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Tests Are Proposed
On Recruits to Avoid
Shell-Shock Cases
Association Would
Put Psychiatrists at
Enlistment Stations
By the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI. May 21 —Many
potential deserters and shell-shock
victims will be eliminated from
Uncle Sam's emergency army be
fore they even don a uniform.
The American Psychiatric Associa
tion was told today by its president,
Dr. William Sandy, of Harrisburg,
Pa., of plans to examine every re
cruit as to his nerve as well as his
physical capability.
He declared a military question
naire now is being circulated among
psychiartrists, having as his ob
Jectice “preparedness for meeting
the requirement of any national
emergency.”
The association, he said, is seek
ing to have trained psychiatrists
available at every station to assist
other medicial examiners in de
termining the mental fitness of re
cruits.
Under the plan it would no longer
be possible for adventurous boys to
enlist by telling untruths, or for
psychopathic and potential nervous
cases to pass examination and later
become wards of the Government.
30,000 Cases from Last War.
There are now more than 30,000
cases of nervous disorder in vet
erans’ hospitals as a result. of the
last war. Dr. Sandy declared it is
planned to reduce that number
greatly in case the United States
becomes involved in the present
war.
Military psychiatrists attending
the annual meeting of the associa
tion said mental examinations are
particularly necessary in the selec
tion of airplane pilots. In addition
to sound health, the pilot of today's
350-m.p.h. planes must have per
fect co-ordination of brain, nerves
and muscles and the ability to act
instinctively.
Dr. Burtrum C. Schiele of the
University of Minnesota declared
that the people who say they "didn’t
sleep a wink all night” may have
been dreaming that they were
awake.
He has invented an apparatus to
record the movements of sleeping
persons. A professional man com
plained of insomnia and insisted
that he tossed about all night. The
device, consisting of a stirrup at
tached to one foot and connected
with an electric recorder, showed
that the man had more than six
hours of steady sleep every night.
Settle Down Finally.
The device shows, Dr. Schiele
said, that most people toss and turn
for as much as a half hour, then
settle down to uninterrupted slum
ber for the first half of the night
with the second half being slightly
disturbed. Mince pie and other
heavy meals as well as emotional
excitement causes more tossing
around while sleeping, he said.
Using only waste materials such
as com shucks, pencil stubs and
discarded bowling pins, hundreds of
patients in Kentucky’s three hos
pitals for mental diseases have found
a path to recovery through occupa
tional therapy at virtually no cost to
the taxpayers.
Their handicraft is being dis
played at the association meeting
here by Dr. J. G. Wilson, director
of the Kentucky Division of Hospi
tals and Mental Hygiene.
“Everybody knows the value of
occupational therapy,” he said today,
‘‘but the usual reason given for its
neglect is the lack of funds. We
didn’t have any funds, but just by
salvaging scraps and junk usually
thrown away we have been able to
help bring the people out of them
selves and start many on the road
to recovery.”
Hats Made of Corn Shucks.
From corn shucks the patients are
making women’s hats, stool and
chair seats, handbags and draperies.
Bcraps of baling wire from the hos
pital farms become baskets. Thread
unraveled from feed, burlap and
sugar sacks is crocheted. Old bowl
ing pins, supplied without cost by
Allies Held Not Yet Crushed
Even if Nazis Reach Channel
Worst Aspect Would Be Severing of
Armies' Link, Mackenzie Says
By DEWITT MACKENZIE,
Associated Press Foreicn Affairs Writer.
The German claim of having
smashed through the allied front
and reached the vicinity of the Eng
lish Channel at Abbeville means, if
it is substantiated, that the allies
are in a precarious position.
It doesn’t mean, however, that
the allies have been crushed.
It is almost folly to discuss this
wholly confused situation as it now
stands. We need much more infor
mation before we shall be able to
pass judgment, and for that reason
we should hold steady until we get
that information.
However, there can be no harm
in speculating on what the de
velopment may mean, provided it is
understood that it is speculation
without sufficient details at hand
for a considered opinion.
Position Not Clear.
The Germans say they have
crushed the French 9th Army and
captured the general stafT with the
commander, Gen. Henri Honore
Giraud.
It isn’t wholly clear just where
the 9th was holding at the moment
of the crash, but it would seem
that it had been blocking the route
in the the Valley of the Somme,
near Peronne, which is a famous
military route to the coast.
The Nozis claim to have smashed
on the captured Amiens and Abbe
ville. This would mean that they
have achieved in at least some
measure what the Kaiser's forces
attempted in the spring of 1918.
when they all but won the war in
their great attack along the Somme.
What the Germans don’t make
clear is the strength of the forces
employed in this thrust. We must
assume that a comparatively small
mechanized spearhead had been
jammed through to the coast, to be
followed by supporting troops.
Must Send Strong Support.
In order to make this break
through stick, the Nazis must pour
strong support through the gap in
the allied line, else they will have
merely tossed some mechanized con
tingent out into the blue to wander
about on their own.
If it proves that the Germans have
broken through in force, then what
does it mean?
To my mind the worst aspect of
the situation would be that the
large allied forces in Belgium would
bowling alleys near the hospitals,
are turned into stool legs, nut dishes,
hammer and chisel handles.
When you say "my stomach went
down to my boots’ ’or "my heart
came up to my mouth’’ you are cor
rect.
Dr. Flanders Dunbar of Columbia
University told the association last
night that such effects do occur, al
though not so exaggerated.
Recently a doctor watching a pa
tient’s stomach under the fluoro
scope saw- it drop sharply from
normal during the examination
when a telegram was read to him
telling of the death of his closest
friend.
. Crime Held on Decrease.«
Crime definitely is decreasing in
the United States, James V. Ben
nett, director of the Federal Bureau
of Prisons, said in an address before
the association yesterday.
The prison population of the
country has jumped from 130,000
to 175,000 durihg the last 10 years,
but those figures do not indicate
more lawlessness, he said, reporting:
“The increase in the number of
prisoners probably is d«e to the im
position of longer sentences and to
the fact that new laws have made
crimes of those acts which were not
previously regarded as criminal,”
such as the sale and use of mari
huana or hashish.
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be severed from the French armies
to the south in France.
It is useless to speculate further
on what might happen to the armies
in Belgium, surrounded as they
would be on three sides by the
enemy. The possibilities are pretty
nasty. We can at least say that it
would take masterful allied general
ship to save a disaster.
The German break-through also
presumably would ease the way to
Paris and we can expect that the
Nazi drive toward the capital, which
had lost some of its momentum, now
will be increased again.
Easy Striking Distance.
If the Germans are able to get
hold of the channel ports, espe
cially on the Northern French coast
at Calais, they will have achieved
their objective of getting back up
against England for air force opera
tions. Calais is only 20 miles from
England’s Dover, and easy striking
distance from the vast port of Lon
don, into whose miles and miles of
inflammable docks a huge slice of
the world’s shipping goes.
Now is the time to watch Musso
lini If in his mind the Fuehrer is
approaching a decisive victory, the
Italian chieftain may decide that
this is the accepted hour for Italy’s
entrance into the war.
An attack along the Italo-French
border at this crucial moment would
greatly increase the precariousness
of the allied position.
Seadragon Off for Pacific
PORTSMOUTH, N. H„ May 21
GP>.—The submarine Seadragon,
commanded by Lt. Comdr. John J.
Johns, left today for the Pacific
Coast after completing surface and
undersea trials off the Isle of Shoals.
Chapter Backs Marvin
In Promotion Dispute
A vote of confidence was extended
President Cloyd Heck Marvin of
George Washington University by
the university chapter of the Amer
ican Association of University Pro
fessors yesterday in connection with
recent difficulties between the uni
versity and Miss Martha Gibbon,
assistant professor of English.
Miss Gibbon resigned recently
after the university declined to as
sure her tenure after 1944. She
charged Dr. Marvin had told her she
did not need a Ph. D. for promotion
and placed her case in the hands of
the association.
In yesterday’s statement, the uni
versity chapter of the association
asserted:
"The George Washington Univer
sity Chapter of the American Asso
ciation of University Professors
wishes to express its appreciation
of the president’s (Dr. Marvin) con
tinued interest in developing a fac
ulty code in keeping with the prin
ciples of tenure and academic free
dom indorsed by the American As
sociation of University Professors.
In view of certain recent unfor
tunate publicity concerning tenure
and academic freedom at the George
Washington University, the chapter
wishes to go on record as stating
that, in the opinion of the chapter,
the president has abided by both
the letter and spirit of the faculty
code. Furthermore, as the .possibil
ity of a national emergency looms,
the chapter wishes to voice its con
fidence in the leadership of the ad
ministration in the difficult days
that lie ahead.”
The statement was signed by B. D.
Van Evera, president of the chap
ter, and L. Clark Keating, secretary.
Gipsy, a dog owned by a resident
of Bronkhorstpruit, South Africa, is
not worried by snakes. He has been
bitten 17 times and has not even
suffered a swelling. Students of the
University of Witwatersrand are
making a study of the case.
Renew Efforts to End
Clothing Workers' Strike
Disputing factions In the clothing
workers’ strike affecting 12 down
town men’s shops met today with
representatives of the United States
Conciliation Service in renewal of
efforts to settle-the quarrel.
More than 60 tailors and other
clothing workers, members of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America, Local No. 118, walked out
last week after the shop owners
failed to meet wage demands in a
new contract. The employers of
fered "to continue the old wage rate,
but contended wage increases would
be impossible at the present time.
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