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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Formula for Longevity
By DR.. PETER J. sTEINcRoHN

What is the formula for longe-
witty? Every once in a while a
newspaper interview of a person
who has reached 80 or 100 will
reveal some personal reasons !:
II never smoked" or I've smoked
since I was T." Il never take a
drink" or Il believe in a nip or
two every day." II eat lots of
meat" or 1--WE been a vegetarian
for rs years." And so it goes.
Ane sure-f1re formula is washed
out by another.
Have we doctors ever gone
about investigating it scientifi-
cally? The late DR.. Raymond
Pearl Of Johns Hopkins did much
fine work along these lines.
recall two important observa-
tons. he made. I think you
should jot them down on paper
and refer to them occasionally.
1. In a study Of the life rec
ords of 1000 persons over 90 DR..
Pearl found that they were
placid and not worrisome."
2. Investigating the life cycles
Of the fruit fly, his experiments
brought forth this conclusion:
1.-THE faster the rate of living
the shorter the length of life"
AS you consider these i'm
portant findings you will per-
haps see the reason why we doc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
U. S. Capitalism Exhibit
Going to Latin America

For contrast with the cabin, a
full-scale modern house is in
cluded in the exhibit but has
now been equipped with used
furniture and kitchen appliances
instead of the new, unused fur
niShings originally included.
Display cards in the exhibit
make the point that so per cent
of American families own their
own homes and rs per cent Of
American farmers own their own
land.
Other statistics include the
fact that nearly 70 million Amer
leans have savings accounts and
lis million hold life insurance
policies, while 10 million own
shares in American companies.
The point of these and similar
statistics is, according to USIA,
that in the United States almost
everyone is a capitalist"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
FAMOUS GABLES
BY E. E. EDGAR

ADMIRATION: Motor mag
nate Henry Ford had great re-
spect for those who lived to q
ripe old age. He was convinced
that they possessed some secret
formula.
Once he accompanied his son
Edsel, when the latter presented
to an art institute a painting by
Titan, the Venetian artist.
The director of the institute
was lost in admiration of the
masterpiece. He turned to the
elder Ford, who was also lost in
admiration, but scarcely for
artistic reasons.
Great man, Titan, don't you
Think" commented the director
HE certainly was" agreed
Ford. HE lived to be &c."
FRESH AIR: Oscar Wilde was
opposed to all forms of exercise
One warm night, when he was
leaving the theater with q
friend, the latter suggested that
they walk home.
Wilde, hailing a cab, shud-
Idered at the suggestion.
But the fresh air is invigor-
'ating!" insisted the other.
II get just as much fresh air
in an open carriage" replied
Wilde.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03

Listening to Ruth Dyke play
ing the organ at the Washing
ton Cathedral yesterday after
noon one might believe that the
instrument had not been tuned
since the she-bears came out
of the wilderness. One would be
wrong, for the organ was tuned
Saturday, but Washington sum-
mer weather and the big organ
in the Cathedral seldom if ever
come to congenial terms. It is
perhaps unkind to suggest that
a church break with tradition.
Nevertheless, it is possible that
the Cathedral'S summer organ
recitals would be a greater JOY
to Nthe audience if they were
held in the Bethlehem Chapel
which has a new organ, excellent
in sound. and not so adverse
ly affected by humidity and
changes in temperature.
Miss Dyke, organist of the
Lutheran Church of the Refor-
nation and pupil of Richard
Dirksen. is player of technical
skill and solid musicianship. The
recital's piece de resistance was
the great work of Bach, entitled
by him quite disarmingly, "a
Few Canonic Variations on the
Christmas Song From Heaven
High" 1t is one of the longest
and most artful organ works of
the master, and its combination
OF variation form and many diff
ferent types of canon makes it
a companion piece of the Gold
berg" Variations for harpsichord.
From the first variation, where
the naive and picturesque lad
ders from heaven embellish
Bach's technical skill at COM
bining variation and canon, to
the last few bars of the last
variation, where virtually every
resource of counterpart is SUI
perimpoSed on one another, new
er-failing freshness and inspi-
ration are always at hand to
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tors are always asking you to
stop worrying and take it
easy"
For many years, at the risk
of being labeled a preacher"
I have been advising high-pres-
sure businessmen to let up. Al
though I haven't told them to
stop worrying" (Which is an
impossibility in a human being)
I have asked them to re-evalu-
ate their lives and worry less. "
I have told them that when
business becomes the only
game worth living for, that they
wouldn't be around long to en-
joy it.
You can't give your all to
business; and you can't suffer
from the "spotlessly clean house
complex" either, without paying
for it by premature extinction.
The answer to good health
and longevity seems to be tied
up in a phrase like this: SLOW
up-and simmer down." If you
can learn to do that-and it
takes a good deal of learning
you will be around for a long
time.
released BY The Bell Syndicate. Inc. }
tomorrow: Are you ofroid Of the
DOCTOR
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03

meet. I'd gladly go to work, but
he won't agree to this either.
He says we should break up
and I should marry someone else
II I want children so much.
love Fred and I want to stay
with him, but I feel that life is
empty without children. am
now so unhappy I think of
nothing else and cry all the time.
Fred-It's true that I'm now
making out better financially
than I could ever have hoped,
but I don't know how long this
will continue. There is a lot of
uncertainty in my business. /
don't believe in bringing up
children in a home where the
mother is working. People who
can't give their children the
right advantages in life shouldn't
have them. I can't stand SYLVIA
unhappiness and feel that we
really should split up if she
can't be happy with just me.
The Councils Views
This unhappy man must come
to realize that his fears are not
really based on the financial
problem, but on his very deep
lack Of confidence in himself
and in life itself. His statement
that he believes he and his wife
should split up if, she can't be
happy with "just me" indicates
that he sees himself as unable to
share his wife's love with a child.
Fred is right when he believes
he cannot give children the
right advantages" but those
advantages are not the ones he
thinks they are. Surely he knows
that many big, happy, healthy
groups of youngsters have grown
up in the midst of considerable
economic distress.
The advantage Fred lacked
and is unable at this point to
give his children is the kind of
love that produces in the young
an optimistic, self confident, out
going attitude toward life. He
also obviosuly lacked a happy
family life.
Sylvia must have lacked some
of these advantages as well, or
she would not have agreed to a
marriage on the basis Fred pro-
posed. She could not have been
80 much in love" with a man
who let her know that he in
tended to Illustrate some Of her
strongest desires unless she, too,
was deely insecure.
This couple is undoubtedly
missing a great deal in life, but
nagging and crying on Sylvia's
part will only make Fred more
stubborn and will damage the
m arriage relationship even
further. Sylvia and Fred need
more specialized and personal
guidance and should seek help
from a clergyman or family
physician.
(copyright 1866, General Features Corp. }
Tomorrow: Girl gets friend job, now
believes she eouses trouble for her at
office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
Boilermukers Let OFF
Steam at Picnic

MONTICELLO. Calf, Sept. 8
R.-Tempers Sizzled at the
+hoilermaker's picnic yesterday.
police reported.
Officers said 10 arrests were
made after fights broke out in
scattered areas around Monte
bello Stadium. where some 1000
members of Boilermaker's Union
Local 81 were attending their
annual picnic.
Three reserve officers on duty
had to call for assistance from 20
sheriff's deputies and several
California Highway Patrol units.
Tear-gas riot guns were dis
played before the melee was
brought under control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
Pythiuns to Convene

EASTON, Nd, Sept. / (R.-
The Knights of Pythias of Mary
land will hold its seth annual
convention here September 20
%. Darcy Harding of Cam
bridge is the grand chancellor
and Mrs. Marie Harding OF
GaitherSburg heads the Pythian
Sisters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
Rhode Island First

PROVIDENCE, r. Rhode
Island in 1908 became the first
State to require a licensing test
for drivers. One requirement
was that the applicant must have
driven at least 100 miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
THE DETAILS

SyIvia-Fred told me before we
were married that he never
wanted to have a family. He
said his prospects were poor and
he didn't want to bring up
children the way he had been
brought up--in poverty. / was
so much in love with him that
I agreed to marriage on the
basis that we were never to have
children.
Now it turns out that Fred
is doing much better than we
ever expected him to and we are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03

JOHNSTON'S NO.ROACH: Simply brush Johnston's
No-Rooch boseboords and cobnets to control cock
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-. also Chevy Chose and Alexandra
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where traditional
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03

Tomorrow: Are you ofroid Of the
doctor?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03

Tomorrow: Girl gets friend job, nov
believes she eouses trouble for her al
office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03

well able to support family. I
find that I want children more
than I ever thought I would.
I've promised Fred that if ever
we find he cannot make ends
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
NEWS OF MUSIC
By DAY THORPE

Ruth Dyke, organ. Washinqton
Cathedral. Program: A Few Canonic
Variations on the Christmas Sons
From Heaven High Come / Here"
Bach; Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn
and Hyfrydol, r. Vaughn Williams;
Prelude and Fugue in G minor, Mar
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-03-15

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Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-03-15
Unlimited Capacity

IF THEY CAN get it, Americans
demands for meat appear almost with
out limit In the last quarter of 1855
tn populace devoured meat at the
startling annual rate of 10 pounds
apiece. That was pounds higher than
during the same period year earlier.
Beef disappeared at an annual rate
of 821a pounds per person in 1855
closing three months, compared with
1954's annual average of 70 pounds.
Pork went at a 751a-pound clip apiece,
although 1954's year-long average was
less than go pounds. For all last year,
meat consumption was estimated at
1902 pounds, second only to the 1888
pounds in 1908 and far ahead of 1875
recent low point of less than 1876
pounds.
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he was welcome, for in getting to
The hospital instead of having a
prison sentence, he had break.
We then took him throughout
the Hall, showing him and tell
ing him of all that he would find
there to help him get straight
ened out. We tried that first
evening to sign him up for the
Softball squad, the church choirs
Catholic or Protestant); we ex-
planned the rules, how to go to
a doctor, the mail situation,
when you could have visits, how
to get on Occupational Therapy.
We introduced him around,
showed him all of the wards and
explained to him that the choice
Of where he would go from the
receiving ward would lie with
him. I remember one particu-
lar patient, who was sort of a
tough acting guy. This toughness
covered up his feelings of in
adequacy. / took him around
with two or three other patients
who had just arrived. About two
weeks later, / happened to go
through Ward ! "a resting place
for the most mal-adjusted) and
he walked up to me, not quite
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-20

las tough-like ana said, you
were right Hall. ! cussed out the
doctor and ! made it. Now. tell
me again, how do I get out of
here and make ward six? They
got a better television up there
and they tell me that the rooms
are not locked at night"
Just a few days ago on a re-
turn visit to see my friends at
the hospital. ! got to talking to|
DR.. Cushard and he told me.
when we started the oriental
ton tours for incoming patients.
we solved many problems. Since
then, most patients have had
some understanding of what our
program offers, and this has re-
suited in much less confusion.
disorder and misdirected energy"
Help Is Two-Way
1t adds up to this-a criminally
insane man, in the process of
being cured, can help himself
and others. His brain can be
diverted from thinking only the
Idemoniac and destructive, and
can channelize toward the con-
Istructive-even the divine. That's
a big thing in a mans life. And
this acceptance of responsibility
is big step forward in grow
ing up"
We were proud of our progress.
We began to take pride in our
gardens, our own self-made
gymnasium, our championship
softball team, our clean yard and
painted surroundings. our un-
locked doors, and decorated
chapel. In less than a year. there
was a remarkable change in
atmosphere. The hall had grown
quiet and orderly. The untidy
were keeping themselves clean:
the old-timers were shaving and
washing. We believed we'd done
lit ourselves, but down deep in
side we knew that it had been.
done only because the super
Iintendent and his staff were
willing to take the chance. to-
experiment, to let us help in
finding that responsibility. Com
munity responsibility is a very
necessary adjunct to psyche
therapy in healing the mentally
ill criminal so that he will be
free from the compulsions that
caused him to commit offenSesI
against society and himself.
Somewhere in all of us. there
lis a force at work we can't un-
derstand, but to a fortunate few.
lit was revealed at Christmas
time in 1858.
TOmOrrow-We grow nearer to
God.
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without a single incident worth
noting.
Along with this came some
new ventures. We started hav-
ing a birthday party monthly
for all patients having a BIRTH
day during the month. Thanks
to the United Churchwomen,
each man received a little token
and we served ice cream and
cake and had entertainment
from our own orchestra and en-
Itertainment group.
To reward the volunteer work.
ers-no one was forced to work
at anything in Howard Hall -
la monthly smoker was inaugu-
rated. To the smoker came out
side guests, an outside speaker,
and fine entertainment. The
evening was always capped with
a buffet supper especially pre-
pared for the occasion by the
hospitals general kitchen. Soon,
women were invited to our smok-
lers and entertainments; bridge
parties and dancing took place.
1t became important to everyone
to behave and protect his privi-
leges so that he could take part
in the activities. Best of all
everyone was trying to help a
brother.
visitors Are Welcomed
The proof of how well our
experiment was working was
manifest when the Hall was
thrown open to visitors and
people from all over the world
came to see us. Almost daily
the officers of the group were
showing individuals or groups
through the Hall and telling the
story of what was happening
there. 1t reached the stage
where no part of the Hall had
to be hidden. There were one
or two wards where the very
sick, and potentially violent pa
tientS were kept. Even these
were opened to our visitors.
It was rewarding to see two
patients and a single attendant
lock and unlock corridor doors,
guiding a group of female stu
dents through the worst wards
as well as the best and feeling
confident that there would be
no untoward incident to mar the
trip.
After a number of visitors had
been taken through the wards
by officers Of the group, a SUCCESS
ton was made that we start
tours for new patients, too. All
lof us could remember back to
the DAY when we arrived in How
ard Hall, depressed, nervous.
alone. 1t was days before we got
to know anyone, and during this
time, we worried about the rou-
tine, what would happen to us.
Everything in those days looked
dark and dismal. We took up the
question of new patient tours
with DR.. Cushard and DR.. Tar
Itaglino and we were encouraged
to try it out. 1t started with the
very carefully selected committee
of the group picking UP the new
men as soon as they finished
their initial interview with the
doctor
An attendant accompanied the
group through the hall, but
his only function was to lock and
unlock the corridor doors. The
entire responsibility for the Sc
lection of the route. what was
said, the indoctrination, lay in
the administrative group repre-
sentatives. This, for a while, was
one of my jobs.
A Letter of Welcome
We worked up a welcoming
letter. That's sort Of incongruous
a letter welcoming a guy to the
mental hopsital. especially the
maximum security division. But
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Cruvant. shared the center OF
the stage.
Wed sit there gripping about
the food, the toilet facilities. the
clothes, and our answers would
be lectures on stopping the
drinking, gambling. fights, vio-
lence, noise, untidineSS. They
used to pacify us with talk of a
show, some entertainment. any
thing to keep us in line for we
were a powder keg waiting for a
match. Howard Hall is not inn
pregnable, wall or not. In the
quiet of the ward rooms. we'd
talk of escape, beating the joint,
beating the case. Whenever
someone beat the rap in court,
we'd hear of it. This kept us
in line.
Escape Attempt Falls
Occasionally there would be
an abortive attempt at escape.
At supper time. one day, back
in the late spring of 1858, four
tough kids who had been in
Howard Hall only a few weeks,
tied up an attendant and took
his keys, getting themselves into
the outer yard. However. their
plans for scaling the wall were
so immature that they didn't
manage it and were soon
rounded up. Unfortunately. after
an episode like this, the place
would tighten up and life would
become uncomfortable.
We had often heard DR.. t.
Gas we called DR.. Tartaglino) f,
talk of selt-government. admins
tration of our own problems, and
we thought this was the time
to make some effort to get q
patient government.
I had been made editor of the
Howard Hall Journal, our
monthly patient magazine, and
my assistant editor, the cat bur-
glar with more than a hundred
charges against him, discussed
the self-government idea with
me. We got together a bunch
of the more articulate guys,
and at the ,next Admins
trative Group meeting we forced
the resignation of the then chair
man, and 1 was elected chairman
of the group, with Elmer as my
secretary.
Plan Is Drawn Up
We then got together and by
the next meeting we had drawn
a self-government charter. There
had been a change in Chiefs of
Service, and DR.. William G.
Cushard had replaced DR.. Cru
want. DR.. Cushard was sympa-
thetic to our plans. And so. at
the next meeting, we formed q
limited self-government. The