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No Secrets
There has been a very encouraging increase in trie
number of people who own stocks in American corporations
—the businesses which are the hub of our vast industrial
machine. And one of the best factors is that the great ma
jority of these shareowners are typical Americans, with
moderate incomes.
However, many people still seem to think that there
is something of a mystery involved in buying stocks—that
it’s an activity which only should be followed by “insiders"
with highly specialized knowledge and training. That mis
conception needs clearing up.
Anyone w'ho wishes to may buy many or few shares
of any stock listed on the exchanges by the simple expedi
ent of going to a broker and placing his order. He call sell
his stock in the same fashion. There is no question about
the price—it is a matter of public record as it goes up or
down or remains stationary from day to day. Nor does any
one “fix" that price— it is determined by what the seller is
willing to pay and the buyer is willing to accept, much in
the manner of an auction.
Furthermore, the prospective investor doesn't have
tc work in the dark so far as selecting shares in this com
pany or that is concerned. Stale and national laws, and the
regulations adopted by the principal stock exchanges, see
to it that all pertinent information is readily available to
anyone.
The people who own stock are partners in the Ameri
can economy. They have faith in the future. Most impor
tant, they have a direct personal interest in preserving free
enterprise and all the other freedoms at a time when every
effort is being made to undermine them from within and
without.
The High Cost Os Socialism
According to the Oregon Voter, 14 per cent of all the
ad valorum property tax levy in that state is paid by
public service enterprises—power and light, railroad, and
telephone companies. This is entirely aside from the in
come taxes, corporation fees, franchise taxes, license fees,
and all the rest of the levies they pay.
The situation is comparable in other states— in all
parts of the country the public service companies are
among the largest taxpayers, and are often the very larg
est. And what gives this special interest is the fact that
the campaign to socialize the electric industry, and take
its properties off the public tax rolls, is being pushed with
unabated vigor by political groups.
The argument, of course, is that socialized power is
cheaper power. That argument is strictly in the three
dollar bill class. Survey after survey has shown that any
rate advantage of publicly-owned as against privately
owned utilities is made possible only by tax exemption
and tax subsidies. On the average, the business-managed
power companies pay out about 23 per cent of all their re
venues in taxes. The socialized operations either pay no
taxes at all, or comparatively small sums as token grants
to states and municipalities." Every time a tax-paying en
terprise is socialized, the tax burden of all other taxpay
ers must go uo. Socialism means political control over our
lives and affairs—a,nd we pay a big price in money to
boot!
Frederick OTHMAN
WASHINGTON. I can't under,
stand why the Federal Trade Com
mission didn't invite me and my
dog, Emma, to its conferences on
chlorophyl as a product to make
this best smelling of all possible
worlds.
We are experts on this subject.
Particularly Emma. She docs not
like the stuff. Me, I can take it.
or leave it.
Tiie government claims that
some makers of chlorophyl have
been too danced enthusiastic about
tire ability of their product to make
: everybody, Emma included, smell
sweet. Some rival manufacturers of
npn* green mouthwash simultan
| eouslv have been advertising that
Chlorophyl is a fake. They point
out that grass contains more chlo
rophyl than anything else. Goats
eat grass. They still smell like
goats.
E This, according to the trade com
; missioners. is confusing to us cus
tomers. So the manufacturers of
chlorophyl pills, pastes, ointments
and inner soles for shoes, to name
only a few, are about to be ordered
here to do some explaining and
demonstrating for the record.
Emma and I, even if asked at
this late date, will be delighted to
appear as friends of the court.
Emma is a large poodle with a
| coat the color of coffee and cream
? and plaintive brown eyes. When
she's had a bath and the humidity
remains high, she does not smell
t at all. Except, of course, when she's
f been chasing skunks.
Even without skunks, however,
* Emma oh wet days does not ex
actly resemble a rose. I tried to
| feed her some of the original green
f chlorophyl pUls, but she spurned
s them. I dissolved them in milk.
' which turned green and a little
L-peppermliitv and she’d have none
of that, either.
p: Cilrit then tire of
dog owners, stirring chlorophyl in
to dog food, both dry and canned.
This Emma cannot escape. She eats
chlorophyl or she doesn’t eat,
I give her a little meat, of course,
along with the medicated pup
chowder and I regret to report that
she smells like she always smelled.
She relied in the snow yesterday
and when this melted in her fur.
the word for her, I believe, w'as
high.
My. own experience with chlo
rophyl has been more disastrous
Some of the first chlorophyl tooth
paste I bought somehow got splash
ed on the bathroom wall. It also
got on my bride’s best towels. It
still is on the wall; it remains to
be seen faintly after many wash
ings on the towels.
When I mentioned this in a:i
item, here a few months back, the
maker of another brand of green
toothpaste sent me six tubes of
his product, together with a letter
saying I was ruining him. He ad
ded that his chlorophyl was guar
anteed washable. I have no doubt
that it is. but I cannot swear to
it.
Mrs. O. W'as So bitter about her
towels turning green that I have
used the full half-dozen packages
with such care not one smear
of green has dribbled where it
shouldn't. This. I know, is a min
or matter to the trade commission.
What it wants to learn is ex
actly how I smell afer all this
scientific testing. This is hard to
say, gentlemen. A lady cannot
notice her own perfume 10 minutes
after she puts it on. I suggest you
check this with your own wives.
Obviously I do not know for sure
what chlorophyl has done for me.
but I have one hint: Emma still
is able to recognize me in the dark.
She does this with her nose, com
missioners. I’m still willing to be
persuaded on the uienU of cljlu-
These Days
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DEFINITIONS
It is so easy to pick an argument
about definitions. Yet when one
says tire word, child, he does not
mean a man of 50 with a beard.
However, in the fields of politics
or economics the tendency is to
foul through by fighting over pri
vate definitions, each thinker com
ing up with his own.
rn the hope that there may be >
nay of stating ideas with some
clarity. I offer a few' definitions
which seem to be standard:
Capitalism: “. . . capitalism is
an economic order based on the
profit motive: therefore its leading
characteristics are the private own
ership of the means of production,
their operation for pecuniary gain,
their control by private enterpris
ers, and the use of credit and the
wage system. . . ’’ ("The Triumph
of American Capitalism," by Louis
M. Hacker.)
Fundamentally, this system re
quires human freedom because in
herent in it is the right of the in
dividual to use his earnings accord
ing to his choice and conscience.
Socialism: w'hile the basic concept
of Socialism is government owner
ship of the means of production,
distribution and exchange, the
varieties are many, ranging from
the mild reformist measures of the
left-wing New Dealers to the pre
sent state of society in Soviet Rus
sia. In effect. Socialists differ as to
whether their aims are to be achiev
ed by "democratic” means or by re
volution. depending upon their the
ory of the speed of change.
Although numerous Utopian So
cialist concepts exiseted prior t o
Karl Marx, he and Frederick Engels
founded what has come to be
knpwn as “scientific" Socialism, the
basis of which is the giologic as
sumption of the struggle for exis
tence which Marx accepted from
the writing of Charles Darwin and
Thomas Huxley. Applying these
ideas to politics, economics and so
ciology. they evolved the Class
Struggle:
“The history of all hitherto ex
isting society is the history of class
struggles.
“Freeman and slave, patrician
and plebian. lord and serf, guild
master and journeyman, in a word,
oppressor and oppressed, stood in
constant opposition to one another,
tarried on an uninterrupted, now’
hidden, now open fight, a fight that
each time ended, either in a revolu
tionary reconstitution of society at
large, or in the common ruin of the
contending classes.” “Communist
Manifesto.")
There have always been devia
tions from this position among So
cialists. For instance:
Fabian Socialism: this is strictly
a British form of Socialism repre
sented by the labour Party. The
word Fabian represents “go slow.”
It is go-slow Socialism by strictly
constitutional means. Even when
the Labour Party was in power, ti
limited its socialization program
tin Great Britain, called a nation
alization program! to 20 percent of
the nation’s economy. The founders
of Fabian Socialism were Beatrice
and Sidney Webb. George Bernard
Shaw. 11. G. Wells and other intel
lectuals.
Marxism: the economic doctrine
of Karl Marx is based on the
"Theory of Surplus Value,” which,
in effect, means that the increased
value arises only from the labor
time added in its p:oduction. Har
old Laski describes this extremely
complicated theory as follows:
“. . . It is therefore evident that in
the production of any given com
modity all who do ngt 'contribute
labour-power thereto do not pro
duce values. All. therefore, w'ho re
ceive past of the product without
this contribution are parasites rob
bing labour. Marx accordingly de
nies that profit results from the
capitalist who lends money or the
trader who conducts the process of
exchange. , . ”
All this, theorizing would have
meant nothing had not a faction of
the Russian Social Democratic Par
ty. the Bolsheviks, succeeded by
violence in capturing Russia in
1917.
Communism: generally the cur
rent Russian system is called
Communism, which is an error.
Russian Marxism is now in what
they term a Socialist stage; to be
followed by Communism; which
will produce a state of society i n
which government withers away.
The Russians faced the problem oi
making their ideas w’ork in an an
tagonistic world. This was accom
lished by neither Lenin nor Trct
zky nor anv of the early Bolsheviks,
but by a comparatively obscure ad
venturer. J. V. Stalin.
In April 1924, he delivered a ser
ies of lecturers at Sverdlov Univer
sity under the general title of
“Foundations of Leninism,” which
has become the accepted doctrine
of Soviet Russia Soviet China and
the satellite states. It is the doctrine
of every Communist country in the
world. It is a practical and flexible
concept of “. . . Marxism in the
epoch of imperialism and of the
proletarian revolution. . . .”
rophyc but at this writing I’m
inclined to go along with Emma.
Leave the grass to the goats. We’ll
take our chances, when the we
ather’s wet, on being chased out
of the house.
THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C.
MISTER BREGER
hi
•*I know Christmas is over long ago, hut or"
simply WON’T let us throw out anyth mg >
tiful . . . !"
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STSkMERW-fiO-ROUND
WASHINGTON. One of the
most sensational aspects of the Mc-
Carthy investigation was not known
even to the Senate Eelections Com
mittee members themselves. It was
the sudden flight from the U. S. of
a key witness and friend' of Mc-
Carthy's wealthy divorcee Ar
villa Bentley.
Mrs Bentley, formerly married
to the new GOP congressman from
Michigan, Alvin Bentley, skipped
out of the country under the as
sumed name of Mary Peterson.
Reason for her hurried exit was
because she had officially given
$7,000 to McCarthy, which is more
than the legal limit; in addition
to which she told friends that she
and her ex-husband had actually
given around $75,000.
Naturally, she didn't want to be
cross-examined by the Senate
Elections Committee.
Mrs. Bentley is a society lady,
living next door to Averill Harri
man on swank Foxhall Road in
Washington. For a time her hus
band was in. the State Department.
For a time also, both he and Mrs.
Bentley were great friends of Mc-
Carthy’s. Now divorced, she is still
a friend.
When the Senate Elections Com
mittee got hold of some of Mrs.
Bentley's canceled checks, they
telephoned her, asked to see her.
But .she flew the coop before a
subpoena could be served. Board
ing an Eastern Airlines plane at
1 a. m. Nov. 28. she arrived in
Miami, transferred to Pan Am
erican Airlines, and arrived in
Nassau that afternoon.
Meanwhile. her Washington
lawyer, Joseph Rafferty, claimed
he didn't know where she was,
though actually she was in touch
with him and asked him to get
certain records of canceled checks
from the Riggs National Bank.
Mrs. Bentley was escorted to the
Bahamas by a professional ex-
Communist, Harvey Matusow, who
then returned to New York, but
flew' back to the Bahamas after
the storm had blown over in order
to pick her up and esqjrt her back
to Washington.
It was SIO,OOO of Mr. and Mrs.
Bentley's money given to McCarthy
that the Senate Elections Commit
tee found was carefully withdrawn
by Jean Kerr, his secretary, then
deposited through circuitous chan
nels in Wisconsin where it was
used to speculate on soy beans.
Congressman Bentley, when in
terviewed by the Senate Elections
Committee, emphatically stated that
he had not given the money to
McCarthy to be used by him per
sonally.
SAM RAYBURN FIGHTS
Sam Rayburn, the redoubtable
Texan who celebrated his 71st
CUTIES
'I '* j I
| *I I I
I haven’t.done ANYTHING to him yet. I just wan*
to know my changes of acquittal.”
birthday this week, was heart -
broken when the Democrats lost
last November. For a time he .was
determined to resign from Congress
altogether and retire to Bonham,
Texas, where he is building a ho
rary to house his books, the records
of some twenty Congresses, and the
ggvels he has wielded when Church
hill. the Queen of England. Mae-
Arthur, Eisenhower et al. Address
ed Congress.
But l’ s old friend and brother
in-law, Judge Marvin Jones of
Amarillo, finally cheered Sam up,
persuaded him not to resign. And
the other day, when Sam stepped
down as speaker and took the hum
ble position of minority leader, he
delivered a fighting pep talk to the
closed-door session of house Dem
ocrats.
■The recent election was not a
victory for the Republican party,”
declared the ex-speaker. "All It
demonstrated was that a nationally
advertised product, whose place in
the sun was made possible largely
by two Democratic presidents, is
the national hero he’s cracked up
to be.
“It was a personal victory for
Eisenhower rather than the Rep
ublican party.
"Aside from Ike's ‘great personal
popularity with the people,’ ” Ray
burn continues. “I don’t think 40
years in the military service auto
matically qualifies a man for the
most important civil job in the
land, any more than my 40 years
in legislative work qualifies me to
be a military leader.
“But I hope tne general will
learn fast, that he will take advice
and that he will get good adivee."
SUPPORT FOR IKE
Republicans will have a tough
time finding a better program to
replace the Democratic reforms for
the welfare of farm and city peo
ple, continued Rayburn.
"They are going to learn the dif
ference between construction and
obstruction,” he added, “Any jack
ass can kick a barn down, but it
took a carpenter to build it.”
Rayburn emphasized, however,
that “the Republicans are entitled
to their chance at the helm of
government and I hope for the
welfare of the country that they
. do a good job
“As for Democrats, now that we
are the minority party we should
show the country that we are big
enough to support the Republicans
when they offer anything that is
good for the national welfare. As
minority leader I intend to follow
that policy and will not oppose
the majority party just for the
sake of opposing.
"But if they threaten to abolish
the good things we Democrats
have done for the people, things
Walter
WlneheD
York
MAN ABOUT TOWN
The Duke & Duchess and friend
Jimmy Donahue broke away from
a party and slipped into St. Pat
rick's for midnight Mass. The House
of Lords would have debated it
were Windsor on the Throne. Be
cause the British Ruler automa
tically is head of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of England ...
The obstacle retarding the out
of-court settlement in the Billy
Rose case is that Eleanor and her
barrister insist on a Large Lump
of .cash in addition to yellimony
.... Patricia Neal of “Children’s
Hour" is the adored of Roual Dahl,
of The New Yorker. He has fathered
several good books. As Gen. Mon
tgomery’s ace fighter pilot Dahl
created the famed war-word:
Gremlins . The Stass Reed -
Martha iCuneo merger news should
break any edition from Mex. City.
They flew there sot-to-voce ....
One of the most controversial
figures of the American Civil Lib
erties Union’s nat’l board (an au
thor) may resign this or next week
.. What a beautiful city ours is
without the stink of the Buses.
Eisenhower was tipped that one
of his distant kin had opened of
fices in Washington as a bargain
merchant in tiie percentage racket
. .. No 5 percenter he .... You
simply agreed to pay One Per Cent
for whatever his "influence” could
influ White House attaches
close to Truman spread it around
the Capitol .... A colyumist' learn
. ed of their tch-tchir>-7 and relayed
it to Ike ... Punchline: Oh, the
Poor Feller!
Gov. Adlai Stevenson and his
former wife dine together more
than ever. His first political speech
(since running 2nd) will be at the
Demos’ SIBO per plate feed here
next month . . Dorothy Thomp
son writes that she never wrote a
plea to save the Rosenbergs. That
the pamphleteers quoted her out
of context, etc . . Arthur Vanden
berg, Jr. may be the first casualty
(medically) of the new administra
tion. Ike is making him take a
rest. Worked hard all thru the fight.
The medicos don't quite know
what it is .... Jim Norris (the
Int'l Boxing Clubman) doesn’t
know exactly what his late father
left him. Insiders say “at least
200 Million!” . . Capt Dick Mer
rill, the ace of the Eastern Air
lines sky-riders, brought us back
from Tropical Park, in 3 hours and
15 minutes. Through a blinding
snow, sleet and lightning storm
(for 2 hours) over the sea without
a bump. When he gives the huge
88-Constellation the gun, he shouts:
“Let’s take the show on the road!”
The Washington Line: The USSR
will give aid & comfort to the U.
S. Commies in their campaign to
scuttle the McCarran-Walter Im
migration Law by not accepting
Reds deported to Russia and sat
ellite nations .... The buzz is that
Nehru is destined to be the next
Stalin prisoner ... Atty-Gen.
Brownell may be Ike’s veep in ’56
.... Many solons are discussing the
lobbying for the 25 percent in
come tax ceiling .... Hasn’t Ike
informed financial advisors that
he wants a 60c dollar before the.
end of ’53? .. When Acheson
departs he and Mrs. A will vaca
tion with Archibald MacLeish (an
other Joe McCarthy target) in.the
Carribean. Mebbe Puerto Rico
There are compensations for every
thing. Now that Daddy is leaving
the White House they will have to
get Margaret better teevy script
writers.
During the Atomic Spy Ring
expose (in Canada) the Prime
Minister personally handed Pres.
Truman a list of 286 Americans.
He said the Canadian probes prov
ed they were invoiced .. Nothing
has ever been done about these
286 alleged Americans ... Does the
White House still have the list in
its files and will they be turned
over to the new Administration?
.. . Clip this and send it to Ike
(at the Commodore Hotel here) to
make sure his staff shows it to
him.
that are basic to our economy and
prosperity, then it’s time for us
to become a fighting minority.”
BOASTFUL BOLIVIAN
Eric Rios Bridoux, the Bolivian
pilot who crashed into an Eastern
Airlimes plane, killing 55 persons
near the Washington airport three
years ago, almost made the head
lines again last week.
Two air force officers nearly
swung on the brash young Bolivian
as he boasted about the tragic
accident at the Young Men’s Store
on F street in Washington. Bri
doux, who was charged with res
ponsibility by the Civil Aeronau
tics Board, apparently became irked
at a shoe clerk for not recogniz
ing him.
“Why, I though everybody knew
me,” the, pilot arrogantly told the
clerk. “I’m famous. I was involved
in the biggest air aeledent Wash
ington ever had. It was my plane
that collided with that airliner
several years ago, killing 55 peo
ple.”
When the clerk remarked that
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 8, 1952
The Worry Clinic |
By DK. GBO3GB W. CHANT
Terry is a victim of the Ponce
de Leon Complex. Wives, if you
wish to vaccinate your happy mar
riage against the disaster which
has struck Terry’s home, then study
this Case Record carefully. Don't
delude yourself by thinking your
home is the exception or that your
husband is too good to' do such a
thing.
Case F-334: Terry J., aged 42, is
an Army Officer now in California.
“Dr. Crane, we are in a terrible
muddle with our marriage and
don’t know where else to turn,” his
wife spoke pathetically.
“I always got so much help out
•of your column in our Washington
TIMES HERALD when we lived
in the capital. But now I need per
sonal advice.
“My husband had been a college
teacher. When he entered the army,
he was run down physically, I think.
After being in camp a few weeks he
finally sent for me.
"He was almost a nervous wreck.
He shook and had fainting speels,
and wasn’t able to eat much. He
had lost a lot of weight.
“Then I found that he had fallen
in love with a WAC. He kept call
ing her by phone and sending her
presents.
“He had me come to visit him
just to make sure whether he loved
me or preferred the other woman.
WIFE ON TRIAL
"My husband and I had known
each other since grammar school.
We married in college. He had
never looked at another girl in all
those years.
“I had been afraid that some day
he might become frightened at the
throught of growing old, but I still
secietely hoped it would never
happen.
“Os course, it nearly killed me,
in spite of the fact I had read
your discussion of the ‘Ponce de
Leon Complex’ in men who pass
40.
"We have two lovely children in
high school, and I didn’t want to
let them know the awful truth.
"So I tried to solve my problem
alone. I didn’t wish to confide in
anybody at home, for my pride
wouldn’t permit that. So I have
now come to you.
WIF’E’S FIRST REACTION
“My first reaction when he told
IraHp 'TflluV^, , (or«£* or
perTo" ol
Unmitigated Pressures and Em
otional Malnutrition Arc Claimed
As Prevalent Causes of Mental
Illness
DEAR MARY HAWORTH: Your
understanding attitude towards
mental illness has held my respect
for some time. Now I wish to com
ment on “P. D.’s” recent dispar
agement of psychiatry and her
thought that mental disorders may
1 be communicated by a virus.
About two years ago a national
magazine published an article on
! Dr. Karal Menninger and his work.
This great psychiatrist gave his
concept of psycho-therapy, and
there was nothing abstract or pro
pagandist about it. Simply it is
the Golden Rule the expression
1 of unfailing kindness in ways that
all human beings need, and of
which some are acutely deprived.
I, having had the best’ psychiatric
| care- that money can buy, wish to
explain that it is (pure and simple i
understanding, kindness and un
failing security of friendly care.
: The psychiatrist is trained to take
up where society failed. I paid to
■ receive what my parents never
• gave me emotional security in
• a good relationship. A recent article
’ in the Saturday Evening Post docu
: ments the relationship between
: childhood insecurity and emotional
> illness.
I SOCIAL STRESSES
CRUSH INDIVIDUALS
- Unmitigated pressures and emo
-1 tinal malnutrition cause mental
> illness, and sometimes psychiatry,
l FISHERMEN OUT OF LUCK
i ORTONVILLE. Mich, (ifi _ Fish
ermen in the Ortonville state rec
reation area reported unusually
i high catches of large and small
i mouth bass but all had to be
j thrown back because the season
. hadn't opened. i
LAND OF APRICOTS
, BERKELEY, Calif. IIP) Cali
, fornia apricots accounted for 85
. per cent of all those grown in the
. United States and from 35 to 40
. per cent of the world’s supply, ac
. cording to the University of Cali
. fornia college of agriculture.
I
the tragedy was hardly a matter
r to brag or joke about, Bridoux
: laughingly replied:
l “Oh, accidents will happen.”
The two air force officers who
« overhead Bridoux sounding off were
r as shocked and angry as employees
• in the store, but decided not to
spoil their Christmas leave by
t socking the crude pilot.
me what he had gone through with
the other girl, and that he didn’t
understand himself at all, and \
didn’t know what he wanted, was
to tell him to go jump in the lake.
"Then I wanted to take myself
home to brood on the wickedness
and unfaithfulness of mankind for
the rest of my life.
"In fact, I told him he was wel
come to his WAC and that I would
n’t have him as a gift, etc. - prob
ably what other wives have said
since time immemorial.
"That seemed to jar him and he
wept, and begged me to stay, say
ing he could never do without me,
and that he was so lonely that
that was why the affair had start
ed in the first place.
“So I forgave him and we tried
to begin life all over again, at
least for the sake of the children,
since I knew he wasn’t really him
self.
“Now he is even beginning to
worry about his mind. He says iie
forgets things right in the middle
of a sentence. He has threatened “
to commit sqicide. But still he
talks about the other girl. Dr.
Crane, can you help us?”
SEX PANIC
Terry’s case is a classical a
psychological syndrome as is acute
appendicitis in the realm of or
ganic medicine.
You wiyes ought to memorize
this woman’s recital of the symp
toms. My mail contains literally
thousands of almost exact dup- |
licates of it. Terry’s trouble is as
universal as measles.
He is simply a menopausal hus
-1 band, scared of old age, so he has
become a victim of the “Ponce de
Leon” complex. Tomorrow I’ll ex
plain this problem more fully.
Paste this column in yonr scrap
book.
And you wives better perk up in
your erotic aggressiveness when
your mates pass 35.
You must cultivate more seduct- 1
iveness and not become too ma
ternal.
(Always write to Dr. Crane in care
of this newspaper, enclosing a long
3c stamped, addressed envelope and
a dime to cover typing and print
ing costs when you send for one of
liis psychological charts.)
for all its good, is an added an
xiety. But what psychiatry has to
offer as a reputable science is al
ways needed. The science of posi
tive human relations is fundamen
tal whether practiced by a pro
fessional psychiatrist or a wise
and loving mother.
Let’s be practical and realistic.
In the main, mental disorders are
emotionally precipitated and the
primary causes are all around us in
cultural, social and economic fac
tors. Until we have recognized and
abated these pressures that figure
in "man’s inhumanity to man,”
we don’t need to go looking for a
possible virus. The local or state
Mental Health Society is always
responsive in providing educational
opportunities to persons interested
in gaining better understanding of
mental hygiene.
As a professional person, who
kept on with my work while being
treated, I am speaking in behalf
of those in mental hospitals who
cannot at this time speak for
themselves and many may never
be able to. I feel that “P. D.” is
heedless of the great social stresses
that crush individuals, and unfor
tunately this thoughtless lack of
understanding is a prevalent “virus”
in the layman mind. Too often “we
know not what we do.” Thank you
again for your insight. Sincerely
A. R.
HAND HOLDING
ISN’T ENOUGH
Detr A. R.: We might say that
unfailing kindness and sympa
thetic mterest provide a favorable
climate for dynamic psychotherapy
but there is more to this branch of
physicianship no coin a phrase)
than figurative hand holding.
Emotional reassurance is good
medicine in treating anxiety states,
but it is sedative rather than cura
tive —a kind of bridge to the heal
ing process.
When a good reciprocal relation
ship is established between doctor
and client, the next step usually
i marked by defensive struggle on
the patient’s part consists in
diagnosing and underlining the
neurotic components of his dis
tress. By bringing these to light
and exposing them to a shared
understanding, from the adult
view, they are relieved of their
harmful content as a rule. That is
if, the patient has the innate cap-’
acity and courageous disposition
to learn and grow, and thus get the
tetter of background han '‘caps.
Mary Haworth counsels through
her column, not by mail or personal
interview. Write her In care of
(The Daily Record).