a person has pneumonia when he really has only a cold is just as incorrect, they explain, as it is to say a person has “lost his mind” when he is actually only mentally ill. There is a growing realization, they find, that mental sickness, as any other type of illness, may be treated and cured in many ine stances. Public acceptance of this fact is a goal which, although ‘in« tangible, is necessary if the pro= gram is to be successful, they say.
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I know of one streamlined liquid-cooled engine that has been in the hatching for about eight vears. And if something doesn't happen to an egg that's been under the heat that long, something should be done to the fellows who permit it to stay there The engines available as power plants for fighting aircraft, namely, the air-cooled radial kind, and the one big liquid-cooled streamlined engine in existence,
engines, the men who are responsible for the solvency | STATE AIDS TECH o's manuiacturme concern have ween tort 0 sin) JJe@k and Metzaer Head ~~ |©V'C CLUBS TO MEET) cue Empioyment somiceor.| oNCTER_ SUIT KILLED in, take the new engine away from the inventors and! ? TE — [1 (iS aobale: imploymennt Service o/-) _— — _ put it to work. One of the gravest mistakes made by | . 0 | The first fall meeting of the In-|fice here will assist in Tech High| WABASH, Ind. Sept. 23 (U. P), Community Fund Division
scientific age has been their consistent failure to ta dianapolis Federation of Community | : =A suit by Mrs. Celia Quinn, fore a Line limit to any experimental project. j : | Civie Clubs will be held at the Ho- | School's evening school program mer school teacher, to collect back £ od [tel Washington at 8 p. m. next Fri [whic opens Oct, 2. never get to production on anything. It's the job of] SS dav : e ; I lo ment if they had the ghecutive to decide When a new engine has been| J. Perry Meek and Norman Metzger have been named co-chairmen| Roderick Rae, scientific crime ine could obtain employment if they evelop > enough to start doing useful work and pay- of the individual gifts divisions of the 12th annual Community Fund vestigator of the Police Department, ing Off its overhead charges. ; campaign, opening Oct. 9. will speak on crime detection.
are just not flying our fighters fast enough. ; | z “fu maar were given the job of putting this suggestion A. W. Metzger and Harold B ect, now one engine factory where I would (ITY 10 SEEK NEXT Tharp are associate campaign drive in a tractor crane, hitch a cable to the new I EST YO U R
New Engines Are Needed ON 2 Hen arene chairmen, | b y 3 —Just as it is—and haul it to the nearest air-| Mr, Meek and Mr. Metzger will] ‘The pay-off on fAghters being delivered nde our plane factory Simultaneously. I'd give the engineers | AIR RESEARCH UNIT ee a division of 600 workers with | air expansion program, which are miles and miles an from whom the engine has been taken another job | a goal of $43.230. Three thousand hour slower than the contract Specifications, will be We need new types of air engines. and need them | workers in all divisions will seek to raise the $683,710 total quota. | 1=Where is the Si-kiang River? 2-0n ships, what is a hatch? 3-—What is the chemical name for “heavy water?”
along presently. And it's going to be a very unpretty mighty badly. Theres the fon | . ; ; ; , ' y : Ye § pla—a good. sub! ‘ row. While this may be news to you people Who have stantial push. Don't let these slide-rule wielders| Indianapolis i& reported to have| Perry W. Lesh, general chairman, | “a good chance’ of being selected also has announced that Mrs, J, L.| 4-—~What is the correct pronun=ciation of the word grimace?
other things to attract your attention, the industry bluff you. las the site for the War Depart« Murray, 64 B. 73d St, has been j-Name the steamship that
h 1 division chair= ment's next proposed multi-million« Chosen residential divie ] | \ [ ay was sunk by collision with an
man. collar air reseach center. jceberg in 1912, with great DELAVAN, Ill, Friday.—We reached Carbondale,
| The drive will be opened formally B | ‘The Chamber of Commerce will the night of Oct. 9 with a mobiliza« y Eleanor Roosevelt cami to obtain the laboratory, tion meeting at the Murat Theater. lit was announced after word was|A part of the program here is to be 2 : received here that Sunnyvale, Cul," broadoas ver A hatigh-wide hooks loss of life. 4 || Enaotal ers whose work is seasonal. I y |Was selected as the site for the up With Ge » : g , he ak =, Bed Il, at about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and I did all the mines are open these boys ped also given hen | 46,000,000 U. 8. aeronautical re-|civic leader, as the principal speak- Sem Who discovered the South Sry (O° Ny TR ') I not expect much time to see the countryside. How- ing in auto mechanics, electrical wiring, woodwork. Search laboratory which was sought | er President Roosevelt will speak y Ce . ALY Wi oN gi ever, the National Youth Administrator told me there ing and iron work. : for Municipal Airport. (from the White House. 7—Name the colors in the PES AGE VN SARE ES was a small resident project he would like to show They have the advantage of being near a state 1nree military aviation research EEE Belgian flag. 4 Fal ¥ me, so I sallied forth with two teachers’ college which is co-operating in every way, CehnUers are planned by the War) . uw.» very kind and enthusiastic young This college also has a large number of NYA students Department, although only one nes HUNDREDS OF MODEL ARsSwers men as guides. and has found them a valuable addition. The town |Deeh provided for by Congressional : The fact that Illinois has jtself has many monuments to WPA work—a paved | APPropriation, | 1—-China. risen to fifth place among oll and widened main street, a, fine armory and several| Lhe groundwork for bringing the| PLANES 10 COMPETE 2—A large opening through a producing states has made a con= other lasting improvements. The businessmen’s club | Second station here was laid by deck, as for taking in cargo. siderable change in the outlook seems to co-operate in all this work and has donated | Chamber of Commerce and city | 3—Deuterium oxide. of the people, but it does not the land oh which the new buildings are situated, |Cmolals When they presented their dreds of nodel: airplanes of] YGi=U as in {.muce’; poy seem to have changed greatly I drove through the college grounds and out to claim for the first station‘a month| Hundre 8 lo) Tat p grime’-ace. the fact that the farming popula: the Crab Orchard Lake project. This is a PWA 080 Myron R. Green, Chamber of all kinds, sizes and description Will 5—Titanic. project and. has employed a good many persons, Commerce industrial commissioner, pe flown over Stout Field tomorrow 6—Capt. Roald Amundsen. Flood control is evidently much needed and the pos. | Said. in the Junior Chamber of Com-| T7—Black, yellow and red. sibility of creating power through a series of these , ine Second research unit will be So 0" adel plane contest. ® x = projects might mean a good deal to the development G€Voted to airplane motors, under Top)" oasoline-powered miniature S of the area. There are, of course. some natural objecs fue ar Department plans. Funds | 5." ill take part in the compe- ASK THE TIME . | tions. People will lose their land when the lake i], Of Hive Second Mrohabiy will hel be tition, one of a series of contests Inclose a 3-cent stamp for filled up and they do not like the countryside inun«| {emo oo ion ongress until "he held throughout the State. reply when addressing any . | Sa. id be | ok | i : The meet hyp open a BS Question of Tuck or information wou mpossible for me to pass any judg-| ‘with the last flights scheduled at 0 e Indianapo mes ment on their complaints, but I feel sure that careful | DIES OF CRASH INJURIES |g ;, m. Activities will be filmed in| Washington Service Bureau, consideration was given to them before the work was! PERU, Ind, Sept. 23 (U. P).- a talking picture feature “Wings| 1013 13th St, N. W,, Washing ton, D. C. Legal and medical advice cannot be given nor can
undertaken. Jack Monahan, 30, former Logans-| Over Indianapolis,” by the IndianTo our great joy Mrs. Helm drove over from Gray« port cab driver, died yesterday from | apolis Aero Club. Shithed research be under taken,
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missed. more training, will be referred to the, she had sued Pleasant
school, officials said [township for two years pay.
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tion and mining population in this section are at a very low ebb. One of the counties near Carbondale has the greatest number of people on relief in any one county in the United States. Most of the young men in the Youth Administration project are boys who never had an opportunity for acquiring any work skill or getting into any job which was more than a temporary day laborer type of occupation. They are teaching some subsistence farming on this project which, from observation from the train window, I should say is very necessary. How to grow a garden, how to get as much of one’s living as possible out of a small acreage, would be very valuable to min
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ville, Til, and joined us in Carbondale for a few hours. | injuries received in an automobile, Colonel H. Weir Cook, is to diWe are now in Delavan, Hl, where I lecture tonight. collision near here Thursday. (rect the contest.
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