The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05

- when you think life isn't
- worth living and want ia
commit suicide? Are you
mentally slOw-so that
the boss has TO explain things many
times before you can grasp his direc-
tiOns? Are you the kind Of a fellow
who, folks say, "will never set the
world on tire?' Are you dead stuc';
on y0urself-sO much SO that you think
there is nobody else that can I'LL your
job so much so that the persons that
work with you are happier when
you're not around?
Any of these mental defects may
keep you from advancing in your work.
They may hold you down all your life
from realizing your ambition. They
may cause you to be hunting a new Job
about third Of the time. They may
cnuse your wife to leave you and your
fellow men to shun you, unless you
realize your defect and remedy it ma
terially.
Study of the Mind.
Psychology pronounced (sy-kol-oiy)
IS a word which we have seen frequent
ly in print during the last few years
IT Is a Greek term meaning the study
of the mind and its activities PSy-
chopathy pronounced sy-kO-puthy)
means disease Of the mind. A psy-
ChOpathic hospital is one where mental
disorders are treated, and all modern
"insane asyums' are psycopathic
hospitals There was time when
these institutions, maintained by
every state and most of our cities,
were merely prisons for those Of un-
sound mind who could not be kept at
home because they We're dangerous to
themselves and 10 those about them.
But with the increasing study of
medical talent the business Of the pub
lie psycHopathic hospital has become
enlarged Its staff of experts has
found they could help those who are
just a little "off in the head" in one
way or another and who do not need
hospital treatment. Many great men
have belonged to this very large
group. Alexander and Caesar of an
cient times, who dreamed Of conquer
ing the world Napoleon, and Peter the
Great of Russia. Great writer's: Ed
gar Allen Poe, Lord Byron, Oscar
Wilde, Guy de Maupassant, TeOdore
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy; some mechanical
geniuses, like Mergenthaler, who in
vented the linotype. Any man who
has magnificent talent in some spe-
clal line, be it art or science or en-
plre building, is apt to be a bug"
r Keeping Your Job.
! One hundred peculiar men and their
Jobs have been studied at the Massa-
chusetts Psychopathic hospital by DR..
Hermann Adler. These mems cases
We're chosen to illustrate what are the
troubles that continually beset work.
ers who are on the border line between
3he employabe and the unemplOyable.
The employability problem touches
closely upon that of mental health.
The shop girl whose tantrums have led
TO her discharge, the youth with an
inherited restlessness causing him now
and then TO throw over a good job
without rhyme or reason are both
likely nowadays to come within the
ken of specialists who are beginning
to know a little something about the
mlnd. They may or may not be saved
from the jail or the santarium they
at all events are furnishing material
on which a system is being built up
to teach the nearly employable indI-
vidual how to hold down a job his
employer, how better to use partly de-
fective human beings instead of throw
ing them into the discard.
The saving Of Scrappy Anna, as re-
lated the other day by the wise store
manager of a Boston establishment,
was precisely in point.
Had Violent Temper.
Anna, being of the emotionaIly un-
stable type, was famed up and down
the counters of her department for
her outbursts and outbreaks. She
feared neither floOrwalker nor Gus
toners, neither man nor God, when
she was deeply stirred to temper.