Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 133, 14 April 1920 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, APRIL ti, 1920.

WOMEN CAN'T BE DELEGATES, MISS WHITE IS TOLD

Esther Griffin White, Wayne county Republican woman chairman, who filed her declaration of candidacy for the delegate to the state convention. 83 a test case, learned Wednesday that

as a result of a ruling by the state hoard ol election commissioners, women can neither be delegates or candidates for county offices, the commissioners ruled. The six questions passed on by the commission follow: Prior to the approval and promulgation of the suffrage amendment a woman cannot be a delegate to the state convention of a political party.

Inasmuch as women are not electors they are not entitled to be candidates for county offices. In interpreting the corrupt practices act of 1913, which limits expenditures of candidates for nomination or election to a certain amount based on the vote cast lor the office at the next preceding election, the commission held that for president, governor, and other four-year offices, the 1916 votes should be the basis, and for two-year offices the 1918 votes should be the guide. Service to Continue. As there are no township elections this year all township officers appointed to fill vacancies shall serve until their successors are elected in 1922, and have qualified, Where precincts have been divided a candidate for precinct committeeman that has filed a declaration of his candidacy In the old precinct Is not available for the new. In event no candidate has filed for the new pre- ; cinct the county committee shall apj point the candidate. The commission decided that the

names of all candidates for state offices or for president or vice-president shall be placed on the primary ballots even though the candidate has no opposition.

DR. SMITH

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this was impossible to make the patient as happy as treatment and

care can do. An annual discharge of

j f0 per cent of the patients, is the present record at Easthaven. To accomplish this Superintendent I Smith has brought into the institution exquisitely technical laboratory work, and other phases. Why He Remains Here. "Why have you remained at Easthaven?" he was asked. "It is because there always has been something unfinished, or something else I wanted to start. Then the work is wonderfully interesting." When Dr. Smith came to Easthaven there were -19 buildings and 400

patients. Today there are 34 build-' ings, three colony farms, and 925 patients. "This increase in patients does not mean that more people are going insane in 1920 than were in 1891; it does not in any sense mean that insanity is on the increase, but rather that we are serving a larger area and that people have begun to appreciate the value of treatment and to differentiate between cases which can be successfully cared for in an insane hospital and those which may be cured in

an insane hospital. Many Old People. "In other words the public is beginning to more thoroughly appreciate the advantages of the hospital, and

to look upon the asylum as such rather than a jail. We find that commit

ment is asked for a much larger number of elderly people than was former

ly the case. In past years such people, though obviously suffering from

mental disease, were kept in their

homes where the environment often

increased the intensity of the disease,

and where care was insufficient.

The territory served by the hospital

formerly included what was known as

the "old gas belt." Now it serves that

on a latitude with Wayne County from Franklin to the Michigan line.

Colony Farm Plan. Outstanding among the accomplish

ments of Dr. Smith during his years at Easthaven is the "colony farm" plan which he was first in Indiana to inaugurate. Now, because it has proved good, other institutions of the state are inaugurating the system. In the late spring or early summer, the

superintendent will oversee the construction of three more colony farms on the Easthaven grounds. One of them is to be for women, the first of its kind. A colony consists of from 20 to 30 patients, in improved mental condition and able-bodied, and mild chronics. In order that patients may feel

they are going out and away from the

hospital to take up really construc

tive and worth-while work, the col

onies are placed some distance from

the main buildings of the institution

The new colonies will be about a

mile and a half northwest of the hos pital buildings.

Once established on the colony the

patients are encouraged to carry on

garden work, stock raising", dairy

work and to take care of the colony bungalows, which are attractively furnished. Very seldom does a patient resist the atmosphere which is induced into the colony life. When it does not seem to agree with the

inmato he is taken back to the hos pital. Explains An Error

A common fallacy has been that farmers' wives go insane more fre

quently than any other class of peo

pie. It is true in Indiana that a large percentage of the H insane come from

the farms, but this is a result of large farm population, which outnumbers that of urban districts, Dr. Smith pointed out. "Time was when the pioneer farmer's wife lived a lonely and isolated

life," said Dr. Smith. "That time hasi passed. Today, with traction and steam lines running everywhere; with telephones and automobiles, the farmer's wife comes in as constant and interesting touch with the cities as do the citizens of the crowded centers. In the former's favor is the fact that she lives in the open and breathes purer air." It is presumed that all patients under care of Easthaven have at one time had normal minds, but that disease has invaded their mentality. Feeble-minded persons, ones who have never reached a degree of normal mental development, are not accepted at the local institution, but are sent to Butlerville. ' At that Institution and at the Southern Indiana Hospital for the Insane at Madison, Dr. Smith has been particularly influential in sowing the colony and other

beneficial ideas cultivated at Easthaven.

Few Children Insane In speaking of the patient personnel

at Easthaven Dr. Smith said - that there are few persons under 25 confined in the institution. A few as young as 15 and 16 have gone insane

and been brought to Easthaven, but

this is decidedly the exception to the rule. A child is sUDDOsed normally

to have great power of resistance. When a child succumbs to mental

disease his case is practically hopeless. Insanity as a rule sets in be

tween the ages of 40 and 60, subject, of course, to all sorts of exceptions caused by heredity, environment and disease, he said.

Hydrotherapeutic baths have been inaugurated under the regime of Dr. Smith. There are an important change in the theory of treating patients. Certain types of insanity readily respond to their influence. At Easthaven hot and cold baths, packs and various kinds of mineral waters are used. Excellent equippment installed within the past few years is in constant beneficial use. One of the most interesting phases of Dr. Smith's work is occupational therapy, a plan which he holds in very high esteem, insisting that one of the greatest needs for the insane

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person is work which will engage his attention and keep it from himself. Industrial Work. To this end he has experimented and attempted many forms of hand work, including weaving, rug making, embroidering. This spring he will superintend the erection of a two-

story brick building 40 by 100 feet, which at an approximate cost of $15,000, will provide many types of industrial work suitable to the physical strength of the patients. The output of this factory will not be put upon the market for sale but will when possible be used within the institution. Brooms, mops, brushes, etc., will be among the articles made. Another innovation which Dr. Smith hopes to establish soon has recently been made possible through the passage of the Law of Voluntary Admission in the state legislature in 1919 Dr. Smith drew the law himself. Helps Patients. "The law permits us to receive without legal commitment and Its stigma, any person who Is suffering from men

tal or nervous disease, who appreci

ates his or her condition and wishes the advice and treatment of the hospital physicians skilled in all phases

of mental disorder. Persons may come to the institution for periods of

from 60 to 90 days and may leave at any time upon 10 days' notice. In this way we are able to give free service to 'border-line' cases which without

proper care may become serious. Al

may keep in touch with patients on

furlough and ascertain whether home conditions are suitable for the betterment of the patient or whether it is something there which is aggravating his case, is another step we hope to take very soon," said Dr. Smith. Needs More Help. Difficulty in getting help is being experienced at Easthaven as elsewhere. With more patients and less domestics, Dr. Smith says they are facing a "hard job." The medical staff is still two short since the war.

There are B0 domestics and 85 nurses. Besides a scientific mind, Dr. Smith possesses a disposition which probably has been greatly responsible for his success with people. He feels their sorrows and joys and takes keen pleasure in making his knowledge of science go farther and farther to make other people well and happy. Despite the greatness of his responsibility at Easthaven, where he is not only medical superintendent, but also general superintendent. Dr. Smith has also found time to take an interest in many things in the whole outside his great institution. He is dean of the state hospital service because of his long service. He is a member of the American Medico-Psychol association, of which he was president in 1915 and 1916. In 1910 he was president of the Indiana State Conference of Charities and Correction and is still a member. He

is affiliated with the State Medical

ready we have received three such association, the Wayne County Med

cases. e give them no publicity and no annoyance of the thought of having been in an insane hospital need accompany the treatment, any more than in taking treatments from a doctor for physical ailments. "The same law permits the establishment of free mental clinics for treatment of persons who need not come into the institution for residence.

Such work as this gets at the root of cases and fulfills the adage, 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. "Field service through which we

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