The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-16

ways to take up the slack, ne auded
Messick promised to produce a dupli
cate copy of state payroll for the COM
mittee's scrutiny to show who is re-
ceiving the states money.
state Architect Expensive
Great improvement, Mr.. Messick
stated. had been made in the mat
ter of handling ~payrolls during the
past few years, due largely to CO.
operation between the budget COM
mission and the appropriations COM
mittee.
Senator Bright renewed the critl-
cism he had made at the opening OF
the legislative session with respect
to expenditures ~ the State Depart
ment of Institutions and Agencies,
The increase in cost to that depart
ment, he said, seemed to be beyond
all reason
The architects department. Senator
Bright said, seemed to have exhausted
the vocabulary in seeking titles for its
large number of employees.
Wants Suggestions by Public
Senator Bright announced that the
committee will welcome information.
or suggestions from any citizen OF
New Jersey with respect to any cues
tions of public interest. He hoped
the people of the state would under
stand they will be given opportunity
to have their day in court and that the
| efforts of the committee will be de-
voted to irving to tighten the burden
of taxation.
This is the common goal for which
we are striving" added Senator
Bright. I'VE are trying to prevent
the next Legislature from having to
go out ard find new things to tax"
Mr.. Messick has prepared his re-
port dealing with the question of pay.
roll. The committee did not select
| counsel. but President Bright stated
he has in mind a lawyer who he ex-
poets will serve without pay. He had
said previously that big business
houses would furnish experts free to
aid the committee.
Most Insane Are Durable
Or. Henry A. Cotton. medical direc-
ptor of the New Jersey State Hospital
at Trenton, declares that insanity can
BE- cured in a very high percentage OF
cases as evidenced by the fact that 81
per cen of the patients in the So
called functional group admitted to
the institution are restored as a re-
suit of the treatment at the institu-
+fon ui. ,to4anaaDfc r. fhic offo0t
were delivered at the fifth annual edu.
cational conference of Ohio State
University. He commended especial
ly the work of specific classes in the
public schools and the extension OF
medical inspection in the public
schools as a definite, distinct step for
ward in the solution of the problem OF
abnormal children"
'The effects of focal infection on
the mentality and behavior of chill
dren and the later effects in adult
life are strikingly shown DR.. Cotton
said, sin the recent case of Leopold
and Loeb. These men were not men
tai detectives, as they were beyond
their years ON school work. Although
l. nave no pei SOudl hAOW ACQSS Vi LuCAA
condition, arguing from similar cases
/ have examined. l would unhesitant-
ly say they were suffering from
chronic sepsis and toxemia, and while
not insane, at the same time they
were not responsible. If these abnor-
NAL physical defects had been noted
| years before and corrected, / do not
believe that such tragedy would
have occurred"
Referring to the success of the
treatment of insanity in the New Jer-
sey State Hospital at Trenton, DR..
Cotton sad:
sixteen hundred patients have
been discharged from the institution
as recovered in the last seven years.
and those patients have remained
normal during this time. occurrences
have been surprisingly small and
there are only about 100 patients in
the hospital today who have recur-
rences of mental trouble. If we can
accomplish such results after the dis
ease has progressed to the point
where serious mental trouble has Oc-
Cured, it is not unreasonable to as
sert that had the foci of chronic in
lection been eliminated during school
years, these patients would not have
developed mental trouble
DR.. Cotton offered as one OF the
necessary means for solving the prob
lem for adequate care and treatment
of abnormal children the plan for a
Central Psychopathic and Restora-
ton Hospital. D.. Cotton pointed
out that his results had been corrobo-
rated by the work of DR.. W. H. Nc
Clellan of the Ohio State Hospital
/ and DR.. Baberm of the Longview
Hospital. Cincinnati.
Old Trenton House Gone
The Trenton House. the most ia
nous as well as n of the oldest
hostelries Of New Jersey, is now nut
a mass Of ruins, but it's memories will
remain wildly alive in the minds OF
all of the present generation Of men
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