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SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1918-08-07


'vicne, 41lenne oci jeji upjatyl
byly Ike Etropu 80 a akol rth. PEE
yne zatlatych, suchych, zamo-,
dralychI zTel jsem diynou, bo-
lestnou krasku - A zdAlo Sc
mi, ze rty Sc otevrou a z Mich 0
I'VE Sc Tcitka, proc nicim nyni
kid jejf, kdyz snad jej po ce-t
|ly zivot nenalezla. Zasmal
Jsem SEW duchu svym myslen-
kan, pfikrys jsem mrtvole tvar
rouskoU a pracoval dale.
Co chvili schazeli Sc kolego
| We a ga nedlouho byla jich pl
ma pitevna ~ Studoval jsem
q Y studiu SVEN zapomnel jsem
ma svf myslenky. Sumot kol
lnne, hlahol hovoricich soudru
| hi, srlich jejich mne nerusil.
! Az mne najednou pferusil
jedenl 2 Mich: "Prosim te, ty jsi
do toho fezani zakousnut, jako
cervik do almary - mech toho
ma chvili a prldej ma pivo -"
Fosilali 81 prave sluhu pro tro-
chu piva.
Vstal jsem a yynal z kapsy
desetnik. A pax, kdyz sluha
prinesl pivo, sedli jsme 81 ma
chvili k oknu, zapalil jsme Ger
stye doutniky a hovorili 0 leda
Gem.
Kdyz bylo pivo dopito, vstai
isem vratil jsem Sc k mrtvole,
abych pokracoval We sve praci.
Chtel jsem prav6 studovati par
til nervd v ruce; zdvihl jsem te
dy tuhou, volne Sc stolu visici
pravici mrtve zeny a polozil il
ma stul. Ale tu spozoroval jsem,
ze stredni prst u ruky te scha-
ri - Bylo videti, ze byl z kipu
BIZ zaprstniho nasilne vyriznut
- ba vytrzer. Rozzlobil jsem
Sc ma kolegy a vyhuboval jsem
Jim, Ale zadny nechtel Sc Ike
skUtku priznati vsichni jaksi
rctrtcln6 Sc usmivali.
ITO mate divine zerty - hor
| III 'jsem = takhle kazit mate
rial. Je videt, ze pro mic nemate
snys,u. Takhle chodit po pitev
ne, kourit pit pivo = vid'te." "
| "Nu, chces-li nG ne dat" O.
zyal Sc SD srnichem zarostly,
starsi jiz folega, ktery. sam Q
sQbe rikayal, re je "chronic
lzym medikem."
Bez odpovedi jsem Sc odvra-
lii q zahloubal jsem Sc do sye
prt.ce. Ale kazdou chvili zablou
dill zrak m1j k nehybne ruce
mrtvoly, k prstum, nichz pro
stredni schazel. Byla to ruka
|
eiia jako ubel = krasne mode
lovana, zluta temer = jakoby
byla 2 vosku. A misto prostred
nlho prstu bylo videti zakrva-
cery dalek, kol nehoz wisely
roztrhane cary masa a roztre-
pena kuze, zaschlou krvi potri-
snena. Zlobil jsem Sc do opray
dy ma sve druhy, kterl z pouh6
zviile prst mrtvole urizli kdo
vi kan hodili. Ami te povinne
ucty k neboztikum nemaji =
pomyslel jsem 81
Necer ubiral jsem Sc z usta.
WI domu. Bylo krasne teplo =
iau jak cervnu byva. Vzduch
na Karlove nam6sti prosycer
byl vGni akatG. Svrchnik maje
pres rameno prehozeny, chodil
jsem v sadech. Ale bylo mi jak
81 divine. Ia prihoda prstem
nechtela mi z hlavy. Chvilemi
small jsem Sc sve posetilosti =
chvilemi opet ziobil jsem sc
sam ma sebe - ze NIUE mne
obycejny, vyriznuty prst z par.
tvoly vyrusiti z dusevni rovno
vahy. Moci zahanel jsem my.
slenky, tlacici Sc mi k celu =
ale marne - kazdy okamzik
jevila Sc mi pred dusevnim zra
ken bila, nehybna, jake ala
tbastru tesana ruka - zakrva.
cena, ma niz misto prostrednihe
!. Irstu eel zakrvaceny dnlek. &c
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1918-08-07

Pateronasobna dan etabak pvo pfi 1O7 stupnch
lvedra, Jest prece jen trochu mnoho.
1th.t k@l,R
Hlavnim lceem nemeckeho vojska jest unavovaf nepf
teIea take skutecne unavu poenc ale hovenm Hum
Rakousko odvadfdo sv6 armady muzey dobytem Srbsku
Coz nema ma zksenosech Cechy nym sovanskym
'narody?
% Ma EtS hotech byti uvalena zyastn valecna dan
lest oazka zda hoeliera odrenemq hostu neco
zbude.
=
N6mc kradou ma stupu reku Aisnu kosteln ma
cn zvony patrne chysta{ umracek poheb sve ranovac
nosti
Staatszeitung New Yorku uplne amerkanlsoval =
zcela sprvne n6mcckm pryc Cd asra az dold po
Sauerkraut $@
4h
NemeckA cafovna tezce nese ucast Ameflky We val
ce tedy Yankeeaci hezky pomau zdvorile, aby Sc
panicka nezlobia.
Matcc Germani must v6sti po certech spatne, kdyz
pres cely Atlantcky okean vysila breham amerckym
norky. ably zde potapely rybafske lodice.
Stabni sef nemeck6 admiralty Hozendorf podkoval
nasedkem choroby sveho fadu dplomacka eho nemoc
Sc vastne jmenuje byte dspechu ponorkoveho vaceni
Kasr pred by front6 ably spatfi jak je
no hordy pozenou Parz mel zdrzet nejaky tyden
moh scastn marathonskeho behu zavod svych armad
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1918-08-07

Uoktor dokoncil. 4,
Pfemyssleli jsme trochu Q tee
to pffhode, ale pax jsme ma nj
zapomneA mas hovr pocal se
romalu obraceti X iin6mu the
Tnatu. q.
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Reassuring information TO Its Nature and Treat
ment, from Dr. |. I'll. Coriat, a Lead
ing Psycho-Analyst

fixed idea. That fixed idea is nearly always
al "aib' OF some sort. On "a transport
recently returned to New York WAS an Of.
fcer, otherwise rational, who could rot pre-
vent himself from returning at regular IN
tervas in his talk to the remark that he
was coming back to America to recruit
few members Of the Black Hand society.
with whom he WAS certain TO lick the
Kaiser. The explanation Of this is that ar
some critical moment he Cell down" He
failed to measure UP not 80 much TO his
superior's expectations as that he failed to
meet the standards Of bis own dignity. He
WAS excusing himself to himself. in his
mental shame he hoped, with the aid Of q
body of men whom he had always regarded
az especially. terrible, TO go back and re-
deem himself. But the point is, he might
never have "fallen down" in the first place
if he had been privileged TO so into battle
untranmelled by the worries and strains
loaded upon him BY the regular duties Of
peace. In the meantime, he was apologzing
to himself, he was soothing q terribly in
jured inward pride, with The prospect Of
winning the war singlehanded, once he had
with him the proper means.
One Of the small but significant pieces
Of news that reached US after the ceasine
Of hostilities was the report that out Of
5000 cases OF shell shock at one point 1000
recovered instantly on receiving the news
of peace. This is easily belie7able. The
moment the extra and uncomfortable strain
of var was removed, the moment it became
possible for the sufferer to live with moth
ing but the old strain to endure, he re-
turned to his former self. He was like q
man with 3 remorseless CREDITOR but whose
creditor has died.
a good many cases Of shell shock will
doubtless be subject to this automatic
cure. Once the added strain is lifted they
will rebound to normal mental health.
What of the cases not, go easily healed?
The truth is that peace itself has always
been terribly hard on the misft or un-
lucky individual. Until lately mental
breakdowns were roughly classed as insan-
ity eases and referred to aeylums for their
maintenance till death. Now we arc better
equipped to handle and cure thousands OF
these victims. But life goes on creating
thousands more for the psychcpathologist'S
care. During the course OF the war itself
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been reached over mentsl Ills long before
the war brought tie new phenomenon OF
shock by shell. Shell SHOCK, which is moth
ing new after all, and certainly nothing
worse than many Of the shocks Of peace
time life, Will come under the same powers
Of cure.
The belief in this cure IL supported by
no ono more confidently than by DR.. I. II.
Cotiat, one Of tho foremost practitioners
Of psychotherapy. ut is we'll known"
says he, "that under the anxiety OF active
work, under the strain Of eager ambitions,
or 81 a result OF WEAKNESS, worry, death
or emotional shocks, any man may give
sign Of acute nervous disturbances. War
naturally heightens these strains. In or
binary civilian yursuits, wheYe these emo
tonal strains are not acute the ind-
yidual may pass through an entire life
without . trace OF & so-called nervous
breakdown. 1t often happens that men and
women, even those who are not robustly
constituted nervously, will 60 for years
without an actual collapse, while all the
time bearing TIE strain Of n.isit with
their surroundings. The artist By brit,
has often to toll out his life as q laborer.
rev persons arc prltile TO work at
what nature has meant them to do. Most
persons in such circumstances will work
Oh for years without more than nervous
excitement That is easily endured But
place such persons under the extra strains
OF great fatigue or anxiety, such as often
Occur in military pursuits, and q pro-
nounced increase will occur in their nervous
disturbance. Usually the breakdowns thai
occur in war have been induced by pre-
vious strains Of this sort IN the labors Of
peace. BY taa picturesque term OF Shell
shock we mean simply the var neurosis So
distinguished from the neurosis Of peace.
"Is is true that the severe concussions
from high explosive shells may cause an
actual physical injury TO the complicated
and delicate tissues Of the brain and spinal
cord, but here we arc trenching on an act
ual organic disease ard not truly nervous
or mental disturbance. hare seen condi-
lions in civil life exactly resembling the
cases CT sufferers from this war neuroais.
Accidents or emotional shocks, like the sud-
den death Of al intimate relative or friend,
may produce them. The war shocks present
the same symptoms, and they differ only
because, in being produced by tie cond-
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y THE early days OF the war, long be-
foro this country rot into i ,,o hoc.,
s'''"eN '''''1'' "''0"" CD
sncH shock. For all our intimate
concern in the conflict then, warfare at
tected US chiefly as q great spectacle 1t
was full of novelties It way. it paid
tribute to modern progress, because it
reached out and made use of every facility
OF human invention. Il battered the age by
converting to the uses of war every new
wrinkle OF the day Everything we could
think OF was lavished on the battlefield
Courage was not the only human quality
tested there. Az We had came to be tested
there. Yet. naturally. tine chief concern
NC had was the ability os the human animal
TO endure and surnount these unhcard-o+
trials How. we all wondered. was San,
Smith and Tin, O'Eyan going 10 su,yiy-c +h;s
hat.cr;ng o. great guns. o. huge shells.
poisonous gases. and all the new arrows
that we're stutflre- the culver OF the nresent-
day u.arr;ore Shell shock was owe nf .ho
answers.
Ti,, name was q ,,oveltv Int .ta diso.so
Wa easily imacjaed. The vendor o.ss +bat
whole armies we're NO. raducoi =, :. A.,
IRIS. We only heard of :. Later r-s car,e ~
nave i described 10 rs Iater st;n ,,i,o,,
our own men came under tbc +o,rihro .os+
os heavy ire. We began TO see cases 90 \
here at hogao. Sufferers from, i in rs
m;lder forms appeared on the streets i,
the trains, in the subway. Rv now the
tw:tchins, i!guras. the onict s.arts W.,
periodic shudderincs Of Tho vict;n,s ar.
AIRY familiar as a reminder Of our part
n the war They start endless pity. but
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-eason why they s!.ould not hare tae right
leaders. The regular officer knows how
70 treat them, while The rcaerre and Ha
tioHal Army officer mas that same instinct;ys
power O.. command possessed By the orig:-
nal officers oG cur New army, power bed
Of rner public school and university train
ing. In addition, the American has great
sagefness to learn, and ability to keep pa.e
with his eagerness; so That lie only needs
experience to make him the equal OF any i.
Europe, regular or otherwise.
nave said nothing OF The courage. mora,
or physical. Of tbs American soldiers. their
dash IN the attack or their obstinacy j..
the defence. These qualities are assumed
in them By all Gnglssllnen who know them:
anu 'aat 's the highest compliment that we
coIid pay them They colne OF people, in
tAe words OF their o,s.l poet, "yirile, COM
Dative, stubborn, hard lie. us then lee
any ILLUSION which so-nt may have had %
the effect that the American G. today ia
noS naturally 4 lighting man. And 1T the
same time we must put away in respect to
their soldiers smother illusion concerning
the Ameriean .ac-z c. ,aodesty. The first
thought o. Americans in military discussion
Is to pay tribute 20 sho Original Allies, who.
iaTing laid the Foundations OF victory, are
still raising t.e greater PAX. OF its ediace;
sns'r great ambition, they will tell you, is
20 match the military achievements OK Bit
ain and France. Thus association il, arms
Will bind Americans and French and British,
together in friendiiasss OF sentinaen, az no
three nations have ever been bound .beso~a
in 81 the records Of time.
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produced. NO country prospers by fewer
workers and more spenders. To have
you returned to the ranks of production
is, therefore, to get you off the backs
OF the producers that have been under
the task OF producing both for them
selves and for you while you were at your
war task. This is why the money wages
in warning country-so far as it does
not borrow its supplies out Of the cur
rent income Of industries abroad-hayc
to be low in relation to the prices Of
goods. Wages must buy less because
there is less produced per man to be
bought. Many things failed Of being
produced and many moro were inter
cepted tor use in war. This is the mean
ing Of war and Of war taxes-in average
sacrifice, not in average gain. Your re-
turn from military CONSUMPTION is the
release oi the stay-at-homes from eco
nomic CONSUMPTION. Your part is forth
with to be busy in contributing to prod
uce as much as you are drawing ont
of it.
1t is. therefore, important to see that
your employer can pay wages to YOU
only within the limits Of what your wort.
promises to accomplish for him. It is an
exchange. Ii is the degree of your SER
viceability, rot Of your needs or desires
OF standard Of living, that prompts his
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She other t"o, all their young men play
games and all can drive and most under
stand motor car. The value to their ava-
tion inherent in these accom- plishments will
De apparent to ali Alter that, perhaps.
their service OF supplies, for wnieia tI.air
business ability conspicuously adapts them.
is most typical o. th4i~ national character.
Considering It's difficulties, this branch Of
their army, bosh in the magnitude cr TIA
scale and the excellence Of its organ;za-
ton, IS the best of all il. Tie war. But i.
IS needless TO p4rticularize. The American
army, 1t must be remembered, has not .-et
sorted itself out. In that respect It's condi-
ton resemb.e5 OURS in 1915. At present
ono Of Us ordinary infantry regiments
could probably construct g trench system
as well as an engineer regiment; a machine
gun company viii have as good mechanics
as motor train; u trench mortar batter,
VII! possess craftsmen equal TO those OF a.,
intelligence section. The process Of slit
ing human material taxes t.me AID the
American army cannot reach lis state OF
highest efficiency until its men axe .sssi4nad
20 their correct Hace5. Meanwhile these
specialists, SO many OF them college trained.
are extremely useful wherever they are.
The coloEed soldiers occupy a position
apart from the rest. but DO not think that
They appreciaoly lower the general stand
ard. In the camps, at any rate, they are
ooeo'ent, cheerful, well disciplined and OBJ
v!ously fond Of soldering; bat undoubtedly
they are subject 10 fits Of mob emotion.
Given leaders wto can hold them, they
should do well N action, and rhere IS no
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with larger number Of men to work
the wages must fall, unless because of
overcrowded machinery or land the out
put per man must fall. True. there is
larger supply Of men and OF products;
but there is q larger demand for things
and FOR products and for men. With
the larger plumbers there is more work
to be done. The human family occupied
in producing for itself is larger. The
more there arc the more there is TO do.
The more or less each individual aver
ages to do the greater or the smaller
is the total product; the more or the
less per individual there is to consume
the more or the less will the EMPLOYERS
have Of products out Of which to pay
wages, if they must; the more or the less.
in turn, IN their competitions with one
another, the employers will compel one
another to pay. Wages shadow product.
Whatever, then, may be the money
Wages-tle mere number Of dollars.
the real wages, wages il, terms Of what
the money will buy, must be low when
production is low-low in the aggregate
when production is low in the aggregate,
low per individual when the average in
dividual product is low.
Average consumption, be it repeated.
depends Oh average production. There
is no way Of using up what has not been
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danger comes from himself.
a sufferer from she'll shock has been
wounded by himself, in the main. The bull
let comes from his mind more than from an
ohemy gun. He is a suicide who survives
And in this he is the last person to blame.
Society and the atrains Of life have injured
hlm iuvisibl., long before the examining
surgeon, judging him from his muscles, his
eyes, his teeth, his surface indications, have
passed him as fit soldier and sent him
20 the scene Of noise and death.
-Four Yeats Of the study of shell shock
have been rewarded BY some positive knowl-
edge about X. We know that in the large
there are four rough classes Of il. A shell
may burst near man with force enough to
shatter his nervous system TO produce
positive structural or chemical changes IN
Il. Such eases are, unfortunately, beyond
the hope OF cure. Or there may be only
partial breaking down Of the cells of his
nerves. y Certain type OF man was quick
enough TO avail himself OF tho discovery Of
this new disability to feian it, and make use
of it TO have himself removed from the
zone Of danger. The srea. mass OF cases
are genuine sufferers from disease which
largely originated in themselves, and which
IS subject to treatment and cure. They do
not feign, they only suffer.
But the great point with them IS that
before they were called upon to endure the
strain o. danger they had been called upon
by the lie of q previous peace TO endure
strains of worry and maadaptaton. Long
before the war the railroads knew what it
was 70 have q trusted engineer 70 to pieces
from strains resulting from causes quite
remote from the everyday work OF running
trains. They early learned to fear the en-
glneer addicted to drink. But soon thev
learned TO fear far more the engineer with
worries on his mind. 4 man with debts
harassing his life or with domestic
problem on his hands, soon came TO be de-
tected and watched. He was too apt to be
thinking OF his troubles instead OF his sic--
nals. The fatal moment might come when
he would be thinking Of one when his at
tention should have been on the other. And
no one will ever be able to commute tho
disastrous wrecks that have resulted from
this alteration of men who, it has besn only
TOO commonly reported, we're otherwise
trustworthy.
In nearly every case tho soldier suffering
from shell shoc@ has bsen shocked and
strained by life long before he was called
upon TO meet the extra shock Of danger and
nose The combination Of the two has
been TOO much for him. That this is the
fault Of society rather than the fault Of the
individual himself has been brought home
70 every student Of the disease. The suf-
sersS is IN nearly all cases the victim. It
IS noticeable that the mental disturbances
OF shell shock sufferers take the form of .
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axe to proceed rapidly in finding places
for it--iaborers " it'll the rest of US meet
ing the necessity Of concession and accom-
mediation, if things are TO slip promptly
into their new grooves. The employers
will i'll the average get the temporary
advantage probably. But it is on leav-
ing to the employer margin of induce
n.ent that the whole situation must
hinge. Such is the nature Of our com
petitive system. Change always bears
hardest on labor.
But these are essentially good days
rather than ilI-better rather than worse
Oh which we are entering. The coun~
try is now TO have the use Of its produc-
tive resources IN the industries Of peace
in the production Of the goods that
are for the feeding Of life instead Of
death, that are tributary to consumption
instead Of destruction, that make fox
easier and more generous living rather
than for mere difficult and more rigorous
living.
America recognizes that it vas Z BIZ
te-' but imperative necessity that SUM-
Inoned You TO war-as You proudly know.
1t IS through victory end irrso peace that
you now return. But with all this great
good Of purpose and OF accomplishment,
there has gone-as see it--a great i'll
and great injustice. The sacrifices
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hiring Of you and his paying OF wages
to you, and sets the limit of what ne
can afford to pay. In the completely Of
the facts the wage carncrs easily miss
this truth. But the productiveness Of
labor is the sole source Of She wages fer
it. For labor to insist Oh more is to
insist on unemployment. Strikes can
avail only when, and in the degree that,
the competition of employers with one
another has still left with the employer
an unexhaustcd margin. If the laborers
insist on more it is the employers time
to strike.
Is it we'll that in these days Of re-
construction the wage carners shall
insist that money wages do not fall? II
prices 90 not remain high the money
wages cannot. Whether general prices
shall best remain stationary or shall! fall
is another question. And remember also
that these are days OF REIMBURSEMENT III
industry. The employers, ii they move
safely in the absorption of the returning
supplies Of labor, and in the inevitable,
widespread redistribution Of enterprise
and Of employment. must move cautious
Is. No one Of them will be willing to
take the risk Of producing faster than
the other industries that he must buy
from and sell to. All are likely TO insist
on easier terms of hiring labor, il they