Evening star. [volume], May 12, 1935, Page A-7, Image 7

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1,1 SPECIALISTS
American Psychiatric Unit
Continues Sessions Un
til Friday.
The annual meeting of the Ameri
can Psychiatric Association will open
here tomorrow, with more than 1,500
Specialists in nervous and mental dis
eases from the United States and
Canada in attendance.
The sessions will continue through
Friday, with approximately 100 scien
tific papers, giving accounts of the
latest advances in the field of psy
chiatry. Particular stress will be laid
on the psychiatric implications in
such associated sciences as general
medicine, biology and the social
sciences.
The psychiatrists are opening their
convention with an alarming picture
of 500,000 hospital beds in the United
States occupied by patients suffering
from some nervous or mental dis
order, as compared to 525.000 for vic
tims of all other illnesses. According
to a statement authorized by the as
sociation today, one person in 22 dur
ing the present generation will be at
some time a patient in a mental hos- J
pital.
Fpilepsv to Be Topic.
Tomorrow there will be precon
vention meetings of the sections on j
conclusive disorders and forensic psy- j
Chiatry. The former group, headed by j
Dr. Temple Fay. professor of neuro
surgery at Temple University, will
spend the day discussing the possible I
causes and treatment of epilepsy. The
forensic psychiatry section will discuss
the legal aspects of the science. Hugh j
H. Clegg of the Department of Justice !
will describe the work of crime in
vestigation. Dr. Abraham Myerson of
Boston will discuss the connection
between head injuries and crime, and
Is expected to ask for a clear state
ment of the psychiatric position which
may clear away supposed conflicts in
testimony in the future.
The convention will open officially
Tuesday morning on the call of Dr.
C. F. Williams. Columbia, S. C. pres
ident of the association. There will
be an address of welcome by Dr. a.
B. Bennett, president of the Medical
Society of the District of Columbia.
Tuesday afternoon there will be a
symposium, over which Dr. Adolph
Mysv of Johns Hopkins University will
jrteside. on “The Material Dealt With
as Personality Function.” This sym
posium is for the purpose of better
Integrating the diverse approaches
made by workers in psychology, psy
choanalysis. biochemistry and general
medicine, each with their own peculiar
concepts and language.
There will be a child psychiatry
symposium on Wednesday afternoon.
Educators, child guidance experts and
psychiatrists will consider the de
velopment of the child to its fullest
potentialities and prevention of con
duct disorders through co-operation of
experts in the various fields.
Thursday will be given over to
further consideration of laboratory
and clinical reports. In the after
noon there will be a consideration of
administrative problems, especially
dealing with quacks. There will be
informal round table discussions
Thursday evening by groups inter
ested in particular phases of psychi
atry.
There will be a continuation of
reports on clinical studies Friday, in
cluding one study made of 200 male
transients. Friday afternoon the mem
bers will be guests of Dr. William A.
White, director of St. Elizabeth's Hos
pital.
50 FIRE DEPARTMENTS
GIVEN BIDS TO SESSION
Twelfth Annual Carroll County
Convention to Be Held in
Taneytown May 23.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MOUNT AIRY. Md.. May 11— In
vitations to attend the twelfth an
nual convention of the Carroll County j
Volunteer Firemen’s Association. In |
Taneytown, May 23. have been sent
to 50 fire departments.
The program follows: Reception
end registration of delegates and visit- !
lng firemen at Firemen's Building; |
10 o’clock, opening of convention: ad- j
dress of welcome, music, address on
behalf of business men and citizens
of Taneytown. business session: 11 to
2 o'clock, dinner served at the Fire
men's Building to the public; 12, din
ner served at Firemen's Building, free
to delegates; 1 p.m., second session of
ccnvention, closing with prayer.
A parade will be held at 2 o’clock.
Contests will be held immediately after
the parade.
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By a Staff Correspondent of The -tar.
SILVER SPRING, Md„ May 11.—
Lease of the building and equipment of
the Maryland Publishing Co., located at
the intersection of Georgia and Sligo
avenues, to the Cornelius Printing Co.
of Indianapolis for a term of years, j
was announced yesterday.
Maj. E. Brooke Lee, former Demo
cratic organization leader of Mont
gomery County, is president of the
Maryland concern, publishers of the
Maryland News, the Columbia Heights
News and the Silver Spring News, all j
weekly newspapers. Under the new
arrangement these papers will be
printed by the Cornelius Printing Co.,
but will continue under their present
ownership and management, it was
eta ted.
A $10,000 addition to the building
is under construction and it is esti
mated the new concern will employ
more than 30 printers and office work
ers when it takes over the establish
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Children of share-croppers near Sherrill, Ark., saying grace before
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workers in parts of Arkansas where the depression has been severely felt.
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SORORITY INSTALLED
Beta Phi Alpha Group Composed
of G. W. U. Undergraduates.
The Alpha Eta Chapter of Beta Phi
Alpha Sorority, composed of under
graduates at George Washington Uni
versity, was installed last night at
ceremonies held at the Admiral. The
new chapter of Beta Phi Alpha vsls
formerly. the Zeta Chapter of Phi
Delta Sorority. Miss Lee Price GofI
was the installing officer.
Officers of the chapter are: Ena
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MAY DAY CELEBATION
DELAYED TO MAY 22
Wilson Teachers’ College Pro
gram Announced to Be Held
at Sylvan Theater.
The Wilson Teachers’ College May
day celebration, scheduled tor May
15, has been postponed to May 22.
It will be held In the Sylvan Theater,
beginning at 2:15 p.m.
Miss Anne Chambers will be queen
and will have as her maids of honor
Misses Mary Margaret Murphy, Mar
tha Schlagel, Florence Huhn, Jean
nette Smitskamp, Helen Black, Ruth
White, Ruth Bronson and Alice How
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The festival, which is sponsored by
the Wilson Women’s Athletic Asso
ciation, will be integrated by using
"Tidewater,’’ a play by Anne Alden
Morrison, a Junior at Wilson, as a
background for the dancing and sing
ing to be presented by the physical
education classes and the glee clubs.
U. S. WORKERS TO NAME
OFFICERS WEDNESDAY
New Leaders Also Will Be In
stalled by National Presi
dent at Annual Meeting.
Officers of the District Federation
of Federal Employes' Unions will be
elected, then installed by Luther C.
Steward, national president, at the
annual dinner meeting at the
y. W. C. A., Seventeenth and K j
itreets, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
A number of social allairs also are
on the week's calendar.
The annual excursion to New York
will be held Saturday and Sunday.
On Saturday night. National Park
Service Branch of Local No. 2 will
have a barbecue at Eagles’ Hall,
Twelfth and K streets.
On Tuesday night the Women's
Union of Bureau of Engraving and
Printing Lodge will give a theater
party for the sick benefit fund at the
NationaL
Auxiliary Plans Meeting.
The District of Columbia 8ection of
the Women's Auxiliary of the Ameri
can Institute of Metallurgical Engi
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Tuesday at 11:45 a.m. at the Little
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