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New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Maniocs Once Were "Whipped
Ont of Their Madness"

"JJp to the middle of the last century,
wrote Dr. Conolly,t t"and in many countries
much later, harmless naniacs, or those sup
posed to be SO, were allowed to wander over
the country beggars and vagabonds, affording
sport and mockery. If they became trouble
some they were imprisoned in dungeons;
whipped as the phrase was, out of their mad
ness-at all events subdued; and then secluded
in darkness in the heat of summer and in the
cold dampness of winter, and forgotten; al
WAYS half famished, often starved to death
I'VE have preserved the doctors punctua-
toni
There was not town or a village in all
the fairest countries Of Europe, nor in all this
Christian land [Great Britainl, in which such
enor,nities were wholly unknown.
"At length the condition of the mad ob
tanned some attention, and then massive and
gloomy mansions were prepared for them
These were but prisons of the worst descrip-
on Small openings in, the walls, unglazed, or
whether glazed or not, guarded with strong
iron bars; narrow corridors, dark cells, desc
late courts, where no trees, nor shrub, TOR
flowers, nor blade of grass grew; solitariness,
or companionship so indiseriminate as to be
worse than solitude; terrible attendants, armed
with whips,< sometimes Tin Franeel accom-
panied by savage dogs, and free to impose
.uanacles, chains or stripes at their own brutal
will; uncieanlness, semi-starvation, the gar
rctte and unpunished murders; these were the
characteristics of such buildings through
out Europe"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
When Torture Was Treatment
And Treatment, Torture

"Ths effect of this apparatus was that the
patient could indeed raise himself up so as to
stand against the wall, but could not stir one
foot from it, could not walk one step and could
not even lie down, except ON his back, and in
this thraldom he had lived for twelve years.
During much OF that time he is reputed to
have been rational in his conversation
Altogether cells Of the eighteenth century
resembled the cages of squalid menagerie.
Straw was raked out. Food was thrown in
against the bars.
Take it all in all, that makes fair sort
of prologue for 8 day at Bloomingdale. DR..
William l.. Russell is the medical superin-
tendent Of this institution. which Is con-
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

steads, naked, or only covered with hempen
rug; and this in the month of December"
At Bethlehem committee of the House Of
Commons found in 1915, among other hideous
instances Of cruelty, patient named Norris.
Conolly wrote:
He had been a powerful ana violent man.
Having on one occasion resented what he con-
sidered some improper treatment by his keeper,
he was fastened by long chain, which was in
geniously passed through wall into the next
room, where the victorious keeper, out of the
patients reach, could drag the unfortunate
man close to the wall whenever he pleased.
'To prevent this sort of outrage poor Norris
nluffied the chain with straw, but the savage
inclinations of the keeper were either checked
by no experimenting eye or the officers of the
asylum partook of his cruelty and his fears,
for now new and refined torture for the
patient was invented in the shape Of an in
genious apparatus Of iron. "A stout iron ring
was riveted about his neck, from which short
chain passed to ring made to slide upward or
downward on an upright massive bar more
than six feet high inserted into the wall
Round his body strong iron bar about two
inches wide was riveted. On each side of the
bar was circular projection which, being fas-
tened to and inclosing each of his arms,
pinioned them close to his Sides
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Outdoor Sport Till Weary,
Then Regular Rest

"They may play anything from tiddlede-
winks to golf" explained the doctor. "Our
purpose is to account for their time as fully
as possible. We prefer that they do all their
resting while sleeping. Baths, hot drinks and
packs usually fix the insomnia cases"
He led the way through another long cor
ridor thiekly carpeted. There were no doors
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
vTS he world is getting better. For proof
ask any crazy man.
Il few weeks ago Bloomingdale Hos
pital, at White Plains. celebrated its

Il A few weeks ago Bloomingdale Hos
pital, at White Plains, celebrated it's
,ns hundredth anniversary. Physicians.
,urses, patients and visitors mingled freely
An the lawns as they watched the unfolding OF
pageant that traced the development of civ
,l;zod methods in the treatment of the insane.
Many Of the actors were convalescent patients.
When the pageant was concluded some Of
the patients, following daily custom, got
,heir golf clubs and prepared for g session
vsth the mental hazards Of Bloomingdale's
nine-hole course. Other patients hastened to
the tennis courts and yet others retired to
haninocks to read.
At Bloomingdale, and at other similar in
stitutions, ''the primary object is to treat the
patients, so far as their condition will possibly
admit, as If they were still in the enjoyment
Of the healthy exercise of their mental facul-
ties"
How was it century ago with the mentally
afflicted? Or two centuries? A readily assimi-
lated answer has been left by DIR. John Con-
olIy in his book, published in Edinburgh in
1856 The Treatment of the Insane Without
Mechanical Restraint.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
OFF WITH THE SHACKLES FORFl

the patient with the
prospect of inevitable
death"
There were circulat-
ing swings to induce the
lnelancholic to take a
natural interest in life.
The unhappy patient
was strapped in and
whirled until his tongue
protruded. Sometimes
they died. How the
good doctors of those
days would have rel
ished the whirling 5as-
ket contrivance with
which aviator aspirants
were tested during the
last years of the World
War.
Chains, hobbies, strong
walstcoats, handouts.
ieathern nluffs and
straps, a sort of watch
m a n $ box through
which only a head could
protrude, these were all
considered necessary ad-
juncts to madhouses
when Esquirol, a French
aEenist, visited most Of
the asylums of France
after he had succeeded
Pinel at La Salpetriere
in 1910.
DR.. Conolly quoted
one observer who wrote:
I'm a large asylum near
London several of the
pauper women were
chained to their bed
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
How Modern Specialists
Diagnose a Case

When patient arrives at Bloomingdale
the psychlatrists there set to work in the
fashion of q council of scientific detectives
to learn just what is the matter with the
man woman under their observation. In
some cases the preliminary diagnosis is not
likely to impress them, for the average gen.
eral practitioner gets but thirty hours Of
tsaining with reference to nervous or men
tai cases during four years Of medical
schooling; and yet fully SO per cent Of the
cases they are called upon to treat when
they are graduated deal with this type Of
affection.
Outside of Bloomingdale or similar in
stitutions that monstrous thing called the
clay mind" has but one classification for the
people who are sent to these places-crazy.
But once inside patient must be classified
according to a table prepared by the Ameri-
Medico-Psychologica Association, and
the list runs through senile psychoses, in
cluding depressed and agitated states in
addition to deterioration through psychoses
with other somatic diseases, this arrange
ment covering more than thirty groupings
trife advanced over the days when men
were merely fright" or gloomy"
Zone gets very tolerant of human nature
when one sees the clay all made off,
said one of the hospital physicians by way of
expressing his firm conviction that the sanest
folks are really not so sane they think they
are.
Defects of the body in a large Proportion
of cases are responsible for mental defects
To this fact is due the marked increase in
laboratory work in hospitals for the insane,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

Quoted by the Society of New York Hospi-
tai. His first assistant is Dr. Charles |.
Lambert The method of treatment as ex-
planned there by DR.. Lambert reveals itself
as a smoothly working, efficient series Of
factory processes, by means of which
balanced minds regain their equilibrium; or
failing that are restored as nearly as pos
slble to normal functioning.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-10-22
THE WEEKS BEST
EDITORIAL efs
TO DEMPSEY

Chicago Tribune Wednesday Oct 49, 1921
that
he to When
probably
heavier his feet
Jacks regarding himself and his fear that Will
he
There another big fellow that
nothing
any
black Harry Wills who reputed be
Willard middle Michigan but needed
money Dempsey
Wills.
worlds champion intends bar the black fighters he
modify his championship He will
heavyweight champion The world not southern congressional district
Wills
Mr. Dempsey he's the best he ought be willing it,
feeling He
the black boys then 1t nmated that he personally would not mind
Wills would the
thing for the white if by chance black man beat him up query
have trouble Senegal and the British in the old German African oon
the white his
feels
probably Wills If he
would the
ad
then playing the best policy that's his decision we'll shut
and say no morea For a time, anyway
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-10-22
Social Lines.

Every country has its lines of social distinction In the African
ge the Australian bush the Arabian deserts the Siberian
in Everywhere
social distinctions and lines of difference severely drawn
Strange stranger realize, the majority of
Americans black think that black people
all alike and there and should not be lines of social
ration among them.
think the and have the desires This statement
ues itself to am abmdity without argument No eutation
idea of the oca oneness of the black people foolish and
classes of black people. These three
classes exist with sharply defined lines of demacaton, nothand
ing average black white American fails
black arstocracy This so-caed aocacy
of those who have been highly and have been
arocracy attempts eeby hold itself aloof the middle classes
than prejudice color restriction and race identity force it to be-
its cumscribed orbit controlled by its
failure, because scoed and dsrepeced by rabbe
middle class and utterly ignored by the white The
fault the black aristocracy The arocracy
recognized until the black
because outside races do So The DEVELOPMENT Of the d
lower of the black like the formation of strata and SUBJ
Strata accomplished like all sahhcaton-by natural forces
ating thru the centuries
At the time the black man; caste system to
caste system of India has made easily possible to allow the domi
nant influence of stronger races to subject him.
The second class of black people the middle class This
The middle class found constructive organa-
of wealth and intelligence identified themselves with the
oilers. This class rcues the glory of the ocracy good
rabbIe always seeking the fang
the race
third the rabbe, the riff raft and the inevitable under
dog He has low order of intelligence, makes small from
humanity livelihood leech
other He the offender socially crmna
and civl He has little refinement and is always
The rabbe racay
eguy avoided both by the other and the ars.oca of his
His lack of intelligence him adrft upon
prejudice ignorance and He the social that the white
invariably holds up "the American negro"
Social lines within the confines of the black they
do all other and they will exist until the advance of
socialc philosophy levels all humanity The white
recognize black people all
people must realize that they have both and interiors
themselves No snobbh and general oofne be tolerated
however, great fight solidarity and recognition.
classes work toward the goal Let the aid
the rabbe and the mdd The lineage wealth and
egence the black be used
world the idea that the rabbe should be the accepted
of whole Let the
present solid front the armies of prejudice disregard
elimination.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-10-22

certain choir affiliated with of the largest Methodist
churches of Chicago will sing of the old slave melodies Oak
Park the October Why the choir
being advertised pepeag these relics of slavery and why the
choir will sing these which bring back the dreadful and
shameful unable tell that
proud and people would seek all memories of
Congress has suspended investigation of the Ku ux Khan and
has about important business The of the
wizard and his dramatic plea hat they know what they do
must have made quite impression because he permitted
back Georgia the home of the hooded under the
promise that he would modify his policy The FIVE shots which
fred at Mrs Tyler of the big mus in the Invisible Empire
to be of the spectacular of the 400
Americana 1t that Congress afraid will
many toes and that would be poor public policy Poor consre
is reported that Henry Lincoln Johnson will be
ed He may be confirmed by the Senate committee, but he will
be confirmed by the celestial committee which the
fitness of the land of eternal reward Lincoln
Johnson his heart that he
the black people America and who know of his activities in
Chicago preceding the election of President Harding will Yet
fate sometimes plays peculiar card.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-10-22
Fools for the National Game

Notwithstanding the fact that black baseball players
allowed play the National American leagues nowhstand
the fact that all other natonas the face of the globe
admitted still the champion fanatics of America black people,
In the recent world SERIES reported that the hours of the
night member of to himself the Polo
Grounds New York. there wait twenty hours the gates
for the great Over thousand black people
paid admission of almost two dollars witness asco
which they denied part This gives idea of
pride the black people have and how much espect they
developed 1t bad enough to ride Jim Crow but
into ecsacies Jim Crow sport mforgvabe What will Judge
Lands say about it?
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-10-22

years unusual for have death from alcoholism
less occurrence
l. What true OF Detroit other city where moonshne
eating liquors poison OF alcoholism in
the alcohol Of today deadly than that OF yesterday but
adueraton alcoholic unlawful
the thing that wrecking the lives of so people
alcohol medicine
the of medicine when bonded distilled wh indicated
the relief habua alcohol healthy
persons all authorities that luxury that entirely
body neither
heathfulness nor any reads the onset of disease
the alcohol bonded whkey made
under the regulations and supervised by chemists
used medicine The "home brew oonhne" made by the boot
bchlorde
not for human consumption because the moonshne contains
alcohol Wood alcohol deadly used
medicine 1t good for rubbing
damage the doing
family be told this short article but health
its should be stopped the unlawful
Of the will a standsill
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-10-22

partment that the result OF Intoxicating liquors
the increase and the drunkard of today is
than the drunkard OF yesterday We told by phys-
Clans in charge OF hospitals that people entered
with the diagnosis of acute alcoholism than heretofore
and the injury produced by alcohol is OF lasting
effect, the injury oftentimes resulting in permanent
one. We are told by those in charge of psychopatho
hospitals that insanity is the increase the result
Of alcoholism Underakers tell there deaths
the result of alcoholism than before.
DIR. David Clark head of the insane hospital OF De-
trot said in the Detroit Sunday News Sept. 8, 1921 in
regard to alcoholism OF the present dayCases of acute
alcoholism Detroit private hospitals have increased
tive. The much more serious than they used
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-10-22
HEALTH HINTS
By DR.. Troy Smith
MOONSHINE


and they of desperate and violent than before the
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-01-29
LETTER OF THANKS.
Dallas. Texas, Jan. 25th,

Dallas, Texas, Jan. 25th, 1921.
To the Citizens Committee,
for the Entertainment of
The Bishops Council,
DR.. C. L. Morgan, Treasurer,
My dear DR.. Morgan:
On behalf of the pastor and mem
bers of st. James A. M. e. Temple,
wish to thank you for the check
for five hundred dollars which came
to us few days ago. This makes
in all $1,000 that your committee
has turned over to the church and
has been applied as directed. We
can never express the extent Of our
gratitude for the work of the Citi-
zens' Committtee-which has not
been excelled by any thing that has
happened in our city.
Your noble work for this strug-
Cling people will place the church
under a lasting debt Of gratitude.
We trust that all who have con-
tributed will ever have cause to feel
proud of what they have done in
this matter.
Again thanking you,
I am yours truly,
C. W. ARLINGTON.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-01-29
LITTLE ROCK CAPTURES THE
CONGRESS-.
Capitol City of Arkansas VIII En-
terrain Sunday School Workers For
1921.

Nashville, Tenn, Jan. National
Negro Press Association Service)
Little Rock is to entertain the 1921
session of the Sunday School Con-
gress forces June Sth to 18th. This
action was confirmed by the Meeting
of the Board held in this city. Five
cities were running neck and neck
for these honors. They were Mus
kogee, Okla, Columbia, S. c., Gal
weston, Texas, st. Louis, Mo-, and
Little Rock. 1t developed that the
matter had been before the Board
for the third time and that the de-
cision was only reached today. No
tees were at ohce sent to the leaders
at Arkansas, conveying the informa-
ton to them. The Secretary of the
movement, Rev. Henry A. Boyd, and
the Chairman, DR.. G. H. Clark, au-
thorized the announcement and they
declare that in all probability there
will be no reduced round trip rates
for any religious gatherings.
They contemplate an increased at
tendance over last year. 1t will be
remembered that just year ago
this meeting was held in Springfield,
Illinois, where memorial services
were held for the late Abraham Lin
coin. More than twenty thousand
Sunday School workers are affected
by this call.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-01-29

needed enterprise. Brains, piucs and
push are the new levers by which
We are to use If we would move the
world of finance. This Mr.. A. X.
Leonard saw in his vision, in his
theory long before the organization
was realized and made to coordinate
in the line of business. 1t is the
purpose of the company to extend
its operations within ninety days to
other states, especially the states
that are adjacent to Texas. / have
before me a long list Of enterprisine
young business men of whom l wish
to speak in the near future. Young
men who are bringing things to pass,
and who need our encouragement,
which they richly deserve both by
sympathy and more by patronage.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-01-29
DRS. PORTER
AND PORTER
MEDICINE AND
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our names.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-01-29

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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-01-29
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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-01-29

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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-01-29
kUR A LITTLE
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The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1921-12-29
BATTERY DOPES

There are so many wonderful
things being done every day that
when a man says he has a solution
of very, very secret nature, with
some peculiar metal in it, which puts
new life into battery, nine out of
ten people are ready to believe him
without question.
The whole SCENE of battery doping
seems so plausible that dozens of
companies have been led to start in
business manufacturing "dopes" of
various sorts.
Some of these battery medicines
are really harmless, and the worst
that can be said about them is that
they do no good-except that they re-
ilieve the car owner of about five or
lsix dollars which he might invest in
gas, tires, oil, or something else more
Ineedful to the car. There are others
that do actual harm by taking active
materials away from the battery
plates and by introducing foreign
substances into the battery solution.
As a result of recent checkup on
the subject of battery dopes, the Will
lard Storage Battery Company found
| that all makers of the standard well
known batteries are agreed upon the
fact that the only satisfactory bat
terry solution is diluted with pure sui
phuric acid of the proper density.
Emphasis should be placed on the
word pure" for any foreign substan-
ces are liable to cause trouble in the
battery. There is nothing, say these
manufacturers, that will improve up
on the pure solution that is put into
the battery by the manufacturers and
their authorized service stations.
The sum and substance of battery
builders advice to owners that the
way to keep a batterty in condition
lis to put water in at regular intervals
land keep it charged when necessary,
and to remember that dope
over there may be in it--can never
take the place of proper attention.
advt.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1921-12-29
1t Paws To Advertise

A New Hampshire girl advertised
for job, and among her other .ac-
complishmetns mentioned that she
could make good home brew.
She received twenty eight offers OF
a position and ninety-three propos-
ais of marriage! two of these by tel.
egraph.-Wayside Tales.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1921-12-29
Israel Turns From Moses.

And when the people saw that Moses
delayed to come down out OF the
mount, the people gathered themselves
together unto Aaron, and said unto
him, Up, make us gods, which shall go
before us; for as for this Moses, the
man that brought us up out of the
land of Egypt, we wot not what is
BECOME of him.--Exodus 80: l.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1921-12-29

Miss Maud Fisher, Of New York
has returned after a weeks visit to
her aunt, Mrs. C. A. Guyton.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1921-12-29

Misses Sue Nichols, Virginia Good
man, and Carolyn Sylvester spent the
holidays with their aunt, Mrs. Charlie
Willingham, in Atlanta.