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Evening star., 1941-05-09
Electricity Is Cure
For Monday Blues,
Psychiatrists Told
Shocks in Broin Help
Mild Types Of Depression,
Reduce Stoy in Hospitals
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE,
Associated Press Science Editor.

RICHMOND, Va, May ga mild
shot of electricity through the brain,
one of the newest treatments for
insanity, is good for the Monday
blues"
This kind of funk, which every
one knows, gets to be real menace
to many people by deepening into
constant depression, even to suicidal
impulses.
1t is these more serious Monday
blues where the electric shock is
showing great value, as described
today to the American Psychiatric
Association.
Electric shock is the outgrowth
of discovery that sugar dnsulin)
and metrazol shock would cure some
of the insane. Electric shock is less
dangerous.
Patient Remembers Nothing.
The patient lies on a table. Elec-
trode paste is rubbed on both sides of
his forehead. Then to these spots
an electric current, of 100 to 400
thousandths of an ampere, is ap-
piled for half a second or less.
Instant unconsciousness is the
first result. The patient remembers
nothing about it. He is unconscious
for a few minutes, during which
there may be musclar convulsions.
Then he wakes up and is mentally
confused from few minutes up to
maybe two hours. Exactly what
happens to the brain in this period
is not certain. But many of these
people with mild cases get well.
Forty such persons who merely
came to his Office for the shocks
were reported by DR.. Abraham
Myerson of Boston Many were
working and continued work during
treatment. One or two had a few
weeks of bad memory. They would
wander around the house trying to
recall what they had started out
to do.
DR.. Lauren H. Smith, DR.. B. j.
Alpers and DR.. D. w. Hastings of
Philadelphia reported that mental
hospital wards are quieter. patients
not so noisy, and time of stay in
hospitals has been cut in half by
electric shock. Again. however, these
were the comparatively mild cases.
Shy Men Make Poor Soldiers.
The selective service was advised
last night to mark down the abnor-
mally shy man as its No. type for
rejection.
This of course, should not apply to
the mildly reticent or seclusive char
acter, said DR.. Myerson before a
forum on military service, but rather
to the individual whose emotional
makeup is shaken by contact with
groups.
In the abnormally shy man, the
gregariousness of army life awakens
deep fear and a sense of inferiority.
His over-reactions cause him to be-
come shaky, his heart pounds, his
digestive tract is disturbed and often
he becomes nauSeated.
AS number two in the category of
bad bets for the army he placed
the man who exhibits suspicion and
hostility to others. He is the fellow
whose egotism has been frustrated
and continually feels that he has
been sighted. snubbed or unfairly
treated even where there has been
no discrimination whatever.
Evening star., 1941-05-09
Warner to Address
Community Speakers

The impact of present trends in
national and international affairs
upon home welfare problems will
be considered Monday night at
dinner rally of the Community
Chest Speakers Bureau. The din
ner will begin at 6 pm. in the
Young Women's Christian AsSocia-
ton Building, Seventeenth and K
streets NV.
Albert Warner, radio news COM
mentator, will be principal speaker.
j. Clifford Folger, general chairman
OF this years Community Chest
campaign, and Edwin N. Lewis,
newly appointed assistant director
of the Chest, also will speak.
Evening star., 1941-05-09
Vanguard Of $1,000
Here for Parade Of
School Safety Patrols
Entertainment Tonight
To Precede March
Tomorrow Morning

The vanguard of the 1900 School
Safety Patrol members from at least
IS States, who will march in the 10th
anniversary parade of the School
Safety Patrol with District pupils
tomorrow, arrived here today.
The entertainment tonight at
Uline Arena, an annual feature on
the eve, will include boxing bouts
by the Metropolitan Police Boys
Evening star., 1941-05-09
Copt. Roosevelt
Continued From First Page.)

of the Iraq air force in the fight
against Britain.
(The United States has eX-
ported nearly 100000 worth of
alrplaneS and equipment to IraQ,
the State Department said today.
Exports of planes to Iraq
amounted to $697,963 during 1910
and, in addition, there were small
amounts of aerial gun equipment.
tOnly aircraft parts and ma
chine guns, amounting to about
100000, have been sent to Iraq
so far this year, figures showed) d.
Stresses Supplies.
He said he believed the United
States could best help Britain now
by taking action to relieve her in
the Far East and in taking full
responsibility for getting supplies
across"
The Egyptian press, meanwhile,
carried reports that Premier Rashid
Ali Al Gallant of Iraq, who seized
power a month ago, had been forced
to leave Baghdad by public demon
strations against his government.
(There was no confirmation of
these reports in London, but some
quarters said the report indicated
the Iraq hostility was near COL
lapse and that a government CO.
operative with Britain would be
restored soon.)
The dispatches telling of the re-
ported flight Of Iraq's Premier gave
no indication as to where he might
have gone. The reports, which fol-
lowed by only a few hours the
British bombing of Baghdad airport
and other points held by the Iraqis,
mentioned, however, that Seyyid
Taufiq eS Suwaida, Foreign Minister
in the government ousted April
by Rashid Ali, had flown to Amman
Transjordan, to meet the regent
deposed in the same coup.
CRashid Ali still is in Bagh-
dad, but there are signs his revolt
is petering out, Helen Kirkpat-
rick, foreign correspondent in
London for The Star and the Chi
cago Daily News. reported she
had learned reliably today. She
said the revolt may be waning
because of a lack of enthusiasm
on the part of Rashid Ais fol-
lowers and the failure of the Ger
mans to send assistance imme-
diately)
The regent, the Emir Abdul Ilah
announced Sunday he intended to
return to Iraq and called on Iraq
troops to go peacefully back to their
posts.
Communications Reported Cut.
In Vichy, Beirut report said
telegraphic connections between
Iraq and French-mandated Syria
had been broken since Wednesday
night and that Baghdad radio re-
ports, growing perceptibly weaker
apparently were not being sent over
the regular station.
An Iraq communique claimed the
capture of many" prisoners in the
fighting around Basra and said
there was no change in the situa-
tion at Habbaniyah, where the fight
ing started last week.
Evening star., 1941-05-09
Communications Reported Cut.
Oreqon Justice Dies

SALEM, Greg, May 9 LP.-Asso-
ciate Justice Henry j. Bean, 88. of
the Oregon Supreme Court. died
last night. A native of Bethel, Me-,
he came to Oregon in 1881.
Evening star., 1941-05-09

Forest owners of Sweden want
the government to stop lumber
profiteering.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

be the work of some devil: the painted signs
some mystic witchery which would do the
invading Spaniards good.
So Don Juan de zumarraga, the first arch
bishop Of Mexico. had most Of the precious
historical records piled up into a great noun
tain-heap and burned. In few short hours
the records Of innumerable lifetimes went
un in smoke destruction comparable TO
the burning by the Arabs of the great library
at Alexandria. Egypt.
Following this example every Spanish
soldier seized and destroyed any Indian docu-
ments with which he came in contact.
Yet, a few Of the precious manuscripts
survived - hidden away and cherished by
their owners.
II is believed that there are only
twelve such Goddess in existence. dealing
with the history of the Mayas, AZtecs and
other southern Indians Ten of them are in
the libraries in hlacked-out Europe-at the
Vatican. in Paris and at Oxford where they
are in imminent danger Of being destroyed by
the flames Of war Hence they are practically
useless to American scholars.
The remaining two. the Codex Porfirio
Diaz and the recently re-discovered Codex
Fernandez Leal are in North America. The
Diaz manuscript is in the National Museum at
Mexico City The Leal Codex. said, is the
one which was lost for almost fifty years until
Or. Tompkins' painstaking search located IT
the other day in musty San Francisco bank
vault.
But, if DR.. Tompkins had not discovered
that the stories told by reproductions Of the
Codex Leal which he was studying did not
sSagree the musty bank vault might never have
been forced to yield up its treasure which
really must have looked just like bundle of old
papers someone had neglected to throw away
Antonio Penafiel, the Mexican antiquarian
,tho had first daciphered the COdeX 1pal
parently had read it wrongly.
The Codex, eighteen feet long. is designed
to be folded up like Jacobs ladder, and sew
eral fragments of it are missing. DR.. Temp
kins felt sure while looking at the reproduc-
ton of the Codex Leal. that Penafiel had be-
gun reading it in the middle proceeded to the
end then gone back from the beginning tn
the middle He felt that the scholars reading
of the Codex Lea which depicts the history
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
Believed Have Been Magyar Astro.
nomcaI Observatory Library Called the Csraco,
and Located at Chichen TIA In Yucstsn

remembered but he had no idea what had
finally become of it.
Here the old housekeeper, long in the SER
vice of the Crockers, was able to pass on
bit EFF iHfornatfon-b1t the kind Of fnforma-
ton that while encouraging for a moment
sometimes proves most disheartening. When
Dr. Tompkins described to her the document
he was looking for she said that was the very
one that had been around the house for so
long She knew it. 1t had been kept in the
desk drawer as the younger Mr.. Croker recol-
lected But the old desk had long since been
sold
There the, trail seemed to end.
But the scientific sleuth constantly urged
W. w. Croker to search for the precious
packet, and finally, a few weeks ago the
banker found in the corner of a vault of the
Croker National Bank, a parcel wrapped in
brown paper labelled Aztec Codex. 1925"
Apparently his father had put it there for
safekeeping and forgotten about it-although
the elder Croker himself was regent of the
University of California, to which the manu-
script was invaluable.
To DIR. Tompkins' JOY. the banker presented
the Codex to the University. where Professor
Herbert Priestley. Bancroft librarian, char
acterized it as one of the rarest documents
in the world.
10 the average ptTSOIl liliS plCluItu NtIOlu
out of the dim past might look like little more
than a comic strip-showing the antics of
strangely unfamiliar characters. There are
no written words on it to tell what happened
in those days a thousand years ago Yet DR..
Tompkins already has decphered vital clues
to the life. customs and religion of this early
Indian tribe-probaby Cucatecans who spoke
a dialect of the Mixtecan-Zapotecan language
group Like other Indians of those days they
had no written alphabet and when they wrote
they had to use symbols to represent the
names of natural objects
When they started out on their long 700
year trek from what is now Guatemala City
to Oaxaca in Mexico-a slow wandering which
started about A D. 500 and lasted until A d.
1900 - probably no one thought of making one
continuous record Of their journey. 1t is be-
lieved that fragmentary records were kept
from time to time. as generation after gener-
alton of these Indian people travelled from
place to place, growing their crops, rearing
their children and performing their strange
and often cruel sacrifices for their many gods.
Then at the end Of the wanderings of these
people when unconquered fragments of the
tribe finally reached Oaxaca, one patient ar
fist put all the scraps of information and pic
lures together into what-to him-must have
seemed a terribly long story but which to us
seems very sketchy to cover the happenings
of so many years.
Even today some of the pictures pain
stakingly painted many hundreds of years ago
are as bright in color as though painted yes
Continued on Page 1877
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

of the tribe, and his coordination of it with
the Codex Diaz which is principally ritual
book very wrong.
He determined TO find the original manu-
script in order TO set himself and-other-
research workers on the right track. But
Penafel was dead and no one knew what
had become of the CodeX Leal.
Laboriously he traced its history.
Men and women all along the line of his
search offered clues and tried to help, just as
in every ordinary detective story the District
Attorney is aided by the Inspector, bunch of
policemen and a lot of wilng-but often mis-
leading witnesses.
Not the least important in helping to con-
Guide this years most enthralling chapter of
scientific detection was an old housekeeper
who evidently knew pretty well what her mas
ter had in his possession.
1t seems that the Codex had first turned
up in the possession of one Benjamin Guevara
who claimed TO be descendant of Tecuhtoztl
the hereditary king of Quiotepec. About 1895
Guevara who barely suspected its value sold
1t to Senior Manuel Gracida. a wealthy collec-
tor Gracida in 1895 loaned it TO the scholar
Penafiel, who attempted to decipher it and
reproduce it, There was no record of what
had happened to it after that
Searching through libraries in Mexico and
the United States DR. Tompkins finally found
in the Bancroft Library old catalogue of
known Goddess which listed the Codex Fern
andez Leal so named by Penafiel after gov
eminent Officially as having belonged in 1901
to F. J. Molera member of a pioneer Cali
fornia family.
But where were the Moleras now?
Following all clues Or Tompkins learned
that F.. j Molera whose hobby had been col
lecting art and archaeological objects, had
long since died Although he had given many
Museum in San Francisco the Codex was not
among them.
Molera's family, apparently, was scat
tered to the winds There was not a single
Molera in San Francisco. But the young
scientific detective finally learned that there
was lone last survivor of the Moera family
Miss Frances Molera. He traced her up and
down California Finally letter from him
reached her and he got reply She said the
elusive manuscript had been sold many years
before to Mr.. Croker. of San Francisco
Hot on the trail DIR Tompkins interviewed
Templeton Croker a we-known patron of
art and science but found that he knew moth
ing of such a document Croker suggested
that it had probably been sold to-, w II.
Croker the banker now dead.
Doggedly DR. Tompkins went to see w.
w Crocker who had succeeded his father in
the bank He described the CodeX in detail.
Croker recalled that his father had had such
a document and that his mother had pre-
scented it 10 him as a child. telling him 1t was
very valuable 1t had been kept for many
years in a certain desk drawer after that, he
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

dren every May Day in most cities of the
United States is similar. Like the Mexican
aborigines- we have lost the significance of
this ceremony which is found all through
out western Europe but still perform 1t
faithfully Another similar practice is found
in the "hook-swinging' of India
DR. Tompkins believed that the Volador
game was originally a rain-making ceremony,
with the flying men representing the four
winds In his pursuit of this idea he studied
reproductions of the various ancient manu-
scripts or Goddess which depicted the game
as performed centuries ago.
But there were disturbing contradictions
in the rare reproductions of the Codex
Fernandez Leal Or. Tompkins knew some
thing must be wrong. Someone seemed badly
10 have garbled the life story that the patient
Indian artist of a thousand years ago told of
his people-a thing he knew almost as well as
his own name since handing down stories
of past adventures of the chief
entertainments of these early people who
didn't have such things as movies, bridge and
golf to take up their spare time
Just what was the mistake that had been
made in the later reproductions one Of which
Or Tompkins was studying? Where was
the original of the Codex Leal, so DR.. Tomp-
kins could find out?
No one seemed to know.
Historians tell us that all of the early
Indian tribes kept pictured accounts of their
lives. their ceremonies and their conquests.
They even kept such accounts of their laws,
political happenings and their strange myths.
Many Of the youths of the tribe studied the
art of picture-writing or - more scientifically
- hieroglyphcal painting.
But there came a day when ruthless
Spaniards, under the leadership of the ambi-
tious Cortez. invaded the land of these Next
can Indians and conquered them,
The Spaniards had no use for these pic
tured records - except the few which they
kept as souvenirs True, the conquerors were
impressed by the speed and skill Of these
picture painters. But they also were susp-
cious of the strange characters the Indians
painted. Surely. they thought, this must
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
How Pa+ient Dr. Tompkins Of the University
Of California Followed Years the Forgotten
Trail Of Priceless Chronicle That Took An
Gent Americans 700 Years to Write. and
Was Ended Only When Columbus Sighted
Our Shores-And Found 1t at Last
in a Musfy Old Bank vauIf

CONTINUED from Preceding Page)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

Quetzaicoati, Aztec God of Air. Is Pictured
Wearing Conical Hat of Jaguar Skin With
Decorative Fan-Shaped Neck Piece.
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-20
BETWEEN THE LINES

too often carry Sexy plays. Inc
nrize novel of 1910 was a sex mover
entitled Native Son..
Jazz and wing music are sexy IN
their motivations and conception
and our dress today Smacks OF Sexl-
ness with the ideal of exposing as
much of the body as possible. The
woman who tries to be modest IN
her dress is hailed as a prude and
back number. The art of the times
is sexy and in the name OF art
some very base appeals are made
to human sex natures.
NATION OF SEX-MANIACS
Nudism is but the sexinesS OF
the age to it's logical conclusion
While very few today are willing to
embrace nudism in its entirety,
there are many who favor semi
nudism and modern fashion motifs
emphasize this most thoroughly
There are evidences that nudism
will be as popular tomorrow as
semi-nudism is today. Art that is
sexv becomes the entering wedge to
split the hard timbers of tradition
which made such ON modesty. With
millions of children sitting daily
in our theatres watching seXy
dances, We are fast becoming a
nation of Sex-maniacS.
It may be argued that sex is
beautiful and God-given and
should be lifted from the level OF
the base and nasty where is has
been so long. This is true where
the level of intelligence has beer
lifted. England can stand much
more of this modern sexiness thar
America because England is Older
and more stable morally. Here we
have melting pot with divers races
and classes who have not melted
and thus have not arrived at theil
moral majority. Where a people
has come of age morally they might
be able to Withstand the impact Of
the sexual accentuation we find il
modern life; but where a people
like that of the United States is
morally adolescent, too much seXi-
ness amounts to SeX-mania anC
the sex-maniac is the logical pro-
duct.
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-20
The President Says Shoot!

Millions of coored Americans hoe-heartedly
with President Rooseves momenous decision to abandon
normal diplomatic practices in dealing with the unwarant
ed and unscrupuous firing without warning with delib
crate intent to sink American vessels by German subma
rnes and surface raiders.
His fearless and courageous action in demanding Amer
an naval vessels strike their deadly blow first when
Axis vessels of found lurking in waters deemed
necessary Defense will definitely shape the of
events in the European crisis which threatens to enguf
the world.
The President mpeled face the issue with no
other alternative not yhe Greer incident but because
of cevery designed Naz plot to disregard the freedom
of the seas, in another step toward world domination.
In his speech blunt warning given to Hitler and
his Axis cangster umstakabe terms that should their
submarines surface raiders enter waters the protection
which vital to the defense of the Western Hemisphere
"they do at their peril
In times like these must face the inevitable fact
that sooner later the must come to an end-IHE
SOONER THE BETTER Hence this positive policy of the
United States will give Hitler the choice of whether the
is to be waged on three fronts.
Anyone but mailman would know by this time that
the invasion of Russia Of the greatest military
bnders in the history of the world and nobody but pow
ercrazed maniac would be inviting further trouble
Thus in agreeing whole heartedly with the President
we anxiolsly the day. when HITI ER IS CRUSHED
If his action means warthen it shall be- which after
all may be TIE only way to have PEACE RESTORED
TO THE WORLD.
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-20
Stabbings Mar
Past Weekend
ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
According to police reports, At
lanta's regular weekend crime
wave continued unabated Saturday
night with several stabbings and
a shooting fray.
E. w. Wilson, As, of AIS Fourd~7
Street, NV, was stabbed in FRI .
of his home By "Fathead' Carson.
jealousy was given as the motive,
as the two men were arguing over
Carson's wife. Wilson was carried
to Grady Hospital with a stab In
his left jaw, and was cut from MS
ear to his mouth.
Garther Curry, 27, IF 1l0 Vine
,Ireet, was stabbed in his
stomach by a man known as
"Killer Foots," who is said to
have owed him $5.
Annie Lou Niles, 20 of the rear
of 169 Baker Street, Is wanted by
police for cutting Edward Parks.
%, of Sentle Place at the corner OF
Decatur and Ivey streets.
GLAND McGhee, SO, Of 1a4 Fort
ress Avenue, reported to the police
that he was going down an alley
off of 382 Whitehall Street, when
he was attacked and stabbed by an
unknown aSSailant.
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-20
ALWAYS INTERESTING

The commercialization of the sex
instincts is one of the baSeSt sins
of this age. Sex is always interest
ing and that which is interesting
has great commercial value; hence
we have an orgy of sexiness forces
upon the nation by designing en-
terprises who suger-coat sexiness
with a claim to being artistic, ana
the public gulps it down. But we
are going to pay and are paying
now with sex maniacs cropping up
here and there as super-cr1mlnals.
We need not be surprised, then,
when the newspapers headline the
crime of a Negro sex-maniac VINO
confesses to 10 horrible and revol-
ting crimes. Already there Is In
Sing Sing awaiting execution a
white man confessing to "a such
crimes. There will be others; lot
we are living in sex times that pro-
duce the sexmania which produces
the sex maniacs.
One of the strongest points that
may be raised for HitleriSm Is
it's attempt to drive sexiness from
the front seat of German life. II
we could get the same slant here
without Hitlerism, we should serve
the coming generations nobly. We
can make excuses for it If we
will, we can explain it Scientifical-
ly" if we must, but the fact remains
things are too sexy for the good
of the youth of today. Too much
sex appeal without an enlightened
clientele breeds sex-maniacs. 1t is
quite easy for us to lift our hands
in holy horror when the sex-mani-
acs reveal themselves by their
savage crimes; but it is not so easy
| for us to see our responsibility in
the premise. When that which IS
too sayy comes into contact with
that which is too ignorant and
animal, we are going to have
! trouble.
MUST BE INFORMED
1t is not enough to become horri-
fled, we must be informed on the
causes and the cure. We need some
revision in our ideals and notions
of what constitute art. We need a
crusade against the bold-faced Sexi-
ness that is parading our highways
and by-ways to Seduce the youth
of the land. We need to know that
excessive Sexiness begetS sex
mania and this begets sex maniacs!