The Washington times., 1924-03-10
HOPEFUL MIND
|. |SBEST CURE,
HE SAYS
No Such Place as Home For
lncurables, Dr.. Franz
Declares.
BY SYLVIA SEDGEWICK

There is no such place as a home
for incurables." said DIR. Shepherd l.
Franz. in his lecture to the Women's
Welfare Association at the National
Museum yesterday. He declared
that hopeful frame of mind often
did much to cure mental disorders,
as well as physical ones.
DR.. Franz is director of the
Government Hospital for the Insane
He stated that in cases of mental
disorders, entirely new social adjust
ments must be made, or, in serious
cases, the patients needed to be
taught social behavior. In referring
to the disabled" persons, he stated
that there were nearly 1000, 900
who were either partly or wholly
| incapacitated for making their own
living.
Recent Statistics
Recent statistics, DIR. Franz said,
show that | per cent Of the school
children of the country are crippled;
| that 10000 persons were paralyZed
in the influenza epidemic; that there
are $4,000 disabled war veterans
and 100000 industrially disabled per-
sons in the country; that $4,000 per.
sons are disabled In industry each
year, and that there are 230. 900
persons in institutions for the insane
throughout the land
American people think they
know everything, and will not fol.
low expert advice" said DR.. Royal
5. Copeland, Senator from New
York and health expert, in a talk
to 200 women at the Y. w. C. A..
yesterday afternoon. THE foreign.
born women give birth to more
babies, and raise more Of them than
the women residing in fashionable
sections. They lose only fifty babies
a thousand against the seventy per
thousand that the fashionable wo-
men loose"
He stated that the American men
and women did not benefit from the
scientific research. because they
would not listen, while the foreign
women in the slums did everything
that the free clinics told them to
do and profited.
weight persons, DIR. Copeland said
that poor breathing caused thin
ness and overeating and lack OF
l
that overweight caused shortening
of life. impaired appearance and
was one Of the serious ailments Of
mankind today.
| Mrs. U. G. B. Pierce conducted
the parliamentary law section OF
the Twentieth Century Club today,
which met at the A. A. L. w.
| clubhouse. Mrs, William Heron
presided.
Hostesses this afternoon at the
College Women's Club will be the
members Of section 8. of which Mrs.
c. M. Updegraff is chairman. The
| guest of honor will be Mrs. John
Milton Sylvester. who has held posi-
tons as organist and director of
music in several churches through
out the country, and has also made
Investigations of the elusive orig
inal American folk music. Harlan
Randall will sing a group Of spirit
uels and other songs illustrating the
subject. Miss Carrie Davis will
preside in the tearoom, assisted by
Mrs. John Walker and Mrs. Viii
liam Bell.
Miss Rebecca Dial, chairman of
the drama group OF the League of
American Pen Women, announces
a program Of interest for the meet
ing tonight at s p. m. at the club
| house. Ralph Graves, the speaker.
will discuss a subject Of particular
moment to his hearers, Submitting
a Manuscript"
Two one-act plays will be read for
| he 30 .
by Susan Glaspel, and lie" BY
Eugene O'Neill.
The league member who is the
winner of the recent one.act play
contest will be made known at this
meeting If the report from the
judges is received in time.
| The short.story contest closes this
week, Friday, on which date all
manuscripts must be in the hands
of the chairman Of the short.st
group, Mrs. Estelle Aubrey Brown.
Word limit, 5000.
| The Bon, Secuor Friendship Club
has announced the program for the
next four months. This program
was arranged Friday when the club
met for discussion. The program is
as follows:
March z, business; March IA,
Social Conduct for Girls; March
81, Letter Writing to European
Girls; March %, mothers teas April
4, business; April II. Music of the
Great Masters; April /, orphan
party; April 25. dance for fathers,
mothers and daughters; May 2, club
dance; May 8, election of officers:
May 16, '"True.story Contest; Nav
%. Work for the Americanization
School,; June 6, house party at