; THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 71
The Passing Show Of 1942
> PSYCHOLOGY AMOK
| In a large Boston hospital the board of plan
ners—that is the medico-scientists—decided to
see what effect suggestion had on the sick.
They had three patients, all tough fellows
about the same age and all needing operations
for same trouble.
All were operated on the same day by the
same surgeons, and each operation very success
ful.
It was such a coincidence of person, time, dis
order, etc., that the idea of experimenting hit
the doctors.
So they worked it this way:
The patients were classified as No. 1, No. 2 and
No. 3 and the treatments to be used were:
No. 1 ldiotic
No. 2—Pessimistic
No. 3. Optimistic
Each patient was to have five visitors a day.
and the visitors were instructed:
Visitors to No. 1 were to say on entering the
room: "How you feelin'?" No other question the
visitor could ask but this, but the prescribed
schedule to be carried out strictly every day. The
■visitors came and each asked on entering: "How
you feelin'?"
Visitors to No. 2 should carry long faces, talk
little to the patient, but when as many as
two of them were present at the same time, they
were to seat themselves and talk long-windedly
to each other, their conversation being in the
narrative style, as for instance, "By the way, I
was talking with so and so, the other day and he
told me so and so," which reminded the other of
some dry data that he read in some newspaper—
he had forgotten just which newspaper it was,"
etc., etc.
This program was regularly performed every
day faithfully.
Visitors to No. 3 were coached to come in
laughing and each was to have a fresh joke to
tell, not a dried one. They never once conceded
that the patient was sick* One of them told him
one day he had overheard a doctor telling an in
tern in the hall in low tones that there wasn't a
damn thing the matter with No. 3, and that he
"would send him home but that the hospital was
needing all it could get right now.
RESULTS.
At the end of the sixth day Patient No. 1, see
ing one of his visitors coming, hastily jumped
out of a third story window and broke his neck.
When the visitors arrived on the ninth day to
see No- 2 they found his room occupied by a new
comer. On inquiry it was learned No. 2 had been
sent to an insane asylum, and wao pronounced
a hopeless case.
No. 3 left for home on the fourth day of his
incarceration, going whistling dovyn the hall,
tipping everything in sight and kissed one of
*the nurses. On the way to the station he stopped
at a corner saloon and set up the crowd of glass
drainers to Red Top beer, and when he got on
train he found that he had tipped so much
that he had even tipped himself and was very
tipsy.
Now, as you surmise, the above is a fable, but
hasn't it many of the earmarks of truth?
"This is a wonderful world."
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, May 7, 1942 ***** Published Thursdays ***** Number 3,652
SENATOR REYNOLDS AGAIN UNDER FIRE]
They've got our junior North Carolina Senator
on the spit again-
Why should North Carolina—so proud in her
political traditions, so rich in her backgrounds
of history and statesmanship—always have to
have a United States Senator on the spit?
Walter Winchell showed last Sunday that G. L.
K. Smith, one of those "stink-sheet" publishers
charged with sedition, has started a new maga
zine, and that Senators Gerald Nye and Robert
R. Reynolds had both written letters to Smith
commending him for his views as set out in the
magazine.
Smith is a pal of Father Coughlin, whose mag
azine was disbarred from the mails last week,
because of its near-treasonable editorials.
Why should our Senator hobnob with Nye,
who has always been known to be a bitter isola
tionist and is at heart against the government
in its defense efforts, and who in the event of
our losing the war would doubtless vie with
Lindbergh and Wheeler in the race to be the
American Quisling.
Lately Senator Reynolds sent out a long press
release defending his course in Congress.
This was in response to the unfavorable com
ment on his course by his constituents in North
Carolina-
Why should our Senator be always on the de
fensive?
But instead of being a valid defense, the Sena
tor's explanation was a tacit indictment of him
self.
For he admitted having voted against prac
tically every measure the President had been
working to get enacted to prepare this country
against the cyclone that the President knew and
every intelligent statesman knew was inevitable.
The Senator admitted his isolationist record
and was "proud of it"
Thus the Senator confessed his unfitness for
the high office which the people of North Car
olina had entrusted him with, because he had
been either insincere in his votes or he had been
a victim of bad judgment.
Either shortcoming renders him a liability
that the Democratic party of North Carolina
does not wish to carry longer than it has to.
We want assets, not liabilities. We do not
want one of our most high public officials to be
always in a comer, fighting not for the interests
of his constituents but to save his own skin.
L MA'S SAFETY RULES
"V Y "Mother, may Igo out to swim?"
"Yes, my darl'ng daughter,
v Hang your clothes on a hickory limb
; And don't go near the water."
r.li
A "Mother, may I en'ist to fly?"
• e %
v "You may, my son, my sugar-pie;
; Ride anything from bike to train,
\ ' But don't get in no aeroplane."
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\ SKI-ING IN BOLSHEVIKI \
; •>., 1 A Russian named Kaminski
I Over near Smolenski
- '• Spied a Nazski
:sir* Pl'ed a swatzki—
A»i that was the endski. . '
EDITORIALS
BRING YOUR WORRIES TO THE SWARRIES
When from out the south come soft asphodel
freighted winds, and the bees are singing in the
trees, and the partridge whistles from the green
wheat, and feathered jongleurs are making the
woods ring with music, it is Mayday in the moun •
tain, and you are invited.
Take a day off and forget your troubles. Roam
the beautiful zone touching Hanging Rock, and
lose yourself in the restfulness and charm of
the everlasting hills.
The trees, the rocks, the singing waters, the
smell of awakening rhododendron and ivy, the
pungent odor of fresh strange plants, these are
vitamins that mean life and health and rest for
the tired.
There's a creek that tumbles through gorges
leading from the Cascade- At a point by the
Alum Springs the bottom of the stream is
smooth flat rock for a mile, cushioned with moss
If ever weary feet felt anything so velvety and
soothing, we don't know where. Go in, the wa
ter's fine- On each bank rise great hills, and on
one side cliffs. The place is glamorous in the sub
dued light caused by the towering hills and
cliffs. Here is nature in its pristine wildness. A
large smooth boulder in the center of the stream
is an ideal place for a picnic dinner. * •
The trees are now leafy and green with life,
and you see the tall lithe and lissome poplar, the
wide spreading beech, the sweetgum, the black,
red and white oaks, the flaring dogwood, and -i
wild cucumber tree its roots laved by the water.
When we think of the gloom and terror thai:
has killed the hearts of so much of the world, we
better appreciate the quiet and peace of our
mountains- _ ...
r THROW LINDBERGH OUT. ''
We notice the workers in Ford's big Willow
Run plant are circulating petitions to old man
Henry to dismiss Lindbergh as a foreman in the
big plane factory-
Mr.Ford is a great citizen, one of the brainiest
and most successful business men in the world,
but he made a big mistake when he put Lind
bergh in that shop.
Lindbergh is a German in name, by blood and
at heart. He is a hater of the President of the
United States who is commander-in-chief of our
armed forces.
Having been feted by the great Assassin of
Europe and decorated with a swastiki, his hank
ering is with his own brood. .
Ford had better get this leopard out of his flock.
BUY BONDS OR WEAR 4 EM
From all indications the people of Stokes coun
ty will go over the top in buying Victory bonds
and pledging for more.
These securities are the safest investments in
the world today, but in the unthinkable event
that they should become worthless, that would
mean the people of this nation would wear bonds
of the kind fitted on you by the Gestapo.
The giant resources of America will defeat the
Axis powers just as sure as the sun rises tomor
row, and a big part of those resources are the
money which the people invest in Victory bonds
and stamps.
Every dollar goes to make planes, ships, guns,
tanks and other material which will win the bat
tle