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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 1955 THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina Mental Health Is Pressing Problem (Continued from Page 2) statements about mental illness are not true. (2) They think, ‘yes, a few children are in trouble, but no one from good families, only from the slums,- not people like US.’ (3) The things they do are just pranks or jokes; we did the same things when we were young (4) Even if there were such a problem, schools, scouts, church welfare, police will take care of it. When the schools get more money, they can do it. The answer is clear. There is such a problem. Americans are fooling themselves by a myth to deny it. The U. S. sub-committee on juvenile delinquency reports that in 10 years juvenile crime has risen 45 ner cent. Teen-age crime is stalking the country. Children are being convicted of murder, arson, rape, torture kicking people to death for the fun of watching suffering and for the excitement of it. There are 12-year-old prostitutes. By statis tics of the American Psychiatric Association seven per cent of the people committed to mental hos pitals 10 years ago were under 18 years of age. Now 25 per cent are under 18. practicing psychologist in Moore County show that good families, monied families, educated families suffer fro-m mental illness. Spe cifically, 10 patients come from The conditions in many homes today contribute to this feeling of insecurity: both parents work ing, no one at home, lack of su pervision, too much time spent with radio or T. V., increasing dr- families having more than $5,000: vorce, moving from town to town yearly income and 14 from fami-j the intense cut-throat competi- lies in the under $5,00() income; tion in many phases of life. All group. Thre were 10 charity cases;I this is confusing and upsetting 16 parents were college graduates; The widespread use of cars by five had some college education; adolescents is another factor in 11 graduated from high school; and two had some high school ed ucation. Ccnditions Diffeient Comparing life now and 20 or 30 years ago, conditions are en tirely different. Children now live under the almost constant stimu lation, often false, of radio, T. V. comics, cars, radically different social life, different medical ap proach to illness, and the inse curity resulting from war and world insecurity, as well as per sonal fear of future insecurity. Now all boys have to think about the draft and going into the arm ed forces, possibility of combat and death. Even plans for educa tion often revolve around that The pressure of facing these real ities naturally causes upset and insecurity. Many boys are mixed Statistics from the file of a up emotionally by these things. 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The truth is that they do not and can not. They are set up to work with healthy children, not sick ones. Tax figures from the North Caro lina budget for 1954 shew that of every $1 tax. 60 per cent goes for education, 40 per cent for health, rvnlice, fire, hospitals, roads Where can more for education come from? There isn’t any more. In 1954, in North Carolina alone, 45,000 children left school before finishing, 24,000 without finishing the eighth grade. The Catholic Digest survey on religion’s effect on ycflng people showed that 80 per cent of the children are not connected with any church activities, that the large majority of children do not go to church and that they have no fear of God and no respect nor reverence for the church. In 1953, the 3rd Army, Atlanta, Ga., rejected 250 boys of 18 years for physical reasons, 350 for men tal illness. TheTJ. S. Child Welfare League survey shows 1,000,000 mentally ill children in U. S. A. today, and only 15,000 under treatment. One out of every three children has emotional problems. In'Southern Pines area, children under treat ment include 18 neurotics, eight psychotics, seven homosexuals and five psychopathic personali ties. That does not include the many not under treatment. Why does that exist? Because parents do not know what previous symp toms were or what they meant. $160,000 Drive Of Heart Assn. Starts In State Announcing a statewide goal of $160,000, the North Carolina Heart Association, under the chairmanship of William; Muir- head of Durham, on Tuesday launched its sixth annual month long Heart Fund campaign, the public appeal through which the Heart program is made possible. The drive is a part of the na tionwide campaign of the Ameri can Heart Association, whose leading'objective is broad expan sion of its national research pro gram, Muirhead said. Chairman of the overall appeal is General Mark W. Clark, former U. S. Commander-in-Chief in the Far East and now president of The Citadel at Charleston, S. C. About 90 communities through North Carolina have formed com mittees and will conduct active local campaigns, Muirhead stated. In most of these communities Heart Fund month will reach its peak on Heart Sunday, February 20, when thousands of volunteers have agreed to visit their immedi ate neighborhoods in behalf of the Heart Fund. Anyone not reached by the volunteers or by letter may send a contribution to “Heart” care of his local post of fice, he added. Muirhead emphasized that be cause of the excellent facilities for heart research in this state North Carolina has been receiv ing from $35,000 to $50,000 of American Heart Association funds each year in research grants and fellowships. In addition tO' its own research program, the state as sociation’s werk includes lay and professional education and com munity service, he added. 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STRAIGHT bourbon whiskey and because of the underlying fear and disbelief. “Our child can’t have anything wrong.’ There is so much shame about it and there should not be. There is refusal to face facts. Something Can Be Done Yes, there are things that can be .done about it. Urge the pas sage of the proposed new bill re quiring the commitment of psv- chopathic children. The North Cardin a legislature is now con sidering such a bill. A'ceept the fact that parents, so often blamed for the mental illness of their children, are usually not to blame any more than for any other dis ease. These children can be helo- ed. A New York institution, 15 years ago, took 1.000 mentally ill children as a studv groun. At the end of one year. 500 children were recovered and 250 partially recov ered, 250 no better. We can do that if we are willine to face the fact that the problem exists, if we are willing to learn the facts, if we are willing to try to do something about it. 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