Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-13
MENTAL HYGIENE
CONGRESS TO MEET
Several Thousand Delegates
From 80 Nations Expected
to Attend.

Several thousand delegates, represent
tional Congress on Mental Hygiene to
be held in Washington, May 5-10.
This congress represents the first
concerted effort to secure a world view
point on the manifold aspects Of human
behavior, and to take mental hygiene
out OF the hospitals into the schools
and homes. Meeting at the same time
will be the American Psychiatric So
ciety and the American Association for
the Study Of the Feeble-minded. Pres
ident Hoover Is honorary president Of
the congress and DR.. William A. White,
superintendent Of st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital, Is acting president.
During the five days pSychiatrists,
psychologists, sociologists. anthropolo-
gists, educators and philosophers Will
cover practically the entire range Of
normal and abnormal human actions
and mental processes, conflicting schools
Of thought will be presented, and q
world organization perfected. The fol-
lowing committee now Is at work on
the program: Franz BoaZ, professor Of
Thayer. director Of the Ethical Culture
Schools, New York; DR.. Charles 3.
Davenport, director of the department
Of genetics, Carnegie Institution Of
Washington; DR.. Walter ". Bingham,
director Of the Personnel Research Fed
Grafton; M. G. Otto, professor Of phil
oSophy, University of Wisconsin; Lewis
M. Terman, professor of psychology at
Leland Stanford University; A. Eustace
Hayden, associate professor of compare
tive religion, University of Chicago;
ology. University Of Chicago, and Mil
dred c. Scoville, president Of the Amer
lean Society Of Psychiatric Social
Workers.
Will Study Insanity.
Although much attention will be given
the problem of increasing insanity.
which has gone so far in the United
States that there are more hospital beds
filled by insane patients than by all
other patients combined, the congress
will lay much stress on the dimcult1es
of ordinary people. The topics for dis
cussion range from child training 70
religious mysticism.
Delegates will attend from the ma
tional mental hygiene organizations of
Austria. Belgium, Brazil. Bulgaria.
Canada, Cuba. Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Great Britain,
Greece, Hungary. India, Italy, Japan,
Netherlands. New South Wales. New
Zealand, Norway, Porto Rico, Russia,
Spain, Sweden. Switzerland, Syria,
Tasmania and South Africa.
The following American societies will
be represented by delegations: State
mental hygiene societies Of California,
Colorado, Connecticut, District OF Co
lumbia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ken
lucky, louisiana Maryland, MaSSachu-
sets, Missouri, New York. Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South. Carolina, Utah
and Washington; American Association
for the Study of the Feeble Minded,
American Association of Psychiatric So
cial Workers, American Bar Association,
American Child Health Association,
American Council on Education, Amer
lean Eugenics Society, American Hos
pital Association, American Institute of
Criminology, American Management
Association, American Medical ASSocia-
ton, American Orthopsychiatric AsSo-
citation, American Philosophical Society,
American Psychiatric Association,
American Psychoanalytic Society, Amer